Debian on Sparc...

I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list (or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-). The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux up and running on a sparc w/o a CD-ROM drive? Can Debian

Getting the same USB device?

the same device name irrespective of what else is installed? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Allow children to be happy in their own http://nwalsh.com/| way, for what better way

PNY USB CompactFlash card reader

://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Feb/2817.html -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wherever they burn books they will http://nwalsh.com/| also, in the end, burn human beings.-- | Heine pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

statd/lockd hang?

and reinstalling the nfs-* packages, but it didn't help. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Don't despair, not even over the fact http://nwalsh.com/| that you don't despair.--Kafka

Loading lp

io=0x378 irq=0 and loading the parport modules doesn't (seem to) have any effect. Suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just http://nwalsh.com

Where is libz1?

? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | My problems start when the smarter http://nwalsh.com/ | bears and the dumber visitors | intersect.--Steve Thompson

Configuring networking

but that wasn't sufficient. I could copy /etc/init.d/network and friends from my other machine, but I'm afraid I'd miss something... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I don't make predictions. I never

Failure to connect to some sites

, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | No victor believes in chance.--Nietzsche http://nwalsh.com/|

Installing an earlier kernel?

2.2.15 is running. Huh? What'd I miss. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a road from the eye to the http://nwalsh.com/| heart that does not go through

Re: Configure networking?

/ Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I do not know how to config the entire network, but you can configure the | files: Thanks. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We dance

Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?

should I be checking for? Thanks for the tips, everyone. My XF86Config file referred to /dev/mouse when I hadn't created that symlink...d'oh! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We dance around

Kernel problems

... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to http://nwalsh.com/| the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the | stone? Woe

Re: Kernel problems

.1.00_i386.deb kernel-source-2.2.17_Custom.1.00_all.deb pcmcia-modules-2.2.17_3.1.8-16+Custom.1.00_i386.deb and installed them all with dpkg. No change. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We dance

Re: docbook and pagesize

list is for questions about DocBook markup.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A man can believe a considerable deal http://nwalsh.com/| of rubbish, and yet go about his daily

python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?

an error code (1) Is this a known inconsistency, or have I mangled something on my machine? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The aging process has you firmly in its http://nwalsh.com

PID for ksoftireqd_CPU0 and friends

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Equivalent of ide-cs for kernel PCMCIA?

. Uhm. Is there something else that I can use to mount a CF card? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Allow children to be happy in their own http://nwalsh.com/| way, for what better

Re: bug in libc6

occurs in a stable release, old commercial apps will run, or will they have to be recompiled? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [They] say the Earth is flat, but I http://nwalsh.com

Re: bug in libc6

, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Why in our youth does the life we still http://nwalsh.com/| have before us look so immeasurably | long? Because we have to find room

Running X chroot?

, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We have fewer friends than we imagine, http://nwalsh.com/| but more than we know.--Hugo Von | Hofmannsthal -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed

Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

or anything. Can anyone suggest why I'd run out of connections? Can I increase the number allowed somehow? This is on a debian box running unstable. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He who seeks

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

/ Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:14:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | Hello world, | | Sorry, the world is out of the office

Python/bssddb troubles in testing?

a clue to spare? :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We make out of the quarrel with others, http://nwalsh.com/| rhetoric, but out of the quarrel

gs and the stp driver

? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Everything the same; everything http://nwalsh.com/| distinct. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt

RPC call returned error 111

-- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Our culture peculiarly honors the act http://nwalsh.com/| of blaming, which it takes as the sign | of virtue and intellect.--Lionel | Trilling

Re: RPC call returned error 111

late on Feb 12... | The solution is to install net-tools_1.58-2_i386.deb. Alas, that had no effect. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The man with ten children is better off http://nwalsh.com

Re: Net-tools

first, and I'm pretty sure it does.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He that overvalues himself will http://nwalsh.com/| undervalue others, and he

Re: RPC call returned error 111

Sorry to be a pest. Are there really no other suggestions for fixing this problem? Upgrading net-tools didn't help... / Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I recently did and update/upgrade for the latest unstable (yeah, yeah, | silly me :-), and now I get the following messages

Re: RPC call returned error 111

you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A man is not necessarily intelligent http://nwalsh.com/| because he has plenty of ideas, any | more than he is a good general because | he

lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nothing hath an uglier look to us than http://nwalsh.com/| reason, when it is not on our own | side.--Marquess of Halifax

Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

/ ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | Can anyone help me get past this error? Google search didn't turn | up anything useful. Lilo can boot my Win98 partition and I can boot | the relevant kernel off a floppy, but attempting

Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

/ Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Try adding the line `lba32' to lilo.conf, and then re-run lilo. No change. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is always some accident

New bash and tab completion

this behavior? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is important what a man still plans http://nwalsh.com/| at the end. It shows the measure

Re: Yahoo messenger

/ Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | What tool do Debian folks use that interoperates with Yahoo! IM? Everybuddy Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | My problems start when

Re: New bash and tab completion

/ Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Is there a setting to fix this behavior? | | I don't know if there is a way to revert back to the old behavior, but | this change is mentioned in /usr/share/doc/bash/changelog.gz: | | c

Joliet file names

and made the CD of that. In this case, however, I want the files on the CD to be...on the CD. Is there a workaround? Can I assign the names for Joliet to use? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problem with iptables and 2.4.17

failed A quick google search reveals that I'm not entirely alone, but doesn't provide any solutions. Thoughts? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Every new beginning comes from some http

Re: PCMCIA

wvlan_cs support back next week... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Individuality seems to be Nature's http://nwalsh.com/| whole aim--and she cares nothing

Re: pcmcia

though I'm running 2.4.17 on a new Toshiba laptop...anyway, whew! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Many who find the day too long, think http://nwalsh.com/| life too short.--Charles

D-Link DWL-520 Wireless?

Does anyone know if there are drivers for the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter? A quick Google didn't turn up anything useful...alas. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Someone has changed

Fighting with lilo

the enter key a bunch of times and to my stunned surprise, it succeeded on the fourth or fifth try. Color me confused. Can anyone suggest how I might fix this correctly, permanently? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh

Re: D-Link DWL-520 Wireless?

/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Does anyone know if there are drivers for the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless | PCI Adapter? A quick Google didn't turn up anything useful...alas. Just to close the loop, linux-wlan-ng-0.1.13-pre2 contained the driver I needed

Re: Fighting with lilo

to unbork it? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We are thinking beings, and we cannot http://nwalsh.com/| exclude the intellect from | participating

sk_run_filter and irda.o?

-- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To probe a hole we first use a straight http://nwalsh.com/| stick to see how far it takes us. To | probe the visible world we use the | assumption that things are simple until

Resolved: Re: sk_run_filter and irda.o?

/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I just built a 2.4.4 kernel this weekend (running on top of Debian 2.2 | with http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html). Although things seem | to be running fine, I notice that irda won't load: | | hermes:/home/ndw# modprobe irda | /lib

gdm/.Xclients on 2.2?

? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abandoning rhyme and fixed rules in http://nwalsh.com/| favor of other intuitive rules brings | us back to fixed

External USB hard disks?

? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If brute force doesn't work, maybe http://nwalsh.com/| you're not using enough brute force. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: External USB hard disks?

/ Richard Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | man, 2002-04-22 kl. 21:25 skrev Norman Walsh: | Does anyone have experience with external USB hard disks? I was | looking, for example, at the Maxtor 120Gb USB2 external drive. | | Yes, I'm using a Datafab USB 1 cabinet with a 60GB disk

PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

this would be a good excuse to buy a firewire PCMCIA card. Anyone have experience using a firewire PCMCIA card and an external hard disk? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wandering in a vast forest

Re: External USB hard disks?

, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Irrationally held truths may be more http://nwalsh.com/| harmful than reasoned errors.--T. H. | Huxley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Spooling a print job to a Windows box

...: Success I've tried all the combinations username/password/workgroup that I can think of in the DEVICE_URI. Does cli_session_request() failed shed light for anyone? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED

Printing from firefox (xprt)

for telling xprt about my cups-controlled printer. And xplsprinters clearly doesn't know about it: $ xplsprinters xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec . Suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman

Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)

/ Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:20:20AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | And xplsprinters clearly doesn't know about it: | | $ xplsprinters | xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec . | | Suggestions? | | Is $XPSERVERLIST set? In my .xsession, I

Gnome font trouble

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Re: Gnome font trouble

/ Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I upgraded my unstable distro recently (I'm not sure exactly when this started | as I've been running the same session for a week or two) and now all the | applications using Gnome fonts are using

/dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

/forcefsck and rebooted. It found errors on the root partition, claimed to fix them, and rebooted but the result was still an unknown partition type. Thoughts? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

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Re: Gnome fonts and themes

or library, but I haven't had the time or energy to try backing them out one-at-a-time to deduce which one is the culprit. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth

Re: Gnome fonts and themes

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Unknown root partition type?

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Stretched printing in Firefox with CUPS

, but it's persisted long enough to become irritating. Google reveals I'm not alone, but doesn't point to any answers. Anyone worked out a fix? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | You look wise

about:config in Firefox is broken

.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The finest amusements are the most http://nwalsh.com/| pointless ones.--Jacques Chardonne pgpIJ1rzwNjHu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: about:config in Firefox is broken

-- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 'tis expressly against the law of arms: http://nwalsh.com/| 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark | you now, as can be offer't; in your | conscience, now, is it not?--Fluellen

Firefox 'stretched' printing

from other applications. I've been hoping this would just go away with some upgrade of Firefox, but it's persisted long enough to become irritating. %snip% -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Everything has been said before, but http://nwalsh.com/| since nobody every listens we

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

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Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

/ Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:32:50 -0400 | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | How can I stop using xprt? | | When I was doing the same, I used 'apt-get remove xprt'. Yep. The odd thing is, I thought it got installed because it was required

NCR53c7,8xxx SCSI controller?

The Debian boot disk (from 7/14/96) does not recognize my NCR53c7,8xxx SCSI controller. It seems to think it's a 53c406a with no ports available. I don't think it's a hardware problem because the RedHat 3.0.3 boot disks seem to work fine. But I don't really want to use RedHat ;-) Are alternate

X S3 bug?

bug? Is there a fix? Cheers, norm --- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On a clear disk you can seek forever Technical Director, Online Publishing | O'Reilly Associates, Inc

Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | In the life of saints, technically so http://nwalsh.com/| called, the spiritual facilities are | strong, but what gives the impression

Mozilla remote control not working

to be things that depend on it. Suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Old age is the most unexpected of all http://nwalsh.com/| the things that happen to a man

Re: Mozilla remote control not working

-firefox/mozilla-firefox-xremote-client 'openurl(localhost,new-window)' doesn't work at all. Is there some setting I've frobbed? Could this be related to the tabbrowser extension? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

away. From casual inspection of my .Xmodmap file, last edited in 2001, it's not clear if I'll care that I'm not using it anymore. Has this been bug reported, do you know? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL

Re: Mozilla remote control not working

/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Is there some setting I've frobbed? Could this be related to the | tabbrowser extension? Yes. I removed the tabbrowser extension and the problem went away. Sorry for the noise. Be seeing you

Evolution oddness

-rf'd the ~/evolution directory and made sure all the bonobo-related tasks were killed. But when I restarted evolution, the problem persisted. Clues solicited. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Evolution oddness

/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, | but I'd like to run it to try out some calendaring stuff. When I start | evolution and click on the Calendar shortcut, I get the Calendar view | with the Tasks displayed

Re: Evolution oddness

of time (i think). | | What version of evolution are you using? 1.4.5, from an unstable distro updated this morning. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The important thing is not what the http

Re: Evolution oddness

with X support ii zsh4.0.9-1A shell with lots of features Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Every new beginning comes from some http://nwalsh.com/| other

Re: Evolution oddness

it for me, too. Thanks! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The Future Begins Tomorrow!--Yoyodyne http://nwalsh.com/| Propulsion Systems pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Fixing dependency problems with some sort of alias?

. But apt-get notices the problem and wants to fix it. Is there anyway that I can tell apt-get to just ignore the problem, just alias libssl0.9.7 as libssl0.9.6 or something like that? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh

modprobe usb-uhci hangs machine

a solution. Any suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Optimistic, even in the face of reality. http://nwalsh.com/| pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature