RE: Modules and the kernel

1998-11-30 Thread Leandro Dutra
AFAIK the only modules which need such stuff are the sound modules In fact, the do not really *need* it. They (OSS makers) inserted the check just to avoid problems like your module kills my kernel - because they sell it, so they have responcibility even when user messes it up. But

RE: OFFTOPIC: ssh in userspace?

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
access). Compile ssh (should do without root privileges), do not try to install it (this requires root) and run sshd with a port argument. If you install it giving your home (or ~/local/) as root, won't it install nicely under ~/local/ ? Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs

RE: netscape woes

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
Not so! Mozilla may not be the wonderful GPL'd program I would like it to be, but it's still free. Unless you consider that Mozilla isn't quite from Netscape... So what happens when AOL decides not to support Mozilla any further? The joke about Mozilla not being

RE: More dselect wishes

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
Please, people! dselect is free software, under GPL. Instead of daydreaming about a thousand features, implement them and submit the patches to the current maintainer! Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda

RE: ascd

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
I use Afterstep as my window manager and I have asmixer installed, but I can't find it anywhere on my system. Run update-menu If you still can't find asmixer, try typing asmixer in any xterm (or similar windowed shell). If asmixer isn't in your path, try locate

RE: Question

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to install my packages it says dpkg-perl file not found or renamed then it tells me where to put it when I search for it though its not there how do I fix this? Never seen this... but if it says not found or renamed, it would be strange

RE: how get a pci plug and pray soundcard installation

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
I run a TerraTec XLerate Soundcard -PCI and Plug Play snip But, unfortuanellety, I can't get the soundcard `swingin'. Isn't it Windows-only? If it says it needs Windows, better to believe it. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda

RE: Low memory performance question

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
The question is - Is Debian going to run worth a d**n on this thing? The primary use will be for learning C and mucking about with shell programming. I won't be loading much more then the base system, gcc, g++, and vi. It should be fine *if* you won't do anything heavy in C. gcc is

RE: Debian 2.0 (Cheapbyets CD) EZSTART does not recognize CD-ROM IRQ

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) hdd: Toshiba CD ROM XM-6102D ATAPI CDROM DRIVE hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) ide0 at 0x160-0x1fg, 0x36 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 If I then try to mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom my system hangs in the Left-Alt

RE: Dselect hard crash; now dselect won't run

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
(Debian 1.1 - slink) You mean 2.1? 11:06pm ~$ dselect dselect: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info I attempted reinstalling both libc6 and libstdc++2.9, but it didn't help. The file mentioned above

RE: Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
But since I'm not very experienced with networking my problem is: how to install the /home directories on the server (any user should be able to work on every machine which is available, so I think it would be the best way to export the user directories with NFS). Besides exporting

RE: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package grouping' feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the relationship between packages. Do anyone knows what the dpkg developers think about the issue? Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra

RE: Please help with Networking

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
Alan thanks for advice but i'm a linux/unix newbie you lost me after the network card 1. make sure that your network card is supported--yes 2. make sure kernel has support enabled (compiled in or module)--how to check?? It will only have kernel if you recompiled your kernel. If it

RE: An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
what. Is there a way to see what these applications are, without re-installing redhat??? There is a package to enable the use of .rpm's in Debian, it is called... I forget the name! I'm without access to the web or to a Debian machine now, please look for it in dselect or on the

RE: [Fwd: H E L P !!!!]

1998-11-18 Thread Leandro Dutra
Your Absolutely right !! If I had the CD I would of used it ! It was just a suggestion... it's so much easier, and many people do not know they can boot from it, so they install the operating system from floppies in order to be able to use the CD later. Anyway, there is so

RE: [Fwd: H E L P !!!!]

1998-11-17 Thread Leandro Dutra
Mr. Joey Hess suggested I get on this mailing list !! Send subscribe in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not too familiar with mailing list protocol First thing: never send attachments to mailing lists! Quote the message instead, deleting all irrelevant lines.

Stuck with M$ Exchange.

1998-11-01 Thread Leandro Dutra
I work at a company which uses only M$ Exchange for email, and a gateway to SMTP. I could install Linux on my machine, but would need a piece of s/w to be able to talk to the Exchange server. Is there any thing available? TIA! Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra

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