laptop resume and apmd

1997-09-24 Thread Bruce Perens
I had a problem with laptop resume. I'm running a Toshiba 440CDT laptop, with 16M ram and a 800x600 24-bit deep display. I have it set up to suspend when the cover is closed and resume when it is opened. When I am running apmd, I am subject to resume failures - you have to cold-boot the OS and

boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device Also, when I reboot the computer, I always get the following error. no /usr/bin/X11/xfs found; non

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
nearly impossible to have both libc5 libc6 version of the same package unless everyone have 2 (1 libc5, 1 libc6) systems. Udjat the BitMeister... wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: you can always download and install newer packages from hamm.

Multiple ethernets

1997-09-24 Thread Mike Patterson
I added the line: append = ether=0,320,eth1 to my /etc/lilo.conf, but it didn't do any good. it still only detects the first etehrnet card, located at 300. Both cards are NE2000 clones. one is at 300, the other at 320. Also, is there a netconfig script in debian? I can't find such a beast.

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread David R Baker
Hi, Lawrence wrote: I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device Also, when I reboot the computer, I always get the following error.

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device I see these too. I don't think it's anything to worry

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: nearly impossible to have both libc5 libc6 version of the same package unless everyone have 2 (1 libc5, 1 libc6) systems. Hmmm, I seem to have both libc4 and libc5 on my 1.3.1. dpkg -l libc* shows: ii libc4 4.6.27-15 The Linux C library

smail+elm questions

1997-09-24 Thread Jimmy Lu
I just set up smail and elm on my pc so that I can write my e-mail from my pc and send it directry from my pc to anybody anywhere. This is very convenient but I have some problems. 1)my e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my local pc's log-in name is jimmy. So when I send my e-mail from

Re: smail+elm questions

1997-09-24 Thread Dale Harrison
I just set up smail and elm on my pc so that I can write my e-mail from my pc and send it directry from my pc to anybody anywhere. This is very convenient but I have some problems. 1)my e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my local pc's log-in name is jimmy. So when I send my

Re: Hard links to a directory in a chroot environment

1997-09-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:08:27 MDT Al Youngwerth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here's what I want to do: Have restricted ftp access for users (chroot to their home directory). Allow certain users to be webmasters, these users should have a link in their home directory to a common directory

Netscape errors

1997-09-24 Thread Will Lowe
Netscape navigator (not communicator) has been generating the following errors lately, printed to the console: /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5: undefined symbol: __default_morecore_init Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ sh: error in loading shared libraries

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: nearly impossible to have both libc5 libc6 version of the same package unless everyone have 2 (1 libc5, 1 libc6) systems. Hmmm, I seem to have both libc4 and libc5 on my 1.3.1. dpkg -l libc* shows: ii

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, No, you can have libc4, libc5, and libc6 on the machine simultaneously. These are just run time shared libraries, and do not interfere with each other. There should be only one -dev package at one time. Do not remove libc4 until you are sure there is not program on your

RE: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread George Bonser
On 23-Sep-97 Lukas Eppler wrote: Hi, Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting? I do not think stable was ment to be static. It was ment to mean tested and known to work on a good many systems and even probably yours while unstable means that it might or might not work

trying to compile gtk+970916....

1997-09-24 Thread David Puryear
Hi, Well the subject says gtk, so why am I posting to debian-user? I think this might be just on my system which is debian 1.3.1 with xlib6_3.3-3, xlib6-dev_3.3-3, libc6 and libc5. I checked gtk mailing list archive and didn't find any similar problems. Anyhow, when I try to compile gtk, I get

[RANT] The Future of Debian (and Linux)

1997-09-24 Thread George Bonser
I have been monitoring the debian developers mailing list via Usenet and some things are showing up that at first disturbed me. Now that I have had a little time to think about it, it appears that there needs to be some kind of period of reflection on what Debian (in particular) and Linux (in

Multiple network cards. ARGH!

1997-09-24 Thread Mike Patterson
Ok, let's see if I can describe my problem in a little more detail. I have a debian 1.3.1 system with two ethernet cards on it. Booting up into DOS, the two cards are: 1) IRQ 9, IO 300, BNC 2) IRQ 5, IO 320, 10bT They are both NE2000 cards. Trying to define these using ifconfig I get errors

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I guess this confuses me even more! Are libc4, libc5 and libc6 completely independent of each other, or are they versions of something which began as libc. In either case, why would one want to compile for more than one at a time? I take it they are neither upward nor downward compatible. On

Sendmail forwarding...

1997-09-24 Thread Dale Harrison
Admittdly, this has squat to do with Debian in particular, but I figure someone on here would know. I've currently got an NT server running Exchange 5, which serves as an email host. It used to dialup to the net, deliver mail, hang up and generally consume vast amounts of resources. Theres now

RE: Sendmail forwarding...

1997-09-24 Thread George Bonser
Could you create a mailertable like this: your-domain.dom smtp:nt-machine.your-domain.dom ??? Or, if your NT machine is reachable from the internet, why not just set that host as your MX for your-domain.dom so incoming mail goes to it in the first place? On 24-Sep-97 Dale Harrison

dpkg-source

1997-09-24 Thread Marc Fleureck
3 files in dir to install sources: *.diff.gz, *.orig.tar.gz and *.dsc dpkg-source -x fails with: diff patches file whose dir does not appear in tarfile I could comment some lines in *.dsc for the dir specified in the error message, but I don't understand the formats. How does it work ? So I

Re: [RANT] The Future of Debian (and Linux)

1997-09-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, As far as Debian is concerned, this is really simple. All the lean mean student hackers have to do is mosey over to the work needed document and take over packages that need work. If more people came on the scene, adn proved reliable (lean, mean) developers, I'm sure us old fogeys

xosview Re: IP address and ipfwadm

1997-09-24 Thread Carey Evans
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] xosview stalls once I execute either one of the above commands, it seems that xosview expects a non-anywhere source/destination. I expect this would be because it wants to track both incoming and outgoing packets separately. It shouldn't lock up

please read if trying to contact klee@debian.org

1997-09-24 Thread Klee Dienes
I'm sorry to post this message so widely, but I suspect that enough people have been affected that the distribution is worthwhile. For the past couple of months, one of the machines that I have been using to process my outgoing E-mail has been silently discarding my messages as spam due to a

Re: boot errors.

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Restall
Hi, I have restalled debian 1.3. I resemble that remark ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist temptation. Regards, Dave Restall mail/debian/970924.tx debian-user@lists.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dpkg-source

1997-09-24 Thread joost witteveen
3 files in dir to install sources: *.diff.gz, *.orig.tar.gz and *.dsc dpkg-source -x fails with: diff patches file whose dir does not appear in tarfile I could comment some lines in *.dsc for the dir specified in the error message, but I don't understand the formats. How does it

Re: Hard links to a directory in a chroot environment

1997-09-24 Thread joost witteveen
[..] Hard linked directories are bad, it would taker longer than that to explain. That's apity, cause I've been wanting to know why they are bad for a long time. Do you have any reference where I can search for an answer on that one? For maximum security in chrooted environments: o don't

RE: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Paulo Almeida
Hi Mike! I have faced the same problem but with 3Com cards. There is only one solution for this problem: use 2 different network cards. There is somekind of bug in debian, I think, because it just doesn't support 2 or more same network cards sharing the same driver. It doesn't even allow you to

xinetd and inetd

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
I found that both xinetd and inetd are running in my system. Does xinetd conflicts inetd? Do I have to uninstall inetd? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Netscape bus error

1997-09-24 Thread Richard Heestand
I installed netscape using the debian package, but when I start netscape I receive: bash-2.00# netscape Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{

Which news reader to use?

1997-09-24 Thread Richard Heestand
I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it takes about 5 minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms windows trumpet by about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn. Should I be using another newsreader? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Is there documentation for SUCK other than the man page?

1997-09-24 Thread Richard Heestand
I installed the package suck and am looking for information about how to set it up. Is there information other than the man page? If so, than where? In general, where can I look for documentation under debian? For instance, I know I can save news articles to folders in nn, but can not find

Re: [RANT] The Future of Debian (and Linux)

1997-09-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On 24 Sep 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Any time, lean youngsters. But first, you have to volunteer. well said! (and i mean all of it, not just the one line i quoted) craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous

SMC 8416 and Debian

1997-09-24 Thread Kaol-Säti3 Siipola Antti
I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 to a PC that has a SMC 8416 ethernet card. I've setup IRQs and other stuff correctly (AFAIK), but when I try to install the kernel module (SMC Ultra and compatibles) I get an error message: Ultra: Script not found and something about CD-ROM (sym)links. I'm

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH!

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
Mike Patterson wrote: Ok, let's see if I can describe my problem in a little more detail. I have a debian 1.3.1 system with two ethernet cards on it. Booting up into DOS, the two cards are: 1) IRQ 9, IO 300, BNC 2) IRQ 5, IO 320, 10bT They are both NE2000 cards. Trying to define

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
There is no conflict to use libc4/5/6 dynamic libraries, though you can only have one libc-dev. Bob Nielsen wrote: I guess this confuses me even more! Are libc4, libc5 and libc6 completely independent of each other, or are they versions of something which began as libc. In either case, why

Re: boot errors.

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
sorry, it should be I have re-installed debian 1.3, my brain beating faster than my fingers:) Dave Restall wrote: Hi, I have restalled debian 1.3. I resemble that remark ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist temptation. Regards, Dave Restall mail/debian/970924.tx

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
David R Baker wrote: Hi, Lawrence wrote: I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device Also, when I reboot the computer, I

Re: Is there documentation for SUCK other than the man page?

1997-09-24 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Heestand) writes: I installed the package suck and am looking for information about how to set it up. Is there information other than the man page? If so, than where? Look at the get-news script that comes with it. It automates the whole thing. You must have

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
Also, when I reboot the computer, I always get the following error. no /usr/bin/X11/xfs found; non killed I checked the path and the path is correct. Then, who's wrong? it is a fresh install and I think it should be configured properly, when I install xbase, it didn't ask me anything

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device I see these too. I don't think it's anything to worry about. It has to do with lack of a

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
no, I am talking about libc?-dev? you can only have one libc?-dev in your system. Bob Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: nearly impossible to have both libc5 libc6 version of the same package unless everyone have 2 (1 libc5, 1 libc6) systems. Hmmm, I seem to have

Keyboard map

1997-09-24 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All ;) Sorry to bother with such a basic question, but I am managing a network in Brazil and I would like to be able to use accents. In order to do so, I would like to use 'dead keys', but reading the HOWTOS and FAQS helped enough for me not understanding what it meant...

Re: make-kpkg error....

1997-09-24 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
AUUgh! Bug! Bug, I say! this should be reported. Earlier in the build process, the architecture is set so: architecture:=$(shell dpkg --print-architecture) What does dpkg --print-architecture show? The following: dpkg: unexpected output from `gcc --print-libgcc-file-name':

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread jdassen
On Sep 23, Bob Nielsen wrote I guess this confuses me even more! Are libc4, libc5 and libc6 completely independent of each other, or are they versions of something which began as libc. They are somewhat independent: libc4 is the Linux C library for use with the a.out format of binaries.

Re: Can nuke attacks be logged?

1997-09-24 Thread Tony Koehn
If you know of a way to do this. Please let me know. I to am intrested. Tony -- From: Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Can nuke attacks be logged? Date: Tuesday, September 23, 1997 9:21 AM Just wondering if there

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Dale Harrison
Hi Mike! I have faced the same problem but with 3Com cards. There is only one solution for this problem: use 2 different network cards. There is somekind of bug in debian, I think, because it just doesn't support 2 or more same network cards sharing the same driver. It doesn't even allow

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH!

1997-09-24 Thread Peter Loje Hansen
Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's see if I can describe my problem in a little more detail. I have a debian 1.3.1 system with two ethernet cards on it. Booting up into DOS, the two cards are: 1) IRQ 9, IO 300, BNC 2) IRQ 5, IO 320, 10bT They are both NE2000 cards.

Re: dpkg error while purging latex

1997-09-24 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Ralf Mueller wrote: Executing dpkg --purge latex caused an error message as follows: Begin - (Reading database ... 15186 files and directories currently installed.) Removing latex ... Removing latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8) /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm:

Re: trying to compile gtk+970916....

1997-09-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, David Puryear wrote: : make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/lib/gtk+970916/gtk' : /libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -Wall -o testgtk testgtk.o : libgtk.la ../gdk/libgdk.la -L/usr/X11R6/lib ../glib/libglib.la -lm : gcc -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -Wall -o _libs/testgtk

Re: SMC 8416 and Debian

1997-09-24 Thread Jens Kerle
the same happend while i installed debian. But it loaded the module, and i could continue. Try it, and if it canÄ't find the card after the first reboot, you should make your own kernel with smc support included. Jens On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Kaol-Säti3 Siipola Antti wrote:

GCC problem (Was: make-kpkg error....)

1997-09-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hmmm. Well, do you have the correct version of cpp installed? If things look good, try purging and re-installing both cpp and gcc; paying attention to installation errors. (I do not understand what went wrong here). manoj -- One must be either the anvil or the hammer.

RE: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Jens Kerle
i made the same with two smc-ultra's . I had to compile a own kernel with smc-ultra included, and added the two cards in /etc/modules with io and irq parameter. i also had co copy /etc/init.d/network to a second file, edit the necessary parameters and add the call in /etc/init.d/boot and it

ftp.debian.org mirror

1997-09-24 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'd like to thank all who has replied to my mail on mirror. With the 'mirror -T' ran first, it did save me 450MB of downloading time. Many thanks again to all. -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC

innxmit

1997-09-24 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, After my linux harddrive crashed and unrecoverable. I've re-installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new harddrive. I've managed to configure the new drive to have similar setup that I had in my previous drive. However, the innxmit in the get-news script always failed. I'd like to know if

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi Mike! I have faced the same problem but with 3Com cards. There is only one solution for this problem: use 2 different network cards. There is somekind of bug in debian, I think, because it just doesn't support 2 or more same network cards sharing the same driver. It doesn't even allow

network settings

1997-09-24 Thread Marc Fleureck
Which command/utility should I run to reconfigure network settings (IP, hostname, gateway, etc ...) ? Regards, Marc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: network settings

1997-09-24 Thread George Bonser
If I remember correctly, you can do it using the install diskette. Skip the parts about initializing filesystems, mount your already existing partitions and select the option to configure the network, reboot, and you should be done. Just DO NOT initialize the filesystems. That erases what you

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH!

1997-09-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Peter Loje Hansen wrote: [snip] On the router I would like to have the interfaces numbered from eth0 to eth3 in the same way they are placed in the slots. So I reordered the append line accordingly, but then Linux found no cards at all! I was too lazy to split the

Re: network settings

1997-09-24 Thread dpk
Edit the file /etc/init.d/network and change the settings as needed. When you exit and save, as root, just rerun the script by typing /etc/init.d/network to enable the new settings. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Enginnering

X problem after update from REX to BO

1997-09-24 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, last night I finally went through the work to update my rex system to bo. Everything went pretty smooth, except that X doesn't start up anymore. It gives me this error: Can't open default font fixed(or something very close to it) Has someone had this problem before? I have no clue

Re: xinetd and inetd

1997-09-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
I found that both xinetd and inetd are running in my system. Does xinetd conflicts inetd? Do I have to uninstall inetd? Lawrence xinetd is replacement for inetd. Both have different conf files. Teoretically you can run both for different services :) When both have common services you get

Re: X problem after update from REX to BO

1997-09-24 Thread Steve Hsieh
I encountered the same problem. Doing a mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* seems to fix the problem for Xfree servers; it still doesn't work after that for AcceleratedX though. -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple network cards. Thanks!

1997-09-24 Thread Mike Patterson
Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's see if I can describe my problem in a little more detail. I have a debian 1.3.1 system with two ethernet cards on it. Booting up into DOS, the two cards are: 1) IRQ 9, IO 300, BNC 2) IRQ 5, IO 320, 10bT They are both NE2000 cards.

compiling teTeX

1997-09-24 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
In order to use PPCHTeX i have to recompile teTeX with a parameter stack of 200 instead of 60 in the file: .../tetex-bin-0.4pl6/kpse-2.6/web2c/tex/tex.ch But what do I do now? Edit all the other files as said in the README and INSTALL and do a make world? Or is there a way to compile a debian

Re: Java's Dumping Core

1997-09-24 Thread Paul Serice
Paul Serice wrote: I've been doing some upgrading, and managed to break Java support. It dumps core even if you just ask it to print the version. It wasn't a Debian problem. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Which news reader to use?

1997-09-24 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Richard Heestand wrote: I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it takes about 5 minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms windows trumpet by about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn. Should I be using another newsreader? What

Netscape BS Del Problems

1997-09-24 Thread Paul Serice
From everything I've read in the HOWTO and in the mini-HOWTO and in the Motif HOWTO and the Netscape FAQ section on this, everyone seems to have trouble getting BackSpace to work properly with Netscape. I have just the opposite problem: Delete doesn't work. When I run xprop -root | fgrep

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Brian White
Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting? For the most part, it means non-changing. While it would be nice to fix each package with a problem, doing so always runs the risk of breaking other packages on the system. Verifying the integrity of the system as a whole is far

Re: compiling teTeX

1997-09-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Stef == Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stef But what do I do now? Edit all the other files as said in the Stef README and INSTALL and do a make world? Or is there a way to Stef compile a debian source package with dpkg? Get the Debian source package. This includes

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: Also, when I reboot the computer, I always get the following error. no /usr/bin/X11/xfs found; non killed I checked the path and the path is correct. Then, who's wrong? it is a fresh install and I think it should be configured properly, when I

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device I see these too. I don't think it's anything

[Q] StarOffice and Spell check

1997-09-24 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hi, I installed a version (3.1) of StarrOficce (ENGLISH) -- but when I click on Spell check button -- it does not do anything. Do I need to configure somehow ispell package -- or it is just a problem with StarOffice? Thanks in advance, Vladislav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Paulo Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Mike! I have faced the same problem but with 3Com cards. There is only one solution for this problem: use 2 different network cards. Here, some people configured two NE2000 in a same box. They just put append=ether=10,0x320,eth1 in lilo.conf to

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: Perhaps, the driver must be compiled inside the kernel, since some drivers have their parameters analised in boot time but not in loading module time. If there is some PNP card, you may have problems. --- end of quote --- I think you can put the parameters in the

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-24 Thread Dima
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: ... Have you tried this one? Works for me (dpkg-ftp 1.4.9). I think so [1]. It works now, thanks. [1] What happened is new Packages.* files made it crosslink before packages themselves did. So, I was getting heaps of no such file OR directory messages during install

Re: [RANT] The Future of Debian (and Linux)

1997-09-24 Thread Darin Johnson
The leaders of the various linux projects (including Linus himself) are growing into a world different than the one they were in when they built what we now call the linux community. They have famillies, jobs, homes. I think you'll find that the *majority* of early Linux developers also

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread Lawrence
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following errors after the PPP copyright mesg. SIOCIFADDR no such device SIOCIFNETMASK no such device SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device I see these

Documentation Disorganization Was: Is there documentation for SUCK other than the man page?

1997-09-24 Thread Britton
The other places to try (that I know of) are 'info suck' (which might just give you the manpage) and in /usr/doc (look for an appropriate subdirectory). This post brings up a mild gripe I have with Linux/Unix/GNU/Debian/ whoever-may-by-responsible. Why do we have to have all these?

Linux Termservers was:Re: How many modems ?

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:44:49 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 07:41:52AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: : [1] A studly enough box to support 48 modems. : : Depends on dump or smart serial board. Smart, 486 66 should be comfortable, : dumb, pentium class...maybe 100. 16MB

Re: serial port speed

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 01:23:03 +1000, Lawrence wrote: Anyone knows the default serail port speed? It is 38,400bps? Which file responsible for this setting? I want to increase it to 115,200bps. 38.4K, yes, /etc/rc.boot/0setserial, use the spd_vhi option.

Re: Multiple ethernets

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:48:48 -0600, Mike Patterson wrote: I added the line: append = ether=0,320,eth1 Try telling it the IRQ. Maybe they are too 'close'. Move it to a higher IO port. - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/

RE: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:06:17 +, Paulo Almeida wrote: Hi Mike! I have faced the same problem but with 3Com cards. There is only one solution for this problem: use 2 different network cards. There is somekind of bug in debian, I think, because it just doesn't support 2 or more same network

Re: Netscape BS Del Problems

1997-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Serice wrote: Do people really have Netscape backspacing and deleting like a champ? Yes. If so, how can I train my copy to be a contender? I simply followed the instructions in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Key-Setup.gz, and got all my programs to handle bs and del properly. -- see shy jo --

Re: [Q] StarOffice and Spell check

1997-09-24 Thread Travis Cole
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: Hi, I installed a version (3.1) of StarrOficce (ENGLISH) -- but when I click on Spell check button -- it does not do anything. Do I need to configure somehow ispell package -- or it is just a problem with StarOffice? Thanks in advance,

Re: boot errors

1997-09-24 Thread David R Baker
Lawrence wrote: David R Baker wrote: snip It is a fresh 1.3.1 install and I found that the xfs is called by rc*.d, I am not using xdm, is it the cause of the problem? I also did a fresh install of 1.3.1 and do not use xdm (old computer, one of the things I like about X is it's optional)

Re: Netscape BS Del Problems

1997-09-24 Thread Paul Serice
Joey Hess wrote: Paul Serice wrote: Do people really have Netscape backspacing and deleting like a champ? Yes. If so, how can I train my copy to be a contender? I simply followed the instructions in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Key-Setup.gz, and got all my programs to handle bs and del