Re: install woes with BCM5721

2005-03-30 Thread Stephen Waters
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:51 +0200, dr.bob wrote: Using the current netinstall image for debian-amd64.. The system is a dual xeon server by Fujitsu-SIemens, the installer selected kernel 2.6.8-10-em64t-p4. Installed the base system successfully, cannot get the network to operate :( The

Re: install woes with BCM5721

2005-03-30 Thread Stephen Waters
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:41 +0200, dr.bob wrote: Oh, did I forget to mention that I grabbed a copy of the firmware files (http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/debian/) and after putting them on the system, warnings from the driver about firmware went away. But the NICs still don't work,

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Waters
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 21:07 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: First I tried to use pptp from alioth, but that did not work, so as a last resort I tried to run the 32bit versions and voila! They worked! Definitely check your PPTP settings. If you want the best encryption and compression, you'll have to

Re: bind mount in 32bit chroot

2005-03-04 Thread Stephen Waters
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:16 +0100, Carsten Prie wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:47:47 -0500 Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not clear. Should I do it in the chroot environment, or out side it? If I should do it in the chroot environment, isn't that Not in chroot. Do it in basesystem.

Re: Time drift in amd64

2005-03-04 Thread Stephen Waters
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 01:54 +0100, Carsten Prie wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:32:28 -0800 Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you know what the drift value is, you can tell the kernel (using the adjtime related commands) and it will apply the correction for you. I had the problem

Re: can't connect to internet anymore

2005-03-04 Thread Stephen Waters
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 01:43 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: My AMD64 sid box was running along nicely until yesterday, when after a reboot it didn't want to connect to the internet anymore. I am using dhcp, and when I start the client here is what I get: I've had this happen. Usually it's

Re: sound inside the chroot

2004-12-02 Thread Stephen Waters
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:10 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Make sure you have /dev, /proc and /sys mounted in the chroot directory. According to the howto add /home and /tmp also. The howto does not say anything about /dev. So it should also be mounted in the chroot, huh? Cos the chroot has

Off-topic: Re: pppoe on pure64 sid

2004-11-19 Thread Stephen Waters
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 17:59 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: I just got done installing pure64 on my new box, kde3.3, mozilla, everything works smooth, except that I can't get on the internet, Check your /etc/resolv.conf for PPP's DNS servers. If it is empty or has the wrong DNS IPs, then your PPP

Re: offtopic general help with system clock

2004-11-14 Thread Stephen Waters
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 12:05 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Alex Perry wrote: hardware clock). Once the clock is close, by using this method, the ntp will always be able to keep it on time from then onwards. Agreed. To check if ntp is in a happy state, use the 'ntpq -p' command. ntpq -p

offtopic general help with system clock

2004-10-29 Thread Stephen Waters
OK, so if your system clock is way off and NTP doesn't work, try this before blaming hardware: 1) delete /etc/adjtime 2) run /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh 3) run adjtimexconfig 4) run ntpdate server 5) run /etc/init.d/ntp-server start Turns out my adjtime was way off due to a bad clock on the previous

sound with sid and amd64 kernel

2004-10-22 Thread Stephen Waters
ALSA works pretty well with 32-bit user space and 64-bit kernel (so long as you have snd-ioctl32 loaded). However, the dmix plugin appears to be broken. Have any of you been able to get ALSA's dmix to work? Thanks, -s signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 64-bit kernel on sid / pure64?

2004-10-13 Thread Stephen Waters
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:04, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 00:37 -0500, Stephen Waters wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 21:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Now, if the OP's question really was can a 32-bit X server run inside a chroot jail on an otherwise pure-64 system, then that would

iptables and amd64

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen Waters
I want to run 64-bit kernel, 32-bit user space. I was wondering if anyone has a statically linked amd64 iptables binary hanging around. That seems to be the only issue. Thanks, -s signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: pivot_root: No such file or directory

2004-09-20 Thread Stephen Waters
1) Is pivot_root the ext3-not-compiled-in problem? 2) Can you boot manually from Grub, changing the root= commandline option? (I have a meeting and have to go home, so I won't be responding till tomorrow if you write back... just trynig to give you some ideas) -s On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:37,