3c589c network card (pcmcia) goes pear shaped

2002-06-22 Thread Damian Sweeney
I have an annoying problem with my pcmcia card. Regularly, but not consistently, it drops the network connection. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to this behaviour. Sometimes I can download a woody iso without a hitch, sometimes the connection doesn't last long enough to gather my email.

Re: 3c589c network card (pcmcia) goes pear shaped

2002-06-22 Thread Damian Sweeney
Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Damian Sweeney wrote: eth0: lost link beat #when connection is lost eth0: flipped to 10baseT #after connection is restored I se this on my terminal when I log on, but it's not a problem. Anyone have any tips on how I can fin

Re: CD writing for non root users

2002-06-23 Thread Damian Sweeney
Reid Gilman wrote: Whenever I try to start an X program from an xterm it always says "connection refused to :0.0" anyone know why? I presume you're trying to run these programs as root? In that case your problem is that the ~/.Xauthority file of the user you logged in as has the magic for

Re: Unix 101: ls with file count

2002-06-25 Thread Damian Sweeney
Kent West wrote: > Wienand Ian wrote: > >>> Chain commands in an alias: >>> alias dols="ls; echo `ls -l | grep ^d | wc -l` directories; echo `ls >>> -l | >>> >> >> grep ^- | wc -l` files" >> >> >>> customize as needed >>> >> >> >> If you're wondering why you copied and pasted this in it didn't wo