Resolved [was Re: Stretch--how to launch WICD, which isn't in the menu]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 05:24:52PM -0600, pplaw wrote: > > Hi, > > In Stretch, I'd like to use WICD to manage network interfaces, > but when I go through what had been my usual menu with Jessie > (Programs > Applications > network > Monitoring > WICD), t

Stretch--how to launch WICD, which isn't in the menu

Hi, In Stretch, I'd like to use WICD to manage network interfaces, but when I go through what had been my usual menu with Jessie (Programs > Applications > network > Monitoring > WICD), there's no Monitoring > WICD. How do I access and, thus, launch WICD? Thanks, b.

Re: Stretch--no network interfaces

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 08:54:34PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > pp...@pcisys.net [2017-06-18 11:43:24-06] wrote: > > > 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group > > default qlen 1 > > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > inet

Resolved [was Re: Stretch--no network interfaces]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 08:54:46PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 06/18/2017 08:25 PM, pplaw wrote: > > The network I'm on at the moment hands out DHCP addresses. But, sometimes, > > I'll hard-code the IP address for the computer (with ifconfig: ifconfig > > (e

Re: Stretch--no network interfaces

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 08:54:34PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > pp...@pcisys.net [2017-06-18 11:43:24-06] wrote: > __deletia__ > > 2: wlp1s0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group > > default qlen 1000 > > link/ether 4c:bb:58:20:0b:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > 3:

Stretch--no network interfaces

Hi, I installed Stretch, but have no network interfaces: 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Re: Installation problem

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:12:25PM +0100, Sergio Da Silva wrote: Hi everybody, Recently I have tried to install a Debian system on a newly purchased Dell system. When trying to fill apt's package database with the contents of the CDs a strange error message appears saying that the system is

Re: Serial port weirdness

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:13:13AM +, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: Bentley Taylor wrote: during boot, do you get the 2 high beeps, meaning that the box recognizes the pcmcia card presence? or, do you get a high beep and then a low one? or no beeps? I don't use any

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:17:11PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: Greetings folks; I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be nice, BTW.) xterm doesn't let home/end work. aterm doesn't let home/end

Re: How do I create a boot floppy for an installation?

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:06:53AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: If I want to create a floppy to boot a system (so that I can burn it into a bootable CDROM during a subsequent step), do I use the mkboot utility? The documentation on mkboot is a little sparse and it is not clear if it

Re: Serial port weirdness

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:50:20AM +, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At all.

initial console

debs, after getting a kernel panic, as a result of trying to boot a custom kernel (2.2.18), i managed to fsck dev/hda1 (using a rescue floppy). when i try to boot via lilo, i can't open an initial console: fs: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. unable to open an initial console.

making /dev/hdc a block device

debs, i mucked up /dev/hdc to where it isn't listed as a block device (so i'm having trouble mounting it): ls -l /dev/hdc -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Mar 12 10:06 /dev/hdc (one of my other boxes shows it the right way: brw-rw 1 root disk 22, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdc.) how do i make

reporting back (re: making /dev/hdc a block device)

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:11:10PM +, pplaw wrote: debs, i mucked up /dev/hdc to where it isn't listed as a block device (so i'm having trouble mounting it): ls -l /dev/hdc -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Mar 12 10:06 /dev/hdc (one of my other boxes shows it the right way: brw-rw

Re: wraping lines in mutt

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:50:50AM -0800, Steven E. Harris wrote: Holp, John Mr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my .exrc file I have placed; set wm=9 That will break the line 9 keystrokes from the right side, give it a try. Still no good. I tried fiddling with my TERM variable

Re: wraping lines in mutt

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:53:37PM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: Its sort of a pain in the ass, but when I am using nvi, I simply set line wrapping on its command line. :set wraplen=75 -- wcrowshaw blush oops, that's what i meant to write. /blush bentley taylor. //

Re: same file twice with apt-get

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:09:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:10:49PM +, pplaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: debs, i've installed slink for booting purposes. now i want to upgrade to potato and install the custom packages. however, when in update

same file twice with apt-get

debs, i've installed slink for booting purposes. now i want to upgrade to potato and install the custom packages. however, when in update in dselect, i get a message that i'm trying to fetch the same file twice: attempt to fetch the same file twice

only localhost ping in slink

debs, i have a box that won't load potato, so i installed slink for booting purposes. now, from the net, i want to install the custom packages from potato. however, i can't ping my box's ip addy (nor any other ip addy on my network). but, i can ping localhost. the nic is good--works with

Re: only localhost ping in slink

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:55:58PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: what does /sbin/route display? // cat /sbin/route gives me garbage characters. (am i using the wrong command?) // also, i hope you aren't trying to use the 192.168.1.xxx address directly. i.e. i hope that your DSL router, or your

Re: only localhost ping in slink

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:29:35PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:26:42PM +): cat /sbin/route gives me garbage characters. (am i using the wrong command?) just run /sbin/route. actually, run /sbin/route -n martin ps: garbage characters

Re: only localhost ping in slink

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:52:32PM +): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo well, you aren't

Re: only localhost ping in slink

debs, please ignor prior messageproblem resolved. (i didn't enter martin's suggestion exactly like he wrote and i got the wrong results. his info was right on the money! thanks!) i can ping all key players--myself, the lan, and the isp(i didn't know pinging could be this

Re: From: in mutt

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:49:15PM -0300, Mike G wrote: Hi! anyone could help me on how to set the From: when using, or maybe in exim, I used pine before, but I like more mutt's editor :) Thnks i'm not an expert, but here's what i've done: in .muttrc, add a line like: my_hdr From:

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

Michael Madden wrote: I'd written yesterday describing problems with linux 2.4.0, Debian 2.2 R2, and NE2000/3C509 NICS. Thanks for all the help! The working solution was to download and install the new modutils package from:

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:54:23AM -0600, volunteer1 wrote: debs, i got to bash with my rescue disk. (glad to see my files are still there.) i ran lilo and got scary results: /target/sbin/lilo: error in loading shared libraries /target/lib/libc.so.6:

[Fwd: current Redhat user evaluates Debian]

. debs, ..so, when this happens, what can be done? (i think i tried some sort of *probe and that was last time i saw my printing (lpr) and dialout (pon) capabilities.) regretting a possible reinstall on a potato box that was perfect, bentley taylor. // John Hasler wrote: Some drivers probe

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

redhat wise (according to brochures): http://www.dell.com http://www.tigerdirect.com (i use dlinux woody/potato and have no financial ties to either of the above.) hth, bentley taylor. // brian moore wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Can anyone

daemons?--no lpr/pon

debs, as of last friday, i suddenly lost the ability to lpr and pon. everything else is fine. i can still boot, get into x, run wp8... running potato on customized 2.2.16, i get this error message if i lpr [file]: lpr: connect: connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. with

Re: daemons?--no lpr/pon

parameters: Input/output error Jul 26 10:31:09 HOST pppd[330]: Connect script failed HOST:/home/bt# exit exit Script done on Wed Jul 26 13:10:41 2000 thx. bentley taylor. // John Hasler wrote: pplaw writes: with pon [isp1], i get no dialout. (...will send the ppp.log if needed

usb floppy drive/anything

debs, i just got a sony picturebook (pcg-c1xs) yesterday. i did a smooth, harddrive install. (thanks project!) having a usb floppy drive, i want to make a boot floppy, but the box doesn't recognize /dev/fd0. eg. $ mount /dev/fd0 /bt bentley taylor mount: the kernel does not

Re: Mail/news software

Richard Lyon wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2000 10:11 PM To: Kovacs Istvan Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: Mail/news software I don't like the Netscape browser on either Win98 or Linux. It's clunky and

Re: usb floppy drive/anything

pplaw wrote: debs, i just got a sony picturebook (pcg-c1xs) yesterday. i did a smooth, harddrive install. (thanks project!) having a usb floppy drive, i want to make a boot floppy, but the box doesn't recognize /dev/fd0. eg. $ mount /dev/fd0 /bt bentley taylor mount

Re: Corel/Linux OS

=?iso-8859-15?Q?Jean-Philippe_Gu=E9rard?= wrote: I am a bit unsure of what you use to access your floppy drive from the Desktop. To access a floppy drive, you probably need to mount it first with fdmount or xvmount. -- Jean-Philippe Guérard // and mount /dev/fd0 /a directory name goes

boot prob

debs, my only stable lapbox won't boot slink anymore. (i hit the off button before a complete halt was achieved--( a bonehead move, i know)).here's the last portion of the script before it hangs: /dev/had5 was not cleanly unmounted; check forced. /dev/hda5: unattached inode 370715

xfree86 4.0 on neomagic

debs, i run slink on my lapbox, having a neomagic 2097 (magicgraph 128zv+) video card. xfree86 4.0 gives me these results: 1. twm default. a. how do i get to icewm?--my fav. 2. default vga. a. how do specify svga? 3. default screen size of 320x200. a. how do i specify

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

hi, i've had no problem with wordperfect suite 8 on several of my debian linux, slink installs. what are the error messages you get? bentley taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandy Shapiro wrote: I have Debian 2.1 (Slink). I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz). During the install I

contents-i386.gz

debs, where's the contents-i386.gz file? (i.e., where does one get it?) ia, t. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

neomagic

debs, i have a neomagic videro card. dpkg shows that i have xserver-neomagic 1.1.0-1-1, but i have no success with it. (if i use the svga xserver, i get really big fonts that don't fit my lapbox screen.) suggestions? ia,t. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pci controller

debs, at work, i have a new dell dimension xps t5000. (9gb,500mhz, yada, yada, yada.) i have win98 on hda1 and slink on hda5/6. i installed win98 first. the device mgmr could see everything. then i installed slink. now the pci ethernet controller cannot be seen.of course, slink works

pcmcia

debs, how do i get my pcmcia card bus to work on a new e-machine lapbox? here's the boot error message: starting pcmcia services: modules/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/tcic.0: init_module: device or resource busy i get a login prompt if i use a boot disk made from the rescue install disk.

booting error

debs, i have a new lapbox that hangs at starting pcmcia services: modules. i'm going to need pcmcia support, but is there a way to configure or disable it so that i can fininsh the install? ia, t. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

modem fun

debs, i have a brand new dell deskbox with an internal modem--conexant (mdp3900v.u modem)--that won't pon. here's what i see: $ setserial $ /dev/ttyS0, uart: 16550A, port: 0x03f8, irq: 4 $ plog ...chat [348]: abort on (no carrier) ...chat [348]: abort on (voice) ...chat [348]: abort on (no

video viewer

debs, is there a linux viewer (debian or otherwise) to play video clips in mpeg or real player format? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

wordperfect8

debs, wordperfect8 wants libXt.so.6. ...didn't see it when searching @ debian.org. could someone let me know where i can find it. thx. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wordperfect8

debs, i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist in/as a deb package). ...suggestions? ia, t. -- Bentley Taylor __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

the uninstall approach...

debs, i've been using a few boxes at work for learning and using dlinux. before i roll out a new box (for myself), i need to make the ones i had been using 100% windoze--or in other words, i need to free-up the part of the hard drives linux was using. with the rescue disk, i already deleted

themes

debs, anyone have luck using themes from themes.org? using icewm in my slink box, i downloaded the themeblueheart, gunzipped it, and moved it to the directory with the other icewm themes. how do i actually get the theme (blueheart) to come up? thx. bentley taylor. //

backspace in xterm

debs, what's the config to backspace in xterm? btw: i'm running dlinux on 2 lapboxes and 2 deskboxes. on 1 lapbox, i can backspace in xterm; the other boxes, i cannot... ia, t. bentley taylor. //

vacation week?

debs, i haven't gotten any threads since last friday. is the list taking the holiday week off or is there a problem on my end? thanks. bentley taylor. //

Re: what good is 486

wow, your install curve was only 2-3 months! i started 06.29.1999 and got a lapbox on the net 11.15.1999! (it was worth every minute of it.) the more i learn, the happier i am. i'll leave the easy way out for those who like less stimulation. bentley taylor // Pavel V. Epifanov wrote:

startx as non-root

debs, my startx only works as root. but i need to run it as non-root. (error message: you are not authorised to run the x server.) i've added the non-root user name to dip. the file permissions for startx is 755. (-rwxr-xr-x). any suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

smaller font

debs, how do i specify a smaller font for my xserver? (xserver = xbf_neomagic) (window manager = ice) (svga display (screen) size = 8) ia,t. bentley taylor //

window managers

debs, how do tell twm not to be my window manager when i type startx? ia,t. bentley taylor. // do things well! do them with heart!--linus torvalds, Linux Journal, (11/1999). //

window managers

debs, how do i prevent twm from automatically being my window manager when i type startx? ia,t. bentley taylor. // do things well! do them with heart!--linus torvalds, Linux Journal, (11/1999). //

stopping x from starting automatically

debs, how do i stop x from starting automatically? ia, t. bentley taylor // do things well. do them with heart--linus torvalds, linux journal (11/1999). //

pinging a domain name

debs, through pon (config'd with pppconfig), i can ping my isp's addy (207.76.102.251), but i can't ping the domain (www.pcisys.net) (or any other domain, including www.debian.org). therefore, i can't have a successful apt with dselect. how do i config linux to connect to domain names and not

no pon/wvdial

debs, pon used to work until i downloaded lots of files from the site and then installed wvdial, which seems to start the pppd. i switch tty's and ping the isp. nothing happens. here's /var/log/ppp.log: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 using interface ppp0 cannot determine

/var/log/ppp.log

debs, i'm tring to pon. nothing happens. here's the /var/log/ppp.log: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid0 tcgetattr: input/output error(5) exit pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid0 using interface ppp0 connect: ppp0 -- /dev/tty1 lcp: timout sending config-requests connection terminated receive

ttyS*--?

debs, 1. according to windoze, my lapbox modem is config'd for com5 @/on irq 10. the /dev file doesn't list a /ttyS4. how do i add it? 2. my deskbox modem is config'd for com4 @/on irq3. slink sees /dev/ttyS3 @/on irq 3, but nothing happens when i pon the isp. (my goal is to have

wvdial hangs?

debs, is wvdial hanging when the cursor gets a blank line after: - - starting pppd @ (date/time) 1999? or am i supposed to do something? shouldn't i get some sort of prompt? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

cdtool?

debs, i've installed cdtool (and its dependencies), but i get no sound. i've tried it on two lapboxes...same outcome. pointing to /dev/hdc as the cdrom, do i need to do anything else in order to cdplay and actually hear the music? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

changing the modem irq

debs, my modem irq is assumed to be irq=4; however, the real irq is irq=9. what's the full command line to make the change? (i typed setserial /dev/ttyS2; the response was, /dev/ttyS2, uart: unknown, port: 0x03e8, irq: 4.) ia, t. bentley taylor. //

i can't hear my cd's

debs, using cdtool's cdplay, i can't hear my cd's. are there any special configs to get the audio? (there are no probs with the device (/dev/hdc).) ia,t. bentley taylor. //

how are drivers loaded in a d-linux box?

debs, i have a question, to which an answer is obvious probably to all but me, regarding the modem driver, as my bootable linux box just gives me a prompt when i pon, regardless of the modem label (/dev/ttyS01; /dev/ttyS02...):how does a newly reformatted hard drive, previously running

shutdown...

debs, is there any harm to just typing halt or reboot instead of the traditional shutdown -h now, shutdown -r now...? ia,t. bentley. //

xf86setup q's

debs, i've got vga monitor, which plugs into a port at the back of the computer. i don't have a video card for the monitor, meaning that the monitor connects to the motherboard via ribbon from the port. i also have a 3-button, genius net mouse. what selections do i make for these items in

Re: debian installation

debs, for all it's worth, i've tried the floppies, countless downloads, and, recently--today, the cd's; and all i have to show for the last 3 months is a box that boots linux, with no xwindows and no internet, yet. i'll be glad when i get there. bentley. // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a

where is libpam.so.0?

debs, the error message i get when i try to rum pon is that libpam.so.0 is needed. how do i get this file? ia,t. bentley taylor. //

basic info (so this newbie can quit bugging you pros)

hello d-community, i can at least boot d-linux (so, i get some credit, right?). however, i get probs w/ dselect (installation script returned error exit status 1). it feels like i'm skipping steps/concepts, which are probably explained in the man(ual). anyway, the pro talk seems to be in

error messages in dselect and xterm

hi debian community, i'm a newbie who would like an internet box running debian linux. i've gotten a successful install, but i get error messages in dselect and xterm: 1. re: dselect's install. installation script returned error exit status 1; 2. re: dselect's configure. dpkg--configure

accessing the dos partition

hello debian community, i've installed the base system from the net. however, i cannot access/mount the dos partition, which is where i've downloaded other packages. (i've tried dselect and apt-get.) ...any suggestions. thx. bentley taylor. //

how do i get past install.bat file

hi, i'm trying to install, boot, and configure debian linux. onto my hard drive (partitioned into c: and d:) i've downloaded the required files (resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin, base2_1.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat, and loadlin.exe). i type install. when prompted for the name of the kernel image

how do i get a copy of the linux image kernel.

hi, from the direct links in the debian.org, install file, i've downloaded all of the install files except the linux image kernel file. when i click on the link, the browser tries to open the file (instead of allowing me to save it to a disk). should i just try to get the image kernel from a