Re: TCP wrapper telnet breakage?

1999-06-05 Thread MJ Watson
On 4 Jun 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, > telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and > worked before. It's the classic problem: > > In /etc/hosts.allow (redundant, but just making sure) > > ALL: 127.0.0

Excessive Ethernet Collisions (2.0.34 + tulip)

1999-06-04 Thread MJ Watson
We're using DEC Celebris GL6200 with 21143 tulip cards, and the only version of the driver that seems to work is v0.91 from the NASA website. This is also true on my 2.1 installation, which is not having quite as substantial a problem, but then it isn't running exactly the same suite of daemons (e

looking for correct 'insmod de4x5' args

1999-04-13 Thread MJ Watson
Been working a while on getting a DEC 21142 card up on a 2.0 install but apparently haven't hit on the right parms. The system is a DEC Celebris 6200, Intel 233. The network is 10Mb, half-duplex. Attempts have included: insmod de4x5 insmod de4x5 args='eth0:autosense=10Mb' (also tried TP, what

Re: Monitor vs X servers

1998-12-01 Thread MJ Watson
> > Video card is a Diamond Stealth 1MB DRAM, and strictly from > > possibly impaired memory, an ISA card with S3 Trio VESA something- > > or-other, probably new in 1996. > > Which of these two cards you are actually using? > > The X server should be choosing according to the card. >

Startup of X fails

1998-10-16 Thread MJ Watson
After installing 2.0 clean onto my PC, attempts to start up any window manager fails, as does just trying to start an xterm. This output is from an attempt to start up fvwm2: - [FVWM][main]: <> Unknown option: `:0' [FVWM][main]: <> Unknown o

2.0 X still won't work

1998-10-09 Thread MJ Watson
After installing Debian 2.0 onto a clean system, X11 will not run. XF86Setup seems to go fine, my mouse appears to be configured properly, and all the software seems to be correctly installed. Of course, if something is missing, it wouldn't be obvious to me, either. Executing startx results in t

Getting Netscape Running

1998-09-23 Thread MJ Watson
Having just installed 2.0 at home, my next project is to get Netscape up and running. I'm assuming that some form of Xwindowing is required. If so, startx blows off with numerous errors (sorry, I'm not at home, so don't have the errors at hadn: Basically, xinitrc can't be found, and a series of