Re: Problemas con LILO.

1999-12-27 Thread David Charro Ripa
Si no me equivoco, estas poniendo el lilo en la 3ª particion del disco duro. Se me ocurren tres cosas: a) Pon el lilo en un disquete para comprobar que funciona como tu quieres, boot=/dev/fd0 Arranca en windows, luego en linux, y asegurate de que hace lo que tu quieres. Asi siempre podras

Re: Acentos en Netscape

1999-12-27 Thread Manel Marin
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 06:22:51PM +0100, Han Solo wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:31:22AM +0100, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote: Pookie wrote: no me van los acentos con netscape en las X a pesar de que otras aplicaciones como StarOffice y editores si que me van... As adjunto un

Re: SPAM: Propuesta de solucion

1999-12-27 Thread Manel Marin
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:29:58AM +0100, Alvaro Alea wrote: [...] BUENOS DIAS!!! Y entonces, va Manel Marin y dice ¿SPAM: Propuesta de solucion? Hola a todos ;-) Os voy a proponer una idea... - Los mensajes de los no suscritos reciben un amable e-mail explicandoles el tema del spam y

Re: SPAM: Propuesta de solucion

1999-12-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 26 de diciembre de 1999 a la(s) 11:25:28 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: Para hacerlo mas facil para el usuario novato se le podria devolver su mensaje asi: 8 [USUARIO NO SUSCRITO A LA LISTA debian-user-spanish] - La linea anterior es indispensable ya que no estas suscrito a esta

RE: Problemas con LILO.

1999-12-27 Thread EMILIO HERNÁNDEZ MARTÍN
Muchas gracias a todos (especialmente a David Charro Ripa) por vuestra ayuda. Tuve que poner la partición hda3 como arrancable para que me apareciese el LILO al principio. Yo creía que la partición que se tenía que poner como arrancable era en la que entraba por defecto, pero ya veo que no. Pues

copia de imagen de Debian

1999-12-27 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Normalmente consigo el paquete Debian a través de LA o de FTP, pero para staciones Sun (sparc) el tema no es tan sencillo. Ahora que dispongo de una grabadora de CDROM, he bajado una imagen de CDROM para sparc de un servidor ftp de Debian, un fichero de unos 500 Mbytes con extensión .iso.

Re: copia de imagen de Debian

1999-12-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 27 de diciembre de 1999 a la(s) 14:04:58 +0100, Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide contaba: En doslinux he instalado el cdrecord y cdwrite pero parece que estos programas (por lo que dice la ayuda) solo funcionan cuando la grabadora es SCSI (la mía es IDE). He intentado poner en la

Adaptador RDSI a 128Kb

1999-12-27 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hola: Tenemos un adaptador externo RDSI ZyXEL Omni TA128 y una conexión RDSI con CTV a 128Kb. Hemos puesto una tarjeta serie de alta velocidad y hemos configurado 0setserial añadiendo la linea: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0x3E8 irq 5 ${STD_FLAGS} spd_vhi Luego hemos configurado

Re: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera

1999-12-27 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Hola! Lo de que acepte el módem comandos del otro lado de la linea podría ser ni mas ni menos que una 'feature' (desagradable si tal). En mi modem por ejemplo hay unos determinados comandos para remotamente cambiar su configuración o controlar (a través de una password) el que se pueda hacer.

Re: Mas sobre versiones del kernel

1999-12-27 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 11:57 AM 1999-12-24 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: Salu2 Yo también tengo algunas dudas sobre las versiones del kernel y sus nombres. Hasrta hace unas semanas creía que SLINK era el kernel 2.2.x mientras HAMM era el kernel 2.0.x, pero al bajarme el último kernel estable del

Re: Problemas con LILO.

1999-12-27 Thread Ismael Canales
El Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:39:00AM +0100, EMILIO HERNÁNDEZ MARTÍN dijo: Hola a todos. Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo, antes de nada. Igualmente. Os escribo para preguntar qué es lo que tengo mal en mi LILO para que no me aparezca al arrancar el ordenador. Mi fichero

Re: SPAM: Propuesta de solucion

1999-12-27 Thread Jordi
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:18:57AM +0100, Hue-Bond wrote: [USUARIO NO SUSCRITO A LA LISTA debian-user-spanish] - La linea anterior es indispensable ya que no estas suscrito a esta lista. Pues yo veo más engorroso esto que hacer una suscripción una sola vez, que ya te queda

Re: Teclado Brasileiro na Instalação

1999-12-27 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Andre Leao Macedo escreveu: Olá, Na minha opinião, o melhor é Brasileiro (teclado padrão EUA) Ok sugestão anotada! --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MailBR - O e-mail

Re: Projeto de Lei

1999-12-27 Thread Andre Leao Macedo
Olá, Concordo com você que o projeto não é perfeito. Nada pode ser feito de uma cajadada só. Mas é um passo interessante na discussão do tema. O que temos que fazer é apoiar a idéia e ajudar da forma que pudermos. Tentei contactar o deputado, mas o link para o seu mail não

Re: Projeto de Lei

1999-12-27 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Andre Leao Macedo wrote: Concordo com você que o projeto não é perfeito. Nada pode ser feito de uma cajadada só. Mas é um passo interessante na discussão do tema. O que temos que fazer é apoiar a idéia e ajudar da forma que pudermos. Tentei contactar o deputado, mas o link para o seu

Re: MMSN842 - Suporte no Linux

1999-12-27 Thread Clovis Sena
Bom dia, eu andei fazendo um arquivo em que relaciono todos ( ou quase ) modelos de placas de som/fax para maquinas Infoway ( nem a AZTECH nem a Itautec dao suporte ). Nao tenho mais no meu micro, mas vc encontra uma copia em http://linux.brasileiro.net/~csena/diversos/ . Se nao me engano, o

Re: Teclado Brasileiro na Instalação

1999-12-27 Thread Clovis Sena
E pq nao uma coisa mais simples como pt-br ou mesmo abnt2 as vezes eu acho q vcs complicam as coisas de proposito, nao eh nao? bota ai qq nome e pronto! Escolha o que fizer mais sentido p vc. Nao da p ficar esperando q todo mundo concorde em tudo, vc deve fazer as coisas e seguir em frente.

Teclado Brasileiro na Instalação

1999-12-27 Thread Leandro Dutra
De: Clovis Sena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] E pq nao uma coisa mais simples como pt-br ou mesmo abnt2 as vezes Porque essas são abreviações técnicas que pouquíssimas pessoas entendem. eu acho q vcs complicam as coisas de proposito, nao eh nao? bota ai qq nome e pronto! Escolha o

Re: Projeto de Lei

1999-12-27 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Olá, Concordo com você que o projeto não é perfeito. Nada pode ser feito de uma cajadada só. Mas é um passo interessante na discussão do tema. O que temos que fazer é apoiar a idéia e ajudar da forma que pudermos. Tentei contactar o deputado, mas o link para o seu mail

Re: Teclado Brasileiro na Instalação

1999-12-27 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Clovis Senna escreveu: E pq nao uma coisa mais simples como pt-br ou mesmo abnt2 as vezes eu acho q vcs complicam as coisas de proposito, nao eh nao? bota ai qq nome e pronto! Escolha o que fizer mais sentido p vc. Nao da p ficar esperando q todo mundo concorde em tudo, vc deve fazer as coisas

Re: MMSN842 - Suporte no Linux

1999-12-27 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Clovis Sena escreveu: Bom dia, Bom dia, eu andei fazendo um arquivo em que relaciono todos ( ou quase ) modelos de placas de som/fax para maquinas Infoway ( nem a AZTECH nem a Itautec dao suporte ). Nao tenho mais no meu micro, mas vc encontra uma copia em

Superexposição linux

1999-12-27 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
Alias, costumo ver revistas fora da área de informática sobre Bill Gates Microsoft, Windows, bla, bla, bla, mas nada sobre o movimento de desenvolvimento mundial do Linux que é um fato histórico e não vem obtendo devida atenção pela mídia. Nos EUA o GNU/Linux já está quase

Re: Projeto de Lei

1999-12-27 Thread Rafael Caetano dos Santos
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra writes: Veja bem, não disse que não era perfeito. Disse que era completamente equivocado. A minha idéia não é melhorar o projeto, mas ignorá-lo completamente e continuar o trabalho de melhoria dos programas livres e educação dos usuários, assim

Re: Loadlin and DidkOnChip

1999-12-27 Thread Carl Fink
c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\linux root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=3 and got the message not an Image file. Loadlin works by loading a copy of the Linux kernel into RAM and then transferring control to it. It needs a copy of the kernel to work with. Did you copy your kernel to the c: drive and name it

Ethernet drivers...

1999-12-27 Thread OZoiDiaNO
Hi! I just bought a D-Link DE-220PCT ethernet card for my linux box. It's a 10mpbs ISA card, so I figured it would work. I need to know what drivers/modules I need to install during the debian installation for it. Also, I need to know what all I need to have installed and setup to be able to

Re: Printer configuration

1999-12-27 Thread leckert
Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Redhat has a neat little control panel that makes installing printers and filters very easy. Does debian have anything comparable or do I need to learn the printcap for lprng? You can use magicfilter to set up your printer. It's not like the printtool in Red

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 26/12/99 Eliot Landrum wrote: Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for 30 min to make sure it has enough time to do whatever it is it is doing. lsattr should not take that long, its just as fast as ls, sounds like

Re: is kernel 2.0.38 broken?

1999-12-27 Thread Concerned Teleport Customer
Pollywog wrote: I thought I read on this list that there was a problem with the last 2.0.x kernel. Is that true? I still have Slink on my laptop, so I am not ready for a 2.2.x kernel and I am using 2.0.36. thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID:

Re: Loadlin and DidkOnChip

1999-12-27 Thread Lyno Sullivan
At 07:07 PM 12/26/99 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\linux root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=3 and got the message not an Image file. Did you copy your kernel to the c: drive and name it linux? Otherwise it won't work. I am using the Linux Router Project (http://www.linuxrouter.org/)

[crash]

1999-12-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Karl == Karl M Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karl When XEmacs starts, it says: Karl /usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2/src/xemacs: Symbol `toggleClassRec' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Karl /usr/local/src/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2/src/xemacs: Symbol

Re: Ethernet drivers...

1999-12-27 Thread Edward Kear
At 07:19 PM 12/26/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I just bought a D-Link DE-220PCT ethernet card for my linux box. It's a 10mpbs ISA card, so I figured it would work. I need to know what drivers/modules I need to install during the debian installation for it. Also, I need to know what all

Re: is kernel 2.0.38 broken?

1999-12-27 Thread aphro
there is a locally exploitable command that will cause 2.0.36 and .38 (probably others too) to crash, usign ping -R i believe ..see bugtraq for details nate On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: pollyw I thought I read on this list that there was a problem with the last 2.0.x pollyw kernel. Is

[Off topic] Thanks.

1999-12-27 Thread ktb
I've been a part of this list on and off for the better part of the year. I've participated in helping answer questions when I could. I like the way this community works. I would like to thank all those people who have given me an idea about how little I know about computers. My father was

Re: installing Potato via ppp

1999-12-27 Thread Nate Duehr
As always, with the unstable version (potato), you're taking a risk installing it that on the day you decide to upgrade, any of the packages might be very broken. As of a few weeks ago, there was a boot-floppies for potato. I used it to install a machine and they worked with a couple of bugs,

Re: installing Potato via ppp

1999-12-27 Thread Shaul Karl
Is there a way to install Potato via ppp when I have only a slink CD and the base floppies for slink? Can I download some Potato base floppy images? If you have slink installed and you insists on downloading then apt is probably the way to go. The current set of base floppies are in

ntp: Some log files do not get gziped or rotated

1999-12-27 Thread Shaul Karl
adm 16633 Dec 27 01:59 loopstats.19991226 -rw-r--r--2 root adm 1680 Dec 27 09:22 loopstats.19991227 -rw-r--r--2 root adm 2174 Dec 27 09:22 peerstats -rw-r--r--1 root adm 17584 Dec 19 01:56 peerstats.19991218 -rw-r--r--1 root adm

Re: x-window-manager

1999-12-27 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:55:30PM +0100, Francesco Tapparo wrote: I maintain SCWM, a guile-powered window manager. An user asked me to add a Provides: x-window-manager, but I cannot find this virtual package in the virtual package list, neither in the policy (I have debian-policy 3.1.1.1).

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-27 Thread Alexandre Fornieles
HITMAN wrote: Hello Dear DEBIAN team, i want to ask you from where i can download your ISO file [the newest ver. of DEBIAN linux] :))) Check http://cdimage.debian.org/ Alex. -- Alexandre Fornieles | F-40150 Hossegor ICQ : 1519880 | Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.13 i686 - Software is

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a whole new Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I want to upgrade the system I

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I sometimes wish we could settle on some of these key technologies, like the two rc schemes, and inetd versus xinetd. It would make a lot of things similar. Imagine if we had two menu

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

1999-12-27 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 02:21:03AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 01:17:19AM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: Quake is indexed in Germany, not banned. This means it's only allowed to sell it to adults and advertising is prohibited. Just saw this on a web page.

apt-get -f install fails

1999-12-27 Thread Paul John Biciunas
I have a slink/potato hybrid. Also, /etc/apt/sources.list is pointing at the http://www.us.debian.org/debian potato ... unstable distribution, I did an apt-get update, followed by apt-get -f install. Seven other packages installed (including g++ and binutils), but it failed on xpm4g-dev. I ran

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

1999-12-27 Thread Christian Hammers
Quake is indexed in Germany, not banned. This means it's only allowed to sell it to adults and advertising is prohibited. I just looked a bit around about the BPjS which decide if a game becomes indexed or not. If a game is on the index you are not allowed to Well, IIRC we don't ship the

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

1999-12-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On 27 Dec 1999 19:33:37 +0800, Christian Hammers wrote: So do we have problems at all ? No. There is no violent content *at all* without the WAD files (or whatever they're called for Quake.) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~.

Re: Athlon problems?

1999-12-27 Thread luis
there are no big problems just install debian using the inestable version (kernel 2.2.12) evrything will be all rigth :-))

Debian2.1r4

1999-12-27 Thread Frank Knopf
Where can one obtain Debian 2.1r4 on CD-ROM? Many Thanks, Frank Knopf

Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL]

1999-12-27 Thread John Goerzen
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Until that happens, I stand by the fact that xemacsXX depends on X in all extant cases. Being linked with a library is FAR different that requiring the X Window System (X). The difference is not hard to notice and I am surprised that you have

Re: fstab - `defaults' and `sync'

1999-12-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/12/99 Arcady Genkin wrote: If I want to mount a partition with `sync' option, can I keep `defaults'? I know `defaults' implies `async', but will explicitly specifying `sync' override that? yup, just like defaults,ro will mount readonly despite the fact that defaults includes the rw

apm notebook

1999-12-27 Thread luis
hello i am using a travelmate 5300 (texas instruments) notebook when in text mode try to enter the display saver, the display blicks for a moment, and then, instead of clearing the display and blank it, jost drop the next line apm: set display ready: Interface not engaged and this

Re: cluster

1999-12-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 10:05:32PM +0100, luis wrote: which networks have been tried? some advice ? I'd suggest asking either debian-beowulf or the regular beowulf mailing lists (see http://www.beowulf.org/) - this sort of thing comes up all the time on the main beowulf lists. -- Mark Brown

setserial

1999-12-27 Thread Michael Meskes
Why does setserial depend on modutils? If I have serial support built into my kernel I do not need modutils, do I? Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian

Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being

1999-12-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Quoting John Galt: According to the dependencies, Xemacs requires X just as much as Afterstep, Enlightenment, Xterm, Freeciv, and Ale do. Xemacs depends on xlib6g, xterm depends on xlib6g (and ncurses and libc6 to fully disclose

Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-27 Thread David Teague
Hi Folks My problem: my system does not run jdk1.2.2 v3. Has anyone built a .deb from the Blackdown tarball? The .debs install and run. I have searched Blackdown and debian.org for java 1.2 .debs for any version of Debian, but there is no joy in Muddville tonight. There were several responses

ITP gemdropx, madbomber, defendguin, ...

1999-12-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Id like to package all the games http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/x/ which I can get working. All games are (gemdropx will be made) GPL. As nobody reacted to my call on debian-devel-games, it seems I'll have to package them myself. Most of these games use SDL (available as libsdl* in debian) for

Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) (fwd)

1999-12-27 Thread Brian Almeida
- Forwarded message from Bradley M. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:41:34 -0500 (EST) From: Bradley M. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) (fwd) X-UIDL: 946309117.21886.k7mail.winstar.com

Re: fstab - `defaults' and `sync'

1999-12-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 27 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: : If I want to mount a partition with `sync' option, can I keep : `defaults'? I know `defaults' implies `async', but will explicitly : specifying `sync' override that? You can keep defaults, but you don't need to - the defaults are, well, defaults :)

Re: Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-27 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I downloaded v1 of jdk-1.2 from blackdown. I had no problems getting it to work after following the instructions in the README.linux file. I tested a program that uses the Swing library that comes with jdk-1.2 and it works just fine. I have slink installed and all I did was to add

Re: Printer configuration

1999-12-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
No cutesy graphical stuff ala Red Hat, but magicfilter has the magicfilterconfig script script which should handle it for you. On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 04:31:10PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Redhat has a neat little control panel that makes installing printers and filters very easy.

where is `gc.h' needed for compiling gcc?

1999-12-27 Thread Beiad Ian Q. Dalton
I'm trying to compile gcc on Potato with the pgcc patches. Patches applied cleanly, and I edited the debian/patches/ patches that didn't apply cleanly (just version changes between `gcc' and `pgcc') and ran debian/rules binary. Now in src/libobjc/gc.c, it can't find gc.h and gc_typed.h, which

Re: where is `gc.h' needed for compiling gcc?

1999-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:00:04AM -0800, Beiad Ian Q. Dalton wrote: I'm trying to compile gcc on Potato with the pgcc patches. Patches applied cleanly, and I edited the debian/patches/ patches that didn't apply cleanly (just version changes between `gcc' and `pgcc') and ran debian/rules

Debian GNU/Linux Supported Laptops?

1999-12-27 Thread Gary Pinkerton
Merry Christmas everyone, and a Happy New Year. I am a reseller of COMPAQ, HP, IBM and Toshiba laptops, and would like to know if their current products are compatible with Debian GNU/Linux ? I have not found any reference to this on their respective homepages, and this question is important

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet, mostly due to laziness). Only problem I have seen is that the new system tried to load

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote: One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet, mostly due to laziness). I broke my pcmcia

kernel config problems

1999-12-27 Thread Brian J. Stults
I am updating my kernel (2.2.10 to 2.2.13) and when I type make xconfig, I get the following errors. Can anyone help me? Thanks. rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Supported Laptops?

1999-12-27 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Gary Pinkerton wrote: I am a reseller of COMPAQ, HP, IBM and Toshiba laptops, and would like to know if their current products are compatible with Debian GNU/Linux ? I have been able to install Debian on several laptop models (see, for instance,

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-27 Thread Mike Markley
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 01:56:00PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: I've tried to be nice in this discussion. I'm no longer trying. I WILL NOT CRIPPLE MY QUAKE PACKAGES TO SATISFY THE STUPIDITY INHERENT IN THE LAWS OF EXACTLY TWO COUNTRIES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT I KNOW OF. I CONSIDER THE

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Supported Laptops?

1999-12-27 Thread Don Marti
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 01:53:09PM -0500, Gary Pinkerton wrote: I am a reseller of COMPAQ, HP, IBM and Toshiba laptops, and would like to know if their current products are compatible with Debian GNU/Linux ? You can look up specific laptop models at:

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote: One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet,

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:18:09PM -, Pollywog wrote: I broke my pcmcia stuff and I am unable to fix it. I think it has to do with trying to install a kernel the Debian way. I will trying reinstalling a small slink system and then upgrade via ppp. If that does not work, I will have to

Reverse DNS problem after bind upgrade(?)

1999-12-27 Thread aphro
for some reason other servers cannot reverse resolve my ips anymore after a recent bind upgrade, however when asking my server it works fine.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games] nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 208.222.179.1 Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 ***

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: BTW, I didn't know about the debian-laptop list until today. That might be the best place to discuss this. I did not know until now :) thanks -- Andrew

Re: Athlon problems?

1999-12-27 Thread aphro
you need at least 2.2.13 to run w/athlon. you may find some unofficial patches to run it with other kernels..but as far as stock kernels go you need 2.2.13 nate On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Rob Rati wrote: ratirh I read a few posts that appeared lately that kinda confused me. I am ratirh planning on

XF86 error: could not mmap framebuffer

1999-12-27 Thread aphro
Ok .. I got this 3Dfx voodoo banshee card..(PCI) it works fine in my Celery system, but when i put it in my Socket 7 (i430TX chipset) system, and try to start X with the same X server i get: Fatal server error: xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (Device not configured) The only X server

Re: cluster

1999-12-27 Thread aphro
I'd suggest looking into Turbolinux's cluster software. it's not cheap but it looks damn good. and it is cheap compared to the alternatives in other operating suystems both *nix and win* nate On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Mark Brown wrote: brooni On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 10:05:32PM +0100, luis wrote:

Re: Debian2.1r4

1999-12-27 Thread Reza Entezari
Where can one obtain Debian 2.1r4 on CD-ROM? If you want CD image download, you can get it from: http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/debian-cd/ Cheers, -Reza

Problem with my apmd daemon !

1999-12-27 Thread Di Prétoro Emmanuel
Hi, I've recompiled my kernel with the apm support, I reboot, but when I launch apmd, the error is : No APM support in the kernel, but I'm sure my kernel is this apm support. What is the problem ? Is there a configuration file or another manipulation ? Regards, Manu

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote: PCMCIA support depends upon some kernel modules which are provided in a seperate package to the kernel. When you install a new kernel you also need to install a version of these modules that matches your new kernel. I did that, but still lost pcmcia.

Re: What is required to provide lpr?

1999-12-27 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 07:21:57PM -0600, Jeff Licquia wrote: I have had a wishlist bug filed against cupsys-bsd, asking that it Provide lpr; evidently, some other packages Recommend lpr, and apt keeps trying to replace cupsys-bsd and replace it with lpr. AFAIK, the packages only use the

Re: This can lead to a better solution at all (was: Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-27 Thread Nick Moffitt
Quoting Eduardo Marcel Macan: We need to stop staring at our own bellybuttons (this is a local expression translated) The American/English version is contemplating our navel (navel being another term for bellybutton). -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur arguments and ad-hominem

AOLserver Package

1999-12-27 Thread Brent Fulgham
I've uploaded a first cut at the AOLserver package to master. This is a large portion of the code that runs AOL which was recently released under a modified NPL (APL) which basically releases the source, but prohibits the use of the AOL logo or other AOL branding stuff. Could some web-savvy

Wrong hardware address for ethernet card

1999-12-27 Thread AATIF KHAN
Hi, Has anyone had problems with the kernel reading the wrong ethernet hardware address? I'm using a D-Link DFE-530TX card and the via-rhine driver. I've just done a clean installation of Slink off a cd. When the machine starts up, the first two digit of the hardware address for the

RE: Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-27 Thread Jesse Tilly
First a peeve: I am writing this because I am reminded by Rajesh's message. He does what I think *all of us* should do. I think it is completely unhelpful for people to reply to it doesn't work messages with well, it works for me messages. As a list it is a nuisance, however, the real problem

Re: Reverse DNS problem after bind upgrade(?)

1999-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi... a. did you check resolv.conf b. did you restart named ? c. if you only use 208.222.179.31 as your dns server... than does reverse work ?? d. are you running secondary on localhost from 208.222.179.31 e. was it using named.boot before and now its using named.conf ? have fun

Re: MTA

1999-12-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
peter == peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: peter Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet peter connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for peter this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline peter (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-27 Thread Patrick Kirk
Help! I have run the minivend configuration over a dozen times and am still dying. Would you mind looking at www.wiredtraders.net? I reckon my problem is that I have no idea of where my cgi folders are or where they should be but if you can tell where I've gone wrong, please do let me know.