Re: IDE for java

2003-01-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.22 15:56 Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:

Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where
should
I point my sources to install it?


At work and at home I use Xemacs/JDE/speedbar/ANT and have a great 
development environment.

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Re: IDE for java

2003-01-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.22 15:56 Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:

Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where
should
I point my sources to install it?


There's always Xemacs/JDE/speedbar/ANT. That's what I use both at home 
and at work and it works fine.

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Re: Installing Debian on an iPAQ

2003-01-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.21 17:56 David Z Maze wrote:

Darryl L. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Anybody have experience doing this? Can anybody point me to some
 information on doing so?

Back when I was playing with one, general advice was that you only
wanted to try to put Debian on it if you had a lot of persistent
storage.  The Familiar distribution was sort of like Debian, and its
package manager could install ARM .deb packages if need be.  At any
rate, the place to go is probably http://www.handhelds.org/.


Those instructions are perfect except for one flaw: I have no way of 
connecting to my device via serial since it's a USB cradle. :(

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Re: Smart relay setting for Exim...

2003-01-21 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.18 19:36 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
snip

Everything's almost working now. All I need to do is figure out the 
SMTP host here at work and I'm fine. From home it works like a charm. 
Thanks, mate. :)

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Switching smart relays automatically in Exim...

2003-01-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I use my laptop both at home and at work. I've been completely unable 
to send email to a few mailing lists for some reason, and have narrowed 
it down to Exim complaining about retry timeouts connecting to their 
mail servers. When I switched to using my ISP's smart relay, everything 
started working properly.

My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP 
server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change 
settings when I go from one place to the other?
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Perl problem: Where to find some help?

2002-12-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I'm having a problem with a Perl script and am a bit at a loss as to 
resources to ask questions. It's a simple problem with the Expect.pm 
module running under Apache. Any resources or hackers who want to help 
off-list?

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Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.12.09 12:12 Simon Tod wrote:


Bit of a simple newbie question I fear..

I've got Woody up and running on my laptop but must have missed
something during installation as I don't have APM enabled in the
kernel; I tried to get a GNOME battery monitor applet running without
success, and the machine just hangs at 'Power Down' after I've
shutdown. How do I reconfigure the kernel to fix this?

Thanks in advance...


You need to load the APM module. Add the line:

apm

to your /etc/modules file. Or, if your laptop has ACPI, enable those 
modules instead. Also, to avoid rebooting, you can also load APM 
immediately as root with the command:

modprobe apm

HTH. :)

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Re: where is my java?

2002-12-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.12.03 15:30 Rick Pasotto wrote:

I can compile and run java programs from the command line (java and
javac are both in /usr/bin) in addition to running applets in mozilla
but when I tried to install openoffice.org it said there was no java
environment.

Sometime in the past I must have installed java somehow. Where should
I
look for my java environment? Is there a debian package that will
install it where openoffice.org can find it? Where should it be?

(Running debian testing.)


Hey, dude! Check in your /usr/lib/j2se directory (if you have it). Did 
you install the Blackdown JDK or are you running one of the other Javas?

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Automating rtin logging into news server

2002-11-26 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
Is there a way to automate the login process for rtin? I'm using an 
NNTP server that requires authentication and would like rtin to just 
log me in rather than prompting me for my password each time it 
(re)connects.

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Re: Window Maker Configuration

2002-11-26 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.26 12:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

it's strange, when I install a new application, it's not updated
automatically in Window Maker (such as abiword, ...). A friend of mine
told me it should be automatic. Is it true? Do you know where the
problem lies?


apt-get install menu

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Re: (fwd) unsubscribe

2002-11-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.23 16:30 Pigeon wrote:

 Is he silly?

Another jackass ... is it against the law to hit stupid people?

Oliver

See Romans 12:19



Then try Isaiah 45:7 and Psalm 137:9.

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Re: (fwd) unsubscribe

2002-11-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.23 18:28 Eric G. Miller wrote:

  Is he silly?
 
 Another jackass ... is it against the law to hit stupid people?
 
 Oliver
 
 See Romans 12:19


 Then try Isaiah 45:7 and Psalm 137:9.

Forgive them first ... and then kill them
   -- Dobbs, 1954, radio broadcast on capital punishment,
  WFMU, East Orange, New Jersey


The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
[Henry VI, Part 2]

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Re: Redoing the rescue floppy...

2002-11-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.17 18:29 Vineet Kumar wrote:

* Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 15:16]:
 I want to upgrade my boot floppy to support 2.4.19 kernel and Ext3.
Can
 someone point me to a HOWTO for doing so?

I think mkboot will do exactly what you're looking for.  Try the
manpage
first, make a boot disk, and test it to see if it's all you need.  I
don't know of a good resource on boot/rescue disk creation offhand.


By default, what's format does Debian use when creating a rescue disk? 
I can't mount my boot floppy in order to run mkboot. :(

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Redoing the rescue floppy...

2002-11-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I want to upgrade my boot floppy to support 2.4.19 kernel and Ext3. Can 
someone point me to a HOWTO for doing so?

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dotfile-procmail failing

2002-11-05 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I'm running sarge and am trying to use dotfile procmail to setup 
procmail for my account. The problem is that the system fails with a 
long error, ending with:

(file /usr/share/dotfile/Generator/dotfile.tcl line 188)

Is this a bug in the code or a problem with my usage?

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No longer able to use eth0 with 2.4.19

2002-11-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.19-3-686 on my laptop (Gateway Solo 9300) 
over the weekend. I've been running this kernel previously without 
problem, but did a fresh install when I got a new hard drive for the 
laptop. The kernel was working fine with my D-Link DWL-650 802.11b card 
at home. But, when I got to work today and booted up with my D-Link 
DFE-660 wired card, the system kept complaining about no device found: 
eth0. However, if I reboot and use the standard 2.2 kernel that 
installs with potato (I leave it on the system for emergencies) 
everything comes up fine and I'm able to access the network (like now 
with this email).

Any ideas on the problem?

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Re: No longer able to use eth0 with 2.4.19

2002-11-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.04 10:17 Johann Spies wrote:

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:52:00AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
 I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.19-3-686 on my laptop (Gateway Solo
9300)
 over the weekend.

Upgraded as in apt-get install ... or did you recompile it?


apt-get install 
If you did an apt-get install, try inserting the correct module using
modprobe or insmod or modconf (which will update your
/etc/modules.conf).

If you recompiled the kernel, check your kernel configuration whether
you have selected the correct module there.


Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I've never in the 
past had to modify /etc/modules.conf. Instead, I've used modconf to 
ensure that yenta_socket was loaded and have been able to just install 
the kernel image, update grub and go from there without a problem. The 
only thing I've ever had to manually do was modify 
/etc/network/interfaces to have iface eth0 inet dhcp and have changed 
/etc/pcmcia/config-2.4 to change all references (in the past) for 
orinoco to wvlan (this isn't necessary anymore) to work with my 
wireless card. But, for this wired card, I've never had to do anything 
to get it to work. As a matter of fact, the installation on my old hard 
drive is practically identical to this installation and has worked 
without any manual changes. I didn't do anything differently this time, 
but just can't seem to get it to work. :(

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Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.04 16:57 Levi Waldron wrote:

Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so
that it
can only be viewed if you know the password?  I want to securely store
my
online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always
forgetting.


You can use GnuPG to encrypt the file.

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Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce

On 2002.10.09 21:28 Shyamal Prasad wrote:
 You certainly should not have to. Look in the
 /boot/config-2.4.19{-arch} file. There is a section that looks like
 this (form 2.4.18-k7)
 
 #
 # Networking options
 #
 CONFIG_PACKET=m
 CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
 CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
 CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
 # CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_FILTER=y

These values are all set in the config file installed with the 
kernel-image package.

 In this case the CONFIG_PACKET option indicates a module. Make sure
 you have 'af_packet' listed in /etc/modules to get it loaded at boot.

I rebooted and did an lsmod and saw af_packet was installed. I typed 
ifconfig and it only listed the loopback interface. I did ifup eth0 
and it said the connection was already configured. So, I finally did 
ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0 and the connection came up! 
Rebooting, I had to go through the same steps to get the interface 
online. Any ideas on that?

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Cannot use PCMCIA NIC with 2.4.18

2002-10-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce

I've had on again/off again problems with my laptop and the 2.4.1[8,9] 
kernel. I boot my laptop with the card (both a D-Link 660 and a 3Com 
EtherLink III) inserted and the system sometimes comes up and sometimes 
doesn't (I'm using DHCP). But, if I reboot my system and load the 
2.2.19 kernel, the network comes up immediately, no problem.

Any ideas? This same system works beautifully at home where I use a 
D-Link DWL-650 wireless card. It comes up at home no problem.

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Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce


On 2002.10.09 12:54 Marcelo Ramos wrote:
 El(On) Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:59:35 -0400
 Darryl L. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió(wrote):
 
  I've had on again/off again problems with my laptop and the
 2.4.1[8,9]
  kernel. I boot my laptop with the card (both a D-Link 660 and a 3Com
 
  EtherLink III) inserted and the system sometimes comes up and
 sometimes
  doesn't (I'm using DHCP). But, if I reboot my system and load the
  2.2.19 kernel, the network comes up immediately, no problem.
 
  Any ideas? This same system works beautifully at home where I use a
  D-Link DWL-650 wireless card. It comes up at home no problem.
 
 Have your 2.4.X kernels got the CONFIG_PACKET (Packet socket) and
 CONFIG_FILTER
 (Socket Filtering) enabled ?
 
 The dhcpd README stats that those options are necessary.

I'm not running a DHCP server. I'm using pump to configure my NIC via 
DHCP. And, this problem *never* existed before I installed the 2.4.19 
kernel.

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Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce

On 2002.10.09 16:33 Jeff wrote:
  You still need CONFIG_FILTER for the socket support, and
  CONFIG_PACKET, for the client to work.
 
 Darryl,
 
 I'm replying to this message since I inadvertantly deleted your
 response asking where to set these config attributes.
 
 I don't recall for sure that you self-compiled the 2.4.19 kernel, so
 I'll assume so.  Using make menuconfig|xconfig, these attributes are
 under Networking options, and then Packet socket and Socket
 Filtering.  If you simply modify /usr/src/linux/.config then change
 CONFIG_PACKET=m/y and CONFIG_SOCKET=m/y.  I prefer to put them into
 the kernel, answering y to each.

AH! I'm not building my own kernel, instead using the kernel-image 
package and the associated PCMCIA package. I'm hoping not to have to 
build a kernel if I can help it. ;)

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Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce

I've had on again/off again problems with my laptop and the 2.4.1[8,9] 
kernel. I boot my laptop with the card (both a D-Link 660 and a 3Com 
EtherLink III) inserted and the system sometimes comes up and sometimes 
doesn't (I'm using DHCP). But, if I reboot my system and load the 
2.2.19 kernel, the network comes up immediately, no problem.

Any ideas? This same system works beautifully at home where I use a 
D-Link DWL-650 wireless card. It comes up at home no problem.

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Re: Off topic - XML Book?

2002-04-05 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
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On Friday 05 April 2002 06:51, infotechsys wrote:
 Hi,
 Can anyone recommend a good book to learn XML?
 I would like it to be neutral of any language.

_Mastering XML_ by Chuck White, Liam Quin  Linda Burman
ISBN 0-7821-2847-5

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Re: 802.11b

2002-04-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
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On Tuesday 02 April 2002 15:35, Jason Majors wrote:
 I'm thinking of getting an 802.11b network, so I can carry my debian based
 notebook around the house without running cables everywhere.
 I'll be getting a PCMCIA network card, and a receiver that I can plug into
 my existing 10/100 switch.
 Any suggestions on brand/model? And what does or doesn't work with debian?

I have the D-Link DWL-650 card and D-Link WAP (forgot the model number) and 
all works wonderfully. I also have a D-Link DWL-500 in my kids' computer and 
we all share the bandwidth without a hitch.

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Re: vmware and kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
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 On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 08:19, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
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  Hi!
  does vmware run in woody with kernel 2.4.18?
  TIA

 VMware 3.0 does.

2.x does as well. You just have to manually fix some of the header files for 
the modules in VMware.

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Re: vmware and kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
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On Friday 29 March 2002 07:55, Karsten Heymann wrote:
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  On Wednesday 27 March 2002 22:02, Greg C. Madden wrote:
   On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 08:19, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
does vmware run in woody with kernel 2.4.18?
TIA
  
   VMware 3.0 does.
 
  2.x does as well. You just have to manually fix some of the header files
  for the modules in VMware.

 Where do I find instructions for that? I serched but wasn't successfull.

Go to http://www.alsutton.com/vmware_install.html for instructions on 
setting up VMWare 2.x with kernel 2.4.8 or greater.

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Unable to use kpilot

2002-03-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I tried this morning to sync my Palm Pilot (which I hard reset and plan
to use with Linux) using kpilot on my KDE desktop. However, whenever I
run hot sync, the palm waits and waits and then says it lost the
connection with the desktop.

But, when I do the same using gnome-pilot, the sync works without a
problem.

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Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:07:45PM -0500, Jonathan Tabaco wrote:
 Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried
 multiple times to get removed from the mailing list.
 
 I even sent in the confirm CONFIRM u03180819391769 
 
 PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as your automated system doesn't work.
 
 I will unfortunately have to resort to spamming the Debian-user
 mailing list until I am off the list, as all the e-mails I am STILL
 receiving are now spam to me.
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

When you followed the above instructions, did it not give you a URL to
visit in order to confirm your removal from the list? Also, have you
tried contacting the admin address listed above
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doubtless not resolve your problem.

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xscreensaver not working in KDE

2002-03-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I have XScreensaver setup as my screensaver for KDE and Gnome. On Gnome,
it works fine. But, on KDE, it works infrequently on my desktop machine
and never works on my laptop (which gets connected to two separate
networks throughout the day).

Any ideas?

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Re: Linux on Palm m125

2002-03-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote:
  Hello,
  
  Is somebody has installed linux instead of palm OS on 
  a palm m125 ?
 Not very usefull - a Plam has not the Hardware to run Linux.
 There was a commercial port, AFAIK you can download a demo version.
 RTFG (Read The Fine Google)

If you're referring to Linux DA, save your money. It's not very useful
and doesn't feel like Linux at all, even though it's based on a 2.2
kernel (or is it 2.0?). I had it on my Palm IIIx for a few days and
finally dumped it and got my money back. I had thought I could have some
common code between the Palm and my laptop, but the LinuxDA API is more
like the standard PalmOS API; i.e., nothing portable.

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Re: MUTT Issue

2002-03-12 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote:
 To all:
 
 I recently installed Mutt.  I am using imap to connect to the exchange
 system in the network.  Everything is working fine except in order to see
 new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the
 application over again.  I keep getting this message that says.
 Mailbox was externally modified.  Flags may be wrong.
 
 Other than that, the app is working great.  Is there anyone who is familiar
 with this type of situation?

Try typing $ while in Mutt. That tells it to refresh its display.

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VMware not compiling under woody...

2002-02-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I recently decided to re-install VMware 2.x on my debian machine at
work. When I try to install, I get the complaints about linux/malloc.h
being deprecated and to use linux/slab.h instead. But, I don't want to
much around with VMware's headers.

Is there a package I need to install to have backwards compatibility so
I can install and run VMware? It's pretty important for me to be able to
use VMware.

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Re: VMware not compiling under woody...

2002-02-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:20:13AM -0800, nate wrote:
 quote who=Darryl L. Pierce
 
  Is there a package I need to install to have backwards
  compatibility so I can install and run VMware? It's pretty
  important for me to be able to use VMware.
 
 what kernel are you using? if its a bleeding
 edge kernel you may have to either downgrade the
 kernel or upgrade to vmware 3.0(i wouldnt even
 try vmware with kernel 2.5.x).

2.4.16. I don't really want to downgrade, but for the machine it's more
important to have windows blearg available than to have a more recent
kernel.

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Re: searching for an ICQ application

2002-02-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:40:45PM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
 Hi!
 
 OK, I know this has already been discussed before, but I've tried
 several ICQ apps, also the ones recommended in the discussions before
 and I'm just not getting any usable solution. So, does anyone know an
 ICQ application which can connect to newer ICQ versions like 2001b
 without being rejected and is quite nice and doens't need gnome (I'm
 using kde at the moment)? The problem with all new licq versions I've
 tried etc. is that I cannot send any messages (connnection is
 rejected by peer or the msgs simply don't arrive); is this normal or
 perhaps related to a bad configuration of my networking?

I'm using LICQ without a problem. I send messages to my wife and to a
buddy in the UK all of the time and they're always accepted. 

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AWE64 with kernel-2.2.20

2002-02-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
Out of necessity I downgraded my kernel from 2.4.16 to 2.2.20, and have
now lost my sound card. Can anybody give me the quick, easy way to get
2.2.20 working with an AWE64 sound card?
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Re: What are you?

2002-02-21 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:02:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I think this is a kind of spam..

I agree. If she's not computer savvy then why would she be on the
debian-user mailing list, or doing websites, right? =)

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Port replicators...

2002-02-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a
point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with
my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I
tell linux to use the two slots that are in the replicator as well as
those in my laptop?

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Re: Port replicators...

2002-02-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:31:00AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote:
 Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
 
 I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a
 point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with
 my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I
 tell linux to use the two slots that are in the replicator as well as
 those in my laptop?
 
 I cannot answer your question directly, but I suggest it is a hardware 
 issue specific to the Gateway port replicator.  I use an HP Omnibook 
 4150 with a docking station/replicator and I have never had a problem 
 using the PCMCIA slots in the replicator.  I simply plug the laptop in 
 and the cards in the replicator are automatically recognized. Nothing 
 was configed, etc. to do this. I believe it sees the slots in the 
 replicator as opposed to those in the laptop when plugged in.  From your 
 message it seems the Gateway replicator slots are additional slots and 
 the ones in the laptop remain active?  

Correct. When I dock my laptop, the slots on the laptop itself are the
only ones visible. When I do cardctl status I only see two slots
listed.

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Re: Port replicators...

2002-02-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:20:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
 
 On 20-Feb-2002 Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
  I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a
  point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with
  my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I
  tell linux to use the two slots that are in the replicator as well as
  those in my laptop?
  
 
 as root run 'lspci'.  If you do not have it the program is in pciutils.  You
 should see the pcmcia controller in your laptop and then another controller. 
 With this information should be the io address.  You should be able to pass
 this to the pcmcia programs and get it to recognize the second controller. 
 Hope this helps.

It's complaining:

pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/0b/00.0
lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space.

I check the /proc/bus/pci directory, and there I find:

mobilemcp:~# ls -l /proc/bus/pci
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Feb 20 11:28 00
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Feb 20 11:28 01
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Feb 20 11:28 02
-r--r--r--1 root root0 Feb 20 11:28 devices

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Re: Blank Messages To Mailing List With Attachments Containing Message

2002-02-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:27:08PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
 Hi
 I have noticed that a number of people who post to this list post blank 
 messages, with the actual message attached. Why is this?

That's not actually the case. The problem is that you're using Outlook
Express, which does not handle messages signed with GnuPG/PGP
signatures. OE is mistakenly think them to be attachments. I'm sending
this one without my standard signature so you'll see it.

Your best bet is to dump OE and go with either Eurdora (if you must do
email on Windows) or go with a linux solution like Mutt.

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Re: duplicates [was Re: UNSUBSCRIBE]

2002-02-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
 That switch had the side effect that in the index, instead of the name of the 
 author, mutt displayed To|Cc debian[-user]. You can get around that feature 
 by setting $index_format like this in .mutt/muttrc.
 
 set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s

Just a question, but why wouldn't you just use /g/ to reply to a message
from a mailing list? I use that to reply to all of the lists that I'm on
and it works fine. Like, for example, this message.

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Unable to use X from remote host...

2001-10-16 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via xhost + 
before
I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that machine's display via 
DISPLAY
variable back to my desktop and try to run an X application. But, the remote 
machines says that it can _not_ connect to my desktop's X server.

Has something changed in X, or can someone point me to a configuration change 
that
will fix this problem?

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Re: If you have trouble with the new xfree86 in woody...

2001-10-15 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:15:07PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote:
 ...and you cannot log in then comment out the use-ssh-agent in
 /etc/X11/Xsession.options 
 This solved the problem for me.

What I found is that the X installed a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 that
was not created by my machine, or at least that didn't work for my machine.
I deleted it (my original XF86Config was still there) and restarted X. All
was fine.

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Getting KDE2 into GDM

2001-10-15 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I removed and then reinstalled GDM on my laptop. Now, though,
it no longer lists anything other than wmaker, afterstep, failsafe
and default as login options. How do I get gnome and KDE back 
into the menu?

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Shutdown not working

2001-10-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
When I try to halt or reboot my Debian desktop (running woody), the system gets
to Deconfiguring network interfaces: and then just seems to stop. It's not
hung, because I can ALT+Fx to different terminals, and I can also ping the 
machine from other hosts. But, for whatever reason, the system does not seem to
be shutting down. I did finally let it sit for a few minutes and it eventually
rebooted, but why is it taking so long to do that? What processes are going on
and how can I speed things up?

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Compiling 2.4.9 with PCMCIA support

2001-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I've compiled my 2.4.9 kernel to support PCMCIA and it works for one of my
PCMCIA network cards (3COM 575), but not for my other (DFE-660). When I try
the other card, it beeps but never goes online. Everything else works fine, 
though.

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XFS-XTT won't (un)install

2001-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I've hit some weird nexus of realities here. I am unable to complete an 
installation of
XFS-XTT. But, whenever I try to do anything else from dselect it tries to 
finish installing
XFS-XTT. So, I selected to uninstall it since it's marked for installation, and 
it complains
that it can't UNinstall it either, that it's in a weird state and that I need 
to try installing
it again before uninstalling it. How do I get past this?

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Re: KDE

2001-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:56:25PM -0500, Mike Grover wrote:
 I was just wonderinfg if there is .deb packages for the KDE desktop?
 If so, where can I find them?

There is if you're running woody. I  just installed it tonite.

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Building 2.4.9 kernel for a laptop

2001-10-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I'm trying to build the 2.4.9 kernel for my laptop. Everything works except for 
the 
PCMCIA system. When I insert the card, /var/log/message outputs that it's 
noticed
the new hardware, but it doesn't identify the card (3COM 575BT) and there's no 
mention of eth0 in when I list interfaces with ifconfig.

Any help on building the kernel? My laptop is a Gateway Solo 9300cs with a 
Celeron
433mHz.

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Using AWE64 on kernel 2.4.9

2001-09-13 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
Can someone give me a hint or hand on building the 2.4.9 kernel to support the 
AWE64 sound system?
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Accented characters

2001-09-13 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
How do I go about enabling accented characters in a terminal window? I'm a 
member of an
Irish speaking mailing list and all emails come in with accented characters. 
However,
when I read them via Mutt I only see ? where an accented character is in the 
messages.
I though 8859-1 could handle extended characters...

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Re: Characters shown as ? in mutt

2001-07-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:45:34PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote:
 | Hi J?rgen,
 | I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as
 | J?rgen. The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where
 | it is shown as =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=.
 
 I don't know where to set the charset for mutt's internal pager or for
 emacs because I use less as the pager and vim as the editor.  To
 correct the display of upper-ASCII characters in less (and get rid of
 the binary file warning) I added
 export LESSCHARSET=iso8859
 to my .bashrc.  It wasn't a problem with vim's defaults.

How about when telnet/ssh'ing into a machine? I sometimes read the email on my
laptop from my desktop machine at work, and most extended characters show up as
/?/ as well. 

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2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I sent an email out yesterday about setting up 2 monitors on my
Matrox Millennium G400 card. The response I received seems to 
assume that I'm running X 4.x. I'm not, I'm using Potato and don't
want to dabble with woody if I don't have to. Can someone give me
a lead or hint on what I need to do with a X 3.3.6 system to setup
dual monitor support?

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Re: 2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
 I'm not sure if both heads of a Matrox G400 are supported in 3.3.x. If
 you have multiple video cards, it's theoretically possible to start each
 card up in a different display, and then switch between the two using
 ctrl+alt+F7 or F8, but I'm not sure of the specifics of setting this up.
 With X4, it's fairly straightforward, with Xinerama allowing one monitor
 to be on one portion of the display, and the other monitor to be right
 next to it, allowing you to just drag the mouse from one monitor to the
 other as if it were one big monitor.

I'm in the process now of downloading XFree86 4.1.0 to install on my 
(freshly installed) potato system. Any suggestions or hints for me while
installing/configuring?

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Two monitors on one machine...

2001-07-16 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
How do I setup X to use two monitors on one machine? The system has a Matrox
Millenium G400 32MB video card with two video ports on it.

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Re: [OT] Attn: HP Pavilion 9680C (US) owners

2001-07-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:19:26PM -0400, User zos wrote:
 I had the same problem with getting drivers for an HP printer once. I find
 it totally absurd that you pay to buy a printer (or a computer) from a
 company and when you lose the driver disk you have to literally BUY
 another one from them. How is this even legal? By owning the printer you
 automatically should own a driver set and if you lose that, the company
 should make one easily available to you. Boy, I remember the day when you
 could just download pretty much any driver you need from the internet. Not
 on HPs site.
 
 What's funny is now microsoft is going to try to charge people to *rent*
 their software. Does this mean that one day you will *rent* the drivers
 from HP for a few months or so and then have to rent them again if you
 need to reinstall? Can't we do something about this? I mean really, can't
 you all see that most of the computer idustry is a big scam? I'm sure you
 can.

I thought we _were_ doing something about it by maintaining an alternative to
the Microsoft monopoly. You may not be able to change how the other companies
handle their customer service except to take your business elsewhere.

My wife has an HP desktop. It's the worst machine we've ever owned. My answer
is to never buy another machine from them, and to also not recommend them to
anybody who might ask my opinion. The same with Gateway. My laptop is a Solo
9300cs. It's wonderful (except for the fecking WinModem) but Gateway has the
worst customer support imaginable. My answer is to never buy from them again,
either...

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Re: [OT] Attn: HP Pavilion 9680C (US) owners

2001-07-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:30:59PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
 also sprach User zos (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:19:26PM -0400):
  I had the same problem with getting drivers for an HP printer once. I find
  it totally absurd that you pay to buy a printer (or a computer) from a
  company and when you lose the driver disk you have to literally BUY
  another one from them. How is this even legal? By owning the printer you
  automatically should own a driver set and if you lose that, the company
  should make one easily available to you. Boy, I remember the day when you
  could just download pretty much any driver you need from the internet. Not
  on HPs site.
 
 i would understand that a driver that was developed *after* i bought
 the product could be sold, but i should always have the option to
 download drivers for products that i own - drivers that were current
 when i bought it.

A few years ago I bought an HP T1000e tape drive. It came with drivers for Win95
that didn't work. HP put out an upgrade for free. When 98 came out, they yanked 
their 95 software _but_ left their (format-incompatible) DOS software online. I
couldn't get my data off of the tapes, and HP wanted me to pay $30US to buy
their software CD with _all_ versions on it.

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Re: Maestro sound

2001-07-01 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:51:49AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
 
 Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
  
  I have ESS Maestro 2E sound hardward on my laptop. When I built my kernel 
  (2
 .2.19) I made
  sure to enable it and have verified in /var/log/dmesg that the module(s) 
  get
 s loaded.
  However, when I try to run a sample sound application (in this case, a JMF 
  a
 pplet using
  Java 1.3) the code throws exceptions about being unable to find any MIDI 
  or 
 line hardware.
  How else can I verify that my sound equipment is properly working?
 
 `find / -name *.au -print; cat $file /dev/dsp` (I might be wrong 
  about the {}-part, check man find yourself).
 
 Also make sure that you´re not running esd when trying.

Beautiful! I've now verified that I _do_ have sound hardware working. Now to 
enable
sounds in AfterStep and I'm okay. =)

BTW, anybody know any voodoo for AfterStep and sound events?

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Maestro sound

2001-06-30 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I have ESS Maestro 2E sound hardward on my laptop. When I built my kernel 
(2.2.19) I made
sure to enable it and have verified in /var/log/dmesg that the module(s) gets 
loaded.
However, when I try to run a sample sound application (in this case, a JMF 
applet using
Java 1.3) the code throws exceptions about being unable to find any MIDI or 
line hardware.
How else can I verify that my sound equipment is properly working?

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Re: NIS under potato/glibc_2.2

2001-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:22:51AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote:
 I'm running stable on my laptop using NIS to log into a Red Hat 7.1
 server.  The first thing I'd try is upgrading to 2.2-r3.  As root enter
 the commands:
 
   #apt-get update
   #apt-get dist-upgrade

I did this. Apparently, my system is at the latest level. Nothing was retrieved
nor installed.

 I bet that does the trick.  Alternatively you could download the .deb
 for libc6 and use dpkg to install it.  I'd stay away from doing this
 though because you could break your system.

Yeah, I'm leary of installing a package in that manner, if at all possible.

 just for completeness here's the info on the libc6 that I'm running:
snip output

I checked it against what I get, and it matches mine completely. Your network is
running NIS for domain authentication?

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NIS under potato/glibc_2.2

2001-06-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I have installed Debian 2.2-r2 on my workstation at the office. I also installed
the NIS package, since our network uses NIS and I want to share the resources on
my machine with my co-workers.

The problem that I'm hitting is that, when I try to log into the machine as any 
  
user other than root, the machine complains about not having GLIBC_2.2, and the
login fails. root has no problems, though.

It's my understanding that 2.2-r2 is GLIBC_2.1, not 2.2. How do I fix this? Any
help is appreciated.

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