re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??

I had similar problems with that 8bit problem with my deb 2.1 with diald... I fixed it with /ppp/options, the setting crtscts, or xonxoff I believe.. try settings these on/off see what it gives you... I'm sorry I cant remember more about it. (if I remember correctly its like local echo, if you h

dialup pp problemsq 2.1->2.2

running: Kernel: 2.2.18pre21 OS: debian 2.2r2 using dialqd/pppd setings from 2.1 setup (which works) has the follwong uutput: (from messsages) Jan 7 10:41:31 zeek2 diald[153]: Calling site 192.168.0.2 Jan 7 10:41:32 zeek2 connect: Initializing Modem Jan 7 10:41:33 zeek2 connect: Dialing syst

buying new monitor

I was going to buy a KDS vs-190 monitor, and was wondering if anyone had used this monitor with X before, might have any thoughts suggestions? I am running Debian 2.1 any input would be appreciated. Thanks Ken

efax package

I just installed the E-fax package , but the man pages are missing, the 2 .gz files in /usr/doc/efax talk about extensive help in the man pages.. any one know what happened? (I am using Debian 2.0.2 cds) Thanks, Ken

ATN: running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

A problem occurred (on my system with Exim) that made some mail bounce (now fixed) and caused me to be removed from the list, right after I sent my message about Exim if anyone could forward their responses to my original mail "running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite" to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

First of all, thank you to everyone who sent help. I now only have (I hope) 2 problems. I was wrong about using cron to start Exim daemon, the 2 ways that were suggested to me were using init and using inetd. Problem #1: I found that using init overrides my security from hosts.deny and

Re: smail -> exim = mail now broken

I fixed my local mail and retrieval of ISP mail. added / changed local domains (were not set properly by eximconfig, probably a type-o by me) that took care of local mail. found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there

smail -> exim = mail now broken

Hi I am in the middle of setting up my internet mail on my Debian 1.3.1 system. I was using smail set for "local mail delivered" , and fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP at school. So local mail worked and ISP mail was delivered to me too. In looking through the mailing list archives I got t

diald is eating packets

Hi everyone, I am running Debian 1.3.1, the problem is I can not open a telnet and have diald connect me, it connects and immediately hangs up. Right now the only way I have been getting online is to open netscape, it sends a bunch of udp packets, which all get eaten by diald when the P

Debian 1.3.1 PPP connection problems

Hello, I can not connect to my ISP with linux, can anyone help me? Right now I connect through windows 3.1 & trumped winsock, my IP is dynamically given to me, and I use PPP. I am trying to get diald and PPPD to do the same under linux (Debian 1.3.1). here are some of my config and log files:

Sml-nj requires libc6 , will this have problems with libc5?

Hi A while ago I wrote about setting up ML on my system. I am running 1.3.1 and have libc5 installed (ver 5.4.33-3). In trying to install sml-nj, dpkg tells me that I need libc6 (>=2.0.7u). Will I have problems if I install libc6? Will this conflict with libc5, will it over write it? Ho

Sml-nj requires libc6 , will this have problems with libc5?

Hi A while ago I wrote about setting up ML on my system. I am running 1.3.1 and have libc5 installed (ver 5.4.33-3). In trying to install sml-nj, dpkg tells me that I need libc6 (>=2.0.7u). Will I have problems if I install libc6? Will this conflict with libc5, will it over write it? Ho

standard ML

Hello, I am a computer science student, and will be using standard ML in the near future for a few projects. I have noticed the ocaml 1.05-2 package at debian.org I have read the description, it seems that it is not exactly the same as SML. Is this true? if so is there a .deb package that would

Re: monitor rates for X

At 05:17 PM 4/20/98 -0600, S. keeling wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth F. Ryder III) writes: > >> >> I Do not have a manual for my monitor, but I want to push my >> resolution in X higher. I have searched the net, but I can't find >> the horizontal and

I now HAVE PINE Debian package.. how do I install it?

What a interesting thread my PINE question created... OK I have found a Debian package for pine, pine3.96L-2 the file is pine_3_9.deb its located on the root of /dev/hda7 , a MSDOS partition on my drive, which is not mounted by default, so if I use it in Linux I need to mount it. I want to inst

PINE Debian Package

I am looking for a debian package of PINE, does any one know where I can get one? thanks Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

monitor rates for X

I Do not have a manual for my monitor, but I want to push my resolution in X higher. I have searched the net, but I can't find the horizontal and vertical rates for it. my monitor is: PIXIE PBC-1450 If any one knows the horizontal and vertical rates for this monitor I could really us

Help! Liunx messes with date for DOS

I am getting my system up, new kernel compiled mouse etc. all coming together, but I now notice a quite annoying problem. Last week I go all sorts of errors from some of my (DOS) programs talking about things being changed before last use etc. I just happen to glance at my clock and it s

Printer now printing properly HOWTO suggests "magic filter"?

I was reading the HOWTO for printing (which was quite helpful) and it was telling me I needed filters to get my printer to behave (it prints in the staircase method) file: this is not printing the way it should be Print out: this is not printing

X video problems

Thank you to every one who helped me out with the mouse/modem problem, both now work. :) I now can get into setup for X, I ran SuperProbe, which returned my card as Trident gui 9680 (with 2048 ram) so in the setup I picked Trident gui 9680 (generic) I took the default settings for the

debian 1.3.1 troubles

HI, I have been trying to get Debian to run on my computer. I have be able to get Slakware 3.4 to run, but I would prefer Debian. I have a modem that is com2 in DOS, a PS/2 mouse connected to the PS/2 connector on my motherboard, ( Slakware recognized the mouse as /dev/mouse (type PS/2) ) but I

IBM ThinkPad w/ Debian Linux 1.3.1

Hello, I am thinking of buying a IBM ThinkPad 755CD and want to know if Debian Linux 1.3.1 ( which I just ordered) would work well on it (graphical/ CD ROM/ sound /etc. support) here are the details that I do know about the 755CD: IBM ThinkPad 755CD Processor Processor (CPU

support for IBM ThinkPad 755CD

Hi, I am thinking of buying a IBM Thinkpad 755CD laptop. Is it supported under Debian Linux? Thanks, Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]