I tried this many times and never was really successful and understood how
all works together, please someone give me a push in the right direction.
Here is what I want to accomplish:
The X server starts and displays a list of computers willing to manage a
display. The user selects one, which
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Since I want to get myself an ISDN connection I wonder which cards do work
with Linux. Is there a list available?
Look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax
I recommend the 2.2.x kernel series. An AVM Fritz! PCI Card
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:03:32AM -0500, Daniel wrote:
When trying to run accton, I get the error message: accton: Function not
implemented. And ideas on what that means?
Probably that your kernel was compiled without BSD process accounting
(CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT in the kernel configuration
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:53:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
If I configure a machine with dual nic's do they have to be the same type,
or can I just load two drivers into the kernel for say one ne2000 card,
and one 3-com card?
Both will work. Different cards and as modules is nicer actually
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:43:51AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7
with Potato and find it unstable.
I consider all libc6 versions of netscape broken.
It runs reasonably stable with:
- the libc5 version and the old
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
I am using A stable Debian Slink production system. Netscape version
4.71 glibc2.0 from ftp.netscape.com.
okay that makes sense then. i suggest that if you like that version of
netscape you don't upgrade to potato. netscapes glibc
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:57:28AM -0500, John Foster wrote:
Install StarOffice.
And as a side note: since libc-2.1.2-1, StarOffice is working and even
printing again. Nice to have. It segfaults on exit, but apparently not
causing any harm by doing so.
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice,
I remember having heard of a tool (debian packaged) that given a number of
hosts tries to find the one with the best connectivity. Great for choosing
among a lot of mirrors.
I can´t remember the name though. Could someone help me?
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
I've got a Debian 2.2 machine running Samba 2.0.5a that I'd like to share
a CD-ROM drive from. Basically I'd like to have the CD-ROM mount and
unmount before and after usage. So far I can get the drive to mount
automatically using the
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:18:02PM -0700, Private Man wrote:
I was wondering if Debian Linux 2.1 and the 2.2.11 kernel will support a
relatively new tape drive that HP has come out with.
Its a 14GB Travan, but it is an IDE attach.
insert the ide-scsi module and use it as a normal SCSI tape
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
All you have to do is
mv /tmp /tmp-old
mount /new/partition /tmp
cp -r /tmp-old /tmp
Better yet: use cp -a
rm -rf /tmp-old (Don't do this before you're happy with the new scheme!)
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice,
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:39:15PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote:
What Windows NT does, that I'm sure I need, it's force both network cards to
10Mbits FullDuplex.
I'm unable to get 100Mbits - still didn't test but it seems I've an UTP cat3
cable. :-(
So, probably, Linux is not
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 09:10:25AM -0500, John Foster wrote:
Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote:
I'd two machines at home and I'm unable to get them working both on
linux.
Which kernel do you use? You will need to build a custom 2.2 kernel.
Try to build it as a module and put rtl8139 in
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:48:05AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote:
The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed
that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful
for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software.
IIRC, the 2nd level
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:01:52AM -0700, Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote:
I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat
(and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking
for exists ?
Format for FAT or VFAT ist the same. It's mkdosfs and it's
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:40:50AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface.
ifconfig shows:
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6
Mask:255.255.255.255
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:44:37PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
Where do I enable experimental drivers?
In the first dialog of the kernel configuration
Include experimental/development drivers?
or the like
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
To be
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday. I've always (since it was
available) built my kernels using make menuconfig, nowhere in the network
device section could I find an option for RTL8139 and I spent a long time
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 10:39:44AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
I've been running a system with a 400MB IDE drive and a 4GB SCSI drive.
The hardware involved is as follows, from presumably least significant to
most significant:
ASUS P5A motherboard
128MB RAM
AMD K6-II/400
NCR
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
I tried several times to get freeciv working but failed each time
because civclient stops with SIGSEGV.
Upgrade your xpm library and file a bug report against civclient to make it
need xpm = 3.4j
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:34:51PM +0900, Kai Martens wrote:
The external floppy drive that came with the laptop is connected to a USB
connector on the box via a special SONY cable...
Any ideas how to cure this or how to work around it? (No more windoze
anywhere on my disk :-) ...
You need
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:08:34PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means
but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations
does this happens.
Isn't that the message you get when trying to execute an
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:50:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
One is an Accton PnP ISA which normally runs at io=0x300. The other is a
Dlink 528 PCI card.
Please supply more information:
Does it run if it is the only card in the system? What driver do you use for
the accton (what chip is it?)
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:26:37AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
What is isapnp?
A program to configure ISA PnP devices. You will need it for most of those.
Just do
apt-get install isapnp
I've told the BIOS that I don't have a PnP OS.
Which means, the BIOS should do the configuration of the
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote:
At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace
it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or
do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 06:25:39PM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote:
Most of what I have here has come from the LILO documentation.
I have a IDE drive that is booting with linux. My goal is to have lilo
boot both windows and linux with it.
The linux drive is IDE the other two are SCSI.
I boot
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:19:48AM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote:
That was supposed to be turn off the IDE drive. The ide drive is the
boot drive for linux. The windows drives are the SCSI drives.
If I leave the drive settings in lilo alone windows will not boot. I
will type win into lilo (my
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:49:36AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-supported by XFree PCI that
can do 32bit-colour at 1600x1200 and 76Hz?
I wouldn't call ATI well supported but here they are the only PCI cards
still available. And they work with Linux
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:23:52PM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote:
I'm trying to make a little network at home: PII400-486DX2/66 (as server).
The problem is from the PII to the 486: if I try to make a telnet or a ftp
from
the PII, it takes 1min15 to the process to appear on a 'top'
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:17:44AM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
I was wondering if anyone can tell me why I cannot find a simple editor
pico on my Debian 2.1r2 packages. Thanks a lot!
The pico copyright is the same as the one for pine and forbids distribution
of modified binaries. Modification
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:12:55PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
i'd like to install ssh sources and compile them by myself... can I do it
with dpkg somehow ? Of course i can d/l sshd and compile it but i'd like to
do it more debian-like...
Use debget (from potato) to download sources in
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:10:29PM -0400, Jayson Baird wrote:
Has anyone ever encountered the trouble with Kernel-package that does not
make the symbolic link in /usr/src/linux? This seems to be my trouble. I
have the source tarballs in /usr/src but no /usr/src/linux. Any help I'd be
greatly
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 03:18:37PM +0200, Csejtey Gabor Zoltan wrote:
I use Debian 2.1. I would like to install
an ISDN HIsax 16.3c card with ISA slot into a 486 machine.
I used the following command:
depmod type=14 protocol=2 irq=10 io=0x580 id=teles
I got this message:
Teles
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:32:38PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
If you want anybody to shutdown without password, make
/sbin/shutdown a suid executable. Make shutdown a menu choice
in your window manager for user friendliness.
Don't do the suid thing unless *anybody* logging into your
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions.
Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues.
You will need dosfstools-2.0 (potato) for making and checking Fat32
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0700, POP3 for aphro.. wrote:
I'm having some minor problems with collisions on my 2-node network.
Hub
Netgear FE104 100MB 4-port hub(with handy little orange collision light)
I set both systems to half duplex, and that reduced the collisions some
You
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 11:34:10PM -0400, Matthew McFarlane wrote:
I have one D-Link 220-P (CT) ISA-PNP
Don't know what kind of chip this is?
Same thing for a generic NE2000 ISA-PNP
install isapnptoools and read the documentation. (in short:
pnpdump isapnp.conf
edit this file,
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:36:59AM +0200, Per-Olof Widstrom wrote:
command /dev/null 21
What does the 2 and 1 stand for, and the ?
One is standard output, right?
2 means standard error
means merge it with 1 (i.e. standard output)
So the whole thing is:
- first redirect standard
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:14:19PM +, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
Hi!
A colleague is setting up a Linux box to interface some hardware
with a web interface. Everything's running smoothly: he logs some data
through a serial connection, and then formats it in html. Fine. The only
problem
I recently switched our nis master server from AIX to linux.
There are still a number of AIX hosts that should be run as nis clients or
nis slaves.
How do non shadow password clients get the password entries?
How do I make it on AIX which doesn't have shadow passwords but a
similar mechanism
Again following up on my own posts, sigh:
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after
shadow has been configured and + added to /etc/shadow.
A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.e
I receive these messages in my syslog when debugging is turned on, and the
user don't get their mail with pop-3, with the same error message.
Telnetting to pop-3 port gives the same message and the session is ended
after the USER and PASS commands.
I just newly installed qpopper on this machine.
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 04:58:18PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
I receive these messages in my syslog when debugging is turned on, and the
user don't get their mail with pop-3, with the same error message.
Telnetting to pop-3 port gives the same message and the session is ended
after the USER
Running sendmailconfig, and answering yes to the Mailertable question
creates and entry like this:
FEATURE(mailertable, `text /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl
which doesn't work.
FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl
however does work, if the maps are there and made with makemap.
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:20:03PM +0200, Gallai Janos wrote:
I'm a beginner of using Debian,and my problem is:
At the Debian installation process,the system has detected that I have a
network.I have two Windows 95 and a Debian Linux system machine.So after the
installation of the op.sys.
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:25:22AM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote:
What is your TERM variable set to
xterm
This is hardcoded in the mf binary (do a string -a on it)
DISPLAY needs to be set tool
Here, MFTERM is not set. DISPLAY is :0.0
I think using setenv in tcsh automatically exports a variable.
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:01:46PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
it appears that i've got some default debian headers which aren't updated
when i compile my kernel. what is the approved way for me to fix this so
i won't break anything?
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:10:57PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote:
I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable
version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from
potato/unstable): no difference.
/home/stefan echo $DISPLAY $TERM $MFTERM
:0.0 rxvt rxvt
I?m focussing
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:16:14AM -0400, William R Pentney wrote:
I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it
is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this?
If you installed the kernel from a debian package (likely) you will have a
file named
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 08:38:41AM -0700, Harte, Tiemen wrote:
I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or a
other account created with adduser.
Because the pseudo ttys that telnetd uses are not in /etc/securetty
You have a few options:
a) add /dev/ttyp0 and a few
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 10:47:23PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote:
Hi all!
I'm trying to teach myself Metafont (using Debian 2.1, tetex from unstable;
same problem with stable tetex, though). According to the
documentation, mf can do online graphics when compiled --with-x; I
checked the
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:27:06AM -0600, Jor-el wrote:
Of course, I maybe looking in the wrong place - maybe MTA's are what I
should be looking at?
True.
For sendmail its
sendmail -q
to be run by root. (/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ might be good place for a script with
this command if you connect by
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 05:25:25PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Right I was not using root, but when I used root I got the following
error message:
ne.c: No PCI Cards found. Use io=0xNNN Value(s) of ISA cards
/lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: init_modules
Device or resource busy
You need the ne
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:07:58AM -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote:
Q2
My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have
the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 gb
hardrive?
A2
No
Yes. It's a pure BIOS limit, and as soon as Linux is
ioports and interrupts look ok. What about the cable? Does it work on
another computer? Wiring could be wierd. Does the serial port work at all?
Sometimes when I assemble a computer I put the little plug on the mainboard
on only half of the pins, or in the wrong orientation,... It is an external
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:48:39AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote:
Never on tried using a modem on this debain box.
First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier
v.everything 33.6k bps.
What does cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/ioports say?
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:06:12PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote:
Is it possible to setup a laptop to use DHCP on a network rather than a
static IP address? If so, how is that done?
Install dhcp-client.
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
To be
There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that
completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine,
mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even
cut and paste some text into an xterm works.
But the keyboard appears like it's plugged
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:52:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can
work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up
connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look
ups since it is
I looked in the samba and lprng docs for a while (only superficially the
latter one), but it may be easier if someone had already solved this:
Could you send me a sample lprng printcap entry that accesses a
Windows network printer via smbclient and also uses magicfilter.
Thanks a lot,
Nils
--
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 06:21:43AM -0600, Stephen Pitts wrote:
FWIW, I've had the same thing happen with my i740 XBF server and
kde several times. That was One of the reasons I stopped using KDE.
No KDE here.
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
To
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:44:24PM +0100, Conrado Badenas wrote:
but when I type mount /mnt/zip with user conrado I get this error
message:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
It works for /cdrom but doesn't for /mnt/zip. Why?
You
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:29:26PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote:
I am having an extremely difficult time trying to connect to the Prodiy
ISP.
Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: ATD7913790^M
Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: CONNECT
Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: -- got it
ok so far
Mar
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:52:28AM +, 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.
Hamm
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:40:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Find a driver for the plug-n-pray PCI ethernet controller they
installed. (Realtek RTL8029 - a really really generic card, the box
doesn't even have the manufacturers name on it)
ne2k-pci (as had already been mentioned I
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Christopher Fury wrote:
I've had debian 2.0 running on my machine for a while now, but I finally
decided it
was time to load up windows so I could play some games. :) I went out
and bought
a new hard drive, and I want to boot windows off of it.
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
I need to buy a new PCMCIA network but unfortunately
the type I normaly buy (3COM 3C589D-TP) is not available
anymore.
I never had problems with cheap NE-2000 compatible clones. And the
performance is the same (1000+ kByte/s on an
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 09:32:50PM -, Shaleh wrote:
On 10-Feb-99 Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
how can I change the IP address? Is there any menu I can use like the
one in the install process?
Edit /etc/init.d/network
And don't forget to change it in /etc/hosts too
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 05:16:26AM -0800, Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
Any recomendations about a good telnet server. Expecialy if is an Debian
Pack.
??? what about the telnetd package?
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
To be specific the Plug
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:27:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
smbmount //bodiam/courses /mnt/bodiam/courses
-U ahus1 -f 700 -d 700 -u 1003
but that doesn't seem to work any more.
What can I do?
Install smbfsx, Kernel 2.2 needs a completely different smbmount with a
different syntax
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Richard Hall wrote:
Do I need to log out and log back in to get the change to take?
Somehow the setgroups call must be executed and only the superuser
is allowed to do this, so this needs to be done by a program running as
root, i.e. login or a suid
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:00:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to boot two Linux OS's with lilo, but with no success so far.
Should really be easy.
A primary master IDE HDD of ~1.2GB partitioned as follows:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 620 cylinders
Units = cylinders
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 08:59:49PM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote:
The problem is _no_ device on any port is found, so no device works--not
/dev/lp0, lp1, lp2, or lp3. So adjusting the printcap won't help.
Is lp a module or compiled in? What do the startup message say then?
Nils
--
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 01:19:22PM -, Chris Evans wrote:
documentation. So I edited suexec.h and ran cc suexec.c -o
suexec and I got:
www:/usr/doc/apache-ssl# gcc suexec.c -o suexec
suexec.c:72: sys/param.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:73: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:24:25AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If computers get viruses, this seems to be leprosy.
typing mc for midnight commander in x windows brought the system
crashing down to an automatic reboot;
Lilo did reboot this time but in the last 24hrs has given:
error
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba
share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with:
But how do I create the private share? Where do I
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:49:43PM +1100, Andrew Loughhead wrote:
Actually I'm not sure if that option changes who
the user is authenticated as, it may just change who their actions are done
as.
The latter one.
In any case, without doing strange things, you cannot get the parrallel of
the
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no
monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via
telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...).
ssh is much better :-) You want it.
I'd like to mount
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 08:25:11PM +0100, pizzinini wrote:
I want to install debian linux 2.0 on my computer.
I have an HP omnibook 600c and a Microsolutions backpack cd-rom 16770. The
cd-rom is connected to the omnibook over the parallel port.
I also have
-bootdisk (resc1440.bin)
-cd
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:26:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an slink machine trying to do an apt-get update via an
autofs-mounted nfs directory mirror of ftp.us.debian.org on a remote
machine. (Got that ? :) I'm getting the following error ...
fsmail:~# apt-get update
Get
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:08:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did see some SIO. type error whiz by during boot. I had the
/etc/init.d/network script in verbose mode and it occured after the
'route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo' line. Thanks for taking a peek at this.
route add -net
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:17:32PM -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote:
The problem? Well, I can't connect to my ISP, though my modem is dialing
out..I can here it do so, and I can hear the screeching sound.
I ran pon 4 times. The first time plog gave me this:
chat: expect (CONNECT)
chat: ^M
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:19:13AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists
i'm using mutt and sifting through my mail manually is now quite a chore i
would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into there own mailbox when
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:05:26AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
Does the plug'n'play support of the new 2.2.0 linux kernel negate the
need for isapnp?
No. As the help file states PnP only refers to devices plugged in the
parallel port. isapnp in kernel will (if ever) only come in 2.3.x
Nils
--
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:03:57AM +, Pere Camps wrote:
Does anybody know if there's a patch for being able to access
vfat32 formated partitions?
the patch-2.0.36.gz will do:-)
Seriously: The official 2.0.36 and 2.2.0 kernel will support fat32. This
means that the normal msdos fs
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:03:40PM -0600, Harrison, Shawn wrote:
ext
/dev/sda1 == New SCSI Disk, Linux filesystem, bootable
/dev/hda1 == Old 9GB Disk, hda1 currently holds old copy of filesystem.
/dev/hda2 == Windoze partition on old disk, bootable.
I included my lilo.conf below. I'm sure
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:09:35PM +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote:
Configuration: XFree 86 3.3.2 and Matrox G200 video card
I downloaded xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm from XSuSE, converted it to
debian package with alien and unpacked xsuseconfig. Then I ran
xf86config but it dies wirh can't load
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:12:46PM +, Mamoun Alissali wrote:
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you
can tell that LILO by the disk section:
DISK=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
DISK=/dev/sdb
bios=0x81
This is to correct
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:29:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BIOS doesn't show any information about master/slave disks. I played
around with the setup but with no result.
I've got an ASUSTEK P2B-S mothercard with Ultra-2 SCSI contoller (SCSI
storage
controller: Adaptec AIC-7890).
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 10:03:15AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using default /etc/X11/Xaccess configuration
My /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers has the X server line commented
I start xdm, ok
I start X -indirect localhost I get the chooser with a list of all
available hosts willing to manage
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:55:11AM +, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
I have a script file that I want to run whenever someone logs in. It
reads an anniversaru file and lists any anniversarys for the month. If
I put 'exec anniversary' in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file the
script will run but
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 07:38:44PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
I've just installed a SCSI host adapter Mylex Flashpoint LW (BT-950)
into my computer. Everything seemed ok until I realized that the
Ethernet card, 3COM 3c509, ISA, _not_ plug and play, has stopped
working. The network card
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:32:52PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
I gave my Hercules card back and got a Matrox Millenium G200 instead.
Good choice.
Does anyone run a machine with this card to give me some info or
configuartions?
What do you want to know?
I use it with the XFCom_Matrox server
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:27:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know if there are todos/fromdos packages for Linux/Debian? I've
searched the Packages files and did a dpkg -S for it, but to no avail.
That will only show you the package if you already have todos installed on
your
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 11:53:43PM +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote:
Can't one force the users to use theproxy at port
80/8080?
Yes, by using a custom kernel with the TRANSPARENT_PROXY option enabled.
Install the transproxy package and read the enclosed documentation. It's not
difficult.
Nils
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On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Eric House wrote:
So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks?
You could use it to build a diskless client, e.g. make an X-terminal out of
an old 486 with enough memory and a decent graphics card.
To use a ramdisk on a running system:
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:28:01AM +0100, Gualtiero Dellarole wrote:
I have not yet found a solution.
I can only say that sometimes the system is able to boot
and other times not (the most!).
I continue to wait if someone else has found a solution.
Did you try the tecra floppies?
Did you try
I was looking for a program/filter ... for an apparently simple task:
convert a message from quoted-printable to 8bit (iso latin1 encoding)
I didn't find any in the debian packages. All that I tried were unable to
do the above thing (althoug I didn't try hard)
The packages I looked at were:
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:13:19AM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote:
Does anyone know if the isdn support in either hamm or slink supports
this beast ?
No, you will need a patch for pcmcia-cs to support the card.
Unfortunately, I couldn't made mine to work even with this patch. The author
couldn't
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:37:11AM +, Pere Camps wrote:
First question: can I make an eth behave as a point-to-point if
there are only two eth cards in the network?
I don't know. Never tried. But it won't help you much. You'll need the proxy
arp anyway.
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