Re: ppp0

1999-03-30 Thread Chen Xu
Hi John, Thanks for your help, really. I actually did run pppconfig and answered the questions, but still not working. I suspect maybe there is something to do with my modem port. My modem is on COM4 and IRQ is 10. As defuelt, the IRQ asigned for COM4 may be different. I did 'setserial -b

ppp0

1999-03-29 Thread Chen Xu
Hi all, When I tried to set up ppp on my Debian2.0 box, I found that I don't have interface ppp0 running. Actually it is not there. I can only see the interface lo, but not ppp0. Any idea? how to fix? Thanks, Chen

x won't run

1999-03-04 Thread Chen Xu
Hi all, I just installed Debian2.0 from official CD. And I configured the Xf86Setup right. But every time when I do 'startx', it crashed and I saw the following messages none of the configured devices were detected *** no screen found I knew the conf I did is right because I finished

x-window won't start

1999-03-03 Thread Chen Xu
Hi all, I just installed Debian2.0 from official CD. The installation went ok except problems with serveral packages(defualt chosen). One problem is that when I install I saw no 'xinit' and I couldn't write anything to X config file. I start XF86Setup manually and get it worked ( I know all the

Unidentified subject!

1999-02-24 Thread Chen Xu
Dear all, I am new to linux world. Here are my first questions. 1) I installed Debian2.0 from a official CD. Installation seemd OK. But after got base installed, I could not find some tools like 'dselect' and 'dpkg' which i need to install more packages. What is this? 2) There is even no

No dselect or dpkg

1999-02-24 Thread Chen Xu
Kent, Thanks for your reply. I believe you have to be logged in as root to run dselect/dpkg. If you are and you still can't run it, something is wrong beyond my knowledge level. Yes, I logged in as _root_, just no such programs installed as 'dselect' or 'dpkg' Actually when I did

lilo

1999-02-17 Thread Chen Xu
Dear All, I installed Debian2.0 form official CD last night for the first time. I should say that it is pretty easy to install. As newbie, I have my first question here. I have two IDE drives. In the first one I have DOS(win95) and FreeBSD. In the second one, I have one partition for more DOS