PPP Server

1998-04-28 Thread Oscar Ornelas Kiengelher
Hola a todos!!! Estoy DESESPERADO!!! ¡¡AYUDA POR FAVOR!!! Problema: Intento que mi computadora trabaje como servidor de PPP. El modem del servidor contesta al modem cliente y se conectan pero no logro que exista transmision y recepcion de datos. El log que me da al tratar de

Re: Actualizacion de nucleo desde 0

1998-04-28 Thread Roberto Ruiz
El Kernel 2.0.33 esta en cualquier mirror del ftp de debian, dentro del directorio bo-updates, yo lo baje del mirror de Japón. ;) ftp2.linux.or.jp en pub/linux/debian/bo-updates Esta el paquete de imagen para instalar y el paquete de código fuente tambien. Saludos On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Toni

Re: PPP Server

1998-04-28 Thread Eladio A. Maqueda
04/27 20:48:09 yS1 WARNING: DSR is off - modem turned off or bad cable? Esta creo que es la clave. Debes mirar dos cosas. 1- Mira si el cable está bien, está bien enchufado o tiene alguna patilla mal (el cable serie). Si el modem es interno olvida este punto. 2.- Mira si has configurado el

Re: auserver

1998-04-28 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Fernando Sainz Munoz wrote: He estado cacharreando con el modulo FvwmAudio desde fvwm2 Lo he configurado para que use auplay y funciona. En el man de FvwmAudio hace referencia a /usr/lib/sounds donde hay archivos con extension .au 1.au, 2.au, etc.. pero estos archivos no

LAM MPI

1998-04-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro Varela
Hola a todos, Resulta que estoy aprendiendo MPI: el Message Passing Interface. Es algo que permite hacer cálculos en paralelo, muy parecido al PVM (la máquina virtual paralela). Y, claro, lo quiero probar en Linux también. Hay una versión distribuida con licencia GNU que se llama

Scripts de root

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Monserrat
Hola gente, el otro día, hice, para hacer unas pruebas, un shell script. Le di el permiso de ejecución, y active el SUID (propietario root). Cuando lo ejecuto como un usuario normal, *no* soy rut, por que??? Ya sé que no es nada recomendable hacer un script de root y que se podría solucionar

Re: LAM MPI

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:00:05AM +0200, Antonio Vieiro Varela wrote: Resulta que estoy aprendiendo MPI: el Message Passing Interface. Es algo que permite hacer cálculos en paralelo, muy parecido al PVM (la máquina virtual paralela). Y, claro, lo quiero probar en Linux también.

Re: LAM MPI

1998-04-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:00:05AM +0200, Antonio Vieiro Varela wrote: Hay una versión distribuida con licencia GNU que se llama LAM-MPI. Estoy intentando bajarlo de http://www.osc.edu/Lam/lam/lam61-release.html pero, como siempre, la red de investigación es lentísima. vo'

Re: Web Browsers without xwindows?

1998-04-28 Thread AJT60
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: I am new to Linux and have installed Debian 1.3 without xwindows. I want to do as much if not everything I can without using xwindows or some other windows like interface. I would like to know if there is a web browser that I can use that does

sendmail error

1998-04-28 Thread Hans Ehrbar
I first had smail on my system and then replaced it with sendmail, and since then I cannot mail anything to my debian linux box. Regardless of the address, it says: 553 buo319b.econ.utah.edu. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Local configuration error

M-g in XEmacs 20.4?

1998-04-28 Thread SEGV
This is probably a FAQ, or some keyboard thing, but ever since I compiled and installed XEmacs 20.4 on hamm unstable, I've lost my META key. I'm not sure if it was the XEmacs or Debian upgrade that did it, or something else. When I press M-g (which as a developer I use frequently) I get A-g not

errors!!

1998-04-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am trying to compile 2.0.33 and I get the following errors: -- make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \

found a great graphic card

1998-04-28 Thread Alain Toussaint
while surfing the content of the jameco catalog (received it this morning),i found a great deal on a VL-BUS graphic card,from the image,it look like a a number 9 unit with an S3 chip,it's listed at around 45 bucks for a 1 Mb combo (doesn't need more,i only have a 14 inch monitor),i'd like to know

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 02:29:51PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: No, I wasnt saying to convert debian to rpm, I was saying to offer debian packages in rpm format so someone with a readhat system could install some of them. Example, Red Hat has no well-configured smail, cnews, nntp, uucp. If

bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
When I do ncftp ftp.debian.org 2 error.log error.log looks like: Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option [EMAIL PROTECTED](none). Error: Unrecognized preference option

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: While I'm still running Debian (for years - and on dozens of machines), I've long considered switching to RedHat for the simple reason that RPM's seem to be more readily

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: No, it's just that rpm is prevalent. There are at least 2 or 3 other distributions that use it. As I understand it, Dpkg and the deb format where a day late and a dollar short meaning that it hit the masses just a

fips15c -- last cylinder used

1998-04-28 Thread David Boone
Hello everyone. I have a 7 GB hard drive at home here with Windows 95 on it, and was trying to repartition it with the revised fips for FAT 32, but it complains that the last cylinder is used so it cannot be shrunk. Now, my question is, how do I figure out which file this is? Yes, I defragged

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 06:56:34PM -0600, Britton Leo Kerin wrote: error.log looks like: Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option [EMAIL PROTECTED](none). Error:

Re: ssh telneting

1998-04-28 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Miller writes: I often telnet to my Linux box from a win95 machine. Does anyone know of a nice win95 telnet program that supports ssh and ANSI (preferably free)? There a free one out there somewhere, but I have had some problems with it. F-Secure is okay(I'm

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt writes: On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 06:56:34PM -0600, Britton Leo Kerin wrote: error.log looks like: I think this is because you had NcFTP 3.0 (which was in non-free), and have now upgraded to NcFTP 2.4.3 (now GPL). Yup, that's it. And its a good thing

Re: legal issues (suing debian, pine, et al.)

1998-04-28 Thread Keith Beattie
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Also, the fact of incorporation does not protect the individual who causes the liability. If someone, for example, places copyrighted material into the debian distribution, both the person and debian are liable. Keith Beattie wrote: Uhm, I don't mean

KDE Beta 4

1998-04-28 Thread Florian Attenberger
I installed the newest KDE (of SLINK AFAIK). When the System starts I get the following message. Your System uses shadow passwords. You need suid for the screensaver to run. I think, this needs an entry in suid.conf. What should it look like??? Thanx very much, Florian Attenberger -- To

pppd and fetchmail OR ip-up.d and ip-down.d

1998-04-28 Thread Paul Serice
I'm just now noticing two new directories in /etc/ppp called ip-up.d and ip-down.d. They look like they have scripts that will be run automatically? Currently, the only scripts I have in there are fetchmail scripts. From the looks of it, they have fetchmail poll the server every 5

Postscript printing

1998-04-28 Thread Matt Thompson
There is a new Tektronix 140A available that has PostScript built in. Maybe this is a dumb question, but does it still need a driver? I guess I'm not too familiar with the difference between a 'driver' and a 'filter'. I thought that the filter converted the image to be printed from a

Betr.: Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-28 Thread Philipp . Kirsch
Hi, thanks for your help on this topic. Now it works! I did it this way: 1. Delete any existing partitions (have you all backed up??) 2. Create with fdisk (MSDOS program) one primary Win 95 partition (1.6 GB) 3. Install Win 95 4. Run Debian Rescue Disk and partition the rest of the hard disk as

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 12:30:33AM -0500, Ted Cabeen wrote: I think this is because you had NcFTP 3.0 (which was in non-free), and have now upgraded to NcFTP 2.4.3 (now GPL). Yup, that's it. And its a good thing too, because 3.0 sucks. (No completion, no paging of long directory entries.

Re: sendmail error

1998-04-28 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
I may be wrong about this, and it may not be at all helpful, but I think smail and sendmail are really the sSmail is invoked under a wide variety of names, which serve to isolate some of its major uses: receiving local mail, receiving remote mail, attempting delivery of unde- livered mail and

Re: found a great graphic card

1998-04-28 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
while surfing the content of the jameco catalog (received it this morning),i found a great deal on a VL-BUS graphic card,from the image,it look like a a number 9 unit with an S3 chip,it's listed at around 45 bucks for a 1 Mb combo (doesn't need more,i only have a 14 inch monitor),i'd like to

Exim Problem

1998-04-28 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway to tell exim that if the DNS hostname lookup fails

Re: found a great graphic card

1998-04-28 Thread Alain Toussaint
I believe the S3 chips are fairly well supported. I have been running on one for a couple years. I don't know about mnumber nine and the associated RAMDAC's and such though. Does 'jameco' have a web site, or is that their proper name? you can see their web site at: http://www.jameco.com/

AW: Exim Problem

1998-04-28 Thread TBaetzle
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 asked: I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway to tell exim that

Re: Web Browsers without xwindows?

1998-04-28 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, I believe that Lynx would be your choice of browser, altho I am not sure if Debian offers HTTP. Mike Holliday -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Alen Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, April 27, 1998

Betr.: Error while trying to boot Debian

1998-04-28 Thread Philipp . Kirsch
Hi, I had this problem too on a very old 486 dec pc. See what bios version you use. Some older bioses have problems with hard drives with more than 524 (or so) MB. This problem is documented in the LILO Documentation (should be available in /usr/doc/lilo). You should be able to start Linux with a

IP Masq and users

1998-04-28 Thread Breathnach, Proinnsias \(Dublin\)
Hi, I've successfully installed bo on a 486DX33 (8MB / 1GB) as a basic system. I want to use it as a gateway and I know that IP Masq and diald/pppd is the way forward (ppp connection by modem to ISP who know what linux is, but don't do tech support for it (suprise there !!). Anyway

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-28 Thread shaul
Maybee the motherboard/BIOS has that hole thing (in the 15M-16M addresses) ? I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ping failure and ipmasquerade

1998-04-28 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
Hi all, I got this after I install the ipmasq.deb package, I do not know what to put in the ipmasq.conf, the computer dialing out is 192.168.1.1 and I have the other linux box with 192.168.1.10 which I intend to have net connection masquerading from the 192.168.1.1, can somebody please tell me

Re: I have problem with base file installation

1998-04-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi Philippe, You either have some no-so-good floppies, or maybe your floppy drive is out of spec. Seeing that you have access to a *nix box, I would use dd to create the disks and then use dd and md5sum to check them. That way you will _know_ that they are good before you start the install.

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Norbert Veber
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 06:56:34PM -0600, Britton Leo Kerin wrote: When I do ncftp ftp.debian.org 2 error.log error.log looks like: Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized preference option #. Error: Unrecognized

Re: Setting up eth0

1998-04-28 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:31:19PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: I need to know how to set up my ne2000 as eth0. I have the card in the computer it sees it when it loads linux and I have ran utility called ne2k that verified the ne2000 is in the computer and functioning at 0x320 int 5.

Re: KDE Beta 4

1998-04-28 Thread Jens Rosenboom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Attenberger) writes: I installed the newest KDE (of SLINK AFAIK). When the System starts I get the following message. Your System uses shadow passwords. You need suid for the screensaver to run. I think, this needs an entry in suid.conf. What should it look

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
From freshmeat page: -- freshmeat RPM repository As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him questions or comments. A change invented with

Wierd Debian/Linux problem

1998-04-28 Thread NiNJA
Hello all .. Have this wierd problem with debian .. It finds my ne2000 compat network card on the bootup probe but then fails later on .. finds it here .. Apr 28 18:31:44 debian kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Apr 28 18:31:44 debian kernel: NE*000 ethercard

Error at boot

1998-04-28 Thread Julian Easterling
I went back and reinstalled Debian and switched the partitions around. Now I get a different error but it doesn't accept any input and the only way to boot the system is with the boot floppy now. Originally the swap partition was first but named /hda2(?) and the Linux partition was /hda1 and the

RE: errors!!

1998-04-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
There is a question about nls support in the configuration. The only acceptable answer is yes. Try going through the make menuconfig (or whichever) again and include nls support. You also will have to pick a code page and char set. Make them all modules and you can put nls in /etc/modules and

X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Vicent Josep Pla Bosca
I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I would like to install the X environment but so far I haven't been able of doing so. Is it possible to achieve this with this release of Debian ? If so, how can I do it ? Please mail me the answer since I am not registerd on

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Carroll Kong
I think you can compile back in name completion. I got a bug where it would resume files improperly and append MORE data than the original file was supposed to have. (ncftp 3.0 beta 9) Carroll Kong On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ted Cabeen wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I would like to install the X environment but so far I haven't been able of doing so. Is it possible to achieve this with this release of Debian ? No, not AFAIK. If so, how can I do it ? You should upgrade to

Re: What's on Official CDs?

1998-04-28 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Is there only the `stable' directory on the Official CDs? Yes. If so, then I'll have to ftp all the `contrib' and `non-free' stuff when 2.0 comes out. No, when 2.0 comes out, there will be a stable main, a

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread David Morris
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:25:40 EDT. Norbert Veber wove together: [snipped] problem is that ncftp has been downgraded from 3.0b to 2.something, so it doesn't recognise those options, personally, I snagged the 3.0 deb from one of the mirrors before it was gone, and I use that (mainly because of the

Wierd linux/debian problem

1998-04-28 Thread NiNJA
Hey again, Thanks for all the fast replies .. Yes .. ne was in /etc/modules .. and so it tried to load it on top of the kernel one .. Shouldnt make modules_install write over this file or something .. or be made too ?? with the up to date modules to run. Anyways .. the ether card doesnt look

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, It is amazing how often this question is asked on this List. Perhaps a FAQ should be created that explains how to use a Millenium II with Debian 1.3.1. :) I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I would like to install the X environment but so far I haven't

Re: Wierd linux/debian problem

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Yes .. ne was in /etc/modules .. and so it tried to load it on top of the kernel one .. Shouldnt make modules_install write over this file or something .. or be made too ?? with the up to date modules to run. I don't believe it should. There are times when I want a module available

Re: M-g in XEmacs 20.4?

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi there, When I press M-g (which as a developer I use frequently) I get A-g not defined. So my ALT key has reverted to ALT behaviour, instead of META which I am sure it was before. What has changed? I'm need my M-g! Thanks! I also experienced this problem. On my system, the Meta key is

Tape Drive Q

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Last week I ordered a tape drive (and posted a question about SCSI controllers) It should arrive today :) ...I realized however that I still have questions... someone mentioned creating the tape device what is the name of the device? (I assume it is just /dev/MAKEDEV devicename to make it) is

Re: Tape Drive Q

1998-04-28 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:34:11AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: Last week I ordered a tape drive (and posted a question about SCSI controllers) So it's a SCSI tape? what is the name of the device? (I assume it is just /dev/MAKEDEV devicename to make it) /dev/st0 for rewind after any

display error in VI

1998-04-28 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Yes, i have a problem with vi . In fact, some time, when i have some long file with a big list (like in my named.boot), a strange thing appears : the lines appear in the bottom of the screen and then dissappear .. Strange no ? Did u experiment the same thing ? = the truth is out there !

How to use dpkg-source

1998-04-28 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi I need some packages that are in hamm, but i'm using bo. So i tried to use dpkg-source only problem is that it complains : dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./perl_5.004.04.orig.tar.gz' contains object (perl5.004_04/) not in expected directory

Debian 1.2 CD?

1998-04-28 Thread Mike Miller
I'm looking for a Debian 1.2 cd. Does anyone know where I might find one? Regards, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Another tape drive question

1998-04-28 Thread co
I have a question similar to Stephen Carpenter's [EMAIL PROTECTED] question which follows: Last week I ordered a tape drive (and posted a question about SCSI controllers) It should arrive today :) ...I realized however that I still have questions... someone

Re: How to use dpkg-source

1998-04-28 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: I need some packages that are in hamm, but i'm using bo. So i tried to use dpkg-source only problem is that it complains : dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./perl_5.004.04.orig.tar.gz' contains object (perl5.004_04/) not in expected directory

Connecting Linux machine to Win.95\Linux Machine.

1998-04-28 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I'm going to buy a new conputer :), make the old one Linux only, and the new one will be a Linux\Win.95 machine (my brother doesn't like Linux, what can I do...). The new machine will have the main connection to the outer world (Hopefully by ISDN), and will have the printer connected to

Instaling Hamm.

1998-04-28 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I want to install Hamm, but going to repartition my drive. I know that I'll have to download the installation disks. The question is: What if I keep '/' (It has '/', /boot and /etc) on? Will I still need the foppies? TIA, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Another tape drive question

1998-04-28 Thread Cedric Bapst
Hi, First of all, check http://www.info-systems.com/ftape/. Normally every questions you may have should find an answer there. Have fun... -- __ Cedric Bapst / /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / D e b i a n G N U \ \/ /

Unidentified subject!

1998-04-28 Thread me
I am trying to get X running on my new machine. It is a IBM Aptiva 233mhz, with ATI 3D RAGE II+ video card. I am still learning what to do with all the pci stuff. Listed is what I find with dmesg and also the errors after trying to load X. Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+

Re: Another tape drive question

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
First of all, check http://www.info-systems.com/ftape/. Normally every questions you may have should find an answer there. I thought that applied only to the ftape (floppy tape) driver. Does it cover SCSI tapes too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Error at boot

1998-04-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Julian Easterling wrote: I went back and reinstalled Debian and switched the partitions around. Now I get a different error but it doesn't accept any input and the only way to boot the system is with the boot floppy now. Originally the swap partition was first but named /hda2(?) and the

Re: Instaling Hamm.

1998-04-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I want to install Hamm, but going to repartition my drive. I know that I'll have to download the installation disks. The question is: What if I keep '/' (It has '/', /boot and /etc) on? Will I still need the foppies? You'll need to keep /etc,

Re: Connecting Linux machine to Win.95\Linux Machine.

1998-04-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
My suggestion would be to pony up for two 10-base-T ethernet cards and get a crossover cable. You *could* network the two via serial, but I was unable to get this to work in Win95 using the Direct Cable Connection. You can get NE2000 compatible cards of reasonable quality for under $20, even in

Majordomo 1.94.4 for bo

1998-04-28 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Does anyone have a .deb with this beast? i tryed to make this from the hamm source but it complained abot not finding db_testdir (hints anyone?) Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf -BEGIN

Re: Connecting Linux machine to Win.95\Linux Machine.

1998-04-28 Thread servis
On 28 Apr, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm going to buy a new conputer :), make the old one Linux only, and the new one will be a Linux\Win.95 machine (my brother doesn't like Linux, what can I do...). The new machine will have the main connection to the outer world (Hopefully by ISDN),

make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am trying to use make-kpkg to build a .deb package for a friend. I type the following command and receive an error after about 3min into the compile (on a PPro200). (from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33) #make-kpkg kernel_image -revision=custom.1.0 ...(compiles for 3 min) then, (if [ -f

ppp as a server, works in bo but not in hamm.

1998-04-28 Thread Jeff McWilliams
I've been using pppd on a bo system to connect an older 486 Windows 3.11 laptop at home into my lan. However, I can't get it to work on a similarly configured hamm machine, and I was wondering if I'm missing something. The laptop is a 486/25. It's floppy drive doesn't work, or else I'd have

Re: Debian 1.2 CD?

1998-04-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a Debian 1.2 cd. Does anyone know where I might find one? I have an InfoMagic December 1996 Developers Resource Set that includes 1.2.0. I also have a Cheapbytes CD of 1.2.4. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard

Re: Connecting Linux machine to Win.95\Linux Machine.

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I woul dmost definitly agree with this assesment but... I have always prefered to use 10Base2 to a crossover cable on UTP I like the coaxial cable setup because it is very easy to extend when you decide that 2 computers is not enough and a hub is too expensive (of course i have found I can get 2

gcc and make help

1998-04-28 Thread calvin
im wondering where i can get the stuff i need for make and gcc.. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- Yo :) ...(compiles for 3 min) then, dpkg --build debian/tmp-image .. dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control' near line 4 package `kernel-image-2.0.33': `Suggests' field, invalid package name `lilo': must start with an alphanumeric

HELP: Netscape and bus error

1998-04-28 Thread Albert Hurd
I want to bring up a Java applet at a website under Netscape 3.04. The applet seems to work ok, but when I close it, Netscape aborts with a bus error. I am using Debian 1.31. Can anyone help? Thanks. Albert Hurd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
Here is the url for the Matrox Xfree86 development team: http://matrox.alloy.net/ You should follow their instructions when you install and not simply unpack the tar files. Donald Harter Jr. Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, It is amazing how often this question is asked on this List.

Re: make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- What version of kernel-package are you using?have you used is sucessfully before? Using 4.06, just downloaded it yesterday from unstable/frozen. the error that is gives is not a probalme with lilo...it is a problem with the control file generated by the kernel-packge system. basically

Re: make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
hmm /usr/sbin/make-kpkg is the script... unfortunatlythat is not all :( it runs other programs and other scripts ok I may have found something check out /usr/lib/kernel-package/Control and search for lilo... looks ifne in mine but -Steve Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- What

Re: Another tape drive question

1998-04-28 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deletions] When I try to run the following command: find . -print -depth | cpio -ocvdB /dev/rft0 I get the following error message bash: /dev/rft0: No such device Broken pipe I would appreciate any help anyone could give. I would

DATE CHANGE

1998-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Velez
How do I change the date on my linux machine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DATE CHANGE

1998-04-28 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:38:09AM -0400, Jeffrey Velez wrote: How do I change the date on my linux machine? You can change the software date/time with the date command. You can change your CMOS clock with the hwclock command, or possibly the clock command -- it depends on the version of Debian

Re: gcc and make help

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, calvin wrote: im wondering where i can get the stuff i need for make and gcc.. thanks They are in the gcc and make packages, respectively. There are several ways to find out about specific Debian packages. Search the Debian web site

is pgcc or whatever usable yet?

1998-04-28 Thread Shaleh
Is the Pentium compiler stable and usable yet? Is it possible to have both it and standard gcc installed? How can one test that the Pentium compiler is truly helping? questions, questions, questions -- --- How can you see, when your mind is not open?

Re: HELP: Netscape and bus error

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
I want to bring up a Java applet at a website under Netscape 3.04. The applet seems to work ok, but when I close it, Netscape aborts with a bus error. I am using Debian 1.31. Can anyone help? Thanks. Probably no one can help. However, does the Java applet do the same thing under

diamond viper card and xfree86

1998-04-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, Anyone know if a diamond viper 330 card is supported under XFree86? If it is, can I run it with a bo system? thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DATE CHANGE

1998-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Velez
That worked! Thanks! Jeff On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:38:09AM -0400, Jeffrey Velez wrote: How do I change the date on my linux machine? You can change the software date/time with the date command. You can change your CMOS clock with the hwclock

Re: DATE CHANGE

1998-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Which NTP Server on the Net I can configure my xntp3? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bo: Problem with Xlib

1998-04-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Hello everybody, another great question of mine... or two... but i didn't find any solution. Yesterday i tried the first time to use some Xlib functions. I included X11/Xlib.h. The problem is that the compiler tells me things like undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay' undefined reference to

incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-28 Thread Paul Miller
When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) Apr 28 15:28:47 serv1 pppd[28141]: pppd 2.3.3 started by LOGIN, uid 0 Apr 28 15:28:47 serv1 pppd[28141]: speed 9 not supported Apr 28 15:28:47 serv1

list of kernel error codes

1998-04-28 Thread poppy
While booting my debian 1.31 box with kernel 2.0.33, I see a failure to initialize my ethernet card with an error code 2 Where can I find a translation of the error codes or does anyone know what an error number 2 is??? poppy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Who said anything about simply unpacking them? :) The instructions I gave over a month ago were generic XF86 install instructions, including what was needed, what needed to be run and some Debian issues the user should be aware of. -Ossama

Re: is pgcc or whatever usable yet?

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Is the Pentium compiler stable and usable yet? Is it possible to have both it and standard gcc installed? How can one test that the Pentium compiler is truly helping? questions, questions, questions The EGCS compiler already has pgcc optimizations integrated into it. Just install the egcc

Re: DATE CHANGE

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Jeffrey Velez wrote: Which NTP Server on the Net I can configure my xntp3? You must find a NTP server that allows access to you. This might be a public NTP server or one established by your ISP or work/school. I run xntp3 on machines at home and at work. At work

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread dg
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, It is amazing how often this question is asked on this List. Perhaps a FAQ should be created that explains how to use a Millenium II with Debian 1.3.1. :) Right - I have read about about five times. But only one answer of these five has

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Check the permissions on /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. I think pppd ignores the file unless the perms are 600. I'd like to gripe here about the woeful state of debugging wrt pppd. More than once I've had to strace the thing to find out what's failing. It could use some better error messages. Paul

wu-ftpd-academ package disables itself

1998-04-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
hamm system current as of this afternoon :) I installed wu-ftpd-academ, oh, two versions ago. At that time it disabled the stock ftpd, wu-ftpd, and itself! I edited my /etc/inetd.conf and removed the two unused lines (perhaps this is the problem) At any rate, the past two upgrades of

setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card

1998-04-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I had trouble setting up an EtherlinkII 3com 3509b card with 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 kernel. I configured pnp, compiled the right driver as module, but the module gives me either initialization failed or symbol not found when specifying io=0x210 irq=3... Any help is appreciated. Marcus -- Rhubarb is

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