jens wrote,
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
Ok, here's the problem. Your network by the looks of it should be a class B
network, which means that your netmask should be 255.255.0.0. That should fix
it.
james wrote,
: NETMASK=255.255.255.0
Try NETMASK=255.255.0.0
: NETWORK=134.161.248.0
:
seth supplied,
btw -- the reason why I decided to try debian was its users -- many of the
users evangelize debian, absolutely lauding it.
The support. Oh, and the support :)
Every year or two something gets me irked, and I go play with
FreeBSD. Just try to get a question answered there.
What exactly do you mean when you say you can't get the network to
'start'?
/etc/init.d/network/start
returns the message
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
with no other information.
I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads
with no messages (de4x5 gave me
jens wrote,
Ok. SIOCADDRT is the ioctl call which adds a route. My guess is that the
error comes when the script is trying to add the default route, i.e. the
default gateway that's specified isn't reachable on the network your
ethernet card is connected to (at least according to the route
The new^h^h^h machine waiting on my desk when I arrived here was,
as I expected, on the dark side. I've performed the preliminary
exorcisms, but can't get the network going.
This thing is on a novell network, and has an SMC ethernet card with
a dec 21041 chip. The de4x5 module installs just
Tom's Unix on a Floopy (do an alta vista search) could be a good place
tos start. Boot from the floppy, then use it to set up install on
the hard disk . . .
rick
--
Allen added,
On 1999-04-27 16:23, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
The only obviuos thing that I think think of is IRQ, DMA or IO
conflict which would prevent the (sound) driver to prosper. The
device busy is normal though - at least, I've seen that with working
cards as well.
eyryttyp0
Having just gotten an SB16 to work yep.
Irq 7
io 220
dma 1
dma 5
There are also io's for 320? and 388. (I think, I had to change mine around
alot, so I might be wrong with these two).
I had to recomple the module using the values I needed before the card would
work. And activate the
raymond rote,
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
i can remember approximate partition sizes and order.
Is there any way to recover partition table and the system
as well ?
Well, *maybe*. If it's only approximate, you could be in trouble. I'd
advise looking for a disk editor
I don't think that these should be related, but I've lost my sound after
changing video cards.
eyry:/home/hawk# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ne 5372 1
83905944 0 [ne]
eyry:/home/hawk# modprobe sb
/lib/modules/2.2.6/misc/sb.o:
steve stipulated,
So my question is: Does unstable mean you will have all kinds of crashes and
unexpected behavior, or does it mean that some programs might have more
bugs than running in the stable distribution?
Unstable means that at any time a package could be a show stopper. Show
Peter proposed,
Hello Richard,
I've got the same problem here on my slink notebook, but I think you're a
little ahead of me. Could you please tell me what pcmcia-packages I need
from potato to have the modules compiled and packaged by make-kpkg?
On my notebook there was a
unsubscribe
clue
:)
--
Ray rote,
that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be
linked with Qt.
...
The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of
their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the
new license.
I suspect authors of
Shaleh shaid,
On 21-Apr-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
...
It's time to update the kernel for my laptop,and I'm trying to use
make-kpkg to do this. I've managed to get the kernel image .deb built,
but not the pcmcia stuff.
I've updated to the pcmcia-source from potato
It's time to update the kernel for my laptop,and I'm trying to use
make-kpkg to do this. I've managed to get the kernel image .deb built,
but not the pcmcia stuff.
I've updated to the pcmcia-source from potato, and note that it has
.debs for up to 2.2.5. However, make-kpkg modules_image
I wouldn't normally send this, but I stumbled across a cheap 28k pcmcia
modem from what seems to be a nice place. I called after stumbling
over another modem listing that turned out to be for a cellular modem.
He looked up this one, and when i told him it was more than i wanted to
pay, he
Since switching to 2.2, I can no longer mount floppies as a user unless
root has caused the msdos module to be loaded.
I'm guessing that I need something similar to the auto that went in
modules somewhere in modutils, but i don't know where. I'm also about
to run into this as I start taking
of course, when all else fails, there's threatening violence against
the person who sent the file :) [some claim this should be the first
step . . .]
--
Quoting Jeff Noxon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
What tools can tackle this kind of chore and what are their relative
merits? Should I be looking at TeX or SGML tools? Or should I just stick
with plain HTML?
I would look into using LyX. It's a frontend for LaTeX.
Not any more :) Now it
Navindra Umanchioned,
Personally I always found dpkg easier than RPM for building packages,
but perhaps it's just me.
IIRC all it took to build SRPMS is one single rpm command.
I've never used redhat (or anything else with rpms), but I kind of like
the *bsd method, which gives you a
Since there seems to be a bit of a document processing theme on the list
at the moment, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and ask: how do I
produce an envelope using Tex/LaTeX (pref. LaTeX) so that it will print
correctly. (I had to do this with MS Word by printing at the top in the
middle
one of our systems is now refusing incoming connections, generating the
error,
ftp: connect: Connection refused
This has survived through a reboot. Can anyone give me a hint?
rick
--
N. nibbled,
Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just
compile it myself.
You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb
from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as
to how to do
John Hassled,
Yes. Just like tape. Note, however, that one bad sector will make the tar
unreadable. If you are going to do this you should test the floppies and
not use any that aren't perfect. The simplest way to test floppies is to
format them.
Tarring directly to the device gets you
Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a
floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom
driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages
in a dos-machine to make them smaller and 'unzip' them in the
debian-machine?
henry harrumphed,
Isn't there something similar in Linux? Except the limit is a bit over a
year?
A bit more than that. The date rolls over in 2038 on 32 bit unices.
--
Is everyone getting multiple copies, or am i just special? :) I got two
of most of yesterday's, 3 of #628, and 2 each of #629 #630
rick
--
polly wogged,
The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it
wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring
data. If you really need the features ext2 provides then by all means
use mke2fs.
Just the answer I was seeking. So it will be
bob blipped,
If that is the reason then I think this either a bug in the policy or
a misinterpretation of it. It does not require it because the
recommends is on gs | gs-alladin. i.e. you can satisfy it with the
DFSG free version of gs.
I agree, although a better approach might be to
I've really done it this time. I blithely took scsi device 2 as sdb,
and tarred onto it.
I started e2fsck,, and went through about a dozen inode messages until
it occurred to me that I had another disk of the same size, and
stopped
it. I then used dd to copy the partition, which occupied the
hmm, I assume that I can still post to this list . . .
My outgoing messages now end up with a line that reads,
From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have no idea where this line is coming from. While that is a
university address that forwards to me, this box shouldn't even know
Richard E. Hawkins writes:
I then made a partition the same size as /home at the very end of
the disk, and used dd to copy the old partition to the new.
*Exactly* what dd command did you give? What does the new partition look
like now?
dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hda7
where 6 was the old
Augh This one is *really* bad
Several months ago, when i repartitioned, I fooollishly left half the
disk after the last partition.
Today, I printed out the partition table from fdisk, deleted the
extended partion, placed a new one, and reentered the locations
of the logical partitions.
I
[hmm, i'm telnetted in and mailing from the command line; vi commands
don't work :) ]
findsuper won't dump to standard output for some reason. It reveals,
thisoffblock
fs_blk_sz blk_sz lastmount
33280 32 1048577
grr. As of yestderday's updates to frozen, exmh seems to be broken
again. It gives an error of
invalid command name Gpg_Init
while executing
Gpg_Init
(procedure Pgp_Init line 157)
invoked from within
Pgp_Init
(procedure Exmh line 112)
invoked from within
Exmh
(after
Does anyone know how I can do this on a ThinkPad? Caldera is easy to install
on this machine, but I want to try Debian on it.
You'll have to be a little more specific--*which* thinkpad?
rick
--
I've finally convinced 2.2.1 to run X and my network. I still haven't
figured out why kerneld doesn't start anymore and do this automatically.
But the sound doesn't work now. the basic
cat /usr/lib/exmh/clink.au /dev/audio
yields
bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device
As
I've occasionally noticed this before, but rarely print multiple things
at a time.
my printcap entry is
thequname:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:rm=itsinternetname:rp=raw:
I'm using lpr if it makes a difference. However, on other occasions,
things seem
paul seelig wrote,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any hope it did not use XForms?
No, not at all unfortunately. Until now there is no other front end
than for XForms and the Qt version is severely outdated. I'd love to
see a gtk+ based front end for LyX but i'm not aware of
lars lulled,
*Richard E Hawkins Esq writes:
| It just occurred to me . . . we could test how well the server
| survivies the slashdot effect by posting there that the license has
| been clarified as non-GPL . . .
What server?
www.lyx.org? hmm, hopefully most of the www bashers
Since moving to slink, syntax hiliting has ceased working. In addition
to the default now being off in /etc/vimrc, it seems that the files have
been moved to /usr/share/vim/syntax, while the program still expects
them in /usr/lib/vim/syntax/syntax.vim
Am i missing somethign, or is this a bug
I just moved to slink again (i don't seem to learn quickly :).
the xterm command ceased working, and there now seems to be a separate
xterm package for those without the xwindows system.
I've installed it, and it seems to work, but what else is missing?
I'm afraid to restart now; my webserver
I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be
portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library.
I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines:
This isn't the answer you're looking for, but i found the pgplot
libraries did
I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released.
Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in
compiling this kernel for Debian hamm?
I had a couple, though it was on the last pre that called itself 2.2.0:
a) it was not possible to change the irq for
I had a couple, though it was on the last pre that called itself 2.2.0:
a) it was not possible to change the irq for soundblaster to the value=20
most cards use (5, and it defaults to 7? or is it vice versa).
You can pass parameters to modules when insmod'ing them,
ie insmod sb irq=3D5
Dear Debian user's
I could not compile the source for lyx 1.0.0pre6. There were some linking
problems which I could not figure out
you need libforms-dev and xpm4g-dev. Also, if you have previously had
a debianized lyx, you need to use the
--prefix=/usr/local
or it gets confused
I ran ./setup
from the command line again and the same x server error came up. I did
not start X and try the command line again.
Does anyone use StarOffice and is there something simple that I'm
missing?
You *must* run the install from within X, as it uses X. Do *not* try
installing
I'm looking for a simple program (like plan) that would send me reminders
about meetings and things like that (paying apartment rent in time turns out
to be quite challenging for me). I was using plan, but it's daemon can
spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason. So I'm
Ray rote,
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 23:30:17 -0600, Brent Hueth wrote:
I'm (a newbie) trying to do something relatively simple: install lyx on
debian. When I try to use configure it complains that it's unable to find
a working C++ compiler (that I'm virtually certain exists).
The C++
This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it
does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited
also.But more importantly thing that worries me is that there seems to be
very little support behind LyX, project looks dying to
Point well taken. I based my opinions on LyX 0.12, (which was in hamm and
slink). I'm glad to hear that there is a lot of progress there, hope to see
them propagating to debian eventually.
somebody has an unnofficial .deb of pre5 or so. And I have a tarball
that's (i think) current as
Just wondering if XFree86 3.3.3 is being considered for the next release
(2.2) or not... I would really like to have XF86 3.3.3 since it contains an
X-server for the Riva TNT chipset.
Yes, as soon as Branden is done with the X in frozen(slink), he will start
working on 3.3.3 for
john jabbed,
I have found that there is much more packages available for
debian than there are for Red Hat, so if you did move to Red Hat
then you would be missing out on a lot of Linux goodies.
If there is an odd package that is only available in a .rpm,
then just convert the .rpm to a
A simple job, stick a 500mb drive in, make a new partition out of
spare space, and tar it over. A few minutes in, garbage appears
during tar, which i initially attributed to screwy characters in a dos
filename. But it seems that instead, it was on some kind of rampage
through the rest of my
I really only need tar split from this machine; i need to move large
dos directories between a non-networked, phoneless win3.1 machine, and
my slowly connected cdless laptop. This seems to mean copying to
floppy.
msbackup is, well, msbackup. After spending 15 minutes on the first
disk,
there is a mailmerge package available. I think that it's somewhere as
a contrib package on the site, but I'd have to look. If that fails
you need it (or want to code more of it :), I can send the most recent
version. It's not done, and a couple of the options don't work yet
(seems to me
I'd like to use LaTeX to produce the overhead slides for my adjunct
class. I seem to have enormous problems all along the path, can
anyone help me?
I'm about to go on holidays so I won't be able to help you much, but
I'll just say a couple of things quickly:
Use:
XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority
DISPLAY=:0.0
export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY
but this only works if I su from the original user's home
directory. (Otherwise, './' does not point to the right place.)
I have
export XAUTHORITY=/home/hawk/.Xauthority
in my .xsession, which seems to do the trick.
Paul Seelig has unofficial debs of Lyx 1.0pre2 at
ftp://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/binary/
I belive that there are a couple of major changes in reLyX between pre2
and pre4, and then staggering changes to the CVS of 1.0. Aside from
that, most users won't notice a
If you read vim-dev, you should probably noticed that GTK+ support is
probably not for long...=20
The contributor does not like the way his code was re-indented and
requested to remove it from further releases :)
He did not request it yet I think, but seeing his threats it is very
I have found myself unable to supress the header/burst page on an hp5mp on
the network.
The print queue runs directly off my machine, but -h seems to be
ignored.
Ideally, i'd like to have a2ps supress burst pages as well; it's what I
usually use for printing.
rick
--
lewis lamented,
Does it have a header page that just prints a few lines in the upper
left corner, and does the header page follow the job? If it does, this
is printed by the network interface on the printer. The trick to the
jetdirect(?) cards is to telnet to them and turn off the banner.
stefan stated,
I found a few messages on dejanews that suggests it becomes stable
after turning off X acclleration. Maybe a dumb question, but how in
the world do i do this?
Simply add ´Option noaccel´ into Section Device in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
yep, it's stable after this, at least at
ted told,
otherwise, what DO I do if I get a Word7 file by email?
You tell the sender politely (the first time) to send it in a real
standardized format. For email, this means plain text (not mime)
unless there is content (equations, tables, etc., or if it is a file
being sent for the
With some help from Jens, we've confirmed that svga is the correct
driver for this chipset, and after the holidays, someone is coming back
who can provide a working XF86Setup file.
But that's in a couple of weeks :)
The problem is that launching X as XF86Setup configures it for this
chip
I found a few messages on dejanews that suggests it becomes stable
after turning off X acclleration. Maybe a dumb question, but how in
the world do i do this?
rick
--
daniel declared,
Hi, I'm wondering if someone can tell me how I can change the width of
the margins in a LaTeX document. I think I read about it somewhere,
but I can't find it anywhere in the info file now.
/Daniel Elenius
No promises, but reading from a the .tex of a lyx file,
Yes, that looks good, but I get 'Undefined control sequence'. Do I
need a '\usepackage' line for that or something?
beats me :)
But these come from the beginning:
\documentclass{letter}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
patrik plead,
The Personal Edition includes only WordPerfect, not other
programs. And there probably arent't that many people who need the
equation editor that are allowed to use the Personal Edition, since
IIRC the license doesn't allow it to be used for education.
Bt writing a paper for a
didier declared,
Richard E Hawkins Esq writes:
Richard No, it's that their full extent is a pita (hmm, i don't mean to speak
Richard for manuel).
Really, I don't see why.
--help is 4 more keystrokes than the standard -h
From a command line, -h is quicker easier than --help, etc
kenneth collaborated,
The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign
new to do if you say yes. If you say no, it untars, but still doesn't
do anything. The executables end up in ./linux/bin
I assume there's some option i'm missing to figure out to tell it to
use
riccardo wrote,
But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing.
indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work
I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is
fully functional, equations and graphics are enabled only in
commercial versions of
have you tried a fairly recent lyx? It is very stable (there's only
one or two ways known to crash it), and the equations are very easy. I
bought a mac 128 in '84, and several more until I saw lyx's equations.
It also has a patch for mail-merge, which I wrote after realizing that
that would
yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half a
dozen times, and the thing still comes up asking which NT configuration
to use . . .
It needs to be able to boot NT at least for a little while . . .
--
We've found the chipset for this thing--it's the
Cirrus CLGD5465, mounted on the motherboard.
But which driver does this use? the chipset is listed in XF86Setup,
but i can't tell if i should be choosing something other than the
regular svga driver.
At least we've determined that it's not
I installed debian on a professor's machine yesterday, but have hit a
barrier: we don't know what the video card that it uses is. Unix/
linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he
asked me for help). It can't even tell us what card type to use in
configuration.
hamish harumphed,
Say what? I started on Slackware; Debian's installation is 1% better than
that.
Redhat removes a lot of options to give you a working system without much
configuration on your part. Later, when you are shooting for guru-ship
As opposed to Slackware and FreeBSD,
Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on
Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few
hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down...
If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a
number of other debian users) as to how good it is.
tom told,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On the contrary, Emacs is more suitable for developement purposes, and
actually for many other things.
Well, vim (and gvim) is actually quite powerful for development
purposes. All the best (IMO) that emacs had was taken into vim already.
there's one
peter piped,
I got it, installed it, and it's quite nice. The installer wasn't exactly
intuitive, but everything went in without a hitch. I downloaded it all in
one piece (the 23 meg bad boy), and untarred it.
and that was the problem. IN spite of the claim above the link, it
gave me
didier declared,
Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes:
Manuel I don't like GNU either. They're unnecessary complex most of the
Manuel times
That's because you don't use them to their full extent.
No, it's that their full extent is a pita (hmm, i don't mean to speak
for manuel).
From a
I am wondering if Debian is just too
difficult for me at this point. I am wondering if maybe I should try
Red Hat, I have heard it is easier to install, and then come back to
Debian.
Two years ago, Red Hat was certainly easier to install. Today, debian
is much easier. Debian fixed its
bob bled,
Two years ago, Red Hat was certainly easier to install. Today, debian
is much easier. Debian fixed its problems, and red had made no
discernable difference (on the other hand, every time I have GNU/
Linux shoved in my face, I give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know
kent kalled,
ANyway, the easiest way I've found to install X is XF86Setup rather
than xf86Setup
^^^ -- xf86config
that's the configuration file; XF86Setup makes it
rick
--
john jabbed,
...on the other hand, every time I have GNU/ Linux shoved in my face, I
give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know how to remove it? I can't
find where it's coming from
/etc/motd, of course. You can put what ever you want there.
that was the first place i looked, but it's
kent komplained,
At 11:28 AM 12/16/1998 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
kent kalled,
ANyway, the easiest way I've found to install X is XF86Setup rather
than xf86Setup
^^^ -- xf86config
that's the configuration file; XF86Setup makes it
rick
Unless I'm
information junky that I am, i set rvplayer running again on friday,
and it crashed X another couple of times. The bad way, so that it
can't be restarted (failure in apmsync() and the blinkies).
This time, I remembered that some had suggested that going to runlevel
3 rather than rebooting
oliver audiated,
Unless your /etc/inittab is very different from mine, `telinit 3' will
have no effect at all. In Debian, X is not normally dependent on the
run-level.
There are two ways to stop xdm. The simple one is to press Ctrl-R at the
...
It's not stopping X that's the problem; I
shao shouted,
When I use rvplayer to play a file with both audio video, I
always get a msg slow system performance, dropping frame. i.e the video is
not playing...
I am using P166 with 64MB ram. I also tried to use nice, but
didn't help...
nice on rvplayer will make matters
1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for
example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install just the
parts you want?
It's a single program; there aren't packages. And it has it's own
yuckky windows-like desktop, and is confined to a single
I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are
people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student
on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just
wanted to make sure I was making a good decision before I bought one.
Unfortunately I am still a bit confused about the issues involved. I
would be interested in hearing the muse and views of people who know more
about the issue than I.
The current status (it changed late last week) is that code may be
forked and freely distributed (though under a different
kenneth wrote,
-
response:
As with everything else, if you ask for an opinion on a brand of
hardware some people will complain how they got burned, and some will
rave about how great it is.
certainly. Many worked until they were
ok, here's the xf86config gpm files for the thinkpad 755C; I forget
who needed them.
begin 644 xf755.tgz
M'XL(``J4:#8``^T::V_B2'*^'[EMAIL PROTECTED],.]$FI,(@0FW!)#YG$:W:FQ
M_#=OO:[1#V;OW7U7;YI0:PNL[LZE_+`5=55U?7JIMMW\W;3%L'\V1.
M6:DTZW5X!HVV3!W_FLPS9II`C2;M:[EMAIL PROTECTED]I5!'DF`9XM
I can't get the little-red-dot-of-a-mouse on my ThinkPad 755C to bring up
any kind of cursor... Neither from the VC's using GPM, nor in my half-way
installed X86 (with gpm -k'd or no).
Here's the things that confuse me:
When the psaux module loads during the boot-up, it says it's detected.
Jon jabbed,
X is running fine apart from one problem involving the .Xauthentication file.
If I login as user
bob and startx everything is fine.
I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface.
from source, or debian source? I tried and failed on this . . .
Now,
if I su to root
\begin{letter}{Mr. Joe Smith\\ 2345 Princess St.
\\ Edinburgh, EH1 1AA}
hmm. Mine has
\letter{line1 \\line2\\etc.}
then
\signature{Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.}
and
\opening {Dear Whosamasudge}
Is this a bug or do I just have a messed up installation?
The order of the lines is important
About twice a week, I hitt alt-Q rather than alt-W in netscape,
bringing down the whole netscape. This is version 3 (4 is missing a
couple of things that I use). Is there any way to disable that key
sequence?
rick
--
Given some of the strange quirks on my machine, and that xfree 3.3.3
won't make it into slink, I'm toying with compiling it myself. But
aren't there a couple of oddities about xfree debian that I need to
know about? Or can i just compile it? or swap the tarball with the
3.3.2 source and
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