mozilla-firefox extension problems
I just installed an extension system-wide (in the app dir), but I can't get my user account to use it. It recognizes the extension, but I can't seem to actually USE it. The only way I can seem to get it to work is to delete my .firefox directory and let firefox recreate it. If I do that, I can use the extension. Is there something I'm missing when installing an extension? I don't have to recreate my profile do I? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:07, Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:47:44PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recognize. With the 2.4 kernel, I was able to disable PNP OS in my Award BIOS, and the 2.4 Linux kernel found the card as just another serial port. The 2.6 kernel doesn't appear to do this. I tried enabling PNP OS in my BIOS, but that didn't appear to help anything. The pnp.txt file with the kernel source wasn't much help. Do I have to install the isapnptools package and configure that like I used to have to? Any help would be appreciated. ISA plug and play is an experimental option in 2.6. I don't know if the Debian kernels set it. Check the kernel config file; is CONFIG_ISAPNP set? If not, you'll have to build your own kernel. Or, are your ordinary serial ports recognised? If not, try modprobe serial_core. My serial ports are recognized correctly, it's just the modem that's not. Is there a way to check the configuration of the kernel that is running (ie something in /proc), I don't do my kernels the Debian Way, but AIUI there should be a config file in /boot, called config-2.6.3 or something similar. CONFIG_ISAPNP is enabled in the Debian kernel, so is there a way to tell if the kernel found any isapnp cards? I've looked all through /proc, including /proc/bus/pnp, but I haven't been able to see anything. The old /proc/pci doesn't exist and I can't seem to find it's replacement (at least not anything that would display what /proc/pci used to). /proc/bus/pnp is quite confusing and the pnp.txt file for the kernel isn't any help either (the example doesn't seem to correlate to what I see in /proc/bus/pnp). Any other ideas other than trying the isapnptools package? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 20:37, Vineet Kumar wrote: Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CONFIG_ISAPNP is enabled in the Debian kernel, so is there a way to tell if the kernel found any isapnp cards? I've looked all through /proc, including /proc/bus/pnp, but I haven't been able to see anything. The old /proc/pci doesn't exist and I can't seem to find it's replacement (Sorry, I'm coming into this thread late; I hope this isn't totally irrelevant.) I'm not sure exactly what from the old /proc/pci is missing, but in addition to /proc/bus/pci, did you also see /sys/bus/pci? lspci also works fine using /proc/bus/pci. I missed the addition of the /sys filesystem, and that appears to be what pnp.txt in the kernel documentation is talking about. I see many 0x:00 entries in /sys/bus/pnp/devices, but how do you tell what's what? I looked at the resource and options file of all the entries, and some of them I could tell what they were, but not all of them. I assume if an entry for a device/card isn't there then the kernel didn't find it? And if the kernel didn't find it, there's probably no way to help the kernel find it is there? I should probably break down and try isapnptools shouldn't I? Here's an output from my system boot: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fbda0 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf:0xbdd0, dseg 0xf pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x208-0x20f has been reserved PnPBIOS: 16 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 16 recorded by driver ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at :00:07.0 Does the pnp: 00:0b signify that the kernel found a pnp device? if so, do I just need to configure this device in /sys? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recognize. With the 2.4 kernel, I was able to disable PNP OS in my Award BIOS, and the 2.4 Linux kernel found the card as just another serial port. The 2.6 kernel doesn't appear to do this. I tried enabling PNP OS in my BIOS, but that didn't appear to help anything. The pnp.txt file with the kernel source wasn't much help. Do I have to install the isapnptools package and configure that like I used to have to? Any help would be appreciated. ISA plug and play is an experimental option in 2.6. I don't know if the Debian kernels set it. Check the kernel config file; is CONFIG_ISAPNP set? If not, you'll have to build your own kernel. Or, are your ordinary serial ports recognised? If not, try modprobe serial_core. My serial ports are recognized correctly, it's just the modem that's not. Is there a way to check the configuration of the kernel that is running (ie something in /proc), or are you saying install the kernel source and apply the debian patches? If the debian kernels do not have isapnp compiled as an option will the isapnp tools still work? I assume they would. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6
I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recognize. With the 2.4 kernel, I was able to disable PNP OS in my Award BIOS, and the 2.4 Linux kernel found the card as just another serial port. The 2.6 kernel doesn't appear to do this. I tried enabling PNP OS in my BIOS, but that didn't appear to help anything. The pnp.txt file with the kernel source wasn't much help. Do I have to install the isapnptools package and configure that like I used to have to? Any help would be appreciated. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where'd the fonts go?
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:51, Hubert Chan wrote: Robert == Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my Robert fonts. ... Bug 223352? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223352 I don't think this is it. This bug talks about fonts being invisible to programs that use fontconfig, whereas I'm talking about fonts not even being available to fontconfig. In fact, I'm not sure where the fonts I'm seeing are coming from. Is it possible fonts were accidentally removed from a package? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where'd the fonts go?
I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my fonts. I keep hoping that it was a bug in a package, but a lot of time has passed and nothing has improved. I had a problem like this and the problem was with my fonts.conf configuration, but when I check in fonts.conf and local.conf, I see that the directories where fonts are located are there. I just can't select them in Gnome or any application. For example, I used to use Helvetica and doing a search I can see helv###.pcf.gz in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is listed in /etc/fonts/local.conf so why can't I select Helvetica? Is there an X configuration setting I'm missing or something? Any help would be very much appreciated. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
I've been having problems logging into my unstable debian box, and on a most recent problem I saw this message on the console after I was able to initiate a reboot: kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped I looked in /var/log/ksymoops and see logs for the day it happened, but how I determine what module is causing this problem? I see net-pf-10 listed in the 20031118.log a log, but I haven't been able to figure out what module that is let alone what has caused this issue recently. Any help would be appreciated. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Fonts again in unstable
I'm running unstable, and I haven't been able to log in the last few days because of a recent update. I was finally able to log in and found that most of my fonts are gone. Most notably was Helvetica. I checked my fonts.conf and it looked alright, so I tried to make sure the font still existed on my system. To my surprise, I found that it was gone. Anyone know of a recent change in included fonts? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems logging in
I'm running unstable, and about a month ago I noticed that after my machine had been up for a few days that I couldn't initiate a log in session or switch users. After the password is accepted, the log session just sits there and never returns a prompt. The system is just fine though. If I'm already logged in, I can run any program. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work though. A few times, I've had the system recover after a long period of time. I update my packages every night hoping that an update will fix it, but as of yet it hasn't.Has anyone else seen this problem? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
?dm startup problems
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:37, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Robert Rati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm running Debian unstable with the DRI trunk ATI drivers, and gdm just stopped starting. I used to use kdm as my display manager, but it exhibited the problems gdm is now displaying earlier. When either display manager attempts to start, I see the normal gray background X startup and the X mouse cursor, but before the background and login manager load it appears to crash. It tries to start several times, but is never able to. I can't find any reasons for this in the messages or XFree86.0.log files. kdm.log has this listed at the end: AUDIT: Wed Sep 3 19:02:45 2003: 968 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server^M Xlib: Protocol not supported by server ^M kdm_greet: cannot connect to X server :0 Does logging in on a console and using startx work? Yes. Running startx works just fine. It seems like it is somehow display manager specific. It seems like some kind of default configuration setting was changed. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
?dm startup problems
I'm running Debian unstable with the DRI trunk ATI drivers, and gdm just stopped starting. I used to use kdm as my display manager, but it exhibited the problems gdm is now displaying earlier. When either display manager attempts to start, I see the normal gray background X startup and the X mouse cursor, but before the background and login manager load it appears to crash. It tries to start several times, but is never able to. I can't find any reasons for this in the messages or XFree86.0.log files. kdm.log has this listed at the end: AUDIT: Wed Sep 3 19:02:45 2003: 968 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server^M Xlib: Protocol not supported by server ^M kdm_greet: cannot connect to X server :0 Anyone know why this is happening or what has caused it? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MPact2 X Video Driver?
I have an Mpact2 video card by Chromatic Research and I have it running in Linux using the framebuffer device, but is there an accelerated driver for this card? I've not been able to find any info about this card working in Linux other than with the FB device. I'm running Debian stable, and it almost seems like it's possible since the 2.4 kernel now recognizes the card correctly (2.2 didn't know what it was). Does anyone have any info about this card and Linux? TIA. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Helvetica Fonts gone
I'm running Unstable, and a while ago the Helvetica fonts disappeared from my available fonts list. I've searched the Debian archives as well as on Google, but I haven't found anything that will tell me how to fix this problem. A message posted last year on the Debian list mentioned that the Helvetica font is in the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, which I have installed. I found some articles that mentioned the need to setup aliases for the Helvetica font on Debian, but they seemed out of date, as well as not providing much information, and their linked to extra documentation was no longer available. Can someone point me in the right direction for fixing this problem? TIA. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nautilus load problems
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 04:37, Marcin Fusinski wrote: Greetings, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: I'm running unstable with gnome2, and nautilus has recently started going nuts. When nautilus tries to load, it takes 100% of the CPU and then endlessly starts popping up windows, all of which fail to load properly. It spews out error messages and takes up all the processing cycles on my machine. It used to work just fine, but I tried to bring up gnome-control-center and it went haywire (which previously worked just fine). I've tried completely removing nautilus (purge) and re-installing and completely destroying my gnome config, but any time I try to load nautilus, this happens. The old version of nautlius(v1) does not have this problem. Does any one have any idea what is causing this problem or how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated. Unfortunately I cannot help you - I wish I could... but I can verify that nautilus in unstable became 'really unstable' after the recent upgrade (try clicking a few times while browsing files...). In fact it's hardly usable now. I hope the bugs will be fixed soon (although I haven't seen your specific bug at Gnome Bug Tracker website). If nautilus has become really unstable, then maybe the next version will fix things. Let's hope that version comes out soon. :) What seems to make things worse is Gnome itself. When nautilus spawns, it spawns as a process that should be restarted. Somehow, when nautilus is run, it ends up being many processes which die and get restarted. Somehow, each time it is restarted more than one process is created, so if you look in the session list you have an ungodly number of nautiluses running. This seems to continue exponentially. I don't know if the problem is Gnome or not, but I don't think Gnome is helping. I think Gnome is restarting the failed process and nautilus is starting another process (or few) of it's own. I'm not certain though because I haven't been able to tell Gnome that nautilus processes shouldn't be respawned. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nautilus load problems
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 16:08, Marcin Fusinski wrote: Greetings, On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Robert Rati wrote: If nautilus has become really unstable, then maybe the next version will fix things. Let's hope that version comes out soon. :) Right. I used to be quite happy with it. What seems to make things worse is Gnome itself. When nautilus spawns, it spawns as a process that should be restarted. Somehow, when nautilus is run, it ends up being many processes which die and get restarted. Somehow, each time it is restarted more than one process is created, so if you look in the session list you have an ungodly number of nautiluses running. This seems to continue exponentially. I don't know if the problem is Gnome or not, but I don't think Gnome is helping. I think Gnome is restarting the failed process and nautilus is starting another process (or few) of it's own. I'm not certain though because I haven't been able to tell Gnome that nautilus processes shouldn't be respawned. You might be able to switch those nautilus processes with: gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false The default behavior in Gnome seems to be to respawn nautilus, and they start respawning too fast to tell them not to. Will that command change the default behavior for the nautilus application, or just just set a specific instance of nautilus to not respawn? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nautilus load problems
I'm running unstable with gnome2, and nautilus has recently started going nuts. When nautilus tries to load, it takes 100% of the CPU and then endlessly starts popping up windows, all of which fail to load properly. It spews out error messages and takes up all the processing cycles on my machine. It used to work just fine, but I tried to bring up gnome-control-center and it went haywire (which previously worked just fine). I've tried completely removing nautilus (purge) and re-installing and completely destroying my gnome config, but any time I try to load nautilus, this happens. The old version of nautlius(v1) does not have this problem. Does any one have any idea what is causing this problem or how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated. Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: damn! I screwed up
Look in your /etc/X11 directory for a file called Xserver. The first line of that file is the Xserver that is used. Change that to whatever you want it to be. Or, you can just use XF86Setup and select your video card from the list and it will automatically make the needed changes. Rob On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: I answered no, when I should have said yes, when dselect asked me if I wanted ? as my default xserver. How can I fix this? David Kachel -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: Netscape -- Bus Error
Ya, I just had a similar problem. Uninstall plugger and that should fix it. Rob On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, jason wrote: Netscape crashed hard on me the other day.. now whenever i try to run it from the command line i get Bus Error anyone know what i have to do to fix this? -jason When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Einstein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
netscape bus error
I just upgraded my potato system to the newest packages and now netscape bus errors. Is this a known bug that was overlooked and will be fixed? Netscape worked just fine before the upgrade. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)
I'm pretty sure the packages would have to me modified. To get around it, you'll have to manually install the packages uses dpkg --force-depends. Unfortunately, anytime you upgrade packages, dselect will want to remove those packages because they have unmet dependencies (atleast apt will). This is something that I think we should get on the kde people to fix. It's a minor change. Rob On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Todd Suess wrote: Greetings, I have asked this before, but either nobody saw it, or nobody knew, so I am posting this again in the hopes someone will know the answer. Many of the KDE apps rely on a library called qt1g, which dselect claims To not appear available. Checking my system, I find a library called libqt1g which claims in the package description to replace and provide qt1g. Apparently dselect is not able to determine that it should be able to install any program that depends on qt1g due to the fact that services provided by that library are satisfied with libqt1g. Is there a way to convince dpkg that it should install these programs anyway, or would the package(s) have to be modified by the maintainer to satisfy these dependancy problems? Any help would be most appreciated. Regards, Todd -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP
I use it and it works great. The distribution really isn't a factor when you're talking about performance. It's a really minor thing. The kernel is what gives you the performance for the most part, and I run 2.2.13 with no problems at all. Well, aside from a hardware issue, but that's being solved. Performance and stability will be largely the same in regards to smp because all linux's use the same kernel. The linux kernel. Rob On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone have an experience with Debian on an SMP machine? Is it stable? How well does it perform? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory
I had this problem also, and the solution is pretty simple. The problem is that your /usr/info/dir file has gotten corrupted. Mine got corrupted because of a crash with my potato system, much like you. The fix for this is to find someone else's dir file and replce yours with their's. If you look at your /usr/info/dir file, it should be the upper level of info in straight text. What it probably is is jibberish, and install-info can't read it. My advice once you get this working is to back up your dir file. I do now! Good luck. Rob On 25 Nov 1999, Christophe Broult wrote: Hi all, I had a problem with my hard disk and somehow my potato system has gotten hosed. Can someone tell me how to correct the following problem? chicago:~# dpkg -i /tmp/dpkg_1.4.1.19.deb (Reading database ... 65879 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.19 (using /tmp/dpkg_1.4.1.19.deb) ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK. Unpacking replacement dpkg ... Setting up dpkg (1.4.1.19) ... chicago:~# dpkg -i /tmp/info_4.0-1.deb (Reading database ... 65879 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace info 4.0-1 (using /tmp/info_4.0-1.deb) ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK. Unpacking replacement info ... Setting up info (4.0-1) ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing info (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: info Thank you, Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software verification technology?| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chuckle, giggle'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: winmodem?
If it's a PCI modem, it's probably a winmodem. From the looks of things it's a winmodem. I'd return it for two reasons. 1) It's junk and not a real modem. 2) It'll probably never work on Linux (thank god). I had a similar problem with a Rockwell modem someone gave me, and it turns out to be a winmodem. Goto this site: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html It has a great listing of modems and whether or not they're winmodems. Look for yours. Rob On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, luis wrote: hello: i have the following modem: Arowana Modem 56k Intern PCI Rockwell and i get the following result with lspci -vv : --- 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International: Unknown device 2114 (rev 01) Subsystem: CIS Technology Inc: Unknown device 2114 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Latency: 32 set Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at e400 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr+ DSI+ D1- D2- PME+ Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- --- is this modem a winmodem? how can i know it? thanks a lot -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Rather annoying apt problem
Is there a way to tell apt to go ahead and upgrade packages without worrying about conflicts? Right now, it wants to remove any kde package installed because they all depend on qt1g, and potato has switched to libqt1g which I have installed. Does anyone know of a way to continue upgrading and not have apt remove all those packages, or know of kde packages that depend on libqt1g instead of qt1g? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
fixing dir file
I was reading through the postinstall scripts for dpkg and noticed it appears to have a way to fix the /usr/info/dir file. Is there a way to get dpkg to fix this file? It appears to have gotten corrupted somehow and I now can't install some programs because install-info can't lock the dir file for editing. Anyone know how to fix this? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
install-info in potato
I keep having problems upgrading packages because of install-info. I keep getting this error: install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory Is this a problem with the dpkg package or something on my system? Is there a way to force dpkg to go ahead and install the package anyway, or do you have to modify the install script? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
qt2 packages?
The qt2 packages in potato seem to have been replaced with libqt2 packages, but when I unpack them, I get an error saying: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libqt2_2.0.2-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in package qt1g Is there a way around this conflict or is it going to be fixed soon? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Newt0.30 in potato
There was a posting on here a while ago about a fix for newt0.30 dependency problmes a little while ago, but the message archives don't seem to have caught up yet. Does anyone remember what the solution was? I know where to get the package to fix the problem? It's starting to get annoying not being able to upgrade some of these packages. TIA. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
wine dependencies
Has anyone else noticed that wine depends on libgl1, but that package is no longer available? What happened here? Is libgl1 no longer needed for some reason? Does anyone still have this package because it's not on the debian site anywhere. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: Weird SO5.1 problem
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: Robert Rati wrote: I've been stumped on why SO5.1 hasn't been working on my machine and on a whim, I did a ps aux | grep soffice while it was loaded. What I found was over 10 instances of soffice.bin running. When SO quits, those all die. Is this Star Office's normal behavior? It seems kinda odd to me that that many soffice.bin programs would be open at once. Yes, that appears normal. As the other poster said, I also have 7 instances of soffice.bin running. What exactly isn't working? Well, star office isn't working. When I load it, I get an unrecoverable error about 5-10 seconds after I load it and it quits. I have no idea what has caused this or how to fix it. The Star Office site hasn't been much help in figuring this out. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: LUGs etc.
Yes, I am from Indiana. Rob On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
fortune problems?
For some reason, when I run fortune I get this message: fortune: no place to put residual probability (0%) This happened after I ran the newest wine which caused a kernel panic. I had to do a hard reboot to get the syatem back. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
compiling LIcq plugins/compiler library problems
I'm having a problem compiling plugins for licq, but I think the problem isn't that related to licq. I get an error when trying to add the qt library. Here's the error: c++ -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -g -O2 -I/usr/lib/qt2/include -I/usr/include/kde -o licq_qt-gui.so obj/icqfunctions.o obj/outputwin.o obj/awaymsgdlg.o obj/adduserdlg.o obj/authuserdlg.o obj/userbox.o obj/licqgui.o obj/mainwin.o obj/mledit.o obj/searchuserdlg.o obj/messagebox.o obj/chatdlg.o obj/optionsdlg.o obj/ewidgets.o obj/chatacceptdlg.o obj/fileacceptdlg.o obj/filedlg.o obj/showawaymsgdlg.o obj/sigman.o obj/skin.o obj/utilitydlg.o obj/wharf.o obj/editgrp.o obj/skinbrowser.o obj/registeruser.o -shared -nostdlib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lSM -lICE -lqt -lX11 -lXext -lXss /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [licq_qt-gui.so] Error 1 My question is, why can't the compiler find the qt library? I've compiled it before, but that is when I was running slink. I am now running potato, so I'm wondering if something has broken? If not, anyone know how to fix this problem? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Weird SO5.1 problem
I've been stumped on why SO5.1 hasn't been working on my machine and on a whim, I did a ps aux | grep soffice while it was loaded. What I found was over 10 instances of soffice.bin running. When SO quits, those all die. Is this Star Office's normal behavior? It seems kinda odd to me that that many soffice.bin programs would be open at once. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: True Type font server gives me weird default font
Ya, I ran into this also. I believe I fixed it by uninstalling xfs and re-installing it. I'm not really sure what causes it or why what I did fixed it. If that doesn't work, try uninstalling and re-installing the xfs anf xfstt packages. Wish I could be more helpful, but I kinda stumbled through getting it to work correctly. Rob On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I thought I had configured the true-type font server a few weeks ago, but now I restarted X and all applications for which I don't specify a font are presented in a huge ugly font. The output of xlsfont suggests that ttf are installed and visible. Anyone know what I'm talking about? How to fix it? I had to put this in ~/.Xdefualts to get sanity back: *font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1 (Yeah, I know it's not a true type, but by default I don't want proportionnal fonts. Are there fixed TTF?) Thanks, -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Truetype fonts
Any know the name of some packages that are true-type font servers? I've been looking for them, but I haven't had any luck. TIA. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. |
Star Office 5.1 dead?
I had Star Office 5.1 working just perfectly and upgraded my system to potato. Now, I had it open and running when I did this and it didn't seem to have a problem. I had to reboot for something and now when I try to load Star Office, I get an unrecoverable error and it closes about 5-10 seconds after I load it. I'm not sure if potato caused this or not, but it seems most probable. Does anyone know what went wrong or how to fix it? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
RE: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping that a new version will fix the problem, but currently, and version I try (including .61 which is what started the problem) will act the same. I am hoping .70 will fix it, but don't have too much hope. I've re-complied and re-installed .61 about 3 or 4 times and the problem hasn't gone away. I see now that I misunderstood one thing. My machine was not crashing, just Licq was crashing. I am a KDE user, so I had to leave QT 1.44 in place in /usr/local/qt. I have installed Qt 2.01 in /usr/local/qt-2.01 First, I do: export QTDIR=/usr/local/qt-2.01 I untar the Licq tarball and cd into Licq-0.70 and then ./configure --with-qt-includes=/usr/local/qt-2.01 \ --with-qt-libraries=/usr/local/qt-2.01 [enter] when that is done: make make install When that is all done, I cd to the plugins directory and perform the same steps I performed above (as root) and then I start with a new ~/.licq directory just in case the old one is not compatible. Also, when you are done, re-export your regular QT directory if you cannot use QT 2.00 routinely. If you are using KDE 1.1.1, that's you. -- Andrew I was able to complie .70 and it miraculously fixed the problem. Thank you so much. Those options to configure were what I needed apparantly. Works like a champ now! Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
ps, free. etc...
I seem to have lost ps, free, uptime, etc when I upgraded to potato. Did these commands get moved out to aa separarte package or something? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
Weird ICQ problems
I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
RE: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? I started having a problem like the one you describe with Licq .70h so I went back to the stable version a few days ago and the problem stopped. I have no idea what happened, but I just downloaded (yesterday) the NEW stable Licq release (version .70 final) and it works great. You will have to install QT 2.0 to install the plugin for this version, though. I just re-export QT 1.44 after I am done compiling the plugin. How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping that a new version will fix the problem, but currently, and version I try (including .61 which is what started the problem) will act the same. I am hoping .70 will fix it, but don't have too much hope. I've re-complied and re-installed .61 about 3 or 4 times and the problem hasn't gone away. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than ^ ^^ once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? What specifically does the kernel (or qt, etc) compile 'crash' with? By crash I mean my machine would hang and I'd have to hit the reset button. This caused linux to fsck the drives and of course there'd be a lot of problems. A couple of times fsck couldn't fix it automatically and I had to run fsck manually. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
Quake2 problems
I'm having a problem running Quake 2. When I try to run it I get this error: --- sound initialization --- sound sampling rate: 11047 --- Loading ref_glx.so --- ref_gl version: GL 0.01 recursive shutdown Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx When I get it running with the software renderer and try to switch to the glx renderer, it seg faults. I got it working with glx renderer once, but it was really slow and not really there. Only thing I could get was the menu and it was dropping frames. Does anyone know what is file is that it's complaining about? I've had it running before so I have no idea what this error is. Am I missing something I need to run this? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
/tmp permissions?
I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and ownership supposed to be for /tmp and does anyone know HOW the permissions could've gotten changed? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
Nci drivers for PCI card?
I got myself a cheap 10/100 base-t nic figuring I could get Debian to use it with the ne2k-pci module. Well, unforunteately that doesn't work. I got a Aompex ReadyLINK 100-TX/PCI card. Doesn't anyone know what drivers to use with this? I scoured the 2.2.10 documentation, but this card doesn't seem to be mentioned. Am I sol, or is there something to try? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
SB Live and SMP machines?
I got a SB Live sounds card for some reason (like there's a noticable sound difference) and found a driver for it on creative's site. Unfortunately, the module says it's for non-smp machines. I'm putting together a dual proc machine and was wondering if anyone has tried/gotten the module to work on an smp machine? Does anyone know why it wouldn't work on an smp machine? It doesn't make much sense to me for a module to work on a one kernel build and not another. Anyone have any words of wisdom on this? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: SCSI cable question
The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the same time I believe. Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Most likely, that's all you'll need. The manual should specify what the 25-pin port is somewhere. Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? The terminator goes on the last device in the external chain. You can attach internal devices at the same time, just make sure each device (internal or external) has a different SCSI ID. The internal chain will have to be terminated also. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: need help about video card and Win98
1.) I couldn't run the X Windows GUI because I couldn't setup my video card(RivaTNT) which had 16Mb memory. There are now drivers for the RivaTNT, so you should be alright there. 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into Win98 and opened explorer, my computer hanged. (I think it was trying to access the linux partition...) MS OSes can't see any partition except ones formated with it's file system. It's unlikely it was trying to read the linux partition. There were rumors way back when 98 came out that 98 had some kind of partition or something that it would move around and it could break linux. You may have run into that. Linux shouldn't effect winbloze at all. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Video Card
nVidia has supported their cards with GPL'd source. It's not fully developed yet (full speed ETA: September), and doesn't support all the acceleration, but the Mesa demos work very nicely on my TNT card (ASUS V3400TNT). I haven't been able to get Quake to work. Quake II, though, is quite enjoyable at 800x600. Someday I'll try Quake III. I, too, have been looking at vid cards and had pretty much already decided on the TNT2 before I heard their drivers are open source. That's all I needed to put them on top. But, where do you find the Mesa drivers for them? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Installing X
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: On 30 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm | getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can there | be problems with mixing different versions? | | I upgraded to potato for this very reason. You can't really mix the two distributions very well. The alternative, would be to build X 3.3.3 from sources so you don't have libc problems. I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all. I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Installing X
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: On 30 Jul, Robert Rati wrote: | I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all. | I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine. | Really, well when I last checked, there were no drivers for the Matrox Millenium G200 8MB AGP card in XFree86-3.3.3.1. I do not have a Matrox Millenium, but I believe that card uses the SVGA xserver. I believe the XFree web page has a list of cards that work with SVGA. I'm pretty sure the G200 is one of them, as my friend had one and that's what we used to get it to work. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Default editor at install
It's been a while since I've last installed Debian from scratch. Is ViM the default vi clone installed? I thought it was another clone. Anyone know? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
SCSI Cd-rom device name?
I got a SCSI DVD drive for my computer to use as my CD-rom drive and expand to DVD in the future. Well,it gets detected just find but it's device name is /dev/sr0 (it's the first device on the chain). Shouldn't it be /dev/scd0 since it's basically a cd-rom drive? When I mount /dev/sr0 I can't use a file system format. I can mount it alright, but not using a filesystem to mount it has me a little worried since it's not an ext2 filesystem. In fact, it fails the first time I try and mount it and resets the SCSI bus. My guess was because the drive was sinning up or something. Can anyone tell me why the drive is /sev/sr0, why I don't need a filesystem to mount the drive, or why I'm having that oddity the first time I try and mount the drive? TIA. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
ACK! Too many ftpds.
I want to try and setup an ftp server and wanted to try using proftp as my ftp daemon. I tried to configure it, but when I ftp to the server, I don't get proftpd. I get some other ftp daemon. I did a dpkg -S ftpd and found that netstd appears to have a couple of ftp deamons in it. Can anyone help me out with this? I want to disable those ftp daemons, or learn how to configure them. The only one I can find that runs as a daemon is proftpd. I can't figure out how to disable or configure the ftp daemons. Can anyone help me out? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Question?
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Michael Walton wrote: I have looked at you site, and I was thinking about downloading the OS, but I was wondering if it would conflict with my current operating system. I am currently running DOS 6.0, and Win 3.11 I didn't know if these operating systems would cause a problem with it. If you could give me some Info on my question i would really appreciate it. Thanks, Nope, Linux will reside with your current OS (whatever that may be) just fine. It obviously needs it's own partitions, but other than that won't touch your current setup. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Nics that don't work?
Does anyone know of nics that DON'T work in Linux? With all the winbloze wincrap running around, has there been nics made that don't work in Linux? Does anyone know if D-Link cards works in Linux? Does Linux play nicely with most PCI nics as well? TIA Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: NetScape bash paths
I've been having troubles with working on the configuration of my connection with the graphics side of things. Can you help me out? Basically, I can't get mail from my server and I'm having difficulties with installing netscape. Is there anything you can recommend I do? Or should I check in different places for stuff? Do you need more information? What problems are you having setting up netscape? What mail program are you trying to get mail with and is your mail server a POP3 server? Netscape (when I try to run it), says that it can't find libXpm.so.4 Has anyone else encountered this? Or could you give me a fix? And the netscape in enlightenment won't run because my path variable isn't set to where netscape is. Is there any way for me to change the menu options so that link points to the correct location that the new netscape (4.6, which isn't working, see above) is in? What version of debian are you running and what problems are you having installing it? To find what package you need for libXpm.so.4 do a dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 and that will tell you what package the file is in. It looks like you're missing one of the X packages. Could be xlib6 or something like that. If you're trying to install Netscape 4.6 on a 2.1 or below system, you'll have to get files from the potato distribution. 4.6 is based of glibc 2.1 I believe and a newer version of netscape-base. Do I change the path variable by typing this in eterm: PATH=/the/path/I/want:other/paths/Iwant Does that add those paths to the current profile? Or does it completely change the PATH variable to the above, erasing the former PATH var? The above line will nuke your PATH variable and put /the/path/I/want:other/paths/Iwant as your PATH variable. If you wish to keep your existing PATH variable and add to it, do thist: PATH=/the/path/I/want:other/paths/Iwant:$PATH or something to that effect. the $PATH can be put anywhere on that line. The only thing it will efect is the order directories are searched in your path. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Upgrade slink to a 2.2
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, Is there an apt-get upgrade to move to a 2.2 kernel without causing instability? I haven't used a kernel package in a long time. I dl my kernel source from www.kernel.org because the kernels are much more current there. You don't need to install those, just unpack them. If you want to use a debian package, then go into dselect and find the kernel source for 2.2.x (I think 2.2.1 is the newest they have in slink, but could be wrong). Just for a point of comparison, 2.2.10 is out. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: NetScape bash paths
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Sera Hill wrote: Netscape setup fine using the ./ns-install command (at least it *said* it did), and it created the default dir (/usr/local/netscape), and when I check it, netscape's there. My mail server is a POP3 server. It's basically any mail program I have. I'm not sure how to configure it so that it checks my mail properly. I know how to config the smtp side of things, but not the other. Is there some command I should use? Also, I'm running on a machine connected to a network, but my hostname is different from my e-mail address. Could that be part of the problem? it sounds like you're having a configuration problem with sendmail (or exim, whatever mail program you have installed). If you have sendmail install, try sendmailconfig (I think that's the name). Setting this up was rather annoying for me, personally. The difference between machine and e-mail names isn't a problem. You give the mail program a login and password for your POP account, and it uses that to get mail. It doesn't care about any e-mail addresses. I'd try installing the Debian version of communicator. There are packages in there that will install and set everything up you need to get netscape running. I am using slink. I'm not having problems installing debian, it's netscape that's the problem. Slink is Debian 2.1. If you want to use Communicator 4.6 you'll have to get several packages from the potato distribution. I'm not sure exactly what those are, but I don't think it'll be a minor problem. I'd just use Communicator 4.5, personally. There are packages available for it in the slink distribution, and that's what I run. You don't need to d/l anything from netscape that way. The packages have everything you need. Thanks. So the $PATH adds the above to my past one. Which profiles file does this change? I tried looking at the /etc/profiles file and noticed it was unchanged. The $PATH is your path variable. If you do an echo $PATH you'll see your path. By adding the $PATH in the definition of your path variable, you're saying to put the value of the old path variable in the place of $PATH and add on the other things you have added and store that in PATH. try playing with it to see the effects. Doing it that way will only change the environment for that one shell. If you want to make it more global, you can put the line in your .bashrc or .bash_profile and then any shell your user uses will have that change. If you want a global change (effecting ALL users) you can put it in /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Micro Channel Ethernet...
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Matthew Mueller wrote: Does anyone out there know if there is a linux driver for the 3Com 3c523? I am trying to install Hamm on my PS/2 Model 55sx, but the networking won't go. Thanks in advance, Ya, I have linux running on my PS/2 (same model actually) just fine. I don't have a 3Com card, but a Novell one. Do you have MCA support compiled into your kernel? Do you have the NE/2 driver in your kernel? It might be a card that needs a patch for it. I think I have a web page floating around here somewhere if you need it. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Java-ICQ
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Sera Hill wrote: me again! I'm having difficulty installing java-icq. When I ran dselect on it, dselect couldn't configure it properly. Is there anyone else having this problem? Or shoudl I switch to another kind of icq? Personally, I'd switch to another version of ICQ. I used Java-ICQ and it was very slow and buggy. I've liked Licq a LOT and it's now got just about all the functionality of the windows ICQ. No other ICQ version that I have seen has done that. I currently use KIcq now because I am running KDE, but still use LIcq when I need to do file transfers and stuff. There were some tricks to setting up Java-ICQ when I did it, but I don't remember what they were, unfortunately. Mainly getting jdk installed. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Dumbterminal problem
I've constructed a network in my home (ya I'm a geek) and just recently hooked up a dumb terminal to the router. I'm having an odd problem though. I can list dirs and things just fine from the router to the dumbterminal. When I go to through the router to the net, though, the data comes back and starts getting jarbled on the screen. I think the problem is because the modem is running at 115200 and the dumbterminal is running at 38400, but I'm not really sure. Is there a way to setup flow control so it will slow down the speed so that the dumbterminal can keep up? TIA Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: ADSL
I've used winipcfg to find out the information I need, but Linux is still having problems resolving webSite addresses, especially when I run dselect. Some of the information that the network config file asks from me I also find confusing. Like the gateway question and the Broadcast one, as well as the DNS Server. I'm signed onto Sympatico and they're not helping with Linux config. Is there any way you could give me some kind of step-by-step as to how you did it? Or to help me out somehow? If you need any more information, let me know. I don't know about getting ADSL to work, but I do know what those terms mean that you are having problems with. DNS is the Domain Name Server. When you type in an internet address, say www.slashdot.org, the browser asks the DNS server what the ip address is of that site so it can make a connection. Without a DNS, you can only make ip connections and can't use doman names. The broadcast is the address that your machine will send info out. Usually it is the same as your IP address, except the last section is 255. For example, if you have an IP address of 10.0.3.10, the broadcast usually is 10.0.3.255. The gateway is the machine through which all your requests to the internet is processed. The gateway is usually the computer that allows you to get out of you network. Usually the gateway is the same as your IP address, only the last number is 1. For exmaple, using the above number, the gateway would be 10.0.3.1. As for setting up the ADSL, the way I understand it is you basically set it up like an ethernet device and everything should work. I'm not exactly sure since i've never done it before. Hope this helps some. Rob
Re: ADSL
When I'm going through the networking setup, it asks me whether to set the last bits at 0 or 1 or if I have a different Broadcast address. When I go onto winipcfg, I get the following under Host Information: Node Type: Broadcast. This doesn't tell me if it sets all last bits to 0 or 1 or what? Or does it? You shouldn't need anything other than the default setting for this that I know of. I'd leave it at the default value that's highlighted. I also didn't get the Gateway thing. In my winipcfg, it says that the Default Gateway is *.*.*.* (where the *s are wildcard IP #s). Is this the Gateway for Linux? That is rather odd. I've never seen it before. I'd go ahead and try that as the deafult gateway for linux. If the gateway works for windows, the same values *should* work for linux. I think you need to use 0's instead of *'s in linux though. Give that a try and see what happens. I started by setting everything up like an ethernet device, and the modem says it's in link with the computer, but the computer cannot look up web addresses, when I run dselect under the ats (?-you know, the kind that downloads stuff) system. This is probably because the gateway isn't setup correctly. Once the gateway is setup, that problem will probably go away, but don't quote on me that. :) Can you ping a something outside your network? Try looking at kernel.log or ppp.log and see what's there. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jason Carley wrote: Hi all, I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have loaded the kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it found. Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for SCSI device 0). There is no /dev/sg* on my slink system. Where will I find the appropriate device? Thanks for your help. Just to make sure you know, sg* stands for SCSI-generic. Do you have generic SCSI support compiled into your kernel? Make sure it's not a module unless you compiled support for your SCSI card as a module also or the module will not be loaded in time to detect the scanner. If all this is true, does your SCSI card find the scanner at boot time in linux? If all you need it the sg* devices, you can make them with MAKEDEV in /dev dir. Look at a the script to see what target you need to give it to make the sg* devices. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: ipchains redirect oddity
ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 8080 -j REDIRECT ipchains: No chain by that name The chain is forward and not redirect I believe. Read the ipchains HOW-TO and that should solve your problems. I believe you need another utility to do port redirection, but I can't get the exact name off the top of my head. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Linux Installation Question
Hello, I am interested in installing the Linux OS on my Compaq Presario 2266. I also wish to retain my current OS, Windows 98. I have been to your FTP site but I am confused as to what files I need and where to place them to get Linux running. Your assistance is appriciated. Goto: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ It will have all you need. Rob
Re: Networking help
I pulled everything out of my machine but the video card and the nic and the nic still wouldn't work. Usually I wouldn't have asked the mailing list about such a simple thing, but this has me baffled. Do you, or anyone else, know of anything else to try to get my nic working correctly? Rob On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: [snip] A quick look at the kernel source shows some LinkSys cards use the Tulip driver (likely not yours, as I thought these were all PCI cards) and some use the Lance driver; have you tried using the Lance driver? Also, is it a combo card (twisted pair/coax)? If it is you may need to set the media type using the (with any luck) supplied utility rather than trusting in the media autodetection logic. The Lance driver doesn't find my nic at all, and the media type is set in the eeprom. As I said, I had it working with these exact settings before. When I do a modeprobe without an irq, there's an entry in syslog that says it can't determine the irq. Know anything else to try? I'm running out of options here; the only other thing that I can think of is a hardware conflict (some other device is also using IRQ 10), or a driver misconfiguration (some other driver is listening to IRQ 10). Sometimes ISAPNP BIOSes do stupid things with IRQs, but I'd expect that if that were the problem you'd also have trouble in Windows. One option is to remove any cards other than your VGA and Ethernet cards, and see if that helps; if it does, you can start adding things back in and see where things break. Be warned that arbitrarily adding and removing hardware has been known to make Windows sulk. Good luck, John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for x86 Installation Problem
You have a very in depth message, which is good. Your problem is simple. The rec1400.bin and other files are disk images. You have to extract them to a floppy disk using rawrite or rawrite2. You'll just have to install with those floppies because all disks but the rescue disk are in ext2 format, and windows can't read that to copy it to your partition. The disk installation doesn't take too long. Rob On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Hendy Agung S. wrote: Hello Debian-User, I'm a new subscriber to this list and really new to Linux so forgive me regarding my stupid question and this long-enough e-mail. I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on my P133. But the installation couldn't be completed because I'm experiencing the problem I described below. These are what I have : * /dev/hda1 Win95 FAT32 * /dev/hda2 Linux Native * /dev/hda4 Linux Swap * Debian archives (resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, base2_1.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat, loadlin.exe) are stored in my C:\temp\Debian And here are the Installation Processes I involved so far : * No Setup failure until the following Steps : * Initialize a Linux Partition * I selected /dev/hda2 to be initialized as Linux Ext2 filesystem. * I mounted /dev/hda2 as the root filesystem ( / ) * Install Operating System Kernel and Modules * I selected the medium I will use to install the system (that's my harddisk) * I selected the partition where my Debian archives resides (/dev/hda1) * I choosed the path inside the harddisk filesystem where the Debian archive resides by typing /temp/Debian * I selected the directory containing a file resc1440.bin that will be used * Automatic List Setup gives me /instmnt/temp/Debian, I verified it by hit Enter, then I got an Error Message : Cannot read /floppy/type.txt : invalid argument (in this failure the only thing I can do is hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to send SIGKILL to all process then reboot my PC) * Choose Manualy Setup Message : The installation medium is mounted below and gives me /instmnt/temp/Debian as same as Automatic List, when I hit Enter I'll got the Error Message. If I edit the choise with /temp/Debian, I got the message File not found ! (/temp/Debian does not contain the file resc1440.bin that is needed to install the Kernel and the Modules) (in this failure, I still can go back to the Install Operating System Kernel and Modules Menu) So, is there any clue to solve this problem? Thanks in advance Hendy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Networking help
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 04:52:14PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: [snip] Your NIC driver is sending stuff to your NIC and expects to receive an interrupt down the track (probably to say that it has finished), but the interrupt never arrives. In approximately descending order of plausability, you either: - Have configured the NIC driver to use the wrong IRQ; or - Have a broken NIC; or - Have configured the NIC driver to use the wrong I/O address; or - Are using the wrong module for your NIC. If it's a PCI card, then settings probably *aren't* the problem. I know the nic works because I can still use it in winblows. The card is detected when I give it an irq, or atleast it is said to be detected correctly. The werid thing is, it stopped being detected when I just gave it the io port. It used to just need the io port, and it would find the irq itself and work just fine. Now I have to give it the irq also, and it says it finds it but it doesn't work. My nic is an ISA Linksys and I just use the ne drive for it. I've had it working before and it still works in winblows, so I don't think it's the settings or the card. It's got an EEPROM on it, and the eeprom is set to use IRQ 10 and io 0x240. A quick look at the kernel source shows some LinkSys cards use the Tulip driver (likely not yours, as I thought these were all PCI cards) and some use the Lance driver; have you tried using the Lance driver? Also, is it a combo card (twisted pair/coax)? If it is you may need to set the media type using the (with any luck) supplied utility rather than trusting in the media autodetection logic. The Lance driver doesn't find my nic at all, and the media type is set in the eeprom. As I said, I had it working with these exact settings before. When I do a modeprobe without an irq, there's an entry in syslog that says it can't determine the irq. Know anything else to try? Rob
Re: Networking help
The message in /var/log/syslog said this:
Jul 2 20:27:08 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
TSR=0x1, ISR=0x2, t=3500.
Jul 2 20:27:18 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
TSR=0x1, ISR=0x2, t=1000.
Jul 2 20:27:28 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
Jul 2 20:27:48 Obereon last message repeated 2 times
Jul 2 20:27:55Obereon
ypbind[157]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
This message can't mean what it seems. A lost interrupt? That's not
possible is it? I have never encountered this thing before. Can anyone
give some insite?
Rob
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
Robert:
I see 22 transmit errors on the eth0 interface. Check /var/log/syslog
(or /var/log/kern.log) for a description of the errors. I'm running one
of the 2.0.x kernels, so I can't be much help with problems specific to
your kernel. The files in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ have some-
times been some help to me in hunting down problems.
Marc
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Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/01 5:26 PM
I have been having problems getting my Debian box to talk to my internal
network at all, and I'm stumped as to why. None of the how-to's have
helped at all. The configuration should be working and I know the ether
card works because I've used it before. I can ping my box from itself,
but I can't ping any machine on the network, and no machine can ping mine.
Route gives this:
Destination GatewayGenmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
10.0.3.0* 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
Long pause
default 10.0.3.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0
When I do an ifconfig I get this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:2F:1D:D5
inet addr:10.0.3.11 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:22 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x240
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Here's my /etc/init.d/network:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
#route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=10.0.3.11
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.3.0
BROADCAST=10.0.3.255
GATEWAY=10.0.3.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
#route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
I'm running kernel 2.2.10. I've noticed that there are no RX packets for
my ether card, but I'm not sure if that means anything or not. Can anyone
give me some things to try or some info that could lead to a better
diagnosis? strace is cryptic, but it appears to be trying to ping the
correct ip addresses. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. TIA.
Rob
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Bad clusters
How does Linux handle bad clusters or can linux not use a hard drive with bad clusters? How do you get a report of the bad clusters? I was formatting a HD in linux and it started taking a REALLY long time near the end of it. In DOS, bad sectors were reported, but it finished formatting. I installed linux and set it up, but was having some really weird problems and thought it might be because of the bad sectors. So, I nuked the partitions and tried to format in DOS again, only this time it wouldn't format. Linux formatted (even with the option for to report bad clusters) but it took a long time, as I said. Thus, I am wondering how linux handles bad clusters. TIA. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Networking help
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:41:47PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote The message in /var/log/syslog said this: Jul 2 20:27:08 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x2, t=3500. Jul 2 20:27:18 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x2, t=1000. Jul 2 20:27:28 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=1000. Jul 2 20:27:48 Obereon last message repeated 2 times Jul 2 20:27:55Obereon ypbind[157]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out. This message can't mean what it seems. A lost interrupt? That's not possible is it? I have never encountered this thing before. Can anyone give some insite? Your NIC driver is sending stuff to your NIC and expects to receive an interrupt down the track (probably to say that it has finished), but the interrupt never arrives. In approximately descending order of plausability, you either: - Have configured the NIC driver to use the wrong IRQ; or - Have a broken NIC; or - Have configured the NIC driver to use the wrong I/O address; or - Are using the wrong module for your NIC. If it's a PCI card, then settings probably *aren't* the problem. I know the nic works because I can still use it in winblows. The card is detected when I give it an irq, or atleast it is said to be detected correctly. The werid thing is, it stopped being detected when I just gave it the io port. It used to just need the io port, and it would find the irq itself and work just fine. Now I have to give it the irq also, and it says it finds it but it doesn't work. My nic is an ISA Linksys and I just use the ne drive for it. I've had it working before and it still works in winblows, so I don't think it's the settings or the card. It's got an EEPROM on it, and the eeprom is set to use IRQ 10 and io 0x240. Rob
Networking help
I have been having problems getting my Debian box to talk to my internal
network at all, and I'm stumped as to why. None of the how-to's have
helped at all. The configuration should be working and I know the ether
card works because I've used it before. I can ping my box from itself,
but I can't ping any machine on the network, and no machine can ping mine.
Route gives this:
Destination GatewayGenmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
10.0.3.0* 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
Long pause
default 10.0.3.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0
When I do an ifconfig I get this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:2F:1D:D5
inet addr:10.0.3.11 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:22 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x240
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Here's my /etc/init.d/network:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
#route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=10.0.3.11
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.3.0
BROADCAST=10.0.3.255
GATEWAY=10.0.3.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
#route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
I'm running kernel 2.2.10. I've noticed that there are no RX packets for
my ether card, but I'm not sure if that means anything or not. Can anyone
give me some things to try or some info that could lead to a better
diagnosis? strace is cryptic, but it appears to be trying to ping the
correct ip addresses. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. TIA.
Rob
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Re: ftping through a router
That's exactly the case, ans setting the ftp client to passive mode worked. I use ipchains to set the firewall rules thusly: Default input chain is ACCEPT Default forward chain is DENY with two entries to MASQ for ppp0 and eth0 Default output chain is ACCEPT I don't see how these rules prevent the active mode of ftp. What do the rules need to allow for active ftp to work? Also, where is this ip_masq_ftp module you are referring to? Is it a kernel module? If so, I don't have it, but I compiled everything into the kernel that I thought I'd need. I didn't use modules at all. Know any way to check to see if that functionality is there? Thanks for all your help. Rob On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: I guess that you used ipfwadm/ipchains to set your box as a router. What's probably happening is that you have blocked the incoming connection from the ftp server. To solve this you can either change your ip rules or try and use the passive (pasv) form of ftp where the server tells the client the port to connect to and the client then does the connection: note that some windows FTP clients can't do this commonly the dos box ones can't. On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:00:40AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I setup a router for a home network, and everything seems to work fine but one thing. I can't use ftp. I can connection to sites outside my network via ftp, but I can't do the ls command. Usually, when you do a lsc, you get something back like: 200 Port Command or something like that, but instead, I get: 500 Illegal PORT Command If you are masquerading, make sure you have the module ip_masq_ftp. === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Debian not talking to network
I can ping my box, from my box, and it works fine. I'm pretty sure the
ether card is working since it's the same setup I had when I was using it
earlier in the year. It wasn't detected for some reason for a time and i
h ad to add the irq=x to the options line for loading my module, but now
it says it finds it. When I do a netsat -r, I get this:
Destination GatewayGenmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
10.0.3.0* 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
Long pause
default 10.0.3.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0
When I do an ifconfig I get this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:2F:1D:D5
inet addr:10.0.3.11 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:22 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x240
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Here's my /etc/init.d/network:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
#route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=10.0.3.11
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.3.0
BROADCAST=10.0.3.255
GATEWAY=10.0.3.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
#route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
ANd I'm running kernel 2.2.10. This has got me baffled. It was working
earlier under a different ip address and a differnt ethernet setupo. Can
you shed some light on this or some things to try? Thanks.
Rob
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
Robert:
ping the debian box's IP address from the debian box to verify that
the Ethernet interface is working.
If it is, look at routing: netstat -r. You should have a static route
for the local network and a default route to the router.
If it is not, use ifconfig, to see whether the interface has been
configured, is up, etc. Post the results from any inspection you make.
You're certain that you've compiled support for your NIC into the kernel,
are loading the appropriate kernel modules correctly, etc., right?
If you haven't already, read the NET-3-HOWTO
(http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.html).
It contains everything you ever wanted to know about Linux networking.
Marc
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Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/23 6:40 PM
I'm setting up a network at home and have gotten the router setup and
given the IP addresses to their machines, but my debian box won't talk to
the network. Oddly enough, the windows box will, so I know the router is
setup correctly. In order to do that though, I had to change the frame
type from auto to Ethernet 802.2. I can't get my linux box to ping the
router, nor get it to send out any packets that I can see. Does anyone
have any ideas of things to try to get my debian box talking to the rest
of the network? Any help would be appreciated.
Rob
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ftping through a router
I setup a router for a home network, and everything seems to work fine but one thing. I can't use ftp. I can connection to sites outside my network via ftp, but I can't do the ls command. Usually, when you do a lsc, you get something back like: 200 Port Command or something like that, but instead, I get: 500 Illegal PORT Command I can cd and pwd, but can't get a file listing. Do I have to do some kid of port redirection or something on the router? I can't tell whether I can send or recieve files since I can't get dir listings. Does anyone have any info on this? Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10
Just comment out the route add -net line from your /etc/init.d/network file. It is no longer needed because in the 2.2.x kernels, that is taken care of in a different place. Rob On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ralf Comtesse wrote: Hello, I compiled kernel 2.2.10 today and almost everything went fine. The only problem is when booting. In /etc/rcS.d S40network is called and there you find the line route add -net 127.0.0.0 wich gives me SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Was there change that I did not get? Sth. else I missed? The network seems alrigt. How do I get rid of the error message (without deleting the line ;-)) ) Regards Ralf Ralf Comtessee-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baerwaldstr. 63 Tel: +49-30-28599230 10961 Berlin Fax: +49-30-28599231 Member of the Cetus Team. For OO links visit: http://www.cetus-links.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Debian not talking to network
I'm setting up a network at home and have gotten the router setup and given the IP addresses to their machines, but my debian box won't talk to the network. Oddly enough, the windows box will, so I know the router is setup correctly. In order to do that though, I had to change the frame type from auto to Ethernet 802.2. I can't get my linux box to ping the router, nor get it to send out any packets that I can see. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try to get my debian box talking to the rest of the network? Any help would be appreciated. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Plug-n-Play Modem
Ya, I have a Boca 33.6 running in Linux currently. What do you use to dial with the modem? What are you trying to dial into? An isp? Rob On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug Dine wrote: Hi All, Has anyone successfully gotten a PNP modem to work with Debian? I installed an older Hayes 33.6 PNP modem in my Linux machine. I have it set up to where it dials and connects but then it just sits there. I have all the info for the initialization string and it worked well under Windows. Any ideas? Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
hamm dist sites
Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO Modem and Debian
Is it a PCI modem? If so, it's probalby a winmodem and won't work in Linux. Rob On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Dan Hatton wrote: I seem to be having some difficulty setting up my modem under Debian; wvdial gives an input/output error and dies, and ppp, which I've set up with all the appropriate parameters, doesn't do much at all. Any ideas, please? Ta Dan Hatton -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Nic went bye bye
Has anyone had their nic stop working when changing from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10 kernel? I have an isa linksys card that I just use the ne2000 driver with, only for some reason at boot up, it can not find my nic even though the io port has not changed. To make it worse, I can't just insmod the module (I compiled it as a module) because I get errors for some reason. Anyone had this problem before? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: ppp connection and winmodem is supported
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the following message while running pon on dev/ttyS0. Jun 20 22:44:43 debian pppd[602]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: abort on (BUSY) Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: abort on (VOICE) Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: send (ATZ^M) Jun 20 22:44:44 debian chat[605]: expect (OK) Jun 20 22:45:29 debian chat[605]: alarm Jun 20 22:45:29 debian chat[605]: Failed Jun 20 22:45:29 debian pppd[602]: Connect script failed Jun 20 22:45:30 debian pppd[602]: Exit. running on /dev/ttyS1, I got the following message Jun 20 22:19:34 debian pppd[168]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jun 20 22:19:34 debian pppd[168]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Jun 20 22:19:35 debian pppd[168]: Exit. I believe the ppp support module is loaded and ppp package is installed as base linux system , I got the following message when booting. Jun 20 21:59:17 debian kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Jun 20 21:59:17 debian kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Jun 20 21:59:17 debian kernel: PPP line discipline registered. one of debian documents winmodem is not supported by linux ppp. I use US Robotics 56 K VoiceWin modem? is it true? Yes it's true. Winmodems are not supported by Linux currently. If you have a PCI modem, it's probably a winmodem and you're sol. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Getting there
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I am not a dedicated Linux lover. I chose Debian becuase I was tired of Windoews pissing me off by crashing and loosing my data. Some of the Windows applications are brilliant pieces of software, and simple and stable to use. Especially some of the email clients are. I miss them! I ran mutt for a month. It's not that I haven't tried. I am doing fine now with my combo, but I do not see any reason why easy to use/configure software should not be available? My girlfirend wants Debian on her machine, but she says she doesnt have time for all those conf files she sees me editing all the time. I have gotten off list mailings that suggest I reconsider using Linux since I feel like I do! I knew it was coming, and it did. Something never changes. I am just hoping that one change is was the availability of more great software on a great platform. I am not able to code, but I am willing to pay! :) I think what you are getting it is one of the biggest problems with Linux, in a way. Most people like Linux for it's configurability and control over every aspect of the OS. I know that's one of the reasons I like it. Problem is, by packaging products like you suggest gets away from that control and configurability and heads more towards a windows type environment, which is something almost all Linux users want to avoid. Linux takes a lot more time to setup than any other OS (maybe BeOS comes close), but that's because you have so many more options. You can't have easy of configuration without losing control. Atleast not well. I agree with most of the posts that say keeping the e-mail pieces separate is a good idea. It gives you that level of control and configurability you can't find with any other major OS. Bottom line, to use linux, you have to WANT to put in the time to learn and configure things. In doing so, you also gain knowledge of how programs work and how the OS fits together. Just my two cents. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
routing help
I need some help with setting up a firewall for a router. Basically, I just want to set it up to forward packets on to other machines on the network. I read the manpage for ipfwadm, and it looks like ipfwadm -F -p deny is where I want to begin. Setting the default rule to deny. Problem is, when I do this, I get this error: ipfwadm:setsockopt failed: Invalid arguement I've also noticed I don't have a /proc/net/ip-forward, which could be a big problem. I've got masquerading compiled into the kernel, but I could find no option that talked about forwarding. The 2.0.x kernels had this as a specific option, but the 2.2.x kernels don't appear to. Can someone give me some hints or nudges in the right direction? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Rescue disk changes from 2.0 to 2.1
Why does the 2.1 rescue disk not allow you to install to a esdi drive when the 2.0 rescue disk does? At boot time, the kernel on the 2.1 rescue disk sees the drives, so the kernel is basically the same as the 2.0 kernel, but there are no devices for esdi drives (eda, edb, etc) in /dev once the rescue disk is booted. Since the kernel is the same, this must be an oversite right? It doesn't make sense to be able to install to an esdi drive in 20 and not 2.1. Can anyone shead some light on why this has happened? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: NIC woes
I believe you can pass lilo options like that with the append command. Look for it in the lilo or lilo.conf manpages. Rob On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Julienna Chu wrote: Guys, My NIC is not detected properly whe nI boot up. I have to pass the irq, etc. options thorugh lilo to make Debian recognize it properly. i.e. At the lilo prompt O enter, lilo=linux ether= 11,0x300,0,0,eth0 Can I just stick in ether= 11,0x300,0,0,eth0 in lilo.conf and make it work? THere's got to be a more efficent way to make this work. Can someone please e-mail me the answer? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Moving a kernel
I want to compile a kernel on one machine and move it to another, but am having som problems. The kernel README (2.2.9) just says to compile it, copy it to where lilo looks for the kernel, and run lilo. I've done this on the other machine, and I get to the loading linux message and then nothing happens. It apparantly finds and uncompresses the kernel, but gets no farther. I'm at a loss of things to do. Do I need to move more files than just the kernel? Can anyone help me out? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Router help
I'm trying to install Debian on a PS/2 55 sx (386/16) and am running into a number of problems. First, I've compiled a 2.2.9 kernel for it, and copied it onto the machine and run lilo, but when I try to boot, it uncompresses the kernel and says it's booting the kernel, but nothing ever happens. I have 16 meg of ram, so memory should be the issue (8 on the main motherboard and 8 more in an expansion card). The HD appears to be doing something, but nothing ever comes up on the screen. I was under the impression that the 2.2.9 kernels would run as long as you have a min of 7 meg. Am I wrong? Will the 2.2.x kernels not run on 386s? Secondly, I'm trying to install this machine onto a 40 meg partition with a 17 meg swap (all I could afford) and am having space problems. Can anyone suggest a course of action of get the bare minimum packages (no devel stuff etc) without having dselect already select them? It's a pain to run dselect on a 386 because it's so slow. Any help would be appreciated. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
Try reading the install documentation. It tells you all you need to know about installing the base system. From there, you download packages.gz files that have lists of packages and you select which ones you want. This is all taken care of in the installation process so all you need to do is install the base system, which as I said, you can learn how to do from reading the install txt. In the future, please try no to be so harsh when mailing to this list. You are obviously frustrated, but you can get more flies with honey than vinegar. Everyone on here is willing to help so all you have to do is ask. Rob On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Hall wrote: Webmaster at Debian, How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30 MINUTES and have gone to every distribution link on it, but there's no singular link that actually downloads ALL 2250 files of Debian, and WHO in the world is going to down load TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FILES one at a time!! Please, if you expect any users other than 24-hour computer junkies to use your software, get your act together and SHOW me a very obvious link that allows me, the USER, the Customer, to easily down all 2250 files in one hit. As of this moment I don't even know where to start, even though I've been at you site for 30 minutes! If you haven't recieved hundreds of e-mails like this, I can assure it's because the potential Debian/Linux user gets so fed up, that they simply give up and stick with Windows because even Microsoft knows how to deal with actual people. I don't want you to do everything for me, but PLEASE make a SINGLE download, even a zip containing all those files, so that I don't have to spend 5 hours trying to install YOUR software! The public wants Linux and Open Software, but your making it very hard to adjust, even for some one who is a hobbiest in writing simple java and C++ apps. Thank you for reading. -Hopefully, a soon to be satisfied user _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Where is my SCSI tape drive?
Might want to try making the device with MAKEDEV. Rob On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, David Hamilton wrote: I would expect to see it at /dev/st0 or /dev/tape, but there are no such devices. I see the SCSI device during boot and the DAT drive is recognized. What am I missing? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: SV: A little further: Short newbie question
You could try mounting the drive as a vfat drive and creating the long dir that way. I'm not sure if that will work or not (probably won't if the drive is formated by DOS) but it's worth a try. Rob On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a tremendous lot for all the help. It really helps keeping my spirit up as a newbie. I managed to mount the dos partition allright, but it seems like dselect wants an exact copy of the ftp-site, which is a problem since I can't make the directory binary-i386 with only 8 characters allowed in dos. Seems like I'm gonna have to borrow a cd-drive off of somebody and try to do the installation from there, alternatively (re)install the winbastard in the dos-partition to be able to use longer names. Damn. Anyone got any brilliant ideas for a (masochist?!) newbie?! Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer... -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra:Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 8. juni 1999 19:15 Til:Wichmann, Viggo Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Emne: Re: A little further: Short newbie question [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks: Enter filesystem type for dev/hda: What's linuxian for a dos filesystem? Vitux -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Wichmann, Viggo Sendt:8. juni 1999 16:24 Til: 'debian user' Emne: Short newbie question Hi Debians Whats the partition's block device name? I'm trying to install Debian from the dos-partition using dselect. I copied alle the files from the ftp(main, etc.)-archives and put them into the dos partition. I believe Linux should be able to see the dos-part., but I don't know the path to it in linux-speak. (It worked fine a week ago, in my first attempt, but that was only the base system). I tried putting /dev/hda1/ but got the error: /dev/hda1/ is not a block device. What am I doing wrong? (Yes I did check the Installing debian gnu/Linux manual, but found only basic inst. info., which I am getting familiar with...) Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer. Since it worked before during a base install, I about half-wonder if that partition didn't get clobbered somehow during that base install. Can you still boot into DOS/Windows okay? If so, then the partition is still fine. If not, then perhaps you need to verify that you are using the correct specification. To do this, get to a VT screen (if you're in the installer program, you can press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to the second virtual terminal). Then run cfdisk (or fdisk for a more cryptic version); this program will show you what partitions you have where (you've already run this once during the base install, so it should look familiar). If everything looks fine, you might try mounting the partition manually. Again, from a virtual terminal, as root, type something like this: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /drivec You'll need to use whatever cfdisk showed as your dos partition in place of the /dev/hda1, and the /drivec directory must already exist. If not, you can create it with mkdir /drivec. (Alternatively, use /mnt instead of /drivec; it probably already exists.) One final idea; do an ls -l /dev/hd* | more command. This will list all the hd* items in the /dev directory. You should see one named /dev/hda1 (or whatever your dos partition is on) and the first character on the line should be a b (next to the rw-r- type stuff, which means it's a block device; c means it's a character device, etc). If it's missing or doesn't have the b, report it to this list so the more experienced folks can help you out. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: OT: dual processor question
Yes this is true, to some extent. YOu have to have two processors with the same stepping and revision in order to dual-proc them. I have heard though, that you can have two processors of different stepping and revision numbers and still multi-proc them, but your performance may suffer a little. Rob On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Christian Pernegger wrote: Is it true that two Pentium II 400 have to have a same number of some kind to use them in dual mode. I'd intended to buy a dual board and add a new proc. to my 400 but someone told me that wouldn't work Comments appreciated tia Christian -Original Message- From: D'jinnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 5:42 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: /dev/audio Never mind. It helps to go through old emails first before you post. I just don't understand why stuff like that is not created right away... --- ... After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key ICQ #2878130 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor
What type of card do you have? Is it PCI or ISA? If it's ISA, is it PNP? We can probably get your card going. I am undertaking the same project with a few more complications. Namely a PS/2 and MCA bus. Rob On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Andy Bottman wrote: I am trying to set up a small ethernet network. I am so far failing at step 1? Trying to get my ethernet card recognized as a device (NE2000 Clone). I am looking for someone to guide me thru this process, I don't need my handheld but need a little direction. I have been putzin around with the how-to's for months, answers are not as obvius as some would attest. Would someone be willing to help me out, I would gladly pass on any knowledge gained to another poor sap in the future. THANK YOUR GENEROUS SOULS ANDY == ANDY BOTTMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor
Well, probably the easiest way is to check with the manufacturer. How old is the card? You can try doing a pnpdumpo and see if your card is detected. If not, it's probably not PNP. Another way to tell is to try doing a modprobe, but that would involve you compiling a kernel probably. I'm going to guess it's not PNP. Do you know the io port and irq of your nic? Rob On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Andy Bottman wrote: Thanks It is an ISA card. I do not know if it is PNP, is there a simple way to tell? What type of card do you have? Is it PCI or ISA? If it's ISA, is it PNP? We can probably get your card going. I am undertaking the same project with a few more complications. Namely a PS/2 and MCA bus. Rob == ANDY BOTTMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] == === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
PCI modem
I was just given a PCI modem by a friend of mine and he calims it's a PNP modem but not a winmodem. I hope he's right, but I don't know how to tell if it's a winmodem. Debian sees the modem when I cat /proc/pci and calls it a serial interface card (same thing windows calls it until you give it drivers) but can't figure out the maker of the device. It's a Rockwell modem and really gerneric so I don't find that too surprising. My BIOS sees the modem and says that the modem is on IRQ 9, which unfortunately is also where my sound card is. Can anyone help me out in getting this modem working in Linux? I had an isa pnp modem before that I got to work, but I don't know how to get a pci modem to work. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Communicator 4.6
Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver = 10, but the only version I can find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone had any luck? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
KOffice
Anyone know where to get deb for FDE's koffice for slink? None of the sites I've found have koffice. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
