Obsolete kernel-image?

2000-02-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
I thought I saw this discussed at some point in the past but can't find it in the archives, so, if this is a repeat forgive me. I just installed the kernel-source package for the 2.2.14 kernel from potato. I used make-kpkg to build up the kernel and now when I go into dselect it shows that the ker

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
i'd look into lotus notes, it requires glibc2.1 ..so if u use debian u need potato.. but it has the name and the support behind it to convince the dumbass suits to use linux :/ we'd run it at my other job but they dont want to spend $1200 for the software. with notes to get that functionality you

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 17:00:18 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What this boils down to is: Is there a program for Linux that will > do essentially the same thing as Schedule+? CyberScheduler from CrossWinds. Linux, Windows, web, text mode, etc versions, and Palm support... -- J C L

Re: Upgrading kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 ?

2000-02-04 Thread Don Erickson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hello, > >Ive just updated all the packages from hamm to slink but I also >want to now upgrade to kernel to 2.2.14 ? .. >I am running IP Masquerading .. linux box connected to net, local >network of 10.x.x.x and then a win95 box behind the linux box >on t

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Zielinski
You can try Ontime, www.ontime.com. I've used it in Windows environments and it works fairly well. I could not find on their site what O/Ses are supported, but they state they support "mulitiple networking environments". It might be worth an email to find out. Mike --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTEC

quick apt/dpkg question

2000-02-04 Thread Ian Alexander
Does dpkg --get-selections report stuff that has been installed via apt? Ian J. Alexander email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 817-557-3038 Senior Software Engineer http://ija.eaze.net Fa

Re: quick apt/dpkg question

2000-02-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ian Alexander wrote: > Does dpkg --get-selections report stuff that has been installed via apt? Yes Jason

getting lynx to be its own external html viewr

2000-02-04 Thread hawk
OK, i admit it, the FM's are daunting on this one, and I failed the last time I tried. But someone else must have tried this. I want to set up lynx as its own external viewer for html. Thatis, I want it to launch a new xterm with a new instance of lynx when I type period on a link. This should

SCSI Adapter Settings/Debian

2000-02-04 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings folks, I have an Adaptec 152x SCSI card attached to a Archive Python DAT drive. This all works fine in windows, but in Debian it is trying to assign the wrong IRQ to the adapter card, thus the tape drive never gets detected. All relevant kernel modules have been compiled into the ker

RE: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 03-Feb-00 Kent West wrote: > > What this boils down to is: Is there a program for Linux > that will do essentially the same thing as Schedule+? > > For those of you unfamiliar with Schedule+: I need a > calendar program that is networked. For example, I can open > my Schedule+ file, and then s

RE: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Feb-00 Ted Harding wrote: > On 03-Feb-00 Kent West wrote: >> >> What this boils down to is: Is there a program for Linux >> that will do essentially the same thing as Schedule+? > > I don't know if it will meet your needs, but have a look at "plan": > >http://www.IN-Berlin.DE/User/bitr

answering my own lynx question

2000-02-04 Thread hawk
Hmm, I would have *sworn* that this stuff wasn't in /etc/lynx.cfg lasttime I looked. Once I had the source, I read debian/README.debian, and found the answer to my problems :) The color answer: These settings look nice on the crummy screen, but they have an interesting idea of what "white" mean

Re: SCSI Adapter Settings/Debian

2000-02-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
At the lilo prompt, try append "aha152x=iobase[,irq[,scsi-id,[,reconnect[,parity" To make my SB16-SCSI card with CD-ROM drive visible, I use append "aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" YMMV. On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 19:58, Todd Suess wrote: > Greetings folks, > > I have an Adaptec 152x SCSI card attache

Apt-get upgrade vs dist-upgrade?

2000-02-04 Thread Marc Sherman
What's the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade? Thanks, - Marc

Re: Apt-get upgrade vs dist-upgrade?

2000-02-04 Thread Sean Johnson
apt-get upgrade will attempt to upgrade the packages which you currently have installed on your system. If any of those upgrades require that additional packages be removed or installed then the said package(s) will be held back. apt-get dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade all packages, installin

Re: Apt-get upgrade vs dist-upgrade?

2000-02-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:04:25PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > What's the difference between apt-get upgrade and > apt-get dist-upgrade? Just doing "upgrade" will not upgrade any packages that: a) Require installing new packages that are not currently installed b) Require removing packages that

Debian Package Installer

2000-02-04 Thread TroPeek
Which program is used the most for installing and desinstaller packages in Debian? Dselect or dpkg? Are there any others? TIA-Pee

Re: Obsolete kernel-image?

2000-02-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:55:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I thought I saw this discussed at some point in the past but can't > find it in the archives, so, if this is a repeat forgive me. > > I just installed the kernel-source package for the 2.2.14 kernel from > potato. I used make-kpkg to

slink -> potato upgrade - safe NOW?

2000-02-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
I need to move on to the 2.2.x kernel and glibc 2.1. Is there anywhere look for some guidelines/problems if I upgrade now? The list of 271 release-critical bugs is a bit scary... ...RickM...

Re: pthreads man pages?

2000-02-04 Thread Britton
Yes, they must be, since I have them on my system. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which of the (stable) packages I have installed is providing them. Perhaps someone can tell me how to check which package is providing a given file on my system? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with yo

Re: pthreads man pages?

2000-02-04 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Britton said > > Yes, they must be, since I have them on my system. Unfortunately, I'm not > sure which of the (stable) packages I have installed is providing them. > Perhaps someone can tell me how to check which package is providing a > given file on my system? >

Re: Kdevelop working?

2000-02-04 Thread David J. Kanter
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Which line did you add to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get KDE-apps. In my > dselect > package list no KDE app is shown. ---end quoted text--- deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compiled Emacs

2000-02-04 Thread davidturetsky
I'm using emacs under Linux, mounting ms-dog files and writing html   My attempts to install x-windows fail ( I assume some setting is making the installer unhappy, but I can't take more time to chase it now). I have also not installed browsers on the Linux side, but enjoy using Opera. Not s

Wierd gnome!

2000-02-04 Thread Steve Winston
My Gnome is wierd. Help! This is slink. X is 3.3.6. I log on with the graphics log-in screen. I get a minimal Gnome window. The configuration manager says enlightenment is the window manager. But to start enlightenment, I have to select icewm instead, then reselect enlightenment. Then and only

Re: Mounting Novell Drives for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Madarasz Karoly
"Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > > I have a question for you: I am trying to mount a novell > network where I work. I have created a mount point: /mnt/netware > > I then issue the following command: > > /usr/bin/ncpmount -S BINC-MSN -A binc-msn.binc.net -U username /mnt/netware > > This work

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Tele2
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 03:55:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: > i'd look into lotus notes, it requires glibc2.1 ..so if u use debian u NO! Exchange is bad but Notes is truly appalling. Picture an email client that cannot mark messages as replied to, that cannot even begin to match the functionality o

Re: Out of date packages

2000-02-04 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:42:36PM -0800, Mark Lundeberg wrote: > > If I find a package that is out of date with the actual version out on the > net, what should I do? Example: games/nighthawk (Debian version: 1.0 -- > Upstream version: 2.2.1 or something like that) > > I have also found packages

Re: Please Reply: Kernel compilation straight from the base install...

2000-02-04 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:23:38AM -0500, Rob Hensley wrote: > Hi, I recently installed the potato base system, and wanted to compile my > own kernel straight from there. I was wodering what all packages I'd need > to download from the debian home page to be able to do this. The reason I > have to

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-04 Thread Lee
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, brian moore wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:23:34PM -0800, Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, John Foster wrote: > > > Lee Chapelle wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm looking for "Messenger" I'm using corel-linux which has an earlier > > > > Netscape 4.x in it already but no sig

Re: Obsolete kernel-image?

2000-02-04 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:55:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I thought I saw this discussed at some point in the past but can't > find it in the archives, so, if this is a repeat forgive me. > > I just installed the kernel-source package for the 2.2.14 kernel from > potato. I used make-kpkg to

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-04 Thread Lee
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, brian moore wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:23:34PM -0800, Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, John Foster wrote: > > > Lee Chapelle wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm looking for "Messenger" I'm using corel-linux which has an earlier > > > > Netscape 4.x in it already but no sig

Re: ZIP drives

2000-02-04 Thread Matthias Hertel
Konrad Mierendorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it "just" work? I > > was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. > > AFAIK parallel ZIP-drives are *dead* slow! > > - Konrad Mierendorff ...b

Re: Wierd gnome!

2000-02-04 Thread Derek J Witt
Steve, I have found the same problem when I try using Window Maker. What I do to fix this is use the Session Properties to insert "wmaker --gnome" as a respawnable process. You can use "enlightenment" in a similar way. Hope this helps. :-) ** Derek J Witt

Re: Kdevelop working?

2000-02-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Or you can go to www.kdevelop.org and download the v1.1beta? .deb (kde.tdyc.com has v1.0beta3) -- On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > > Which line did you add to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get KDE-apps. In my > > dselect

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
paul wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it strangely enough. It just removes the > > .gz extension. I've alw

Re: HP880c printing from (i.e.) GIMP

2000-02-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello, > > I just installed a new HP Deskjet 880c. I installed 'apsfilter' and chose > the 'cdjcolor' driver. I can print from Lyx fine, but I can't seem to get > nice output from the GIMP. How exactly does this work? Saving the same image > and printing it in Windows (Photoshop 5) does work.

Re: Compiled Emacs

2000-02-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/04/00 12:44AM, davidturetsky wrote: > My attempts to install x-windows fail ( I assume some setting is > making the installer unhappy, but I can't take more time to chase > it now). I have also not installed browsers on the Linux side, but You're gonna have to post some error messages or pro

Dpkg install error on Enlightenment Package

2000-02-04 Thread AU,SCOTT CHUONG
Hi all, Tried to upgrade Enlightenment from 0.14 to 0.16 as seen below. I can't figure out the unknown option about --assert-long-filenames as it's not in the dpkg --help or in the man files of dpkg. Do I have an outdated dpkg or anything else amiss? Thanks, Scott Au [EMAIL PROTECTED] aubase:

Re: AGHHHH! I ruined Linux!

2000-02-04 Thread John Gould
Hi there, I would probably re-install from scratch. Now is not a good time to update from 'frozen'! Others may have other ideas! The slink release although a becoming a little dated is absolutely rock solid. Things start to go wrong when you start adding packages from potato. I've used sli

Re: Dpkg install error on Enlightenment Package

2000-02-04 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:11:56AM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: > Tried to upgrade Enlightenment from 0.14 to 0.16 as seen below. I can't > figure out the unknown option about --assert-long-filenames as it's not in > the dpkg --help or in the man files of dpkg. Do I have an outdated dpkg > or an

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Guy Boanas
+ --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: + > + > What this boils down to is: Is there a program for Linux + > that will do essentially the same thing as Schedule+? It might be worth looking at the Corporate Time range. The server side doesn't support Linux as yet but Solaris etc. Clients exis

Re: ZIP drives

2000-02-04 Thread Igor Mozetic
> > [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] > > ZIP drives > > > >* To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >*

newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread DOUGLAS HUNTER
I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a profile for this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so could you drop me a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for these. One other problem how do you tell which port your mouse is attached to ie. tty0, tty2

Is it safe to upgrade debhelper to potato, leaving the rest of slink?

2000-02-04 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'd like to compile/install the ted package on my slink box. Unfortunately the slink debhelper lacks the dh_installmime and dh_link functions, (and maybe some others) needed by the source package of ted. Is it safe to upgrade the debhelper alone, and leave the rest of the slink untouched?

Re: Debian Package Installer

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Which program is used the most for installing and desinstaller packages in > Debian? Dselect or dpkg? Are there any others? > TIA-Pee > I think you should choose dselect to select the packages you want (at start) and install them using dselect. Later if you want to add packages you could use

Re: reading rtf files: I shouldn't talk nonsense.

2000-02-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: > > > Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read [rtf files]. > > > > Sorry, I should not talk nonsense. I mistook "rtf" for "PDF". > > > > Paul Huygen > > > > t

ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread flost
Hello! I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the debian mailing archive, but I didn`t found anything usable for my graph

Re: Is it safe to upgrade debhelper to potato, leaving the rest of slink?

2000-02-04 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I'd like to compile/install the ted package on my slink box. Unfortunately > the slink debhelper lacks the dh_installmime and dh_link functions, (and > maybe some others) needed by the source package of ted. > Is it safe to upgr

Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Tony
Hello, I am running/installing a Debian 2.1 distribution that came packaged with the O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux". I guess this is Slink. I have been trying to install the module support for a 3905 3com ethernet card. 3Com supply the driver as c code; I compile this and then try to

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a profile for > this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so could you drop me > a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for these. > One other problem how do you tell which port your mouse is attached to ie. > tty0

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Hello! > I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t > work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix > that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the > debian mailing archive, but I didn`t found anything usable for

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
There are a few things you could try: - Compile a kernel where you don't add your ethernetcard as a module. - Compile a kernel where you select 'Set kernel version on all modules' (or something like that, when using make menuconfig it's in the same menu as 'Enable modules'). - Make sure you did bo

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread Peter Good
Quickest way is to upgrade your xserver. Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a profile for > > this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so could you drop > > me a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for these. > > One other

Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-04 Thread sudheesh
Hello, I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know how to configure my system to use the server specifically for my card. I have the server installed and Xwindows installed as well, but I don't know how to configure to use the installed server. K. Sudheesh [EMAIL

Re: TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Thanks for your help, but we were not able to install linux because we didnt see any disk for installing in fact there are three controllers, two aha7800 which were both detected, one is connected to the cdrom, the other is dummy. The third controller is the PERC-2 (not SC) pre-controller, whic

Re: TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Thanks for your help, but we were not able to install linux because we didnt see any disk for installing in fact there are three controllers, two aha7800 which were both detected, one is connected to the cdrom, the other is dummy. The third controller is the PERC-2 (not SC) pre-controller, whic

Re: new Server and MIME-Types

2000-02-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
> >Michelle, > >usually they are in /etc/mime.types. You haven't written which >WWW server >you use. If Apache, there's a symlink >/etc/apache/mime.types -> ../mime.types >i.e. just to this file. > Sorry, but I have not ask where I must set the MIME-Types !!! In apache I am missing MIME-Types

Re: PPP kernel support?

2000-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting steve doerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How do you put PPP support into the 2.2.0 kernel? I get the following > message when I try to run pon: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be > because > the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is

changeing irqs on serial devices.

2000-02-04 Thread Tim Nicholas
Hey there, On my home computer i currently have a modem and a mouse, both serial. I like haveing multiple displays how ever and since i resently came accross a dumb terminal i thought that i would connect it. So far however i have not been able to get the dumb terminal to work at the same time

Re: Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Hello, > > I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know > how to configure my system to use the server specifically for my card. I > have the server installed and Xwindows installed as well, but I don't know > how to configure to use the installed server. > K. Sudh

transparent proxying

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Meskes
Are there other tools available or is transproxy the only one for this? AFAIK I need some tool to rewrite the URLs so the proxy is correctly addressed. michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651

Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have a 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx (at irq 5) But at boot time I got "Network is unreachable". Can you help me, please. At boot time it says: ... FDC0 is post-1991 82077 The PCI-Bios has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command -> 0005 eth0: 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx IR

Re: Module upgrading question

2000-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hating to reboot I wondered what the proper and Debian way whould be > to upgrade/add modules. I want to add audio htat's all, no changes to > the kernel. If I would use make-kpkg kernel_image and install the > generated kernel.deb could I then add the

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
What's in your /etc/init.d/network?? What does it say when you do 'ifconfig'? What does it say when you do 'route'? Ron > Hi > > I have a 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx (at irq 5) > > But at boot time I got "Network is unreachable". > > Can you help me, please. > > > At boot time it says: >

Loonies

2000-02-04 Thread Egbert Bouwman
My wife says the proper pronunciation of linux is loonix egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Isn't there anybody who knows anything about this?????

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
A few days ago I posted this: I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of connection on the windows side is SLIP and i've

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
My personal solution to this problem is to middle-click to open a new window, stop download, copy the address, paste it to xterm, type Ctrl-A then 'wget' :) But it's not that nice. --- Junichi Uekawa, a.k.a. dancer a member

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Tony
OK - I've now tried those things, and I get the same old message ... Any more thoughts? ^There are a few things you could try: ^ ^- Compile a kernel where you don't add your ethernetcard as a module. OK ^- Compile a kernel where you select 'Set kernel version on all modules' ^(or something li

a2ps has a bug?

2000-02-04 Thread Raoul van Putten
Since I dist-upgraded, a2ps doesnt seem to work any more. I do a: $ a2ps textfile [packages (plain): 4 pages on 2 sheets] Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D [229 times, independent of the length of the file textfile] /home/rlputten/bin/lpr: fork: Resource temporari

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> OK - I've now tried those things, and I get the same old message ... Any more > thoughts? You could try: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/net .o or modprobe /lib/modules/2.2.12/net .o (If the first says unresolved externals). Another option of course is downloading another kernel (eq

Re: StarOffice query

2000-02-04 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Rick: Thanks for responding. Curiously, my BACKSPACE key is a DELETE key on the system in question. On this machine (also slink), it is identical to yours (i.e. a BACKSPACE key). The 'xev' output for the former is: At ve6cta, the BACKSPACE key generates KeyPress event, serial 16, syntheti

Does anybody know how I can solve this..

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
A few days ago I posted this: I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of connection on the windows side is SLIP and i've

Re: Scary bugs

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:27:05PM +0100, Patrik Rak wrote: : On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Pavel Epifanov wrote: [snip] : (For those who are about to suggest me that I use ntpdate at boot : time: No, it doesn't work because the Internet connection may be down : during the reboot.) If you run several serve

Re: Upgrading kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 ?

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 03:52:59PM -0800, aphro wrote: : On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Anthony Green wrote: : : ninja >I havent read much about ipchains .. but know how to use ipfwadm, is : ninja >there a backward compatability? : : not much backwards compadiblity, i havent gotten around to learning : ipch

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:13:30 +0100 (CET) >From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >What's in your /etc/init.d/network?? >What does it say when you do 'ifconfig'? >What does it say when you do 'route'? > >Ron > > >> Hi >> >> I have a 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx (at irq 5) >> >> But at boot

STL ?

2000-02-04 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
all - is the STL built into gcc 2.9.x and/or egcs  or do i have to download it from SGI's website?  if it's in gcc or egcs which is better to use? thanks --  Patrick Dahiroc E-OIR Measurements Inc. TEL: 703-704-2856  

Re: Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-04 Thread Howard Mann
sudheesh wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know > how to configure my system to use the server specifically for my card. I > have the server installed and Xwindows installed as well, but I don't know > how to configure to use the installe

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread Howard Mann
flost wrote: > > Hello! > I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t > work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix > that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the > debian mailing archive, but I didn`t found any

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: quares >At boot time it says: quares >... quares >FDC0 is post-1991 82077 quares > The PCI-Bios has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command -> 0005 quares >eth0: 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx IRQ5 i've had this problem too, updatin

CLEARED: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Details: Booting Message: Dell Power Edge Expandable Raid Controller 2 [BIOS VERSION] copyright ADAPTEC CONTAINER #0 ... This is the controller all disks were connected to it is a Adaptec AAC-364 based RAID-Controller with a aic3860Q chip on it. ( screwing it up was fun ) Called 4-channel PERC-

CLEARED: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Details: Booting Message: Dell Power Edge Expandable Raid Controller 2 [BIOS VERSION] copyright ADAPTEC CONTAINER #0 ... This is the controller all disks were connected to it is a Adaptec AAC-364 based RAID-Controller with a aic3860Q chip on it. ( screwing it up was fun ) Called 4-channel PERC-

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
If you try to ping something, does it say operation not permitted? If that's the case you'll probably have your ipchains input and output set on DENY all. Add some rules to those chains (perhaps you'll also need to add rules to the forward chain), or just set them to ACCEPT. Ron

Subject too vague! (was Re: Does anybody know how I can solve this..)

2000-02-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ron Rademaker wrote: >A few days ago I posted this: > > >I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses >ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of >Nobody

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Hello! > > I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t > > work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix > > that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the > > debian m

Debian Linux on Sony Vaio PCG-XG / PCG-F309

2000-02-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, did anybody ever try/succeed to install Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG-X9 or PCG-F309. It isn't in the list of Linux-able portables yet but perhaps somebody already tried? Nico "It has been said that there are only two businesses refe

Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
Hello,     I'm having problems... BIG problems.  I have been trying to install Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install is more like it.  Here is what happens:  Everything seems to go well up until the point where I need to mount? a partition or whatever. 

Attention Bruss Sass FWD: failure notice

2000-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce, fix your damn spam filter. You have hit the end of my patience. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: 4 Feb 2000 16:22:36 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at kitenet.net. I'm afraid I wasn't

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Hello, > I'm having problems... BIG problems. I have been trying to install > Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install > is more like it. Here is what happens: Everything seems to go well up until > the point where I need to mount? a partition or whate

odd cron returns

2000-02-04 Thread hawk
I have the crontab file "mycron" with the contents [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/bin/updatehw >> $HOME/tmp.quizlog which results in the crontab entry of # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.4hHwFM installed on Tue F

Re: odd cron returns

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:40:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : That is, it's not executingthe command in the crontab, but a differetn one : --note thatthe >> becomes a 2>>& : : How do I fix this? What I need here is for cron to *not* send any : mail at all--this account exists

Incoming PPP, slink

2000-02-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops and a couple of Linux boxen running samba. I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95 machine at home and be a "full citizen"

Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
I tried resc1440tecra.bin, and that didn't work... this is the error I'm getting... No Hard Drive! No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cables correctly and are turned on befor the system is started. You may to change driver settings at teh boot... or load a driver... Any sugg

Whiteboard for debian?

2000-02-04 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'm looking for the whiteboard teleconferencing utility, available for both Linux and Winblow$. It should be open source of course... -- TIA Wojciech M. Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab <--> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread davidturetsky
I pass on Paul's post. With a 13.5GB drive, you have to be sure you've correctly addressed the large disk issues discuss there   I particularly found Andries Brouwer discussion (http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html invaluable   David   davidt >From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>davidt

problem updating to potato

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
When trying to update to potato I get the following error: (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb (--unpack): trying to ove

Re: problem updating to potato

2000-02-04 Thread Erik Blaufuss
I had the same problem. Try removing the "clock" package first. Works fine after that. --Erik On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > When trying to update to potato I get the following error: > > (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking util-lin

Re: Whiteboard for debian?

2000-02-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:13:27 +0100 Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, I'm looking for the whiteboard teleconferencing utility, > available for both Linux and Winblow$. It should be open source of > course... CVW -- http://www.mitre.org/ -- J C Lawrence

LaTex - Adding packages

2000-02-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to add the 'titlesec' package to my Debian 2.1 system and having a problem. After a little research, my understanding of the process is to add additional Tex packages into one of the home or local directories as defined in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and then run texhash. So, on my system the

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread Joe Block
> DOUGLAS HUNTER wrote: > I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a > profile for this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so > could you drop me a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for > these. Add deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, paul wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > > > > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it stran

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