pcmcia problem after upgrade

1999-06-21 Thread Michael Roark
I am sure this has come up before, but I can't find the answer in the archives. I just upgraded from 2.0 -> 2.1 via apt-get. Everything seemed to go smoothly, but the new card services won't recognize my ethernet card. It's a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PC Card (not Cardbus). I get a middle tone and l

Re: Have we been cracked?

1999-06-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Jun-99 Rahsheen Porter wrote: > If you're really paranoid..you should format and start over. Otherwise, > start > running portsentry and logcheck (search freshmeat). Portsentry will block > any host that tries to scan you and logcheck will email you weird log > entries. Portsentry has blocke

upgrading Xfree86

1999-06-21 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am running Debian 2.1 and have X version 3.3.3.2 which doesn't seem to fully support my Trident Providia 9685 video card, so I wanted to upgrade to X version 3.3.3.1. Can anyone please tell me what line I should add to my apt-get source file so that I can run an upgrade of X? Th

Movie editing software

1999-06-21 Thread Tomas Meyaos
Greetings everyone. just a quick question is there any movie editing software available for linux?? I dont need anything complicated just need to sequence a bunch of pictures into an mpeg movie or something like that.no effects just sequencing a bunch of images and the like. any su

Re: GNOME: what is port 35091 ?

1999-06-21 Thread William R Pentney
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Serge Gavrilov wrote: You need to install the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound). Then, in your .xinitrc, you need to run it before gnome-session, as in: & esd & gnome-session If you wish for other apps to use the sound as well, use "esd -as 2" instead. > Hello all! > > I

Re: Have we been cracked?

1999-06-21 Thread Rahsheen Porter
If you're really paranoid..you should format and start over. Otherwise, start running portsentry and logcheck (search freshmeat). Portsentry will block any host that tries to scan you and logcheck will email you weird log entries. Portsentry has blocked at least 10 hosts since I started running it.

Re: soundcard too silent

1999-06-21 Thread daniel
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? > > Armin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Try aumix packet :) -- Daniel Ferradal

diald -- help or source!

1999-06-21 Thread Tracy Nelson
diald is dying when trying to run the connect script.  In the message log I see that it attempts to open the connection, and immediately reports that the connection script failed.  It doesn't seem to access the modem or anything.  pppd works just fine, but I can't get chat to run a simple c

Re: Have we been cracked?

1999-06-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
It looks like somebody ran some sort of port scanner against your system, looking for a vulnerability. From the attached logs, it wasn't obvious that the attack was successful. Did you find evidence on the system that it had been cracked? It's possible that imapd with- stood the attack. I'm no

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread scratch
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: > > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1 > > nice, now can you do that with a perl one-liner? :) Something like this? perl -e 'print (`/sbin/ifconfig` =~ /inet addr:(.*?)\s/);' --nico ;) (yeah you'll probably have to change 'inet

Re: V. basic script question

1999-06-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:03:05PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > ~> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in > ~> > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I > ~> > make a connection, and then sent locally: > ~> > > ~> > - start script - > ~

Re: qmail

1999-06-21 Thread Varga Robert
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Well, I'm not the maintainer but I know it hasn't been orphaned because over > the last > couple days I received and email notifying me that I bug I submitted for > qmail-src had > been fixed. Does qmail need updating? It's still at version 1.03

Re: V. basic script question

1999-06-21 Thread J Horacio MG
~> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in ~> > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I ~> > make a connection, and then sent locally: ~> > ~> > - start script - ~> > #!/bin/sh ~> > ~> > /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a460

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> > > > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) > > IP id? I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local I

Re: pop3

1999-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
Install fetchmail. On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 01:04:16PM -0700, Samuel Thomas wrote: > I know exchange5.5 has pop3 how can i use it to pull mail from my pop > server? what r the procedures for that. > > Thanks > > > Sam > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread R. Brock Lynn
John Hasler wrote: > > Ramesh Natarajan writes: > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP > > id? I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is > > there a env variable, API or a file that holds returns this info? > > Put a script in /etc/ppp

Re: on ssl telnet sessions

1999-06-21 Thread R. Brock Lynn
"Chad A. Adlawan" wrote: > > hello everyone ! > i have ssltelnet installed/running on my box ... it works by: (shamelessly > copied from /non-US/binary-i386/Packages) > > It interoperates with normal telnet(d) in both directions. > It checks if the other side is also talking SSL, if not i

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-21 Thread Matt Folwell
I could be totally wrong, but I think... On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:11:52AM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > I have already pressed by mistake the Alt+ArrowUp key combo, resulting > in a system shutdown (losing all work done!). > > In my /etc/inittab I've got the Ctrl+Alt+End key combo configured for

Re: pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
I found what I think you were searching for here, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg00668.html Unfortunately the link to http://ompages.com is dead right now but maybe you could email him. hth, kent "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >

Re: unknown message

1999-06-21 Thread scratch
IIRC, this message probably means that you have recently updated to a 2.2 kernel. In this kernel, ifconfig sets it own routes, so there is no more need for a manual 'route add'. Check your init.d scripts, especially '/etc/init.d/network'. OTOH, I could be completely wrong here, and this message s

eXtensa 390

1999-06-21 Thread Illo de' Illis
Hi folks. I'm trying to set up an Acer eXtensa 390 with 2 PCMCIA cards (Genius Ethernet ME3000II SE and Digicom Leonardo 28.800bps Faxmodem) using Linux 2.2.10, and I'm stuck with the following problems: 1. The onboard audio chipset (Yamaha OPL3-SAx). I configure it using isapnp and the values

pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A couple months ago somebody from this list got permission to distribute the modified Pine binary in .deb format. He made this file available for ftp. Does anybody know where I can get this file? I checked the list archives and found lots of discussion regardi

Re: unknown message

1999-06-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Jun-99 Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > As far as I know that is a problem with how your network card > id configured. The route or gateway has not been properly > defined, so that addroute is having problems. > Read the HOWTO about networking about how to configure the > network a

Re: Mail checking question [was: Unidentified subject!]

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Joerg Ott wrote: > Hi, > how can I check if new mail has arrived on a pop server WITHOUT logging > in? Netscape does smth like this, checks for new mail every n minutes and > does not require a password before you actually download the mail. I want > to do this directly from

pop3

1999-06-21 Thread Samuel Thomas
I know exchange5.5 has pop3 how can i use it to pull mail from my pop server? what r the procedures for that. Thanks Sam

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-21 Thread J Horacio MG
~> I think you need to archive your postings and their replies a ~> bit more efficiently. I was about to cut and paste a previous ~> reply on the subject when I noticed that the question was posed ~> by you! I can assure you they are efficiently enough archived. I asked why Alt+ArrowUp would shut

Re: Q: Lexmark 2050

1999-06-21 Thread ferret
I've asked Lexmark about this printer before. It's a GDI printer, meaning it requires Windows to render for it instead of having the rendering done in the printer. Lexmark says they have no plans to support these printers. However, when I inquired, they did send me a list of their printers that th

Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6

1999-06-21 Thread William Ono
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > AMD-K6 users are reported to have this problem. Other i386 processors > like Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II users do not have this problem > and the kernel v2.3.6 worked fine for them. I had this problem, and my CPU is a Pentium II 350MHz (Deschut

Re: ld/Xm/Xt question

1999-06-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my test case that worked I had -lXm before -lXt, and the main app had -lXT > -lXm > on the compile line. Both cases compiled cleanly, without warnings > or errors, just the app with -lXt -lXm would seg fault and

Re: newbie: installing new drivers

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Barry Kauler wrote: > I've only been on this list a few weeks. > One thing I've noticed when someone asks a question about installing > a driver -- network, sound, etc. -- back comes the answer "you have to > recompile the kernel". > But, you don't, in most cases, as they are

Have we been cracked?

1999-06-21 Thread Dan DeMond
Hello all, I'm think that our system may have been cracked. I think they got in through imapd, because of what was in the logfile(see attachment). My question is, did they really get in through imapd? On www.cert.org there was an advisory for imapd, but that was last year

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > On 20 Jun 1999 23:43:06 +0200, Rui Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >other=/dev/hdb1 > >label=win > >map-drive=0x80 > > to=0x81 > >map-drive=0x81 > > to=0x80 > > Interesting to see that this works for W9x.

Re: OPL3SAX SOUND BOARD

1999-06-21 Thread Illo de' Illis
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 11:39:18AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > "People" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PLEASE > > GIVE-ME OPL3SAX SOUND BOARD > > Sorry but it seems like you caps lock i broken. > > OPL3-SAx works almost perfect with the new 2.2.x kernels. Grab a > kernel source read the Doc

Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > I had posted previously: > > > As of kernel 2.3.6, I have a total boot freeze and the message echoed on > > screen is: > > > > 'init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment > > from shared object: cannot alloacte memory'

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Alexander S Polyakov
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP id? > I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is there a e

Re: unknown message

1999-06-21 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: As far as I know that is a problem with how your network card id configured. The route or gateway has not been properly defined, so that addroute is having problems. Read the HOWTO about networking about how to configure the network and test it. Hope this helps Sebastian Canagaratna

GNOME: what is port 35091 ?

1999-06-21 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello all! I've installed gnome 1.0.5 on my slink box. But all gnome applications report something like that: Unable to connect to server port 35091 What service have I to start on port 35091? And how can I do it? Thank you for your help! -- Serge Gavrilov

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread thomas lakofski
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That > way powersaving will never take effect. cron, update, syslog, maybe others. update is the main problem. > 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly > acsessed? ch

Problem with mounting root

1999-06-21 Thread devon
Hello, I came across this problem during an install of Debian 2.1. On a 13 GB HD, I partitioned off the first 13 cylinders for root. Lilo runs, but does not boot the system. When I attempted to use the Debian rescue disk, it gives me an error saying LILO can't install and that the likely c

Re: dhcp problem

1999-06-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I don't think the problem is the package. I think the problem is in the configuration. Looking at the trace you can quickly see that dhcpcd is trying to set the interface's IP address *and* broadcast address to 191.255.252.220. I don't think it's legal to set an interface's IP address and broadc

Re: qmail

1999-06-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, I'm not the maintainer but I know it hasn't been orphaned because over the last couple days I received and email notifying me that I bug I submitted for qmail-src had been fixed. Does qmail need updating? It's still at version 1.03 according to the web site. The only really recent fix I ca

Re: Pb with inetd and ftp/tcp

1999-06-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: > I'm using a debian systems for 3 years or so with no problem at all. But > recently I discovered a rather stranger behavior with inetd and > particularly with ftp > > Imagine that an evil person want to crash your machine sending a lot of > non-authorized ftp requests li

Re: kernel panic after some days

1999-06-21 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 10:59:14PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > I upgraded to 2.2.8 > > Oddly enough, 2.2.8 had filesystem corruption problems (under very high > loads) as well! 2.2.9 reverted to 2.2.7's filesystem code, which didn't > have the problem. I would have used it but wasn't able to get a tar

Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6

1999-06-21 Thread add|ct|on
umm I had the same problem and I have a Pentium 120... I've been asking around and no one I know had this problem aside from myself. It's mysterious. I'll have to try the 2.3.7 thing and find out if that works for me. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: smbfs, smbfsx, smbclient

1999-06-21 Thread Brad
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote: > > > > > 4) Will the smbmount (or smbmount-2.2.x) command work over a dial-up > > > connection? The dial-up connection is provided by my university, and > > > that's where the server is located. M

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread John Hasler
Ramesh Natarajan writes: > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP > id? I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is > there a env variable, API or a file that holds returns this info? Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to write the IP to a file

unknown message

1999-06-21 Thread Harald Kretzschmar
Hi, during boot process I get the following message Checking all file systems... Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999) Mounting local file systems... not mounted anything SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ^ What does it mean? bye Harald -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Debian

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Jun, Rick Macdonald wrote about "Re: How to determine local IP" > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > >> This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> >> >> Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) >> IP id

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That > way powersaving will never take effect. > > 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly > acsessed? Go to the Linux documentation project, and look up the Battey-Pow

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:39:56 +0200, "Sander Balkenende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I resolved the problem of booting Linux by making my win98 drive hda again >and reinstalled Debian on hdb (at the moment, I am just experimenting with >Linux). This works fine, I have to fine-tune loadlin, but

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 08:54:03AM -0500, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP id? > I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside th

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP id? > I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is there a env > variable, API or a file that holds return

gnupg/pgpgpg/XFmail

1999-06-21 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I was wondering if anyone have gotten gnupg/pgpgpg/XFmail (or other mua) running together? If so, please inform me how you did it. I have tried and and tried. The pgpgpg page says it should work with XFmail, but I am not able to make it work at all, and the pgpgpg documentation is almost non

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) > IP id? I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, > is there a env

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Ed Kutrzyba
>Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP id? I know pppd >invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is there a env variable, API or a file that holds >returns this info? Hi, Try plog. It should tell you everything you need to know. hth, EK

exim, et al

1999-06-21 Thread tf
hey list guys I have a couple of less-stupid-than-usual questions for you. exim.conf wants a hostname, and I can't find where to give it one. mutt wants a mailbox, same problem. also, I've been using different means of installing...apt-get, dselect (aarguah)and even lynx. most of the time grab

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] D-Link DE-650 - PCMCIA

1999-06-21 Thread Paul Harris
> > does anyone know if the kernel supports this card? i only saw options for > > the de-600 to de-620. > > I use one. It says NE2000 compatible when you plug it in. > I guess people get bored with adding new model numbers > when they're basically similar underneath. > > What's far more importan

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Sander Balkenende
I resolved the problem of booting Linux by making my win98 drive hda again and reinstalled Debian on hdb (at the moment, I am just experimenting with Linux). This works fine, I have to fine-tune loadlin, but that works. When trying to load loadlin from config.sys with the [menu] command, it wor

Re: PGP troubles

1999-06-21 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have tried gnupg/pgpgpg but I can not make it work with XFmail. If you, or anyone, knows how this can be done, please let me know. TIA On 21-Jun-99 Dpk wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Installing PGP 5 should fix it. You might want to look into gnupg, as > it shoul

on ssl telnet sessions

1999-06-21 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello everyone ! i have ssltelnet installed/running on my box ... it works by: (shamelessly copied from /non-US/binary-i386/Packages) It interoperates with normal telnet(d) in both directions. It checks if the other side is also talking SSL, if not it falls back to normal telnet protocol

How to determine local IP

1999-06-21 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP id? I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is there a env variable, API or a file that holds returns this info? T

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-06-21 Thread Jack Versfeld
Joerg Ott wrote: > Hi, > how can I check if new mail has arrived on a pop server WITHOUT logging > in? Netscape does smth like this, checks for new mail every n minutes and > does not require a password before you actually download the mail. I want > to do this directly from a linux terminal. A

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > Hi! > > I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in > the list-archive: > > 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That > way powersaving will never take effect. I remember that string somewhat. I think they were talking about "MAR

Re: Atapi Boot disk

1999-06-21 Thread John Carline
belindacobby wrote: We have a AMD K6 2 with an Atapi CD Rom. Could you please inform me as to where I can download a suitable Boot disk. Thanks. Very much appreciated! Hi, If you're asking about information needed when first loading Debian, try "http://debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install".

Re: upgrade vorm 1.3 to 2.1 ?

1999-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 08:34:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I have a Debian 1.3 (bo) installed and now have a CD with the latest Debian > 2.1 > (slink) which I want to install. The documentation delivered is fine at all - > it tells me about new install and a upgrad

Re: Atapi Boot disk

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
> belindacobby wrote: > > We have a AMD K6 2 with an Atapi CD Rom. Could you please inform me as > to where I can download a suitable Boot disk. Thanks. Very much > appreciated! Have you taken a look at the Debian web site? http://www.debian.org/ I'm assuming you want to install Debian on you

Re: Q: Lexmark 2050

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
Take a look at, http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark which was found in the Printing HOWTO at, http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html#ss3.1 In short they clasify your printer as a "paperweight" meaning, "These printers don't work at all. They may work

ld/Xm/Xt question

1999-06-21 Thread harsh
A few weeks ago I wrote and asked about a problem with X on Slink. Due to the under whelming response (including the developers list, except for Oleg who did give me some useful info) I upgraded to XFree 3.3.3 from the netgod.net site. My test case, at first it appeared to fix the problem but my m

Re: PGP troubles

1999-06-21 Thread Dpk
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I installed the pgp 2.6.2-us on my potato box. I use it with XFmail and it works fine. The problem is that I actually have friends running Windows (!) and I can not verify their signatures. They use PGP 6.0.2 and when I try

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have already pressed by mistake the Alt+ArrowUp key combo, resulting > in a system shutdown (losing all work done!). > > In my /etc/inittab I've got the Ctrl+Alt+End key combo configured for > shutdowns: > > kb:12345:kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h

Q: Lexmark 2050

1999-06-21 Thread Philip Hempel
Has anyone ever setup a Lexmark 2050 or any Lexmark before? This is an inkjet printer and I can not get it to take any kind of print commands at all. I do know that this printer works find with the windows driver. Any help would be appreciated, thanks -- Philip S. Hempel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-21 Thread Joerg Ott
Hi, how can I check if new mail has arrived on a pop server WITHOUT logging in? Netscape does smth like this, checks for new mail every n minutes and does not require a password before you actually download the mail. I want to do this directly from a linux terminal. Any ideas? --Joerg (Please

PGP troubles

1999-06-21 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I installed the pgp 2.6.2-us on my potato box. I use it with XFmail and it works fine. The problem is that I actually have friends running Windows (!) and I can not verify their signatures. They use PGP 6.0.2 and when I try to verify I an error messaged telling me the ASCII armor has an error

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] D-Link DE-650 - PCMCIA

1999-06-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > does anyone know if the kernel supports this card? i only saw options for > the de-600 to de-620. I use one. It says NE2000 compatible when you plug it in. I guess people get bored with adding new model numbers when they're basically similar underneat

Re: newbie: installing new drivers

1999-06-21 Thread Barry Kauler
> > > 1. I just added an ethernet card to my system (3Com SC509TP) and I > > > understand that I'm supposed to use the driver 3c509. My question is > > > *how* > > > do I get the system to load that driver? (If I were installing linux > > > again > > You will have to re-compile the kernel

Re: Getting there

1999-06-21 Thread Barry Kauler
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I am sitting here now on my Debian box listening to NetRadio having X11Amp > ready, all in all, I have a new envoironemt to work in that in many ways is > just as appealing as my Windows environment was, except for the fact that this > one is

signify

1999-06-21 Thread Michael Merten
Hi, I'm setting up a signature file for use with the signify program. I noticed that when a signature includes the $, signify tries to expand it as a variable name. I tried using \$, but that didn't work. Aparently it's a 'perl' thing. Could somebody enlighten me as to the proper way to escape

Recompiling openldap for kerberos and slink...

1999-06-21 Thread Brian May
Everything works OK until it tries to build the package. I don't have any time right now to look into the segmentation fault (will do so ASAP). Apart from openldap source which is from potato and kerberos which is also from potato, everything else (including libtricks) is slink. If I try to run th

Re: APT 0.3.7 Released!

1999-06-21 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 09:04:47PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > The Debian APT team would like to announce the release of the > latest version of APT, the next-generation packaging tool for > Debian GNU/Linux, version 0.3.7! > > This release fixes many bugs, and now APT supports downloading of t

Re: UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc

1999-06-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
Kent: Check file permissions on /etc/passwd. It should be world-readable. $ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363 Apr 28 15:44 /etc/passwd "chmod 644 /etc/passwd" (as root) to set permissions like above. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ba

[ss@cse.unsw.edu.au: Re: [disconnect@unsw.edu.au: Re: network problem]]

1999-06-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Please see my problem forwared below. Is there anyway to let linux to reassemble the packet? I have fixed my problem by forcing ppp to use a smaller mru & mtu size. But, is this the standard way to do it?? Thanks. shao. -- __

Help; dselect, dpkg hanging

1999-06-21 Thread Constantine Karbaliotis
Please excuse this second post of the same question; I am getting desperate. I am having a problem with dselect; the computer (running Debian 2.1) hung while installing packages, and would not respond to control-c, to trying to log in onanother console, nothing. I rebooted, and now dpkg, dselect

Atapi Boot disk

1999-06-21 Thread belindacobby
We have a AMD K6 2 with an Atapi CD Rom. Could you please inform me as to where I can download a suitable Boot disk. Thanks. Very much appreciated!

dhcp problem

1999-06-21 Thread sam
Hi, I just can not use DHCP on my Linux box. My kernel is 2.2.9 I get the following error: dhcpcd[1158]: ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot assign requested address since it was giving me this, I tried option -r, does not work either... As an example, strace dhcpcd -r -d gives me this:

HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: V. basic script question

1999-06-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I > make a connection, and then sent locally: > > - start script - > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 > > /usr/sbin/s

Re: X server for ATI 3D Rage II+ Video Adapter

1999-06-21 Thread Guido Bozzetto
> Hello, > I was browsing http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html looking for > ATI 3D Rage II+ which is not listed. All the other ATI "Rage" > models are listed as using the > > Does anyone know if this X server is compatible with my card? I'm using a: "Ati 3D Rage IIC AGP, RAGE IIC 48305 101" w

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1999-06-21 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi There, I know I shouldn't *really* be using this list for this sort of question.. but i'm hoping someone will help me :) Has anyone ever used dnews on a debian system? If so, could you send me an email as I'm having some problems with it. Thanks. Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Connect Infobahn

Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6

1999-06-21 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
I had posted previously: > As of kernel 2.3.6, I have a total boot freeze and the message echoed on > screen is: > > 'init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment > from shared object: cannot alloacte memory' > This problem has been solved by getting the kernel patch

Re: Emacs, Netscape and Apache - together?

1999-06-21 Thread N. Raghavendra
In response to the message of Sat, 19 Jun 1999, from Wyn Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I wrote: > I then downloaded the Netscape binary > communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz, and copied it > into the /tmp directory (the gzipped archive itself: no uncompressing > or extracting). After

Re: install-device driver problem

1999-06-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
A good place to start: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP. You will also find a wealth of information on your newly system under file:/usr/doc/. On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 23:45:29 Phil Wu wrote: | Hi, | I am new to Linux. During installation of debian linux from Debian CD | package, I got problem

install-device driver problem

1999-06-21 Thread Phil Wu
Hi, I am new to Linux. During installation of debian linux from Debian CD package, I got problem about configuring device drivers. So I skip it by just press next button to the next step. I have no idea about the device drivers and how to get the right one. My hardware is as below: IDE 7.4 G qua

upgrade vorm 1.3 to 2.1 ?

1999-06-21 Thread wolfgang . schwoerer
Hi all, I have a Debian 1.3 (bo) installed and now have a CD with the latest Debian 2.1 (slink) which I want to install. The documentation delivered is fine at all - it tells me about new install and a upgrading procedure from Debian 2.0 to 2.1 - but nothing about upgrading from an older versi

Re: mount the iomega zip

1999-06-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jun 1999, J.W. Jones wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 9:36 PM > Subject: mount the iomega zip > > > > I had trouble mounting the iomega zip. I tried to install module for > iomega > > zip drive using modconf and it f

startx

1999-06-21 Thread Chris Flipse
Is there a way to set up startx so that it will open on a specified tty (say, tty 13) instead of the next available one? I know it can be done with the various x login apps, but I've had some bad experiences with xdm and wdm locking up my box, and I prefer not to take that chance. :) - flip --

smbfs I/O errors.

1999-06-21 Thread Kent West
> HOLD IT! STOP THE PRESSES! > > Oh, that's too weird... > > I just up-arrowed to recall the last time I tried it, and this time it > worked! > I had been trying it as root all this time because of the mount point > not being mountable by westk. So as another test I tried mounting it > using /ho

Re: smbfs, smbfsx, smbclient

1999-06-21 Thread Kent West
Thanks for the response, Brad. Brad wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote: > > > Now I can't even find smbclient, and I can't find what package contains > > it. > > Looks like it's in the smbclient package... You may have to look in > unstable, i don't remember if slink has the proper

Re: Frontpage extensions?

1999-06-21 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:30:04 +1000 Corey Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking into the possibility of transfering an NT/IIS based webserver > over to apache on debian 2.1, the only thing I need to confirm is that the > frontpage extenstions will be available and equal to the NT version

Re: Emacs, Netscape and Apache - together?

1999-06-21 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Wyn Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to get all three: Emacs, Netscape Navigator, and > Apache all working on an X-windows Linux system. However, Netscape > Navigator is barfing at me, saying it cannot load libraries. I have recently installed Hamm on my

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-21 Thread Gertjan Klein
On 20 Jun 1999 23:43:06 +0200, Rui Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >other=/dev/hdb1 >label=win >map-drive=0x80 > to=0x81 >map-drive=0x81 > to=0x80 Interesting to see that this works for W9x. Just out of curiousity: if you go to Control Panel -> System a

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