S. Champ wrote:
hello.
-- -- -- --
an excerpt from the text, below, which may be the root of the issue:
2) crucial question:
do i need to have dhcpcd up-and-running before or after i start-up the
pppoe
client-daemon ? and why do i need to have dhcpcd running, at all? (
I'm confused by a couple points in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO
(http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4). Hope
someone who understands this can clear this up.
In the Serious Example, the Internal network is masqueraded to
External via a chain jumped to from the FORWARD chain:
Pollywog wrote:
I am using PacBell Internet and I could not get the Enternet software to
connect me. I suggest you go to www.roaringpenguin.com and get the rpm
package, then use Alien to make a Deb package from it.
Roaring Penguin got my DSL working.
The pppoe.deb package right from
S. Champ wrote:
3) having ipv6 configured into the kernel (on-install):
would this be a possible problem-reason?
Don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. Also which kernel are
you using? I was unable to get the 2.2.17-pre-6 to work; it compiled and
booted fine but choked on
Jens Müller wrote:
I've tried reinstalling the ncurses library, any other suggestions. I
would like to use this to reconfigure my kernel
Did you install libncurses5-dev or similar? You need a *-dev package
for the curses.h file to be there. If you have, check where it ended
up
Nate Bargmann wrote:
I'm curious as to why the latest dot release kernel in Potato is
2.2.15 and not 2.2.16. The latest package update shows 2.2.17pre6
to be available, but .16 is skipped. I don't read -devel so I'm
in the dark as to why. Also, why is .14 not available as a package
any
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
No, it shouldn't. You could equally well run `make config' or `make
xconfig' to build your kernel. The first doesn't require anything
Point well taken.
that's not in the Depends: and Recommends: fields. The latter
requires you have a running X server. Should the
When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker,
the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the
text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting,
but what can I do to make dselect usable in xterm?
Or am I the only one with this
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
dselect was written with the assumption that your foreground color is white
and the background color is black, just like on the console. If you have
xterm
set to not use those colors, your dselect experience will be less than good.
So, easy fix place the
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
I can make it work by doing the following by hand:
# ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ
# echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
But is there a neat way of making it happen automatically by putting
something in /etc/network/ or in /etc/ppp/?
And
Nate Duehr wrote:
Aw, bloody hell. Somehow I never noticed this and had been running my
own little script on the box that has an mgetty dial-in modem set up on
it so things would be happy.
Now I have yes in there, and don't have to call that script at
boot... which of course, isn't that
Chris Jenks wrote:
Dear all,
I am sorry to be posting this, and to cut down on the amount of
traffic on
the list, please reply to me directly. This is my first day on the list,
and I was wondering if there are any websites (http) format that contains
Archives of past discussions
John Reinke wrote:
Here's what my problem is (for those just joining): I have IP Masqing set
up on a potato system, and everything works through it except ftp. The ftp
clients on machines on the private network connect to external sites, but
never are able to get a listing of the files or
Pollywog wrote:
I have Pacific Bell DSL and I am using the 2.4.0-test7 kernel.
I can access both websites just fine.
How about www.3com.com and www.hp.com? These won't come through for me
though the www.ibm.com and www.cdw.com sites work fine. Something weird
here.
On 16-Sep-2000 George
A.J. Rossini wrote:
AW == A Wrasman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On www.citrix.com is a newer version of the ica client which is
linked against glibc, so you do not need the libc5 packages.
AW And it supports ESD.
and it's scary as heck hearing the Windows default
Joe Bouchard wrote:
I saw a boxed package at Staples (office supply store) with CDs and I
think it had a book. It was about $90. If you are impatient and can
afford the price, that may be the way to go. I don't remember the
details but I really don't think it was a crippled version.
You
LTG wrote:
I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT
machines. I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a
web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software. It
should include a database (like oracle), a middle tier, like
Stan Brown wrote:
I posted yesterday, and unfortunately, have recieved no replies.
I have a fresh potato install, and wish to install Oracle 8I on it.
Most of the information I have is for RedGAt.
has anyone made this work on Debian? If so, whatr do I need
There have been a number of threads lately about where to find info
about how to create a .deb package from source. What I'd like to hear
from people who do this regularly is how complex and involved this is.
Now obviously the estimate will depend on one's skills, so please no
flames. But here is
Many thanks for the responses! I've managed to create a .deb from source
and install it. The process is somewhat more complicated than compiling
a kernel, but not that much.
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
The New Maintainers Guide (package: maint-guide) already has a lot of this
information and is
Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that
it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in
getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm
botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't
work/is broken.
David Bellows wrote:
Hello,
I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine. I am
also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software. However, I
never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6
(everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded
Daniel Christle wrote:
Hi there,
I am new to Debian, having used Slack previously. I am having problems
with getting my Internet connection to work under Debian 2.2. I run pon
nameofProvider and get a ppp not supported by kernel message. Check that
the modules physically exist and they
Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote:
I don't think that is the main problem. I suspect it is when he compiled his
kernel that he
did not properly cp the System.map from /usr/src/linux and backup his
/lib/modules/2.2.16 before
doing a make modules_install. Also, for pon to work when logged in as
In case I'm not the only one who has run into this problem, here's what
happened and what fixed things.
On my potato firewall box, I ran a custom 2.2.15 kernel with the stock
PPPoE package (Roaring Penguin v 1.0-1) from the Debian archive with
good results. The only problem was that for unclear
Brian McGroarty wrote:
Humor me; I think I'm missing something and it's got me curious.
In discussions about dealing with .deb packages, apt* and dpkg are
mentioned almost universally.
It's always been my habit to use dselect for basic installation and
removal, leaning on apt* and dpkg
John Hasler wrote:
Brian McGroarty writes:
Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect?
Some of us intensely dislike the dselect UI.
Granted, the UI is butt-ugly. But it does the job effortlessly, once you
get used to it. For me that's the important thing. YMMV.
In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source
where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found.
However, in my new potato installation there is no such file.
What I want to know is whether the kernel is compiled with IP: always
defragment set to Y (as
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings,
I tried to do a fresh install of Potato from a CD I burned from
ftp://ftp.kando.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ which is a test
version of the Potato i386 Net-Install CDROM, which features just enough to
get you on the 'net, from which
I'm setting up a gateway box with potato on a scavenged P75 box with one newer
Intel EtherExpress 10/100 PCI NIC (eth0) and two older Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
ISA NICs (eth1 and eth2). Target topology is a DMZ network and an internal
network, both masqueraded to the outside.
However, I've got
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
Here's the ifconfig output:
...
it looks good.
Here's dmesg:
...
don't know, what the multicast errors mean, but they should be harmless.
probably you got some dos tool to setup the card - try some options which
seem to have something to do with it.
Dan Hutchinson wrote:
I have loaded my home PC with the base system from debian download.
I try to connect to the web to download the debian packages from the
web. I installed the potato version.
My problem is as follows:
When I run dselect it trys to connect through the NIC card I have.
I
I've posted parts of this problem before, and thanks to the folks who
have made suggestions. However, I'm still stuck.
I'm a relative newbie with Linux trying to set up a gateway box with
three NICs so I can masquerade the ip addresses of a DMZ and Internal
network similar to the description in
Recently I've posted a variety of pathetic questions about bizarre
problems I'd had setting up a gateway box using a couple of EEPro/10+
NICs. From http://titan.cs.uni-bonn.de/~canavan/eepro/ I'd read that
isapnptools should correctly configure these NICs in PnP mode. Using
this approach, the NICs
Paul wrote:
I have picked up an Adaptec aha1520 and installed it into my computer.
I build a new kernel with module support for aha152x and did all the isapnp
stuff to probe the card...
With isapnp I set the card to io: 0x340 irq: 11
But when modprob aha152x with the required
Can't seem to find the answer for this simple question in the FAQs and
HOWTOs: does the standard potato install have ip-masquerade compiled
into it as it comes from the Debian site, or do I need to recompile the
kernel to to get this option?
TIA!
Stan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I sent out a message regarding some installation issues and I have
received several responses already that I found very helpful and
educational (thank you). I can see that the Debian project is a little
different from the Red Hat project. I want to have a
Jay Kelly wrote:
How do I figure out what to uncomment from the isapnp.conf. After doing
pnpdump the file has several lines that are all commented out. Any help
would be great
Read http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ and specifically
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone on this list wrote recently wondering if
they would need to recompile their kernel inorder
to get ip masquerading working.
They are using a stock kernel version 2.0.38 that
came with slink and said that when they executed the
command...
/sbin/ipfwadm
Michael Skipper wrote:
I've installed potato (kernel 2.2.15) on
my thinkpad from the install floppies, but
some things seem wrong. I am a rank amateur
which doesn't help, but (for instance) it
seems as though I should see some kind of
kernel (symlink or otherwise) at
/usr/src
but
Michael Skipper wrote:
Thanks Stan (and all)
this seems to be the consensus, and I'll certainly work on it. Is there
anything tricky I should know about dhcp--I can get access to an ethernet
connection, but not to a specific ip. This would be the fastest surely.
I have a supported card
Once the basic Debian system is installed from floppies and the rest of
the system is to be installed via dselect over the Internet, how does
one do this securely? It seems like all manner of mischief could occur
to the box during the download and install processes before one can
configure
Pollywog wrote:
Has anyone been able to set up DSL (PacBell, specifically) without recourse
to any OS other than Linux? I believe PacBell's DSL requires the first login
to be via a Windows machine.
--
Andrew
Andrew, it's quite easy to set things up, at least with the Basic DSL
account:
Jay Kelly wrote:
I have a question on network cards. Im wanting to add a third nic (eth2) to
my potato box. All three cards are using the tulip drivers. eth0 is a
Netgear eth1 is a Kingston and eth2 is a Linksys. When I any combination of
the two cards install they both work, but when I
Florian Klein wrote:
My Terracam Pro USB works great with Debian Potato and Linux 2.2.18.
I've read the Logitech/Connectix cams are quite proprietary and difficult
to get working together with GNU/Linux (correct me if not).
Has anyone used the Intel Pro PC camera with Linux?
SK
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
Hello,
My friend down the road has DSL at her home now. Here computer was just
upgraded with debian stable (dualboot with winyuck98). I installed the DSL
modem and it syncs, so is ready to go.
My question is this; Does she have to use the CDrom that comes
Cyberpower Inc (http://www.cyberpowercorp.com/) appears to offer
attractive value for price in their computer systems, and notably sell
their boxes with no OS (thus no M$ tax). Has anyone bought from them?
Any comments/experiences? TIA!
Interesting that their name is virtually identical with the
nate wrote:
first thing i thought of was cyberpower UPSs when i saw
the subject :)
is the url correct ? WHOIS says no matches for
cyberpowercorp.com.
Oops, miscopied the url. It's http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/
And I subsequently found this site: http://www.resellerratings.com/
which
Stonelx wrote:
Hi,
I tried this command:
scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file
but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually
back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails)
Is there anyway around this? I would love
to be able to run scp in the background.
I looked at the man
Faheem Mitha wrote:
On 27 Feb 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:
So, I'd like to avoid the kernel panic this time with the
kernel-image-2.4.17-k7 package. What steps do I need to take to make sure
I will end up with a bootable image? Someone mentioned that moving to the
more modular 2.4 kernel
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Any suggestions for improved wording? This is what is there now:
==
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version $version)
This will not work unless you have configured your
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
The new warning reads:
==
As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to
add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz
stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf
Michael Marziani wrote:
The last message I get is: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on 01:00
I used the debug flag but it is not giving any additional info. Anyone
have any idea what I might try? I've installed Debian quite a few
times, but never on this hardware. Any help or
Suresh Kumar R wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to setup a linux (debian potato, kernel
2.2.19) box as a firewall . I have 3 nics on it.
First one(210.212.236.97) connected to my cisco
router. 2rd card (eth1) to internal lan with pvt ips.
Third(eth2) (210.212.236.113) one to a hub which
connects
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