driver for Belkin USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

2006-07-27 Thread petereasthope
Is there a driver for the Belkin USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, part F5D5050? The Pegasus driver in the installer failed. Thanks, ... Peter E. shark at gulfnet dot sd64 dot bc.ca Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

esssolo1 in Compaq Presario 5330

2006-05-30 Thread petereasthope
I have a Compaq Presario 5330 with Etch installed. During startup this report appears on the screen. * esssolo1 disabled in configuration modconf does not install the esssolo1 driver properly and of course there is no sound. Does disabled refer to hardware, as in jumper, or to software. Any

Unidentified subject!

2006-05-12 Thread petereasthope
In-Reply-To=[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01284.html In-Reply-To=[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01284.html Hello Andrew, Since your reply I've read several reports of a problem between 3c509 and SB16. Appears

Re^2: sb and 3c509 drivers in etch

2006-05-12 Thread petereasthope
In-Reply-To=[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01284.html Hello Andrew, Since your reply I've read several reports of a problem between 3c509 and SB16. Appears that PnP fails to assign them distinct IRQs. as anything in dmesg or other logs about it? The

sb and 3c509 drivers in etch

2006-05-11 Thread petereasthope
Now I have Etch with kernels 2.4.27 and 2.6.15 available. With 2.4.27, drivers sb and usb/audio will not install with modconf. The 3c509 nic works. With 2.6.15, the 3c509 does not work. lsmod reports it but modprobe -v 3c509 reports nothing. I am interested to solve both cases. Any ideas?

AHS302usb, USB audio in Etch

2006-05-04 Thread petereasthope
There is an Altec AHS302usb headset here which I want to use with Skype in Etch. modconf refuses to install /kernel/drivers/usb/audio and alsaconf reports thus. modinfo: snd: no module by that name found. Unloading sound driver modules: (none loaded). Can anyone offer a hint or two to resolve

daytime, RFC 867

2006-05-03 Thread petereasthope
RFC 867specifies the protocol of the Daytime service, which I believe is configured properly in inetd.conf on a machine here. Is there any client in Debian which can invoke Daytime on a neighbouring machine on a LAN? Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

failure to detect the bootable USB stick

2006-04-05 Thread petereasthope
The Installation manual for the x86 contains this. 5.1.3.A Booting from USB Memory Stick ... the kernel on the boot floppy should detect your USB stick automatically. When it asks for the root floppy, ... I made a boot floppy and bootable USB stick for Etch according to the manual. The old

starting a vncserver

2005-07-21 Thread petereasthope
When Apache and Proftp are installed, startup scripts are inserted in /etc/init.d. Mgetty can be started with a line in /etc/inittab. Neither such arrangement is made when the TightVNC server is installed. Can anyone tell me why? Is a command to start the vncserver in initab sensible? I aim

display resolution

2005-06-30 Thread petereasthope
Hello Paul, Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:16:41 +0200 Use the videogen ... Thanks for telling me about videogen. I spent an hour or so with it. The man page lists only a few parameters for the .videogen configuration file. All others are only command line parameters. That is a little awkward. I am

display resolution

2005-06-29 Thread petereasthope
From another OS I know that a system here will display at 1024 x 768 x 16. startx alone appears to produce a resolution of 640 x 480. The man page tells me how to specify the color depth. Can the 1024 x 768 resolution also be specified? How? Thanks, Peter Easthope shark at gulfnet dot

Re^2: maximal size of root partition with Sarge installer

2005-05-01 Thread petereasthope
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:07:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Usually during installation, there is posibility to modify proposed partitions. Certainly. It would have allowed me to make the partition smaller but not larger. Someting like expert mode, or so. fdisk in the Woody installer

re^2: daytime

2004-11-30 Thread petereasthope
Joost Witteveen and anyone interested, jw Maybe something in /etc/hosts.allow ... ? Yes. hosts.allow needed an improvement. Thanks. The oberon client still reports no response. Someone please tell me what in debian is a daytime client? Google finds nothing helpful in http://www.tldp.org/.

daytime

2004-11-17 Thread petereasthope
/etc/inetd.conf in Sparc Woody contains these lines. daytime stream tcp nowait rootinternal #daytimedgram udp waitrootinternal Anyone have an idea about making this system respond to a daytime request from another system on the LAN? Thanks,

installation of sarge on 486

2004-09-14 Thread petereasthope
At Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:49 +0800 John Summerfield replied, Testing isn't so silly. Seemed hopeful. The Sarge boot diskette goes OK. The root diskette starts OK but soon this message appears endlessly. Entering low memory mode, please wait ... /build/buildd/ ... (frontend_new): Cannot load

Re^2: installation of 3c509 module from Woody diskette.

2004-08-24 Thread petereasthope
Ref. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Readers of debian-user, At 2004-08-14 20:12:56 -0300 Stephen Cormier wrote, I would say get the bf2.4 floppy images. I have an older machine here with the same network card in it and the install went fine, besides you end up with a 2.4 kernel instead of a 2.2. Thanks.

installation of 3c509 module from Woody diskette.

2004-08-13 Thread petereasthope
Debian Users, This problem occurs in an attempt at diskette/network installation of Woody on an ISA 486 DX with a SCSI disk attached via an AHA-1542B. I retrieved the Woody 3.0.23, 2002-05-21 images, rescue, root, driver-{1..4}.bin, and put them on diskettes. Installation appeared OK until

system installation

2004-07-28 Thread petereasthope
In the past I've always begun the installation of a system with the rescue diskette and then installed from a remote server as soon as the network was accessible. Now that Woody is running I want to install a fresh disk and install the testing system on it. Hardware configuration and

diald.defaults diald.options in diald 0.99.4-5

2004-07-17 Thread petereasthope
Users of diald, System: Debian Woody Package: diald 0.99.4-5 The manual pages for diald and dialdexamples refer to the configuration file diald.options. Documentation files do not mention diald.defaults. Installation includes /etc/diald/diald.defaults but there is no diald.options.

/etc/ppp/pap-secrets default

2004-06-09 Thread petereasthope
If I'm not confused, these two lines are in the default Woody pap-secrets file. # Evey regular user can use PPP ... * (none)* Can anyone explain why the server entry is (none) rather than *? Thanks, Peter E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

re^2: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-02 Thread petereasthope
John Hasler said, You or some script erroneously created a default route to your LAN. Get rid of it. Last weekend find / -type f -exec grep add default {} \print found only documentation. The offending installation is nicely hidden. Paul Galbraith said, ... try changing [add default

routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread petereasthope
When ppp is started, these messages are recorded in the syslog. ... pppd[n]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument ... pppd[n]: not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.1.1] ... pppd[n]: Cannot determine ethernet address