CD/DVD drive not in /dev/

2005-07-19 Thread Martin Wood
Hi all, I'm just getting to grips with Linux, and have managed to find out answers to most of my questions, but this one has me foxed. However, I have just started to get Ogle working, when I discovered that my DVD/CD drive is not showing up in /dev/. hdb is there (which is my hard disk). Note t

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-03-16 Thread Martin Wood
none of us should have to say this, but *please* take this off list I love discussing history and politics, but not when im trying to configure a debian box. thanks, Martin Number Six wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:35:11AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: You are kidding, right? You can't be

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread Martin Wood
Nicos Gollan wrote: Is there any good tutorial on how to set up a very basic LDAP server for simple things like keeping an address book? I know it's overkill, but LDAP seems to be the only possibility to access a central addressbook from different applications that aren't all from either Gnome or

Re: modules after kernel make - can't get new kernel finding its modules

2004-03-01 Thread Martin Wood
Chris Evans wrote: More explicit version of earlier request. I installed 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel from CDROM and then completed installation onto machine from net. I want to compile the RAID code into the kernel so I can boot from a mirrored disc array. I download kernel-source2.4.18. I do: make

Serial ATA speed : kernel 2.4.25

2004-02-27 Thread Martin Wood
Im trying to find some definitive information on configuring serial ATA drives. Im using a 2.4.25 kernel with woody. The mobo is an Intel 865PERC with an IHC5 controller and the drives are a pair of Maxtor 7Y250M0. The system recognizes the drives but the logs seem to indicate its treating the

Re[2]: How can I find out what MTA a debian machine is using?

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Wood
s> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:04:45AM -0300, GBV wrote: >> Try to see e-mail headersGenerally it works if the system is not >> configured to return a bogus version >> s> OK, looks like I'm using exim. s> Next question, where do i look for it's logfile? sorry stan, you must think my brain ha