Greg Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, now it says System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
Hi Greg!
Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1.
^ ^
Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is
mentioned
Greg Norris wrote:
I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian
system.
However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and
are
gz. How can I read them? Thank you.
try gzip -dc somefile.gz|less
zless file.gz is a lot less
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
A pretty nice article in Sunworld:
http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1998/swol-01-linux.html
Nice, although the Linux is not Solaris theme came through a bit strong.
Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug, as
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 04:48:54PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Nice, although the Linux is not Solaris theme came through a bit strong.
Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug, as the article
mentioned. Caldera, Redhat and (ugh)
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 07:08:17PM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:
I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian
system.
However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and
are
gz. How can I read them?
I am reading the O'Reilly book PGP: Pretty Good Privacy by Simson
Garfinkel and am wondering if there is a Debian distribution? Or, must I
download a version as discribed in appendix A and compile it myself?
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mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave
up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then
I tried
Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is
mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message:
Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd would
give such a deceptive error message?
Hello,
I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql,
postgresql-dev.
When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message:
==
perl: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:
PQconnectdb
Hi, people,
I have installed Debian 1.3 (stable dist) on my notebook
Olivetti Echos P100E, with PCMCIA xircom Cem2 28.8
This pcmcia is not recognized by debian 1.3.
So i search for someting more recent on www.debian.org.
I downloaded pcmcia 2.9.12-1, that requires lib6c
I would know if same
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I think you need to recompile the kernel with IP_FORWARDING enabled.
Butch
At 14:53 -0600 on 1/2/98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is
really bugging me now.
I have got a slightly
Hi Kevin,
I worked it out yesterday. My mistake was in not deleting the pppx
entries from the routing table. Perfectly obvious in hindsight, but I do
wish that people writing documents would give more examples.
The closest I have come to a Portmaster is looking one up in the price
list on
Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that
hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized?
I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some
values.
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One other thing I like about Debian, a non-technical thing, is
that development is open. Sure, Redhat is all free, but there's
still a vendor. With Debian, you can be part of the vendor.
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 10:02:54PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
One thing mentioned in the article
Stan Brown wrote:
Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that
hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized?
I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some
values.
I'm interested in this too. I am trying to develop a diskless
I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option. When set, the Win95
computers can't browse or login - permission denied. When it is set to
share, everything works fine. Anyone have this problem before?
I'm using Samba 1.9.18alpha14 with encrypted passwords enabled.
Thanks
---
Paul
Can someone help me out with this missing IP address.. error? I don't
know what I need to change or do..
/var/log/nmb:
01/04/1998 23:54:35 netbios nameserver version 1.9.18alpha14 started
Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1997
initialise_wins: Missing IP address when parsing line 3D ILLUSION#00
ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then
you can go back to dpkg -i
I think it will be better off if you donate the money to debian instead,
just spit out your problem in this list and I am sure you will get the
answer in no time.
good luck
kusuma
Greg Cox wrote:
Need some help installing debian correctly.
If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't mind
I am very new to Deian, just installed 1.3.1, and am trying to connect to
the Net (I am a single user). My ISP provider (Sprint Canada) uses PAP, but
I succeeded in getting EzPPP to connect following the instr. in the
paackage. After connection is made, I try
ping 142.104.7.11 (an
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500
From: Catouch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: reading HOWTO files
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
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ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then
you can go back to dpkg -i
I think it will be better off if you donate the money to debian instead,
just spit out your problem in this list and I am sure you will get the
answer in no time.
good luck
kusuma
Greg Cox wrote:
Need some help installing debian correctly.
If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't mind
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Catouch) wrote:
I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system.
However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
gz. How can I read them? Thank you.
If you intalled the Midnight
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option. When set, the Win95
computers can't browse or login - permission denied. When it is set to
share, everything works fine. Anyone have this problem before?
I'm using Samba
On 4 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted
under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap.
ERR Error locking your mailbox.
And the following error in my
Hi,
I got Debian 1.3.1 installed from hamm and I had a problem at the end of the
install. Now, all works fine, except for the prompt login: as soon as I start
my computer, root is logged on and I can't exit from it. I created a user
account but it doesn't change anything.
Thanks for help
Franck
When I run xvidtune, it works for the time being. When I exit X then
launch X again it's back to what it was before I ran xvidtune. How can
I get xvidtune to save the changes it makes?
Run as:
xvidtune /tmp/my.settings
To save your setting do: `show'`quit' and extract mode line from
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option. When set, the Win95
computers can't browse or login - permission denied. When it is set to
share, everything works fine. Anyone
Hello,
All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits
immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled
and linked without showinig any error . Any help .
Thanks
Faiz ul Haque Zeya
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On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 06:54:59AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
No.. It prompts for the password either way. Only when security = share
the password is accepted. Encrypted passwords were inabled in both
security settings, so there can't be a problem with /etc/smbpasswd.
Hmmm. I have nothing
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this
Yes Remco is right, I have not tried it thou.., give it a try... and
good luck
kusuma
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
just
Al1 wrote:
SUBSCRIBEPlease
help me I'm a new user of Debian 1.31 and i can't finish the installation
!!When
I reach "Dselect" and i choose the CD-ROM to install the package I press
OK and after I always got the same message: "Insert the CD-ROM and enter
the block device name [] " and I can't
- J'ai eu le m^eme probl'eme,
-
- la solution est assez simple par rapport aux montagnes que l'on peut
- s'en faire :
-
- Sous linux les lecteurs (CDROM, Disque dur, Disquette) sont d'esign'e par
- des devices de la forme /dev/xxx.
-
- Le device de ton CDROM doit ^etre /dev/hdb/ (si ce
Hi!
If I want to use nxterm with a bigger point size than the default,
what do I have to change/touch/add?
TIA!
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On 4 Jan, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd
would give such a deceptive error message?
Kirk Hilliard
(using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down)
I got this message when I first compiled PPP as a kernel module. Since
grin wrote:
I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql,
postgresql-dev.
When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message:
==
perl: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
: Greg Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: Ok, now it says System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
:
: Hi Greg!
:
: Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1.
: ^ ^
: Whatever ttys1
John Goerzen wrote:
At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of
machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are
moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems
will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K
While the UPS-HOWTO is very informative, I was also looking for a
Linux oriented consumer review of UPS models and features, some Linux
user's web pages with a little more up to date info than the Aug 1994
date shown in one part of the HOWTO, as well as a survey of first hand
Anthony Fok wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux.
Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400
is a Windows-only printer.
Are you sure? A search through usenet yields this:
Er, off topic, but I know I saw a patch on this list at one point for
sendmail, I believe it was called is_mx or something like that. It
made sendmail capable of discovering whether its host was a valid MX
relay for a domain (useful for blocking unauthorised relaying, eh). At
any rate, now I
Hello all.
I'm trying to get this Debian machine onto my office network. I can ping
localhost but no-one else. The problem is b/c the network is a dumb gateway one,
where one machine (not the Debian one) handles all the TCP/IP traffic for all
the others via a single line to the net. Anyway, if
Not strictly Debian, but I *am* a Debian user so
I am trying to ACeDB
http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/acedocs/acedbfaq.html. However, both
the text and graphical programs (tace and xace, respectively) produce a
segmentation fault when trying to reinitialize the database. gdb just
says:
I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a
software author. There seems to be a growing trend for linux package
developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format.
The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide
(Turbo C like
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Er, off topic, but I know I saw a patch on this list at one point for
sendmail, I believe it was called is_mx or something like that. It
made sendmail capable of discovering whether its host was a valid MX
relay for a domain
Krio wrote:
I got Linux of the Boot magazine CD and since I had read about it here and
there I decided to try it. It looks great but it takes a while to get the
Might you (or others on the list) tell me where you heard/read about
the Boot Magazine CD/Article? I'd like to see what kind of
Hi,
since about two weeks (christmas holidays) I spent day to day to get my
Debian system ready. I reached a point were my xserver works quite well,
running KDE to my satisfaction, but I still encounter some heavy
problems which I am unable to solve.
1) My printer (canon,bjc800) doesn't work. I
I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or
Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only
RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says
/usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found
/usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP:
I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down
the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make
this happen? I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this...
Any help would be appreciated.
--Bill.
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Hi everyone,
Here is my situation :
I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl
Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os..
I want't to conect myself on the internet
I don't know how to do.
Simple situation, simple question !
Simple aswer ?
Please help me :)
Thanx
--
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Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or
Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only
RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says
/usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not
I have not found a way to use dselect through a socks 4.2beta server.
Can anyone help me get it working?
I do have dftp_3.2-1 working through the firewall. If I cannot get
dselect to work directly is it possible to:
use dftp to get the new Packages files
use dselect to choose which packages
I am new to debian,
and have a few questions.
1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card).
-- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules.
-- Why does it try to find one? is this OK??
2) I find no man(1) command, and all the /usr/man/* pages are
I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down
the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make
this happen? I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this...
Any help would be appreciated.
This is more or less true for all (Intel?)-Linux
If this message comes through, then t-online has dissappeared from
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Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED].
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Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am new to debian,
Congratulations.
and have a few questions.
1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card).
-- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules.
-- Why does it try to find one? is this OK??
Gerard, here's an update on that problem i was having a few weeks ago
with my ancient SOYO brand revision 1 NCR 53c810 card.
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote:
Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think:
Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERROR
Hello,
I've just picked up a copy of the latest issue of the German magazine
CHIP Extra (Issue 1/98), which comes with a CD-ROM containing Debian 1.3.1
and the Beta version of StarOffice 4.0 for Linux (They call it stable,
but I could not check that -- at least not yet).
I usually don't read
Oops, sorry for the stupid typo in the subject... GNU is not GNI g
Cleto
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I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian.
Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card.
The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations,
and another debain (hamm) box, which currently talks to the others via
basic
Can you install debian linux on a Hitachi 166t MX ? it's a 166 MMX system
with a TFT display
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hello everybody!
I'm afraid that's not the first time this question is coming,
sorry for that (and for my poor english)
-Speaking of Debian 1.3 and Smail 3.2.3-
Well, using the debian.config script from installation, I have the following
files:
/etc/smail/config:
cut
visible_name=avo.fr
hi
could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields
in /etc/ppp.options_out?
thanx
dave
ps: a nice linux article in current Sky Telescope
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Anthony Fok wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux.
Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400
is a Windows-only printer.
Are you
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:57:02 -0600, Butch Kemper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is
really bugging me now.
I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it
looks like.
I have got a
Pierre DUPUIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi everyone,
Here is my situation :
I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl
Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os..
I want't to conect myself on the internet
I don't know how to do.
Simple situation, simple question !
Simple aswer ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes:
2)ISDN - I have a creatix 16.0 card. I wonder how can I load the HiSax
driver? With modconf just the telesdriver seems loadable ( what does
this mean:teles is old. use HiSax instead? Does this mean Debian uses
automaically HiSax instead or that it's up
On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message:
bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail
fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null)
failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
post.metrolink.net
I have
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.
1.2. Purpose of this
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