Strange system behavior and network packets...

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
e out. (NOTE: As far as I know none of my systems use IPX) Is there a way to tell if this is coming from outside my LAN or is it some strange behavior of my router? I am wondering if this could be some type of hack attack on my systems. Thanks for your time! Doug Thistlethwaite

What is causing the segmentation fault?

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I think my biggest problem with this is the segmentation fault I get every time I try to use the 'passwd' or 'su' commands. Does anybody know if this is caused by PAM, or are these commands corrupted? If I need to replace them, how do I go about doing this? Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote

Segmentation Fault Help!

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Help! It seems that I really screwed my system up when I allowed dselect to update packages on my potato system. I am having a problem with segmentation faults for the following commands: su login passwd Because of this, I am not able to login any other processes (virtual terminals) nor will

Re: Segmentation Fault Help! 2nd call!

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
on the implementations of doing this. Please help! Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Help! It seems that I really screwed my system up when I allowed dselect to update packages on my potato system. I am having a problem with segmentation faults for the following commands: su login passwd Because

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
, and login is caused by pam or is a problem with the version of the commands? Doug Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:18:49PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ben, I didn't even see pam-apps on the list in dselect. Then what version of passwd and shadow do you have

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-24 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ben, Out of despration, I tried the lines below instead of the ones you gave me. Lines you had me use: auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so password required pam_unix_passwd.so session required pam_unix_session.so Lines taken from the

Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello Help! I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... I used dselect to select a package and it wanted to upgrade a bunch on stuff. I let it because I was interested to see how long it would take with my new DSL connection. After the upgrade I have seen these

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
that had command lines like those described above. Could this be causing a problem with pam? Doug Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: What is going on? Please help me recover my system. I currently have a single login as root where I

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Eric, I have attacked the output from /etc/dpkg -S pam Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello Help! I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... After the upgrade I have seen

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
pam_unix.so What should I do after this? I am afraid to reboot and not be able to log in ever again... I have attacked the output from dpkg -l | grep libpam Thanks again, Doug Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:51:47AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok Ben, here

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I can not log in and the passwd function still give me a segmentation fault. I will remove pam-apps. Do I need to do anything else to get the changes I've made to be recognized? Doug Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok, I modified

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
with shadow passwords and such. Prior to this problem, I was running potato fine without it and dselect seemed to decide on its own to install these extra packages. Is there a way to get back to where I was? Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: I can not log in and the passwd function still give me

Question of Firewall Mail Servers

1999-09-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I am working on adding a debian slink linux system as a fire wall to my existing company network. When finished, we will have an ISDN router connected to the linux firewall machine and a separate network card connecting the internal network to the linux system. The mail server will be

Re: Question of Firewall Mail Servers

1999-09-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
That was suppose to be 192.168.XXX.XXX IP addresses. Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I am working on adding a debian slink linux system as a fire wall to my existing company network. When finished, we will have an ISDN router connected to the linux firewall machine and a separate

Re: Install problem - Locks up during boot off of rescue disk

1999-09-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
up during boot off of rescue disk. Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:55:38 -0700 From: Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Hello, I am trying to install debian onto a Dell Optiplex GXM5133 system with 32 Meg of memory

Install problem - Locks up during boot off of rescue disk.

1999-09-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions downloaded The system locks up at this point. What should I do? Thanks, Doug Thistlethwaite

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Peter, I had a similar problem when I updated my samba to Potato. In my case, it was because I had a installed Samba on a older version of debian and I used the easiest shortcut on my inital setup. The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the clarification. Doug Martin Bialasinski wrote: Doug == Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug password file (I don't even remember if it was an option at that Doug time). I think the latest version set the system up to use Doug passwords, but the file didn't have

postgresql and jdk1.2

1999-07-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I am wondering if anybody has had luck with getting the jdk1.2 drivers to connect to a linux postgresql 6.5 from an windoze system. I have been going around and around with it without any luck. I get to the point of trying to connect, but the passwords do not authenticate. For starters,

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Bialasinski wrote: Doug == Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the Doug distribution does not have all of the tools that are described Doug on the samba site. Because the package has been broken up. Doug There is a file

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
fine. Craig -- From: Doug Thistlethwaite Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 2:12 AM To: Lewis, James M.; debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Doug Work Subject: Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade Ok, I upgraded to 2.2.10 kernel but my Samba still

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Humm. I was using 2.0.36 with slink and it worked fine. I will checkout the kernel upgrade and see what is up. How stable is 2.2.10? Doug Lewis, James M. wrote: After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work. I get an error message saying that the password supplied

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I upgraded to 2.2.10 kernel but my Samba still does not recognise my passwords from my win 95 system. My old samba configuration used plain text passwords if my memory serves me right. I think there was a problem with encription of passwords when I first installed it. If this is the

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the distribution does not have all of the tools that are described on the samba site. There is a file that describes a set of steps to debug problems like I am having. The third step call for the use of smbclient which is not in any of the deb

Re: postgres install error from apt

1999-07-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I was able to get postgresql 6.5-3 working running through the install twice as Oliver describes. Once it was complete psql worked as it did before. Doug Oliver Elphick wrote: Pollywog wrote: Does anyone know what the problem might be? running dpkg --pending --configure

3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
* kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300 00 50 4e 03 8b d6 *date systemname* kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300 using IRQ 3 Does anyone have an idea of what I did? How can I get my networking re-activated? Thank you for your time, Doug Thistlethwaite

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
/init.d/ directory. What kind of card do you have? IOW, is it ISA or PCI? Have you ever used Modprobe at all? Let me know what kind of card it is and I bet we can get it working. On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. It seems like

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
to be 2.0.36 The /etc/init.d/network files is the same as it was before the upgrade, what should I be looking for? For me to post it, I would have to type it in on this windoze machine. Doug Mark Wagnon wrote: On 07/17/99 10:48 PM, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I hope someone can help me

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
. If not, let us know what troubles you run into and we'll go from there. :) On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if I was using module or kernel for the network card. I have had this system for awhile (potato is the third debian

Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
troubles you run into and we'll go from there. :) On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if I was using module or kernel for the network card. I have had this system for awhile (potato is the third debian distrubution I have used

samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work. I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid. Everything worked fine under slink. If I remember correctly, part of the instructions on the old setup was to remove password encryption so windows 95

Help! Mr. Potato killed my networking!

1999-07-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
*) date systemname kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300 00 50 4e 03 8b d6 date systemname kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300 using IRQ 3 Does anyone have an idea of what I did? How can I get my networking re-activated? Thanks Doug Thistlethwaite

Lost PCI Network card after potato upgrade.

1999-07-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
did? How can I get my networking re-activated? Thank you for your time, Doug Thistlethwaite

gcc problem after potato upgrade

1999-07-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I upgraded to potato a few days ago (I know, I should have used apt-get!) and I have a conflict with gcc. I get an error during configuration that says something about gcc-2.91.66-2.deb process ending with an error because of a conflict with /usr/bin/genclass which is also a part of

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
the warning I am getting. Doug Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:27:06AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: I finally decided to try potato because I wanted an easy way of getting the latest postgresql (6.5)... I was running slink and used dselect to upgrade

Re: gcc problem after potato upgrade

1999-07-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
, or will selecting the new version automaticly get rid of the old package? Thanks, Doug Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:30:12AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I upgraded to potato a few days ago (I know, I should have used apt-get!) and I have a conflict

Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I finally decided to try potato because I wanted an easy way of getting the latest postgresql (6.5)... I was running slink and used dselect to upgrade. The biggest problem it seemed to find was a change in perl (DB1.85 - DB2). It said something about using perl-5.004 to dump the DB1.85

Problem with postgresql jdbc package examples

1999-07-12 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I downloaded the postgresql packages and the jdbc stuff and am trying to get the included examples working. I get the following message when I run the basic example in the jdbc package. Connecting to Database URL = jdbc.postgresql://dragonknoll:5432/doug Exception caught.

Re: Changing IP address

1999-06-03 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Dan Willard wrote: You are correct that your ISP is clueless. Going by the numbers that you sent, your home network and theirs are one network with the same network number and broadcast number. And why your router calls out whenever a broadcast packet is sent. Dan, Thanks for the

Re: Changing IP address

1999-06-01 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
to everyone who has helped! Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: I am using a 2.036 kernel I believe. One thing to note is this system was working perfectly on the network before I was forced to change my IP addresses. All I want to do is setup the new IP addresses in the system. I would

Re: Changing IP address

1999-05-31 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
and netmasks. Doug George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 30 May 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: So far I have had a couple of people help and this is what we have come up with. To change the IP address of a system the following files need to be modified. ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask

Re: Changing IP address

1999-05-30 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
an idea of why this error occurs and what value NETWORK shoud be? Any ideas on an easier way to get this working? I know during the original install, it was much easier to understand and many of these parameters were calculated by the script. Thanks, Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I

Changing IP address

1999-05-29 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I just changed my IP and as a result, I now have new IP addresses. How do I go about changing the IP address of my machine? I will need to change the DNS as well... Also, I use SAMBA and I can't remember if I had any changes to be done there. If you know what is involved in this,

Using linux to protect a DSL connection.

1999-05-04 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
the Samba services so it isn't a security leak via the gateway? What else should I think / worry about? Thanks in advance for your time! Doug Thistlethwaite

Which network card to buy

1999-04-26 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
network card. 2. Buy 2 ISA cards and just ignore the motherboard network card. Which option would be the easiest to install? Thanks, Doug Thistlethwaite

Linux system as a firewall

1999-04-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
to be aware of? What docs and FAQ's should I read before I get started? Thanks in advance! Doug Thistlethwaite

Setting up Sound

1999-02-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
instructions to set it to 9 as my isapnp.conf file show it. I have tried it both ways and everything seems to work the same. Does anyone know how this should be set up? Thanks, Doug Thistlethwaite

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
address wasn't valid... At 02:50 AM 2/14/99 -0800, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Thanks Bob! That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again. Thanks again for your help! Doug Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, 14

Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
empty! What package do I need to load to get the libc5 based libraries working again? So far, the only casulity I have seen is WP8, but I'll bet I will find others as time goes by. Thank, Doug Thistlethwaite

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks Bob! That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again. Thanks again for your help! Doug Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I was in the process of getting my

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get the card setting without going to windows... My system doesn't have windows on it at all. I installed linux directly onto it. Its kind of MS free... As much as I could make it. Doug Mark Wagnon wrote: Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do not have windoze on the system to get the port numbers from. As for my kernel, when I tried to make it, it asked me a ton of questions and didn't seem to have any defaults in it at all. I ended up specifying the things I

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks everyone for the help! I may get this working yet! :) I tried the pnpdump -c /tmp/foo and got the following message: Port address -c (0x) out of range 0x203..0x3ff I did a standard pnpdump /tmp/foo and the output is listed below. In reading the docs on pnpdump, I need to edit this

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply. Questions below! :) Jiri Baum wrote: Doug Thistlethwaite: Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do not have windoze on the system to get the port numbers from. In that case, you need isapnp and pnpdump. The latter gives you

Installing Sound Card

1999-02-12 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I'm looking for someone who would help walk me through the process of installing my sound card on my 2.0.33 kernel system. I have read the howto's and such and I am totally confused! My attempt to generate a kernel resulted in a 1.6MB monstrosity that is to big to run... I have been

Re: Netscape woes...

1999-02-07 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
:14:17AM -0800, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I hope someone can help with this. I have been using netscape 4.05 for some time without a hitch. Recently, my disk ran out of space and sense then, my netscape will not run (I fixed the disk space problem BTW). I get the message

Netscape woes...

1999-02-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I hope someone can help with this. I have been using netscape 4.05 for some time without a hitch. Recently, my disk ran out of space and sense then, my netscape will not run (I fixed the disk space problem BTW). I get the message Aborted. when I try to start it from a command line.

DB2 and Debian

1999-01-12 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
this program on a debian system? Did it work if so, what steps do I need to follow the get it properly installed? Finally, what version of debian should I be running? Thanks, Doug Thistlethwaite

Re: Network tracing software

1998-09-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, Are there any network tracing packages available for Debian? What I'm looking for is something that will keep track of network activity and keep a log of what connections are being made to my system (as well as where my systems are calling out to). I have

Network tracing software

1998-09-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, Are there any network tracing packages available for Debian? What I'm looking for is something that will keep track of network activity and keep a log of what connections are being made to my system (as well as where my systems are calling out to). I have a ISDN router that was

standard HAMM connecting on its own to internet?

1998-08-30 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I am having a strange problem with my recently upgraded BO -- HAMM system. I have a router (pipeline 50) connected to a very small network (2 machines). I have noticed that my ISDN line has been active when no one is using the computers at all. Is there something in the standard (just

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

1998-08-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the tips! I got the package and it seemed to install just fine by following your instructions. I think the easiest order would be to move the fonts first before the install. (I ran the install script twice after it got angry about the fonts...) If the fonts are there, the install

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

1998-08-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the insight everyone! I take it that the slink version doesn't require any library changes to work (like some of the stuff post BO upgrade. (I just upgraded last week so I have not figured everything - or much of anything - out yet :). I have always used the version of programs that

CD doesn't work after upgrade.

1998-08-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I have a recently upgraded 2.0 system (from an bo install). Today I tried to mount a cd, but with no luck. I tried: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) I have also tried several other

Installing XFSTT on HAMM

1998-08-15 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I give up! Soameone hid the docs and I can't find them! :) I have been trying to dig up information on installing XFSTT on my upgraded HAMM system so my Netscape will look better. I downloaded the relavent dpkgs and everything seemed in install correctly. I looked in the DOC's area and

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
That did the trick! Thanks, Doug P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place. Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: /home/src/interpreter.c:851

Re: What dist is vararg.h in?

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
. Hennigan wrote: Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Well, I bit the bullet and installed HAMM last night. Everything went | pretty well with only a few error messages during the install. | | I have noticed that some of the include files I have been using in a C | project are now

GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello all, Well, I seem to be having more problems then I expected after upgrading to hamm. This is probably someting simple except I can't seem to figure out where to start looking. I have a MUD which I have successfully compiled on my pre-upgraded bo system as well as some redhat erven other

Re: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the information, How does the XServer know WHICH Screen section to use? I notice that my file has several sections labled like this. Thanks, Doug (Ted Harding) wrote: On 08-Aug-98 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: My XServer is currently configured to sue 256 colors. (8 bits). I

What dist is vararg.h in?

1998-08-08 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, Well, I bit the bullet and installed HAMM last night. Everything went pretty well with only a few error messages during the install. I have noticed that some of the include files I have been using in a C project are now missing. One of them is sys/vararg.h Which package is this in

fvwm95 after hamm upgrade

1998-08-08 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty well, though I did have the run the install portion of dselect several times for it to get through without errors... Anyhow - Everything seems to have installed fine. But I have now noticed that my windows manager fvwm95

Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-08 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
My XServer is currently configured to sue 256 colors. (8 bits). I have noticed that when I start netscape I get messages telling me it can't allocate a larger color map. I figured that if I increased the number of colors, this problem would go away. How do I change the number of colors on my

Changing shell

1998-08-07 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, What is the command that a user can use to change their default shells? I did it once long ago and have purged that part of my memory... Thanks! Doug -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Changing shell

1998-08-07 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
. Thanks to everyone who replied! I got my answer in about 5 minutes! :) Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, What is the command that a user can use to change their default shells? I did it once long ago and have purged that part of my memory... Thanks! Doug -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Getting Samba working on BO

1998-07-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Mirek, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:30:59AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: (...) How do I get Samba working on my BO system. I used dselect to download and install it. I have looked through the files but I have not seen anything

Getting Samba working on BO

1998-07-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, This is probably a stupid question, but I guess I'll ask it anyways. How do I get Samba working on my BO system. I used dselect to download and install it. I have looked through the files but I have not seen anything with debian specific information in it. I have a win95 system on the

Advice on a new system

1998-07-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello everyone, I am going to help one of the engineers at my company to build a personal system. He has expressed interest in learning about linux and would like to have a system that will dual boot in both windows 98 and linux. I have read several messages on this list talking about problems

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-07 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
to the left of the cursor... Not ideal, but not to bad. In netscape writing mail, the delete and backspace key deletes the character before the cursor... Anyone else seen this? If so, what is the fix? Doug Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok, I have the right package

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-07 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ed Cogburn wrote: Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok, I removed the .config file and ran make menuconfig... This worked fine I ran make-kpkg and got the following error: s.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ fs/filesystems.a \ drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers

Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I have a soundblaster card I wanted to get working under my bo system. My system is currently running 2.0.33 so I downloaded the source so I could make a version with the sound blaster support. Here is what I did 1. make menuconfig - go through list and remove all the stuff that sounds

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the input George, I have looked all through the bo archive (using dselect) for a package called make-kpkg. I do not see one on my mirror by that name. Doug G Kapetanios wrote: Try the make-kpkg package. Then make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision (version nunber) buildpackage in

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I have the right package now. I looked at the make-kpkg man file and its a lot more complicated then I had hoped :) I ran make-kpkg and it just made the files again as I had before. I probably changed a ton of things in the .config file while I was messing things up with the stuff I was

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

1998-06-02 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I downloaded the files listed below into my system and unpacked them using dpkg -i XX.deb Everything seems to install fine. I moved a simple class I have been working on over to the system and got the following error: $ jre -cp /home/doug/java dens SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation

Interbase on Debian

1998-05-29 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello all, I just saw a post that lead me to a ZDNet article on Linux. One thing of interest for me was the linux version of interbase that is available for redhat. Has anyone installed this on a debian system? If so, what configuration / version of debian is needed. Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Installing X-Windows?

1998-05-27 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I just finished installing my X on a new system. I assume you are using the 1.3 release of linux (bo). I used dselect to install the system. It took me 3 tries to get it right (I'm new to using the Debian so maybe I'm doing something wrong... but it seemed that if you just pick all of the

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
David A. Bandel wrote: Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two lines in it... xdm-start-server start-xdm My guess is that the problem is in a system init file

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-25 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick question I hope... How do I get XDM to autostart. I selected to not have it autostart during install because I was having problems with X11 in general. Please read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian

XDM autostart question

1998-05-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Quick question I hope... How do I get XDM to autostart. I selected to not have it autostart during install because I was having problems with X11 in general. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SB16 install configure

1998-05-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
How do I enable my SB16 card? I did not see a option during the base install. I have seen AWE32 stuff, but I don't think that is the same thing. Where how do I setup my card? Thanks a ton, Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

X11 HELP!

1998-05-22 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello help! I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and worse... I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe the window manager and install another using dserver... Now I

Re: X11 S3 installation

1998-05-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
... the docs you will need for x are in /usr/doc/x11... I was not able to find the exact docs you were talking about, but I did find the program that creates XF86Config and X11 seems to work somewhat... Boy that script asked me some questions I had to dig pretty deep to figure out! ... I like

FYI: Netscape 3.01 archive

1998-05-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I installed Netscape 3.01 last night, and it seems to be working fine. I did have a hard time finding the correct version to download from the Netscape servers. Netscape has moved the old versions of their software to: archive.netscape.com It also appears that this site will not accept anonymous

Re: Install Questions

1998-05-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Jaakko Niemi wrote: I tried to send this about 5 minutes ago and my system locked up... If it made it, sorry for the duplication *** Hello there, I just setup my linux system last night and finished the generic install. I have a few questions on things that didn't work as

S3 video installation.

1998-05-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello all, I am working on my second attempt in installing Debian on my PC. (The first try died when I deselected a whole bunch of packages and had dselect delete them... oops :) I have a Pent 166 32MB system with a Diamond Stealth 64 (S3 trio64) dram version display card. This system has been

Install Questions

1998-05-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
FTP ERROR I was able to connect to ftp.debian.org via ftp from the shell. Any idea what is wrong with this? Ideally, I would like to get this working using the ftp option. If I can't, what is the proper method of loading and installing packages. Thanks, Doug Thistlethwaite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Install Questionj

1998-05-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
. If I can't, what is the proper method of loading and installing packages. Thanks, Doug Thistlethwaite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Serial Mouse Install

1998-05-19 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
of mice. What do I need to do to install this mouse? Thank you, Doug Thistlethwaite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]