Re: Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

1998-07-06 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/05/98 at 05:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you really want to have spd_vhi set? It's a 56k modem which will run at 33.6 w/o the x2 connection. According to everything I've read this (spd_vhi) is appropriate. I noticed the 115200 in there as the baud base, but

Follow-up: RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-06 Thread Kendrick Myatt
FWIW, I went ahead and tried the loadlin deal from the DOS config.sys multi-boot and it worked flawlessly. I used the defaults from the manual.txt as examples, and copied my linux kernel from my floppy boot diskette for the boot image. The line is: shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\linux

Re: Sound Card

1998-07-06 Thread Eric
There is a sound driver in the standard kernel source for a few of the Crystal cards including the CS4232. I believe that it even takes care of the PnP stuff for you (???). You may want to try that. _ _ | |(_) | _| | | | |___ | | |__/ | |__/ On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Joe

Re: What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-06 Thread Shaleh
Talking about enlightenment, can you enlighten me on a off-topic question? What does it mean something to be GNOME compliant? GNOME COMPLIANCE in the window manager sense means that the window manager and the various GNOME apps (mostly the panel) can set hints that each other are able to

amanda netbase for bo

1998-07-06 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am trying to set up amanda on a debian bo system. I got the amanda packages from bo-unstable, but they depend on a version of netbase = 3.03 which I can't seem to find. Anyone know where I can get the updated netbase package? Thanks, Chris -

Re: [Debian]: xisp

1998-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
FK == Felix Klee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FK immer wenn ich mit xisp (installiert von einem Debian FK package) unter HAMM eine Verbindung aufzubauen versuche FK kommt folgende Fehlermeldung: FK /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '+ua' Die Option +ua wird von den neuen pppd nicht mehr

Re: [Debian]: xisp

1998-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Oops, wrong list. Sorry. Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Just a test! This has been quite peaceful ...

1998-07-06 Thread Nuno Carvalho
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Re: Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

1998-07-06 Thread Jack Kern
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 04:42:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/05/98 at 05:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you really want to have spd_vhi set? It's a 56k modem which will run at 33.6 w/o the x2 connection. According to everything I've read this

hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Paul Miller
I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? THanks -Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Compiling the kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Well, not knowing any better, I fixed it by uninstalling my header and source packages (2.0.33), reinstalling the libc6-dev package, and then installing bin86 and the 2.0.34 source and header packages. This left the usr/include directories (asm, linux, scsi) NOT set up as links. This is contrary

RE: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Russell Berry
have two sets of DNS files, named blah.org, and blah.dhcp, create links to them with the real names, (named.hosts - named.hosts.org). have your call dhcp with a script that removes the links, and links them to the appropriate files and restarts named (ndc restart). That's one way I suppose...

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Glynn Clements
Paul Miller wrote: I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP changes? BIND 8.* introduces a dynamic update feature, which allows

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread dreamwvr
although i have not implemented it myself it is stock with the latest version of dns and bind for unix. regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:52 AM 7/5/98 -0400, Paul Miller wrote: I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works,

Re: Compiling the kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Well, not knowing any better, I fixed it by uninstalling my header and source packages (2.0.33), reinstalling the libc6-dev package, and then installing bin86 and the 2.0.34 source and header packages. If you install the kernel-source package, you don't

Re[2]: What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current release .20 of GNOME is waiting in Incoming (things seem slow getting into slink). You can get it from the maintainer's site -- www.jimpick.com. I package Imlib and it too is waiting in Incoming. You can get it from

Re: Re[2]: What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: Hmmm...I feel like offering a reminder that two of the .20 tarballs will not compile without surgery: in utils one must get rid of gdiskfree, and in admin get rid of gxsnmp. At least that's been mine, and several other's experience. I understand

netatalk

1998-07-06 Thread Chris
Hi, I am running netatalk on a server on our network, and it is generating the following log messages... Jul 6 15:17:24 seldon atalkd[183]: config for no router Jul 6 15:17:34 seldon atalkd[183]: rtmp_packet router has become available Jul 6 15:17:34 seldon atalkd[183]: zip_getnetinfo for

Diald routing.

1998-07-06 Thread Henrique Almeida
Hi! Im using Debian for a year on 2 of my home boxes. One is my workstation and the other is a 486. This second box serves the local net with samba and internet connection through masquerading and squid. Last week I upgraded to 2.0 and started to play with diald so my father don't have to telnet

StarOffice 4.0

1998-07-06 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Hi, Sorry for my question, I think it has been asked hundreds of times. - Is there any StarOffice 4.0 package installer ? I only found the package for version 3.x of StarOffice. - Is there any way to review old messages since I think this question has already been asked ? Thanks Franck --

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-07-06 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, Yes, there is a way to review old messages. On www.debian.org's front page there is a link in the left navigation bar to the mailing list archives. I've spent sme time there Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry for my question, I think it has been asked hundreds of times.

Problem with modules_install

1998-07-06 Thread graeve
Last couple of days I've tried to make a new kernel and modules to get my AWE64 working. I've made the linux, asm and scsi links to the source, made a config file with make menuconfig and then I did make dep bzImage modules Now I try to install my modules but everytime it fails with the message cp

URGENT: support for Symbios Logic (SCSI) ?

1998-07-06 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make. The PC will be running Debian (ofcourse :-). I got a quote from a company for a PC featuring an Intel Nightlight motherboard with Symbios Logic 53C875JBE UW SCSI controller onboard I couldn't find any Symbios SCSI board in the

giving dos/win3.1/win95 access to a linux partition

1998-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
can i give my dos (win 3.1 right now) or win95 access to my linux partition, at list for reading? If so, how is it done? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

1998-07-06 Thread Marsh Ray
You might try ATFB1 in place of atz. I have found that most USR Sportsters (contrary to documentation) require B1 to lock DTE rate (serial speed) upon connection. The F ensures you're starting from the factory defaults every time. - Marsh ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORT

URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan
Hello again smile like child getting caught being naughty The boy sure has got himself into trouble now !!! Having learned heaps by installing bo and then scattering files and other odds and sods at random around my h/d I decided to start again - but this time with hamm, having read on many

Re: URGENT: support for Symbios Logic (SCSI) ?

1998-07-06 Thread Harald Schueler
Am Mon, 6 Jul 1998 schrieb Nico De Ranter: > I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make. > The PC will be running Debian (ofcourse :-). I got a quote > from a company for a PC featuring an Intel Nightlight motherboard > with > > Symbios Logic 53C875JBE UW SCSI controller onboard

Where are the Release Notes of Kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread Alex Kwan
How do I know what is the change from the last version (e.g. 2.0.33) to the updated version (e.g. 2.0.34)? I want to know the information like which drivers are added, which bugs are fixed, and which drivers are supported by the updated Kernel right now. Would someone let me know where

Re: giving dos/win3.1/win95 access to a linux partition

1998-07-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Micha Feigin hat gesagt: // Micha Feigin wrote: can i give my dos (win 3.1 right now) or win95 access to my linux partition, at list for reading? If so, how is it done? At least for Win95 there is a driver for the ext2 filesystem used by linux. Take a look at Peter's Place:

Re: Where are the Release Notes of Kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 07:47:41PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: How do I know what is the change from the last version (e.g. 2.0.33) to the updated version (e.g. 2.0.34)? The definite way is to read the diff of course. There is no official changelog for the kernel that I'm aware of. You can find

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
If the size of your installed system is 400Mb, the disk space required is 400Mb + space for the .deb files + working space. You can delete the .deb files after they are installed (dselect does this for you). So downloading fewer packages might help you. Here is the approach that I use: I

Re: Where are the Release Notes of Kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: How do I know what is the change from the last version (e.g. 2.0.33) to the updated version (e.g. 2.0.34)?=20 I want to know the information like which drivers are added, which bugs are fixed, and which drivers are supported by the updated Kernel right

fvwm2 behaves differently from bo -- hamm?

1998-07-06 Thread Dirk Bonne
Hi, I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross virtual screens. I know about EdgeResistance EdgeScroll, but they do not seem to give me exactly what I had: crossing virtual screens was only done when dragging a window. Anybody know how to get the old behaviour back?

Re: giving dos/win3.1/win95 access to a linux partition

1998-07-06 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Micha Feigin wrote: can i give my dos (win 3.1 right now) or win95 access to my linux partition, at list for reading? If so, how is it done? Micha There is an program called ext2tool that allows dos and (I think) Lose 3.1 read access to your ext2 file systems, if the

Re: fvwm2 behaves differently from bo -- hamm?

1998-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DB == Dirk Bonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross DB virtual screens. The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources for the package (fvwm2*.{dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz} and unpack it with dpkg-source -x fvwm2*.dsc Then

ssh from hamm to bo machine?

1998-07-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I'm having problems connecting from a hamm box to a bo box and I can't see the reason: From the hamm box: troi!joey(tty6):~ ssh -v barclay SSH Version 1.2.20 [i486-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. troi: Reading configuration data

Mail gateway

1998-07-06 Thread BARBELET Philippe
Dear Linux users, How do you configure a host that has to send mail through a mail gateway ? Where and how do you specify this gateway ? Thanks. Ph. BARBELET -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan
Thanx for the quick reply Mike. I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!) My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12Mb vfat partition to hold base2_0.tgz (loaded as a split file from

Re: fvwm2 behaves differently from bo -- hamm?

1998-07-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Martin Bialasinski wrote: DB == Dirk Bonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross DB virtual screens. The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources for the package (fvwm2*.{dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz} and unpack it

Re: URGENT: support for Symbios Logic (SCSI) ?

1998-07-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: : : Hi, : : I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make. : The PC will be running Debian (ofcourse :-). I got a quote : from a company for a PC featuring an Intel Nightlight motherboard : with : :Symbios Logic 53C875JBE UW SCSI

Re: Eithernet Cards on bo

1998-07-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi : : Currently I have a 386 running Debian 1.3.1 (BO) and it is running the : 2.0.29 kernel. I was wanting to use a EtherLink III from 3 com, it is a : 3c509b.k It has both BNC and AUI on it. It also has no jumpers. It is an : ISA card. I was just

Re: [Patching sources to Debian; dpkg-source -x package.dsc]

1998-07-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Shaleh wrote: 1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory. 2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file. 3. Pacth the files with patch -p1 xxx.dif Is this the right way to do the things ? In the .diff files were some lines that make me think some directory names should be changed, but,

Re: Eithernet Cards on bo

1998-07-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Others may disagree, but I have found that it is best to disable Plug and Play on 3C509 cards. You can do that with the drivers disk available via ftp from www.3com.com . Unfortunately you must boot to a DOS disk to use

Re: SCSI Disk Farm

1998-07-06 Thread Dale E. Martin
Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to experiment with 'raidtools' to set up my disk farm (100-200GB) and it requires a kernel version 2.1.62. I haven't worked with experimental kernels before - where is a good place to get them and how would I pick one that is not TOO

Re: URGENT: support for Symbios Logic (SCSI) ?

1998-07-06 Thread Lawrence Walton
Symbios AKA NCR is supported in the newer kernels, the 875's are great. Lawrence Walton Otak Network Manager 425.739.4247 On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make. The PC will be running Debian (ofcourse :-). I got a quote

Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Wouldn't it be great if there was a Debian package to list, decribe and index all other packages? Imagine having .html files that describe every nifty tool on the CD, perhaps even with an `Install it!' buttom. Does such a tool already exist? I've been using Debian for over a year and I'm still

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-06 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
Wouldn't it be great if there was a Debian package to list, decribe and index all other packages? Yeah, I think so too. Even cooler (IMHO) would be something that would tell me what I have on the system. :) I'm always looking at /var/lib/dpkg/available and status to see what's up on my system

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PSG Wouldn't it be great if there was a Debian package to list, PSG decribe and index all other packages? PSG Does such a tool already exist? I've been using Debian for over PSG a year and I'm still surprised to find out what's available! How about

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Wouldn't it be great if there was a Debian package to list, decribe and index all other packages? Yeah, I think so too. Even cooler (IMHO) would be something that would tell me what I have on the system. :) I'm always looking at /var/lib/dpkg/available and status to see what's up on

REPOST: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan
Thanx for the quick reply Mike. I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!) My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12Mb vfat partition to hold base2_0.tgz (loaded as a split file from

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: Thanx for the quick reply Mike. You're welcome :) I can understand what you are saying re:install slowly rather than trying to do everything at once (some people just have no patience!) My plan at the moment is to format my h/d (2.5Gb) put in a 12Mb

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Paul Miller
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I have 1 static IP and I'm thinking about getting an additional dynamic IP. I'm not exactly sure on how DHCP works, but is there a way to have the my DNS server (on static IP) updated when the dynamic IP

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-06 Thread Tod Detre
How dynamic is the ip? What I'm getting at is that it takes time to have a hostname propogate through the internet (sometimes up to a week). So if you get this working, and if you're changing ip's every day then some computers on the other side of the world may still point to an ip that has

Re: Mail gateway

1998-07-06 Thread JonesMB
What I did was run the smailconfig program and chose option 2. This allows you to specify the smarthost where all non-local mail is to be transmitted. When asked for a smarthost I gave the SMTP server that I get from my ISP. That's what I have at home - is this what you are looking for? Is

Move File From VFAT32 Partition to Linux

1998-07-06 Thread Alex Kwan
I want to move/copy a kernel file linux-2.0.34.tgz from VFAT32 Partition (C:) of MS Win98 (I have downloaded it before I install the Linux, and now I wanted to use it to updated the linux kernel 2.0.33 ) to the /usr/src/linux of Linux (MS Win98 Linux are live in the same PC but

Re: Mutt configuration

1998-07-06 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 03:51:10PM -0500, Mike Merten wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem configuring Mutt. All mail, unless I delete it, is saved in my spoolfile. I'm trying to configure the mbox-hook command to move all read mail to a different folder (mbox) but am unable to get it to

Re: Move File From VFAT32 Partition to Linux

1998-07-06 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: I want to move/copy a kernel file linux-2.0.34.tgz from VFAT32 Partition (C:) of MS Win98 (I have downloaded it before I install the Linux, and now I wanted to use it to updated the linux kernel 2.0.33 ) Ok, no

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-06 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to

How to downgrade?!?

1998-07-06 Thread Ivan Trogranci
I tried to upgrade to HAMM, but it didn't work and now gcc can't find any libraries (that's the only problem I noticed, but there may be others...) How do I go back to 1.3 as safely as possible?!? Thx for help :) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-06 Thread Syed Huq
I agree too. The volume of mail per day is a LOT ! I hope we can do something about it. Syed. Hello fellow users. The debian user lists are the most important source of information for debian users, especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to that. However the lists have

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-07-06 Thread Marcelo E. Laurenti
On 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry for my question, I think it has been asked hundreds of times. - Is there any StarOffice 4.0 package installer ? I only found the package for version 3.x of StarOffice. Yes, download a full version of Staroofice 4.0 from

dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek

1998-07-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A friend made an rpm of software he wrote. I get an error when I try to convert it to .deb format: $ alien --noinstall --auto ../gri-2.1.17-1.i386.rpm [lots of successful stuff deleted, and then] dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-06 Thread Eric
You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many problems with people trying to install custom kernels without it. _ _ | |(_) | _| | | | |___ | | |__/ | |__/ On Mon, 6 Jul 1998

Re: telnet/terminal key codes

1998-07-06 Thread debian-user
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to customize SecureCRT 2.2 so that the keys will be similar to those of a VC. Is there a reference page or somewhere that I can find the strings that are sent when certain keys are pressed? - Partially, you can

Re: kde (and K memory leak question)

1998-07-06 Thread Ian Eure
Yep. KDE is still beta right now... the 1.0pre1 was released last week, but afaik isn't debianized yet. If you're running the KDE build out of frozen, try upgrading to beta4, in slink, as it fixes a few problems and is more stable. On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:37:22AM -0500, Eric wrote: I too run

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-06 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 11:33:13PM +0800, Jieyao wrote: I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: Why do you want to

Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread servis
Hi all, Very unpredictably(so far) my machine will lock-up hard. I can't ctl-alt-del, no mouse or keyboard response, not even any jsr daemon response(uses joystick port to signal reboot). The only indication in the logs are strings of binary characters showing up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread Shaleh
What is running / not running at the time of the crash. The ^@ could indicate a daemon overflowing its buffer -- it could be a symptom or a cause. When I run Netscape and Enlightenment 13.3 I occasionally have this happen. Seems that NS does some things that eventually torque off E and X. --

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi all, : : Very unpredictably(so far) my machine will lock-up hard. I can't : ctl-alt-del, no mouse or keyboard response, not even any jsr daemon : response(uses joystick port to signal reboot). The only indication in : the logs are strings of

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread servis
*-Shaleh ( 6 Jul) | What is running / not running at the time of the crash. The ^@ could | indicate a daemon overflowing its buffer -- it could be a symptom or a | cause. When I run Netscape and Enlightenment 13.3 I occasionally have | this happen. Seems that NS does some things that eventually

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very unpredictably(so far) my machine will lock-up hard. I can't ctl-alt-del, no mouse or keyboard response, not even any jsr daemon response(uses joystick port to signal reboot). The only indication in the logs are strings of binary characters

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-06 Thread Shiraz Sayani
I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked a question on this list (note the new mung). Has anyone else had the same? Am I being paranoid, or is it possible some spammer is mining the archives of these lists? -- Please remove '.noubce.see-sig' from my e-mail address to

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 10:02:42AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Alexander Gutfraind wrote: 1) Software 2) Hardware 3) Debian Linux discussion? This has come up before, but for now not enough people are having problems to cause anything to be changed unfortunately. Please note also

Re: URGENT hamm install help needed

1998-07-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 11:00:21AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: I think elm is the Debian default mail reader, so I assume it will come in the 'home' installation. It too will work in an xterm or console. Technically, elm was superceeded by mutt, really the best mailer I know (no, I won't

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread servis
*-Brandon Mitchell ( 6 Jul) | On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Very unpredictably(so far) my machine will lock-up hard. I can't | ctl-alt-del, no mouse or keyboard response, not even any jsr daemon | response(uses joystick port to signal reboot). The only indication in | the

Missing base14-x.bin files in /disks-i386/current dir

1998-07-06 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I am a first time user of Debian Linux and have the following questions. I have read the 'Installing Debian Linux 2.0' documentation and tried to download the files mentioned in section 6.1 from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ All the files are there except

FW: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread Evan Van Dyke
-Original Message- From: Evan Van Dyke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 4:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues! Well, I am overclocking my P233 to 266, and have been doing so since March or so. I took off the case

problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-06 Thread Patrick Olson
I've been running Debian 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.29 I decided to upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 but it fails during make zImage with an error message. Can anyone help? Here's the error message and a few of the lines before it: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.34/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-06 Thread Shaleh
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 sig11 (signal 11) is often a sign of a hardware problem. Either you machine is over/under clocked, over heating, has a memory glitch or something. Sig 11 can also be one of the problems that appears and then never re-appears. --

Re: Missing base14-x.bin files in /disks-i386/current dir

1998-07-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Syed Huq wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ All the files are there except base14-1.bin ... base14-6.bin. Instead of these, I see the files base-1.bin ... base-5.bin. Q1)Should I download the base-1.bin ... base-5.bin instead of the missing

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 sig11 (signal 11) is often a sign of a hardware problem. Either you machine is over/under clocked, over heating, has a memory glitch or something. Sig 11 can also be one of the problems that

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-06 Thread servis
*-Patrick Olson ( 6 Jul) | | I've been running Debian 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.29 | | I decided to upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 but it fails during make zImage with | an error message. Can anyone help? | | Here's the error message and a few of the lines before it: | | gcc -D__KERNEL__

FTP Installation Problem

1998-07-06 Thread Brian Armstrong
I am unable to successfully access the Debian packages using dselect through a dail-up ISP. I loaded the Hamm version using floppy disks created from the binary files from the ftp site as instructed in the install document. I have checked the pppconfig files and confirmed the currect /dev/ttyS#,

Re: FTP Installation Problem

1998-07-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Brian Armstrong wrote: /usr/lib/per15/Debian/dpkgftp.pm line 81, STDIN chunk10 query/setup script returned error exit status1. Press return to continue. Also, I Did you make sure to make a ppp connection first? You've got to be on-line when you run dselect, or else

Re: FTP Installation Problem

1998-07-06 Thread Will Lowe
I appreciate your help. Quite welcome. I'm going to be leaving the lab for the day in a few minutes, but I'll help if I can tomorrow. I did run pon first and listened to it dial-up. Did it connect successfully? Were you able to telnet or ping or anything? (I realize this seems silly, but

Re: Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

1998-07-06 Thread Shaul
Isn't a Baud_base of 115200 too small for a 56k speed ? Shouldn't it be 23something (231400 ?) for that speed ? don't they say that the modem-computer rate should be at least 4 times then line speed ? The changes made no difference. Thanks for the suggestions, though. Last thing I can

Re: modem works now - but modem-computer comunication really slow

1998-07-06 Thread Shaul
If i understand correctly, one of your problems is that it is very slow. 1) Is it a plug-and-play modem ? 2) what does setserial (setserial /dev/ttyS3 -a) reports ? 3) Perhaps you should consider giving a more specific modem initialization string, rather then ATZ ? 4) I think you should read the

libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-06 Thread fealvar
After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb but it complains about preinstall

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-06 Thread john
Brian writes: Well, I am overclocking my P233 to 266, and have been doing so since March or so. I took off the case cover and the cpu wasn't even hot, I could grab the sides of the fan-heatsink. Do you have heatsink grease between the heatsink and the cpu? If not the cpu can overheat while