RE: Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt? If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato. Of course, I can always just go download the deb and run dpkg on it, but is there a better w

RE: Sportster Voice (Re: PPP problems)

1999-05-06 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
Remco, I have successfully used vgetty and mgetty to do fax, voice, and DTMF recognition on my non-Debian gateway. Unfortunately, I had to hand-patch the code a little to get the handset features working with my Sportster 33.6 F/V. I doubt those fixes have made it into the Debian packages, an

General Debian setup question...

1999-04-20 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
First of all, Thanks to all who helped me get my exim-fetchmail working. I now only need to boot to windows for Quicken. In any event, I'm curious if someone could give me pointers to docs that talk about organizing my system. I started from 2.1 slink CDs that didn't have non_free, contrib, lo

RE: Help! Kernel woes. -- SoundBlaster

1999-04-15 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
Hello! I just went through this fight with my AWE32... there are some docs out there that will really help. For reference: zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.gz And the big gun: zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.gz All the stuff in there about ISA PnP should apply. ( I'm not sure how kern