Re: ATI driver dependency hell

2004-03-28 Thread Jeff Layton
with a different name. This takes care of dependency problems on my box. Read over the dpkg-divert manpage for more info... -- Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root unknown

2000-03-14 Thread Jeff Layton
You need to boot into single-user mode, and then run 'passwd'. To boot into single user mode, you need to pass the boot parameter "single" to the kernel. For instance, if my linux partition has the LILO label "Linux", then when you would enter "Linux single" at the LILO boot: prompt. This will give

rarp support in 2.3.x kernels?

2000-03-03 Thread Jeff Layton
Does anyone know what I need to enable in the 2.3.x kernels to get rarp support? I've looked thru the kernel and dont seem to see it anywhere. /proc/net/rarp doesnt exist on my box now :( -- Jeff

Re: Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Jeff Layton
The instructions I sent were for drivers compiled into the kernel. If you are using modules, you'll have to do something like in the Ethernet howto, in particular, you'll prob. have to pass the IO port and IRQ... http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Doug wrote:

Re: Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Jeff Layton
Read over the Linux Network Administrators Guide, you need to pass some parameters to the kernel to let it know that it needs to look for 2 cards. The NAG is kinda old, but that piece of it still applies: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag/nag.html For instance, I have a firewall w 2 3c503 cards in

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Layton
I highly recommend cfEngine: http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/ It's a great tool for managing large heterogeneous networks. It takes a little forethought for the setup, but is well worth it once in place. -- Jeff On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I seem to have started a Debian thin

Re: gcc problem

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Layton
> >But now I've downloaded some source code which I'm trying to compile, when > >trying to compile it became clear to me that something was defenately > >wrong: I got the error that gcc couldn't write any executables... > > Usually this problem is due to the binutils package not being installed. >