Re: Kppp ppp-logfile

1999-02-14 Thread root
Ray Olszewski wrote: 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?). Kppp does do its own

Re: Kppp ppp-logfile

1999-02-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
Okay. The config file confirms what I suspected -- kde is simply timing out pppd if pppd can't negotiate a connection within 30 seconds, as instructed by this parameter from the file: pppdTimeout=30 The first thing to try is making that paramater larger, say 60 or 90, to give pppd more time to

No Subject

1999-02-14 Thread gene hitz
Is it possible to get the messages from this list in "digest" form?? Gene Hitz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Screen fonts - Netscape is not legible

1999-02-14 Thread Akintayo Holder
Netscape's fonts are not legible - I cannot read the test on the web pages. All the rest of fonts are okay, even the small type they use for addresses. Does anyone know how I go about fixing this. The fonts also lack proper definition - related problem - would 100-dpi fix that ? How do I go about

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-14 Thread A W Young
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A W Young enscribed thusly: 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 can double check that its the version you have loaded by typing

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-14 Thread A W Young
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ray Olszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes So let me step back and ask about something we have all been assuming: how do you have the printer connected to the computer? It's connected by parallel cable to LPT1. Related to this, when you boot the machine, what does

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-14 Thread Michael H. Warfield
A W Young enscribed thusly: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A W Young enscribed thusly: 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 can double check that its the

2 M$ booting on 1 HD??

1999-02-14 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Been devouring all partition comments with interest but still can't solve the problem here: Using LILO on the MBR desire having Win95, ugh, on /dev/hda1; Dos6.2 on /hda2; Linux2.0.xx on /dev/hda3 and Swap on /hda4. HD plenty big for this.. System board is fairly new - P166, PCI,

Me again - some problems with packages!

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Rae
Hello again. I discovered yesterday (when I tried to compile Samba, as suggested to me previously on this list!) that I appear not to have a C compiler. Oops. Well, I thought, it's on the CD in one of these RedHat package things so I found gcc and used the rpm thing to install it. But... now gcc

Re: staroffice install

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Rae
Okay, instead of asking questions all the time I'm going to actually try and answer one! - Original Message - From: Andrew R. Brink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: staroffice install I'm trying to install StarOffice, i installed all the libs that came with it, and then ran ldconfig. But

Re: Setting up HP printer

1999-02-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
Replying to parts of both your recent messages, combined below. At 01:10 PM 2/14/99 +, A W Young wrote [excerpts only]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In particular, there should be a line like [Stuff referring to time and system name] kernal: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) in the /var/adm/messages

Set Up Problems

1999-02-14 Thread Ken Walker
I have spent many hours deep in howtos and other documents but I stuck and looking for help. I am using RH5.2. I have it installed and I have X running using WindowMaker. I have several problems. As the system boots, I see several messages go by saying that my scripts for ppp had an

Re: Set Up Problems

1999-02-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
I'v reordered your questions a bit below before answering. At 10:28 AM 2/14/99 -700, Ken Walker wrote [edited]: Is there a way to get Linux to print the startup msgs to a file and to print the msgs on the kde install to a file so I can show them to someone? Yes. For the startup messages --

Re: Me again - some problems with packages!

1999-02-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
There are two things you want to check. Your problem is probably the second. 1. Do you have all the libraries that gcc needs to *run*? Check this with "ldd /fullpath/gcc" replacing fullpath with the actual path. 2. Do you have all the libraries that gcc needs to *compile* and *link* other

excess Linux files

1999-02-14 Thread Dave G
Is there a how-to on what I can remove now that my system is running? It seems my drive has a lot of space taken up, I've got over 800mb of space used in my install and I'd like to trim it down. DAve. "On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the Dawn of

Re: 2 M$ booting on 1 HD??

1999-02-14 Thread Raider
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hal MacArgle wrote: Using LILO on the MBR desire having Win95, ugh, on /dev/hda1; Dos6.2 on /hda2; Linux2.0.xx on /dev/hda3 and Swap on /hda4. HD plenty big for this.. System board is fairly new - P166, PCI, Award, or K5-100, PCI, Award, etc... Linux and ONE of the M$

Re: 2 M$ booting on 1 HD??

1999-02-14 Thread Claude Robitaille
Hi Hal, When Win95 is installed on an existing DOS machine, its boot manager, which you access using F8 at boot time, has an extra item allowing to boot the old DOS (this is not the dos command mode which is another item in the boot manager list). So, what I would try to do in your case is to

Re: linux-newbie FAQ

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth Stephen
Richard, You are right. I have been remiss. I have just rectified this problem. Please accept my apologies. Kenneth There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck. On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote: According to Kenneth Stephen: While burning my

linux-newbie FAQ

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth Stephen
Hi, Here is an update to the FAQ. Kenneth There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck. This is the linux-newbie mailing list FAQ. It is still under construction. If you have any comments / contributions about this FAQ, please email me at [EMAIL

compiling libstdc++

1999-02-14 Thread Andrew R. Brink
While trying to compile libstdc++ 2.90.3...I get a bunch of errors...I haved attached the error messages and would greatly appreciate it if somebody could either look at it and help me.or if anyone could send me a compiled version of libstdc++.so.2.9 or greater, I would be greatly