Re: Can a particular network card be permenantly bound to an eth'x' number?
rich wrote: I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, loopback firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan being eth0, it's now eth1 the firewire is eth0. What defines what eth'x' number is given to which network device? It's a pain having to I may be mistaken but AFAIK the interface number is determined by what order the modules are loaded into the kernel. On my laptop I have both wireless and wired networks so to ensure consistency I use /etc/modules to manually order the loading sequence. MBG -- Matthew Guenther Mechanical Engineering Graduate Researcher University of Victoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://antiflux.org/~mguenthe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recent PPP connection problems
Help! Somehow this morning I managed to completely toast my filesystem, and I've spent the rest of the day attempting to reinstall debian... however I'm running into a bit of a snag. Everything installs okay, but the ppp link is not working correctly; namely I can only seem to ping hosts on my isp's domain, although I am able to lookup the addresses of hosts outside the domain. I looked through the PPP-HOWTO, FAQ, as well as several others, and as far as I can tell things should be working. I have defaultroute set in the /ppp/options file, and pppd is setting it up on connection. The routing table when I'm connected looks (roughly) like this: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface ott-on-pm3.netcom.ca * 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0 localnet * 255.0.0.0U 0 0 1 lo defaultott-on-pm3.n 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 2 ppp0 Which seems okay. The only other clues I have as to what's going wrong are some syslog messages that I don't recall seeing before when connecting: pppd: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP and kernel: Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 Which seems odd simply because I don't have any ethernet or Appletalk devices (AFAIK). This is all happening on a Dell Latitude LM166ST laptop, 72MB RAM, using both a 3com xj4336 pcmcia modem and a Xircom REM56G-10 multi-function card. Also, I'm attempting to install Debian 2.0, which is what I originally installed on this computer. I don't recall having to go through these kind of hoops before... which is adding another level of absurdity to the whole situation. If anyone out there has any idea what the heck is going on and preferably how to fix it, I would be forever in your debt. Thanks, MBG ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
Re: xemacs del
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:46:49PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Matthew Guenther wrote: I found this in the XEmacs help menu, under sample configurations I think. Just add it to your .emacs file: ;; If you prefer delete to actually delete forward then you want to ;; uncomment the next line (or use `Customize' to customize this). (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) And it should work. It works fine under X, but not on a normal console. Johann I just tried it on the console here and it worked fine. If you have a problem, I don't think it's with the xemacs configuration. Perhaps your keyboard configuration is slightly different? MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' pgpoqfbUSsoLO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xemacs del
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, I've a problem with the del key in xemacs. If I press del it does the same as backspace, so deleting the character before the cursor position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, that works fine). What I have to do to make work both keys ? So, del deleting the current character and backspace to delete the character before the cursor position (this one works not). Please, HELP. This is really annoying. Thanks. I found this in the XEmacs help menu, under sample configurations I think. Just add it to your .emacs file: ;; If you prefer delete to actually delete forward then you want to ;; uncomment the next line (or use `Customize' to customize this). (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) And it should work. HTH, MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' pgpmiovpN0vmT.pgp Description: PGP signature
SGML problems
I just recently started having problems with sgml-tools... I was forced to
kill a bunch of hung processes after some bad sgml caused them to choke, and
now sgml2latex refuses to work. I keep getting these errors:
Processing file mech430_report.sgml
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
LaTeX2e 1998/12/01 patch level 1
Babel v3.6x and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(mech430_report.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
! LaTeX Error: File `linuxdoc-sgml.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or RETURN to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
read *
l.3 \usepackage
{qwertz}^^M
No pages of output.
Transcript written on mech430_report.log.
dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
The strange thing (to me at least) is that sgmlcheck returns no errors, and
sgml2html and sgml2lyx works fine. I am hardly familiar with either sgml or
latex, so any help on what exactly is going on / what can be done to fix it,
would be greatly appreciated.
MBG
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Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than
that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow,
that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness
itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by
staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
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Problems with bash
I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). There have also been various strange crashes when using filename completion. If I change the shell to csh or tcsh and try the same things nothing happens. The system is partially potato, but I didn't get any errors about missed dependencies when I installed the new bash. Anyone have any idea what's going on? MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
Kernel compile in potato
I've got some questions about compiling a kernel on a (partially) potato system. Most of my packages are still slink, however I have upgraded gcc to the egcs version. I'm curious: a) Is it possible to compile a kernel (2.2.8) using the egcs compiler? b) If not, how do I make the kernel using the gcc272 package compiler This is going to be my first attempt at a kernel compile, and I'd like to avoid breaking anything. :) I'm not sure if it's easier to change some symlinks around to point at gcc272 or if there's a variable in the makefile that I can change and achieve the same result. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
Re: Debian goes big business?
Just my $0.02: As a case study; up here in Canada we have an outdoor outfitters store called Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC). It is similar in structure to DUA that has been proposed in that to shop there you have to buy a five dollar membership, but with that membership you gain voting privileges for electing the board of directors. You can own as many shares as you want, but you only get one vote. Most of the coop's revenue is re-invested in environmental causes, expansion, and manufacturing it's own line of outdoor equipment. I shop there all the time because I know they'll only put equipment on the shelves that they _know_ works well, because it's in their mandate. They also have a mandate to avoid products manufactured in countries with dubious human rights records as well as invest a set percentage of all revenues in environmental preservation/restoration. I believe this example has two relevant points: It demonstrates that it is possible to have a money-making organization that can have paid staff selling a product(s), but not stray from it's morals. Partly because it's mandated, and partly because of the organization of the directorships, but mostly because greed is essentially not a motivation for the company. It also demonstrates that this type of organization can be successful. MEC has grown from six people in a tent on a mountainside complaining about shoddy equipment, to a nation wide chain of stores that are continually expanding and improving in quality and diversity. All this while in a heavily competitive field against corporations such as LL Bean, Totem, Patagonia, REI and others. Some urls I highly suggest people read: The MEC rules of (co)operation: http://www.mec.ca/coop/communit/about/mecrules.htm The MEC mission statement: http://www.mec.ca/coop/communit/about/mission.htm And the brief history of MEC: http://www.mec.ca/coop/communit/about/history.htm I think a coop approach similar to this would be beneficial to Debian because it would allow the developers to get paid for their work, allow Debian to grow into a more mainstream OS (depending on the mandate of the organization), while still allowing the end user to have a lot of control over the condition of the product. IMHO, the beautiful thing about this is that being open source, if it doesn't work it's possible to just take the code and run, as it were. MBG Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
