Re: SMP in default install?

2001-07-14 Thread John Foster
Andy Mott wrote: > > Hi > > I have a dual-cpu box, which I just installed Potato on with ReiserFS. Is > support for SMP built-in, or will I have to compile a new kernel (with rfs > patches, I guess), and install that? --- You will need

Re: hp5l paraport print insanity

2001-07-14 Thread Theodore Knab
Thanks the problem was resolved by removing the ifhp.deb package and reconfiguring /etc/printcap Just incase anybody has a similar problem. Here are the details for the list archive. debian packages debian:/var/spool/lpd/lp# dpkg -l | grep -i print* | grep -v ^rc ii gnome-print0.10-5

D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Evan Flynn
Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver set where can I download it?

Re: support for video card

2001-07-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:21:08PM -0700, Amit Uttam wrote: > If you could please contact me or tell me how to install this video card so > th>at i can run xwindows or something so that at least i can use my debian os > beca>use the command line thing is confusing and will take time to learn > a

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration

2001-07-14 Thread Theodore Knab
You don't have any resolutions specified in the display section. You need to add something like this under the display lines the Modes "1200x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:59:06AM -, florentin ionescu wrote: > > > Sorry for the inconvenience but I am used Hotmail

RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread mjevans1983011
I've network installed from such a system both with a custom boot disk and other installations. The module would be called something like 8139 or 8138 something... It depends on the kernel. I've only got 4.6 at the moment. Ah it's rtl8139 (.o) in the 2.2.x series. It should be on the supplementa

Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE

2001-07-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> La ringrazio. > Veramente gentilissimo. non c'e' di che. > P.S. posso approfittare solo per un'altra cosa? > In pratica volevo segnalare una cosa che non mi è piaciuta > molto nell'installazione: la selezione dei pacchetti > A parte che moltissimi non hanno la descrizione (di un rigo) e quindi

Re: can't ssh or telnet to Debian box

2001-07-14 Thread Owen G. Emry
FYI I solved it, and the solution was the same as that of the fellow in the "ssh weirdness" thread. The problem was an ISP DNS issue. Namely, a reverse lookup on my IP yielded a plausible name, but a forward lookup on that name got nothing. This was causing the hosts.deny file to stop telnet

Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE

2001-07-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> $ apt-cache search ppp e subito dopo, dimenticavo, $ apt-cache show

pci ide device drivers; compiling drivers?

2001-07-14 Thread Gladimir
I am slowly making my way through /var/log/messages, and I ma trying to correct the following error: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 40, VID=1095, DID=0643 My disk controller happens to be: CMD Technology 646U2 Ultra DMA Controller Maybe I've been staring at my computer for

ftp: Illegal PORT command.

2001-07-14 Thread Ron Spooner
Hi all, I have installed potato. I can connect to sites using ftp but entering a command produces this error. Illegal PORT command. ftp: Bind Address already in use Is there someone out there who could point me in the right direction to solve this problem. Thanks Ron

Re: SMP in default install?

2001-07-14 Thread Andy Mott
This came back with CONFIG_SMP=y So it looks like SMP *is* compiled in by default! I had looked at /proc/cpuinfo, and there was mention of 2 CPUs, but I just wanted a little more clarification. Thanks chaps! Andy Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm sure someone will correct me if th

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-14 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:00:13PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Howdy folks, > > > > I'm setting up a small (2-3 workstations, one server, all debian) > > network at home, and I'm trying to implement an idea that I had > > for th

Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'

2001-07-14 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hi there, on quite a number of machines I've encountered the problem, that a normal user can mount filesystems ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to unmount, the above error is given instead. It seems a problem in either kernel 2.4 series or one of the new versions of "mount", sinc

Re: ftp: Illegal PORT command.

2001-07-14 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Ron Spooner wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed potato. I can connect to sites using ftp but entering a > command produces this error. > > Illegal PORT command. > ftp: Bind Address already in use > > Is there someone out there who could point me in the right direction

Re: Sound Card Woes

2001-07-14 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Jay Latham wrote: > > Some history on the card. The card is a SB Live value > edition that originally came in a Gateway 2000 computer that I > bought 2 years ago. I have since turned this box into my > server/router running Debian. But before I did that I had > installed a nu

Re: Netscape Plugins

2001-07-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a > problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. > > It won't recognize plugins. > > I have installed RealPlayer via the debian package and it kept > telling me it wasn't installed but then I insta

Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE

2001-07-14 Thread Vincenzo Manzi
OK allora se non ti (mi hai detto di evitare il lei) dispiace ti nomino ufficialmente mio angelo custode che in pratica vuol dire che ti rompero' l'anima con domande da pignolone!!! Naturalmente rispondimi quando puoi. Non c'è bisogno di tanta sollecitudine. Allora oggi sto reinstallando tutto per

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread Erik Steffl
john smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is > there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the > correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to > you unix gurus out there but if I w

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Evan Flynn wrote: > > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver > set where can I download it? with 2.4 kernel use 8139too if you use 2.2 kernel get the drivers from www.scyld.com (they

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote: > I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is > there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the > correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to > yo

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200): > > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" > > cool beans! i'll write that. and if everything fails, you'll hire me, > right? Or you can take a day job as a waiter and write free sof

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread Nathan Weston
You might want to check out linuxnewbie.org. It has a lot of newbie-oriented howtos. It's not as fine granularity as manpages, but will help with a lot of basic tasks, and has some great forums. I would also suggest the book "Linux in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly. This is actually very close to wh

password prompt

2001-07-14 Thread Rich Collins
I can't remember what I did, but now, after a few seconds after logging onto a gnome seeion, a box pops up asking for 'password' How can I stop that annoying thing?   -- Rich Collins

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is > there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the > correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems

Re: pci ide device drivers; compiling drivers?

2001-07-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:55:21AM -0700, Gladimir wrote: > I am slowly making my way through /var/log/messages, and I ma trying to > correct the following error: > > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 40, VID=1095, DID=0643 > > My disk controller happens to be: > > CMD Technol

System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
I set up a system-wide fetchmailrc recently to grab mail for both my gf and myself. It worked fine for a while, automatically receiving mail whenever we connected (PPP) and every 450 seconds as I specified. Then it just stopped. The process is still running: hawk3:~$ ps ax | grep fetchmail 2936

installation ADSL

2001-07-14 Thread michel Peray
Bonjour Sur la Mandrake, l'ADSL s'installe facilement. Sur la Debian, j'ai quelques soucis. Quelle difference y a t il entre le modem ALCATEL et ECI ? Avez vous queleques script d'exemple ? Quels sont les fichiers nécessaires : merci bien

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:12:54AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this supposed to be > working? I mean, if I have /etc/hosts like: > > 192.168.1.1 host.local.domain host > > ip lookup works: > > $ host 192.168.1.1 > Name: host.local.dom

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread W. Paul Mills
rtl8139, which is included on the disk you got with the card! Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evan Flynn) writes: > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver > set where can I download it? > >

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... > What does it look like when you "strace host 192.168.1.1"? It should > be showing access to /etc/hosts, if you have "order hosts,bind" in > /etc/resolv.conf. I think you mean /etc/host.conf? As I said "host 192.168.1.1" works, an

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-14 Thread pascalw
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:24:09PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:34:59AM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > | Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > ray p wrote: > | > > | > > Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key > | > > authentication. And is small enough

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:35:53PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Now I am confused too. The original poster looked for a way to choose a `smart host' based on the *sender's* address, were you normally choose the host based on the receiver's address. > So I don't understand why you can't j

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Evan Flynn wrote: > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver > set where can I download it? > I have about 5 of them here, all working just fine in various flavors of Debian (Debian Potato

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:13:09PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > ... > > What does it look like when you "strace host 192.168.1.1"? It should > > be showing access to /etc/hosts, if you have "order hosts,bind" in > > /etc/resolv.conf

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: ... > > folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) > > %s" I think this should read: folder-hook . 'set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%

Re: Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > Hi there, > > on quite a number of machines I've encountered the problem, that a normal > user > can mount filesystems ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to > unmount, the above error is given instead. It seems a prob

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-14 Thread JoshNarins
Joost, your solution was such an elegant thing, that to ruin my system to learn it was fair enough. Thank you. --Original Message-- by joost On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default > permissions bac

woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a pseudo image for woody on my localhost, and have downloaded the list for the unofficial images from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial and I've got the pseudo package set up and read the docs. However, when trying to download the packages from ftp.u

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list... Date: Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > Here's what I do (lots of > > irrelevant options s

Re: hp5l paraport print insanity

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: hp5l paraport print insanity Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:32:37AM -0400 In reply to:Theodore Knab Quoting Theodore Knab([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks the problem was resolved by removing the ifhp.deb package and > reconfiguring /etc/printcap > > Just incase anybody

IPtable help and comments

2001-07-14 Thread dude
Sorry i am posting this again to this list, but debian-firewall list was essentially mute. I am trying to run a very secure firewall which also servesa as my gateway. After reading the docs, its is still unclear how i would open up the gateway/firewall to an outside ssh connections also I would

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread mark
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > FILES >Woman does not keep any files, but remembers everything you type. In addition, multiple instances of woman have an extensive shared memory implementation. > > BUGS >There are no bugs. Woman

Re: woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hmm, I seem to have realised that the images are only available as images and not as a package tree. Is this correct? Matthew On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:00PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a pseudo image for woody on > my localhost, and have downloaded the l

Re: Lilo & retrieving file in win

2001-07-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, you seem to have multiple problem but kinda unclear... On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:37:18PM +0930, twiz wrote: > G'day team, > I've just installed but "libxmu.so.6" didn't install properly (x wont > start). I've retrieved the package containing the library file but it > is filed in the win part

Re: IPtable help and comments

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: IPtable help and comments Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:41:32AM -0400 In reply to:dude Quoting dude([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Sorry i am posting this again to this list, > but debian-firewall list was essentially mute. Don't know what your problem is but the debian-firew

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | ... | > > folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s" | | I think this

several questios

2001-07-14 Thread Martin Bretschneider
Hi folks, I'm still new to debian and so have some questions as well. I've got a Sid from May. 1. I want to update gpgme (libgpgme0) that I need for gnupg-support for my mua. In my distrubution the version 0.21 is integrated but it doesn't seem to have a gpgme.config my mua looks for. So I thoug

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: | | Hi (Jim and D): | | Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying | to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that | this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing: I did have som

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:39:27AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | Evan Flynn wrote: | | > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of debian with a D-Link | > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not included with the driver | > set where can I download it? | | I have about 5 of

Re: several questios

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:15:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > > 1. I want to update gpgme (libgpgme0) that I need for gnupg-support for my > mua. In my distrubution the version 0.21 is integrated but it doesn't seem > to have a gpgme.config my mua looks for. So I thought i update to 0.22

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration (and autoviewing HTML mail in mutt)

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:59:06AM +, florentin ionescu wrote: | | Sorry for the inconvenience but I am used Hotmail web-mail because can't use Yeah, it is no fun when your preferred MUA can't be used. See below for a solution someone gave me so that HTML mail isn't too bothersome anymore (

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:14:06PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > It is having trouble to connect to either your SMTP listener, or the email > server. Stop it, and run it with -v to enable verbose mode, as per the > documentation in the package (FAQs, readmes, etc). > > Hint: /etc/d

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > start-stop-daemon and see if that helps. Note: you can't rely on the > exit status of start-stop

keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: ... 8.5. Composing symbols One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad, followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by this number. (In Unicode mod

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Andrew Agno
D-Man writes: > | Dunno about 2.4 series kernels. Note: That is > > '8139too' I don't know why they changed it or why they put "too" in > the name, but that's what it is. The 8139too is a different driver than the rtl8139. Comparing it to the rtl8139 driver in the 2.2, I've found that this d

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > ... > > 8.5. Composing symbols > > One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. > > o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad, > followed

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide > fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not > working, and I'm not looking forward to having to periodically restart > the process myself

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:52:32PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... > Try this instead: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use Socket; > print scalar gethostbyaddr(inet_aton($ARGV[0]), AF_INET) || "(?)", "\n"; works as expected, gethostbyname works too. (I tried it in python, there I know what is done, quite

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
D-Man uttered: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: > | HI, > | > | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java > | Server Pages? > > kaffe might be enough. There are different versions and vendors of > Java interpreters so it depends on which on

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide > > fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not > > working, and I'm not looking forward to

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: ... > I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others, for me only keypad nrs work, on the console that is > P.P.S. My /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz file have this line: > keycode 56 = Alt same here -- groetje

Re: Error compiling kernel 2.4.6 with kernel-package

2001-07-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jan" == Jan Tammen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Hi, Jan> I'm trying to compile kernel version 2.4.6 with the latest Jan> 'kernel-package' [7.50]. Here's the program's output: Jan> tarawa:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg kernel_image Jan> [compiling fine ... snipped] Jan> install: cannot sta

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "D-Man" == D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D-Man> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: D-Man> | also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200): D-Man> | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" D-Man> So what's the literal translation? If I

fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread xucaen
Hi all. You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. My question is.. why diesn't fsck fix the non contiguous errors it finds? about a month ago my hard dri

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: fsck and non-contiguous Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all. > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? > well, last week I noticed that after it ran,

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: keyboard HOWTO Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:45:06PM +0200 In reply to:Joost Kooij Quoting Joost Kooij([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > > > ... > > > > 8.5. Compo

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-14 Thread Tommy McDaniel
I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could get everything to work, but when I went to dselect to see what I wanted to insta

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread David Z Maze
xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X> You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? X> well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. X> Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. X> My question is.. why diesn't fsck fix the non contiguous errors it X

usb scanners & printers

2001-07-14 Thread tony mollica
Hi. The local computer fair is in town today and I'm in the market for a new printer and scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for either of these? The printer should be able to print a decent picture. thanks, -- -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mouse gone in X

2001-07-14 Thread Andy Davidson
I recently ran dselect to add a couple of packages mime-support and tcpdump --- and now I cannot use my PS/2 mouse in X. I checked the archives and looked at the man pages for xdm and gpm and I think that is all set right. I certainly didn't deliberately change any of it and it worked before

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? > well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. > Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. > My question is.. why diesn'

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+

2001-07-14 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Evan Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any luck doing a network install of > debian with a D-Link > DFE-530TX+? What module can I use and if it's not > included with the driver > set where can I download it? hi, The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in kernel si

Re: kde2

2001-07-14 Thread csj
On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After > later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. > Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. > > What happened? How do I fix this? File a bug report? Serio

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
Carel Fellinger uttered: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > ... > > I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others, > > for me only keypad nrs work, on the console that is > > > P.P.S. My /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz file have this line: > >

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
Juan uttered: > At 09:04 14/07/01 -0700, you wrote: > >It's java, why not get it from Sun? http://java.sun.com/j2se/ > > > >You want either the 1.4 beta or 1.3.1. There are two packages, a RedHat > >RPM shell script and a GNUZIP Tar shell script. I've installed both with > >equal success, but if yo

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:08:32PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: ... > What does `hostname` say ? and whats in /etc/hosts ? $ hostname animus cat /etc/hosts (edited) 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 animus.localnet animus news.localnet smtp.localnet imap.localnet www.lo

ntpdate no longer working

2001-07-14 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Sometime this afternoon, ntpdate stopped working. Some debugging shows that it doesn´t even send out any packet to the server. strace´ output doesn´t help me, either: bash-2.03$ sudo strace ntpdate -v 193.81.13.2 <...> write(1, "14 Jul 19:55:26 ntpdate[20704]: "..., 8414 Jul 19:55:26 ntp

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | D-Man uttered: | > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: | > | HI, | > | | > | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java | > | Server Pages? | > | > kaffe might be enough. There are

Where can I find modversion.h???

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin Lee
Hi,     I am tring to get my network card working and recently got the source codes from a developer.  I followed his instruction to compile but got the error of modversion.h not found error:   DarkHorse:/usr/src/modules# gcc -I/usr/include/linux -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -O6 -c winbond-840.c win

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:53:43PM -, Tommy McDaniel wrote: > I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better > understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I > decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could > get every

Re: RAM size.

2001-07-14 Thread Guy Geens
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> I would guess, based on their respective legacy codebases, that Dave> Win2k uses HLT and ME/XP don't, but I haven't heard anything Dave> definite about them to date. AFAIK, WinXP is based on the NT codebase, just like W2k. So I woul

snooping packets _before_ de-masquerading

2001-07-14 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Is there any possibility to see packets with tcpdump _before_ they are de-masqueraded? The situation is as follows: eth0: 192.168.0.99/24 ppp0: 193.80.224.98/32 I´m masquerading all of 192.168.0/24 behind ppp0 and debugging would sometimes be much easier if I could see incoming packets

Re: ftp: Illegal PORT command.

2001-07-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:02:34AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Ron Spooner wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed potato. I can connect to sites using ftp but entering a > > command produces this error. > > > > Illegal PORT command. > > ftp: Bind Address already i

Cannot install kdevelop!?!

2001-07-14 Thread Debian User
Hoi! I have a big problem: I want to install kdevelop, but due to a version problem this does'nt work. After downloading kdevelop1.0beta1-1_i386.deb I tried to install with dpkg. But(t) dpkt quits with the error-message: " kdevelop depends on qt1g (>= 1.44-4); however: Package qt1g is not instal

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:34:54AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > > start-stop-daemon and se

Re: fsck and non-contiguous

2001-07-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To put it another way, that non-contiguous percentage is totally unrelated to whether your drive is failing or not. It's just telling you the degree of file system fragmentation. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? >

Re: kde2

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:15:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After > > later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. > > Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. >

Re: nullmodem connection

2001-07-14 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hi there. This will not solve your problems, but it may help see the ppp-howto

RE:Where can I find modversion.h???

2001-07-14 Thread Andrew Agno
Kevin Lee writes: > I am tring to get my network card working and recently got the > source codes from a developer. I followed his instruction to > compile but got the error of modversion.h not found error: > > Yeah, it is true that it isn't found when I check the > /usr/include

axkit on potato -- anybody?

2001-07-14 Thread will trillich
axkit is available for testing and unstable (as *.deb) but packages.debian.org doesn't reveal any are up for potato. has anybody rolled this into a surreptitious potato-happy bundle for us easily-intimidated-by-packing folk? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #73 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking fo

startx in xbase-clients 4.0.[23]

2001-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:36:34AM -0400, Warren Turkal wrote: > Why does a construct like startx -- :1 not work anymore (ever since > like 4.0.2 or something)? > Warren It's a bug, and it's fixed in the 4.1.0 prerelease packages at the URL in my .sig (and therefore will be in 4.1.0-1). For your

compiling drivers, kernel; configuration strategy...

2001-07-14 Thread Gladimir
The immediate problem I am trying to address is the following error reported in /var/log/messages: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 40, VID=1095, DID=0643 I have downloaded and expanded my kernel source code (2.2.12), which did include the desired driver source: /usr/src/kern

UUCP+sendmail

2001-07-14 Thread Alexey
Hello all, I need to connect to UUCP mail service provider. Taylor UUCP Log file: ... uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:21.47 520) Login successful uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:22.26 520) Handshake successful (protocol 'g' sending packet/window 256/4 receiving 64/7) uucico dnttm mail (2001-07

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
D-Man uttered: > | It's java, why not get it from Sun? http://java.sun.com/j2se/ > > It's not "Free". I knew it, theology! > | Not quite sure what you mean by "run Java Server Pages", but I've > > He's talking about Java Server Pages (aka JSP) : _informed_ theology! The best kind... this is wha

Upgrading to sid from potato using unofficial CD-ROM's

2001-07-14 Thread Santiago Fernandez
Hi! I'm trying to upgrade to sid from potato using unofficial CD-ROM's. They seem to be ok, but 'apt-cdrom add' says: Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter Mounting CD-ROM Identifying.. [44ab4f5c5591363b72fc3fe648619814-2] Scanning Di

Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers)

2001-07-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I got a litle problem here... I am trying to build the version of lm-sensors in sid, that now needs the current version of i2c. I then installed lm-sensors-source, i2c-source and unpacked their tarballs (from /usr/src) in my homedir. So, since I don't compile anything in /usr/src (I buil

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-14 Thread der.hans
Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joost Kooij so: > Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having > problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please > post again. I don't think he can. I think this is the case where debian has no net access, but can get stuff o

Re: Error building lm-sensors (can't find i2c headers) - More info

2001-07-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, I found something odd... socrates lm-sensors:: echo $MODULE_LOC /home/jeronimo/Linux/kernel/modules socrates lm-sensors:: ./debian/rules KVERS="2.4.7-pre6" KSRC="/home/jeronimo/Linux/kernel/linux-2.4.7-pre6" echo /usr/src/modules ^ /usr/src/modules You don't appear

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