Re: PPP connection speed

One way to do it is like this: 1) In your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, modify your connect line to look something like this: connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -r report-file -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" where the "-r report-file" specifies the file to report the speed to. 2) In your /etc/chatscript

Re: DAMN the reply button

> > We still use the MAC address (mostly because it's the only numbered > component we *know* will be present), but it's definitely forgeable. It's > just that our usual customer wouldn't know how to do it. (Plus, I'm not > sure they'd even want to, in significant numbers. They might want mo

Re: Sendmail configuration

> I have to do some tricky sendmail configuration. Can anyone give me a > guide as to what to do with all those .m4 files? yep, choose the ones you want and stick them in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and then run /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig > The basic problem, is that I need to run one set of r

more x problems (xf86setp).

i am trying to get XF86Setup to work and have come across a whole series or errors which have slowly been getting fixed. the first was problems with kbd-data not being a current enough version (it must be -8 for things to be in the correct place so the dependencies must be updated). then it requ

Re: default kernel config

>> "TCP" == Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TCP> Where can I find the default kernel config from debian? TCP> Thanks! Either in the kernel-source package or in /boot/config- Ciao, Martin

Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?

>> "MBT" == Michael B Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MBT> Support for the AHA-2940U2W is pretty new for Linux. It is not MBT> in the stock hamm kernels. If you want to use it now, you will MBT> need to know how to compile a custom kernel. IIRC, the latest kernel-source in slink (or was it

Sendmail configuration

Dear all, I have to do some tricky sendmail configuration. Can anyone give me a guide as to what to do with all those .m4 files? The basic problem, is that I need to run one set of rewrites for local mail and one for external mail(i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] when sending locally become

Re: Installtion of xserver for debian 2.0

I think the XBF server will run this card. I am told that you can get it at : ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/ Mike On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 10:52:14AM -0800, Rakesh Mohan wrote: > I have installed debian 2.0, but having problems installing X Window > system. > > I have i740 vedio card, and it is

Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?

I think a typical 7200 rpm drive is mechanically capable of about 7MB/s, so I doubt if you will see any performance advantage for U2W unless you will be hanging several drives on the controller. Support for the AHA-2940U2W is pretty new for Linux. It is not in the stock hamm kernels. If you want

Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?

SEGV wrote: > > I'm currently deciding which Adaptec SCSI controller to get: > > AHA-2940UW (Ultra Wide, 40MB/s) > AHA-2940U2W (Ultra 2 80MB/s) > > Will Debian Linux 2.0 take full advantage of the U2W? Will I get the full > transfer rate (ie, as fast as 98/NT would allow)? The 2.0.xx kerne

Re: iomega zip (scsi)

Hi Damir, I am running an external SCSI Zip on a NCR 53c810-Controller, using the 53c8xx-driver, too. I have NEVER experienced or heard about any problems with this setup - my to disks, DAT tape and CD-Rom are quite happy. I don't know what a Zipzoom adaptor is - so I cannot comment on that. So

Re: iomega zip (scsi)

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: [ snip ] : connect/reconnect and ncr53c8xx driver). If that is not an option, does : anyone have any experience with having AHA152x driver and the zipzoom adaptor : (if those two are going to work together at all?), and the impact on that : driver o

Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote: : I'm currently deciding which Adaptec SCSI controller to get: : : AHA-2940UW (Ultra Wide, 40MB/s) : AHA-2940U2W (Ultra 2 80MB/s) : : Will Debian Linux 2.0 take full advantage of the U2W? Will I get the full : transfer rate (ie, as fast as 98/NT would

PPP connection speed

Hello all. I know this topic has been discussed about a month agoI did not save the messages. How can I display the speed of my ppp connection? TIA, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

Hi Will. If you go to http://www.stardivision.com and click on 'Support' then in the left-hand frame click on 'Download' you will see the fix. I just checked again and it is still there! Good luck. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux v.2.0

Re: slink breaks

Thank you, that did fix my problem, although I had no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale so I linked against /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale.xlib6-old and netscape seems to work again. However, it didn't solve my ICQ problem, which appears to be along the same lines. When I try and load ICQ, I get this message:

Server Space

I am looking for someone to donate server space including an IP address to a project similar to www.ml.org If you are interested check out ( www.ws.nu ) which is under construction. Or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adaptec SCSI Controller?

I'm currently deciding which Adaptec SCSI controller to get: AHA-2940UW (Ultra Wide, 40MB/s) AHA-2940U2W (Ultra 2 80MB/s) Will Debian Linux 2.0 take full advantage of the U2W? Will I get the full transfer rate (ie, as fast as 98/NT would allow)? PS: For harddrives I am looking at the Quantu

Installtion of xserver for debian 2.0

I have installed debian 2.0, but having problems installing X Window system. I have i740 vedio card, and it is VGA compatible. I think server for i740 chipset is still not avaible for Debian, so i selected Unsupported VGA compatible card during configuration. After configuration I got the mess

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

> Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while > looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted > a fix .. Where? I hit their website but didn't see anything about a fix ... Will ---

RE: XF86Setup fails

> > ds wrote: > > > > card. Now when I execute XF86Setup, I get the following > > error: > > > > Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards > > The problem is that I didn't install the package xbase: install it. I am trying to be VERY conservative on what I install to keep the s

Re: slink breaks

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:25:13AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I removed xlib6 and re-installed it, but when dselect tries to install it, > this error is given: > > ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale does not exist > Please report this bug to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Has anyone does this? I suspect

more on slink breaks

Well, I even re-installed an old version of xlib6, and I still get the "locale 'C' no supported" from netscape. I get a similar error when I try and run JavaICQ. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Tia. Rob

Re: slink breaks

I removed xlib6 and re-installed it, but when dselect tries to install it, this error is given: ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale does not exist Please report this bug to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has anyone does this? I suspect that this what is causing my error with netscape. Are the X packages stil

Re: DAMN the reply button

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 13.11.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Using the Ethernet address makes some amount of sense: although you > can set the Ethernet address if you want, it will really screw up your > network if you have the same address for more than one host, which is > usu

StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted a fix .. http://www.stardivision.com -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux v.2.0

Re: question

>> "r" == rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please chosse a more specific subject newxt time. r> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/legacy> ping localhost r> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes r> --- localhost ping statistics --- r> 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:53:01PM +1000, Robert King wrote: > Hello, >Anyone had success with this installation? > You need to have the following packages installed in order to run matlab 5.2 (from main/binary-i386/oldlibs): xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb xlib6_3.3.2.3-2.deb libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb

Re: No manual entry for lpc

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to read the manual pages on printer concerned > commands. > I have installed man-db and lpr package from Debian > distribution. > Typing ls /usr/man /man1/lpc.1.gz as root the file is there, but when I > type > man lpc i

RE: XF86Setup fails

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, ds wrote: > > > No, I got them from hamm. > > Can you tell me exactly the version of the package? You can find this out > with: > > dpkg -l That is dpkg -s Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge To

image util

Hi, Is there a utitily to check to see if a image (gif, jpg, tiff, bmp, etc) is good or bad interm of checksum of the file is OK. I want to run this at command or in a script as: if [ check_image this.jpg ]; then echo "this.jpg is OK!" else echo "this.jpg is NG!" fi

default kernel config

Hi, Where can I find the default kernel config from debian? Thanks! Timothy C. Phan

Installing netscape

Hi all, As a new user I have managed to install Debian 2 with relatively little fuss. The only problem I have struck is installing netscape navigator 4.5. When I try an run this program it fails with the message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' running ldconfig -v shows that a link for this ex

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

> My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a > message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, > but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: > > # free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:

Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:53:01PM +1000, Robert King wrote: >Anyone had success with this installation? IIRC, matlab is still libc5; this means you have to install the libc5 versions of all the libraries it requires. > I'm running into problems. Onep possibility is the the libraries matlab

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

> > > > Does anyone know how many colors I have if the depth is set at 8. Do not > > say 256 because I am not using that many colors to have 256 colors > > exhausted. > > 8bpp == 256 color > 16bpp == 16million > 32bpp == 32million I thought colours= 2^bpp so: 4bpp = 16 8bpp = 256 16bpp = 65,

Re: dselect listing

On 13 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > --- "M.C. Vernon" wrote: --- > On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > > I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the > > stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_ > > version. I connected to

Re: remote printing problems

> info_dj01: Link_send: PROTOCOL ERROR - pending input from ´Netware´ > after ACK received. > > Question: How can I eliminate this error ? You need IPX support in your kernel, and the netware utilities. > Although the file is printed in my HP Deskjet printer, it seems that > is missing a carr

Re: XF86Setup fails

> ds wrote: > > I have just finished installing Debian HAMM. I installed > only the basics. Then I went back with dselect and > installed xserver-svga to use with my CL5428 video > card. Now when I execute XF86Setup, I get the following > error: > > Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R6/

Re: Notebook for Debian

I dunno about all that, my work gave us nice Dell Latitude CPi's with NT on them...the only problem with them was solved by nuking NT and installing Debian. Works like a champ with slight slink hacking and kernel modifications... On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > David Welton wrote: > > Don

No manual entry for lpc

Hi all, I am trying to read the manual pages on printer concerned commands. I have installed man-db and lpr package from Debian distribution. Typing ls /usr/man /man1/lpc.1.gz as root the file is there, but when I type man lpc it responded with No manual entry for lpc. Why is it ?

Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Robert King wrote: > Hello, >Anyone had success with this installation? Yes; on the contrary, I haven't run into any problems. But maybe that's because I carried over the libraries used in 5.1... see below. > > I'm running into problems. Onep possibility is the the li

matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0

Hello, Anyone had success with this installation? I'm running into problems. Onep possibility is the the libraries matlab built it with libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.9 and hamm has libXpm.so.4.10 How do I get libXpm.so.4.9 and can I get it to co-exist with libXpm.so.4.10? Ro

Re: iomega zip (scsi)

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 02:10:57AM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote: > anyone have any experience with having AHA152x driver and the zipzoom adaptor Well, all I can say is that here I run an AHA1542 with a SCSI ZIP drive just fine. Dunno if that will help you any, but may be something to keep in m

iomega zip (scsi)

Hi, everybody -- I am trying to decide on buying the iomega zip drive with scsi interface; but have difficulties determining the usability of the drive with my regular (two HDs and CDrom) SCSI adaptor host (DTC3130B; based on ncr53c815 chip). I currently _happily_ use the above config, and my kern

Can't start windowmaker

Hi, I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there something missing? -- --- Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux 2.0 http://www.debian.org ---

Re: Can not get Netscape to read retrieve.

I know there's an entry in ~/.netscape/preferences.js user_preferences("mail.directory", /home/yourUserId/nsmail") and hopefully that directory has a file called Inbox with a 'mortal' user and group permission. -Chip Grandits

Does Sound even work for Java-Linux?

Any Java users out there? I downloaded Blackdown Java (JDK1.1.6), and I am totally unable to produce a sound! I'm beginning to suspect Blackdown just never implemented to sound portion. I donwnloaded source code for an applet from O'Reilly's Java Examples In A Nutshell I compile it but when I run i

problems with star-office 5.0

Hi, some of, eventually, Your interest too. Yesterday I get so50 installed it. It crashed several times and I really have no idea why. Today I cleaned up my system and changes Fonts Debian 2.0 hamm: from xx2.032 to 2.0.34 also changed XSVGAServer to x.02.0.34 and some other libs because

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: > In X Windows programming, each app asks for a colormap. If one app asks for a > large colormap, the window manager doles out whatever is left to everyone > else. > Netscape is also a big offender here. Yup. With only 256 colors, you're kind of limited. Som

question

question.. i must of done something a few weeks back and never relized it messed up. but as of now i can't make any local connections. All network unreachables. ifconfig shows lo and ppp0 both up and running. Any remote host can make a connection without a problem, as long as im not connecting/pin

Re: g++272 libs, revisited. (This is really a C question)

Bob Bernstein wrote: > As part of a homework assignment I've written a little program to do > arithmetic with fractions and mixed numbers, and I wanted to benchmark the > speed of various algorithms for finding 'gcd,' the greatest common divisor. > Not knowing how to do the timing piece, I started

Can not get Netscape to read retrieve.

I have found myself in email hail. I installed Netscape 4.5 three weeks ago and was able to get it up and running. I was also able to read my email using Netscape, but about three or four days ago I began to get the following message: "Netscape cannot find Inbox. Cannot get mail." I believe tha

ppp/chat causes kernel general protection error

This looks terrible to me, any advice? Package: ppp Version: 2.3.5-2 uname: Linux ankle 2.0.35 #2 Sat Nov 7 19:04:05 PST 1998 i586 unknown libc6: 2.0.7u-5 netbase: 3.11-1 I run 'pon' and get the error below. It doesn't happen every time, rebooting usually fixes it, but once it happens, nothing

chrony sets your clock from the net

I have just uploaded chrony to unstable. chrony is an 'atomic clock' package similar to xntp3 but easier to install and administer and more suitable for use with intermittent dialup connections. If you have a dialup connection to the Net it should work out of the box with no configuration. It

Re: system hang on boot

ide0: reset: success. (or something to that effect) if that was the error you got, you've added too much memory to your append. -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote: > hi all ! > I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it u

Re: system hang on boot

> hi all ! > I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until > that > post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf > then run #lilo ... > When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part > where > Linux does p

system hang on boot

hi all ! I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until that post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf then run #lilo ... When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part where Linux does partition checks on

RE: XF86Setup fails

> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, ds wrote: > > > Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards > > > > What do I need to install to get the database for this. > > Did you get that server package from slink (frozen)? No, I got them from hamm. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XF86Setup fails

I have just finished installing Debian HAMM.  I installed only the basics.  Then I went back with dselect and installed xserver-svga to use with my CL5428 video card.  Now when I execute XF86Setup, I get the following error:   Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards   What

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Re: 96M of RAM but free only shows 64M

add mem=96M to your lilo.conf file. /\ / \ /\ / /\/\ \ /\ Steve Beitzel / /\ /\ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \/ \/ \ http://www.iit.edu/~beitste / /\ \ICQ#: 19510745 \ \/ / \ ___/ \ /___\

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: : Hi, : : My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a : message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, : but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: : : # free : total

Diamond Monster Fusion, compatable?

I have diamond monster fusion video card and I want to run a version of linux. Before I blindly purchase some version, I want to know if it will work with my hardware. Well? Will debian products work with my video card? Please let me know asap. mark ricketts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi Mark, You have to add a append line in lilo.conf. Linux handle per default only 64 MB of Rams, but if you add in the way like: image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 # where your root connect append="mem=96M"# this is the p

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

erf sorry, append="mem=96M", tis been a while -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a > message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, > but when

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a > message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, > but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: > Why does it only think there is

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

if he's using lilo you've gotta add append MEM="96M" or whichever ammount of mem is installed on your computer. Be sure to add the correct amount or you're gonna get boot failures :P -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > My friend's laptop h

96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

Hi, My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63

SMP

Howdy All!! I have a client system that I have not been able to get SMP working. The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentums - 64MB RAM. Here's what I know: Howdy All!! I have a client system that I have not been able to get SMP working. The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two

X text display problem

Hi. Using Debian 2.0, 2.0.34 with X 3.3.2.3-2. I have a couple of minor problems with text displayed by some X applications. For instance, the xlock (xlockmore) program displays a small window and some text if you move the mouse or hit a key without entering the password. This text should be whi

Re: dselect listing

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: > Hello M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > > > > > I mucked up my package list. > ... > > b) place all the other packages on hold. > > Which would be nice if it could be done easily... > > Open the file /va

Re: Starting out trouble

On 13 Nov 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: [snip] > > Bill> All of the above should not be except the Linux version. How do > Bill> I go about getting Linux to recognize the system correctly? The > Bill> boot sees it all correctly including the correct ID of the SCSI > Bill> drives. I screwed up somewh

Re: DAMN the reply button

> > Then they wrote VM. > > Which has a command to set that serial number to anything you like. > > And yes, I've seen it used for software that looked at the serial number > for license purposes. > > I don't think it's worth it. It's far too easy to break. It's fake > security. > > MfG Ka

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

> Ive got a winfast and when i was running the s3v server the system > locked up tight as a rock, ive switched to svga and no problem > installed fine. Wonder if that was also the reason that periodically i > would lose all response in X mouse would move but nothing would happen > ?? looks like t

Re: DAMN the reply button

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (BadlandZ) wrote on 11.11.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (IMHO, maybe CPU, but BIOS for the sake of discussion). LINUX should > read (and not "soft" read) a serial number out of the BIOS, and not hold > it in software to be hacked. BIOS manufacture might be easier to Remember,