Re: Problema con CDROM PIONEER. Gracias

1998-12-05 Thread Angel Barrio
Muchas gracias a todos. Menos mal que encontré esta lista de correo. Me entero de muchas cosas y es una forma bastante amena de aprender algo de Linux para los que no sabemos nada. Hasta la próxima. Espero poder dar soluciones algun día.

Solo Linux, de Noticias Intercom.

1998-12-05 Thread Alfonso Pastor
Hola, ha salido una nueva revista online de Noticias Intercom: Solo Linux (no se si tendra algo que ver con Solo Programadores, de Tower) Esta en http://www.sololinux.com

Re: Arranque desde disco duro

1998-12-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:26:14PM +, Oscar González wrote: Hace más o menos un mes instalé la Hamm. Apenas la uso para aprender, no para trabajar con ella. Está muy bonita, pero... siempre tengo que arrancar desde diskette y resulta un poco lento. Mentira, resulta DESESPERANTE.

Printer and Sound Difficulties

1998-12-05 Thread Evan Parry
Hello all. I have recently moved to Debian after a couple years of Slackware and, more recently, FreeBSD. So far things have been quite nice and I am liking Debian quite a bit. The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working correctly. The first item is my printer, a HP

dselect question

1998-12-05 Thread WuArMy490
When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want ArmY

Re: USR; dialing wrong number

1998-12-05 Thread john
Eugene Sevinian writes: Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply pretends that it works but dial absolutly wrong phone number You mean that it dials a number different than the one you gave when you

Sending out mails.

1998-12-05 Thread Dae Gyu Kim
Hello all, Can anyone point what I have done wrong to my smail settings? I can no longer send mails out of my machine, when using mutt. I can still fetch mails from my mail server. Strangely, Netscape mailer on my machine can fetch and send mails with no problem. Thanks in advance.

IBM PS/2 troubles. (And maybe a bit of ranting)

1998-12-05 Thread Christian Lavoie
I've got to set up Debian (hamm) on an IBM PS/2 system. It's a 486sx with 16mb of RAM, the bus's a Microchannel (MCA) one and the video chip seems to be a XGA-2 Display Adapter /A (directly on the motherboard). The drive bus is SCSI, and a few other marvels I haven't figured out. I can access a

Re: libstdc++.so.2.8 problem (solution)

1998-12-05 Thread Janne Lof
Problem solved! I upgraded to following packages and the problem went away. libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb libstdc++2.9_2.91.60-1_i386.deb libstdc++2.9-dev_2.91.60-1_i386.deb -- Janne Löf

Re: dselect question

1998-12-05 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 07:07:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files, most the .tar.gz files include the sources and You will only need

Re: dselect question

1998-12-05 Thread WuArMy490
When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files, most the .tar.gz files include the sources and You will only need them if You plan to compile the sources Yourself, or for interest

dselect on serial terminal

1998-12-05 Thread Chevelle Strobel
When I use the Select Packages menu item of dselect and then do a search and press return, my terminal locks up. Has anybody else tried this?

Can not find Xserver for Millenium G200.

1998-12-05 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I'm looking for Xserver for Millenium G200, it used to be on SUSE, but with the release of new version .tar.gz file is gone. There is a bunch of RPM packages, but I did not succeed in installing them. Any recommendations? Thanks, Sasha.

Security Satan woes

1998-12-05 Thread timothy
Hello all! I notice that when im working late in the night and have roottail running on /var/log/syslog or when im just reading thru log files I see tonnes of incoming telnet attempts on weird ports!!! How worried should I be? I have disabled all un-necessary services in inetd and

Creative 3d blaster (2d/3d w 3dfx banshee)

1998-12-05 Thread Richard A Nelson
Found the subject card at a good price (after rebate), but couldn't find any info on the 2d portion of the card... anyone know what I need for xf86 (or if it isn't supported)? -- Rick Nelson

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-05 Thread tko
Eugene Sevinian writes: Hi all, I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, Sorry about that, I was clouding the issue with my previous answer. OK, you will need to setup UUCP on both machines. One of the machine will have

Hamm and HP NetServer 4/66 LF

1998-12-05 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello , At work i need to install Debian on a Hp Netserver 4/66 LF the profile of this machine is : motherboard type : D2976-6001 Cpu Card : 486dx2 D3310-68002 3 x 2gb scsi Hd (raid) scsi ha7770 controller scsi cdrom toshiba xm 4101ta1084 with the install floppy at boot time i've : scsi0

moving files to win95 partition

1998-12-05 Thread AJ
heya, heres my prob i dont know if anyone can tell me what to do.. but can u tell me how to move files to my win95 partition from debian? i type: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt mv /home/artlu/filename /mnt/ then i get: cannot create regular file 'filename': Invalid Argument i have my kernel supporting win95

scriptl interacts with telnet port daemon?

1998-12-05 Thread zhaoway
Hello debian user, I want to do a bot in a mud 10.74.i.forget 1999, want a perl script to do this. Is this the correct thing to do to play with following script and interacts with telnet 10.74.xx.xx 1999? i.e. open (mud, 'telnet localhost 1999') while (mud){ if $_ eq '' . very few

Re: scriptl interacts with telnet port daemon?

1998-12-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 12:08:22PM +0800, zhaoway wrote: I want to do a bot in a mud 10.74.i.forget 1999, want a perl script to do this. Is this the correct thing to do to play I don't know a whole lot about mud, but my guess is you would want to use 'expect' which is packged with debian. It

Re: moving files to win95 partition

1998-12-05 Thread Sean Johnson
It looks like you're missing arguments in the mount command. You might want to try: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt On my system, I've created a directory (mkdir /95) and added an entry into fstab: /dev/hda2 /95 vfatdefaults0 0 This way if I want to move a

Re: scriptl interacts with telnet port daemon?

1998-12-05 Thread Carey Evans
zhaoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to do a bot in a mud 10.74.i.forget 1999, want a perl script to do this. Is this the correct thing to do to play with following script and interacts with telnet 10.74.xx.xx 1999? i.e. open (mud, 'telnet localhost 1999') You should probably connect

Re: Can not find Xserver for Millenium G200.

1998-12-05 Thread Sean Johnson
The G200/G100 series of video cards are now supported with the XF86-SVGA server under XFree86 3.3.3, which was released about a week ago. I've found that the new server also has better support for the regular Millenium I cards. The upgrade to XFree86 3.3.3 is pretty painless, and worked

OCR software for Linux?

1998-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi! Does anyone know of any Optical Character Recognition software for Linux? I'd love to have this capability with my brand-new scanner. peloy.-

Re: dselect question

1998-12-05 Thread WuArMy490
ok I have the packages.gz file but when I read it it says Package: whatever.deb and so on but then it says filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/whatever should I change that filename to the directory I put all my packages in so dselect runs correctly? thanks Army

punctuation marks ?

1998-12-05 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
hi ! anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called ? sib - A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net

Failed attempt to upgrade to slink

1998-12-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Thought I'd get a jump on my planned install of slink and install the latest apt, only to end up with a broken apt-get. I tried to install the apt package from slink on my hamm system and it immediately complained about a libc6 problem. I thought, okay, I'll just go ahead and let my old apt-get do

Re: Timezone Problem

1998-12-05 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: I posted this to the list not too long ago, and the only response was I got was a message saying That's what you get for running unstable distributions. As stated in my original message, the problem began with hamm. The reason I was trying the

Re: Printer and Sound Difficulties

1998-12-05 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Evan Parry wrote: Hello all. I have recently moved to Debian after a couple years of Slackware and, more recently, FreeBSD. So far things have been quite nice and I am liking Debian quite a bit. The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working

Re: remove mail periodically?

1998-12-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, If so, then you should be able to simply delete them with an appropriate find command, perhaps from a cron job (add a file to /etc/cron.daily). Try: find . -mtime 7 -exec ls -l {} \; find would return files wich are exactly 7 days old. Oops. I should checked more

Re: dselect question

1998-12-05 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run dselect do I need the .deb and .tar.gz files or just the .deb files to install the packages I want Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files, most the .tar.gz files include the sources and You will only need them if You plan

why are win/dos files UPPER CASE ?

1998-12-05 Thread John Leget
How do i get linux to see win/dos as lower case. I came across this when i was copying some quake files using SAMBA they come out in linux as all upper case, first i thought it was samba but i zipped the files up copied the zip, used MC to have a look in the zip and all upper case again. ( both

RE: programmes to turn emacs text in WinWord

1998-12-05 Thread ferret
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one. Welcome to Linux! [snip] After all we can not build a wall to separate the world in MS users and Linux users. As someone already pointed out, Micro$oft makes a

Re: dselect question

1998-12-05 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok I have the packages.gz file but when I read it it says Package: whatever.deb and so on but then it says filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/whatever should I change that filename to the directory I put all my packages in so dselect runs

DSP6430 Video driver

1998-12-05 Thread Nagy Péter
Hello, I'm a beginner in linux, and i need a DSP6430 v1.0 video driver for debian's xwindows system, but i didn't find this. Please, if you can, send it to me. Thanks lot: bigp

Re: Sending out mails.

1998-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dae Gyu Kim wrote: Can anyone point what I have done wrong to my smail settings? I can no longer send mails out of my machine, when using mutt. I can still fetch mails from my mail server. Strangely, Netscape mailer on my machine can fetch and send mails with no problem. Have

Re: punctuation marks ?

1998-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Sibuyas Bombay wrote: anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they call ed For full details look at the manpage for bash on quoting; for a friendlier approach, look at the Debian Tutorial at www.debian.org. Very briefly: ' is called single quote, ` is called

Re: IBM PS/2 troubles. (And maybe a bit of ranting)

1998-12-05 Thread Curt Daugaard
Here's a good place to start for getting the specs on the machine, where to get reference diskettes (which configure the hardware, change bios settings, etc.), and more: http://members.tripod.com/~ps2page/ Also try http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/~ch/psinfo/psinfo.1.toc.html Hope this

Re: PPP connection speeds...

1998-12-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I have tried to use /etc/ppp/options with the only line lock. This will use all the default settings, which is used by redhat 5.0. At a moment, I am trying to install some network packages to speed up the connection. I have tried to install

RE: USR; dialing wrong number

1998-12-05 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: On 04-Dec-98 Eugene Sevinian wrote: Hi all, Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply pretends that it works but dial absolutly wrong phone number :(((. The

Re: punctuation marks ?

1998-12-05 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Sibuyas Bombay, Stardate 051298.1340: hi ! anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called ? AFAIK apostroph ` (single) quotation mark ' the ' is used to enclose a string much like except that interpretation by the shell is forbitten (

Re: Printer and Sound Difficulties

1998-12-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working correctly. The first item is my printer, a HP Deskjet 682C. When printing things I often get unexplainable errors where the printer just stops working and the error light starts flashing. Removing, cleaning and reinserting the

where did the help go?

1998-12-05 Thread Birgit Kellner
Perhaps bizarre question: I installed debian, everything seems to be fine, but bash refuses to recognize the commands man and info and just returns command not found. Any explanation? -- birgit kellner department for indian philosophy hiroshima university

Re: where did the help go?

1998-12-05 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Birgit Kellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Perhaps bizarre question: I installed debian, everything seems to be | fine, but bash refuses to recognize the commands man and info and | just returns command not found. Any explanation? Have you installed the packages man-db and info? They should give you

Re: Creative 3d blaster (2d/3d w 3dfx banshee)

1998-12-05 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 22:04 -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: Found the subject card at a good price (after rebate), but couldn't find any info on the 2d portion of the card... anyone know what I need for xf86 (or if it isn't supported)? AFAIK you will have to get a 2.1 kernel and use the

Re: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 01:51:15PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I have a small config feeling question? Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it would be more comfortable to have a constant string in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy You could filter on part of

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-05 Thread Christoph Keller
Today I updated the libs. Now it works. Christoph

RE: why are win/dos files UPPER CASE ?

1998-12-05 Thread Shaleh
Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side effect of browsing the fat files. On 05-Dec-98 John Leget wrote: How do

RE: USR; dialing wrong number

1998-12-05 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: On 04-Dec-98 Eugene Sevinian wrote: Hi all, Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply pretends that it

Re: mouse speed in X

1998-12-05 Thread wtopa
Just a guess but man gpm yields [snip] COMMAND LINE OPTIONS Available command line options are the following: [snip] -r number Set the responsiveness. A higher responsiveness is used for a faster cursor motion. does that look like

ssh with password

1998-12-05 Thread AJ
hey, im trying to set most of my commands to windows in windowmaker to make things easier and i cant get ssh to work because i cant type my password in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like: ssh -l login -p password host.com ? or is there a way to

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:52:33 -0500, AJ wrote: is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like: ssh -l login -p password host.com This would defeat part of ssh's purpose. or is there a way to specify the password for this host so it doesnt ask you? Look at the documenation

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:52:33AM -0500, AJ wrote: things easier and i cant get ssh to work because i cant type my password in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like: ssh -l login -p password host.com This would be inherently insecure since your

surprise! was( USR; dialing wrong number)

1998-12-05 Thread Eugene Sevinian
It seems that this modem is very special thing. Might be it was made at April 1. The matter is that during dialing from minicom it performs kind of maping. So 1-9, 2-8, 3-7...9-1, 0-0. The same is under Norton Terminal Emulation. :))) Eugene. On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec

RE: USR; dialing wrong number

1998-12-05 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: Of course the next question is the obvious one: Is it a winmodem? If it were a Winmodem, then it wouldnt even dial out. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life

Re: PPP connection speeds...

1998-12-05 Thread john
Shao Zhang writes: At a moment, I am trying to install some network packages to speed up the connection. I have tried to install squid, mtr, apache and so on. I don't know if they can help, but redhat has got all of these installed. None of these will change the speed of your ppp connection.

RE: pcmcia card...

1998-12-05 Thread pat
Le 04-Dec-98, Alan Su a pris ses électrons pour écrire: when i reboot with the newly compiled kernel, the 3c575_cb module doesn't want to load. the relevant errors are: pcmcia/3c575_cb.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R6a97aa56 pcmcia/3c575_cb.o: unresolved symbol

Getting linux to mark bad sectors

1998-12-05 Thread Allens
Hi, I'm a newbie to linux, and have a question. I know this is a bit off topic in this group, as it is a linux in general question, but anyway: How do I get linux to mark bad sectors on my hard drive, as I have a few, and they are stopping me doing lots of things like running Xwindows etc. fsck

matrox marvel-TV

1998-12-05 Thread AJ
hi again, i was thinking about upgrading to a matrox marvel-tv which supports video in and video out... is there anyway to watch video in linux i know that ouput will be fine i just didnt know if it was possible to watch TV in linux or do video editing, thanx, AJ

CD-ROM and Network problems

1998-12-05 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, When I installed Debian, I accidentally installed the wrong NIC and CD-ROM drivers. When I try to mount my cd-rom it keeps saying irq timeout: status=0x50. My NIC is a PCI plug-and-pray card. Does Debian support PNP? Jeff __ Get

Re: printing from netscape

1998-12-05 Thread Thomas Adams
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:54:40AM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote: When you print from netscape, it sends postscript to the printer. Assuming you don't have a Postscript printer, you need to use ghostscript and a print filter (try the magicfilter package). Does anybody know why you don't get the

Re: sudo doesn't ask for passwd

1998-12-05 Thread D'jinnie
:I filed a bugreport on this a while ago, but I seem to be the only one with :this problem :( : :well ... I updated now to potato hoping it'll go away, but I had no luck. : :ok what does actually happen in detail: : :sudo -s throws me right into rootshell without prompting for a passwd. : :I am in

Oops! Sent that too soon.

1998-12-05 Thread Jeff Browning
And another thing. Is it possible to get back into the drivers configuration thing that I used after installing the drivers disk? Thanks! Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Getting linux to mark bad sectors

1998-12-05 Thread John Maheu
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Allens wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie to linux, and have a question. I know this is a bit off topic in this group, as it is a linux in general question, but anyway: How do I get linux to mark bad sectors on my hard drive, as I have a few, and they are stopping me doing lots of

Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-12-05 Thread Guoqiang Dai
2) socks can be used by a variety of other client software as well. I don't know much about socks, but can it support things like realplayer, internet phone, etc? My impression is that socks is good for access control, but you have to set everything on the client side. (Well, I could be wrong

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:10:52 AST Jeff Browning writes: Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. Where could I get that? Thanks. Do you still have a bo Debian box or a hamm/slink one? xlib6g is the libc6 version of the X11 libraries (the according package in bo

Re: xanim problem...

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:39:16 -0600 Evan Van Dyke writes: I just installed the xanim .deb, but it is unable to play any audio files... Or, atleast is unable to produce any actual sound. I do know that the sound driver is compiled into the kernel and it works, so I'm guessing that the

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:35:30PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: I guess installing libc6 2.0.7u-5 will do it. But you should update some time after that fix... Where do we get libc6 2.0.7u-5? All of the mirrors I've checked had some really old version or the latest libc6 2.0.7u-6. Uh,

Re: suid script

1998-12-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, The way I remember it is: 1) kernel opens the file, finds it suid 2) kernel executes the shell with that uid 3) shell opens the same filename ... I think it's probably the kernel that does the open on step 3, No, it's the shell - it gets passed the filename. If it was the

Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

1998-12-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out for? __register_frame_info Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the problem breaks dselect and apt. HTH Jiri [EMAIL

Re: punctuation marks ?

1998-12-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? Depends on where you use them :-) The typical usage is: string with variable substitutions ' literal string (suppress substitutions) ` execute the command and use the result So: 'pwd' gives you those three characters, while

Re: gawk: bug or feature?

1998-12-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I'm filtering a file using gawk. since there are line that look alike, but differ only by two chars, I decided to take this approach: ... my understanding of gawk working: get a line from file scan pattern in order of appearance and if a match is found, execute action until

Re: CD-ROM and Network problems

1998-12-05 Thread wtopa
Subject: CD-ROM and Network problems Date: Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:22:07PM -0400 In reply to:Jeff Browning Quoting Jeff Browning([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey all, When I installed Debian, I accidentally installed the wrong NIC and CD-ROM drivers. When I try to mount my cd-rom

new libc6 problem?

1998-12-05 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6 conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils including dpkg... anyone know what's up? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dselect question again

1998-12-05 Thread WuArMy490
Ok when I go into [A]ccess I do Harddisk then it asks me what partition I want but then it goes filesystem type and I pick msdos, but in an msdos filesystem the change all the - and the _ to ~1 and so on so do I have to change all my .deb file packages to whatever~1.deb for it to work? thanks

multiple X servers?

1998-12-05 Thread Preston Landers
Hello all, I've got my X server cheerily up an running on display 0. What I would like is for another user to be able to start an X server from the command line on Display 1, and be able to switch back and forth between X servers by hitting Alt-f7 and Alt-f8. I'm using standard debian X related

Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

1998-12-05 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out for? __register_frame_info Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the problem breaks dselect and

RE: multiple X servers?

1998-12-05 Thread Shaleh
I do this to test and debug window managers: simply xinit -- :1 --bpp 16 or whatever args you need the -- means send these args to the X server. xinit will read your xinitrc and all.

ISP username for diald

1998-12-05 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
When trying to connect through diald, I am seeing PAP authentication failed in my ppp.log. I think it's because diald does not know what user to pass to pppd. Where is the ISP username supposed to be specified when using diald? When running pon, this comes out of /etc/ppp/peers/provider, but

RE: why are win/dos files UPPER CASE ?

1998-12-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side effect of browsing the fat files.

Re: surprise! was( USR; dialing wrong number)

1998-12-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote: It seems that this modem is very special thing. Might be it was made at April 1. The matter is that during dialing from minicom it performs kind of maping. So 1-9, 2-8, 3-7...9-1, 0-0. The same is under Norton Terminal Emulation. :))) Ick... so only

new libc6 problem?

1998-12-05 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6 conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils including dpkg... anyone know what's up? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bells, whistles Other noise makers

1998-12-05 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I fixed my sound problem recently. To bring everyone up to date, I had a pnp sound card that I could not get sound working. I needed to load the soundlow module for it to work. Now that said. I have a question on making a sound with the ^G. I am trying to insert the bell

Re: mouse speed in X

1998-12-05 Thread Michele Bini
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know how to change the BASIC mouse speed (not the acceleration) in X. The 'xset m' only changes the acceleration and threshold, but what I want is a faster non-accelerated mouse speed. I've tried 'xset m 4 1' which

Re: ISP username for diald

1998-12-05 Thread john
Chris Stalker-Herron writes: When trying to connect through diald, I am seeing PAP authentication failed in my ppp.log. I think it's because diald does not know what user to pass to pppd. No. It is because pppd is not being called with the 'noauth' option, and so is demanding that the ISP

RE: ISP username for diald

1998-12-05 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 4:56 PM To: Chris Stalker-Herron Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: ISP username for diald Chris Stalker-Herron writes: When trying to connect through diald, I am seeing PAP