Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

Greg Folkert wrote: Well, I went through the effort of compiling it. (a response to this message before). I use unstable... the connector is for a newer version... but since I use it for a project I am involved with, it works. If you trust me,I have put it up for public availability. You will have

Re: How to de-Grub?

Simon Kitching wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote: Stephen Cradock wrote: I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other partition for the stage 2 lo

Re: How to de-Grub?

Stephen Cradock wrote: Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers, and decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to install. Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge partition and installed Gentoo there, from a CD. That went OK, but

smbmount freezes ls only the first time

I've been having problems with smbmount. I've noticed this on both my desktop and laptop computers. Both are running sid, updated regularly. The symptoms of the problem are: - mount a share (either from samba on a linux server or from a windows server) - cd to the mount point - type ls - ls f

Re: Backup to DVD

Marcus wrote: Can anyone recommend a backup program which can write to DVD? tar cvzf .tar.gz burn this to DVD, optionally using "split" if the file is too large for a single DVD. I'd like to backup my entire deb installation (4-5 GB) and be able to snap it back into place from DVD. I last used Mon

Re: Debian DVD creation

Marcus wrote: We'd like to create a Debian DVD (unstable or testing) for our Linux store. Is there a how-to anywhere for that (google didn't help)? Go here: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Scroll down a bit, until you get to the "Official images" section. There you'll see the following: Off

Re: confusion over firewalling

Will Parsons wrote: I have a desktop machine onto which I installed woody, which originally ran a 2.2.20 kernel and was configured using heimdall to use ipchains for firewalling. (There is a script /etc/heimdall/firewall.sh which invokes ipchains rules.) Awhile ago, I built a custom 2.4.18 kern

Re: LILO wierd ......

cep welly wrote: wookie:~#lilo -v Skipping /kernel2.4 Ok, so what's your lilo.conf look like for /kernel2.4? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CPU speed

Christian Christmann wrote: I'm looking for a tool to adjust the speed of my CPU depending on if my notebook is running with a battery or without. Are there any debian packages I could use? I have a Toshiba laptop, so I use toshset. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Asking about RSH on Linux?

Hai Nguyen wrote: Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an alphaserver with 6 node in which I have installed Linux but I have a problem with "rsh" command. When I type: #rsh node5 it tell me that the conection refused... Mean while, "ping" command run ok #ping node5 - run OK #pi

Re: LILO wierd ......

cep welly wrote: Anybody rebooting last couple days ? Last apt-upgrading, I'd got lilo upgraded ( with kernel too )... Start to debian again after driving NFS Underground on my dual winblows, LILO showed only two options to boot : Linux and WinXP. Was, I had LinuxOLD which refered to my previous

Re: extern IP

Borislav Petkov wrote: we have a wlan at our dorm and we get all itnernal IPs DHCP-ed. Everything works fine but I'd like to run an internal www and therefore need my external IP. The problem is, I don't have access to the D-Link router/DHCP server so that i could run ifconfig on it. Any ideas a

Re: hdparm and disk access

Forrest Humphrey wrote: [snip] Okay, now say I've used hdparm to specify that my 2 hard drives in the box should spin down after, say 5 minutes: hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb [snip] I know it could be detrimental to the drives if they are spinning up and down all the time. Also, is t

Re: How do I move apt cache from /var/cache/apt/archives ?

Shahid Bhatti wrote: Hi, While doing a distribution upgrade on my newly installed Debian server it seems I've run out of space on the root partition / because I got the error message "E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .debs." Now I have added

Re: kernel panic

Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: I am trying to install the kernel 2.6.6, so I downloaded it, compiled it and installed it, but, when I boot I get a whole bunch of errors. How did you build it (make or make-kpkg)? Did you use an initrd? Are you on stable/testing/unstable? Unfortunately I ha

Re: enable duplex

Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. Am I correct that duplex means that I can use the two jacks as one? Nah, duplex means that the NIC can transmit and receive at the same time. You'll have a duplex connection if you're connected to

Re: make gconfig (was: make xconfig not working)

Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: Well, giving up on make xconfig. Going for make gconfig now. What packages do I need to install gtk? I've been trying apt-get install gtk, gtk+ and other variants to no avail. Makefile:437: .config: No such file or directory make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Make

Re: network using processes

John Summerfield wrote: Someone the other day remarked how terrrific strace is. tcpdump and ethereal are the network equivalents. Ethereal prettier to look at is more instructive, but needs a GUI environment. Or you can use the command line version, which is "tethereal". Not quite as nice as th

Re: Modem not recognized?

Gary Parker wrote: I am running a new installation of Sid and can't seem to get the modem up. [snip] I tried setserial as follows: setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xdfe0 irq 22 autoconfig ln -sf /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem I followed this with "pppd call provider". I don't believe it activated t

Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

Chris wrote: I've noticed that during (sid) startup the font appears to be changed - both on my desktop box and on the laptop. On the desktop box this is OK - I get to see more of the boot messages scrolling past before GDM starts. But - on the laptop - at the point this switches in - all screens s

Re: Kernel won't compile

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.6 in my box (Debian testing/unstable) with no success. I've searched for a solution using google but found no matching problem. Anyway, here's the error message: HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include HOSTCC

Re: Routing Question

James Sinnamon wrote: Also '/usr/sbin/tcpdump eth0' (or '/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth1') (don't think it will work with ppp0) is another debugging tool. Ethereal is another tool, similar to tcpdump, which gives more readable output. tethereal is the termial (command line) version of ethereal if you d

Re: Any way to search executable name?

Robert William Hutton wrote: * Tong* wrote: Is there any way to search executable name for it package? For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... esgaroth:~# apt-get install apt-file esgar

Re: Any way to search executable name?

* Tong* wrote: Is there any way to search executable name for it package? For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... esgaroth:~# apt-get install apt-file esgaroth:~# apt-file update [output omitted] esgaro

Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*

David Purton wrote: In a foolish endeavour to get gnome 2.4 on my testing machine (previously had 2.2 pulled from unstable) I downloaded a stack of debs an installed them. Sadly now gnome-session gets as far as its splash screen before hanging and I have to ctrl+alt+backspace my way out of trouble.

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

John Yurcik wrote: 1. Download and install the kernel-source package that corresponds to the kernel version you're running. 2. Unbzip the bzip file that appears in /usr/src (something like kernel-source-2.4.whatever.tar.bz2). 3. make a symbolic link to the resulting directory called /usr/src/linu

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

Abdul Latip wrote: This is NOT urgent, since Debian provides working kernels. However, I am just wondering on where to find clues on how to solve problems while compiling the kernels. I tried google with not much luck. The problem is, whenever I recompile a newer kernel using "make-kpkg"; most like

Re: Nvidia video card not recognized

John Yurcik wrote: Hello, I believe that the headers and kernel are the same yet the nvidia driver installer doesn't see it that way. The error message from the installer(which is posted in this thread basically says the headers are not correct for the kernel) Is there anything I can do to get this

Re: stairstep printing on an HP Deskjet

Corey Hickey wrote: [snip] Currently, if I try to print a text file by using: $ lpr text.txt I get a stairstep effect - the first line is good, the next line is tabbed over, the next line even farther, etc. From searching google, I've determined that this is to be expected in HP printers, and must

Re: gdm/X broken by recent update

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:33:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Robert William Hutton wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Last night's update in unstable has killed my xserver. I'd normally be > >able to work out what's going on, but nothing is showing up in my

Re: how to get 2.4.18 device driver 3c59x

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:09:40AM +0200, Tom Eugelink wrote: > I was running kernel 2.2 and I used dselect to download 2.4.18 (binary). > That came with drivers for pcmcia, but nothing else, especially not for > my networkcards, requiring the 3c59x driver. You'll probably need to install the co

gdm/X broken by recent update

Hi, Last night's update in unstable has killed my xserver. I'd normally be able to work out what's going on, but nothing is showing up in my logs. The symptoms of the problem are also different than the usual ones: - The X server starts, I get the grey background, and the cross, which is the d