On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:19:09 +0100
Michael Bona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Klaus,
so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and when
it does not? I would be very interested especially concerning Debian
...
Michael
Sorry,
late reply - technical problems.
Basically what
Klaus,
so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and when it does
not? I would be very interested especially concerning Debian ...
Michael
Klaus Imgrund wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:46:50 +0100
Michael Bona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have tried to get DHCP working on an
* Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030227 22:10 PST]:
Sorry Kent, I tried posting after as a response and it sucks. I use
spell checking and as most spell checkers are pretty dumb and start at
the top, I end up having to correct or skip other people's misspelled
words before I get to my
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:37:36PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
* Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030227 22:10 PST]:
Sorry Kent, I tried posting after as a response and it sucks. I use
spell checking and as most spell checkers are pretty dumb and start at
the top, I end up having to
Knoppix got finished earlier than expected. I first tried it on
another machine on my WAN/LAN to see if the CD would work with another
configuration. This went off without a hitch, though it is necessary to
prompt Knoppix to search for a dhcp assignment of an IP address by using
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:29:56PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
Knoppix got finished earlier than expected. I first tried it on
another machine on my WAN/LAN to see if the CD would work with another
configuration. This went off without a hitch, though it is necessary to
prompt Knoppix to
Hi Gary,
Thanks, that is exactly what I am looking for. Unfortunately, the
Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin only has a third party USB floppy drive. I made
sure that I installed USB mass storage in the kernel, but how do I get
the USB floppy to work, so that I can do what you suggest?
Cheers,
Brian
OK Sean, the output of # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 was eth0
Media Link Off. The result of $ ping 216.239.57.100 was Network is
unreachable :-(
Cheers,
Brian
sean finney wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:07:55PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
If it is OK with you, I would rather not
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:46:50 +0100
Michael Bona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have tried to get DHCP working on an SIS900 (on an Elitegroup K7S5A) for
quite some time (Debina, Gentoo). No such luck. DHCP works with Windows but
not Linux. Normal networking (with static IP) is fine, just no DCHP.
Thanks for the Klaus. Do you have any advice with regards to the dhcp
problem I am having in Debian 3 rev. 1? I have almost completed a
download of the latest Knoppix iso and can burn a CD from that. I can
then try to boot the CD, but am not sure what I need to do to see if
dhcp works in
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:17:41PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
dhcp works in Knoppix. Should I run the same tests that have been posted
to me for Deb? What would the conclusions be for my Deb install if
Knoppix does work?
if knoppix works, it will probably automagically work, because that's
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:10:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
OK Sean, the output of # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 was eth0
Media Link Off. The result of $ ping 216.239.57.100 was Network is
unreachable :-(
i've never seen that error out of ifconfig before, and can't even find
it in
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:34:22PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
SIS 900 Internal MII PHY Transceiver found. at address 1
Using transceiver found. at address 1 as default.
SIS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xe400, IRQ 11, 00:30:67:06:4f:86
okay, that's Good, it means your kernel sees and happily
OK, I didn't get the difference between # and $. Tried again, in
root (#), same result. Added the two lines in /etc/network/interfaces
restarted the network and tried again. Same result - nada - zip -zilch
response. No response with /sbin/ifconfig either. Thanks for all your
time so far. Is
Brian Durant wrote:
SIS 900 Internal MII PHY Transceiver found. at address 1
Using transceiver found. at address 1 as default.
SIS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xe400, IRQ 11, 00:30:67:06:4f:86
Response to grep eth0 /etc/network/interfaces was nothing.
Added the two lines in /etc/network/interfaces
Kent West wrote:
Brian Durant wrote:
Added the two lines in /etc/network/interfaces restarted the network
and tried again. Same result - nada - zip -zilch response. No
response with /sbin/ifconfig either. Thanks for all your time so far.
Is there any place that we can go from here? I did a
The contents of /etc/networking/interfaces was only the lines that I
added. There was nothing in there, or maybe I rather created a file when
I used vi (in root). However, I didn't overwrite I file, that I am sure
of. The result of ls -l /sbin/ifconfig is -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55180
Nov. 24
hi brian
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:19:38PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
OK, I didn't get the difference between # and $. Tried again, in
root (#), same result. Added the two lines in /etc/network/interfaces
restarted the network and tried again. Same result - nada - zip -zilch
interfaces
If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just
got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time
editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's
computer, makes my eyes complain a lot. I am trying to keep the eye
strain at a
A: See for yourself
Brian Durant wrote:
If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just
got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time
editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's
computer, makes my eyes complain a
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:07:55PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just
got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time
editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's
computer, makes
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:16:43PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
The response is not found. Remember, I am still in the install. I
the response to what? ifconfig? lspci? also, were you able to install
the kernel onto the hard disk? if you can finish the install process
and boot off the hard
Sean Finney wrote:
but you don't have an ip address. this means your kernel see the device
and configured it, but dhcp isn't coming through. do you have lines
in /etc/network/interfaces that say something like:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
?
also, if this is on a private lan, how about
I have tried to get DHCP working on an SIS900 (on an Elitegroup K7S5A) for
quite some time (Debina, Gentoo). No such luck. DHCP works with Windows but
not Linux. Normal networking (with static IP) is fine, just no DCHP.
Maybe a new driver would help, but the old one just doesn't do DHCP.
If I am
sean finney wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:16:43PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
The response is not found. Remember, I am still in the install. I
the response to what? ifconfig? lspci? also, were you able to install
the kernel onto the hard disk? if you can finish the install
Sorry Kent, I tried posting after as a response and it sucks. I use
spell checking and as most spell checkers are pretty dumb and start at
the top, I end up having to correct or skip other people's misspelled
words before I get to my own. The other way round, like I am doing now,
I can stop
OK, I finally got CD1 image downloaded for Debian 3 Rev1. I followed the
SuSE partitioning scheme for the first install attempt. Got to "configure
network", where I am prompted for a "hostname". Not really sure how this
compares to a MS "workgroup" so I left it at the default "debian". Then
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:10:08 +0700
Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I finally got CD1 image downloaded for Debian 3 Rev1. I followed the
SuSE partitioning scheme for the first install attempt. Got to
configure network, where I am prompted for a hostname. Not really
sure how this
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:10:08PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
DHCP failed. I booted the install with the command bf24, so support
for the built into motherboard SiS 900 Fast Ethernet driver should be
loaded. What do I do now???
well first things first see if the networking works :) try
$
OK, I started the install process from the beginning again, remounted partitions,
etc. Not only did I boot the install using "bf24", but I also chose the long
install, to make sure that I was installing a 2.4 kernel from the Deb 3 rev.
1 full install CDs. I tried /sbin/ifconfig eth0 and got a
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:30:26AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
OK, I started the install process from the beginning again, remounted
partitions, etc. Not only did I boot the install using bf24, but I
also chose the long install, to make sure that I was installing a 2.4
kernel from the Deb 3
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:30:26AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
OK, I started the install process from the beginning again, remounted
partitions, etc. Not only did I boot the install using bf24, but I
also chose the long install, to make sure that I was installing a 2.4
kernel from the Deb 3
Giving the output is not an easy task, as the computer I am installing
on has a USB floppy (the Celvin is a kind of iMac for the PC world) and
hopefully will work when I get Debian installed. As the network isn't
working either, I can't send it as a text file to another box on my
WAN/LAN. All
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
Giving the output is not an easy task, as the computer I am installing
on has a USB floppy (the Celvin is a kind of iMac for the PC world) and
hopefully will work when I get Debian installed. As the network isn't
working either,
The response is not found. Remember, I am still in the install. I
don't have any problems dhcp on any of the other connected boxes, all
running a version of Win at this time. All receive an IP address
automatically through dhcp. I tried ifconfig eth0 again (had to do a
ctrl alt delete to get
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 08:04, Brian Durant wrote:
I am a relative Newbie to Linux and totally new to Debian and this list.
My first questions, which I hope aren't like the above subject, is how
closely related is Xandros (formerly Corel) to Debian? Is it close
I've never used Xandros, but I
OK, due to a download problem with a couple of the large CD iso files, I
am trying the bootbf2.4.iso Andrew Bloch net install. When I get to the hard
disk partitioning, I am not really sure what to do. My hard disk looks like
the following at this time:
/dev/hda7 reiserfs 9.29 GB (mount
heya,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
/dev/hda7reiserfs9.29 GB(mount point) /
/dev/hda5ext215.1 MB/boot
shmfs shm 57.9 MB/dev/shm
from my own experience, if you have the time i'd recommend splitting
that up a
So where would I do this in the install process, at the prompt for hda disk
partition? Skip over the swap prompt? What comes after, a dialog listing
of all the hard drive partitions? /home I understand, but what is a "/var"?
How would all of these partitions look together in schematic form and
My apologies for making this a list-wide post, but I'd prefer to be
corrected if I'm wrong.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
OK, due to a download problem with a couple of the large CD iso files, I
am trying the bootbf2.4.iso Andrew Bloch net install. When I get to
Brian Durant wrote:
OK, due to a download problem with a couple of the large CD iso files,
I am trying the bootbf2.4.iso Andrew Bloch net install. When I get to
the hard disk partitioning, I am not really sure what to do. My hard
disk looks like the following at this time:
/dev/hda7
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:39:03AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
heya,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
/dev/hda7reiserfs9.29 GB(mount point) /
/dev/hda5ext215.1 MB/boot
shmfs shm 57.9 MB/dev/shm
from my
hi brian,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:54:55PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
So where would I do this in the install process, at the prompt for hda
disk partition? Skip over the swap prompt? What comes after, a dialog
listing of all the hard drive partitions? /home I understand, but what
is a
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:43:02AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
If you're a newbie, I'd recommend taking the first scheme, use Debian
for a day or two. Then do the install all over again, wiping the drive,
using the second scheme. Then do it again in a week or so, wiping the
drive, and making a
Hi,
I am a relative Newbie to Linux and totally new to Debian and this list.
My first questions, which I hope aren't like the above subject, is how
closely related is Xandros (formerly Corel) to Debian? Is it close
enough that list members wouldn't mind me posting problems to this list
or is
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