Re: radiusd
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd? I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure it. Go to the livingston site at http://www.livingston.com/ there you will find all the information you ever wanted about radius. Just look around a bit. That's for the radius server, I don't have info about the client software. (I just use a portmaster). \\|//^)))((%, (- -)(o o)(- o)(0-0)(* *) +--ooO-(_)-Ooo--oo0-(_)-0oo--ooO-(_)-Ooo--oo0-(_)-0oo--ooO-(_)-Ooo--+ |NETWORK OPERATIONS CENTER| | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice # 800-876-8797 | | http://jeffnet.org/linuxisp 541-776-3283 | | Mike Taylor - Network Services Manager | +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?
If so, I'd appreciate a short note from you. I'd like to know if you use SLIP because PPP is unavailable, more expensive, or otherwise inconvenient. Thanks Mike
Re: minimal system
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Mike Candy List wrote: can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap If this were my system, I would install linux, but not X. You didn't say, but I suspect that you are also low on memory and your swap drive is fairly old. If my assumptions are correct, and you installed X, your system would swap to disk often and slowly. Not fun. I like emacs, but I would learn to like vi if I had your system. If vi is too unfriendly, try some of the other small editors available in Debian. Virtual consoles (cntrl-alt-F1, cntrl-alt-F2, ...) and job control (cntrl-z, bg, fg, ...) can make a non-X system more fun. If the preceeding sentence is gibberish to you, send me private email and I will explain in more detail. Hope this helps Mike
May I have your chat scripts, please?
I am assembling a collection of chat scripts in support of an effort by our Debain developers to generate this information during setup. We need your help because the proceedure for logging in and starting ppp frames varies from ISP to ISP. With a reasonable database, most of the variations can be anticipated. If you would like to help, please send me the following (assuming you use ppp and chat): - Name and location of your ISP - contents of your /etc/ppp/options file (if empty, so state) - SANITIZED contents of your chat script - command line that you use to fire up ppp - If pppd is invoked from a shell script, I need that script - Any other files/information/proceedures needed to bring up ppp on your machine - If you use a secrets file, say what kind. I don't need the file. Please sanitize this information before you send it to me. I suggest replacing your real username, password, and ISP phone number with myusername, mypassword, and 555-1212. Above all please do not send me any information that could cause problems for you if it fell into the wrong hands. To be of use, I will have to put your information in a place where others can get to it. I will not intentionally deliver it into the hands of crackers, but I make no guarentees. If your scripts work, I want them. Even if they are not pretty, even if they fail sometimes. If your scripts fail sometimes, tell me so. If you do anything that you think might be out of the ordinary, please tell me about that. If you don't use chat, please describe your proceedure to bring up ppp as precisely as possible and include the contents of supporting files (example, a Seyon script). Remember to sanitize. If you use slip or some variant of slip supported by Debain, I'd like your information also. I don't use slip so I can't as specific as my request for ppp - chat info, but I think you have the idea. Please send your submissions to me by private e-mail. Thanks in advance for your help. Mike Taylor
Re: Dos to Debain serial (was popclient)
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: Oh, and does anyone know how to establish a serial connection between DOS and a debian box??? I think that you can do this with samba. I beleive that samba is available as a Debain package. Mike
Re: /dev/psaux problems
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote: If I try to cat the file, though, I get the following error: cat /dev/psaux cat: /dev/psaux: No such device I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file. I think I'm missing a driver, but I certainly don't see anything resembling PS/2 mouse driver during the Configure Drivers portion of the install. I would have expected this to be built into the Standard kernel (which is the one I selected). Does anyone know what I'm missing and how to install it? I beleive that Bruce has posted that this was omitted by mistake. One solution (although maybe not the best or easiest) is to complie a kernel yourself. Mike
Re: Warining from make xconfig ... (fwd)
I got essentialy the same message while preparing to compile a non- Debian 2.08 kernel. I conclude from this that whatever the problem is, it is not a Debian problem. I don't know if the resulting config file is really broken or not, but I did not take any chances. I used menuconfig. It is almost as nice, and does not produce the broken message. Mike On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Sorry! I guess the error output would help! # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/scripts' make -C /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/drivers/sound mkscript make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/drivers/sound' Compiling Sound Driver v 3.5.5-beta1 for Linux rm -f configure gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/include -o configure configure.c ./configure script Config.in cat lowlevel/Config.tmpl Config.in ./configure fixedlocal local.h ./configure fixeddefines .defines make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/drivers/sound' gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/include -g -Wall -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/include -g -Wall -c -o tkcond.o tkcond.c gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/include -g -Wall -c -o tkgen.o tkgen.c gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/include -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tmp cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk cat kconfig.tmp kconfig.tk rm -f kconfig.tmp echo set defaults \arch/i386/defconfig\ kconfig.tk cat tail.tk kconfig.tk chmod 755 kconfig.tk make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_AEDSP16 was not declared! make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/drivers/sound' Compiling Sound Driver v 3.5.5-beta1 for Linux rm -f configure gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/include -o configure configure.c ./configure fixedlocal local.h ./configure fixeddefines .defines make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/drivers/sound' Thanks again! Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 10:46:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Warining from make xconfig ... Hi everyone! I get this warning message when I run make xconfig to setup my kernel .config file prior to compiling. It doesn't seem to bother anything, but I figured I ask if anyone else has seen it. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ***
Re: Spreadsheet for Debian?
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Are there any spreadsheets packaged for Debian? Also, how would I go about finding this information out for myself? (I looked in /binary/misc and couldn't see anything likely.) Thanks, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) There used to be something called Oleo under math. Mike
Re: LILO trouble
I made the same mistake that Joshua and Hakan made. The READMEFIRST file in /usr/doc/lilo gives two possible fixes: - In linux you can remove lilo from the master boot record with: lilo -U - In MSDOS you can remove lilo by: fdisk /mbr The lilo -U fix did not work for me since I had already re-partitioned. fdisk /mbr was successful. Mike On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Joshua Stockwell wrote: I had this exact same setup. Slackware on the slave disk and msdos on the other master disk. And I just recently upgraded to Debian and ran into the exact same problem. Silly me to forget to uninstall lilo first! The reason your boot is hanging is that it is looking for the old lilo that doesnt't exist anymore. You need to re-install lilo. If your lilo.conf is setup right just type lilo and it should re-write the MBR so you'll be able to boot normally. Lilo should be on your linux partition, not your dos partition. Good luck! - Josh Stockwell Hakan wrote: I have a 486 on which I untill recently had MSDos and Slackware installed on two diffrent harddisks, with LILO installed in the master boot block of the msdos harddisk allowing me to select between the two operating systems. This worked just fine. Now, I decided to convert into Debian (I just love it's package system), so I through out the Slackware stuff and installed the three disks base system. I had to install LILO by hand because the instalation package tried to install it on the linx partion, which is the second partion on the secon harddisk (/dev/hdb2). I placed it on (/dev/hda). Then I rebootet. Then insted of the LILO text that is supposed to show up when LILO loads I only got L followd by 04 repeated in what seemsed to infinity. I have tried bothe my old Slackware lilo configuration file, the new created by Debian. I have tried both the lilo version that came with Debian and the old one used by Slackware. I have tried having both the MSDos hd and the Linux HD as the first HD. And Gud knows what else, but the result is just the same. What am I doing wrong? I have temporarity solved the problem by using a MSDos boot disk with a menu that allows me to either run the startup files from my HD after load MSDOS from the floppy, or execute loadlin to load a linux kernerel from my msdos HD and mount the root system. And this works acceptable. But it is not a decent solution. And since LILO worked with Slackware, I see no reason for it not to work with Debian. Any sugestions will be appricialed. Thanx.
Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work ? (fwd)
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mark Edward Johnston wrote: I have installed Linux (Debian 1.1) on a friend's computer, but can't get X to work as it complains about not being able to find the mouse. The system is a Gateway 2000 DX2/66 with Cirrus Logic 5434 and what seems to be a PS/2 mouse. I have linked /dev/mouse - /dev/psmouse (- /dev/psaux) and set Protocol and Device in XF86Config to PS/2 and /dev/mouse respectively. Any help would be appreciated, Mark Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PS: Does anybody know if PS/2 mouse support is in the default kernel in Debian 1.1.3 ?? Is this a valid question ? PS/2 support is not there for 1.1.2. I suspect it is not there for 1.1.3. To get it you will have to use a special kernel or compile one yourself. Lots of people seem to have problems getting PS2 mice up. My Gateway + PS2 worked fine under Slackware 3.0, but I still can't get it to work under Debian. I have tried all the stuff that you tried plus compiling a custom kernel (with the Debian source package) but no dice. My (admittedly cowardly) solution: cheap serial mouse. Mike
PS2 PROBLEM SOLVED -- sort of
Many thanks to Susan, Digge, Adrenolin, JinHo, and others who responded to my call for help in getting my mouse set up. I think that I have solved my problem with using my PS2 mouse with X. My solution is to not use a PS2 mouse. Use a serial mouse instead. My theory is that the base system for Debian 1.1 does not support PS2 mice for certain non-standard but common hardware configurations. I believe that the root of the problem is somewhere in the land of /dev/. This is certianly speculation on my part, but I do have some evidence to back it up. I will submit a bug report through normal channels and put the details there. Mike
Re: a memory + SCSI error??
I recently had a memory problem that I solved by reseating the SIMMs. I didn't remove them. I just wiggled them. If you try it, be sure to protect against static discarge. Mike
Re: Install floppy boot failure
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: I've written the boot, root, base floppies as prescribed, but every time I try to boot I get error messages as follows: boot: cr Loading... Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=2) -- System Halted I've tried using a different floppy, erasing (dd if=/dev/zero...) and reformatting the floppies, formatting on different machines with different utilites (Norton format, DOS 6.x format, Weeners '95 format), and I've tried re-downloading the boot image from a variety of sources. All with the same result. I also tried entering boot parameters to specify my SCSI ethernet cards. This resulted in a different error message: incomplete literal tree Well, where do I go from here? I noticed when I was making my installation disks that three of the four images needed nearly every possible block on the floppy. When I was formating the floppys, I noticed that the the format program marked quite a few bad blocks on one of the floppys, so I didn't use it. You might try reformatting your suspected bad installation disks to see if the format program reports any bad blocks. If you get some, that might be your problem. If not, maybe one of the files that you are making the disks from is corupt. Hope this helps. Mike
PS/2 Mouse Support?
Does anyone know if PS/2 mouse support is compiled into the kernel supplied with Debian 1.1.2? If not, how can I get it? I don't recall seeing a module that had it. I have installed X, but not quite correctly yet. When I startx, I get a nice screen with one xterm and a mouse cursor, but the mouse cursor won't move. By the way, I'd like to report a positive experience installing via dpkg-ftp. I have installed most of my packages that way. Thanks in advance Mike
