Using Sympatico Warp ADSL w/ Debian
Hi. When I installed Debian I said yes to the configure network with DHCP question. It said it worked. I also installed via-rhine for my network card, which I found was the right module after some research. I rebooted, and expected to be online. I can't ping anywhere, except myself. Ifconfig looks like things are working. Can someone help me? I'm sure I got the working easily before, I just don't remember how? I want to connect to the Internet to install the rest of the packages. Any help is appreciated. Jason __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Trouble Setting Up DSL
Hello I have a DSL modem with a SMC EtherPower II Ethernet card. Before installing Debian I used the Windows 'winipcfg' utility to find out my IP address, DNS servers, Default Gateway, Subnet Mask and DHCP Server. During the install I loaded the Epic 100 module, and entered the above values in the Configure Network option. I assumed this would be enough to let me access the Internet. However, after completing the installation and rebooting I could not connect to any sites, nor could I ping any servers. For example if I do a 'ftp ftp.debian.org' it instantly tells me it is not found. (It takes no time at all; doesn't even seem to look) Any advice? How can I get this to work? I'm using 2.2r2 Thanks --Jason/Xylon
Can't play a wav
Can anyone help me? I recompiled a 2.0.36 Kernel to include SB 16 support. When the system boots it tells me sound init. complete, and there are no signs of errors. Here are some of the responses I get to certain commands: cat testsound.wav | /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: permission denied (I'm root!) Broken pipe similar message with /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp0, and /dev/dsp1 play testsound.wav sox: Invalid buffer size 0 Again, sound support is in the kernel with the proper IRQ numbers and DMA address. Any help? I'll try downloaded the 2.2.x kernels when I get a chance.
Printer Troubles
I was actually going to check the message archive this time, but I'm sitting here at a Netscape status bar telling me Connect: Contacting Host www.debian.org... endlessly. Anyway, I can't even get my printer to print a simple text file. It is a Panasonic KX-P4430. I checked the basic stuff like making sure it was online and that the cables were properly connected. I have installed GhostScript, magicfilter, and lpr. If it matters, here is my /etc/printcap: lp|ps4430|Panasonic KX-P4430:\ :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps4430:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps400-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Here are the messages I received trying to print a simple text file that just says testing inside of it: bash-2.01$ lpr test lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. bash-2.01$ lpq waiting for lp to become ready (off-line ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 0test 4 bytes 2ndroot 1test 4 bytes 3rdroot 2test 4 bytes 4throot 3test 7 bytes 5thjason 4test 7 bytes 6thjason 6test 7 bytes 7thjason 7test 7 bytes bash-2.01$ I think I have included all the info that I should... Thanks in advance --Jason ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netscape 4.51 won't start
I just installed Debian 2.1, and the installation went smoothly up until netscape. If anyone has any advice, please tell me! Here are the details: I downloaded and extracted communicator-v451.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz from ftp.netscape.com. Next, I ran the ns-install script and installed it to the default location. (/usr/local/netscape) When I try to run netscape I get the following error: /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I have messed around with some stuff but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance --Jason ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SVGALib and S3 Virge DX (375)
Hello again :) I am using a S3 Virge DX (375) and SVGALib. I have removed the # in front of the line chipset s3 in /etc/vga/vgalib.config but SVGALib can't ID my s3 card, so it forces VGA. Is there any thing I can do to fix that?
Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50
I have been trying to get my dot-matrix Panasonic KX-P1123 printer to work all night. After re-compiling the Kernel again, my printer prints regular ASCII text fine. Through Netscape, I just get a bunch of garbage. (Well, real words but they don't make sense). After reading numerous HOW-TO's I discovered I need to use a program called Ghostscript to emulate Postscript. I have downloaded the unix version of postscript. (I guess I needed the unix one, the only other ones were the mac and ms-dos/win versions) I extracted ghostscript-5.50.tar in /usr/src/gs5.50 Now I have loads of C-source code and stuff. The HTM documentation goes all over the place talking about makefiles and stuff. I'm relatively new at Linux, so that lost me. I tried make make install gcc gs.c -o gs none of it helped. I'm stuck. What should I do now?
Aladdin 5.50
This is a re-post, my earlier post didn't seem to, well, post. I apoligize if it did. I have been trying to get my dot-matrix Panasonic KX-P1123 printer to work all night. After re-compiling the Kernel again, my printer prints regular ASCII text fine. Through Netscape, I just get a bunch of garbage. (Well, real words but they don't make sense). After reading numerous HOW-TO's I discovered I need to use a program called Ghostscript to emulate Postscript. I have downloaded the unix version of postscript. (I guess I needed the unix one, the only other ones were the mac and ms-dos/win versions) I extracted ghostscript-5.50.tar in /usr/src/gs5.50 Now I have loads of C-source code and stuff. The HTM documentation goes all over the place talking about makefiles and stuff. I'm relatively new at Linux, so that lost me. I tried make make install gcc gs.c -o gs none of it helped. I'm stuck. What should I do now?
Netscape Printing
Yesterday I had questions on installing Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50. Bob Nielsen answered my questions, but I'm not even sure if I'm heading in the right direction. I have a Panasonic KX-P1123, its old and crappy but that's what I have. All I want to do is be able to print in Netscape. When I try, for example to print the Debian start page I get a sheet looking something like this: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%BoundingBox: 54 72 558 720 %%Creator: Mozilla (NetScape) HTML-PS -I'll skip some un-needed stuff- %%EndComments %%BegainProlog [ /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef -Plus many more /.notdef's- /parenleft /parenright /asterisk /plus /comma /hyphen /period /slash /zero /one /two /three /four /five /six /seven /eight /nine /colon -It goes on and on like this.- Anyway, it seems to me that this is postscript and my printer is not understanding it. So I got Ghostscript, which I installed but I don't even know if that was the right thing to do? The reason I thought the above was postscript is the lines like %!PS-Adobe-3.0 and HTML-PS am I right? Was ghostscript what I needed to get? If it was, how do I use ghostscript to convert the above? I've looked at documentation and stuff. I'm stumped. And I'll I'm trying to do is print though Netscape.
Finally it (almost) works!
Well, I have magicfilter and all that configured and running properly. My printer prints correctly etc., but, while the output is readable, its very fuzzy. What can I do about this? I have a Panasonic KX-P1123, I was told to select eponsc. Below is a copy of /etc/printcap (Without the comments): lp|lj|epsonc|epsonc:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsonc:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/epson9c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: So, if there is anything I can do, what do I do to get rid of the fuzziness?
Kernel Won't Recompile
I am trying to compile the Linux Kernel 2.0.36 (Or is it 2.0.37?) Anyway after doing a 'make config', then a 'make zImage', I get the error listed below. Also a similar error after trying 'make bzImage'. I might be the same, but I'm not sure. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage does not appear after doing make xImage. Thats my problem. Here is the last 15 lines of the error. (Isn't there an easier way than writing it all down?) make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed' xtract /usr/src/linux/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback piggy.o Non-GCC header of 'system' ((Is that the problem?)) Compressed size 20. ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -0 vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o ld: Warning: cannot find entry symbol -start((?)); defaulting to 0fe0 misc.o; In function 'fill-inbuf': ((? - Not sure of my own writing :)) misc.o(.text+ox1ebc); undefined reference to 'input_data' misc.o(.text+ox1ec1); undefined reference to 'input_len' misc.o(.text+ox1ed7); undefined reference to 'input_data' make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 make[1]: [Compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 make[1]: leaving dir '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zImage] Error 2 That's it. Comments I added are in ((double brackets)) I copied this down with my hand so it might not be 100% accurate. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage is not being created. What do I do?
as86: Command not found. (Trying to re-compile Kernal)
Hi, I'm kind of a newbie at this but here goes... I found out to use sound I would have to recompile the Linux kernel. After getting make, I did a make config and then a make zImage as described in the README file which came with the source. At the end of the output screen of make zImage, I get a lot of messages but I think this is my problem: make[1]: as86: Command not found I have searched dselect (With /) for as86 but it wasn't there. Where do I get it? --Jason
Testing
Sorry, just a test message.
