RE: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Feb-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll of distributions. Have you all voted? Why is that? I just ordered a copy because I have heard good things about the distro. -- Andrew

RE: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:56:11 -0500, Christian Lavoie wrote: Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with

RE: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote: Well, hell, if that is all it takes to be full up to speed I can claim, with confidence, that I've had two Debian installs up on the net in under 15 minutes. Mind you, that was just the base install of 8 disks, but it was up on the net. :) Yes, but was

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Feb-99 William Schwartz wrote: I really hate to continue this thread, but I thought I'd throw in my experience. I was turned on to Linux by a friend, and he was using Debian, so I installed it and tried it. About 2 days later I had a working Debian system. Mind you I was a COMPLETE Unix

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-11 Thread Pollywog
I got around these problems with a $20 purchase. I downloaded the OSS Linux driver from www.opensound.com and installed it. It worked the very first time. Now I don't need to configure sound in the kernel at all. -- Andrew

trying to install to ThinkPad

1999-02-11 Thread Pollywog
I have one machine running Caldera OpenLinux and this machine has a CDROM drive. I have another machine, a ThinkPad (with no CDROM drive) that is connected to the other machine via 10BaseT. I have a Debian 2.0 CD in the drive of one machine and I want to install Debian on the ThinkPad via NFS.

RE: Diald obsolete error

1999-02-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Feb-99 Ted Behling wrote: I just tuned in, but what do you have in your PPP options file? Try a blank ppp options file. Some of the normal PPP options are incompatible with diald. -- Andrew

where is rc.local

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
I just jumped over to Debian from another distro. I am trying to find my way around, but I cannot find rc.local, the Debian version of it. Also, I have a newer Exim package to install, but I cannot figure out how to get dselect to install from /usr/src thanks -- Andrew

System.map

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
Where does Debian put System.map? I just recompiled a kernel, but my first kernel did not have a System.map. I know some distributions put them in / but some don't. thanks -- Andrew

Re: System.map

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Feb-99 Alec Smith wrote: Look in /boot. That's where the System.map is on my Debian boxes. Thanks, just came to Debian from OpenLinux, and that filesystem is very different. -- Andrew

KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
What does one do about KDEDIR after installing the Debian KDE packages? I want to install kxicq (from source) but it complains about not finding KDE. I can even find KDE with the 'locate' command, and it is working. There is a kde binary but no kde/bin. thanks -- Andrew

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 debian wrote: Forgive me if I am wrong, as it has been 2 years since I ran KDE. But I remember back on Slackware when I had to compile it. That it requires the KDEDIR environment variable which points to the KDE installed location. Is this what it could be complaining about.

dependency mess

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I have run across a dependency problem and I wonder if I should just install KDE from source. When I tried to install the package I needed, that one conflicted with one already installed, and I am afraid I will break my system if I start removing stuff. lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i kdelibs2g

libwine/wine contradiction

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
This is funny. I try to install Wine and it needs libwine, but when I try to install libwine, it needs Wine. Like the question about the chicken or the egg, which came first? ;) lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i libwine0.0.971116_0.0.990131-1.deb (Reading database ... 49423 files and directories

RE: libwine/wine contradiction

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: This is funny. I try to install Wine and it needs libwine, but when I try to install libwine, it needs Wine. Like the question about the chicken or the egg, which came first? ;) Very strange but the next time I ran dselect and chose configure packages that have

kxicq error

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I am really moving along with Debian, fixing one thing after another. What is missing here? I have never seen this error. /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pics/*.xpm /usr/share/apps/kxicq/pics /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav mkdir /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav /usr/bin/install -c -m

no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it would play a wav file; it doesn't. Any ideas on what is wrong? thanks --

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it would play a wav file; it doesn't. BTW

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it would play

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 15 Feb, Pollywog wrote about RE: no sound On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front installed. RealAudio does

Re:dependency mess

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Mike wrote: Or you could dpkg -i libjep then dpkg -i the kdelibs-dev etcetra. I find often that while installing a program I get that. So I download or install from cd the missing bits then reinstall or configure what I wanted originally. I accidentally fixed it.

is there a trick to removing emacs?

1999-02-16 Thread Pollywog
I want to remove all the emacs stuff and use vim as my editor. Can I safely remove emacs without doing something special first? thanks -- Andrew

changing timezone

1999-02-16 Thread Pollywog
I must have goofed when I set my timezone during Debian installation. Is there a way to change this? Thanks -- Andrew

RE: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Feb-99 MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: It is my understanding that on Debian, the KDEDIR variable does not have to be set. I could be wrong but I think I read that somewhere. I have been told that by another person, but this was after I fixed the problem. He told me that with

what is wrong with the security updates?

1999-02-17 Thread Pollywog
I downloaded the security updates from debian.org and when i tried to install them, I got: lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb dpkg-deb: `netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb (--install

Sentry and /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-18 Thread Pollywog
I need to start Abacus Sentry when my machine boots, but unlike other apps that will start from /sbin/setup.sh Sentry just crashes when I do it that way. Is there a way to start sentry after every other process has finished? Perhaps by using an 'at' command to start Sentry one minute after

Re: Sentry and /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Feb-99 David Z. Maze wrote: As was discussed earlier, that script isn't inteded to be used that way. You should probably create a script in /etc/init.d that DTRT. I will have to find out how to write the script. Pollywog Perhaps by using an 'at' command to start Sentry one minute

where is the ipfwadm stuff by default?

1999-02-19 Thread Pollywog
I have a couple of ipfwadm rules in effect that I did not add. That means that the default installation has rules someplace. Does anyone know where I can find them? Perhaps I should put all my rules in the same place. thanks -- Andrew

RE: Multi IP's on interface

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Feb-99 Bill Bell wrote: Hello, Is it possible, and if so how, to support two IP's on a single interface card? I thought I have seen this somewhere. It is called IP aliasing. Read the IP Aliasing Howto and it will explain how this is done. -- Andrew

Re: where is the ipfwadm stuff by default?

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woops, I was on slackware when I did that, sorry rgrep ipfwadm /etc/* oic Thanks. -- Andrew

Re: where is the ipfwadm stuff by default?

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: where is the ipfwadm stuff by default? Date: Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 11:26:07PM - In reply to:Pollywog Quoting Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a couple of ipfwadm rules in effect that I did not add. That means

ip-up question

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that is where my script needs to be placed. thanks -- Andrew

RE: ip-up question

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that is where my script needs to be placed. I think I

RE: ip-up question

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: On 20-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that is where my script

giflib23 needed

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
I tried to install kwatch from source and got this error: checking for main in -lcompat... no checking for giflib... configure: error: You need giflib23. Please install the kdesupport package I already have the kdesupport packages installed. What else can I try? thanks -- Andrew

magic cookie error

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key ktail: cannot connect to X server :0.0 thanks -- Andrew

Re: giflib23 needed

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install either libungif and libungif-dev OR giflib and giflib-dev libungif is free, giflib is hindered by patents I have libungif installed, but I will check for libungif-dev I am unable to uninstall libungif due to dependency problems, so I might have to

Re: giflib23 needed

1999-02-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: On 20-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install either libungif and libungif-dev OR giflib and giflib-dev libungif is free, giflib is hindered by patents I have libungif installed, but I will check for libungif-dev I am unable to uninstall libungif due

fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
I am having a problem with Fetchmail. I can get mail if I connect to the Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux, I just put: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 600 in my /etc/ppp/ip-up and I could get my mail whenever I went online with diald. I am unable to do

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 Dave Swegen wrote: In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me. This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (owned

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
I just added sleep 15s to my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local just above the line that calls fetchmail and it looks as though perhaps that did the trick. I did grab mail that time. -- Andrew

anyone use logcheck on Debian?

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone here used logcheck on a Debian system? I have used it with OpenLinux but on Debian, I have not been able to get the logcheck.ignore file to work. Also, sentry did not work very well on Debian and I got rid of it. Perhaps there is some way of getting locheck to work. thanks -- Andrew

RE: libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: hello, I've installed kde from the debian cd-rom. it works But I understood this is a beta version. So I downloaded version 1.1 When installing 1.1 i get a message that libc6 is installed but not the correct version. Can anybody tell me where i

Re: libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/21/99 12:46:19 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - libc6 version 2.0.7u - libstdc ++2.9 - qt1g version 1.42-1 (I've the old version installed) - libjpeg6a You can find the packages at

Re: ip-up question

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ? I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Robert E. Bell wrote: I am trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 560x (dual boot with w95 so I can install from hard disk). When I create the boot floppies, either through the install process OR downloading floppies from the debian site, it just continually reboots. I

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: Any help would be very appreciated! :-) (The debian user list is much friendlier and supportive than Red Hat's :-) We try (= On my laptop it would reboot if I was not using a zImage kernel. The tecra disks should provide this kernel. If not, do you have

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot on you. That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that machine. I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to a

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot on you. That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that machine. I forgot the correct

RE: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that machine. I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to a floppy, but when I find it, I will try it. Uhm, the floppy is a standard msdos

kfloppy missing from kdeutils 1.1 ?

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
I installed the kdeutils 1.1 package, but I can't find kfloppy anywhere. Was it included? thanks -- Andrew

Re: The usual reboot problems (another problem?)

1999-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Feb-99 Robert E. Bell wrote: I get the same thing on my 560x with the Tecra disks. I'm also having problems even making a boot floppy through the installation process. It either gives gives an immediate error message creation of boot floppy failed... or it spins around for awhile

kfloppy compile error

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I installed KDE 1.1 but did not get kfloppy, so I downloaded it separately and tried to install it on a Debian system and I get this: make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/kfloppy-0.2' Making all in kfloppy make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/kfloppy-0.2/kfloppy

RE: PGP question

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Stephen Pitts wrote: Reply-To: This is just out of curiosity..not meant to be flamebait :-) Those of you who PGP sign your messages, why do you do it? I've looked into getting PGP several times, and I have a PGP- compliant mail-reader, but is there any advantage in signing

RE: Caldera dist finds net card, Debian doesn't

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Paul Hardiman wrote: I have a 3c905B net card. As the subject indicates, the Caldera dist finds it fine, but the Hamm distribution doesn't. lsmod (Caldera) shows 3c59x and that object module exists in the /lib/modules dir of each installation. My attempts to rtfm have been

RE: Thinkpad 600E, next problem (was the usual reboot problems

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: So, by using kernel 2.2.2 with a slink rescue disk, I can now boot and run the installer on a Thinkpad 600E! Yeah! But, the installer doesn't respond to keypresses and sits there looing locked up. Ideas? When I get this all worked out, I'll be

rawrite question

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
Can I avoid using rawrite (I do not have a DOS system) if I already have one machine running Linux? Can I use that machine to make a set of Debian install floppies? thanks -- Andrew

Re: rawrite question

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
Pollywog asked: Can I avoid using rawrite (I do not have a DOS system) if I already have one machine running Linux? Can I use that machine to make a set of Debian install floppies? Nevermind, I found what I needed to do this. thanks -- Andrew

tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I just copied the tecra rescue image to a floppy and tried it out on my ThinPad 560 and it did not go into a loop of reboots and is presenting me with the Debian System Installation menu :) This is what I want to do now and this is not really covered in the documentation, I don't think. I have

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to install the base system to the ThinkPad with the base floppies and then finish the installation via FTP or NFS off the other machine? Yep - that's how I usually have done it in the same situation

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't I install PCMCIA support from the floppy disk set I downloaded? As long as the modules in it were compiled with the Tecra kernel. PCMCIA modules have to match the kernel they're running with. Some day maybe

problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I put the first base disk in the floppy drive and I get: The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was written. huh? I just copied the thing from the net. -- Andrew

RE: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: I put the first base disk in the floppy drive and I get: The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was written. huh? I just copied the thing from the net. Nevermind, I made a little boo-boo Fixed it. -- Andrew

Re: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: looks like the md5sum does not match the disk, might be if the disk was modified recently ... you are not using a slink base disk with a hamm rescue disk, are you? That will not work. No, that wasn't it, and I fixed it :) thanks -- Andrew

Re: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Kent West wrote: Floppy disks are notorious for causing problems during a Linux install. Try another floppy. And then another if need be. And then another. (Even if aall of these floppies are new, ggod floppies). Then, if it still doesn't work, try downloading from a different

ThinkPad is now Debian success

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I just rebooted the ThinkPad and it is running a Debian base system and the network card's indicator is green :) That's a surprise. Now to attempt to install the rest of Debian via ftp or NFS from the other machine. -- Andrew

nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still, it is dead. -- Andrew

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am still looking for that package. Do I install it after I finish installing the base system? Yes. It's in the admin section. You mean on the CDROM? Yes I think I have seen it there, but if I cannot put

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still

RE: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Fetchmail downloads my email apparently. But it does not, put the email in a place where mutt can find it. After running fetchmail, mail is downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there. What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make

/home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no pub, etc, bin or anything else). Is this normal? thanks -- Andrew

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not working. I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will work. -- Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? dmesg shows that the network card is not recognized

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not working. I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will work. No you

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? Also, I can ping localhost but that is all. -- Andrew

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card. I do not specifically recall seeing

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card. I do

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card. I do

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
Not so lucky. I can ping the netcard on the laptop but not the other machine. I think I have to set a gateway or something. I don't know where the scripts are in Debian. -- Andrew

ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
When I got to modconf in the installation, my network card was not one of the choices. I did set up PCMCIA and the card manager is installed, but things are still not working correctly. -- Andrew

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: Well, what is the problem exactly? WHat is not working? Your network card might not be a module, it might be in the kernel or you might have to build the module. That is what I am thinking, that I must build it, but that is a problem since I need to install

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a friend's laptop. ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked. I am pinging the laptop from here now and it did not

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: I can do: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.11 route add 192.168.1.11 dev eth0 but that only lets me ping the machine by hostname or localhost. I cannot ping the other machine. THat is the problem! It only has a route

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: To find out which module it is run lsmod. Then run rmmod MOD_NAME to remove each module one by one. When the network stops working run insmod to install the last module that you removed. After you have found the module, run modconf and select that module

pcnet_cs on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
My network card module is pcnet_cs, just as I thought (same as OpenLinux installed). I believe I should have only installed the module that is marked as being automatically loaded, i82365. That probably is the module for pcnet_cs and not the one I was guessing was the correct one (similar name).

endless loops on ThinkPad install

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I installed Debian last night on a ThinkPad and this morning had to continue, but it kept going into loops, installing emacs and python again and again until I rebooted the thing. Now I will remove emacs and python, since I don't think I will need emacs and if I need python I can reinstalll it.

problem networking after a reboot

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I installed Debian 2.0 to a ThinkPad, and each time I reboot the machine, the network card will not work until I do: /etc/init.d/network start It works after that. Should I edit the script and give my interfaces and routes expicitly or is there a better way to get things working when I reboot,

Re: endless loops on ThinkPad install

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: Yeah emacs sucks for a network install. I have never been able to get it to install properly and since nobody at home or at work uses it, I just delete it. You will PROBABLY want to install python after the network install is complete. It is pretty handy and

RE: problem networking after a reboot

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: Make sure there is a link in either rc.boot or rc2.d pointing to the network script (there should be). The script should set up the IP via ifconfig and set the route if you are running a 2.0.x kernel. Since it works when you run it by hand, all is probably well.

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically changes the root directory to /home/ftp. There

Re: hostname domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Ian Keith Setford wrote: Edit /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and maybe /etc/resolv.conf. Hope that helps. I just noticed that Debian has no /etc/system.cnf file. When I used OpenLinux, if I changed hostname and forgot to edit that file in addition to the ones named above, the

ThinkPad PCMCIA oddity

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
I had to reinstall Debian on my ThinkPad after something I did caused it to go into endless reboots. The second time around, I did not choose a network card and only set up PCMCIA and when I rebooted, I still had no network card, so I opened another console and as root entered the command

laptop lacks /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
I wanted to put '/etc/init.d/network start' in my /sbin/setup.sh on my ThinkPad, but it does not have this file. Where can I put this command to see if it can get my network recognized after I start the machine? I don't understand the initialization scripts, so I don't want to fool around with

ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
Can anyone tell me why on my ThinkPad, I can compile a kernel with 'make zImage' instead of 'make bzImage'? I cannot do this with my other machine which has 64MB RAM; it won't be able to load the kernel because it is too large. I was surprised that I actually got my ThinkPad to boot into the new

Re: ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:10:57 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: I am just wondering why I can get away with 'make zImage' on the laptop when a larger machine can't handle it. Most likely you're not compiling

initialization scripts question

1999-02-26 Thread Pollywog
Are the initialization scripts used in Debian similar to those in RedHat or Slackware? I can't find information that is specific to Debian. thanks -- Andrew

Unidentified subject!

1999-03-01 Thread Pollywog
I found the following message in my syslog after another machine (running RedHat) connected to mine to send me mail. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Mar 1 04:26:22 lilypad kernel: MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 205.xxx.xxx.xxx! (I have replaced the actual IP address with x's What

strange log entry

1999-03-02 Thread Pollywog
I found the following message in my syslog after another machine (running RedHat) connected to mine to send me mail. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Mar 1 04:26:22 lilypad kernel: MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 205.xxx.xxx.xxx! (I have replaced the actual IP address with x's What

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Pollywog
both suid root? Then place trusted users in the games group. That lets me execute quake as pollywog instead of as root. It seems to work for me, though there might be problems later, I suppose. -- Andrew -- PGP Key ID 0x5EE61C37 PGP5.0 --

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