Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others. > My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with > mo

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:56:03 -0600 "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Teilhard Knight wrote: > >> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. >> Only >> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferabl

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue ... you wrote I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. ... later you wrote in answer to this > I'm running etch-amd

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Folks I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box, so all help welcome. Full details are below, but essentially lspci sees the card but alsaconf gives firstly: "No supported PnP or PCI card found.

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. N

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with module-assistant. How do I find and use module assistant? Teilhard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teilhard Knight escribió: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 3

How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver m

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most

Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most annoying thing is that t

Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most annoying thing is that th

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 17:08 -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: >What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Killall. Or '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' Right, thank you. Teilhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Am 2005-12-20 04:04:24, schrieb Teilhard Knight: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? It depends. 1) For killing it the current bootet Computer /etc/init.d/gdm stop 2) Only from the runlevel 2 rm /etc/rc2.d/??gdm 3) Permanently apt-get --purge remov

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Formally it's: invoke-rc.d gdm stop But everybody (including myself) uses: /etc/init.d/gdm stop To stop it permanently use: update-rc.d gdm remove Thanks a lot. Teilhard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Simple question

2005-12-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:08:33PM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Killall. Seems like a bad idea, unless the service is hung. Using the proper init script would make more sense. To simply stop the service, /etc/init.d/gdm stop as root would do the

Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread Teilhard Knight
What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Teilhard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread Teilhard Knight
What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Teilhard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to compile in Debian?

2005-08-26 Thread Teilhard Knight
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:01 AM Subject: Re: How to compile in Debian? On 8/25/05, Teilhard Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suppose you want to compile your drivers for your wireless adapter, which is what I actually want to do. If I am not mistaken, I need a build symbolic l

How to compile in Debian?

2005-08-25 Thread Teilhard Knight
Suppose you want to compile your drivers for your wireless adapter, which is what I actually want to do. If I am not mistaken, I need a build symbolic link in "uname -r" to the kernel-source, and I need a linux symbolic link from /usr/src where to the kernel source too, which also resides there.

Ndiswrapper

2005-08-13 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello: I am a newbie in Debian with a tiny experience in Mandrake. I have been trying to put my wireless adapter at work in Debian. Compilation of the binary drivers was impossible, so I am trying to install ndiswrapper. For that I need the kernel-source which matches my kernel and a symbolic l

Re: OK, I did my homework and red your answers carefuly

2003-03-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
wvdial > > looks for /dev/cdrom and i'm sure u can specify this in wvdial.conf > > /dev/cdrom??? for a modem? Yes, one thing is the modem itself and another the symbolic link. I can always make the second, modem or not. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sand

Re: OK, I did my homework and red your answers carefuly

2003-03-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
'nt used wvdial in some time now. > Sharninder Singh > National Institute Of Management, Calcutta Thank you. I surely have symbolic links /dev/modem and /dev/modem2 for each modems. The driver installation makes in each case a /dev/modem one, and I changed one of them as 2. Teilhard Kni

OK, I did my homework and red your answers carefuly

2003-03-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
USB modem uses device ttySL0 as default and Win Modem uses ttyLT0. I just want to ask whether wvdial looks in those device entries, because it finds no modems in my system when I make it search for a modem. Thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Still struggling with my modem(s)

2003-03-06 Thread Teilhard Knight
O, is it not?), the thing protests, if I put /dev/modem2, the thing doesn't protest, but does nothing. And in wvdial in the command line I cannot try /dev/modem2 because it is not in the wvdial.config file. Can you tell me how to configure it to make it dial both /dev/modem and /dev/modem

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
> Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I got the drivers for my Win Modem and I just installed an USB modem. Now, > > when I try to install the Win Modem drivers I get: > > > > "The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 > > This will conflict with su

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Win Modem > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:17:23AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Another silly

What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
I am asked for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
dems. Is this correct? Another silly question for you. How can I make work my floppy drive in the command line? It simply doesn't move. For the CD I do "apt-cdrom add" in a directory different than /cdrom in order to make it work. Am I doing all right? Teilhard Knight The Extraterr

Re: Dummy

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On March 2, 2003 12:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > > > &

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 00:32, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:56 AM > > Subject: Re: Couple of more ques

Re: Dummy

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
n system refuses to start with a non default X. Any suggestions? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > >>>I guess you are right. I tried today to install as a root using > >>>rpm, and I got the reply you say: &quo

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> But > > > >>> natively, Debi

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Teilhard Knight
> Kent West wrote: > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > >>> > >>> But > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > >>> (although it can in many cases with the "alien" pac

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Teilhard Knight
r about an hour. I'll have another go in a while. Cheers. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? > I got this reply, but this is now in the middle of the night > > -- > David > > -----Original Message- > From: Teilhard Knight [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-01 Thread Teilhard Knight
click to connect. Nothing much in the way to know how things work and I doubt my ISP's support people would be able to help because they are happy just to lead you through the CD installation wizard. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-01 Thread Teilhard Knight
> Teilhard Knight wrote: > > >First, I have been told that some Win Modems can be made to work under > >Debian. I have a plain Lucent Win Modem. Can you help me to try to install > >it? > > > > > http://www.linmodems.org > Just above the "Ratio

Re: Note

2003-03-01 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 05:50, Barry deFreese wrote: > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > >Just to let you know that I do not seem to be able to get through the list > > >my replies to the people who is helping me. Only fresh posts show. ??? > > > >

Note

2003-02-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Just to let you know that I do not seem to be able to get through the list my replies to the people who is helping me. Only fresh posts show. ??? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Couple of more questions.

2003-02-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
IP, but everytime a log I am assigned one (dynamic). Any way to configure this in Debian? My "card" (it is built in the motherboard) is an Intel Pro 100/ VE. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial (The dummy) Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
the PS/2 (mice) port in Linux. I chose "/input/mice", is this correct? Thanks, and again, I hope you do not mind my dummy questions. -- Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]