Re: why do the developers keep changing mail / mailx?
On 07/12/2017 12:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I just spent about an hour with Google trying to fix a bash script that worked last year. The problem was that it stopped sending attachments. In the course of my research I found that mail / mailx over the years has used a variety of flags for attachments but now seems to have dropped the capability entirely. At one point -a would attach a file. At another, mailx adopted -A to do it. Lately neither program seems to support attachments. Fortunately I eventually found s-nail which seems to be a drop-in replacement for the older mail / mailx programs. However I remain puzzled by the loss of support for attachments. Even all the web pages describing different options for adding attachments have got good examples of why it is needed. Why did the mail / mailx developers drop support for attachments? The "mailutils" package provides "mail" with the -A, --attach=FILE option.
Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
On 06/25/2017 05:19 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and HEDT), their related server processors (such as Xeon v5 and Xeon v6), as well as select Intel Pentium processor models. TL;DR: unfixed Skylake and Kaby Lake processors could, in some situations, dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled. Disable hyper-threading immediately in BIOS/UEFI to work around the problem. Read this advisory for instructions about an Intel-provided fix. Hyper-threading was enabled in the BIOS and the Skylake processor looks good. lscpu: Thread(s) per core:2 Model: 94 Stepping: 3 But both of the "intel-microcode" and "amd64-microcode" packages were installed, so I removed amd64-microcode. apt-cache depends amd64-microcode: amd64-microcode Breaks: intel-microcode Thanks!
Re: debian disk is dying
In article alpine.bsf.2.00.0910172230400.45...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg you wrote: The hardware needs to be returned to the factory for a warranty-covered replacement. I have an esata docking station and an esata hard drive I can put this system on though. I'm using the command line and figure I'll probably end up using cpio to do the backup. What maybe could be a problem with cpio are the /dev /proc /pts and another directory tree that needs all of its directories to copy over empty so when the system starts up for the first time on the usb interface it will create its own files inside those directory trees. I don't know how to get cpio to create those directories or directory trees but not copy existing files off the dying disk into those directories. I did download dar and could use it but would prefer to just have a complete mirrored backup I can run once the dying disk is removed. If it helps any, this is an AMD processor equipped machine. I read about the need for the directory trees being created empty in the dar tutorial. I saw this command on the Debian list about 10 years ago and have been using ever since: cd / find . -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Can you open any browser and type in the address bar 192.168.1.1 and click go. This should bring you to the connection summary page of the Westell modem. I have already tried 3 different browsers and none of them will load the summary page. I finally got summary page to load and was able to change the username and password. I still don't have access to the Internet, but I think it's because I was never able to complete the modem setup on the Verizon site. I still can't do it because IE running under Wine won't download ActiveX. So I'll just have to tell the Verizon techs that I can't complete the installation process. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I looked at your resolv.conf in your earlier post and I don't see a problem. What problem do you see? I tried accessing 'myhome.westell.com' over dial-up and it said Server not found, and I didn't think 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' was correct because it's the address to configure the modem. However it must be right because everything is working now. What happened is I called Verizon tech support and told them that I entered my user name and password on the modem configuration page, but I still couldn't access the Internet. The tech said I had no password on the Verizon side. This is probably because I wasn't using IE during the initial setup. A day or two later I asked one of the techs to setup the password, but I guess she didn't do it right. Then the tech clicked on the disable button and I instantly had access to the net. She said that if I ever reset the modem I could do this myself by entering http://192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.htm; and then click on the disable button. Later I tried the address and the button said enable. The reason I couldn't access 192.168.1.1 in the first place was because when I tried to use pppoeconf I made a mistake when I changed an Ethernet setting in the bios, which later caused a problem for the DHCP client. At the time the change seemed to have no effect. So I want to thank everyone that tried to help me! All of the information you provided was good. By the way, I found the following site that gives some good information about the Westell 6100 modem: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/bellsouth/3.14_Westell_2100_2200_6100_Info Thanks again! Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Larry writes: What I'm thinking is maybe Verizon gives people different modems. My modem says it's a DSL2+Router, so maybe it would work if it was just a DSL2 modem without the Router? Pppoeconfig will work if the modem is configured for bridge mode (like mine) but not if it is configured as a router (like yours). I suggest that you follow Mike Bird's advice below. You are making it more complex than it is. Going by the replies I've received, if I use DHCP I will have to use IE to set the username and password in the modem (the IE I have running under Wine can't access the modem). I think this is probably true, because I don't see a way to enter the username and password in dhclient.conf. Should the username be entered in the modem as just 'user' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'? I'll try to setup DHCP without a password and see if it works, but it will take awhile to figure this out. I do know someone that uses Windows and they live close enough that I might be able to use their computer to set the modem. The techs at Verizon say I could change the modem from router mode to bridge mode using IE, but then I would have to use a router with the modem, which I don't have don't want to do. So is it possible to use the modem in bridge mode with pppoe and not use a router? If so, it seems like it might be better this way because then I will probably be able to see the transfer rate on my toolbar. But then it might be faster using DHCP. Does using the modem in router mode protect the computer better than using it in bridge mode? Anyway this is still pretty confusing to me, so I hope I'll be able to figure it out in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the help so far, Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a connection I don't even understand how the browsers, etc. know how to use it. And this is after reading the docs, searching Google and the Debian list, etc. Is there a good step by step guide somewhere? there are several versions of DSL. The most common uses what is known as discrete multitone modulation. The spectrum of the cable is divided into frequency bins. The bottom-most bin is used for POTS (Plain old telephone service). The upper bins are divided into several hundred channels, some of which are used for transmitting-Upstream and the rest are used for receiving-Downstream. Regularly the downstream channels exceed the upstream channels giving rise to the term Asymmetric in ADSL. In each bin the spectrum is used much like that of a conventional modem. However prior to the transmission of actual data the DSL modem at the customer's premesis and that at the ISP (usually called a DSLAM) exchange signals in an attempt to maximize the bit rate in each bin (independently). Once the bit rate is established control is passed to a higher level protocol, usually the Point-to Point protocol (PPP) which provides the connectivity and in some cases authentication (logon) and info exchange (e.g. DNS, default router). Hope this helps. This is interesting. I just wish I was a little closer to getting everything configured correctly. Thank you and thanks to everyone else that has tried to help. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hello Larry, I am running debian etch with verizon dsl. I also have the Westell 6100 dsl modem. I believe that the suggestions you are getting in regards to dumping everything having to do with pppoe are correct. Have you gone into the connections settings of your browser and configured it for direct connection to the internet? It's been that way for a long time. Can you open any browser and type in the address bar 192.168.1.1 and click go. This should bring you to the connection summary page of the Westell modem. I have already tried 3 different browsers and none of them will load the summary page. If you can not connect to this page, could you provide, the output of `ifconfig`, `cat /etc/resolv.conf`, `route`. I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to fix it. That's why I said it would probaby take me awhile to figure it out DHCP. I can't find `route`. lotek:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp lotek:~# ifup eth0 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:18:3a:f7:c4:14 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:18:3a:f7:c4:14 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.46 -- renewal in 33461 seconds. lotek:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf search myhome.westell.com nameserver 192.168.1.1 nameserver 192.168.1.1 lotek:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:3A:F7:C4:14 inet addr:192.168.1.46 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::218:3aff:fef7:c414/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:181744 (177.4 KiB) TX bytes:10831 (10.5 KiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1518216 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:1518216 (1.4 MiB) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Sat January 19 2008 18:55:27 Larry Fletcher wrote: I can't find `route`. Without 'route' your system may be unable to setup your default route to the internet. I don't understand what happened to 'route' on your system, as it is part of the 'net-tools' package and you have 'ifconfig' which is also in that package. Do you have 'ip'? Try this: 'ip route show'. If 'ip' doesn't work, try reinstalling the 'net-tools' package and then ifdown/up your eth0 again. I'm sorry, I thought route was a file. lotek:~# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Larry writes: I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to fix it. Try sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf. It's not installed. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One ethernet card is connected to the Verizon dsl modem which is connected to the phone line. Type pppoeconf and it immediately finds the access concentrator. I know this is no help if this doesn't work for you but you should know that it is possible and no hassle whatsoever. All of the replys I have received so far are the same thing I found in the archives. It seems to either work or it doesn't. What I'm thinking is maybe Verizon gives people different modems. My modem says it's a DSL2+Router, so maybe it would work if it was just a DSL2 modem without the Router? This morning I noticed something new in the plog: Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: local IP address 10.64.64.64 Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: remote IP address 10.112.112.112 Does anyone know how I can fix the Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP? I've been reading man pppd and the options file, but I haven't figured it out yet. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Thu January 17 2008 17:51:29 Larry wrote: When I run pppoeconf I get: the Access Concentrator of your provider did not respond. I have also tried pppoe-setup. At this point, I really wonder if the modem is even connected to the computer. Is there a way to check it? To use pppoe your DSL modem must be in transparent mode, which is unusual in the US. Most people use the DSL modem as a router, in which case you just setup ethernet to get IP from DHCP, and forget about pppoe. I have no idea what that means, but I'll give DHCP a try if you know of some good documentation that explains how to set it up. Can you recommend some packages? On the other hand, I might have made some progress by removing a DHCP package I tried and changing /etc/network/interfaces back to the way it was. At least now I can use Apache, FTP, and Dict again. Now when I run 'pon dsl-provider' and plog I get: Jan 17 19:54:08 lotek pppd[6273]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 Jan 17 19:54:08 lotek pppd[6273]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 17 19:54:08 lotek pppd[6273]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp Jan 17 19:54:08 lotek pppd[6273]: local IP address 10.64.64.64 Jan 17 19:54:08 lotek pppd[6273]: remote IP address 10.112.112.112 If I paste 10.64.64.64 into the browser I get my system, but if I paste 10.112.112.112 I get nothing. In the syslog it says: Jan 17 19:55:48 lotek pppoe[6312]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets Jan 17 19:56:57 lotek pppd[6273]: Starting link Jan 17 19:56:57 lotek pppd[6273]: Serial connection established. Jan 17 19:56:57 lotek pppd[6273]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/3 Jan 17 19:57:28 lotek pppd[6273]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Jan 17 19:57:28 lotek pppd[6273]: Connection terminated. Jan 17 19:57:32 lotek pppoe[6327]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets I have read that it should be 'Connect: ppp0 -- eth0', but I don't know why it's not right. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mutt lock sent
Since upgrading to Etch I've started receiving the following messages from Anacron: Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on lotek.lafn.org /etc/cron.daily/anacron-sys: Couldn't lock /sent Could not send the message. / I eventually traced this to emails that mutt sends from the command line or scripts. The emails are sent, but they are also added to file in the ~ directory called sent and a zero byte file is created in the / directory. Where possible I have changed to mailx, but in some cases I need to use mutt. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks for any help, Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup/restore
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is unchanged). I saw this on the Debian list years ago and have used it ever since. Just format the partition, mount it and then run the following: cd / find . -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Nicolas, - is it worth an upgrade ? - is it as simple as an apt-get install kernel-image-xxx ? I've just done almost exactly the same thing as you are contemplating (upgraded to sarge, then from 2.2.20idepci to 2.6.8-3-386). I used aptitude to install the new kernel and seemingly everything went well, but when I rebooted, it gets to the boot message Starting periodic command scheduler: cron and then it hangs. I am trying to figure this one out right now. My advice is to make absolutely sure you create a boot disk using your old 2.2.20, otherwise you might be screwed; come to think of it, if the same thing happens to you, you might be screwed anyway as you're doing things remotely. Regards, Dave Whelan. I had a similar problem with the system hanging during bootup. In my case, it was something to do with acpi. So there is definitely some risk involved in upgrading to to kernel 2.6, especially in your situation. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing window managers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Larry Fletcher on 06/09/05 21:19, wrote: Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers have session managers and need them to run properly and some window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed a window manager that didn't install a session manager and since the old session manager was still installed the new window manager wouldn't run. I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession. Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and x-window-manager. larry, are you still using startx to launch the desktop? If so, how long does it take? I don't use a desktop. It takes about 3 seconds for startx to launch icewm using icewm-session in either ~/.xsession or x-session-manager. Larry I used to use metacity (default with sarge) and it took 10 seconds maybe, and then I tried using others and it now takes 5 minutes. It's the window manager which causes it to hang for so long, but I can't work out what the problem is. Adam I tried posting a similar message to gmane.linux.debian.user as suggested in another thread, but it didn't seem to work. So if the list gets 2 copies of this message that's the reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing window managers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are installed. The x-session-manager updates: /etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager Why should the session manager symlink be changed by a window manager? The x-window-manager is updated when new window managers are installed, so maybe @x-session-manager should link to @x-window-manager? No - x-session-manager should point to a session manager, and x-window-manager to a window manager, respectively. If you have a ~/.xsession file, you may have specified a window manager in it. I didn't have a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file. Otherwise, odds are the symlink from /usr/bin/x-window-manager is being used. Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers have session managers and need them to run properly and some window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed a window manager that didn't install a session manager and since the old session manager was still installed the new window manager wouldn't run. I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession. Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and x-window-manager. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
icewm window titles
I just upgraded to debian sarge which uses icewm 1.2.20+21pre1-3. The problem I'm having with icewm is the window titles switch when the initial application calls another application. For instance, when mutt loads the editor mcedit the title of the window is changed to 'mc - host:/path' and it doesn't change back to the original title. I use MC a lot and now I can no longer tell which applications are in use by looking at the toolbar. Is there anyway to keep the original title of the window? If not, is there a similar window manager that works better? Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk error problem
Can someone tell me what is causing the following errors?
Sep 24 21:53:32 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Sep 24 21:53:32 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40
{ UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22581489, sector=1825392
Sep 24 21:53:32 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error,
dev 03:06 (hda), sector 1825392
Sep 24 21:53:34 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Sep 24 21:53:34 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40
{ UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22581489, sector=1825400
[...]
I installed a new drive a few weeks ago, so I'm thinking that might be
the cause?
This is the second time it's happened today. The first time I lost the
partition and I'll probably lose this one, but I have backups on a
second drive. My cdrom also died a couple of days ago, so things seem
to be going from bad to worse.
Larry
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Re: Acroread broken?
On Oct 26, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:23:57AM +0800, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ok... I will use gv, I think... Then I don't need acroread... I'd drop acroread based on Adobe's prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov under the DMCA. I use both gv and xpdf as free alternatives to acroread. I prefer gv's navigation, though xpdf handles some files gv doesn't. xpdf provides cut-and-paste capabilities. Does gv or xpdf work with netscape? Larry
Re: Loadlin Memory Limit
On Aug 28, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, dman wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: | I recently started using Loadlin as my boot manager, and I noticed that | Linux only sees 64MB of my 256MB of RAM. Is there a way I can fix this? You could add a mem=256 argument to the kernel. I don't remember how this would be done with loadlin. Better try mem=256M instead ... 256 bytes of memory would be painful. Simply place this argument after the kernel image name on the loadlin line. I just bought a new computer with 256MB of RAM and using Loadlin all of it showed up without adding mem=256m. So I don't think Loadlin is the problem unless it's an old version. Larry
default browser
How do I change the default browser from konqueror back to lynx or netscape? What happened is I installed konqueror to see what it looked like and now when I try to view an attachment in mutt I get an error that says sh: konqueror: command not found. It seems like the answer would be archived somewhere, but I just can't find it. Larry
Re: default browser
Problem solved! After figuring out how to 'grep' every text file on the system I found that '/etc/mailcap' was full of 'konqueror' entries and running 'update-mime' removed them. Now mutt is back to using lynx to view attachments. On Aug 24, 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote: How do I change the default browser from konqueror back to lynx or netscape? What happened is I installed konqueror to see what it looked like and now when I try to view an attachment in mutt I get an error that says sh: konqueror: command not found. It seems like the answer would be archived somewhere, but I just can't find it. Larry
Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio
I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't want to have to compile a kernel. After reading the following it looks like the standard kernel would work. Am I right or would I be better off with a Celeron based system? Larry On Feb 21, 2001, studenten wg wrote: hi !! i have a k7m and the onboard sound worked fine with the standard potato modules... it's the via68xxx and ac97 (insert them with modconf) i now have a 2.4.1 kernel and compiled the same modules and it still works... at my first install, i had in mind that the onBoard sound was complicated ( i tried that with suse 6.2 one year ago ) so i first compiled the alsa-drivers for the via686xxx and that worked also fine (then i just tried the kernel modules and kicked alsa )... hope i could help... peter
Re: PPPD persist
It's fixed. For some reason the supplied redialer script didn't work, but I was finally able to write a simple redial script that even I could understand. Larry On Jan 19, 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote: After upgrading from slink to potato the pppd persist option no longer reruns the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d after a connection has been broken and then reestablished. Is there some way to configure pppd so the scripts are rerun after persist reconnects? If not, is it possible to change from persist to nopersist in a /etc/ppp/ip-up.d script? I know this sounds counterintuitive, but if I could do this I can rerun pppd by checking for a leftover fetch*.pid after a connection is broken. If none of the above, maybe I can figure out how to make use of the redialer script in /doc/ppp/examples.
PPPD persist
After upgrading from slink to potato the pppd persist option no longer reruns the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d after a connection has been broken and then reestablished. Is there some way to configure pppd so the scripts are rerun after persist reconnects? If not, is it possible to change from persist to nopersist in a /etc/ppp/ip-up.d script? I know this sounds counterintuitive, but if I could do this I can rerun pppd by checking for a leftover fetch*.pid after a connection is broken. If none of the above, maybe I can figure out how to make use of the redialer script in /doc/ppp/examples. Larry
Re: holly crap!
On Aug 03, 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:04PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Help, PLEASE HELP I've done somethig very bad.. I did: rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? Remount the affected partition read-only (yet another reason to create multiple system partitions, BTW). This will prevent any further changes to the system. Gnu Midnight Commander (mc or gmc) is alleged to have some data recovery potential. You might want to investigate this. Midnight Commander can recover deleted files. The files that can be recovered are displayed with numbers instead of names, so all you have to do is undelete and rename. Generally speaking, file deletion is a pretty definitive act under Linux. There are data recovery firms which specialize in retrieving lost data. If the data are sufficiently important to you, you may want to get a quote. Backups are good. Early and often. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Re: Mail/news software
I've looked at most of what is available and the closest thing to Yarn is the Tin news reader, they're almost identical. For email the best thing I've found is Mutt. Mutt can be configured with what I call 'tin style cursor keys' so I can go back and forth between readers without getting confused. I believe they both have everything you want except maybe GPG, but the newer versions may have it. I don't see much need for the GUI multiple windows thing, but you can run either one of the readers in multiple windows (xterms). If you ever find anything that works like Yarn or Tin and does both email and news let me know. :-) On Apr 29, 2000, Kovacs Istvan wrote: Hello! What mail and news software do you recommend? The ideal software would be able to handle both mail and news in an integrated manner, place incoming and outgoing messages into folders automatically using header info, integrate with PGP/GPG, handle UU/MIME attachments, thread messages, fetch using POP3 and send via SMTP, would have a GUI that allows multiple windows to be open for composing and reading mail/articles, and would be easy to use and free of charge. YARN, when used in combination with a SOUP package handler, is much like that (except for the GUI/multi-window part), but I haven't seen a Linux version. TIA, Kofa Homepage at http://www.math.bme.hu/~kofa - For PGP public key: send mail with the subject PGP Public Key Request or finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: rdate fails Y2K?
I searched through all of the old messages on this subject and couldn't find a fix for the problem, except using another time server. My problem is I'm behind a firewall and can only use a local time server that won't work with rdate. Has rdate been fixed yet? If so, is there somewhere can I get a copy that will work with Slink? Larry
Re: NEW x problem :/
On Jan 18, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use /dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -R), and the mouse was moving like a crazy coachroach in x. Now that I switched back to /dev/mouse, and _still_ running gpm -R, here is the error X displays (when I crash it with control alt backspace, since I am mouseless): /home/cyberdemo/.xinitrc: line 3: 291 Broken pipe blackbox xinit: connection to X server lost. waiting for X server to shut down Fatal server error: Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call) If I just kill gpm, I can start x normally, and even switch to the console and back again to x (that was my original problem). Anyone with the same problem/suggestions/hints/prayers to keep gpm and x running at the same time? I'd appreciate your help. I just setup X for the first time a couple of weeks ago and had the same problem with a PS2 mouse. I boot directly to X with four open consoles and the mouse works everywhere I if start gpm after X is loaded. Basically I just disabled gpm on startup and run it at the end of /root/.profile. I don't know why this works or if it would work on your system, but it works for me. Larry
netscape proxies
I just installed navigator 4.5-1 (navigator-smotif-45) and there is no place to set proxies. Is there some reason proxies are not allowed in this version? Are proxies only available after registration? When I installed navigator I saved the registration information to a file to send it by email later, but the file wasn't saved. If navigator needs to be registered first, how do I register? Larry
kern.log errors?
Could someone help me resolve the following kern.log errors (cannot find map file and pcibios_init : ERROR) that repeat every time the system is booted? May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: klogd 1.3-3#31, log source = /proc/kmsg started. May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: Cannot find map file. May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: Loaded 18 symbols from 8 modules. May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: Memory: sized by int13 088h May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fff70 May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfcdbe May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: pcibios_init : ERROR : BIOS32 Service Directory says PCI BIOS is present, May 23 11:32:08 debian kernel: but PCI_BIOS_PRESENT subfunction fails with present status of 0xb1 Any help will be appreciated, Larry Fletcher
Installation - modules?
When I first installed hamm a few months ago I selected the following modules to use for a PPP based system: nls_cp437 umsdos lp serial psaux ppp slip So far I haven't spent much time with it, but I have PPP, lynx, minicom, and couple of other packages installed and working. Today I reinstalled hamm on another partition to try another mouse driver and noticed that the following modules were recommend on a help sheet: bsd_comp dummy slhc nls_iso8859_1 It sounds like bsd_comp is something I would need even though PPP seems to be working fine without it, dummy might be needed for diald, slhc might be required for diald and slip even though I'm not going to use slip to connect, and I have no idea what nls_iso8859_1 is for. So what I'm wondering is do I actually need any of these last four modules? And if so, why? Thanks, Larry Fletcher Redondo Beach, CA USA
Re: hamm/pppconfig?
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry writes: Can anyone tell what went wrong and how to fix it? In /etc/ppp/pap-secrets you will find a line like: ay903 * The line turned out to be: molec3 * password Change it to: ay903 * qwertyuip Where 'qwertyuip' is your password. You nailed it! It's working again and I'm happy enough about it not to wonder excessively why it was working before I changed the phone number. It also looks to me as if you should be able to connect with an ordinary PAP setup. I don't think I'll tempt the hands of fate right now, maybe later. :-) John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI Thanks John!!! And thanks to everyone else that replied! Larry Fletcher Redondo Beach, CA USA
hamm/pppconfig?
The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change is the phone number, everything else is the same.) I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the defaults and start over, but when I ran pppconfig the defaults were still there. What files should I delete to get pppconfig back to where it was when I first installed hamm? Larry
Re: hamm/pppconfig?
Larry Fletcher wrote: The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change is the phone number, everything else is the same.) I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the defaults and start over, but when I ran pppconfig the defaults were still there. What files should I delete to get pppconfig back to where it was when I first installed hamm? John Leget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check out the files in /etc/chatscripts/... these are used as well, i just manually changed the phone no here recently. I wish I would have done it manually, but it's to late now. I think the problem was caused by accidentally selecting PAP instead of CHAT, but I did this the first time used pppconfig and it didn't cause a problem then. The only difference is I changed back to CHAT before I used pon the first time. I finally found all of the pppconfig files in pppconfig manual and deleted them. Then I ran pppconfig again, but I still have the same problem. I also looked though the PPPD and CHAT manuals and tried a couple of changes, but nothing helped. Below are the before and after sections of the ppp.log. The only change is the phone number, but the first one worked and second one doesn't. Can anyone tell what went wrong and how to fix it? Thanks, Larry Feb 15 11:36:15 debian pppd[128]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: abort on (BUSY) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: abort on (VOICE) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: send (ATZ^M) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: expect (OK) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: ^M Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: OK Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: -- got it Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: send (ATDT6606032^M) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: expect (CONNECT) Feb 15 11:36:17 debian chat[131]: ^M Feb 15 11:36:37 debian chat[131]: ^M Feb 15 11:36:37 debian chat[131]: CONNECT Feb 15 11:36:37 debian chat[131]: -- got it Feb 15 11:36:37 debian chat[131]: send (^M) Feb 15 11:36:37 debian chat[131]: expect (turn:) Feb 15 11:36:37 debian chat[131]: 28800/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: This node to the LA Free-Net was generously provided by El Camino College. (e1 Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: 5)^M Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: ^M Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: ^M Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: Type lafn and return: Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: -- got it Feb 15 11:36:39 debian chat[131]: send (??) Feb 15 11:36:40 debian chat[131]: expect (word:) Feb 15 11:36:40 debian chat[131]: ay903^M Feb 15 11:36:40 debian chat[131]: Password: Feb 15 11:36:40 debian chat[131]: -- got it Feb 15 11:36:40 debian chat[131]: send (??) Feb 15 11:36:40 debian chat[131]: send (\d) Feb 15 11:36:41 debian pppd[128]: Serial connection established. Feb 15 11:36:42 debian pppd[128]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 15 11:36:42 debian pppd[128]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Feb 15 11:36:42 debian pppd[128]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x601f pcomp accomp] Feb 15 11:36:42 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x601f pcomp accomp] Feb 15 11:36:43 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xc2918843 pcomp accomp] Feb 15 11:36:43 debian pppd[128]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xc2918843 pcomp accomp] Feb 15 11:36:43 debian pppd[128]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x601f] Feb 15 11:36:43 debian pppd[128]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 addr 0.0.0.0 compress VJ 0f 01] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 compress VJ 0f 00 addr 206.117.18.162] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 compress VJ 0f 00 addr 206.117.18.162] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0xc2918843] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 addr 192.168.16.17] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 addr 192.168.16.17 compress VJ 0f 01] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 addr 192.168.16.17 compress VJ 0f 01] Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: local IP address 192.168.16.17 Feb 15 11:36:44 debian pppd[128]: remote IP address 206.117.18.162 Feb 15 11:37:13 debian pppd[128]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x601f] Feb 15 11:37:14 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0xc2918843] Feb 15 11:37:43 debian pppd[128]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x601f] Feb 15 11:37:44 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0xc2918843] Feb 15 11:38:13 debian pppd[128]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0x601f] Feb 15 11:38:14 debian pppd[128]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0xc2918843
Re: hamm/pppconfig?
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry writes: The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried to change the phone number and now it won't connect. *Exactly* what did you do? *Exactly* what results did you get? 1) My provider changed its phone number, so I ran pppconfig to change the phone number and pressed enter on everything else. (I know that only the phone number was changed, because I use a DOS offline reader with the same provider and that's all I had to change.) 2) When I ran PON I immediately noticed the following problem with PAP authentication, so I thought I might have accidentally selected PAP instead of CHAT when I changed the phone number. Feb 20 20:36:04 debian pppd[216]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=ay903 password=] Feb 20 20:36:04 debian pppd[216]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x30fe74d6] Feb 20 20:36:05 debian pppd[216]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 Invalid Login] Feb 20 20:36:05 debian pppd[216]: Remote message: Invalid Login Feb 20 20:36:05 debian pppd[216]: PAP authentication failed 3) I ran pppconfig again and made sure to select CHAT this time and pressed enter on everything else. But this had no effect, because when I ran PON again the same PAP authentication message appeared. I have rerun pppconfig numerous times being extremely careful to enter everything correctly and I still get the same PAP authentication message. I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the defaults and start over, but when I ran pppconfig the defaults were still there. What do you mean by the defaults? The default valuse displayed by pppconfig are not read from a file. They are generated internally by pppconfig when the provider files (/etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider) either don't exist or don't look right. I thought pressing enter on all of my previous defaults except for the change from PAP to CHAT might be causing pppconfig to think that nothing was changed, so I was trying to get rid of my defaults and start over. What files should I delete to get pppconfig back to where it was when I first installed hamm? When you first installed hamm the ppp package installed a set of default files. Pppconfig ignored these and showed you its defaults. It then replaced the files installed by the ppp package with those it generated when you answered the questions. Look in /etc/chatscripts and /etc/ppp/peers for files named 'provider.bak'. Depending on exactly what you did, these files may contain your data. Rename each of them from 'provider.bak' to just 'provider' and run pppconfig again. If you are lucky your old data will come up. If not you will have to enter it all again. I'm pretty sure there was only one provider.bak file in /etc/ppp/peers and I must have accidentally deleted it. But this is not a problem, because after I deleted all of the pppconfig files reentering my information was easy. I just have no idea why changing the phone number with pppconfig would cause a login failure? When I started using Debian a few months ago I thought pppconfig was the easiest part of the whole installation. Larry Fletcher Redondo Beach, CA USA P.S. Here's my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file: # This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines # but please do not delete lines or the change the comments or you will # confuse pppconfig. noauth #pppconfig_noauth connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider #pppconfig_connect debug #pppconfig_debug /dev/ttyS0 #pppconfig_dev 115200 #pppconfig_speed defaultroute #pppconfig_route noipdefault #pppconfig_ipdefault user ay903 #pppconfig_user # End of pppconfig controlled lines. You can add lines below here without # confusing pppconfig.
Re: Minicom installed and ppp working...at l o n g last
Michael E. Touloumtzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 06:56:48PM -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote: Now I want to install the bare minimum X11 and a browser (preferably netscape), as I'm low on disk space (I've just 72 Mb left). Anyone's any suggestions Try starting with the base X stuff, then add things on an as-needed basis. The X stuff for Debian has been reorganized; see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9901/msg01722.html. This document is helpful no matter which release of Debian you are using, because it provides a good overview. For a windows manager I have always used fvwm or fvwm2, but I've seen mention of icewm as a small and fast (but less configurable) alternative. If you really start running out of space, consider manually deleting things (bending the Debian rules). For example, twm comes with xbase in hamm (2.0), but is not needed if you use fvwm2, icewm, etc. Do these window managers allow you to cutpaste between windows? I had planned on just using the Bash shell for awhile, but am finding that it is inconvenient not having the ability to cutpaste from one console to another the way I could with DOS and DESQview. Larry
lowmem installation trouble
On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For X86 instructions on the Debian site. But after the installation is finished the boot disk fails right after it says No mail. The last two lines on boot-up read: Bash: Fork: Cannot allocate memory # (at this point the HD sounds like its writing and no commands are accepted) I've tried installing it three times with the same result. I assume its a memory problem and I can't add more RAM. Does anyone know if there is an older version of Debian or another version that will work with a 386 and 4Megs of RAM? (Something I can get via FTP.) Thanks, Larry boot: [I hit Enter.] Loading lowmemrd.bin ... That's as far as she goes. It hangs there, all night. I have to hard reboot. Using the resc1440.bin image I get... SYSLINUX 1.40-2.1 [etc...] Boot failed Using the lowmemrd.bin image I get... [beep] Nothing at all, no error, and I have to hard reboot. Using the root.bin image gets me the same result. Ok, obviously I don't know a whole lot about what I am doing. Can anyone help me out? I've installed FreeBSD and Linux before, but always on more modern systems with CDROMs. Thanks, Nathan Hendler
