sound problems

I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting from Win95. I've read all the FAQs and

startup info

Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 |

even more sound problems

I have a SB Pro/16/WSS sound card on my mother board that I use for sound. I have compiled sounds support as a module and included /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support in the kernel. I Have isapnp setup and the sound devices are detected and listed in /dev/sndstat. When I try to play sound, the best

boot errors

I have 1 2 gig drive separted into 4 partitions. One is win95 boot partition, another is 650 meg, and the last two are for Linux, one 800 meg Linux native, and one 45 meg swap file. I mount them in /etc/fstab like this: # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda6

boot-floppies

I installed the package boot-floppies so I would be able to create the boot floppies to have as backup. I cannot find the scripts that this package installed though. Does anyone know where they are? And, as a related question, does anyone know how to tell what debian packages install which

Re: LILO Problem

wait the the Lilo prompt, then press shift. It gives you a few seconds before it automatically boots your default setting. On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Matthew D. Myers wrote: I recently decided to install LILO on my laptop. According to the HOW-TO and liloconfig I should be able to hold shift while

Re: How do I set up PNP devices

Forgot to ask. is it PNP or a winmodem? If it's a winmodem, I don't think you can get it to work with Linux. On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, john mcpeek wrote: I have a PNP USR 33.6 sportster. I ran pnpdump and it showed the modem but I don't know how to make pon use it. How do I deturmine what device

Re: Linux vs. Windows

I'd be careful with 98 and Linux. I read about 98 moving data around and could possibly break Linux. I just installed Debian 2.0, and it's pretty easy now. Basically follow the prompts. YOu may not have everything working, but your system will boot. On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, The guy on the couch.

modprobe error

I added sound to my /etc/modules file so it would load at boot time, but I get this error: modprobe: no dependency information for module: /lib/modules/2.0.34/misc/sound.o I've done a make modules and modules_install as well as install when I compiled my kernel. I even tried it by itself.

X server problem?

I'm trying to run a game called Maelstrom, and I can load it when not in X. When I'm in X though, I get this error: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 129 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 3

apt?

I've heard of apt, but am not sure what it is. I thought it was supposed to be the new graphical package manager for Debian and was going to be released in 2.0, but I can't seem to find a package for it? Is it to be released in 2.1 or am I just looking in the wrong place? What advantages does

Lilo, Dos, and an interesting attempt

I'm trying to setup my computer so that I can boot to Win95, Linux, and Dos (basically for dosemu). I have the dos partition on a SparQ disk setup as master on the secondary controller. When I disconnect my drive on the primary controller, I can boot to my SparQ just fine. I setup Lilo to point

Re: Lilo, Dos, and an interesting attempt

it/them will usually allow you to boot DOS from a another disk. If you don't have a convenient way to hide DOS partitions, try this freeware program, which is also a nice partitioning tool: http://www.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Tom Robert Rati wrote: I'm trying to setup my

Re: Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)

I get the same message and have been trying to fix it for weeks. Any help would be appreciated. Rob On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I get this boot message on Debian 2.0. What is missing? Johann -- |

ADSL

I have noticed special options when creating a kernel for ISDN support. I am considering getting an ADSL line since it is being tested in my area. Does Debian support ADSL and if so, what is needed? === [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: Motherbnoard Sound Device

That is not exactly true. I have an onboard Sound Pro which I have gotten to work with my Linux box. It has taken a lot of work and I'm not sure exactly what I did to get it to work, but it does now work. Have you tried using isapnp? On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Bert Conliffe wrote: Hi Fellow

Re: Motherbnoard Sound Device

options are no. The only problem I have encountered is that sound doesn't play through the speakers with ASCD for some reason. I haven't gotten around to fixing that yet. Good luck! Rob Hi Robert Rati, Congradulations for your

Staroffice 4.0

Is there an installer for StarOffice 4.0? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055

Problems logging in

I'm running unstable, and about a month ago I noticed that after my machine had been up for a few days that I couldn't initiate a log in session or switch users. After the password is accepted, the log session just sits there and never returns a prompt. The system is just fine though. If I'm

Lost Fonts again in unstable

I'm running unstable, and I haven't been able to log in the last few days because of a recent update. I was finally able to log in and found that most of my fonts are gone. Most notably was Helvetica. I checked my fonts.conf and it looked alright, so I tried to make sure the font still existed

System unusable

I just d/led and installed the latest xfree86 packages from http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86 in an attempt to solve a problem I had with X freezing my screen. It appeared to be pretty stable and to fix the problem, so I rebooted. After I boot, I now get this message every 5 seconds:

kernel 2.2.0

The 2.2.0 kernels were released recently, but I don't see them in the slink distribution. Are they in potato, or have they not been packaged yet? Rob === [EMAIL

kernel 2.0.36 compile problems

OK, I just d/led kernel headers and source for kernel 2.0.36, but when I try and do a make xconfig, I get these errors: wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_PMAC was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_APOLLO was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in!

kernel 2.0.36 question update

I just discovered that when I uncompressed 2.2.1 tarball, it installed to the linux dir which was a symlink to my 2.0.36 dir, so I guess that is the major problem. Still, how do I apply to patch for kernel 2.2.1? Rob

sound with 2.2.1

I had sound working in kernels 2.0.35 by compiling it as a module and giving it the correct parameters. The 2.2.1 kernels have separated out the sound options and now I can't enter any card info when I modularize the sound. I have an onboard sound card that is SB 16 and WSS 2.0 compatible. I

really simple format question

I've been looking all over my system to find a floppy disk formatting command, but have come up empty. Superformat doesn't appear to be in the slink dist nor can I find any kind of floppy formating command with apropos. Can someone help me out with this real quick?

Matrox G100 with X

I am attempting to setup X on my friend's machine and he has a Maxtrox G100 AGP card and am wondering what Xserver to use. I tried using the SVGA server, which in XFree86 3.3.3.1 says supports the G100 PCI version. XF86Setup cannot open the display at the end of the setup, and I cannot seem to

Old afterstep

Does anyone know where I can get the old 1.0-1 .deb files for Afterstep? All the sites seem to have 1.4.5.* and I can't find a site with the bo dists, which is where it was located. Rob

gtkicq seg faults?

I d/led and installed gtkicq from potato along with the dependencies it needs in order to run. When I try and run the program, I get this message: Unable to connect to server port 35091 Segmentation fault Has anyone gotten gtkicq to work or can anyone give me some pointers as to how to fix

Booting problems

A friend of mine is having problems booting for some reason. He makes a kernel and uses a boot disk to boot Linux, and we just tried compiling the 2.2.1 kernels on his machine. Now the boto disks says Loading Linux and just stops. We've tried compiling the 2.0.34 kernels, which is what he was

psupdate not found?

At the end of a make install for my friend's kernel, it reports an error: Added linux * set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot825 ...Success. /sbin/installkernel: psupdate: command not found This is in the creation of a boot disk. Anyone know where psupdate can be gotten from? I

Re: PCI MODEM

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Alex wrote: Hi, I had an ISA modem. I've recently bought another mothem, but it's PCI. The problem is that the system doesn't recognize it. Windows 98 recognizes it as a modem on COM3, using IRQ 9. I reconfigured pppd (using pppconfig) to use ttyS2 (= MSDOS

lilo

I had lilo working just fine on my machine, but because of a stupid move on my part, I had to repartition and reformat all my drives. To avoid re-installing and re-setting up everything on my box, I simply copied my Debian partitions to a drive I didn't have to format. I've copied it back over

xcdroast

I just got an external SCSI CD-R for my box. After some doing, I got it working in windows, but would realy like to burn in Linux. I had xcdroast running at one point in time, but now I get this error: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel ERROR at text.tcl line

Re: Trying to play a game....

I had that error too. You can't run Marlstrom in 24 bpp, it must be in 16 or less. That should fix your problem. It took me a while to get it fixed, so this might not be the answer that fixes that one problem. Rob On Sun, 4 Apr

Star Office 5.0

Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, then the windows start to come up and X freezes. Anyone have any ideas?

More Star Office 5.0

I got Star Office to install finally thanks to everyones help. I installed it as root, figuring it would be a network type application, but since it's the personal edition I'm guessing only the person that installed it can use it, right? When I try to run it as my user account, it asks me to

KDE

Are there .debs of KDE on ftp.debian.org? I can't seem to find them in the package lists. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic

Sound cut out

My sound cuts out on me after using LIcq for a period of time. I'm not sure what the time interval for it to cut out, or even why it is doing it. I can't remove the sound module and re-insert it because it is apparantly in use. Anyone know of a way to reset the sound or something like that?

PS/2 router with MCA nic

Can linux recognize a micro-channel nic? I know how to setup the kernel to recognize an ISA/PCI nic, but does linux support mca cards? If so, how would I configure the kernel to recognize the mca card? Would I treat it just like an ISA card? TIA.

Re: I'm in tears: SB 64 still not there.

I suggest a few things. First would be to make a 2.2.x kernel. Sound is much easier under that system. I run 2.1 with 2.2.5 kernel with no problems. Biggest pain will be transferring your settings from your old kernel to the new one, but that's not too difficult. Just kick up two xconfigs

slink breaks

I upgraded my system from hamm to slink (not entirely by choice) and encountered a number of problems. I seem to have fixed most of them, except Netscape appears to be broken. When I try to run netscape, I get this error: netscape: locale `C' not supported. along with a long description about

Re: slink breaks

I removed xlib6 and re-installed it, but when dselect tries to install it, this error is given: ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale does not exist Please report this bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone does this? I suspect that this what is causing my error with netscape. Are the X packages still

more on slink breaks

Well, I even re-installed an old version of xlib6, and I still get the locale 'C' no supported from netscape. I get a similar error when I try and run JavaICQ. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Tia. Rob

Re: slink breaks

? Rob On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Peter Granroth wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:25:13AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I removed xlib6 and re-installed it, but when dselect tries to install it, this error is given: ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale does not exist Please report

ftp daemon

I upgraded the proftp package, and now when I boot, I get this error messaage: module: linuxprivs: kernel does not support capabilities, disabling. What capability is it talking about and when do I need to inlcude in the kernel? Tia. Rob

net connection lost

I have somehow lost my ether connection through my network card. I can execute the commands in /etc/init.d/network as root (after doing a modprobe ne io=0x240) and my network card is found and configured. So why is it not working at boot time? In my daemon log there's this line: insmod

/etc/modules

My /etc/modules file got erased somehow, and I know there were a lot of modules that my system usually loads at boottime, although I only added one. I'm not sure what they were, so could someone send me a copy of there's so I have an idea of what to try to put back into it? Does anyone have the

ascd

I use ascd to play cds, but it doesn't play through the speakers, for some reason. The man page doesn't tell if there's an option to tell ascd what device to send the music to. Is this a limitation of ascd or is there a way to get it to play through my speakers? Tia.

gpm and X

I've run into a rather strange problem with gpm and X. I can tell X to use /dev/gpmdata, and the mouse responds fine except for the middle mouse button. In X, the middle mouse button appears to cut out after pressed, even if I hold it down. For example, when I press ctrl and the middle mouse

Re: ascd

1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:09:58 -0500 (EST) Robert Rati writes: I use ascd to play cds, but it doesn't play through the speakers, for some reason. The man page doesn't tell if there's an option to tell ascd what device to send the music

broken g++ package

I just did an update of my packages, and have run into a major problem. While apt was upgrading my system, it had errors giving this messsage: Error processing packages: g++_2.91.58-5.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code Well, now when I try to run dselect or apt, I get this message: error

Re: xdm at startup?

Edit your /etc/X11/config file and change the no-start-xdm to start-xdm. On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Matt Garman wrote: I installed xdm on my system. Everything is fine, but at install-time I chose to *NOT* have it start at boot-time. Now I wish to have it invoked automatically at startup. What

RE: ascd

Well, I have asmixer running and the volume is at full blast, but I still don't hear anything from the speakers. Have any other ideas? Rob On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: I use Afterstep as my window manager and I have

Problems with X

I had X running fine with one little problem before getting a Monster 3D II card a little while back. One small problem was that I have xdm kick up two X windows. Well, about five minutes after boot, I would get kicked over to the second X window for no reason. I could switch back to the first

xconsole

I just moved my system from one HD to another, and have been able to re-make all the devs in /dev but xconsole. I can't seem to find anything in MAKEDEV that will make that. Anyone know how I can get /dev/xconsole? Rob

Re: Problems with X

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:30:29PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I had X running fine with one little problem before getting a Monster 3D II card a little while back. One small problem was that I have xdm kick up two X windows. Well, about five

Where'd the fonts go?

I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my fonts. I keep hoping that it was a bug in a package, but a lot of time has passed and nothing has improved. I had a problem like this and the problem was with my fonts.conf configuration, but when I check in fonts.conf and

Re: Where'd the fonts go?

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:51, Hubert Chan wrote: Robert == Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my Robert fonts. ... Bug 223352? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223352 I don't think

ACK! Too many ftpds.

I want to try and setup an ftp server and wanted to try using proftp as my ftp daemon. I tried to configure it, but when I ftp to the server, I don't get proftpd. I get some other ftp daemon. I did a dpkg -S ftpd and found that netstd appears to have a couple of ftp deamons in it. Can anyone

SCSI Cd-rom device name?

I got a SCSI DVD drive for my computer to use as my CD-rom drive and expand to DVD in the future. Well,it gets detected just find but it's device name is /dev/sr0 (it's the first device on the chain). Shouldn't it be /dev/scd0 since it's basically a cd-rom drive? When I mount /dev/sr0 I can't

Re: Installing X

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: On 30 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm | getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can there | be problems with mixing different versions?

Re: Installing X

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: On 30 Jul, Robert Rati wrote: | I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all. | I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine. | Really, well when I last checked, there were no drivers

Default editor at install

It's been a while since I've last installed Debian from scratch. Is ViM the default vi clone installed? I thought it was another clone. Anyone know? Rob ===

Re: Video Card

nVidia has supported their cards with GPL'd source. It's not fully developed yet (full speed ETA: September), and doesn't support all the acceleration, but the Mesa demos work very nicely on my TNT card (ASUS V3400TNT). I haven't been able to get Quake to work. Quake II, though, is quite

Re: SCSI cable question

The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the

Re: need help about video card and Win98

1.) I couldn't run the X Windows GUI because I couldn't setup my video card(RivaTNT) which had 16Mb memory. There are now drivers for the RivaTNT, so you should be alright there. 2.) Dual boot was successful but when I went into Win98 and opened explorer, my computer hanged. (I think it

SB Live and SMP machines?

I got a SB Live sounds card for some reason (like there's a noticable sound difference) and found a driver for it on creative's site. Unfortunately, the module says it's for non-smp machines. I'm putting together a dual proc machine and was wondering if anyone has tried/gotten the module to work

Nci drivers for PCI card?

I got myself a cheap 10/100 base-t nic figuring I could get Debian to use it with the ne2k-pci module. Well, unforunteately that doesn't work. I got a Aompex ReadyLINK 100-TX/PCI card. Doesn't anyone know what drivers to use with this? I scoured the 2.2.10 documentation, but this card doesn't

/tmp permissions?

I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and ownership supposed to be for /tmp and does anyone know HOW the permissions could've

Quake2 problems

I'm having a problem running Quake 2. When I try to run it I get this error: --- sound initialization --- sound sampling rate: 11047 --- Loading ref_glx.so --- ref_gl version: GL 0.01 recursive shutdown Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx

Weird ICQ problems

I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than once

RE: Weird ICQ problems

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason

Re: Weird ICQ problems

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable

RE: Weird ICQ problems

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping

ps, free. etc...

I seem to have lost ps, free, uptime, etc when I upgraded to potato. Did these commands get moved out to aa separarte package or something? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN

Re: 2 network cards revisited (fwd)

I've come in late on this message, so I'm not sure I'm catching it all, but you should be able to assign your two network cards eth0 and eth1 in your /etc/conf.modules. In there, you should see something like: alias eth0 whatever module you have for nic (eexpress in this case) options eth0

Dumbterminal on network

I'm creating a network in my home and have a dumb terminal I'm not sure hwo to network. I want to make it able to login to the router I have and telnet out. What would be best would be a straight telnet machine without logining into the router, but I don't think that is possible. All it has on

Re: Dumbterminal on network

I wish I had a Cisco router. My router is just going to be a 386 PS/2 or a P166 depending on if I can get the 386 PS/2 to work. I need to find a way to jack the dumbterminal into that router. :) Rob On Thu, 13 May 1999, Kevin Lee

Re: Ethernet help

Actually, it's not quite that easy to setup your nic. You need to know what you irq and io port your card uses to set it up. Then, you need to edit your conf.modules and add these lines: alias eth0 ne options ne irq=xx io=0xXXX where the x's stand for the respective irq and io address. Also,

Modem went poof...GRRRR

I have a Boca Research 33.6 PNP (unfortunately) ISA modem which has ceassed to work recently. I had it working fine with isapnptools aside from a few errors I got at boot time. I always got: IO Resource Conflict -- Error allocating 8 bits at 0x2f8 IRQ Conflict -- IRQ 3 These, obivously, were

Re: ESDI PS/2 MCA

I am going to be installing Debian on a PS/2 in the very near future, and I did a quick boot with the 2.0 rescue disk and it seemed to find the ESDI controller alright and the hard disk, to some degree. I can't atest for how well it will boot because I only have 4 meg of ram and, needless to say,

Re: Shortcuts

Actuall,y you're not making any mistakes about window-managers at all. Window-manager don't have desktops for the most part. At least none of the ones you are using. Most of the window-managers use configuration files to setup buttons or shortcuts to programs through sime kind of menuing system,

Re: problem with my system includes

Ya, that's pretty much what I did I believe and it works fine. There are already dirs of those names in /usr/include, so you'llhave to either delete them or rename them. I recommend renaming them as a precaution. I don't use debian packages for kernels anymore, so symlinking them to

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

No. 2.2.x kernels just have better smp support in them. Just turn off symetric multi-processing when you make the kernel. Rob On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: Are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only? I have a PentiumII

smail config

I want to be able to send mail to another server and have that server send the mail to it's appropriate address on the internet. I ran smailconfig and used option: 3 (No mail is to be delivered or routed here. Any mail generated on this system is sent to a central mail switch using SMTP. This

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

On Mon, 24 May 1999, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: I am running into problems getting applications for Debian. 1.I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file sizes, they don't match nowhere close

Kde questions

I've recently switched to KDe to see what all the fuss was about. It's not bad, although I have a few questions. First, I right clicked on the clock at the lower right of the panel and clicked undock, to see what it would do. Well, the boarder around the clock disappeared and I can't get it

KOffice

Anyone know where to get deb for FDE's koffice for slink? None of the sites I've found have koffice. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5

Re: apt's sources.list

I had this same problem and just concluded they had something screwed up in their Packages.list file. ACtually, I got the list alright, but dselect wouldn't d/l the files saying they weren't normal files or something like that. Just d/l the debs manually and install them.

Re: No screens found

I believe I've seen that error message before. It had to do with the Xserver not supporting the graphics card. Have you checked to see if there's an Xserver that matches you video card better? Also, what version of XFree are you running? If it's from ftp.debian.org or a major minor, you're

Re: No screens found

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jens Vogel wrote: Robert Rati wrote: I believe I've seen that error message before. It had to do with the Xserver not supporting the graphics card. Have you checked to see if there's an Xserver that matches you video card better? I've tried all servers except

Communicator 4.6

Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver = 10, but the only version I can find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone had any luck?

PCI modem

I was just given a PCI modem by a friend of mine and he calims it's a PNP modem but not a winmodem. I hope he's right, but I don't know how to tell if it's a winmodem. Debian sees the modem when I cat /proc/pci and calls it a serial interface card (same thing windows calls it until you give it

Re: OT: dual processor question

Yes this is true, to some extent. YOu have to have two processors with the same stepping and revision in order to dual-proc them. I have heard though, that you can have two processors of different stepping and revision numbers and still multi-proc them, but your performance may suffer a little.

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

What type of card do you have? Is it PCI or ISA? If it's ISA, is it PNP? We can probably get your card going. I am undertaking the same project with a few more complications. Namely a PS/2 and MCA bus. Rob On Mon, 7 Jun 1999,

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

Well, probably the easiest way is to check with the manufacturer. How old is the card? You can try doing a pnpdumpo and see if your card is detected. If not, it's probably not PNP. Another way to tell is to try doing a modprobe, but that would involve you compiling a kernel probably. I'm going

Re: SV: A little further: Short newbie question

You could try mounting the drive as a vfat drive and creating the long dir that way. I'm not sure if that will work or not (probably won't if the drive is formated by DOS) but it's worth a try. Rob On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL

Router help

I'm trying to install Debian on a PS/2 55 sx (386/16) and am running into a number of problems. First, I've compiled a 2.2.9 kernel for it, and copied it onto the machine and run lilo, but when I try to boot, it uncompresses the kernel and says it's booting the kernel, but nothing ever happens.

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

Try reading the install documentation. It tells you all you need to know about installing the base system. From there, you download packages.gz files that have lists of packages and you select which ones you want. This is all taken care of in the installation process so all you need to do is

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