Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-18 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: I'm trying to use any kind of txt-based one, preferrably the easiest. John Foster reccomended that I use exim (previously), Exim is a fine program but it's not a mail reader. I can't understand 1/2 the stuff the config file asks

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:14:24PM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: Whenever I try and access the net on Xwindows or a text-based program, I can't connect to the network. But when I'm on dselect, I can download packages without problems. Can anyone help me out? How are you trying to connect? How far

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
Well, I'm not on a ppp-based connection. I'm on DHCP. And I'm on a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. Netscape is being annoying. I'm

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread John Foster
Sera Hill wrote: Well, I'm not on a ppp-based connection. I'm on DHCP. And I'm on a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. Netscape

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:02:02AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. I'd stick with official debian stuff until you get things

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
I'd stick with official debian stuff until you get things working. Adding complexity at this point probably isn't a good idea and sendmail can be a real bear. In any case, sendmail isn't really involved in your receiving of mail in most cases. What mail software are you currently trying to use?

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-14 Thread John Foster
Sera Hill wrote: Whenever I try and access the net on Xwindows or a text-based program, I can't connect to the network. But when I'm on dselect, I can download packages without problems. Can anyone help me out? -- Can you ping a known server from XTERM?