TCP/IP Network +WIN95

1998-04-29 Thread Florian Attenberger
I have a local network that consists of 2 win95 and 1 debian box. The debian box has an isdn connection to the Internet. There is one Problem: The win95 boxes make the debian box dial exactly dial every 5 minutes, each. This is getting very expensive. Is there a possibility to get win95 to NOT doi

/dev/ttyS0 permissions

1998-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have /dev/ttyS0 shown as belonging to group dialout and have added my username to the dialout group, but I get cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied errors with both minicom and efax. I'd rather not run these as root. Did I miss something? Bob Bob Nielsen Interne

Re: Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?

1998-04-29 Thread Travis Cole
You may want to try Netscape Composer. It comes with Netscape Communicator. We use it here at WWU for a ton of stuff. Unfortunatly we use the Win95 version. I think the Linux version works pretty well, although I haven't played with it for a while. Vi is my HTML composer of choice. -- --Tra

Re: Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?

1998-04-29 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Here's something that works with Linux, but is not nearly as easy to use or with as many features as frontpage. It does the job, though. http://www.w3.org/Amaya -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Paul Miller
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Dan Cyr wrote: > > Wow, alot of people getting this thread. > > http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html > http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp1.html > > The second is the start of a cleanup on the first. Thanks goto Gary Bristo > for taking the time to clean it up a

Re: Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?

1998-04-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
i'll try to find something tonight,there is some utility for doing the stuff you describe here (though i'm not sure about the DHTML thingie). Alain (who did his last night searching program and d/l documents). > >I'm not pleased. Not at all. I've used MS Frontpage 97 on WindowsNT for > >quite a

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Dan Cyr wrote: > > God, I 'love' making a moron out of myself. > > This trick doesn't seem to be working on my system. I wish I had taken the > time to test it before replying, but I had it working at one point in time > and was 'sure' that was how. > > Just delete the pap-

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Lorenzo Lazzeri wrote: > > Hello, > > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures > > even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) > > I think your /etc/ppp/pap-s

Re: convert wav to mpg3?

1998-04-29 Thread Travis Cole
I think there is only one Linux encoder currently available and it is time limited crippleware. Get it from: http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/mp3enc/ I have heard rumors of a project to make a GPL'ed mp3 encoder but it may be at least a few months off. I am looking forward to it. Also the

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Will Lowe wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > I'm guessing you made the changes to your magicfilter /usr/sbin/XXX as I > > instructed above (though you didn't reply to me). If you get gibberish out > > of the > Yes, I did, thanks. Ok. > > double-sure you have the righ

convert wav to mpg3?

1998-04-29 Thread Will Lowe
Is there any linux sound utility that can convert wav to mpg3? I know there are a few windows ones ... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I'm guessing you made the changes to your magicfilter /usr/sbin/XXX as I > instructed above (though you didn't reply to me). If you get gibberish out of > the Yes, I did, thanks. > double-sure you have the right printer defined in Win95. I insta

Boot Disk Failures

1998-04-29 Thread G.Dale Miller
I am having trouble with the boot disks from April. I boot up with the rescue floppy and it start up with the loading root... etc.. Eventually it says boot failed press and key to try again. Are there problems with these disk2 and pentium2 boards. I just bought a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and

Re: lib problem with netscape 4.05

1998-04-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$/usr/local/netscape/netscape > /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > Try # setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib (if using csh/tcsh) or # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/u

Re: lib problem with netscape 4.05

1998-04-29 Thread aqy6633
> > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. Install xlib6 (not xlib6g) and libc5 packages. Goos luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")| http:/

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Will, I'm guessing you made the changes to your magicfilter /usr/sbin/XXX as I instructed above (though you didn't reply to me). If you get gibberish out of the printer when using the 'cat' passthrough in your magicfilter script that means that your Win95 box is not generated the right output. Pl

lib problem with netscape 4.05

1998-04-29 Thread deniz
Hi, I`m getting these on my hamm box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$/usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape libXt.so.6 => not found libSM.so.6 => not found libICE.so.6 =>

Printing from windows

1998-04-29 Thread Will Lowe
I've got samba set up ok, but the output of my Win95 driver doesn't seem to get sent to the printer ok -- it prints out as if I'd sent a postscript file to a non-postscript printer (you know, one word of gibberish per page) ... does anyone know if 1) I can get windows to just translate everythi

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-29 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Daniel, > > I'm a bit confused. Why should I bother looking up something in the > > archive that I wrote? Also, it wasn't me who asked. I was > > attempting to answer the question. Hence, you get another smiley face. > > :) > > Touche ... I think that I was confused when I wrote it, so don

Re: Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?

1998-04-29 Thread Kevin Traas
vi? Later, Kevin -Original Message- From: Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debianlist Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 4:13 AM Subject: Alternative to MS Frontpage web design? >I'm not pleased. Not at all. I've used MS Frontpage 97 on WindowsNT for >quite a while for my web site,

qcread problems

1998-04-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, I was trying to get a QuickCam Color to work, but it looks like qcread (http://phobos.illtel.denver.co.us/pub/qcread/README.html) cannot read anything from the camera. It does find it, but when it captures a frame, it looks like it doesn't receive anything from the camera. It actually does w

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-29 Thread dg
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > I'm a bit confused. Why should I bother looking up something in the > archive that I wrote? Also, it wasn't me who asked. I was > attempting to answer the question. Hence, you get another smiley face. > :) Touche ... I think that I was confused when

Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

1998-04-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
Part of this question has been hashed over a zillion times; for that I apologise. I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) Now for the hashed over part. Is the

Re: DL at other computer

1998-04-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 18:47 +0200 1998-04-29, Vaclav Hula wrote: >Hi All! >I want to upgrade my machine (HAMM, last upgrade about half month ago) >and I need to download packages at other (non-debian) linux machine. >Is there some program to simplify this task, as there's too much packages >to download? Yes, it's ca

Re: [off-topic] Distributed computing, stellar computation

1998-04-29 Thread Britton
If you poke around the RC5 page, there is (or was) a page with links to other distributed computing projects, includeing some that looked to me quite nifty: finding abelian (whatever they are if I spelled it right) groups (which I suppose are of interest to number theorists), other mathy things, a

Re: M-g in XEmacs 20.4?

1998-04-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:28:25AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi there, > > > When I press M-g (which as a developer I use frequently) I get "A-g not > > defined". So my ALT key has reverted to ALT behaviour, instead of META > > which I am sure it was before. > > > > What has changed? I'm need

DL at other computer

1998-04-29 Thread Vaclav Hula
Hi All! I want to upgrade my machine (HAMM, last upgrade about half month ago) and I need to download packages at other (non-debian) linux machine. Is there some program to simplify this task, as there's too much packages to download? Mejtese... Ax -- Vaclav Hùla [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP problem using hamm

1998-04-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when i type in pon it dials my ISP and logs in fine then like 30 seconds > later it disconnects heres what it says when i type in plog > pppd[129] Serial connection established > pppd[129] Using interface ppp0 > pppd[129] LPC: Timeout sending config-requests

Re: window manager lockups with latest X

1998-04-29 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 12:15:47PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > This makes me wonder > when you say that "the mouse can't give any window focus" > is it able to move windows by dragging or bring them to the front? No, the mouse is able to move around the screen, but it does not let me do

Re: Installing Debian on many PCs

1998-04-29 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 04:33:09PM -, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > I am the manager of the computing department in a > french company. We are currently running most servers > under OS/2 witch had been chosen in 1992 and are > now planning to move to Linux. > > I am very pleased with the Debian dpkg

Re: window manager lockups with latest X

1998-04-29 Thread Stephen Carpenter
This makes me wonder when you say that "the mouse can't give any window focus" is it able to move windows by dragging or bring them to the front? I have had a very similar problem without even leaving X to a VT an dback...just ocasionally I can click on windows, bring them to front etc juct can

Re: PPP problem using hamm

1998-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've seen this occasionally. AFAIK, it has always been caused by problems at my ISP. Bob On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, calvin wrote: > when i type in pon it dials my ISP and logs in fine then like 30 seconds > later it disconnects heres what it says when i type in plog > pppd[129] Serial connection esta

window manager lockups with latest X

1998-04-29 Thread James Dietrich
The subject line says it quite well; here are some more details. Several weeks ago I was still running the 3.3.1-2 packages (xbase, xfnt100, xfnt75, xfntbase, xfntpex, xlib6, xlib6g, xlib6g-dev, and xserver-mach64) with the scwm window manager. Once in a (long) while scwm would lock up and I wou

Re: text mode IDE?

1998-04-29 Thread Stephen Carpenter
You shouldn't forget wpe/xwpe it is a great little program if you are programmin gin C (never tried anything else with it) it will color the source code acoring to what it is...rather neat it even has drpdown menus in text mode a very easy one to use...and it has all of the compile, and whet not co

Re: recompiling kernel

1998-04-29 Thread Scott Ellis
> If that is the case, then I'm not sure this will solve my problem. > I think the problem is with the compile itself, and I don't know enough > about C and make scripts, etc. to figure it out. Somewhere in > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed there is a file that is invoking > objdu

PPP problem using hamm

1998-04-29 Thread calvin
when i type in pon it dials my ISP and logs in fine then like 30 seconds later it disconnects heres what it says when i type in plog pppd[129] Serial connection established pppd[129] Using interface ppp0 pppd[129] LPC: Timeout sending config-requests pppd[129] Connection terminated pppd[129] Receiv

Re: text mode IDE?

1998-04-29 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Dave Elliot wrote: > I was wondering if there's a decent text mode IDE for debian/linux. > Something similar to RHIDE or Borland's DOS IDE. I would use > something for X, but I can't get that working yet. Hopefully someday. > Anyways, anything would be great. Thanks for t

the 'w' command and utmp

1998-04-29 Thread Steve Hsieh
After upgrading various frozen packages today, I no longer show up using the 'w' command under X. Is one of the packages no longer updating utmp properly? kanga:[1]~% w 11:04am up 2 min, 0 users, load average: 0.74, 0.47, 0.18 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU

Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
(Maybe this discussion should be off-list?) Rick Macdonald wrote: > > I think it should start off configured with `locate' since I'd expect most > > people to have it. The `find' default started out looking in the wrong > > directory. > > locate is broken for regu

Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Peter - thanks for the feedback! > > The new deb-find command is cool! > > I think it should start off configured with `locate' since I'd expect most > people to have it. The `find' default started out looking in the wrong > directory. I've been using an external scrip

Re: bo: Problem with Xlib

1998-04-29 Thread Markus Lechner
The paths... > -L/usr/X11R6/lib Thanks Nils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm)

1998-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
Dselect won't install e2fslibsg because of a conflict with e2fsprogs, but it won't remove e2fsprogs because it is an essential package. How do I resolve this dilemma? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rick Macdonald wrote: > deb-view version 1.5 was just released to master today, but I thought > that I'd announce the changes here. Handy emacs package! A few comments: > The new deb-find command is cool! I think it should start off configured with `locate' since I'd expect most people to have

Upgrading obsolete packages using dselect

1998-04-29 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi My pc has a number of these obsolete packages. How can i update them using dselect ? Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNUc

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:36:39PM +0200, Lorenzo Lazzeri wrote: > > Hello, > > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures > > even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) > > I think

Re: portslave and AutoPPP

1998-04-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Peter Shtinkov wrote: > > Can anyone help me to turn on AutoPPP with portslave1.16, on Debian > 1.3.1 ? I have a page set up on configuring portslave at http://www.buoy.com/isp Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Lorenzo Lazzeri
Hello, On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures > even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) I think your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets should have chmod 600 and root.root owner. Furthermore, if

Re: X's with Matrox Mystique II

1998-04-29 Thread Richard A Nelson
I'm running Debian fine with a Mystique 220 4m. The only problem you'll have is if you install from a CD or 1.3.rx version... These include an X system that doesn't recognize the Mystique. You can use it in VGA mode whilst downloading the lastest from XFree86 (for bo), or from whereever. -- R

Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?

1998-04-29 Thread Tristan Day
I'm not pleased. Not at all. I've used MS Frontpage 97 on WindowsNT for quite a while for my web site, and for compatibility and to save confusion, I typed all filenames and target frames in capital letters (eg a href="BLAH.HTM" target=MAIN). However MS doesn't like all capitals, and changes it on

Jade and sp

1998-04-29 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi I need to be enlightened! First: I'm using BO When trying to install sgml-tools i found out (on the debian packages page) that sp and jade share the same source! Is this for real ? Next. I installed sp from bo. Everything ok so far! Then i tryed to instal

problem for qpopper2.4 with shadow password

1998-04-29 Thread julien ORTEGA
I want to compile qpopper2.4 with the shadow passwords. The INSTALL file explain that i have to define a AUTH variable in the Makefile but at the compile there is a error, in pop_pass.c ,with pw_encrypt -- Julien Ortega -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: recompiling kernel

1998-04-29 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:39:52PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 10:28:10PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried recompiling the kernel to include sound support for a newly > > acquired card. I got an error that I don't understand. I'm using Deb > > 1.3.1

Re: gcc help

1998-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
"calvin" wrote: >everytime i try to compile something i get a error sayin cpp option not >found or somethin like that..anybody know what my problem would be? Have you got the cpp package installed? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Majordomo 1.94.4

1998-04-29 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi everyone Yesterday I posted a message to this mailing-list about the above package since i had upgraded perl. Joey Hess suggested that i looked into bo-[updates/unstable] to see if it was there. It was not. I had tryed to make the package by myself but was ha

Re: list of kernel error codes

1998-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
poppy wrote: > >While booting my debian 1.31 box with kernel >2.0.33, I see a failure to initialize my >ethernet card with an error code 2 > >Where can I find a translation of the >error codes or does anyone know what an error >number 2 is??? /usr/include/asm/errno.h and /usr/inclu

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 07:20:57PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > I double checked it and it is mode 600 root.root. Well, what do you have in pap-secrets? It would not work for me without: # magic fix * * "" * I believe this is still secure -- anyone with an account on your syste

Distributed computing, stellar computation

1998-04-29 Thread Kiyan Azarbar
The following is a part of a message on the Ottawa-Carleton LUG list: Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:01:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Ottawa Carlton Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [oclug] Distributed Computing effort(s) ... I'd like to get involved in some kind of distributed computing effort to

Re: setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card

1998-04-29 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, I am being driven crazy trying to set up this card PCI version, compiled the driver over and over again only to get error after error. Anyone that has this already compiled it would be appreciated if you attached it along with a reply Thanks in advance Mike -Original Message- From: Gr

Re: setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card

1998-04-29 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> I had trouble setting up an EtherlinkII 3com 3509b card with 2.0.32 and >> 2.0.33 kernel. I configured pnp, compiled the right driver as module, but >> the module gives me either initialization failed or symbol not found when >> specifying io=0x210 irq=3... Is it the ISA one (I think there

Re: Exim Problem

1998-04-29 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send >> > email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that >> > host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway >> > to tell exim that if the

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
God, I 'love' making a moron out of myself. This trick doesn't seem to be working on my system. I wish I had taken the time to test it before replying, but I had it working at one point in time and was 'sure' that was how. Just delete the pap-secrets file. Dan At 05:14 PM 4/28/1998 -0700, Dan

gcc help

1998-04-29 Thread calvin
everytime i try to compile something i get a error sayin cpp option not found or somethin like that..anybody know what my problem would be? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updating /etc/modules (was Re: Wierd linux/debian problem)

1998-04-29 Thread Chris
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > > Perhaps we could consider having "make moudles_install" disable (ie > > comment out) any modules mentioned in /etc/modules that are not compiled > > into the current kernel. I would suggest that this shouldn't be done > > automatically, but

Re: Another tape drive question

1998-04-29 Thread Cedric Bapst
Ben Pfaff wrote: > >First of all, check http://www.info-systems.com/ftape/. Normally every >questions >you may have should find an answer there. > > I thought that applied only to the ftape (floppy tape) driver. Does > it cover SCSI tapes too? It doesn't cover the SCSI tapes. As I d

Re: Connecting Linux machine to Win.95\Linux Machine.

1998-04-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 12:32:48AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: > My current computer is a creepy 486 33 MHZ, I'm not sure that it will be > able to service me, operate the ISDN line and be a server to a new PII It *will* be able, assuming it has at least 16MB RAM or better 32MB if that is possible.

portslave and AutoPPP

1998-04-29 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Can anyone help me to turn on AutoPPP with portslave1.16, on Debian 1.3.1 ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ld can't find X libs

1998-04-29 Thread Jeff Shilt
A few programs I've tried to run in X11 can't find the X11 libraries. XDvi copmlains about no libXaw.so.6. When I ldd xdvi it shows this library and others (like libX11) as not being found. If I ldd a program in /usr/X11R6/bin it finds all of them. I checked ld.so.conf and it has the correct d

Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
This won't be in hamm so you can grab the latest deb-view from: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/deb-view.el http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/deb-view.el.gz Though it won't be in hamm, there's no reason you can't install the debview from slink on a hamm system, if you'd like to try out the

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-29 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:48:23AM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote: > I think you can compile back in name completion. I got a bug where it > would resume files improperly and append MORE data than the original file was > supposed to have. (ncftp 3.0 beta 9) Yes, it did have that problem.. p

ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
deb-view version 1.5 was just released to master today, but I thought that I'd announce the changes here. Here is the changelog. The new deb-find command is cool! 1.5 - added an auto-mode-alist and deb-view mode so that deb-view is launched from any find-file command. - added a deb-f

Re: ping failure and ipmasquerade

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:11:03PM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > Even after removal of ipmasq package I still could not ping the outside world > from 192.168.1.1, pinging 192.168.1.10 and the other way around works, below > is the message I received. > lat# ping 202.155.2.67 > PING 202.155.2.67 (2

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 08:03:58AM -0400, David Morris wrote: > I certainly am hoping the 3.0 version moves out of beta pretty soon. I > did really like the bgget feature as well. And it only took a little > looking at the help to find the pls command to page through long > directory listings. >

Re: is pgcc or whatever usable yet?

1998-04-29 Thread Shaleh
Norbert Veber wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:12:26PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > > > Is the Pentium compiler stable and usable yet? Is it possible to have > > > both it and standard gcc installed? How can one test that the Pentium > > > compiler is truly helping? questions, question

Re: setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card

1998-04-29 Thread Paul Rightley
I have run the 3509b successfully with both Debian and W95. I configured the card out of PnP mode and specified the port (i.e. coax or 10base-T). When configured this way, Linux sees my card without trouble, and I just had to delete and install the card's driver in W95 to get it to work there. Ho

Re: is pgcc or whatever usable yet?

1998-04-29 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:12:26PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > Is the Pentium compiler stable and usable yet? Is it possible to have > > both it and standard gcc installed? How can one test that the Pentium > > compiler is truly helping? questions, questions, questions > > The EGCS compil

Re: text mode IDE?

1998-04-29 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:59:21PM -0500, Dave Elliot wrote: > I was wondering if there's a decent text mode IDE for debian/linux. > Something similar to RHIDE or Borland's DOS IDE. I would use something > for X, but I can't get that working yet. Hopefully someday. Anyways, > anything would be g

Re: Betr.: Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-29 Thread King Lee
Sorry, I hit wrong button and previous message got sent before it was supposed to On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for your help on this topic. Now it works! I did it this way: You're welcome > > 1. Delete any existing partitions (have you all backed up??) > 2

Re: Betr.: Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-29 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for your help on this topic. Now it works! I did it this way: You're welcome > > 1. Delete any existing partitions (have you all backed up??) > 2. Create with fdisk (MSDOS program) one primary Win 95 partition (1.6 GB) > This pr

Re: Updating /etc/modules (was Re: Wierd linux/debian problem)

1998-04-29 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Perhaps we could consider having "make moudles_install" disable (ie > comment out) any modules mentioned in /etc/modules that are not compiled > into the current kernel. I would suggest that this shouldn't be done > automatically, but should instead prompt the user for the change. This sou

Updating /etc/modules (was Re: Wierd linux/debian problem)

1998-04-29 Thread Chris
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > Hi, > > > Yes .. ne was in /etc/modules .. and so it tried to load it on > > top of the kernel one .. > > > > Shouldnt make modules_install write over this file or something .. or > > be made too ?? with the up to date modules to run. > > I don'

Re: X's with Matrox Mystique II

1998-04-29 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I am not yet running debian, waiting for the new hd to arrive, would i have > similar problems with my Mystique II, that people seem to be having with the > Millenium II?? Check out: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/MGA1.html#1 (yep, there's a "#1" in there :)) For information on Mil

Re: Need help configuring samba

1998-04-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ah, ok, now we're getting somewhere. magicfilter *thinks* your printer can't handle what's coming to it although it *does* recognize the data. Look at what the if= is in /etc/printcap. This file will actually be a shell script. Each line recognizes a file type and tells how to print it (or r

The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi, folks, your friendly neighborhood X maintainer here. XFree86 3.3.2-4 just got installed into the archive today (I uploaded it Sunday). Unless you have bandwidth to spare, please don't download it without good reason. With impeccable timing, a CERT bulletin warning of possible security proble

Re: X's with Matrox Mystique II

1998-04-29 Thread Rick
HI, I am not yet running debian, waiting for the new hd to arrive, would i have similar problems with my Mystique II, that people seem to be having with the Millenium II?? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Special (Chessfriends) Question!

1998-04-29 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi, hoping to be not the only member of the ICC (Internet Chess Club) here I am asking for advice for the setup of xboard for connect to ICC. Problems: 1. it seems my password (using an .ics file) was not transmitted (or too fast to be recognized?). 2. the manpage to xboard says that more pa

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
Wow, alot of people getting this thread. http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp1.html The second is the start of a cleanup on the first. Thanks goto Gary Bristo for taking the time to clean it up asfar as it is. I'll be finishing it off soon. One th