Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. Somehow, the depmod -a from init.d script seems to be not writing

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-06 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Woohoo.. Just got the permission to skip two days from office for ALS. Will be there with my machine.. Dual celeron (300 oc'd 450) with a 19' monitor. Who's co ordinating... Regards, Vaidhy On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:30:30AM -0700, Greg Heather Vence wrote: I could haul my printer in again.

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-05 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
If you can't find a place, you are welcome to stay at mine.I got space for threeif you can sleep in couch, more if you can sleep in a sleeping bag :) Regards, Vaidhy On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote: ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503,

Kernels 2.2.6 above hangs my machine

1999-09-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi All, I have been running a 2.2.5 kernel on my machine and recently wanted to upgrade the kernel. However, kernels 2.2.6 and above boot my machin. But the machine hangs while processing init.d scripts. It hangs at differnet points in init.d scripts. So I am not able to find out where it

Re: squake in debian

1999-05-05 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
make squake-real in /usr/bin/games to be suid root.. Things should work fine.. Regards, Vaidhy On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:06:26AM -0400, Jeffrey Jones wrote: I installed the debian package for the shareware quake. The X version works fine, but when I try to run the svgalib version I get the

Re: eth0, etc..

1999-05-03 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
You have not lost them .. you just forgot to compile the support for your network cards into the kernel.. Compile the network cards as a module, insmod the modules and run /etc/init.d/network and you should have them.. Regards, Vaidhy On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 09:39:04PM -0400, Richard Miles

X server for W95

1999-04-23 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi All, I want to connect to my machine from office and am looking for a X server that will connect thru a proxy and preferably free. If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know Regards, Vaidhy

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Chris, I generally get the message during network initialization when something is missing or wrong.. Can you post the relevant boot message. (Use dmesg). Regards, Vaidhy On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:15:37PM -0400, Chris Brown wrote: Greetings, I'm cleaning up the boot messages of a

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
... It is not necessary to remove the route -add default gw parameter if you have a gateway. On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: Hi Chris, I generally get the message during network initialization when something is missing or wrong.. Can you post the relevant

Re: SMC Ether Power II problem

1999-04-16 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Kernel 2.2.x supports SMC EtherPower II card. You need to enable development in the first option. Cheers, Vaidhy On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 07:08:44AM +0200, rob wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem with my SMC Ether Power II PCI card. It doesn't work. Could anyone tell me if LINUX supports

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
:36PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. [config info snipped] This code brings

Re: Framebuffer scan rates

1999-03-09 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Try fbset.. and read the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/*... Cheers, Vaidhy On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 11:43:37AM +1000, Corey Ralph wrote: Is there any way to change the scan rates of the framebuffer in the 2.2 kernel? I finally got it all to work, but the default refresh rate is really

Re: Last gasp at CD-RW

1999-02-28 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Can you please send me your log when you boot up. I want to know if the kernel identified your cd-rw. Also look at your /proc/scsi. The file /proc/scsi/scsi should have something like this : Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory... Regards, Vaidhy On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found. Do I need a package? I'm in su mode too. Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07PM

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory... Regards, Vaidhy On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I typed MAKEDEV

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-23 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: When I have my cd-writer installed as secondary ide device, after my cd-rom drive, and have the kernel configure with ide cdrom unselected, and scsi emulation, and generic scsi selected, the system hangs on boot. Where I have

Re: sybase rpm

1999-02-18 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I installed db2 and it works fine.. Only tip I used is, my /bin/rpm is #!/bin/sh alien --to-deb --scripts -i $2 This makes sure that all the files are installed properly. Hope it helps, Vaidhy On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:55:56PM -0800, Daryl Williams wrote: folks, has anyone tried

Re: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I have a HP CD writer 8100 and I emulated it as a scsi device. I do not know how to do that if you already have another cd drive in the system. However, I mount my emulated cdrom as sr0 and it works fine. Regards, Vaidhy On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 04:08:41PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I

Re: DB2 progress

1999-01-22 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 02:32:21PM +1100, Colin McCormack wrote: Hi, I'm also struggling with the installation of DB2 under debian. Here's what I have so far: I created a /bin/rpm file as follows: #!/bin/sh alien --to-deb -i $2 I symlinked the following: /bin/awk - /usr/bin/gawk

Re: XFIG in Debian recent release

1999-01-22 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:44:46PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having some trouble with editing a picture object file in the XFIG of the recent Debian release. This is the first time I have loaded Debian GNU/Linux. I have experience with the slackware and Redhat. The picture object

Re: DB2 progress

1999-01-22 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:38:06PM +1100, Colin McCormack wrote: Here's what I have so far: I created a /bin/rpm file as follows: #!/bin/sh alien --to-deb -i $2 rpm2deb for DB2 installations are not a good idea since it does a whole bunch ofstuff at the end like