Re: IOMega ZipDrive 100

1998-05-12 Thread Mike Stanczyk
Excuse me for coming late to the discussion but I just got caught up on all the messages I've been putting off reading. Just in case you don't know: I saw on the ppa driver home page that the Zip plus isn't fully supported yet. There's a beta driver available but don't know much else. From what

RE: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
At 03:04 PM 5/12/98 -0400, you wrote: >I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a secondary drive. The boot drive has to be >primary. You also have to be sure the MBR on your primary boot drive does not have either linux or win95 and >when you install you specify where your bo

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
At 11:20 AM 5/12/98 -0700, you wrote: >I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. >I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on. > >I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no boot. >So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but I can't >boot to Linux.

Re: Help: sound cards

1998-05-12 Thread W.D.McKinney
Yo Joe, Grab a copy of OSS/Linux from http://www.4front-tech.com and wala ! -Dee "Joe Tseng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to use my Crystal CS4232 sound card but every time I compile my > kernel it gives me syntax errors. I'm interested in seeing if there is > some way I could us

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Pat Swanson
Thanks alot Matt, I guess now you clearfied for us what's is really wrong with this card , hope to hear the positive posting from you soon, I had almost the same replies from users who joins #Linux on IRC Efnet servers. Pat >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 12 16:17:02 1998 >Received: (qmail 25

Color xterm

1998-05-12 Thread eith
I'm running mutt as my mail client, but I can't seem to get it to do color in an xterm. It works great outside of X (plenty o' colors), but if I run it in an xterm, nxterm, or color-xterm it's just black and white (in an rxvt I can get color, but it's mutilated (ie nothing like it's supposed to b

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Pat Swanson
Hi Dave, I got the very exact motherboard chip, I hope after using the 3c905x.exe will help otherwise I am thinking I might do what you did too. Pat >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 12 14:55:47 1998 >Received: (qmail 19567 invoked by uid 501); 12 May 1998 21:54:35 - >Resent-Date: 12 May 19

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Pat Swanson
Thanks that was what am looking for :) Pat >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 12 14:50:58 1998 >Received: (qmail 10776 invoked by uid 501); 12 May 1998 21:50:02 - >Resent-Date: 12 May 1998 21:50:02 - >Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >MBOX-Line: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 12 17:

Firewalls

1998-05-12 Thread Paul Fontenot
Any better information out there for configuring RH5 for Firewalling and IP masquerading than the HOWTO? -Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail

netcft, constant connections, and annoying logs

1998-05-12 Thread Chris Frost
I'm running rh5 w/ the option for "reconnect-upon-disconnect" from netcfg. However, every 40 seconds or so I get a log stating that ppd tries to start, but of course the device is locked. It's really annoying! Is there any way I can take these messages out of the log (I'd like to keep the messages

passwd question

1998-05-12 Thread Steve Hazelett
I did a fresh install of RH4.2 on a system at work and when a user wants to change their password it deny's them doing so because it comes back with the password is based on a dictionary word. When I installed RH4.1 at home I have never received this message even after upgrading to RH4.2. So

RE: Newbie XFree86 Question/Problem

1998-05-12 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
> I'm running Xfree86 with RH 5.0 and I'm running into a problem. Got RH > installed fine, ran Xconfigurator and got Xf86 running in root. I exited > Xf86 via the toolbar at the bottom, logged out of root, logged back in as a > normal user, typed 'startx'. Xf86 came up as a grey screen, and ne

Re: Help to make a choise!

1998-05-12 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Sergey Esin wrote: >Can Linux provide me an ideal platform to make my dreams come true? >Or may be I have to use FreeBSD UNIX? I'm sure that Linux will be able to service your needs. As far as FreeBSD goes, it's about the same in terms of application availability, although I

RH Linux on a Deskpro 566

1998-05-12 Thread Aristotle Zoulas
Anyone had any experience loading/running RH Linux on a Deskpro 566? Aristotle Zoulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Red Hat 5.x

1998-05-12 Thread Differential Form
Hi Dave: A (couple of) week(s) or so ago we had a dicussion about installing glibc on RedHat 4.2 and you suggested upgrading to 5.0. Well I took the plunge, and I am mostly satisfied but I have a couple of issues I'd like to ask you about. To start, I want to mention that I upgraded a 4.2 in

c++ and writing to files

1998-05-12 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I want to write to a file in a home directory..but i want each user to write the file to his/her dir outfile.open ("//usr//address//book.txt", ios::out); // Opens book.txt but i want it to open to say my dunny dir or my msd dir...and then make the dir/file how? Michael S. Dunsav

My HD failure problem - solved

1998-05-12 Thread Vidiot
Because I discovered the hard disk crash during the latter part of my lunch hour, I didn't get a chance to troubleshoot the problem. So, tonight I shut down the system and check the power cables and EIDE cable. Everything appeared A-OK. I turn on the power and run the BIOS HD config. Damn if t

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Andrej Todosic
At 06:45 PM 5/12/98 +0200, you wrote: >On Tue, 12 May 1998, Pat Swanson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> am trying to install RedHat 5.0 via FTP, using my ethernet card model >> 3c905B-TX by 3com , since I can't get RedHat to auto prob it could >> someone please help me using the addition kernel comma

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread David S Edwards
Well from my own personal experience, I could not get the 3c905B-TX to run on RH 5.0 with an Intel 440 LX motherboard. I swear I tried everything. I ended up getting a 3c905-TX (one without the "B") and RH 5.0 auto-detected it the first time, right out of the box. So I'm wondering if 3Com chang

(Fwd) Re: Redhat 5.0-ppp

1998-05-12 Thread Gary
I forgot to send a copy to you. -- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: Gary To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redhat 5.0-ppp Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:04:50 -0700 This was trouble for me too at first. It worked immedia

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Jyan-Min Fang
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Vidiot wrote: > >I listed them in order; sorry not to mention it. I don't have that > >machine here, but the failed setup was as follows: > > > >hda1 /boot 100MB > >hda2 WIN95 1GB > >hda3 SWAP128MB > >hda4 extended partition > >hda5 / 2GB > >hda6 /usr

RE: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Fred Lenk
Find the floppy disk that came with the card. run the configuration utility to set your IRQ and memory addresses. fred Fred Lenk, SysAdmin, CommPower mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.commpower.com - Check jobs posting. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCH

Re: RH5 - IDE Hard Drive Problems

1998-05-12 Thread Damond Walker
> Since upgrading to RH5, I started getting a rash of failures on my IDE >hard drive. (I also have SCSI drives...they give no problems). The error >messages seemed to indicate disk errors (inode inconsistencies, etc.) so I >bought a new hard drive and reinstalled. I still got errors after the

Re: Installing Acrobat

1998-05-12 Thread Brian Eith
> Couple of problems. My RH CD does not have the file acroread_linux_30.tar.gz > but has instead acroread.tar. The obvious assumption is I can copy this to > whatever directory I want to install in and simply un-tar the file: tar xvf > acroread.tar. However, this command returns some error mess

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Victoria Stanfield
Will someone please post a working dual-boot (Linux/win95) system's (drive near 6.4GB) output from df. That would at least allow me to know that the partitioning is right. Have a good day! -Vicki /// (. .) +

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #289

1998-05-12 Thread Shankar Chakkere
Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #289 And Sent On: 1998-05-12 19:24 Was Read At: 1998-05-12 16:43 Priority: C -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Err

Installing Acrobat

1998-05-12 Thread StPaSmith
On the RH5.0 CD is the acrobat reader for viewing the .pdf files that come with the package. Redhat included an insert in the box with the following steps: [...] 4. cp acroread_linux_30.tar.gz /root/read (this assumes you want the files in the /root/read directory.) 5. Change to the proper dir

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #265

1998-05-12 Thread Shankar Chakkere
Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #265 And Sent On: 1998-05-08 13:08 Was Read At: 1998-05-12 16:43 Priority: C -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Err

Re: RH5 - IDE Hard Drive Problems

1998-05-12 Thread Vidiot
>Is there some problem with RH5 and IDE drives? >-Bill Page Not that I have seen. MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ftms.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (608) 273-8262 ext: 612 fax: (608) 273-8719 Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to St

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread James Kufrovich
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Vidiot wrote: > >I listed them in order; sorry not to mention it. I don't have that > >machine here, but the failed setup was as follows: > > > >hda1 /boot 100MB > >hda2 WIN95 1GB > >hda3 SWAP128MB > >hda4 extended partition > >hda5 / 2GB > >hda6 /usr

Re: Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #289

1998-05-12 Thread Blair Craft
Perhaps no one has informed you but . . . your confirmation of each email you read is repeated to all members of the list. Could you please turn this feature off in your mail reader. Blair. On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:43:00PM -0500, Shankar Chakkere wrote: > Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:D

RH5 - IDE Hard Drive Problems

1998-05-12 Thread William S. Page
Hello all- Since upgrading to RH5, I started getting a rash of failures on my IDE hard drive. (I also have SCSI drives...they give no problems). The error messages seemed to indicate disk errors (inode inconsistencies, etc.) so I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled. I still got errors

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Vidiot
>I listed them in order; sorry not to mention it. I don't have that >machine here, but the failed setup was as follows: > >hda1 /boot 100MB >hda2 WIN95 1GB >hda3 SWAP128MB >hda4 extended partition >hda5 / 2GB >hda6 /usrremainder > >I used Linux' fdisk utility a

ferror(3) returns ???

1998-05-12 Thread John H Darrah
Does any one know if ferror returns anything on a framing, parity or overrun error? It appears that it doesn't from the testing I've done. I've looked at the serial driver (serial.c) code and it *does* catch these errors and sets flags, but I need to find the libc function that reads these flag

Re: Thoughts on NIS?

1998-05-12 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Onces I tried to install it, but it was impossible for me, I tried first in a Solaris box trying to update info. also in Linux box, but it was not possible, so I decided to make my own NIS, it is very usefull to me I use the inetd server to watch the port, when a client wants to chance a password

GateD reference?

1998-05-12 Thread Jason Scherbarth
Anybody out there know of of good (preferably on-line and free) reference on gated? js ps. Thanks to all on help and info on Riva128 AGP video cards... Not working yet, but soon! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /

Help: sound cards

1998-05-12 Thread Joe Tseng
I'd like to use my Crystal CS4232 sound card but every time I compile my kernel it gives me syntax errors. I'm interested in seeing if there is some way I could use a module to accomplish this instead. RH5 2.0.32 CS4232 Joe Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1998 New York Yankees (24-7) _

Excite for Linux

1998-05-12 Thread Marco Shaw
Has anyone succeded/tried to install the personal search engine from Excite onto a Linux machine? I'm having a 'small' problem and would like to get some suggestions. Thanks, Marco -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /

Re: Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #289

1998-05-12 Thread Blair Craft
Arrggh! I meant this to be a personal message. I didn't catch the reply address, sorry for the list clutter. Now I'm going to bang my head against a wall somewhere. Blair. On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 02:14:10PM -0700, Blair Craft wrote: > Perhaps no one has informed you but . . . your confirmation

Re: Domain mail setup?

1998-05-12 Thread Fred Lenk
I do this currently. My ISP is "hosting my domain" and holds all incoming email til I dialup to retrieve it, and then I relay my outgoing email thru his box during the dialup. contact you ISP who will give you instructions. BTW. I currently use RHL303 for my dialup box, and am moving to RHL50

Re: apple laserwriter iif printer/serial port

1998-05-12 Thread Jack Byers
I have an apple lw IIF connected via serial port. It works for both postscript and ascii text but some probs on missing first column, and sometimes first line especially on TeX ps files--- so I wouldn't trust my printcap as the best. I had to do things with a script to recover the first column, n

Re: Domain mail setup?

1998-05-12 Thread Jeff Halper
You need your ISP to place your domain as the mx host (primary) and the ISP as a secondary mx host if you are not available.. You login and telnet to port 25 and issue the command ETRN @yourdomain.com This makes the qyueued mail get sent to you. On Tue, 12 May 1998, Fred Lenk wrote: > I do t

mysterious crash

1998-05-12 Thread Kevin Mernick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My linux box crashed rather mysteriously today. Sometime between 12:30 and 4:45 it completely froze. xscreensaver was running at the time, and I couldn't switch VC's so I couldn't get much information. I was running kernel-2.1.98 and XFree-3.3.2 (with th

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Matt Housh
The 3C905B-TX card (otherwise known as the Cyclone) has a different (read newer) chipset than that of the 3C905-TX. I have a new Dell machine with an onboard 3C905B-TX that I've been fighting constantly with now. I ended up having to put in a spare 3C900 (boomerang) just to get the machin

Re: RH5 - IDE Hard Drive Problems

1998-05-12 Thread Chris Fishwick
> My recent rash of Western Digital problems came to my attention because > of just such messages. I downloaded some diagnostic tools that found all > kinds of problems. I guess I should of mentioned that I was running a RH5.0 > system as well. > The sad part is, the system would boot ju

Re: Energy Star monitor (solved)

1998-05-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Tom Diehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I found that if you do a "man XF86Config" and search for "power_", you will > > find several settings which can be put into the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to > > control the power saving attribues. Unfortunately, (according to my docs) > > only the Mach64 an

Redhat 5.0-ppp

1998-05-12 Thread William boulineau
I want to thank everyone that responded to my delima, not getting connected. I have downloaded several help files, as recommended, and it seems I have everything setup correctly, but no connect. I have put in about 10 hours the last two days trying to get connected. I can't understand how easy i

Re: sendmail stopped sending - one last try

1998-05-12 Thread Fred Lenk
Hi Pat, I am currently working on building a new email/DNS/bootp server with RHL50 to replace my old reliable RHL303. I had similar problems with not being able to send from my W95 boxes, but could receive. There could be a myriad of problems, but the one thing that seemed to help the most was

Re: simple procmail question

1998-05-12 Thread Fred Lenk
Here's one of my reciepies to have the mail forwarded to my regular mail box, as opposed to going to /dev/null for spam, or being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] | mail fred or instead of " | mail fred ", I can simply put the name of my mail folder "/var/spool/mail/fred" h

Segmentation fault

1998-05-12 Thread Michael
Hi all I'm trying to install keirc, but when I type make I get this error: Segmentation fault. The makefile seems to be okey, and as I can see I have all nessecesy packages/li bs installed. Any idea what's causing this ? Thanks -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LI

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1. I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a > secondary drive. The boot drive has to be primary. You also have to > be sure the MBR on your primary boot drive does not have either linux > or win95 and when you install you specify where your b

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Vidiot
>I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. >I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on. > >I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no boot. >So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but I can't >boot to Linux. What does your lilo.conf look like? I

Re: Energy Star monitor

1998-05-12 Thread Michael George
> > Do xset do the same thing? > > I do not know. Never used it. I have tried xset and I could never get it to work. Why, I do not know, but it didn't seem to work. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: pl and CGI

1998-05-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>How can I make a file then ends in pl,execute in any directory, >when its called from a browser window?For example >FILE:home/user/some.pl >or >http://www.host.com/~user/some.pl >Can this be possible?Maybe changing the pl to cgi will >work?Thanks for any reply Depends on the settings of you

Re: sendmail stopped sending - one last try

1998-05-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>I upgraded to Redhat 5.0 two months ago on my firewall. My Win >95 box (which >sent and received fine prior) received fine but wouldn't send (the old >'we do >not relay'). I read the Errata made one entry each in ip_allow and >relay_allow >and it worked well (an occasional error message but

Another Maxtor bites the dust

1998-05-12 Thread Vidiot
Well, HD crash scorekeepers, at seems that last night a 2.5GB Maxtor went south on me. The BIOS can't even talk to it anymore. At least it wasn't the OS this time. :-( So far, I've lost one WD and one Maxtor. :-( :-( MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ft

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I listed them in order; sorry not to mention it. I don't have that > machine here, but the failed setup was as follows: > hda1 /boot 100MB > hda2 WIN95 1GB > hda3 SWAP128MB > hda4 extended partition > hda5 / 2GB > hda6 /usrremainder Which par

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Pat Swanson
Thnaks, Would you please let me know where shall I obtain this utility from? Pat >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 12 12:06:20 1998 >Received: (qmail 10214 invoked by uid 501); 12 May 1998 19:02:57 - >Resent-Date: 12 May 1998 19:02:57 - >Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >MBOX-Line

Re: Procmail setup

1998-05-12 Thread Matt Housh
Mine's set up a little differently. Here are the config files, and it works flawlessly. .procmailrc: -- # off unless debugging VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.redhat INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.null ---

Re: creating supp.img

1998-05-12 Thread Stacy Brodzik
Thanks Matt, I'll keep going and see what happens. Stacy > > On Mon, 11 May 1998, Stacy Brodzik wrote: > > > I am trying to install RedHat LINUX on a PC for the first time. I > > successfully created the boot disk from "boot.img" and RAWRITE.EXE. > > After the floppy was created, I was abl

RE: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a secondary drive. The boot drive has to be primary. You also have to be sure the MBR on your primary boot drive does not have either linux or win95 and when you install you specify where your boot image lies, ie., when install, do no

RE: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Yes, that will work, I think you have to tell it irq as well, I forget the order, though. Although, this is specified at boot time remember. Better to re-install and do it right, or go into your config file and enter that line in. This, I have not figured out yet how to do, I just re-install

Re: creating supp.img

1998-05-12 Thread Stacy Brodzik
Thanks Chris, I'll give it a shot. Stacy > > > But when I tried to do a "dir" on the new floppy, I can't switch to the > > A:> drive and I'm told that the disk is not formatted. Is this how it > > should be? Is this a floppy that only a LINUX OS will recognize?? > > Hi Stacey, > Th

Domain mail setup?

1998-05-12 Thread jdk
I have a static IP with my ISP as mysubdomain.monk.org. I would like to be able to use this as my mail domain, but my connection is dial-up, not fulltime, so when I am not online, everything bounces. I believe there is a way for my ISP to act as a go between, so that my mail goes on hold if I a

solaris

1998-05-12 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! I have an account on a SunOS 5.5. I use tcsh shell and in my .tcshrc file i have this: w And when I login in, the 'w' command is executed two times. Does anybody have any idea why is this happening??? Bye. xxx

Newbie XFree86 Question/Problem

1998-05-12 Thread CyberFox
I'm running Xfree86 with RH 5.0 and I'm running into a problem. Got RH installed fine, ran Xconfigurator and got Xf86 running in root. I exited Xf86 via the toolbar at the bottom, logged out of root, logged back in as a normal user, typed 'startx'. Xf86 came up as a grey screen, and never went

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Help again... > I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. I have a second 850 MB drive > I want RH Linux on. > I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no > boot. So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but > I can't boot

fvwm related? can't execvp problems.

1998-05-12 Thread Robert Estes
Hi, I'm getting some weird problems that I'm having trouble figuring out on a Linux spider 2.0.30 #10 Tue Aug 5 15:49:02 PDT 1997 i686 unknown system, running Fvwm Ver 1.24r I have the following entry in my .fvwmrc file Exec "spline" exec nxterm -e rlogin spline & When I select this

apple laserwriter iif printer/serial port

1998-05-12 Thread Christie Harper
i have been trying to get this printer to work with RH5.0. the postscript driver allows me to print text directly to the printer but the ascii test page is garbage. the postscript test page comes out as plain text. i have checked the dejanews site with no luck. anybody got a printcap entry

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Christie Harper
opps sorry sent that last one to the wrong person end the views expressed here are the author's and do NOT represent those of SPARTA Inc or any of its subsidiaries Christie Harper (KD4QIO) EM64rp [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 837-5282 x1216 voicemail (205) 830-0287 F

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Christie Harper
i have several pc's with these cards in them. on the driver disk is a configuration utility 3c59x.exe or something like it. boot your machine with a dos/win95 floppy then insert this diskette and run the configuration utility and turn off plug and play. redhat will then detect the card

Thoughts on NIS?

1998-05-12 Thread gwilburn
I've never used NIS but I think it would be handy not to have to maintain individual accounts across three Linux systems if NIS could do the job. The number of systems could grow. However, a glance at Essential System Administration by Aeleen Frisch (O'Reilly & Associates) bids me pause. She says

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Victoria Stanfield
:>#/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt :>Warning: device 0x0305 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit :>geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1249 > 1023) :># : :Interesting, this tells me you are trying to have lilo work with a :partition that is too big. The Linux boot partition can't be any bigger :than 1024 cy

Re: CD-rom mysteriously stops working?

1998-05-12 Thread Brian Eith
> [root@fred /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device You're not trying to mount a music CD are you? If not, then just ignore my stupid suggestion :) Brian. -- = | Brian Eith [EMAIL P

Re: No longer able to retrieve mail w/ Netscape...

1998-05-12 Thread Joe Nestlerode
> > Trying to retrieve mail from my ISP, Netscape Mail recently started > > having a problem: it will poll the server and begin to download the > > messages, then abruptly fail and flash an error message: "Error saving > > mail messages". > > > > I can download my mail with fetchmail and read it

Re: Energy Star monitor (solved)

1998-05-12 Thread Tom Diehl
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Michael George wrote: > > Well here we go again, Using a modern version of setterm see man setterm. > > It is in there and (at least for me) it works for X. Look at the section > > on powersave. > > Tom, thanks for the suggestion, but setterm's man page is highly terse. Eve

RE: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Pat Swanson
Thanks for your prompt reply, so do you since the I got it on I/O e400 and IRQ 11 , then the additional command should be as follows? ether=11,0xe400,eth0 please let me if that is correct? Pat >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 12 06:29:05 1998 >Received: (qmail 13778 invoked by uid 501); 12 Ma

Re: Problem compiling perl 5.004_04 for RH5?

1998-05-12 Thread Karl R. Asseily
i feel stupid :-) the one updated RPM I missed was the perl one on Redhat's site. I installed it and now things work fine. Sorry for the bother Karl -Original Message- From: Karl R. Asseily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTE

RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-12 Thread Keith von Borstel
Help again... I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on. I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no boot. So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but I can't boot to Linux. What next? Thanks to all...

Re: Energy Star monitor

1998-05-12 Thread Tom Diehl
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Leung Yau Wai wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Michael George wrote: > > > > > I'm using RHL5.0 with XFree86 and I have an Energy Star compliant GW2K > > > monitor. I have noticed that Windoze will put it into standby mode after so

Intel 440LX motherboard built in audio - anyone get it to work?

1998-05-12 Thread Chris Patti
Hi folks; Has anybody out there on the lunatic fringe been able to make the Intel AL440LX motherboard with the built in sound support work under RedHat Linux 5.0? The built in sound config stuff seems to conflict with the PNP stuff. The card *seems to be* being detected and configured correctl

Re: Energy Star monitor (solved)

1998-05-12 Thread Michael George
> Well here we go again, Using a modern version of setterm see man setterm. > It is in there and (at least for me) it works for X. Look at the section > on powersave. Tom, thanks for the suggestion, but setterm's man page is highly terse. Even for a Unix man page! Terse to the point of uselessn

Re: Energy Star monitor

1998-05-12 Thread Leung Yau Wai
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Michael George wrote: > > > I'm using RHL5.0 with XFree86 and I have an Energy Star compliant GW2K > > monitor. I have noticed that Windoze will put it into standby mode after so > > Well here we go again, Using a modern version of s

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have searched the archives at dejanews, but I can't come up with an > answer. Not in English at least. > I have a 6.4GB Maxtor hard drive that I want to move my current > system to. My current system has a 1.6GB drive devoted to WIN95 and a > 1.7GB drive devoted t

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread steve glines
> > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Pat Swanson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > am trying to install RedHat 5.0 via FTP, using my ethernet card model > > 3c905B-TX by 3com , since I can't get RedHat to auto prob it could > > someone please help me using the addition kernel command option, knowing > > that

CD-rom mysteriously stops working?

1998-05-12 Thread Michael Jinks
This is a shot in the dark, but I figure it's worth a try -- over the weekend, my RH5 system stopped recognizing its cd-rom: [root@fred /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device I've checked my physical connections, they're fine. The cd-rom is getting power and ther

Re: Linux user wants to install Win95

1998-05-12 Thread Bradley Kieser
Can't you use WINE? === Bradley Kieser Tatoos are the leisure suit of the 90s. -- Sean Tuite ---Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sadly, it looks I finally have to get around to installing W95 (I need to > use Delphi 3). I've heard all kinds of horror stories about how it screws >

Re: Is U.S. Robotics Internal 56K FAXmodem compatible?

1998-05-12 Thread Gary
Mine worked without any tinkering. Make sure that it is not a winmodem and that the jumper setting on the card is set is the same as the irq used by /dev/ttyS0. > Does anyone have the internal version of this modem working? > > I checked Red Hat's compatibility listing and it says PNP mode

Problem compiling perl 5.004_04 for RH5?

1998-05-12 Thread Karl R. Asseily
When I run ./Configure, I get undefined references with libnet.so (libnet.so is a file from the package 'kaffe'). I updated kaffe to the latest version (in fact I upgraded all the RPMs from RedHat's site). Does anyone know what's causing the problem? Urgent help needed thanks Karl -- PLEAS

Re: Function Plotting Software

1998-05-12 Thread Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer
W. J. Kossler wrote: > > This may not be what you are after, but xmgr is great for publication > quality plots if you have the function in a file. Plplpot also can plot > while in a program. > > Jack Kossler > > -- > PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! > h

Where to find libraries with functions pw_auth, pw_encrypt and spw_unpack

1998-05-12 Thread Alex Fabrega
Help: I have been trying to install a POP3 server on a Red Hat Linux 4.2 machine and seem to be missing the following functions pw_auth, pw_encrypt and spw_unpack, can anyone tell me on which library they usually are? Thanks for any help. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: WD Drives...

1998-05-12 Thread Nemeth Laszlo
Damond Walker wrote: > > Thanx for all the opinions on WD drives. Some good, some bad. The one > person who recomended the Seagate/IBM drives was the second or third person > to tell me this in the last couple of days. Mayhaps I'll have to go pick > one up somewhere. Don't forget about Qu

Re: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-12 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Pat Swanson wrote: > Hi all, > > am trying to install RedHat 5.0 via FTP, using my ethernet card model > 3c905B-TX by 3com , since I can't get RedHat to auto prob it could > someone please help me using the addition kernel command option, knowing > that it's on IRQ 11 and

Is U.S. Robotics Internal 56K FAXmodem compatible?

1998-05-12 Thread Steven Taetzsch
Does anyone have the internal version of this modem working? I checked Red Hat's compatibility listing and it says PNP modems do not work. Is this true even if I have PNP disabled in my BIOS? I've installed the modem and it works with Windows on COM2 and COM4. When it was on COM2, I disabled my

Re: Re: mouse acceleration?

1998-05-12 Thread bob jones
In response to a question from Jay Vassos-Libove: > I have a "PS/2" style mouse and I have a cheapo Belkin three button mouse > plugged in to it. The mouse acceleration is VERY slow, compared to my old > ATIXL busmouse on an ATI Mach32 ISA card. (New system, PCI bus 4M video > card replaced the

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Vidiot
>#/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt >Warning: device 0x0305 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit >geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1249 > 1023) ># Interesting, this tells me you are trying to have lilo work with a partition that is too big. The Linux boot partition can't be any bigger than 1024 cylinders

Re: No longer able to retrieve mail w/ Netscape...

1998-05-12 Thread Marco Shaw
I know of a fix for this error in Windows, but I'm not sure it will work with Linux. Let me know if you want to try it because you'll probably lose all you mail...or at least it will be difficult to read it... Marco PS...In my opinion, no personal return address is annoying on a mailing list

RE: pl and CGI

1998-05-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I dont know if this is the right place to post this,but since i got Red Hat 4.1 >here it goes.How can I make a file then ends in pl,execute in any directory, >when its called from a browser window?For example >FILE:home/user/some.pl >or >http://www.host.com/~user/some.pl > >Can this be possib

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-12 Thread Victoria Stanfield
>You have to keep in mind how a PeeCee BIOS boots the system. It wants to >boot from the FIRST hard disk, which will be hda on the EIDE bus. It is the >ONLY disk that will have the MBR. Therefore, lilo need only write to that >disk. > >I know, this makes it real tough to make a MBR on a disk t

RE: pl and CGI

1998-05-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
> -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 1998 16:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: pl and CGI > > I dont know if this is the right place to post this,but since i got Red > Hat 4.1 > here i

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