KPPP and PPP dial in SOLVED! ;-)

2006-03-13 Thread dawizz
Dear all, A couple of months ago I was trying to help out my family with a linux box and dial in connection to there ISP. Via the mailing list a tried a number of scenario's also the very bad one's with setting SUID bits, using chown to set root permissions etc. By now I learned what not to do, a

Re: k3b in etch?

2006-02-01 Thread dawizz
Hy, I was able to compile and make a deb file from source with only 2 commands... dh_make dpkg-buildpackage Though I'm not so experienced yet, and maybe there are better idea's. I was happy it worked out fine. What I needed to know I got from: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-sys

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-03 Thread dawizz
Hi, Funny, but at the same time I want to use a nvidia gforce 6200. This AGP version is installed on a Asus A7N266-E MOBO and athlon cpu I'm using debian etch with kernel-image-2.6-k7 So the mailing list is like a huge knowledge base!! ;-) I got results with the following approach... # T

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-03 Thread dawizz
Hi.. Make sure though u have kernel || linux-headers installed. dawizz. On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:31, Chris Howie wrote: > jlquinn wrote: > > One alternative if you want to get 3D running and are willing to use the > > NVidia driver is to download and install their package ra

Re: failing to connect with PPP in austria

2005-12-28 Thread dawizz
Hi, I'm having a similar issue with kppp and pppd under sarge... maybe both issues have the same origin?? I hope an other debian/kde user can provide us the correct answers. At first I found out that the actual owner of kppp, e.g. the user of the dail up connection, must be set using the folo