Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: This is a little off-topic but given my intent I hope no one minds... I have a spare SUN Sparc-5 that I'd like to configure as a linux box (why? because I can :)). Anyway, my *entire* network is token-ring and I don't have a spare token-ring card

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-30 Thread fog
Hi fellow developer, I am changing ISP and I will be without connection to the net for about 1-2 weeks. I am unsubscribing myself from all the mailing lists and I will change email address. If you really need to contact me, write at [EMAIL PROTECTED], I will change the .forward to send

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Vincent Renardias wrote: Yes, you can, but you need a special ethernet cable with a pair of wires crossed. (I made a few ones, but you should consider to buy it if you have no special wiring knowledge. Costs about $8 here.) Given the specs, I could but not without tools :) Looks like I go

Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?

1997-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Yes! When I tried it, the icons it made where like static on a color TV set. It looked like it was supposed to be making minitures of the windows, but wasn't working right. Hmm I saw that once (with 0.6.3). I rearranged my pixmap path, and it went away. A very weird

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: Vincent Renardias wrote: Yes, you can, but you need a special ethernet cable with a pair of wires crossed. (I made a few ones, but you should consider to buy it if you have no special wiring knowledge. Costs about $8 here.) Given the specs, I

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Thomas Lakofski wrote: You'd be surprised... I described a cross cable to a friend of mine, and told him that he'd have to go and get one made up or get some tools. He mailed me back 5 minutes later to tell me that he'd got it working. I asked him how, he said he'd pried the cable apart, done

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Thomas Lakofski wrote: You'd be surprised... I described a cross cable to a friend of mine, and told him that he'd have to go and get one made up or get some tools. He mailed me back 5 minutes later to tell me that he'd got it working. I asked him how, he said he'd pried the cable apart,

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: Thomas Lakofski wrote: You'd be surprised... I described a cross cable to a friend of mine, and told him that he'd have to go and get one made up or get some tools. He mailed me back 5 minutes later to tell me that he'd got it working. I asked

Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

1997-12-30 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Stephen == Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen David Engel wrote: Use -profile instead of -pg/-lc_p when profiling, e.g. $ gcc -profile -o t t.c Stephen Thanks! That makes it a gcc bug instead. :) (-profile is Stephen not mentioned anywhere in the docs.)

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-30 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 12:15:00AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: today I upgraded the machine that hosts my debian mirror to libc6. Everyhthing went fine, only some partially resolved dependencies took some time but didn't meant a problem. Thanks to StormCrow for his FAQ. ... Does anybody

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 08:55:26PM -0600, David Engel wrote: Does anybody have an idea where the problem is? Under normal circumstances this would prevent my debian mirror to be visible to most of the machines - I treat this as mission critical. Something weird must have changed again

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 08:55:26PM -0600, David Engel wrote: today I upgraded the machine that hosts my debian mirror to libc6. Everyhthing went fine, only some partially resolved dependencies took some time but didn't meant a problem. Thanks to StormCrow for his FAQ. ... Does

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --lLboLdkugWU4S2B/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 08:55:26PM -0600, David Engel wrote: today I upgraded the machine that hosts my debian mirror to libc6.

tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi there, I cannot have the ygoth fonts to work correctly, and would appreciate some very-very-quick help. Note that I don't use the latest versions of tetex, and would be happy to download them iff they fix this problem, but as I have a slow modem link, I'd prefer to be sure what the way to the

Re: Python upgrade: dependency question

1997-12-30 Thread Richard Braakman
An added complication is that I'd like to merge the mpz, gdbm, curses, bsddb, net and stdwin packages back into python-misc. You may want to keep python-mpz, python-curses, and python-gdbm as separate packages, because they depend on gmp2, ncurses3.4, and libgdbmg1 (respectively). If they

hamm base disks?

1997-12-30 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
does anybody have hamm base disks that need to be tested? or do we still need to use the bo ones and then upgrade the base packages? Thanks, Simon Simon Karpen[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!],

Re: hamm base disks?

1997-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Simon's Mailing List Account wrote: does anybody have hamm base disks that need to be tested? or do we still need to use the bo ones and then upgrade the base packages? The testing group is waiting for Sven to put them together, and I haven't heard any estimates. BTW,

timezone/timezones problems

1997-12-30 Thread Mark W. Eichin
So, timezone (7.48-3) is installed, and required, so dpkg won't remove it. timezones (2.06-1) is available, and replaces/conflicts timezone, but dpkg (1.4.0.19) won't replace it, even with auto-deconfigure. Is there a non-force way to handle this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: timezone/timezones problems

1997-12-30 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
This is Bug#16260. Bob On 30 Dec 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote: So, timezone (7.48-3) is installed, and required, so dpkg won't remove it. timezones (2.06-1) is available, and replaces/conflicts timezone, but dpkg (1.4.0.19) won't replace it, even with

Re: GUS driver package

1997-12-30 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Martin Soto wrote: Hi: This is to state my intention of packaging the kernel drivers for the Gravis Ultrasound family of sound cards, made by Jaroslav Kysela and the Linux Ultrasound Project (see http://home.pf.jcu.cz/~perex/ultra/). If nobody objects, I'll be

Re: tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Olaf Weber
Yann Dirson writes: Compilation works fine. But dvips fails: it seems that mf produces output (despite many Strange path warnings), but no file is created in /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/gothic/, which may explain why dvips says Font ygoth not found. Older versions of the MakeTeX

Re: hamm base disks?

1997-12-30 Thread bruce
I will be working on the boot-floppies package for the next few days. Hopefully I will have a working boot-floppy tomorrow. I would generate a set of base disks after that if nobody else has. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Fwd: package format standard

1997-12-30 Thread Joel Klecker
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Re: hamm base disks?

1997-12-30 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
sure... put me in, esp. since i'm in the process (as we speak) of switching a couple production machines from redhat 4.2 to debian hamm. also, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for testing group mail so it isn't lost in the flood of mailing list stuff. Thanks, Simon On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Brandon

Intend to package gtk-- ...

1997-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! I plan to package gtk--, a C++ wrapper for Gtk, the famous set of widgets behind The GIMP, as everybody (should) know... at least, if there isn't anybody who is more knowledgable. As soon I have it ready, I would put it on my personal web site and announce it, because I'm not

Re: tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: I cannot have the ygoth fonts to work correctly, and would appreciate some very-very-quick help. OK, thanks to all for your quick answers, and especially to Olaf for the fix. For those interested by the fix, here it is: Manually apply thefollowing diff to both MakeTexPK

I LOST mail between 21 Dec and 24 Dec.

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all of you, I had a mail problem with my ISP between the 21th and the 24th of december, which ended in 300 mails lost. If some of you emailed me any message during this period, there are good chances I didn't get it, and you should probably resend it. Thanks, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL

Device files

1997-12-30 Thread Martin Soto
Hi all: I'm packaging a kernel driver for the Gravis Ultrasound sound card. It requires some special device files to be created (in addition to those normally used by the OSS driver) in order for all of its features to work. My question is, how should I create the device files? By now, I'm