, Nathan Salwen wrote:
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I have a V1456VQH-X pnp ISA card that I only use for sending and receiving
faxes. It worked in Sarge but I have not been able to get it to work in my
Lenny/Sid box.
I reinstalled sarge on a different
Thanks again for the input.
Are you using the stock kernel for Lenny/Sid?
Yes, linux-image-2.6.21-2-486. I also used a stock kernel 2.6.18 with etch.
The command modprobe isapnp might help.
# modprobe isapnp
FATAL: Module isapnp not found.
Search for candidate device nodes by doing this:
things right. (If it is a
configuration issue that would also indicate a documentation bug.) I would
like to post a bug but am not sure to which package it would go. I guess to
the linux-image2.6 package.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan Salwen
First, see if minicom can take the modem off-hook and on-hook:
ATH1
ATH
Thanks for responding. I guess I may not have been clear.
In sarge (kernel 2.4) minicom can take the modem off the hook fine. All the
AT commands receive an OK in response. I sarge, the modem works.
In etch (kernel
I installed the metamail package and followed the directions in
/usr/doc/metamail/mailers.txt.gz to make my emacs (rmail) mime aware.
It seems to work, though I haven't looked at many types of files.
The only correction I wanted to make is that we don't have to have
transparent.el around and the
I just upgraded to 1.2 and had a similar experience. It took a little
time to iron things out but now everything (with the possible
exception of amslatex) is working OK.
First of all, thanks everyone for a remarkable package of software.
Summary of constructive comments:
1. Many packages
Jonas == Jonas Bofjall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jonas I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here,
Jonas but in that case I would appreciate if I am told where it
Jonas is not. I installed Debian on a computer mainly to run
Jonas LaTeX, but I don't understand
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a list kept anywhere that details the changes that
were made to a given Debian package.
I know that a little blurb is sent to debian-changes (or some
list like that) every time a new version is uploaded, but I was
Paul == Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
The 3.2 release of XFree86 is available in source and binary
form; among many other very cool features, it now includes a
GRAPHICAL setup utility
Paul Now i just hope that
I can't create them both unless I go into the control menu
and change the newline translating in between. Emacs, on the other
hand, can distinguish between these two characters.
If anyone can help me with either of these problems I would be very
grateful.
Thanks
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I have the following in /etc/modules
sbpcd.o sbpcd=0x230,1
(I have a soundblaster at 0x220) and everything seems to work fine.
Good luck,
Nathan
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Has anyone got the word processor 'lyx' up and running? It
depends, amongst other things, on 'xforms'. What is xforms, and
where is it located?
I have. I got xforms off the Debian ftp site int the contrib directory.
Nathan
$ dpkg -s xforms
Package: xforms
Status: install ok
jhspies == jhspies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jhspies Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous
jhspies questions on smail. I have a dialup-ppp connection with
jhspies an Internet Service Provider. My usename at the ISP is
jhspies jhspies while I use js as a username
For an easier installation dselect needs a major rewrite IMHO. From all
Linux distributions i installed until now Debian was the most
counterintuitive i've stumbled over so far. I used the german distribution
I installed Debian 1.1.5 about 1 1/2 months ago. I don't know what all the
fuss about
I am using Latex and it is working fine. I used the stable tex packages
and then picked up mfbasfnt_1.0-5.deb and mfdcfnt_1.0-1_all.deb from the
ftp site. (They are in rex and non-free I believe.)
Or as previous discussions indicated you could install the tetex or
ntex packages into
1. tar cvf var.tar /var/* to have a backup of the current contents of
/var.
2. tar cvf home.tar /home/* to have a backup of home.
Just make sure that there are no files or directories in /var or /home
that start with '.'. I made this mistake when I tried to backup a user
and lost all his
Susan I'd agree that a search engine front end to the FAQ would be helpful.
Also, the debian-user archives would be a whole lot more useful if we had
both more up-to-date archives and a search engine.
Nathan
whether this is a common problem or something weird that
I did but I thought I would just drop a note to the net in case anyone
else is having the same problem.
Nathan Salwen
DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse): No such file or dir.
There is no /usr/spool/uucp/ directory so it can't make
/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse I had a similar problem when I ran a non-Debian
version of efax. It should use /var/lock/LCK..mouse instead. Maybe
the directory DOSEMU
Jean Orloff sent this script
Another Very Useful Bonus (also thanks to Lukas Nellen): in /etc/ppp/ip-up
#!/bin/sh
#
# IP is up now...
#
interface=$1
device=$2
speed=$3
local_ip=$4
remote_ip=$5
# let's use this
Philippe == Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Philippe If you use latex, you'll probably have problems with
Philippe font later, and try to download mfbasfnt_1.0-5 from the
Philippe rex/binary/tex section and mfdcfnt_1.0-1_all.deb from
Philippe the non-free/binary section.
A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages,
but most people either do not want X or want at least a minimal
installation, right? So what are the justifications of splitting a
minimal X and LaTeX the way it is?
The developers may have their own reasons for breaking up
s Is it possible that you have a disk that is bigger than your bios rom
s knows how to handle?
How can I tell if the BIOS is going to handle it?
Well, if you needed to load a special driver to run DOS with the disk then
the BIOS dowsn't handle it. Since you have less than 1024 cylinders on the
that I just broke my rule. Sorry again.)
Nathan Salwen
My number one stumbling block with Linux seems to be making it boot.
I've a kernel on the /dev/sda2 partition in the /boot directory,
and it's called vmlinuz. My boot partition doesn't seem to be set
correctly, because it's not booting /dev/sda2 as root. Instead, it
displays Loading Linux
... Don't forget
to pop out and replace the floppy - the data could be read from a disk
block cache rather than the floppy if you don't do that. ...
Does this note mean that one can replace floppy disks without unmounting
and mounting in between? Or were the 'umount' and 'mount' implied by
pop
2. another problem, which I didn't have under Slackware, is using a .profile
in the user's home area. I have just one line in it, alias 'lo'=exit which
has always worked before but the lo commanded doesn't get recognized. I also
tried renaming the file to .login but still no luck. Any ideas?
If
You are probably way ahead of me but I remember getting that error
under 2 conditions (I think).
1. If the geometry of the disk didn't match its real geometry or the
boot partition went past the 1024 sector (although
it is supposedly possible to fake out the boot proms according
Let's say I have a server with one of Micorsoft operating systems, let's say
Windows NT, that is connected to the internet directly and a lot of other
machines connected to this server via a Novell net. Now one of these
machines is a Linux box. Is it possible to use the Linux box as if it were on
I think it would be sufficient for people to list their qualifications
and let the customer decide.
The Better Business Bureau approach of keeping a file of complaints might
also be useful.
Guy Maor wrote
While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page
by using b or ^B. Has anyone else experienced this? My current
version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use more to read a text file,
everything works fine.
more can't go backwards on unseekable files,
Sorry for the confusion. It turns out that more is not the same as less
on slackware but man automatically uses less without a variable set. I'm
pretty sure it is not using a temp file.
Is there any reason the default PAGER on Debian should not be set to less
out of the box?
Nathan
I installed 0.93r6 but did not see where dselect gave the disk space
used by packages. This is obviously a very important piece of information.
If it was obviously right in front of me I am sorry for wasting people's time.
Thanks
Nathan Salwen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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