PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at ...
Suddenly I am not able to get network access through my ethernet card and this error ( PCI BIOS has not enabled ... ) in dmesg seems to point to the problem as it comes just prior to the ethernet card being identified. --\-- ... PPP line discipline registered. The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/48! Updating PCI command 0013-0017. tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0xfc00, 00:00)4C:ED:C0:DE, IRQ 10 eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. eth0: Index #0 - Media 10BaseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. eth0: Index #1 - Media 10BaseT-FD (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. eth0: Index #2 - Media 100BaseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block. eth0: Index #3 - Media 100BaseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21142 SYM PHY (4) block. ... --\-- Does anybody know what this might mean ? I have been playing with bits and pieces so I may have changed something I was not supposed to, ie. the ethernet card was working before. I am using the new tulip driver not the one packed with the Debian - running potato with 2.2.12 on an NEC Versa Note Thanks, J.
The clever people get a red smartie
Hey xdm expert, why does xdm not work with authorisation true? I have had this problem since a recent upgrade of xdm, namely xrdb and xmodmap cannot get authorisation to run, xdm never reads Xresources, Xsetup, etc. and so I never get my old login window and neither can I login to my X session (it momentarily hangs with blank screen after I enter my password and then returns to a refreshed login window). If in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, I set DisplayManager._0.authorize:false rather than true, then no problem. However, this was not the case before the xdm upgrade, and it seems like an arbitrary hack that only solves the symptom (or is that the true definition of a hack?) Jord P.S. For those who live where it gets cold in the north, a smartie is the Australian equivalent to an mm.
xdm headache
Running potato with kernel 2.2.12 on a NEC Versa note with neomagic video card. After moving from slink to potato about 6 months ago, I installed the new kernel from source rather than dpkg. Since then I haven't upgraded anything (finishing Ph.D.). The other day I decided to do a dist-upgrade, a few glitches but on the whole apparently successful. However, when booting the next day rather than getting the usual XDM login screen with my hostname at the top it says X Windows. Undaunted I logged in, got a momentary hang, and then returned to the login screen. I can only get X working by killing it and then startx manually. This is .xsession-errors for root --\-- Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xmodmap: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Afterstep: Can't open display ':0' --\-- I have posted this before but not joy. Turns out some guy had/has the same problem on linux.debian.user. I notice that I am now running frozen rather than potato - is there some inconsistency there? Jord
dist-upgrade killed X and pcmcia-cs
Hi all, Running potato with kernel 2.2.12 on a NEC Versa note with neomagic video card. After moving from slink to potato about 6 months ago, I installed the new kernel and pcmcia-cs from source rather than dpkg. Since then I haven't upgraded anything (finishing Ph.D.). The other day I decided to do a dist-upgrade, a few glitches but on the whole apparently successful. However, when booting the next day rather than getting the usual XDM login screen with my hostname at the top it says X Windows. Undaunted I logged in, got a momentary hang, like what you get when you exit out your window manager and before it returns to the login screen, and then returned to the login screen. I can only get X working by killing it and then startx manually. I remember some discussion about this a while ago, ie. using X with xdm or startx, but don't know if this is the same thing. Second, during startup I now find that whole lot of pcmcia-cs modules are unresolved symbols and no beeps to tell me my modem has been initialised, and no modem period. I have not be playing with linux while finishing my studies so am a bit out of it. Could anybody tell me what has gone wrong. I'd just like to reinstall but that would be cheating, hey? Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480 -=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=-
Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates
Howard I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/ upgrades is simpler and Howard more reliable. As one who only recently came from RH 5.2 to Debian slink-potato, the problems you mentioned don't happen with apt-get. The install process is relatively similar. I installed the base and then installed individual packages as needed. As a result, I probably haven't pushed the envelope but AFAICS apt-get beats rpm, hands down. Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Re: /dev/audio
Mary Sorry, I should have said that I tried 'fuser' and got no output. Mary Something must be runnning, since I'm getting an error msg, however, I Mary can't figure out what. I had this problem with an ESS PnP card, ie. no apparent reason for unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy. I solved it using isapnptools and information on devices from windows. This may be a solution to your problem. Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Re: Netscape installation...
aphro == aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games/q3test] dpkg -S libXt.so.6 xlib6g: aphro /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 aphro xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 xlib6: aphro /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0 aphro looks like u need the xlib6 and/or xlib6g packages installed to get aphro libXt.so.6 Correct first time. I read that somebody set the symlink on libXt.so.6 to old libc5 library to get Netscape to work, so this makes sense - to me! BTW I also had to install libc5 compatible libraries for xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6 and libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4. Thanks! Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Re: Netscape installation...
Jean-Yves On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 12:33:59PM -0700, aphro wrote: i always grab the original netscape from ftp2.netscape.com and use netscape's installer (untar the file, cd to the dir and run ./ns-install) then run /usr/local/netscape/netscape (or make a link to it in your $PATH) but thats me :) nate Jean-Yves I did like like you, and I didn't encountered the various problems Jean-Yves people are talking about. Actual version is 4.71, and its working Jean-Yves pretty well (much more than 4.5 :) Jean-Yves JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simulations are Jean-Yves like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials. -- Jean-Yves Hubert Kirrman I did like you and Nate but I DID get the problems, ie. error: cannot load libXt.so.6. Is there something that's missing (not installed) at the Debian end of things? -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Install headache - no network
I am trying to install slink from my DOS partition on an NEC Versa note (inbuilt ethernet device based on the dc21143). When it comes to dselect, I cannot download packages as I install, as my ethernet card is not supported by the drivers in the current drv1440.bin. The alternative is to download all the packages I need for a workstation profile in windows (serious headache) go back into debian, use whatever (apt I think). What would be great if there is a tarball of all the packages relating to the workstation profile that I can download once onto DOS and install from the hard disk. Alternatively, is there some way of installing slink with the new tulip.c drivers so that I can set up my ethernet card at the start. Thanks! Jord -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Re: Install with floppies and NFS
Seth Are you using rawrite or dd, or just a straight copy? A straight copy Seth will never work, but a rawrite (from dos) or dd (under a unix) will do Seth the job nicely. :) Sorry! Read the #$%! manual, right? :) -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Install with floppies and NFS
OK. I have finally got the laptop and the time. I went to ftp.debian.org to get resc1440.bin, plus associated others, and tried to cp it to floppy BUT ... Have floppies shrunk since this stuff was put onto the site? My floppy in 1.457 Kb but resc1440.bin is 1.475 Kb. How's a guy supposed to do a virgin install with this dilemma. Help please. -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
Re: txt 2 ps?
erasmo hello everybody which package can i use in order to convert a text erasmo file (as created by emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould erasmo have control over factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, erasmo identation, justification, etc. The long way is: Latex and dvips :) --
Converting from Redhat to Debian
I am currently running Redhat and have decided to try Debian instead. I wish to install from the hard drive from an existing linux partition and have read the instructions for doing this from http://www.us.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install but am confuse by one aspect. The instructions state that, Note that the partition you are installing from should not be the same as the partitions you are installing Debian to (e.g., /, /usr, /lib, and all that). This is all well and good but how are you able to use that partition as part of the Debian installation. At a guess I would say that Debian only requires certain partitions for its base install and then leaves me to add to the rest including the partition from which I installed. If so, what partition(s) does the base install require? This question appearred in this list in 1997 but the archives seem to have been truncated at 1998. Jord -- Jordan HowarthCSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
