I've come to an absolute standstill trying to get the net-acct package
to work on our ppp dial-in server. nacctd wants a series of files that
have the mapping from usernames to IPs in them.
The documentation has a couple of little scripts for slip, but I am
using mgetty with ppp, and I cannot see
I think I am probably not the only person on earth who has his spam
filter set to catch anything with more than three exclamation points
in the subject.
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Many thanks to all those who provided input and ideas when I originally
announced my very minor project. It's to the point now where some fresh
points of view/ideas would be nice. For those who may be interested,
please check http://users.quicklink.net~/gith/ for the current work done.
Read upm-*
I tried installing frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 760E last night - no
success.
The rescue disk would boot, load root.bin then linix.bin? and lock up
after
a bunch of "loading dots". Locked up tight - cold boot time.
Tried adding floppy=thinkpad to the boot line, no joy. Something in
2.0.30 perhaps
Thanks for the response on LINUX SUPPORT FOR CABLE MODEMS?
Apparently, Linux doesn't have a driver for the Intel 82557-based PCI
twisted-pair ethernet card. It looks as thought this is not the same
as the EtherExpress Pro/10+ because it uses a different chip (the 82557).
Does Linux 2.1.** have s
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Ben White wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks to those of you who responded to my last desperate cry for help.
> I am one step closer in getting my setup working. Currently I use a
> Slackware distribution with kernel 1.2.13, but want to upgrade to Debian
> to avoid the comme
Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> Take the case apart - there's an internal tape drive, power
> supply, and floppy controller in the case. Remove the internal drive
> and install it in your system ... viola! A usable tape drive.
I knew that the Trakker had a Jumbo inside, but I didn't know thi
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> I have very busy server and cann't it restart until last night.
> Problem that I found is more general.
> I think, Debian distribution should be able upgrade running system without
> complete rebooting.
Are you saying that there is no way for you to re
Hello all,
Thanks to those of you who responded to my last desperate cry for help.
I am one step closer in getting my setup working. Currently I use a
Slackware distribution with kernel 1.2.13, but want to upgrade to Debian
to avoid the commercial distributions, and because of its sophisticat
Caution: Some of this stuff is guestimating the libc6 changes.
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On 15 May 1997, Ed Donovan wrote:
>
> > I have not installed libc6 yet, and right now my compiles fail. All
> > the binaries generated give "No such file or directory" errors,
> > because
Mark Bathie wrote:
>
> Just a simple question. How do i instally my mouse for use with debian &
> X11. Please don't RTFM.
> Thanx.
>
Ok, I won't RTFM. You probably ought to, however.
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Take the case apart - there's an internal tape drive, power
supply, and floppy controller in the case. Remove the internal drive
and install it in your system ... viola! A usable tape drive.
This isn't what you wanted? Well, that's life in the world of MS
specific hardware. I have a T-
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> rick wrote:
> Help:
>
> I have a new gw2k PP200 system with a (gw2k) Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90
> (PnP) sound card. What do I need to do to configure my kernel to support
> this card? I am using the 2.0.30 kernel pkg.
>
> Do I need to use isapnptools, (if so how)?
>
> Loo
On Fri, 16 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Dselect does show all the dependencies. The problem is that dselect
> isn't installing packages in the right order automatically. A successor
> to dselect is in the works that will do better in this respect: the
> deity project.
So. The answer w
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Peter Ginsberg wrote:
> As for the packages, I decided that it would be easiest for me to d/l
> the important stuff, or at least as much as I could, and install from a
> zip disk. I didnt have a problem getting dselect to read the zip disks
> nor the packages contained therein
You are in luck 2day! I have an Ensoniq Soundscape ViVo90 PnP card, with
a Debian Linux 1.2 system. Kernel 2.0.29. I have gotten everything
except for midi to work. I just played around until I got it right, or
partially so. (because the sound doc's said the Soundscape card I had
was not yet suppor
Mark Bathie wrote:
>
> Just a simple question. How do i instally my mouse for use with debian &
> X11. Please don't RTFM.
> Thanx.
>
We can help. However
I am constantly amazed that people come asking questions about how
they can get X to work without supplying any specific information.
My sim
Does anybody know if the "sc" spreadsheet is available for Debian? I
cannot find it anywhere.
Brian
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Stan Brown wrote:
>
> How can I use a HP/Coloroda rape drive that connets to the parallel
> port with my Deboan system?
>
>From the Ftape HOWTO
ftape-HOWTO
Kevin Johnson, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
v1.9, 20 September 1996 for ftape-2.08
[ SNIP ]
5.3. Un-supported tape dri
rick wrote:
Help:
I have a new gw2k PP200 system with a (gw2k) Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO90
(PnP) sound card. What do I need to do to configure my kernel to support
this card? I am using the 2.0.30 kernel pkg.
Do I need to use isapnptools, (if so how)?
Looking at the bios setup it looks like PnP co
Is there somebody who can help me configuring qddb to run on Debian Linux?
Johann.
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I installed python. Although the documentation refers to emacs in
python-mode, I could not get my emacs to see the python-el file (I also
installed python-elisp_1.4.0-4.deb.
Can somebody help please?
Johann.
Johann Spies
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I installed filerunner_2.2.1-1.deb from /contrib (I think it was from
hamm) and when I run it, the following error message comes up :
can't read "version": no such variable
while executing
"if {$glob(version) != $version} {
About
if {$version != "0.0"} {
ViewText $glob(lib_fr)/HI
On Fri, 16 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> > Just a simple question. What does RTFM mean? I lost my code book.
>
> File: jargon.info, Node: RTFM, Next: RTFS, Prev: RTFB, Up: = R =
>
> :RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ /imp./ [Unix] Acronym for `Read The Fucking
>Manual'. 1. Used by {guru}s to brush o
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Pilon wrote:
> I need to connect two terminals to my Linux box, I have in my inittab
> file:
>
> s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100
> s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1 vt100
>
>
> The login prompt appears well in my terminals; but when I try to login I
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Pilon wrote:
> I need to connect two terminals to my Linux box, I have in my inittab
> file:
>
> s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100
> s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1 vt100
>
>
> The login prompt appears well in my terminals; but when I try to login I
I am fortunate enough recently become a subscriber to Time-Warner's
RoadRunner Cable modem service. I have not actually gotten around
to setting things up to work with Linux yet, but I have been looking
into what it would take to do it, and here is what I believe to be
true so far.
RoadRunner, in
I just upgraded to modutils 2.1.34, hoping it would correctly
analyze the dependencies of my /lib/modules/misc directory (for example);
instead depmod -a gives me
modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory
if the misc directory (from the kernel version, ie
path[misc]=/lib/modu
> hello,
>
> I am wanting to use a DEC vt420 terminal with my linux box, what is the
> best way to connect the terminal to linux?
>
> thanks
> Syd
You need to use a null modem cable. Try using the "screen" program if you
have problems. To change some of the settings, press F3 on the DEC.
HTH
A
> Ill start this off with the usual caveats, Im new to linux in general,
> as well as debian. My problems, however, seem to be with the dselect
> program. I have read the minimal help pages within dselect, as well
> as the linux install faqs and the (frankly next-to-useless) dselect
> beginner file
> Just a simple question. What does RTFM mean? I lost my code book.
File: jargon.info, Node: RTFM, Next: RTFS, Prev: RTFB, Up: = R =
:RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ /imp./ [Unix] Acronym for `Read The Fucking
Manual'. 1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they
consider trivial or annoying. Compare
On Thu, May 15, 1997 at 04:38:11PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this
> was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this
> before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts
> were run, my c
I need to connect two terminals to my Linux box, I have in my inittab
file:
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100
s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1 vt100
The login prompt appears well in my terminals; but when I try to login I
can't do it.
Can someone help me?
#
# inittab
On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Re: R. Chris Ross wrote:
Re: >
Re: > I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with
Re: > XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to
Re: > trade me a Wincharge for one even up.
Re:
Re: I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo Mach64
uhm ... visible_name=usc.edu
in /etc/smail/config or wherever your config file is
should do it.
On 15 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
>
> I want smail to send mail with a default domainname of usc.edu but
> putting the line
>
> domains=usc.edu
>
> in /etc/smail.config does not allow
Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> A "cable modem" has just been installed on my computer, and I would
> like to use it under Linux:
>
> 1) The card that was installed on my computer is a 10base-T (twisted pair)
> ethernet card -- "Intel 82557-based PCI Ethernet card". Does the Linux k
Caution: Don't take any of the following as 'the truth'. it's mostly
guesses i've made from reading docs and from experimenting on my
systems.
On 15 May 1997, Ed Donovan wrote:
> Here's a slightly old thread I'm continuing; I'm very curious how
> people are dealing with this. I usually follow 'u
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Mark Bathie wrote:
> Just a simple question. How do i instally my mouse for use with debian &
> X11. Please don't RTFM.
> Thanx.
If it's a serial port mouse install the gpm package first. If that works
then configure X11 for your system.
Just a simple question. What does RTF
Just a simple question. How do i instally my mouse for use with debian &
X11. Please don't RTFM.
Thanx.
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> A "cable modem" has just been installed on my computer, and I would
> like to use it under Linux:
>
> 1) The card that was installed on my computer is a 10base-T (twisted pair)
> ethernet card -- "Intel 82557-based PCI Ethernet ca
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time
> (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk
> begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I
> have a lowly 486DX100), and after starti
I want smail to send mail with a default domainname of usc.edu but
putting the line
domains=usc.edu
in /etc/smail.config does not allow this.
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Here's a slightly old thread I'm continuing; I'm very curious how people
are dealing with this. I usually follow 'unstable,' in part because it
largely is quite stable. I hold off on things that look like more
trouble, like libc6. Much advice recommends not using it yet on
important systems. I
Ill start this off with the usual caveats, Im new to linux in general,
as well as debian. My problems, however, seem to be with the dselect
program. I have read the minimal help pages within dselect, as well
as the linux install faqs and the (frankly next-to-useless) dselect
beginner file. I also
Hi,
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> Hello, How do the include files in /usr/include/linux relate
Thomas> to the files in /usr/src/kernel-source-/include/linux ?
Thomas> Most of the include files are identical, others are
Thomas> different. Isn't this a possib
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