Adam Bogacki
See below... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Foskey Sent: Saturday, 7 December 2002 4:41 PM To: slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] Configuring Woody for cable. Thanks ... it was not working because I had not configured it. I read the available (outdated) material and Googled around so I had a rough idea of what to do. I could not find 'linuxconf' and then had trouble installing it [I had tried to change from 'unstable' to 'stable' in my /etc/apt/sources.list but found that when I tried to update or upgrade I regularly received the message '0 packages upgraded ...' etc. Changing back to unstable sources meant that the whole thing worked again - and I hope that I can fix the lack of 'man' pages (or more specifically the pager) which someone told me was a regrettable product of the 'unstable' version.] 'apt-get install linuxconf' was missing some archive packages but '--fix-missing' fixed that. Installed 'linuxconf' this morning and read their extensive 'help' sources and, on reboot, found that it started up eth0, the cable modem was blinking, and everything seemed to be happening much faster, so I guess I'm online @ 512 bd on the Woody drive. Unfortunately, mutt and Mozilla can't connect to anything ... I did not see anywhere in 'linuxconf' to enter pop3 and smtp addresses ... but I guess I'll have to edit .fetchmailrc, .muttrc, and .procmailrc in order to get that organised ... Thanks for the feedback, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:02, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've just installed cable on a dual-boot machine and the XP side of it > is working but I can't even do an 'apt-get update' successfully, > getting the message that 'something wicked' has happened. > > What do I do to configure Woody for cable? something wicked is the error when the names are not resolving. Not a very good error message :-( Check that you dns lookup is working, if not check resolv.conf for you dns settings. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
