Paul Johnson wrote:
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Gorka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because of my poor English I'll try to explain it in Spanish.
OK, please take it to debian-user-spanish then.
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There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop system (currently
on laptop),
blocking booting or e2fsck.
The precipating event may have been the copying of a tarball to /root/
which exceeded Root's reserve space.
The shut down appeared normal, but the reboot failed.
I have an alternate
Which driver does your modem use?
Are you sure you actually CONNECT to the ISP
Compare:
# ping 30.57.4.70
64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=239.2 ms
64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=240.0 ms
64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=230.0 ms
64 bytes from
Check for new drivers at the nvidia.com
Thomas Beresford wrote:
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inclosures for laptop
drives,
which USB connect to other PCs. I have found mine handy for such transfers
or just storage, if one swapped out a smaller drive for a larger one.
MarvS
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop
With the goal of writing CDs from my laptop,
is their any experience with using a PCMCIA to SCSI adaptor under Linux?
While I have a USB port, the CD burner HowTo is at this time only
recommending
SCSI port CD burners for use under Linux.
MarvS
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Debian was easily installed on my Gateway Solo 3500 laptop, with ATI
Mach64 Rage Mobility graphics card.
The best VGA console fonts are obtained by
# insmod atyfb
providing slim 80x30 fonts in the text console. However Xwindows does
not stabilize subsequently with this driver active, AND
#
On laptop from Home, my mail is sent through Netscape Messenger to
smtp.rcn.com, with rcn.com my IP. RCN.COM does not accept smtp from
other domains.
With laptop at work I have a LAN gateway to the Internet, and should be
able to send mail directly from the laptop. But how should Messenger +
exim
The XF86Config serving Root must then be in /root
Copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config for use by other users.
MarvS
Frank Zimmermann wrote:
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
With respect to startx,
check for a .xsession files in your /root/ and /home/user/ folders.
You may
My ATAPI CDROM drive /dev/hdc is fine,
provided the devfsd daemon is not implemented during bootup.
If /dev/hdc mounting is attempted AFTER devfsd is called,
the mount fails. Insights?
MarvS
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I understand that there are certain .deb-s that :
1) make your Linux box a router (I want him\her to at least identify on being
ping-ed
by others on the network , and accept telnet and ftp connections) .
2) that get on with the basic bit of networking., DHCP,DNS
Nathan,
THere is a Debian program called alien, under which
$ alien -r SomePackage.deb
will be converted to a SomePackage.rpm
You could query the Debian list
debian_user debian-user@lists.debian.org
for someone who lives close to you and could do the conversion.
The Wordperfect.deb would have
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:43:26 +0200
From: Jan Stifter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Announcement: PCTEL driver for kernel 2.4.x
hello,
The driver version is:
PCTEL Linux PCI driver, version 4.27.211
It should work on all 2.4.x kernels.
Original Message
Subject: Intel® V.90 modem chipset driver for Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:04:38 -0800
From: Araneda, Dorian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For those intersted in the
Intel® V.90 modem chipset driver for Linux
please visit this
.
marvS
Jo Geraerts wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
# ls -l /usr/include
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 1 14:46 /usr/include -
kernel-headers-2.1.17/include
how the heck did u accomplish this??
in /usr/include i have a link
Trying to keep Lucent WinModem drivers available to Users for
kernels-2.4.nn, now 2.4.2, I've run into menu config problems
My
# ls -l /usr/include
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 1 14:46 /usr/include -
kernel-headers-2.1.17/include
While I can do the ancient:
make config
For any of you with PCTEL modems,
http://www.geocities.com/tom_in_rc/pctel/
pctel-2.4.tar.gz is a driver package for PCTel modems under kernel 2.4
submitted by Thomas Wright,
Using the xfs xfstt font delivery services, all is fine except for one
minor nuisance. Under Netscape the choices:
Variable Width Font: Arial Narrow (Ttf)
Fixed Width Font: Courier New (Ttf)
There is the occassional warning:
Warning cannot convert string
Anyone know what the gnome-name-service does?
THere's no info on my onboard documentation.
It's part of the gnome-bin.deb packages
Killing seems to be without ill affect on my stand alone laptop,
MarvS
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4:41pm up 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00
On a old NEC 486 50mHz Versa V\50 laptop, the following periodically
appears in the text console. What is an appropriate modification.
MarvS
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Several repeats of:
Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I
initstring]
[-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype]
Anyone have info that might help with setting up X on an ancient Versa
V50 Laptop.
If has a WD90C24 chipset
WD90C[23]X=[0x32 0x34]
clocks 28.32, 49.83
videoram 1024
Please copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MarvS
My PCMCIA 3Com Corporation, 3CCFE575BT, LAN Cardbus Card, 001
manfid: 0x0101, 0x5157
function: 6 (network)
PCI id: 0x10b7, 0x5157
is working fine under 2.2.17 and under the 2.4.0-test11 with the old
way PCMCIA support of compiling all the pcmcia modules,
# lsmod
Module Size
When working with these Very Recent sources, its important to have
required versions of the software. After installing sources, do a
grep ; /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.0-test11/Documentation/Changes
which picks out a table relating how to test versions of critical
software:
o Gnu C
A 54 Gig drive has been installed and Winswish Linux paritions made,
in preparing for a complete shift to the new disk. This is a udma66
Western Digital, but being driven off the old controller on an ASUS
mother board, with a BIOS upgrade supporting the big disk.
The new Linux root partition is a
Even though I just:
dpkg -i xpm4g_3.4k-5.deb, The X PixMap library
When pcmcia source is installed:
X Windows include files found.
X PixMap library not installed.
If you wish to build the 'cardinfo' control panel, you need the XPM
library and the X Windows include files. See the HOWTO
Sarah,
With a bit of research I located this site:
http://support.umax.co.uk/technotes/f096B.htm
Which tells me the card is a dtc-3181le and can be set up under linux
using:
insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=255 ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181e=1
While not being able to help you directly, I can make a
For the major compile, pre2.2.4pre8, the kernel-package.deb route has
worked fine. Within /usr/src/linux
make-kpkg --revision=laptop.1 kernel_image
After which
dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-version.deb
installs kernel+selected modules. I've had to do the pcmcia modules by
hand
Background: The Lucent supplied binary ltmodem.o winmodem driver worked
tranparently through kernels 2.2.14, but changes in ppp.o caused it to
fail for 2.2.15 and later kernels. Mark today reported a potential
solution for 2.2.16 sources.
The email is transmitted under a just compiled 2.2.17
The kernel config choices:
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
are supposed to support a penguin graphic during the initial boot.
This worked for me under 2.2.12
but not under 2.2.17
Can someone tell me the current
Please respond to me as well as the list.
I'm having trouble achieving sb.o functionality under 2.4.0-test8
for a ESS1869 card.
Under a custom kernel 2.2.14, sound is set with:
/sbin/modprobe sound
/sbin/insmod uart401
/sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1
Under Kernel 2.2.14 the following is effective:
The critical kernel compile settings are:
grep SOUND config-2.2.14 | grep -v not
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL
Following advice in:
/usr/src/linux-2.4-test7/Documentation/sound/ESS
To just do simple FTP between my laptop and desktop without any other
network, what are the appropriate script settings?
PCMCIA ethernet cards are functional in each.
Please copy to me as well as the LIST.
MarvS
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the List.
The script below is user to establish dial-in.
#!/bin/sh
# connect to IP through Lucent WinModem
echo
echo Inserting Winmodem Lucent Tech ltmodem.o driver
/sbin/insmod -f ltmodem
pon $1
tail -f /var/log/syslog
1) First make sure your are describing the mouse port as:
/dev/ttyS0
NOT /ttys0
2) If you have installed gpm-frozenVer.deb, this update
sets up to new mouse devices: /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctl
and more over,with WARNING sets
/dev/mouse - /dev/gpmdata
(a Bug report has been filed)
Thus
On my Compaq Armada 1500c with integral LTmodem,
the ltmodem.o binary worked fine with kernels up to 2.2.14,
but support is at least temporarily broken with kernels
compiled from 2.2.15 source.
My kernels are compiled with choices
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
For reasons not yet explained, kernel-source-2.2.14.deb is
not at the DEB respositories though its Package WWW page is
still up at www.debian.org. I need to do a compile with
2.2.14 source, to support both OSS sound and the ltmodem.o
winmodem binary, which doesn't (yet work) with 2.2.15. Does
Re: Right now I'm confuse how to install Corel Linux OS by
install the Debian OS first?. Can you explain more? Or is
there any website
that explain about this?. It's is because my Compaq Armada
7750MT cant
display the X interface during installation. I've tried to
scroll all the X
server by doing
This is an early warning concerning mouse function, whose relevance to
you will depend upon your particular hardware and XF86Config file.
Currently all is fine on my desktop which is mostly a Slink/Stable
installation. The gpm console mouse daemon is running with affecting my
good functionality
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may
be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops
especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy
type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support
needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has
ide-floppy
When I ppp connect through a Lucent Tech Winmodem, the
sequence is:
insmod -f ltmodem
with force (-f) necessary because the supplied binary
ltmodem.o is not matched with my kernel-2.2.14
pon
can then complete the connection with the modules autoloaded
being:
sound 56088
Just wanted to report the successfull installation of WINMODEM function
on a Compaq Armada 1500c laptop.
This laptop comes with an internal modem described as a
Compaq Armada 56K V90
but which Roger J. Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] related (for a later
Armada model) is a winmodem with the Lucent
; \
if ./debian/rules KVERS=2.2.14 KSRC=/usr/src/linux \
KMAINT=Marvin Stodolsky
KEMAIL=marv \
KDREV=compaq.01 kdist; then \
echo Module $module processed fine
Debians,
The COLOSers could benefit from a few experienced Debians.
As you know. Corel-Linux is an acknowledged variation upon Debian.
And most of the problems the COLOS newbies are running into are not
COLOS specific.
For a while I've responded to some technical questions, but I don't have
Yesterday I related that the standard CD isolation wasn't going past
the attempted Graphical interface setup. During today's snowstorm
around
Wash DC, I did achieve a work around.
First I knew that my multiaged PC hardware was basically OK, because a
Debian
installation was already working
I have problem with modprobe in potato. When I run
#modprobe sound
it returns
conf:73: missing module argument
but insmod soundcore; insmod sound workfine.
This use to work before I upgrade packages today!
Chanop
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The module soundlow is probably
With a 2.036 kernel and a US Robotics 33.6 modem + ethernet PCMCIA card,
the warning below (marked by ) during boot, and as later displayed
by dmesg.
Manifest decrease in functionality is not evident, but it would be nice
to understand it.
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
kernel build: 2.0.35
During boot of a Dell Inspiron 3000 laptop with a 2.0.36 kernel, the
warning (indicated by below) is recorded by dmesg. While there are
no manifest performance defects, I'd like to understand it.
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Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
kernel build:
My WP8 installation is up and working.
Herein a few cautions are passed along, learned during setting up on my
Dell Inspiron Laptop, which is a dual boot Win95 Linux.
1) Do gunzip and tar -xvf the files in some Linux directory like /tmp
Unpacking in a DOS/Win95 partition is inadequate because a
The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
powersave BIOSs---BeginMessage---
Thanks Marvin,
I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and
sure enough problems have disappeared. Now if I could just get it to make
coffee in the morning...
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the
progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed
that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information
when connecting via ppp?
Also, I have had a problem where the
Ivan,
From the info supplied, it seems you may have some yet Ill defined
incompatibility between, Linux and your ATAPI CD, since the CD does
work under
Win95. You can try reading another CDROM. just do assess whether
(unlikely) some problem with the Debian CD)
This is only a slight
Has anyone been able to establish a PPP connection with
Internet Service provider EROLS.COM under Linux.
For DOS-Windows EROLS uses the SHIVA PPP,
which works fine. It uses dynamic addressing for both LOCAL and REMOTE
But establishing the same connection under LINUX,
trying to use DIP or PPPD
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How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux?
P. *8^)
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