PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at ...

Suddenly I am not able to get network access through my ethernet card and this error ( PCI BIOS has not enabled ... ) in dmesg seems to point to the problem as it comes just prior to the ethernet card being identified. --\-- ... PPP line discipline registered. The PCI BIOS has not enabled the

The clever people get a red smartie

Hey xdm expert, why does xdm not work with authorisation true? I have had this problem since a recent upgrade of xdm, namely xrdb and xmodmap cannot get authorisation to run, xdm never reads Xresources, Xsetup, etc. and so I never get my old login window and neither can I login to my X session (

xdm headache

Running potato with kernel 2.2.12 on a NEC Versa note with neomagic video card. After moving from slink to potato about 6 months ago, I installed the new kernel from source rather than dpkg. Since then I haven't upgraded anything (finishing Ph.D.). The other day I decided to do a dist-upgrade, a f

dist-upgrade killed X and pcmcia-cs

s gone wrong. I'd just like to reinstall but that would be cheating, hey? Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 24

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

installed the base and then installed individual packages as needed. As a result, I probably haven't pushed the envelope but AFAICS apt-get beats rpm, hands down. Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences

Re: /dev/audio

"unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy." I solved it using isapnptools and information on devices from windows. This may be a solution to your problem. Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Infor

Re: Netscape installation...

s sense - to me! BTW I also had to install libc5 compatible libraries for xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6 and libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4. Thanks! Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480

Re: Netscape installation...

problems, ie. error: cannot load libXt.so.6. Is there something that's missing (not installed) at the Debian end of things? -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480

Install headache - no network

. Alternatively, is there some way of installing slink with the new tulip.c drivers so that I can set up my ethernet card at the start. Thanks! Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465

Re: Install with floppies and NFS

Seth> Are you using rawrite or dd, or just a straight copy? A straight copy Seth> will never work, but a rawrite (from dos) or dd (under a unix) will do Seth> the job nicely. :) Sorry! Read the #$%! manual, right? :) -- Jordan Howarth mail

Install with floppies and NFS

do a virgin install with this dilemma. Help please. -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480

Re: txt 2 ps?

erasmo> hello everybody which package can i use in order to convert a text erasmo> file (as created by emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould erasmo> have control over factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, erasmo> identation, justification, etc. The long way

Converting from Redhat to Debian

uncated at 1998. Jord -- Jordan HowarthCSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]