Configurando modem pnp

1999-04-09 Thread Dragonbreath
Ante todo, gracias a todos aquellos que me estan ayudando a configurar mi modem. El modem no es un winmodem, es un Sierra SQ3465 33.6 voice/data/fax Ok, ejecute pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf Luego edite /etc/isapnp.conf Por lo que puedo ver, estan mis dos tarjetas pnp, la de sonido y el modem,

[Fwd: [teamspain-l] OT: mas WinDos 9.x]

1999-04-09 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Hola, Disculpad el OT, pero mirad lo que he leido en la lista de correo de OS/2. estos de mocochof ya no saben que hacer. Resumiendo: 1. El proximo SO de MS estará basadado en el DOS, pero lo ocultara mejor. O al menos eso cree MS. 2. Se acabo el IDE y el PCI. Ya han

MBR

1999-04-09 Thread Oscar Castell Marcos
Hola a todos y muchas gracias, ya esta resuelto: con el fdisk /MBR. He logrado instalar los CDs de Win98 para una maquina nueva en una maquina vieja. Es interesante saber que estos programas de instalacion revisan el MBR y si existe otro sistema operativo se niegan a hacer la instalacion --->

Servidor ftp de Debian

1999-04-09 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... ¿Sabe alguien si le pasa algo al servidor ftp.debian.org? La fecha de potato/main/source es del 8 de abril en algunos directorios, pero dentro de ellos, no hay nada de con esa fecha. Saludos.

Consultas con dpkg

1999-04-09 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... ¿Se puede utilizar el dpkg para determinar que paquetes dependen de otro determinado? Saludos.

Re: automatizar el correo con /etc/ip.up

1999-04-09 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Yo lo que tengo en ip-up.d son 2 enlaces simbolicos a /usr/bin/runq y /usr/bin/fetchmail, ademas de un script sinchora con el contenido siguiente para sincronizar la hora de mi equipo: #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/cron stop /usr/sbin/rdate -s black-ice.cc.vt.edu /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc

Sopote de Fat-32 en 2.0.34

1999-04-09 Thread Oscar Ferrero Guerra
Hola: Yo creía que en el kernel 2.0.34 no se soportaba Fat32, pero leyendo un documento de como instalar el patch para soportarlo decía que se incluían desde el kernel arriba dicho. ¿es eso cierto? Probé a montar una unidad Fat32 con mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt y podía leer los directorios y

Re: [Configurando modem pnp]

1999-04-09 Thread Alejandro Romero
P.D.: Cuando quiero apagar mi computadora desde linux, que debo hacer? (en pocas palabras, existe un inicio/apagar el equipo/si? Por ahora solo reseteo con ctrl alt del y cuando reinicia lo apago, pero queria saber si hay un modo mas sano :-) trata usar como root shutdown -h now saludos

Re: Sopote de Fat-32 en 2.0.34

1999-04-09 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 08:12:37PM +0200, Oscar Ferrero Guerra wrote: Hola: Yo creía que en el kernel 2.0.34 no se soportaba Fat32, pero leyendo un documento de como instalar el patch para soportarlo decía que se incluían desde el kernel arriba dicho. ¿es eso cierto? Sip, de hecho

Direccion del servidor

1999-04-09 Thread Juanjo Martinez
Hola a todos/as: Con esto del 'traslado' no se que he hecho con la direccion del servidor de la lista. ¿Alguie me la puede mandar? Gracias. -- Salut!! +---+ |Juanjo Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

RE: [Configurando modem pnp]

1999-04-09 Thread Pablo Cernadas
baje de internet programas extension tar para poder instalar en mi linux(SUSE) probe con el yast y no me reconoce montar el floppy alguien me podria ayudar? saludos,ahh para bajar el linux como root utilizo:halt -Mensaje original- De: Alejandro Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL

Re: [Configurando modem pnp]

1999-04-09 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 12:54:57PM -0600, Alejandro Romero dijo: [ apagar el sistema] trata usar como root shutdown -h now Es mucho mas rapido usar como root 'halt' para detener o 'reboot' para reiniciar. -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org

Problemas na compilacao do gnome-libs_1.05

1999-04-09 Thread Nelson Novaes Neto
Salve, Estou tentando instalar o realese do gnome, estava com o antido instalado rodava tudo bonitinho - Bom, reinstalei meu Debian 2.0 - Instalei o XFree e posteriormente instalei todas as lib (mais recentes) necessarias para instalacao do Enlightenment - Apos instalado o Enlightenment

Re: Problemas na compilacao do gnome-libs_1.05

1999-04-09 Thread Nelson Novaes Neto
Kro Lalo, Devido a grandes atualizacoes efetuadas a quase toda semana, sempre estou instalando os realese, como pode-se ver o endereco citado nao possui as ultimas atualizacoes, portanto, sempre compilo todos os progs. Se alguem tiver alguma solucao eu agradeco profundamente []'s Nelsinho

Re: Problemas na compilacao do gnome-libs_1.05

1999-04-09 Thread Nelson Novaes Neto
Salve, Vou estar baixando todos os arquivos .deb, vou instalar e posteriormente vou compilar os mais recentes, se der algum problema eu aviso a lista, obrigado. []'s Nelsinho

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Apr-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: polly wogged, The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring data. If you really need the features ext2 provides then by all means use mke2fs.

Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Henry Kingman
looks like a bug in win 95/98 crashes a system that has been up more than 49 days -- but no one finds it because they always crash long before that anyway. http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2238939-3,00.html Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a

StarOffice and S3V - solved!

1999-04-09 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, Like several other persons I experienced a problem of crashing XWindows while trying to run StarOffice (yes, I have S3ViRGE card). By using the SVGA server I could solve the problem but unfortunately Netscape icons looks funny at 24bpp. Recently I noticed that VMWare has a couple of

Re: PPP-pam - problem

1999-04-09 Thread John Galt
You have a rudimentary version of PPP with the base installation--PPP-pam just adds a little bit to it so that it's a little easier to use in some cases, and a lot more secure in others. So the short answer is no, you don't NEED it--you can dial out just fine without it. However IIWY I'd try to

du -x problem

1999-04-09 Thread Chris Brown
Hi all, I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can anybody help? Thanks, Chris

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Ian Peters
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:14:07PM -0700, Henry Kingman wrote: Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a year? I could be wrong, but I think this bug had to do with your uptime wrapping around. Your machine wouldn't crash, it just wouldn't know how long it had

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread John Galt
have you tried mke2fs /dev/fdX? On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 08-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote: On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: Try superformat Is that for formatting Linux floppies too? It appears that it is for DOS floppies and I want to get ext2 floppies. --

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
It depends on what kind of a video card you use. Check out the Linux Laptop homepage http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ For your problem, in your XF86Config, if you have something like 640x480 800x600 Then by default XFree86 will use the 640x480 mode and your virtual screen

Re: Two copies of lpd - bug or feature?

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
You may have both lprng and lpr installed on your system. If that is the case try dpkg --purge lpr Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm using debian 2.1. I find that /etc/init.d/lpd starts two copies of the lpd daemon. Is this a bug or a feature? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
henry harrumphed, Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a year? A bit more than that. The date rolls over in 2038 on 32 bit unices. --

Re: PPP-pam - problem

1999-04-09 Thread John Hasler
John Galt writes: You have a rudimentary version of PPP with the base installation Nothing rudimentary about it. The base package includes the complete ppp package. The pppd binary in it was compiled without pam to save space. So the short answer is no, you don't NEED it--you can dial out

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:12:37 -0400, Ian Peters wrote: I could be wrong, but I think this bug had to do with your uptime wrapping around. Your machine wouldn't crash, it just wouldn't know how long it had been up. Like I said, though, I could be

Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi all, I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 I guess) I have had a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html and the hardware howto, but the later models I am looking at

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Jim
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: henry harrumphed, Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a year? A bit more than that. The date rolls over in 2038 on 32 bit unices. Would that be called a Y2.038K bug in Linux slanguage?

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote: No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem. For what reason? I don't like M$ I mean a technical reason. I was looking for a technical reason too; for changing my habit of

Re: Header files

1999-04-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC Sometimes when compiling I get errors not having some headers NC files or cause they're older. NC Wouldn't be better to do a symbolic link on /usr/include !? No, not really. See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for the reasons why, and what to do instead.

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Bruce Sass
Excuse my ignorance (I've only ever used dos 6.20 with 1.44M disks), but... Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space? I usually format to 1920k (83 tracks doesn't always work for me, so I don't use 1992k). The larger block size and reserved space can be looked after with mke2fs -b 512 -m 0 ..., and

LILO not working in new install

1999-04-09 Thread Igor
Hey all, I just recently decided to switch from Slackware to Debian (better package management, among other things), and for the life of me, I can't get the Debian distribution to boot up. I installed NT before Debian (maybe a mistake, but Slackware was fine with it). When I run liloconfig, it

Re: LILO not working in new install

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Did you install lilo on mbr or the linux root partition. If you have installed lilo on the linux root partition, try use NT to activate the linux partition and see if it works. If you have installed it in mbr, try install it on the linux root partition. Igor wrote: Hey all, I just recently

Re: LILO not working in new install

1999-04-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
Please see: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Igor wrote: Hey all, I just recently decided to switch from Slackware to Debian (better package management, among other things), and for the life of me, I can't get the Debian distribution to

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-04-09 Thread fockface dickmeat
If you go to the Third World and find 100 people who have never tasted ketchup before, you find out two things: one is that people don't actually like tomato ketchup, the other is that they dislike all ketchups equally. I vastly prefer catsup, it's so much better than the so-called ketchup.

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-04-09 Thread fockface dickmeat
If you go to the Third World and find 100 people who have never tasted ketchup before, you find out two things: one is that people don't actually like tomato ketchup, the other is that they dislike all ketchups equally. I vastly prefer catsup, it's so much better than the so-called ketchup.

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Bruce Sass wrote: Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space? Backup superblock, inode table, space reserved for root, etc. Re: superblocks, we'll just have to wait until -s, sparse superblocks works properly (2.2.x kernels?). The

Printer Cheating!

1999-04-09 Thread Jeff Rose
I admit: I got lazy on my first Debian install (of Slink) and did the following to get printing working on a remote RH Linux box with a HP DJ695C. I copied all the RH box's files in /var/spool/lpd/lp/* to the same on the slink box (/var/spool/lpd/remote on slink I left empty). I made sure

XFree86 3.3.3.1 xfs hangs under Debian 2.1

1999-04-09 Thread Jonathan Hayward
My font server, xfs from XFree86 3.3.3.1, hangs when someone tries to start it (it kept my computer from booting completely without some intervention). What should I do for diagnostics or to fix it? Would getting an older version of xfs be likely to work? -Jonathan

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: fdformat missing Date: Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 06:09:59PM - In reply to:Pollywog Quoting Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am missing fdformat. Which package contains it? From your many questions, I assume you are really interested in knowing a lot about your system.

Re: The GNU thing

1999-04-09 Thread fockface dickmeat
The key thing is that GCC was responsible for creating Linux. The other programs would have been written if they didn't already exist. Since they DID already exist, there was no point in wasting the effort to reinvent wheels and these other programs were SUPPOSED to be free. Now we see that there

Re: NIC trouble

1999-04-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: NIC trouble Date: Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:43:19PM -0700 In reply to:Ben Messinger Quoting Ben Messinger([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just picked up some cheap used NE2K pci ethernet cards to use for a home lan. I installed two in this Linux box since it may become a

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a year? A bit more than that. The date rolls over in 2038 on 32 bit unices. Wrong limit. There's a counter in some MS-written systems (which includes OS/2, as I

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk space in an msdos floppy format. The best thing to do is to use the minix filesystem. This will use less space than ext2, while while allowing you to use unix style permissions and owners. -- see shy

Lost PCCard modem

1999-04-09 Thread Robert Kerr
My laptop used to work just beautifully with my pcmcia modem, it was recognized and dialed just fine--now when I run 'pon' I get: pppd 2.3.5 started by bob tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Exit. carctl status tells me that it recognizes that the card is there. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

PON question. was [Re: Lost PCCard modem]

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
I had the same problem with an internal modem on a friend's machine. I have changed the subject to pon to make sure that John will get this message and give us a good answer. :) Thanks. Robert Kerr wrote: My laptop used to work just beautifully with my pcmcia modem, it was recognized and

Help: Install 2.0 on 2nd drive?

1999-04-09 Thread Albert Hurd
I want finally to migrate to Debian 2.0 from 1.3.1. I have purchased a new 12.7 gig Quantum drive, and hope to install 2.0 on it, but leave 1.3.1 temporarily on the old drive (this drive has win95 on the first partition, and Debian 1.3.1 and a swap on the next two partitions---I boot from a floppy

shadow passwd in slink??

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I cannot find the shadow passwd in slink, anyone know here it is?? I need the function fgetspent, but man returns no manual entry found. I do have fgetpwent however. Could someone tell me which package I need to get in order to have this function?? Thanks. Shao. --

programming mail list/news group ?

1999-04-09 Thread ivan
I wonder if there is a Linux specific mailing list or news group dedicated to discussing programming issues. comp.unix.programming doesn't seem quite appropriate (although I have seen some Linux issues raised there). Alternatively, if someone on this list is able to help with a small daemon

Re: du -x problem

1999-04-09 Thread surak
Hi all, I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can anybody help? Thanks, Chris du is working just fine. What is happening is

Changing root password for sudo?

1999-04-09 Thread William R Pentney
I have changed my root password, and su takes notice, but sudo still uses the old password. How can I change the sudo root password? Do I edit etc/sudoers? - Bill

Re: How to determine actual modem speed

1999-04-09 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:48:44AM +0200, Ookhoi wrote: Is there a way to measure the actual speed at which a modem is connected? As modems negotiate the speed al the time, the CONNECT string at the start of the connection is not up to date some time later. Depending on your modem model,

router @isdn

1999-04-09 Thread Ronnie Cooley
Hello I have installed debian2.1 I get pings back when i ping my router and when i ping my isp from debian. But when i start BitchX it will do nothing but blink at me. Any ideas. the puter that has linux on it is networked to another computer both hooked to same router i can get on the net in

Need: Linux Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP

1999-04-09 Thread Mohsin_Ahmed
Hi, I need a Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP, even the plain VGA16 or SVGA servers don't work with this card on Celetron Intel CPU, 64Mb Ram, Linux/Redhat 5.2 CD. thanks for any help, Mohsin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mouse Problems and xdm

1999-04-09 Thread surak
Hi: I have a couple of problems and I would like to get an opinion from those who might have an insite into these issues. I recently installed Debian 2.1 on my system. I have had Debian 2.0 previously and wsa very happy with it but i decided to do a fresh install. The installation went

parallel computing, rsh, and DHCP environment?

1999-04-09 Thread kaynjay
I'm trying to set up 2-4 Debian boxes at school to run in parallel under lam (MPI) and have several problems frustrating me. The machines are currently Not recognized by their names (eg. dasher.myschool.edu ) but rather only by IP address. We have a DHCP-based network, and I have the ISC

Debian on CD-ROMs

1999-04-09 Thread Richard Seinfeld
I'd like to get the program on CD. Can anyone advise?

Need isapnp early in boot. How?

1999-04-09 Thread kaynjay
Hello- My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives off the single channel IDE controller. If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to

Re: Debian on CD-ROMs

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
Richard Seinfeld wrote: I'd like to get the program on CD. Can anyone advise? Check out http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors for a list of places to buy Debian on CD-ROM I bought mine at Cheapbytes. I've also bought from LSL. I think I got three discs from Cheapbytes for something around

Netscape Problem

1999-04-09 Thread Igor
Hey, Well, this list was successful in helping me resolve the NT-Linux boot issue, so here's another puzzler. I just intalled slink, and selected the latest netscape release (4.5) from dselect. It set up just fine, but whenever I try to run netscape I get the following error message: ERROR:

Re: router @isdn

1999-04-09 Thread scratch
Hmm you're cryptic about the problem, but have you tried using another server? eg. BitchX coolhandle irc.webbernet.net Also, are you sure DNS is working? -- nico On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Ronnie Cooley wrote: Hello I have installed debian2.1 I get pings back when i ping my router and when i

lftp reput doesn't work properly!

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've recently started using lftp for ftp transfers and it seems like quite a nice piece of software in many ways. Unfortunately reputs dont seem to work. That is, if I type: put filename and then interrupt the transfer. And then type put -c filename it happily continues putting

ftp software to fix corrupted downloads/uploads???

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Phillips
Suppose you are downloading/uploading a file using ftp, and for some reason the result is corrupted. (This happened for me recently when the reget of lftp didn't seem to work properly --- see my other email) If the file is huge, then to do it all again would take ages and be a big waste. I can

Re: How to determine actual modem speed

1999-04-09 Thread Ookhoi
Is there a way to measure the actual speed at which a modem is connected? As modems negotiate the speed al the time, the CONNECT string at the start of the connection is not up to date some time later. Depending on your modem model, there's probably an AT command which will give this

Error with kernel 2.2.5 on Debian

1999-04-09 Thread Alec Smith
When booting kernel 2.2.5 under Debian 2.1, I get the error as attached. Once booted, everything seems to work fine. I'm guessing this error has something to do with networking... Any hints? Because it appears setserial is run later in the boot process, I don't think its causing the problem, or is

Re: du -x problem

1999-04-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
-Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can anybody help? With du 4.0 -x seems to work for me.

Re: shadow passwd in slink??

1999-04-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
-Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cannot find the shadow passwd in slink, anyone know here it is?? I need the function fgetspent, but man returns no manual entry found. I do have fgetpwent however. Could someone tell me which package I need to get in order to have this function??

Re: shadow passwd in slink??

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Thanks. I found that out with a fgrep in the /usr/include directory. But it is strange that it does not have a man page for it. Ole J. Tetlie wrote: -Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cannot find the shadow passwd in slink, anyone know here it is?? I need the function fgetspent,

Re: Mouse Problems and xdm

1999-04-09 Thread Martin Waller
I think you will need to recompile your kernel with the proper mouse support, as the default kernel doesn't come with ps/2 mouse support I believe (at least, that was the case when exactly the same thing happened to me!). Martin mouse that plugs into my PS2 port (the one that has a S-Video

Printer trouble

1999-04-09 Thread R. Marx
Hello, I'm having trouble getting my printer to respond to any input from the lpr command. Currently I'm running slink and am using a HP DJ882c printer. I've been trying to use magicfilter, but only have the df550c filter (this did work pretty well on the 1.3 release...bad resolution

RE: Printer trouble

1999-04-09 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Try lp:/dev/lp0 -Mensaje original- De: R. Marx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 9 de abril de 1999 10:49 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Asunto: Printer trouble Hello, I'm having trouble getting my printer to respond to any input from the lpr command.

Re: ftp software to fix corrupted downloads/uploads???

1999-04-09 Thread Patrick
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:58:39PM +0930, Mark Phillips took time to write: Look at the file on either end and imagine that it comprises a sequence of smaller sized chunks. Use md5sum or some similar checksum to compare chunks and see for which chunks the files actually differ. Then do an ftp

RE: Printer trouble

1999-04-09 Thread R. Marx
Hi Angel, Thanks for your help on the printer. It turns out that lp1 was the one to use, so I must have done something to the system. Anyhow, I finally rebooted the system...that seemed to help...it works anyway. I don't know...maybe it had something to do with the lpd. Thanks, Rob

NET error

1999-04-09 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Voyage kernel: NET: 7 messages suppressed. Apr 9 12:11:45 Voyage kernel: protocol 0400 is buggy, dev eth0 what is this?(from syslog) sincerely rune Graduate student Rune Linding Raun University of Copenhagenphone(home):+45 35 436 436

Re: Debian on CD-ROMs

1999-04-09 Thread dyer
Richard Seinfeld wrote: I'd like to get the program on CD. Can anyone advise? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors -- dyer

a kde bug??

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I tried to open a crxvt in kde but it does not work. It gave me a huge window with nothing in it... I also tried to open it in fvwm with no problem at all. I am running kde1.1. Any ideas?? Thanks.

Re: ftp software to fix corrupted downloads/uploads???

1999-04-09 Thread John Leget
Hmm, I was using rsync recently and found that instead of continuing interupted temp files it would each time start a new temp file ( copied from the original ), i ended up with 3 temp files larger than the original, now i guess maybe its in the way i kill it and it doesnt get to clean up. Im

How do I get rid of dummy PPP

1999-04-09 Thread David Nelson
I just installed Debian on my laptop, using the installation script, and during the process chose to install serial PPP followed by dummy PPP. Now Debian starts up with dummy PPP and I can't proceed with to update and download the rest of the packages via FTP using apt. Could anyone be kind

Re: junkbuster

1999-04-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Robert V. MacQuarrie hat gesagt: // Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: I just re-installed junkbuster and during the install/start-up it gave this error. I've seen this error (shell-init:...) when a users home/parent dir does not exist but I notice junkbuster is run by user nobody and nobody's home

Re: Error with kernel 2.2.5 on Debian

1999-04-09 Thread Dpk
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Alec Smith wrote: When booting kernel 2.2.5 under Debian 2.1, I get the error as attached. Once booted, everything seems to work fine. I'm guessing this error has something to do with networking... Any hints? This error is generated from the startup script

gnome file manager prob.

1999-04-09 Thread Jorge Sousa
whenever I try to rum gmc I get the following error: gmc: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol: argp_program_version I'm using hamm. thank in advance. Jorge Sousa IPJ - Instituto Portugues da

xdm

1999-04-09 Thread Jorge Sousa
How to prevent xdm from starting up after a boot? thanks in advance. Jorge Sousa IPJ - Instituto Portugues da Juventude Gab. Informatica Av. Liberdade, 194 Tel: ++351-1-3179200 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (trabalho/work) [EMAIL

Re: Need isapnp early in boot. How?

1999-04-09 Thread shaleh
Hello- My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives off the single channel IDE controller. If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the

config X - s3 virge

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have a 4mb diamond 3d s3 virge video card. From XFree86.org, I read that 1280x1024 at 24/32 bpp for a 4 Meg. However, I can only achieve 16 at 1024x768. When I try -bpp 24, I get the following output: virge:/home/s2193893# X -bpp 24 :1 XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X

Re: config X - s3 virge

1999-04-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
That card, the same one I have, is problematic at 24bpp. Get used to it at 16bpp. Search last years e-mail archives for details. This question used to come up a lot. -Ian On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have a 4mb diamond 3d s3 virge video card. From XFree86.org, I

Re: Changing root password for sudo?

1999-04-09 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: I have changed my root password, and su takes notice, but sudo still uses the old password. How can I change the sudo root password? Do I edit etc/sudoers? To use sudo, you don't have to demonstrate that you have permission to act in some ways as

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Philippe Andersson
Just to add my two cents, I had a Linux box up and running for 457 days lately. Didn't show any alarming symptom. And no, it didn't crash then. I just rebooted it myself. Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a year? A bit more than that. The date rolls

Re: config X - s3 virge

1999-04-09 Thread Victor B Wagner
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: config X - s3 virge Hi, I have a 4mb diamond 3d s3 virge video card. From XFree86.org, I read that 1280x1024 at 24/32 bpp for a 4 Meg. However, I can only achieve 16 at 1024x768. When I try

Re: Need isapnp early in boot. How?

1999-04-09 Thread Jan Muszynski
Enough lurking :) This newbie has questions, but we'll start with some answers. Check out the following: http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pnp/ It involves patching the kernel to provide pnp support directly within the kernel, therefore eliminating the need for isapnp completely. He initially

Re: router @isdn

1999-04-09 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Ronnie Cooley wrote: Hello I have installed debian2.1 I get pings back when i ping my router and when i ping my isp from debian. But when i start BitchX it will do nothing but blink at me. Any ideas. the puter that has linux on it is networked to another computer both

Re: parallel computing, rsh, and DHCP environment?

1999-04-09 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up 2-4 Debian boxes at school to run in parallel under lam (MPI) and have several problems frustrating me. The machines are currently Not recognized by their names (eg. dasher.myschool.edu ) but rather only by IP address. Is it

Re: Base Installation problems.

1999-04-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Assad Khan wrote: Hello. I just got Debian 2.1 with the official cds. In the installation when it asks for the path to base2_1.tgz, even though it is there, it says there is a file error and it cant extract /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22/base2_1.tgz= . I

Re: xdm

1999-04-09 Thread shaleh
How to prevent xdm from starting up after a boot? a) removed the xdm package if you dont want it or b) disable the xdm script in /etc/init.d or c) edit the options files in /etc/X11 (read them and you will find what you need)

Routing over IP Alias'd Interfaces

1999-04-09 Thread Michael Laing
My ISP is changing my server IP address. The old one will stay available to me for awhile. I interface to the ISP via cable modem. I thought a good way to transition seamlessly would be to use IP alias to set up the new interface, then make the DNS changes and let them work their way thru, then

RE: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (using kernel drivers)

1999-04-09 Thread Piotr Domagalski
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Mike Hill wrote: I think you said you wanted to do this with a 2.0 kernel; mine works using a late-2.1 kernel (2.1.132?). I just followed the instructions in the kernel source file Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2: the driver is good for SA2, SA3 and SAx. I want to use it

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-09 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/8/99 7:32:49 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It depends on what kind of a video card you use. Check out the Linux Laptop homepage http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ For your problem, in your XF86Config, if you have something

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
George Bonser wrote: Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk space in an msdos floppy format. $ superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=12KB cyl=83 mss $ mdir a: Volume in drive A has no label Volume Serial Number is 6F43-9F01 Directory for A:/ No files

HP DeskJet 1100

1999-04-09 Thread Piotr Domagalski
Hi ! Has anybody used this printer in slink ? How did you configure magicfilter ? I'm asking because I configure it and quality is poor (vs. printing in Windows ... ) -- Piotr Domagalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - no Windows, no Gates, Apache inside.

Re: Lost PCCard modem

1999-04-09 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/8/99 11:59:42 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My laptop used to work just beautifully with my pcmcia modem, it was recognized and dialed just fine--now when I run 'pon' I get: pppd 2.3.5 started by bob tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Exit.

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