Re: modem

1999-02-13 Thread LltoXicll
if i get a external modem dose it have to have jumpers or not? if so will they be inside and will i have to take apart the mode? Thanks

mounting error fixed

1999-02-13 Thread Micah Ferrell
OK, I fixed the problem I was having with mounting my cdrom drive. But, in a strange way. By going into my BIOS and changing my boot sequence so that my cdrom is first. With it set like this linux will recognize my cdrom but, without it, it will not. Can any one tell me the story behind

staroffice install

1999-02-13 Thread Andrew R. Brink
I'm trying to install StarOffice, i installed all the libs that came with it, and then ran ldconfig. But when i run the setup for staroffice i get: ld-2.0.7.so Library not found ld-linux.so.2 Library not found But both of those libraries are in /lib Whats the deal here? Andrew

Re: modem

1999-02-13 Thread Lawson A. Whitney
Most motherboards have 2 built in uart's on com1 irq 4 and com2 irq3. If you have anything connected to either of these (a mouse, say), it _will_ conflict with what you set your modem for, either the ioport, or the interrupt. If you're sure you're not using the builtin serial ports, or don't

what is install-info in an RPM install?

1999-02-13 Thread Pollywog
What does this error mean? [root@lilypad pollywog]# rpm -i libstdc++-devel-2.8.1-1.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /sbin/install-info is needed by libstdc++-devel-2.8.1-1 libstdc++ is needed by libstdc++-devel-2.8.1-1 thanks -- Andrew

Re: Attempting to install GNOME

1999-02-13 Thread Akintayo Holder
--snip-- However, do you have a window manager working? If so, you should already have one of those files (I think). No X has default locations, those in your home override these. Check /etc/skel for the files that are given to a new user. If not, you need to get one before you use gnome.

Re: modem

1999-02-13 Thread Lawson A. Whitney
From lawson_whitney From: lawson_whitney Full-Name: Lawson A. Whitney To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: modem References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Status: New :-)Internal modems that are not winmodems nor plug 'n pray need jumpers to select what ioport(comm

Re: what is install-info in an RPM install?

1999-02-13 Thread Lawson A. Whitney
/sbin/install-info is included in the info-* rpm. libg++ wants to be sure it can install its info pages. RH *-devel-* packages often include only the headers and doco, which are relatively useless without the libs they refer to. It wants you to install the info-*.rpm first, then the

installation trouble

1999-02-13 Thread Remo Strotkamp
Hi out there, I have the bad feeling that I'm in trouble I'm in the middle of the installation of RH5.2 Most of the things went well, except: linuxconf, DEV ( or was it dev or Dev ) and MAKEDEV gave the following error: " rpm installation of xxx failed, excecution of script failed "

RH installation trouble II need heeelp

1999-02-13 Thread Remo Strotkamp
Hi anybody out there??? things are going worse and worse. Was playing around with the command line under ALT-F2 for a while and found out what happend: found this in the install.log... the installer wasn't able to find the rpm packages for dev and MAKEDEV... I was checking this ( god

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread A W Young
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A W Young enscribed thusly: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A W Young enscribed thusly: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, A W

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread A W Young
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ray Olszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm coming to this thread late, so I apologize if I'm reviewing familiar ground. It sounds like you need to find your printer before continuing to muck around with /dev entries. So ... 1. Look in /proc/ioports ("more

Re: modem

1999-02-13 Thread Akintayo Holder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone help me setup my modem under linux? Thanks in advance. Before you trod down this path check out the MODEM HOWTO at the Linux Document Project, it may also be on your distribution CD. Also check the isapnptool FAQ if you have a PnP modem. Also there was a

how do I setup a HP 722C printer

1999-02-13 Thread Bill Gowan
Is it possible to set up a HP DeskJet 722C Printer? I am using RedHat 5.0 distribution. The HP site says to see the vendor for drivers but I did a search on the redhat site and came up empty. Has anyone done this? Is it possible? Thanks in advance for any advice! Bill Windows: just

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
A W Young enscribed thusly: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes : : - snip to remove ongoing cruft... : I'm not entirely sure, but I have the file vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6 which I guess means version 2.0.34. Correct... You

Re: Linux and WIN9x On Same Hard Drive, Different Partitions

1999-02-13 Thread Raider
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, albert e martinez eet stnt wrote: 1)How many MBR's per hard drive? One per hard drive or one per partition? The Master Boot Record is one for each hard drive. 2)Linux fdisk tells me that the number of cylinders on my HDD is 13328, as does the

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread Ray Olszewski
With the multiple levels of quoting in your replies, they've become a bit difficult for me to read ... but it appears, from reading this one and the others, that your Linux system not only doesn't have printer support compiled in (is this really a stock RH installation on an Intel-compatible

Taking over processes

1999-02-13 Thread FrontaL
First of all I like to thanx Christian about how to mail my questions to you guys/girls. My question is the following If I have started a process with a user, is it possible (with root) to take over that process?? I got this problem when I was making wine, with a user telnetted onto my

getting info rpm

1999-02-13 Thread Pollywog
where can I find the info-rpm package? I am getting errors when I try to install some RPM packages about not having info-install. [root@lilypad pollywog]# rpm -i libstdc++-devel-2.8.1-1.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /sbin/install-info is needed by libstdc++-devel-2.8.1-1

Re: getting info rpm

1999-02-13 Thread Claude Robitaille
Look at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM Claude where can I find the info-rpm package? I am getting errors when I try to install some RPM packages about not having info-install.

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread ggallup
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote: With the multiple levels of quoting in your replies, they've become a bit difficult for me to read ... but it appears, from reading this one and the Hear-hear Related to this, when you boot the machine, what does the BIOS report about parallel

Re: getting info rpm

1999-02-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Feb-99 Claude Robitaille wrote: Look at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM Claude where can I find the info-rpm package? I am getting errors when I try to install some RPM packages about not having info-install. I have been looking there and I figured out the problem. Some

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:48 PM 2/13/99 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [excerpt only]: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote: Related to this, when you boot the machine, what does the BIOS report about parallel ports (this information would be somewhere, usually toward the In particular, there should be a

Re: kernel-lock failed

1999-02-13 Thread Raider
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote: It can. I checked the man pages just in case. But it can. Because that happened just once AFAIK. I do not use these programs, so i cant check thier behavouir, so i realy cant say what the next thing to check is. You seem to be on the correct

Samba and DOS

1999-02-13 Thread Shaggy Im-erbtham
Is it possible for a DOS computer (no Windoze installed) to be client to a Linux/Samba box?? If so, how ? I need to use a DOS accounting program to input, access and store data centrally in the server, accessible by another client also in DOS. Thanks, Shaggy

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-13 Thread ggallup
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote: Do they connect to anything other than parallel ports, as, for example, the HP LaserJets commonly do? I really don't know. HP doesn't send documentation with these Deskjets any more. (I knew the one I bought would work because I borrowed one and

Re: CD-ROM tray

1999-02-13 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:44 PM 1/2/97 +0700, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote [excerpt]: I cannot eject the tray of CD-ROM drive while in Slackware. To change CD's I have had to go into DOS. The CDROM is already mounted ... and that's the problem -- you have to umount it before Linux will let you eject it. The sequence

Compilation Errors

1999-02-13 Thread Jeremy Wiebe
Hello everyone, I am having some difficulty compiling programs which I download. I recently downloaded Samba 2.0.2 and was going to build the RPM for it from the source. In the ./packaging/ directory there is a script to do this all for a person. When I run the script I hit a brick wall. The

Re: CD-ROM tray

1999-02-13 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
You have to use umount before it'll allow you to remove it: umount /cdrom On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote: I cannot eject the tray of CD-ROM drive while in Slackware. To change CD's I have had to go into DOS. The CDROM is already mounted, as excerpted from /etc/fstab as

Re: how do I install a package

1999-02-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Can debian handle rpms right out the box, or is it necessary to add support after installation. Debian uses a program called dpkg to install software with. Dpkg then can use a variety of front-ends to do various installations (the most popular of these front-ends is the text-mode dselect

Re: modem

1999-02-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Can someone help me setup my modem under linux? You need to be a lot more specific and give a lot more details if you actually expect to get a meaningful response. Is your modem an internal "WinModem" -- one that requires Windows drivers to operate? If so, it will not work with Linux.

Kppp ppp-logfile

1999-02-13 Thread root
When I use kppp sometimes it will connect to the web and other times it won't. Attached is my ppp-logfile for the times it did not connect. If someone could tell what the problem is I would be grateful. Micah Feb 13 16:29:50 localhost pppd[379]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Feb 13

Re: Kppp ppp-logfile

1999-02-13 Thread Ray Olszewski
Only a guess ... but perhaps an educated one. Signal 15, aka SIGTERM, is described, somewhat unhelpfully, as "Termination Signal" ("man 7 signal"). In context, I suspect that you are getting no response from the other end to the ppp handshaking request being sent by pppd, or the modem on the

Re: Kppp ppp-logfile

1999-02-13 Thread root
Ray Olszewski wrote: Only a guess ... but perhaps an educated one. Signal 15, aka SIGTERM, is described, somewhat unhelpfully, as "Termination Signal" ("man 7 signal"). In context, I suspect that you are getting no response from the other end to the ppp handshaking request being sent by

Re: Fatal Error

1999-02-13 Thread Pankil Richards
Ryu wrote: When I type startx to start xwindows I get the following message: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting... Try http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ I got a signal 11 once during the XServer installation portion, but upon reinstallation it disappeared. Since you've

Re: Kppp ppp-logfile

1999-02-13 Thread Ray Olszewski
The most helpful things would be: 1. the complete set of messages from a successful connection, including both the pppd messages and the messages from kppp and any other app that was involved (does kppp do its own dialing or call another dialer?). 2. The kppp /or dialer messages from an