Re: Newbie question - Serial Ports

2002-10-16 Thread Grant Edwards
at/echo. I avoid minicom. > Any ideas? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Didn't I buy a 1951 at Packard from you last March visi.comin Cairo? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

dpkg --list truncating lines

2002-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
A minor but annoying problem: When I do an interactive dpkg --list, it displayes complete description summaries, but when I redirect output to a file, it truncates many of the lines. Is there a way to tell dpkg not to truncate output? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

What is dpkg --list supposed to do?

2002-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
installed packages rather than the available packages. Have I confused myself somehow? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What is equivalent to chkconfig?

2002-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
rse order one starts them. So if you use S20 you do K80 (and vice versa). Using S20 and K20 seems wrong. Why not just adopt chkconfig? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IP addresses for 802.11 PCMCIA cards?

2002-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
hings. Are IP addresses for all PCMCIA devices supposed to go in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts? I've looked at the wireless HOWTO, but it doesn't even mention network.opts or wireless.opts, so it's either way out of date or written for a completely different set of tools. -- Grant Edwa

System configuration report?

2002-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
hing exist? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
#x27; which also updates dpkg's > available file, and thus makes certain parts of the system behave more > consistently. That should be cool then. Thanks! -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Am I SHOPLIFTING? at

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is using "potato" packages and >> apt-get is using "stable". The "available" list in /var/lib/d

Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
potato, and apt-get's sources list is all stable. Why don't I get packages from the woody/testing? My banner claims it's "Debian 3.0" but all of the available packages are from potato. What to I have to do to switch my system over so that it actually uses packages from w

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
better be there a lot faster > than 60 minutes. If you're going for 5 9s you'll have plenty of redundancy and hot-swapable everything. You may need a CPU/drive/PS replaced, but it doesn't generally have to be done in 5 minutes. However, you're at a higher

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
have somebody guaranteed on-site in 60 minutes from when the phone rings. For what I do (SW development) I invariably get better/quicker results from mailing lists and Usenet than I ever did from commercial support. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Where do your SOCK

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > Klaus Imgrund writes: >> a. complain to and scream at > > People frequently complain and scream at this mailing list. With far more helpful responses that any you'll get from most commercial operations. -- Grant Edwards

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
ecurity-hole-du-jour in OutlookExlporerInformationExchangeServerWhatever. MS beat the federal government into submission. You don't stand a snowball's chance in hell. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! It's hard being

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
everal palm pilot apps in the distribution. Is a question like > 'which is the best one to use?' relevant? Anyone using Palm's that could > provide some advice? I prefer jpilot generally (requires pilot-sync), but I use plan for my calendar (mostly). -- Grant Edwards

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
e latency within a collision domain is strictly limited for the reasons you describe. All ports on a hub are still in the same collision domain, so adding a hub doesn't let you start over when you're adding up max lengths. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ..

Re: [OT] Graphic distortion on monitor

2002-06-04 Thread Grant Edwards
unds sort of like 'pincushion" problems. Are the edges of the displayed area straight? (Assuming you can see the egdes.) Look for a pincushion adjustment on your monitor, and play with that if you can find one. -- Grant Edwards grante

Re: grub

2002-06-03 Thread Grant Edwards
need them (last time I checked). > - Is vmlinuz on a filesystem supported by grub, like ext2, reiserfs etc.? If not, you'd get an error message from grub and the kernel would never get loaded. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! I'm imagining

Re: List as a newsgroup

2002-06-03 Thread Grant Edwards
ubscribing to the list. > The mailing list is the only "official" means of article distribution. A > third party runs the gateway to news. So far, it appears that the mail->news gateways is well run: I checked for a while, and I never noticed any lost messages. The developer

Re: Where is Packaging Manual?

2002-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
format are the sources?] Never mind -- I found it the text/postscript versions. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Isn't this my STOP?! at visi.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Where is Packaging Manual?

2002-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
w is preserved in appendices to policy. Thanks. Is there a downloadable (PDF or single HTML page) or searchable version somewhere? The online version is too chopped up for searching. [I don't have access to the CVS server, though it could be arranged. What format are the sources?] -- Grant Edwar

Where is Packaging Manual?

2002-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
was "Previously available in the packaging-manual package." Where is it currently available? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
will attest to this as this particular post will > trigger that bug. You're describing a different bug in OE. There are so many from which to choose... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is something VIOLENT at

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Grant Edwards
tant to post my .muttrc file because of the bandwidth, > but will do so if that will help. The Usenet group comp.mail.mutt is probably the definitive place to ask for help, since I doubt there's anything Debian-specific going on. If you have no other way to access Usenet, you can use Goo

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Grant Edwards
every day to people running Outlook and Outlook Express. I've never had a problem. > Is there a setting I am missing, or do I have to strong-arm > them all to use Eudora (which also works fine)? Getting them > onto Linux is another step, but one thing at a time... What is the failur

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Grant Edwards
e much better behaved than RedHat's patch, if I > hear correctly. What sort of improvements have been made? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Grant Edwards
more obvious for > newbies, but it seems more stupid the longer I look at it. There's also a link from /etc/grub.conf /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Grant Edwards
graphical stuff requires a patch that was done by somebody at RedHat. It's not in the official release of grub, though I think it's in CVS now. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I KAISER ROLL?! What

Re: pcmcia orinoco in a desktop, problems

2002-05-14 Thread Grant Edwards
gt; PCIC=yenta_socket > > and restart pcmcia. If it doesn't exist you may need to directly edit the > /etc/init.d/pcmcia script to ensure that it loads "yenta_socket" instead > of "i82365". Didn't work for me... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:00:22PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > In the muc groups' articles, why not set the "followup-to:" > > header to be the mailing list e-mail address? > > Because new

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
wup-to:" header to be the mailing list e-mail address? I don't think that can cause a loop, and it will allow people to follow-up from newsreaders. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
ng to explain why it's > not something that should be done without thought, and why it's not a > "you could just do this". However, I seem to be talking to a brick wall, > so I'll leave the discussion now. Sorry to sound obtuse, but people kept pointing out the pr

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
Path: ruti.visi.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Lin

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
o now). The gateway still treats usenet as a write-only medium. Why is there any danger of a loop if slrn mails the article rather than mutt? > (I think it would be a good idea for debian-user shadow newsgroups to be > moderated anyway, if nothing else so that they can point to a mailbo

Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> This sounds like the exact same mechanism use

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated >> newsgroups, but postings to muc.l.d.u don't seem to get mailed >> to the list. Why not set up muc.l.d.u as a moderated group >> wi

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
son write to the mailing list by posting to the newsgroup? > > Not directly, you'd still have to mail the list. This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated newsgroups, but postings to muc.l.d.u don't seem to get mailed to the list. Why not set up muc.l.d.u as a mod

Re: More PCMCIA woes...

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Edwards
[otherwise you'll get version conflicts] then Install pcmcia-modules [*] The only solutions that won't be broken by a upgrade -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More PCMCIA woes...

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Edwards
pcmcia-modules is installed and it should then use modprobe (which will load isa-pnp). That way I also get more up-to-date drivers. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More PCMCIA woes...

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:30:54AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > > Somebody else out there must be using PCMCIA support. It > > simply _can't_ be as broken as it appears to be. > > I don't think it is. On my testing box, the stock 2.4

Re: Problem with /etc/init.d/pcmcia

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Edwards
ling the script anyway? I still haven't figured that one out... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More PCMCIA woes...

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Edwards
s sources that were current as of about a week ago... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with /etc/init.d/pcmcia

2002-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:54:03PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > it is trying to decide if it should use pcmcia_cs or the 2.4.x pcmcia kernel > > code. (PC for pcmcia_cs, KD for kernel) > > Yes. I know. > > The question I really asked were: > > 1) Why not

Re: Problem with /etc/init.d/pcmcia

2002-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
in the KD case. But, shouldn't the Debian pcmcia script and a kernel built with the Debian kernel-build process work together? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with /etc/init.d/pcmcia

2002-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
to the modules. Why are the options are ignored? I'd be happy to submit a patch for the script, but since I don't understand the purpose behind this section, I don't know if my fix would break things in other situations. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie C programming question - OT

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Edwards
atch for. > For Linux C++ stuff, the mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is good, though it's a little quit > sometimes. I'm not sure if there's a C one as well. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to ditch on small disk system?

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Edwards
; dependencies by hand :-) Nah. The system still needs to be administratable in a somewhat "normal" manner. Losing apt would be too much of a > > If a user requires anything I delete, he can always re-install > > it (I'll leave dpkg, apt, and frieds)... > &g

What to ditch on small disk system?

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Edwards
all it (I'll leave dpkg, apt, and frieds)... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie C programming question - OT

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Edwards
are. > OnExit(and enter) work because there is a loop somewhere > getting events and sending them to the right place. Actually, it appears that the form library does provide a semi-event-driven model where you can attach callbacks to various fields and events. See "man form_hook" for exam

Re: Newbie C programming question - OT

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:54:28AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:01:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:10:42PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [..] > >You're learning C and ypu started with a curses/forms app? > >

Re: Newbie C programming question - OT

2002-04-30 Thread Grant Edwards
-end named mp3c that has a pretty nice ncurses UI (but I don't think it uses the forms library). I've done a little with ncurses and CDK, but nothing with the forms library. You probably ought to ask in comp.os.linux.development.apps. I assume you've already looked at http://dickey.hi

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d > except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at > /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log, > and other stuff are clea

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:45:06AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > None of my machines have "chkwtmp", but it turns out that > mgetty is what's causing the huge wtmp files. I don't know if > it's init or mgetty itself that's causing the problem. For the sake

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:38:25PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > on the first, check the output of chkwtmp. None of my machines have "chkwtmp", but it turns out that mgetty is what's causing the huge wtmp files. I don't know if it's init or mgetty itself that&#x

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
ld. > on the second, check out /etc/logrotate.conf. Unless I'm misunderstanding your suggestion, I already did, and I explained what was in that file: > > Since /etc/logrotate.conf only rotates wtmp and btmp, and > > /etc/logrotate.d doesn't control anything ex

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > 1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system > that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few > times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16 > days. > >

logrotate and wtmp confusion...

2002-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
, where is logrotate getting instructions from for rotating the other files? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
ve to try posting to > it. I've made posting to l.d.u, and they haven't shown up in the mailing list, and of the threads I've followed in the mailing list, only about 10% of the posts have shown up in the newsgroup. My preference would be to use the newsgroup, but right now I&#

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
ble to reconfigure later, divide into the > three basic categories listed above, write or find programs to > handle the first set since debian has nothing good that will > serve yet, use base-config for the secod set, and > dpkg-reconfigure for the third set. Thanks. That clear

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
, i kind of > doubt there's any problem debian can't handle. Probably not, but so far, I haven't figured out how to (for example) reconfigure the IP network info. I could give customers a list of files and instructions to edit them, but since there are already newt/dialog based utilities to _do_ that, I was hoping to take advantage of them. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
ere put there by the "configure" stage of some package, and that I need to run dpkg-reconfigure on the right package. Perhaps not -- maybe there is no built-in way to reconfigure a Debian system. > i'm not sure *how* they get on the system, but my guess is that > it's si

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:32:32PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > > > packages h

Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
a shame to write something using newt or whatever that just duplicates the various postinst scripts... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > packages have already been configured. I just stumbled across dpkg-reconfigure (a mention of dpkg-reconfigure on the dpkg man page might be a good idea). Now, if onl

Re: Support for wireless PCMCIA

2002-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
ver that comes with the pcmcia-modules for the 2.4 kernel. It doesn't work with the 2.2.20 modules. One quirk was that I had to define a start_fn() in network.opts that did a iwpriv card_reset. Otherwise the card would only find the AP the first time it was inserted. -- Grant Edwards

linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-23 Thread Grant Edwards
I've noticed that a few of the messages in this list show up in linux.debian.user, but most of them don't. Is there a newsgroup version of the list somewhere? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Support for wireless PCMCIA

2002-04-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:53:28PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > 2) Are the drivers from wlan-ng compatible with the existing > drivers from the pcmcia-cs package? IOW, could I just add > prism2_cs.o to the pcmcia-cs pacakge. Apparently not. There seem to be two incomatib

Re: Support for wireless PCMCIA

2002-04-23 Thread Grant Edwards
d I just add prism2_cs.o to the pcmcia-cs pacakge. I don't actually know how to create .deb files, but I know where the docs are (it can't be that much different than creating RPM packages), and I'm going to need to do that eventually anyway. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECT

Support for wireless PCMCIA

2002-04-23 Thread Grant Edwards
to be no prism2 driver.) What is the "right" way to add support for this card? I could build wlan-ng from sources, but then I'd have a system that can't be automatically updated. Because of support issues, I'm very adverse to using things that aren't supported Debian

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
nux.org (this would be a directory) > /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux That seems to be fairly widely depricated these days. The file in /usr/include/linux are supposed to correspond with glibc, not with the kernel. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
tice that it states a symlink from /usr/src/linux --> is required. I've never done that, and it seems to work OK. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:56:36PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before > > building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use > >

Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use the pcmcia stuff in the pcmcia-cs package). If I do that, the "make" dies because it's looking for stuff in those directories. Am I missi

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 > > kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? > > 2.2 was current

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
> > other distros? > > Actually, I can't get 2.2.20 by default. I don't see it on stable, and > last time I asked about it I was told to get it off "testing". I installed woody last week from the floppy images and I got 2.2.20. I don't remember what

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
version when I get to that point... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
, this does not make a > good impression. Though 2.4.x development mostly stabilised now. Ah, I see. I think I'll ship both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels and let the customer pick which one they want to use. I'll probably configure the bootloader to use the 2.4 kernel by default. Since I'm bu

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:45:46PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My concern is that if Debian hasn't switched to a 2.4 kernel, > > there must be a reason. If I start shipping a product with > > Debian running a 2.4

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:29:28PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Grant Edwards wrote on Wed Apr 17, 2002 um 12:32:09PM: > > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 > > Then you should read Release Notes I did. I didn't find

Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
r 2.2. I'm planning on building a custom-tailored 2.4.x kernel-image package for above-mentioned product, but I'm wondering if I should also include a similarly configured 2.2 kernel-image... -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:11:38PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > But then again, do you *really* want to buy a computer from the evil > empire? Bill Gates is selling computers now? Aside from those video game things? I bet the tech support department at Wall Mart is really top-notch! ;)

kernel-package is just too cool.

2002-04-12 Thread Grant Edwards
I've been building Linux kernels since version 0.99.. I just tried generating a kernel-image .deb package, and it worked first try. I have to say that kernel-package is just too cool. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: runaway modprobe loop

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:20:58PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > I compiled 2.2.20 with VESA frame buffer support enabled, and > now I have a runaway modprobe loop: [...] > I'm going to try again with unix and pf_packet compiled into > the kernel, That fixed it, but I don'

runaway modprobe loop

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
, but I can't figure out why enabling VESA FB support caused this. Any hints? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppd dial-in problems

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:17:30PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to configure a 2.2r5 system for dial-in PPP access. > The dail-in part works fine, but when the dial-in user starts > pppd using "exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach", the ppp daemon just > sits there f

Re: slang wierdness in woody install

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
et drawn in the correct location. If you're careful, you can figure out what's going on, but it's a bit disorienting. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slang wierdness in woody install

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
r garbage characters that cause layout errors (module loading sub-system). I've seen this on two systems so far. Myabe I've got broken floppies??? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .config file for kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
7;d rather just skip working on the 2.2 kernel support for that and go right to 2.4. I figure I might as well upgrade now before I invest a lot of time tweaking stuff which may or may not need re-tweaking when I upgrade to Woody and a 2.4 kernel. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: .config file for kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
up" on it), but I am told > that it (RedHat) basically requires re-installation. This is not so with > Debian. Try it, you'll like it. I don't want to spend time fighting with getting the 2.2r[56] to support my hardware if it's already supported in woody. -- Grant Edwards [E

Re: .config file for kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:10:52PM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:46:52PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > > > > > > > Where can I find the .config files for the kernel image > > > > inst

pppd dial-in problems

2002-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
started by root, uid 0 Apr 9 09:44:49 debain pppd[246]: Terminating on signal 15. Apr 9 09:44:49 debain pppd[246]: Exit. [I have to kill pppd from another session] I've tried dozens of combinations of options in /etc/ppp/options (starting with the values from the PPP HOWTO). I'm

Re: .config file for kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
vious once somebody points it out. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

.config file for kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread Grant Edwards
Where can I find the .config files for the kernel image installed by the normal Debian install process? I'd like to tweak a couple things, and it would be nice to start with a known working configuration rather have to figure it out from scratch. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: keyboard friendly browser (was alternative to Netscap)

2002-04-08 Thread Grant Edwards
inning of a field/line and having it select the entire field instead. Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-F also do various things my fingers don't expect. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which getty?

2002-04-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:25:11AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is there one particular getty program that is typically used > > for Debian systems (uugetty, mgetty, agetty, ...) ? > >

Re: which getty?

2002-04-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:58:20AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 08-Apr-2002 Grant Edwards wrote: > > > Is there one particular getty program that is typically used > > for Debian systems (uugetty, mgetty, agetty, ...) ? > > you get agetty by default.

which getty?

2002-04-08 Thread Grant Edwards
Is there one particular getty program that is typically used for Debian systems (uugetty, mgetty, agetty, ...) ? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:44:12PM +0200, François Chenais wrote: > I'm under Woody and looking for an alternate web browser for replacing > Netscape. Opera is the best I've found (though Mozilla is coming along nicely). -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: hardware recommendations for a linux-based PVR

2002-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
set-top box applications. There are Geode based SBCs available from various vendors. Where I work we're using a geode-based board from IPC in a thin client product. Except for a flakey VGA console mode, they seem to work well. -- Grant Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > I would like to know what are the tools available out there to make > some fancy network drawings. I like sketch: sketch.sourceforge.net It doesn't come with pre-draw clip-art, though. -- Grant Edwards --

Re: Debain admin book?

2002-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:46:07PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > Can anybody recommend a decent book on Debian system > > administration? I stopped at the local computer store on my > > way hom

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