Re: [Cooker] minicom and ppp broken for pcmcia modems

2002-05-28 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
andrej wrote == > My problem is that neither minicom, nor the ifup/usernetctl command line > tools can communicate with the modem. As root, minicom starts, but the > modem does not reply "OK" to the initialisation string, or to "AT". == > First, do not post in HTML. Second, what strace shows? > >

[Cooker] minicom and ppp broken for pcmcia modems

2002-05-28 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
[Reposted in plain text] This is a bug I spotted after installing MD8.2 on an old laptop. (Yes, I have seen the hotplug errata :) The same version of minicom and ppp are in cooker still, I think. My laptop (HP Omnibook CS5500) has PCMCIA bridge Cirrus Logic CL6729 (rev e2). The PCMCIA modem car

[Cooker] minicom and ppp broken for pcmcia modems

2002-05-28 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
This is a bug I spotted after installing MD8.2 on an old laptop. (Yes, I have seen the hotplug errata :)  The same version of minicom and ppp are in cooker still, I think.   My laptop (HP Omnibook CS5500) has PCMCIA bridge Cirrus Logic CL6729 (rev e2). The PCMCIA modem card is a Pace NB56 56

Re: [Cooker] Network bootdisk of 8.2 doesn't work

2002-05-27 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Network bootdisk of 8.2 doesn't work > > Yes, I know, it's a little bit late - but I just discovered that the > > network.img from the 8.2 download edition does not work. I've created a > > boot disk with this image, and the system doesn't start - it hangs > > shortly after

Re: [Cooker] 2.2.3a printing problems: no printing from Word, spools taking up all CPU on clients

2002-03-05 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think Sylvestre is still away on business for the rest of this week, > so I will field this one for the moment. Thanks ... > Unfortunately, I don't have enough machines available (at work) to be > able to test your exact setup, but I have recompiled 2

Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
> on the 'net. Everybody Apache user I know (that use > it on workstations) do the same things. I agree that this will cause annoy more people than it will help .. imho Steven

Re: [Cooker] Curious Issue with Beta and win98 (maybe)

2000-09-25 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
> Now, I cannot, no matter what even boot windows 98. > > Not from CD, floppy or hard disk. > > Has *anyone* seen anything like this? > > I am running an Athlon K7 800 on a KT133 Motherboard I had a similar-sounding problem (Duron 650, MSI 6330 MoBo/KT133 Chipset); fixed by resetting my bios chan

Re: [Cooker] boot catalog for creating ISOs from cooker

2000-09-25 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Subject: [Cooker] boot catalog for creating ISOs from cooker > Some time ago Troels Liebe Bentsen posted some scripts here to create ISO > images from a cooker mirror. In there he calls mkisofs -c images/boot.cat, > but in the current cooker there's no images/boot.cat. The boot cat is created b

[Cooker] kernel-source rpm and pcmcia

2000-09-10 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Hello, I just grabbed kernel source 2.2.17-1mdk, kernel headers, and dev86 rpms from cooker to compile a new kernel. When I changed to the pcmcia directory to ./Configure, make all, make install, it insisted on installing all the modules and man pages in to /home/chmou/rpm/tmp/kernel-2.2.17-1mdk

Re: [Cooker] CD vs FTP download

2000-06-20 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Thanks Guillaume, > > Is it possible to split the "extra" RPMS in to a seperate directory to make > > it easier to build my CDs? > We cannot do this; because it would revert to the problem we had the last > 15 days, the FTP install will hang waiting for you to "change the media".. Can't the in

[Cooker] CD vs FTP download

2000-06-18 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Hi, I'm a bit confused by the new larger Mandrake distribution. I download my Mandrake cooker over a 64K ISDN line. Because I download from the ftp site, it doesn't matter if the download gets interupted, for instace by a new RPM going in to the archive. When it's finished I can resync the arch

Re: [Cooker] Suugestion for new utility

2000-05-27 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
> Maybe- how would I use "tee" to run "startx" and save the error messages to > a text file? I normally just send stuff straight to the log file with : startx > x.log maybe : startx &> x.log would capture more detail. If you need to see these messages from within X just open a term and run : tai

[Cooker] Install fails to set up LAN/ethernet if PCI ISDN present

2000-05-26 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Last synced with ftp.sunet.se at 22:00 (BST) May 25 I have a "Billion" PCI ISDN adaptor and a Realtek 8139 ethernet card in my machine. If I try to select the "Configure LAN" option during install, it fails and prints the following to console ... (copied out by hand, might be a couple of typos!)