On Tuesday 22 August 2006 14:40, you wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:35:12 +1200 > > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:27:09 +1200 > > > > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:20:35 +1200 > > > > > > Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:28 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > > The questions therefore are "Is setserial on the Mepis CD"? > > > > > > > > I seems that Mepis does not add a repository for the CD and we could > > > > not find any on the CD either. > > > > > > apt-cache search setserial comes up with the setserial package on > > > ubuntu and debian if that's any help > > > > Sorry, mepis seems to be rpm based. However, the package seems to be on > > the installation cd. How about mounting said cd, cd'ing to the relevant > > RPMS directory ( find . -name setserial\* ) and rpm -i > > setserial.whatevercomesnext? > > > > Steve > > Scrap that last email - for some reason my search come up with mandrake > linux instead and I forgot to read it. I was pretty sure on it being debian > based, too! > > So, same theory, but dpkg -i. I can email the ubuntu 2.17-43 version to > anyone interested, as it's only 58kB. Thanks for the thought, but it's not necessary, 'cos I got it out of the Paradise repository. http://debian.paradise.net.nz/debian/pool/main/s/setserial/setserial_2.17-43_i386.deb downloaded to file:///home/chris/Desktop/setserial_2.17-43_i386.deb ditto http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/Ubuntu/ltmodem-2.6.12-10-686_8.31b1_i386.deb Lets hope & pray they actually work! Place your bets now!
Otherwise he's going to end up with either an intelligently put together source based distro where all this dependency nonsense just goes away, or my old 25MHz '486 box running IPCop with an old ISA hardware modem in it on a long-term loan. -- CS
