Help. pcmica doesn't work any longer.

2000-05-28 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Please help. I just updated my frozen on my laptop. After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I try to load it using modconf, I get the following messages: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modu

wu-ftpd. Takes 2 mins to log in.

2000-03-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
After updating my ftp server about a month ago, it suddenly take 2 mins. for anyone to log in. After typing $ftp my.ftpserver.com i get the message Connected to my.ftpserver.com immediately, but it takes 2 minutes before the username prompt comes. I am running the Debian frozen and I am updat

PowerStorm3D10 and XFree86.

1999-12-10 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Has anyone successfully set up XFree86 to run in 1280x1024 on a machine with PowerStorm 3D10? I have a DEC 200i. I beleive this machine has a PowerStorm 3D10 graphics card, but I am not 100% sure. I am now running XFree86 at 800x600 in 8bpp with the SVGA server. It's running, but the display is sm

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-11-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Matthew Dalton wrote: > > (I've just received Eric Miller's reply, so I'll make some comments on > that as well) > > Eric says: > > 1) tell your user's to Shift-Click the links to download, and/or make > > sure Netscape isn't decompressing the files when it downloads them > > (probable cause). >

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-11-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Darxus wrote: > > I've extracted *many* .tar.gz files with winzip. Are they using a current > version ? What's the error ? > Actually I may have been a little too fast there. I just tried on my own machine, where I still have some Windows left. I am using japanese Windows98 and Winzip 6.3. It

xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-11-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I know this is a little off subject, but I think it's a problem may people are running into. I have a ftp server with lot's of files on it. I usually use .tar.gz for large archives rather than .zip because not all my UNIX users has unzip installed. Winzip supposedly supports tar and gz also. I re

Problems mounting CD-ROM

1999-11-25 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM. When I use dmesg I get the following: hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive when I do a mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc, and /cdrom is an empty directory, I get the following: mount: wrong f

Re:X screen resolutions.

1999-11-12 Thread Jens K. Olsen
>On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +0000, Jens K. Olsen wrote: >>> I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, >>> but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please h

ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!

1999-11-12 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full permission to everything in ~/ftp, but ls still does not give anything. Any ideas

X screen resolutions.

1999-11-09 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Greetings from Japan. I have a DEC 200i with a Cirrus Logic GD5430 graphics card. According to SuperProbe, I only have 512 bytes of graphic memory. This supposedly means that I can only display 800x600 in 8 bpp, which I am doing now. When I set the memory in XF86Config to 2048, X indeed displays 1

Help with setting up a mailing list.

1999-06-16 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Hi, I would appreciate some advice on setting up a mailing list. I would like to create an internal mailing list for my company. I have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux on our intranet. I have installed the mailman package and everything that it was dependent on, f.ex exim. Mailman seems to be

Re: Kernel with APM support.

1999-06-07 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > If this a standard Debian distribution you should see a file > >/boot/config-x.x.x > > which describes the configuration of the kernel you are > running. You can use this file during the configuration > phase of building a new kernel > I am pretty sure that I h

Re: Sony Vaio

1999-06-07 Thread Jens K. Olsen
David Welton wrote: > Hi, looking for information on getting Debian going on a Sony Vaio. > Any information would be helpful. A friend managed to do it, but it > was rather tricky... I have a SONY VAIO PCG505G with Debian on it running like a dream. Installation wasn't too difficult. What kind o

How to create mailing list like debian-user?

1999-06-05 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Could someone please advise how to set up a mailing list like the debian-user? I assume all the software is available in debian, but which packages will be necessary?

Kernel with APM support.

1999-06-05 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I have Debian running on my SONY VAIO and it works like a dream. Only thing I am missing is the APM support. I downloaded the kernel source package, etc. and I am getting ready to compile the kernel with APM support. I would like to keep my system "as it" but with APM support. Since I have never

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
John Hasler wrote: > > It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again > > No. That is the other end echoing the "HOSTNAME^M" you sent. It is > hanging waiting for "ser ID:" Try telling it to expect just "ID:" . Thank you

HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

1999-02-26 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I have been trying to connect to my ISP for some time but without any luck. When I use Windows I can connect without problems. Following is the script that works in Windows: ; This is a script file that demonstrates how ; to establish a PPP connection with Compuserve, ; which requires changing the

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network? PROBLEM SOLVED!

1999-02-25 Thread Jens K. Olsen
"Jens K. Olsen" wrote: > Please I need some help. > > I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry > around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the > different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact wit

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
William Schwartz wrote: > You are correct. If you IP Address is within the local network, but your > default router is incorrect, your machine will not know how to get off the > local network. Any time you move a machine in an IP network, you really need > to change the IP address / subnet-mask an

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Mitch Blevins wrote: > Look in /etc/init.d/network This is what my /etc/init.d/network looks like. Please advise what I need to change. #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 > Also, check your mailer. It seems to be sending html. Sorry. That's because I use Netscape.

Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Please I need some help. I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with the rest of the world. When I installed Linux I set up the

Request for help. CONTEC ethernet support.

1999-01-04 Thread Jens K. Olsen
I have installed Debian GNU/Linux several times, but have not yet been able to get network support. I have a SONY VAIO PCG-505G with a CONTEC C-NET card. According to the documentation on debian.org, I must use the driver pcnet_cs or fmvj18_cs. I expect these drivers to be included on the driver di