Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Darin D.
> OK, have you set the IRQ you set on the card, as legacy ISA in your BIOS, as > opposed to a PNP device? If you have auto config turned on, shut it off and > set > this manually. Plug and Pray is not a joke reference to PnP. I have an American Megatrends BIOS circa 1994 with no PNP support!

Re: Which PGP should I get?

1997-08-30 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:46:50 -0400, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > >Should I get pgp-us or pgp-i? I'm living in Chile, if that makes any >difference. Which ever one your government says you can't use. - http://www.psychosis.com/

SOLVED: making poff hang up phone

1997-08-30 Thread Britton
I have figured out how to make this work, thanks to the tips provided by Joerg and Shaleh. In case others are having the same problem: the trick is to tell the modem to hang up when DTE goes low. Perhaps most people realized already that the way to do this is in the chatscript /etc/ppp.chatscrip

Re: making poff hang up phone

1997-08-30 Thread Igor Grobman
On %M %N, Britton wrote > > On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should > > > send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if > > > one of them is n

Re: Sound and Modem Troubles

1997-08-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Dan Gannon, WA5ANF wrote: > I have a Packard Bell 166 MHz Pentium Tower. > I have suddenly lost BOTH the internal modem and all sound. > I have installed an external modem and configued it, using > Windows 95, for Serial Port 2, but that does not correct > my problem with no s

Sound and Modem Troubles

1997-08-30 Thread Dan Gannon, WA5ANF
I have a Packard Bell 166 MHz Pentium Tower. I have suddenly lost BOTH the internal modem and all sound. I have installed an external modem and configued it, using Windows 95, for Serial Port 2, but that does not correct my problem with no sound. Are the modem and sound on the same card in this mac

Re: making poff hang up phone

1997-08-30 Thread Britton
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should > > send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if > > one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on

confusion over tcl/tk packages

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Harnois
I give up. What's the difference between tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tk42_4.2p2-6.deb and tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tcl76_7.6p2-6.deb. Perplexedly yours, -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minu

Re: Which PGP should I get?

1997-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
"Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I get pgp-us or pgp-i? I'm living in Chile, if that makes any > difference. > > >From the looks of it, I'd say pgp-i, but just want to make sure... pgp-i is better for those outside the US. It'd be better for those inside the US too if

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-08-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:49:28 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It > > has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the > > PCI card. Do I need to get something

Re: Problem with module after recompile

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Legart
Hi ! > You'll need to recompile the ne module at the same time as the rest of > the kernel. Select it as a module when you configure the kernel. Ok ... it doesn't work when you compile the kernel, and then do a make modules, make modules_install ? > kernel-package will make installing it all

Re: Perfmeter?

1997-08-30 Thread joost witteveen
> > Greetings, > > I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload > and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. So? Start them on another system than localhost, and eigher make sure DISPLAY is set to your display (usually done automatically),

Re: Qpopper ?

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Legart
Hi ! > adduser (Maybe I'm missing somthing?) You meen, that users added to the system, also have pop3 accounts ? Hmm... sound true enugh ! I haven't even thougt about that ... thanks! > Hmm this should not be. Do a 'ps aux' do you see /usr/sbin/inetd running? > Can you telnet in? Can you ftp

Misconfigured ftp site?

1997-08-30 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Didn't know where to report this, so here I am. I tried to use dselect to download and install pgp from os.inf.tu-dresden.de. Everything went fine; I could download the list of packages and selected both pgp-i and pgp-us (I also tried just selecting pgp-i, with the same results). When I gave it th

making poff hang up phone

1997-08-30 Thread Britton
I am wondering how I can make poff hang up my phone. ppp comes down ok, but my phone line stays tied up. I have to pick up the reciever and sing into it until it gives up, which is not very elegant, especially considering my singing. Anyone know how to do this? Is it supposed to be doing it by

Re: Qpopper ?

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Legart
Hi, > Hmm this should not be. Do a 'ps aux' do you see /usr/sbin/inetd running? > Can you telnet in? Can you ftp to yourself? (myhost$ ftp myhost) Ftp program returns: "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" Strange, huh ? Regards, badpixel of bad sector michael lega

Which PGP should I get?

1997-08-30 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Should I get pgp-us or pgp-i? I'm living in Chile, if that makes any difference. >From the looks of it, I'd say pgp-i, but just want to make sure... -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

Re: XDM

1997-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: > > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 Alternately you can put a DefaultColorDepth 16 entry in the appropriate Screen section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted Harding) writes: > However, I'd be most interested to hear of experience with Applixware > (and what about StarOffice?). I used StarOffice here to convert a Word6 document to html so that I could print it. It did a pretty good job, but it was a small document. -- Rob -

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another example is the ease with which you can make flow text around > a picture with a complicated contour in say PageMaker compared to > how difficult that is in TeX. Of course true lumberjacks would just write raw postscript :> I've succesfully used

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Rob Browning
"Marc W. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would think that XFig, gnuplot and LaTeX could produce all the > "flashiness" that one would need. Also, for those not familiar with it, jgraph can produce some really nice, clean postscript graphs from a fairly straightforward input specification.

Re: Qpopper ?

1997-08-30 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:29:24 +, Michael Legart wrote: >> Hmm this should not be. Do a 'ps aux' do you see /usr/sbin/inetd running? >> Can you telnet in? Can you ftp to yourself? (myhost$ ftp myhost) > >Yep ... inetd *is* runnning, *and* ftpd *is* configurared, but it >still won't work. Is ft

Re: making poff hang up phone

1997-08-30 Thread Shaleh
Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on an 'ATH'. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Re: making poff hang up phone

1997-08-30 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should > send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if > one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on an 'ATH'. I think 'poff' lowers dtr. try at&d2 --- He

Re: Perfmeter?

1997-08-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Udjat the BitMeister... wrote: > I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload > and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. I > cant find this package anyplace (or something close) Say, you have hosts remote1, remote2, ...

Unidentified subject!

1997-08-30 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:49:28 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It > has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the > PCI card. Do I need to get something and recompile the kernal in order > for linux to see

[no subject]

1997-08-30 Thread bigt
I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the PCI card. Do I need to get something and recompile the kernal in order for linux to see the pci card? Tony Koehn This email originated from ourtownusa.com.

Re: Qpopper ?

1997-08-30 Thread John J. Fox
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Michael Legart wrote: > Also ... the ftpd package ... is it a ftp server ? I also have that > one installed, but if i try to connect with a ftp-program (*not* as > root, but as a user), I just get the message, that the remote host > have closed connection, because the servic

moving remote systems from slackware to debian; charset=us-ascii

1997-08-30 Thread Rick Hawkins
In one of those strange turns of events, a professor here has hired me to consult for his computer chain on Linux. Having twins on the way, I'll take the extra couple of hundred a month. Anyway, the systems are remote; they are mail servers for schools throughout the state. They seem to have

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:29:53 -0700 (MST), Darin D. wrote: >> >> Here, no problems with a 3C509B. I disabled pnp and set the irq to 5 >> (for arbitrary reasons.) >> What do you get from `cat /proc/{interrupts,io}` ? > >I have tried different irq's and addresses and all of them have been clear >of

Perfmeter?

1997-08-30 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
Greetings, I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. I cant find this package anyplace (or something close) Please help! thanks! --Eric -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Re: Qpopper ?

1997-08-30 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 14:08:37 +, Michael Legart wrote: >Hi ! > >Just wondering if I can use the qpopper package, that comes with >Debian 1.3, to make a pop3 mail server ? If so ... how do I configure >it ? I have it installed, but I can't seem to find out how to create >accounts etc. adduse

xlib6g package

1997-08-30 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I tried updating to libc6-dev and in the efort I had to reinstall tk42-dev However this now depends on tk4.2 which in turn depends on xlib6g But I can't find xlib6g anywhere. Can somebody help ? Thanks

Re: [QF] fetchmail

1997-08-30 Thread kestrel
On 30 Aug 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [snip] > > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed > > [snip] > > > the error seems to be in the SMTP connect to (null) failed > > Can you find out whether the problem is at the fetchmail end or the > smail end? I'm not us

Re: Exchange mouse button 2 & 3 in X.

1997-08-30 Thread Brian K Servis
Carey Evans writes: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X, >> such that the paste button is on the rightmost >> button. > >xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 3 2' > But be warned that it will effect everything else that uses the 2 and 3 buttons. Examples: Netsc

Re: R.I.P

1997-08-30 Thread Dale Thomas Harrison
> Well it looks like i may just have to accept microsmurfdom. :-). > My debian partition has gone and r--ted itself somehow. > I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried > to access it and ouch. > > I recieved the following. > > Attempt to access beyond end of devic

Re: R.I.P

1997-08-30 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, john wrote: > I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried > to access it and ouch. > > I recieved the following. > > Attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03:rw=0, want=1939953655, > limit=979965 EXT2-fs error (device08:03): ext2_find_entry:

Re: [QF] fetchmail

1997-08-30 Thread W Paul Mills
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ran fetchmail -a -v -k and got the following: > > fetchmail: 3.8.0 querying orion (protocol POP3) at Wed Aug 27 21:46:49 1997 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version 2.2) at orion.aye.net starting. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > fetchmail: POP3> USER kestre

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Darin D. wrote: > 1. Try to disable the boot prom. > > How do I do this? I have gone through the 3Com disk and didn't see > anything like this. If you have the configuration and diagnostic program version 3.0, then click on install, configure adapter. It's there. regard

R.I.P

1997-08-30 Thread john
Well it looks like i may just have to accept microsmurfdom. :-). My debian partition has gone and r--ted itself somehow. I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried to access it and ouch. I recieved the following. Attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03:rw=0, wa

Qpopper ?

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Legart
Hi ! Just wondering if I can use the qpopper package, that comes with Debian 1.3, to make a pop3 mail server ? If so ... how do I configure it ? I have it installed, but I can't seem to find out how to create accounts etc. Also ... the ftpd package ... is it a ftp server ? I also have that on

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 30-Ágú-97 Craig Sanders wrote: > >but mostly, they are fairly decent apps that do a fairly good job. >i don't object to MS applications the way I object to MS operating >systems. I don't like them much, but they don't cause me the grief that >Win 3 & 95 & NT do. > The Windows NT is actually t

RE: Pls Help: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-30 Thread Travis Cole
I may be able to help you a little. On 30-Aug-97 Britton wrote: > >I'm a little confused on some of these options. If someone could fill in >the blanks for an average ppp connection started with pon about twice a >day approximately it might be very helpful to the effort. I also >encourage every

Re: Problem with module after recompile

1997-08-30 Thread Carey Evans
"Michael Legart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some problems with the "ne" module, after I have recompiled my > kernel. I get the message "undefined symbols" when loading the > module. [snip] You'll need to recompile the ne module at the same time as the rest of the kernel. Select it a

Re: [QF] fetchmail

1997-08-30 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed [snip] > the error seems to be in the SMTP connect to (null) failed Can you find out whether the problem is at the fetchmail end or the smail end? I'm not using smail, so the messages will be different, but try: % te

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Carey Evans
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Doesn't the "mca" in these messages refer to the IBM MCA bus "standard"? > Wouldn't that interfere with the VLB bus tou say you have? IIRC the Debian rescue disk kernel and modules are now built with MCA support. These messages could come from l

Re: [Text Processing] Making Banners, etc.

1997-08-30 Thread Carey Evans
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any usefull linux/debian software for such simple, big-text > applications? Latex isn't really meant to be used (directly) for such an > application, and using something like Gimp for text processing seems like > overkill. Xfig works quite wel

Re: Exchange mouse button 2 & 3 in X.

1997-08-30 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X, > such that the paste button is on the rightmost > button. xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 3 2' -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "On the telephone line I am anyone, I am anything I want to be."

Module problem ... ups !

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Legart
Hi again ! Ups ... it was not "undefined symbols" but "unresolved symbols"! Like "unresolved symbol pci_bios ... device... something" Any ideas, how I can fix this ? Regards badpixel of bad sector michael legart -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW icq uin -> 2565176 --

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-30 Thread tko
joost witteveen writes: [snip] > > And another question - how many hosts can one have on a single thin > > ethernet cable? > > Dunno. Wasn't there a maximum to the lenght of a BNC cable? (100 meters > or thereabouts)? 185 meters without a repeater box. From experience, I'd place at least 2 meters

Re: Need pppd/PAP guru!

1997-08-30 Thread tko
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > [snip] > > Ok, let's take a look. Just sit back and relax. This won't hurt a bit. > > > Aug 27 14:46:46 sally pppd[13583]: pppd 2.2.0 started by admin, uid 0 [snip] Thank you for your analysis of Kevin's situation. I've learned another piece of the puzzle of going "l

Problem with module after recompile

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Legart
Hi ! I have some problems with the "ne" module, after I have recompiled my kernel. I get the message "undefined symbols" when loading the module. I when I reconfiguraded my kernel, I disabled "PCI Bios support" because I only have a 486. When trying the "debmod -a" it loads a lot of modules, w

Pls Help: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-30 Thread Britton
I'm a little confused on some of these options. If someone could fill in the blanks for an average ppp connection started with pon about twice a day approximately it might be very helpful to the effort. I also encourage everyone to take part in this, extremely cool! Only two files in the tar ar

should I be worried?

1997-08-30 Thread Richard Morin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Was going through the logs, and came across this in my /var/log/daemon.log Aug 28 15:17:22 joanrich tcplogd: telnet connection attempt from van-52-1146.direct.ca Aug 28 15:17:22 joanrich in.telnetd[10595]: connect from van-52-1146.direct.ca Aug 28 15:17:23 joanr

Re: Sparc Debian?

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Solomani Mifsud
Where can I get more info on Debian Sparc? I had a quick look at the debian.org.au mirror and couldn't spot anything relative in the index. Also, does this build of debian have its own setup disks like standard debian? Thanks. Michael electric RAIN http://www.

Re: Time Tracking Tool ...

1997-08-30 Thread Bob Clark
The name of the package is worklog. Toens Bueker wrote: > > Hi *, > > somebody - I guess it was Christoph Lameter - recently > announced a tool, which he used to keep track of the time > spend on different projects. The description looked very > interesting, but I lost the message and although I

Exchange mouse button 2 & 3 in X.

1997-08-30 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X, such that the paste button is on the rightmost button. thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: domain name resolution

1997-08-30 Thread R. Chris Ross
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Mark Stone wrote: > I've just done my first Debian installation, after having used Slackware > for a couple of years, and I've got my ppp connection working. My next > challenge is to get domain name resolution working properly so I can > navigate by something other than IP nu

Re: Printing html Debian documentation?

1997-08-30 Thread Igor Grobman
On %M %N, Douglas Bates wrote > > Alternatively, am I completely missing the boat and trying to retrofit > a printed copy from the html version of the documentation when there > is another, more easily printed, version. Yes :). If you get the source of dpkg, you will find the sgml source of the

Re: Cursor vanishes when LILO loads and doesn't return

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Rokicki
I came up with a work around that results in Debian booting with a cursor. I set default=dos in lilo.conf, while in dos turn on the cursor, boot with loadlin and I now have a cursor. :) Later I'll dig out a dos manual and set up my config.sys to boot Debian as default and leave a couple seconds

how do I get sound with xquake?

1997-08-30 Thread Frank Swasey
I've installed xquake 1.06-4 on my debian 1.3.1 system. I've also finally managed to get sound working (at least I can play CD's and cat exmh's clink.au file to /dev/audio and get a clink sound) with my SB AWE-64. Is there any way to get sound from xquake? It's so frustrating not to hear the mon

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Mark Phillips
> Absolutely. Linux also needs marketing, marketing, and more marketing. > I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't > support - OCR. Everything else is available. What about something like Pagemaker? We have xfig, but it really doesn't do the same thing. Pagemaker

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Darin D.
> > Here, no problems with a 3C509B. I disabled pnp and set the irq to 5 > (for arbitrary reasons.) > What do you get from `cat /proc/{interrupts,io}` ? I have tried different irq's and addresses and all of them have been clear of anything in cat /proc/interrupts & ioports. I am now going to rem

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Darin D.
> > 1. Try to disable the boot prom. > How do I do this? I have gone through the 3Com disk and didn't see anything like this. > 2. Your transciever type must be BNC if your using coax cabling, RJ-45 if > you are using UTP cables. I have the 3c509B-TPO, so I only have the UTP input. > > c

Re: update-menus failed?

1997-08-30 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Aug 29, 1997, at 16:18, joost witteveen wrote: > > shell-init: could not get current > > directory: get\cwd: cannot access parent directories > > This I don't understand. I wrote update-menus, and I've > seen quite a few error messages from update-menus. But > I've never seen this one (n

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-30 Thread Greg Vence
Another machine. I've got a dual PPro 200 working on it plus a couple of other slugs. HTH -- Greg. Ferenc Kiraly wrote: > > Hi! > > This is just to encourage more Linux users to join the effort: > > I have just set up 4 machines to help crack the RC5 challenge, three > of which are pe

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IMO, microsoft should get out of the operating system game and leave > > it to those who actually have a clue about OSeslike linux or bsd > > kernel hackers and unix programmers for example. > > IMNSHO, MS should write a libwin95.so and a win95w

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, David B. Teague wrote: > Hi Craig, and all list readers: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote, in part: > [...] > > > > MS is inescapable. Programs like WINE and WABI and Willow's TWIN > > are useful and necessary because linux needs more apps (preferably > > freewa