zip drive under DevFS

2001-10-22 Thread Joe Barnett
since i've installed devfs, i haven't been able to get at my zip drive. when the kernel boots, it initially sees my zip drive as hdd. in fact, if i go to /proc/ide, there is a symlink called hdd to /proc/ide/ide1/hdd, which contains the following information: $ ls capacity driver geometry i

Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-02 Thread Joe Barnett
Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011001 16:06]: >> $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* >> ls: /dev/ttyS*: No such file or directory > >doh! one more question I hadn't even considered the first time around: >is this using devfs? If *not*, then you probably nee

Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samb

2001-10-02 Thread Joe Barnett
On 2 Oct 2001 09:44:34 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: >On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:59, Joe Barnett wrote: >> I'm trying to share my parrallel port printer through samba to my >>win2k >> laptop, and getting the following error in my log.smbd when i try to >> connect f

Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-01 Thread Joe Barnett
on Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:30:30 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010930 23:12]: >> Hi there, >> > Whenever I boot up, i get messages from the kernel complaining that it >> cannot find ttS?? modules, or /dev/ttS?? modules. >it would be very he

/dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-01 Thread Joe Barnett
Hi there, Whenever I boot up, i get messages from the kernel complaining that it cannot find ttS?? modules, or /dev/ttS?? modules. I've gone through kernel configuration options, but cannot seem to find the option that enables the building of these modules. I would like to be able to use my seri

DNS/DHCP servers (possibly?)

2001-10-01 Thread Joe Barnett
Hi there, I've currently got my debian box plugged into the wall, which serves as the router for an apple airport wireless hub through NAT. the airport then goes to connect through my laptop. right now, the airport acts as a tranparent bridge (i.e. performs NO NAT), and also acts as a DHCP serve

Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samba

2001-10-01 Thread Joe Barnett
I'm trying to share my parrallel port printer through samba to my win2k laptop, and getting the following error in my log.smbd when i try to connect from the laptop: [2001/09/30 22:00:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(239) littlejoe (192.168.0.4) couldn't find service ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a

Re: Mozilla postinst script error in regxpcom

2001-09-27 Thread Joe Barnett
the problem is with libc6. theres a related bug in debian bug tracking system, but i forget the number... anyways, downgrade libc6 to 2.2.4-1, NOT 2.2.4-2 and all will be well. in an unrelated note, I can't unsubscribe from this list... i've sent an email to the address in the footer of each m

Re: mozilla install broken?

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Barnett
I've looked into in more and the problem is with libc6. If you use the next-to-latest version (2.2.4-1, NOT 2.2.4-2) everything works dandily. -Joe On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 16:15, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010925 17:15]: > > > > > &g

mozilla install broken?

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Barnett
Hi there, I'm trying to install the latest mozilla packages (0.9.4) in SID on my unstable box, and I'm getting errors in the postinstall script. to be more specific, the regxpcom process segfaults. I had these packages installed, but something got mucked up with them so i apt-get remove --purge