Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-04 Thread dkphoto
>Linus' own pronunciation of "linux" is not consistent. I've head >him use each of the main pronunciation forms at various times, and >often within the same conversation or speech. I say we settle it once and for all, and all agree to pronounce it "Fred"! That'll confuse those guys in Redmond,

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread markm
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 04:51:49PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > If you try to ping something, does it say operation not permitted? > > If that's the case you'll probably have your ipchains input and output set > on DENY all. Add some rules to those chains (perhaps you'll also need to > add rules

Re: Subject too vague! (was Re: Does anybody know how I can solve this..)

2000-02-04 Thread markm
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 03:53:49PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Ron Rademaker wrote: > >A few days ago I posted this: > > > > > >I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses > >ISDN but, there's a

Re: Open Source tools

2000-02-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Cliff Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking to start work on a Java project that I'm hoping will make its > way into the Open Source world soon. I have a few questions: > > 1. I was thinking of using the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The GPL is > definately too restrictive for me, an

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread markm
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:22:34PM +, Tony wrote: [] > I have been trying to install the module support for a 3905 3com ethernet > card. 3Com supply the driver as c code; I compile this and then try to do > insmod 3905x.0. This command returns: > 390x.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.36

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-04 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 04:28:59PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I just read this article and thought the beginning was rather harsh: > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34079,00.html I found the quote in the article to be clueless, and that the reporter thought it meaningful was

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-04 Thread Tele2
It seems to be important for free software to have a name that cannot be authoritatively pronounced in English. Debian is not a bad name for this but it does qualify. Gnu, Gnome, Linux and SuSE are positively heroic in the impossibility of consensus on how to pronounce them. Naturally, the po

Open Source tools

2000-02-04 Thread Cliff Draper
Hello fellow Debinaites! I'm looking to start work on a Java project that I'm hoping will make its way into the Open Source world soon. I have a few questions: 1. I was thinking of using the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The GPL is definately too restrictive for me, and the LGPL still seems to

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:28:59 -0500 Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the pronunciation of the word 'Linux' that much of an issue? So > what if we don't pronounce it like Linus pronounces it? Linus' own pronunciation of "linux" is not consistent. I've head him use each of the main pro

Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-04 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I just read this article and thought the beginning was rather harsh: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34079,00.html Is the pronunciation of the word 'Linux' that much of an issue? So what if we don't pronounce it like Linus pronounces it? Words are adapted differently in each langu

Re: Unexpected EOF on devpts.sh

2000-02-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > I wonder if the /devpts line being commented out in /etc/fstab has > > anything to do with the problem. > > > > -- > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: > > > > > When booting a Potato box, I'm getting the error: > > > ./devp

Re: Unexpected EOF on devpts.sh

2000-02-04 Thread Kent West
Bruce Sass wrote: > > I wonder if the /devpts line being commented out in /etc/fstab has > anything to do with the problem. > > -- > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: > > > When booting a Potato box, I'm getting the error: > > ./devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > y

Re: Unexpected EOF on devpts.sh

2000-02-04 Thread Bruce Sass
I wonder if the /devpts line being commented out in /etc/fstab has anything to do with the problem. -- On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: > When booting a Potato box, I'm getting the error: > ./devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file > yet the file appears to be fine. I don't

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Brad
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:22:34PM +, Tony wrote: > I am running/installing a Debian 2.1 distribution that came packaged with the > O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux". I guess this is Slink. > > I have been trying to install the module support for a 3905 3com ethernet > card. 3Com sup

Re: Which Boot Manager?

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 01:05:09AM +, Lane Lester wrote: : I currently have Win 98 and NT along with Corel Linux on my system. : CL's lilo lets me go with either Linux or Windows, and NT's boot : manager lets me pick between 98 and NT. : : I just bought McCarty's _Learning Debian GUN/Linux_, a

Re: Which Boot Manager?

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
if gets to the point where nothing else works, you can always use loadlin, boot linux from dos mode. just need a copy of the kernel on a dos accessable partition, and loadin.exe then its easy to make a batch file for each distribution. or you can search the www to see how to add linux to nt's boo

Unexpected EOF on devpts.sh

2000-02-04 Thread Kent West
When booting a Potato box, I'm getting the error: ./devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file yet the file appears to be fine. I don't even know what "devpts" is or does. Anyone know how to fix this error? Thanks!

alsactl not found

2000-02-04 Thread Kent West
On booting a Potato box, I'm getting the error: alsactrl not found Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

Which Boot Manager?

2000-02-04 Thread Lane Lester
I currently have Win 98 and NT along with Corel Linux on my system. CL's lilo lets me go with either Linux or Windows, and NT's boot manager lets me pick between 98 and NT. I just bought McCarty's _Learning Debian GUN/Linux_, and I'd like to install the Debian that came with it. Can you tell me h

Re: quake-svga signal 11

2000-02-04 Thread Remco van 't Veer
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 14:09, aphro wrote: > another thing to check is the cache on the board/chip, disable one > at a time thru the bios and see if it does the same, its gonna run > like a 386 but it'll be a decent test to see if the cache sometimes > gives bad hits. > > worth a shot anyways ..

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm pretty sure that having no harddrive's configured in bios is a problem, but to get the disks, go to: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/disks-1.44/ This assumes you are using 3.5" drive. I actually did an install of potato with the disks, it sucks... Thats a l

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Bruce Sass
The latest build of the potato boot disks can be found at: http://lully.debian.org/~aph/bf-2.2.6-i386/ they use the 2.2.14 kernel and, given that they are a work in progress, you can expect a few problems to crop up with them. You may also want to check out the "Incoming" directory of yo

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread John Leget
Webdownloader works reasonable well, though i have the occasional site it fails with. And it has clipboard monitoring added recently as well though i find upon start i have to add the first link manually before it starts grabbing urls from the clip board. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ che

Re: Loonies

2000-02-04 Thread Hans
Be a good hubby and buy her an iMac, will you? ;-) --Hans At 06:22 PM 2/4/00 +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: >My wife says the proper pronunciation of linux is loonix >egbert >-- >Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991 >===

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Alexander wrote: AlexAp >Hello, AlexAp >I'm having problems... BIG problems. I have been trying to install Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install is more like it. Here is what happens: Everything seems to go well up until the point

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
Where might I go about getting the install disks mentioned here? --- AFAIK Ultra66 isn't supported until 2.2.13 kernels. You'll have to grab the install disks from potato (frozen) which use 2.2.13 kernel. --- PS - I'm a retard, so please, explain ;-)

Re: reading rtf files: I shouldn't talk nonsense.

2000-02-04 Thread Derek J Witt
I believe Word Perfect and Star Office can handle RTF files. (If those two software packages had debbies for them, they would be outrageously huge!) ** Derek J Witt ** * Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Home Page: http:

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:07:47PM -0600, Alexander wrote: : Actually, I should have seen this before... my hard drive has an Ultra66 IDE : Controller... it's in the SCSI section of the device manager... could that : be the problem? AFAIK Ultra66 isn't supported until 2.2.13 kernels. You'll have

KGIcon

2000-02-04 Thread Derek J Witt
Hi, I am running Debian Woody (formerly a potato user). I would like to know if anyone has gotten KGIcon to work with a S3 Virge/GX. My video card is a Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 with 4 Mb VRAM. I last tried it about two weeks ago and its support of virge was quite alpha at the time. ** Derek J Wi

X hangs modem/ppp

2000-02-04 Thread Kurt Swigart
- Forwarded message from Kurt Swigart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:31:49 -0800 From: Kurt Swigart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: X hangs modem/ppp Organization: Swigart Engineering, Keyport, WA I am still having trouble here. The prob

Re: Isn't there anybody who knows anything about this?????

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > A few days ago I posted this: > > > > > > I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that

RE: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Lewis, James M.
> It's an IDE > Do you have more than one drive in the box? > - Original Message - > From: "Aaron Solochek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:49 PM > Subject: Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help! > > > > Is it a scs

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yes, that helps... change the primary and master and slave to "auto" or, better yet, if your bios has it, use the "autoconfigure harddisks" option. That will try to figure out what you have, and then set things accordingly, that saves a few bootup seconds later on :). Oh, it will ask you what mod

Re: Isn't there anybody who knows anything about this?????

2000-02-04 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > A few days ago I posted this: > > > I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses > ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no co

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
Also, I just went to my BIOS and took a look at the IDE info: IDE Controller [Both] HD Delay 6 seconds Primary IDE Master [None] Primary IDE Slave [None] Secondary IDE Master [My DVD...] Secondary IDE Slave [My Burner...] I dunno if that helps.

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
Actually, I should have seen this before... my hard drive has an Ultra66 IDE Controller... it's in the SCSI section of the device manager... could that be the problem? - Original Message - From: "Aaron Solochek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, Feb

Re: Debian Package Installer

2000-02-04 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:30:42PM -0500, TroPeek wrote: > Which program is used the most for installing and desinstaller packages > in Debian? Dselect or dpkg? Are there any others? Let's see ... dselect. Oh yeah, I remember that one. I haven't even touched that program in over a year. I start

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:15:45PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I am wondering if it is not the *server* behavior to send it > uncompressed. This happens to me too, but when I try one of the .tar.gz > files, it downloads compressed. Seems unlikely that my Netscape is > taking it upon itself to

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Procario
I have had one experience somewhat like yours. I failed with Redhat and Debian. I had a hardware problem in the IDE controller. I moved my harddisk onto the second controller and told the BIOS to look there for the boot disk. That cured it. Is the disk bad? Did the system ever have windows on

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
It's an IDE - Original Message - From: "Aaron Solochek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:49 PM Subject: Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help! > Is it a scsi harddrive? Its possible that the boot disk you have does > not hav

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
Is it a scsi harddrive? Its possible that the boot disk you have does not have support for whatever scsi card you are using If you don't know, boot into windows, and go to the device manager (right click on my computer, go to properties, click on devices tab) and see if there is a scsi entry,

Re: Out of date packages

2000-02-04 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On -1 xxx -1, Brad wrote: > First, if you're using stable you should expect this. Once a version is > declared stable, pretty much nothing changes except major bugfixes and > security upgrades (this may or may not change in the near future, others > would know better than i). > > If you're using u

I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
    I'd like to apologize for sending out the same question again, but nothing thus far has worked.  Here is my problem, in detail:  I have attempted to install RedHat, TurboLinux, and now I'm on Debian.  None of these have I been able to install.  On every single one of them, as I am doing

Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-04 Thread David Teague
Hi My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. When I try to set the hardware clock, I get the error message indicated in the subject line. The entire exchange that brought this to mind is: gandalf# /usr/sbin/netdate time_a.timef

Re: Problem compiling program with -lmysqlclient

2000-02-04 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lmysqlclient: No such file or directory > libmysqlclient.so.4 => libmysqlclient.so.3.21.33b Do you also have a libmysqlclient.so -> libmysqlclient.so.4 symlink in /usr/lib ? If not, make it. BTW: You use a very old version of mysql! bye, -christian- --

Potato: compiling tar

2000-02-04 Thread Alfred Munnikes
Hello After downloading tar and patch, ungzip it applying patch and the "debian/rules binary" command the configure script go well but: cut... creating config.h linking ./lib/fnmatch.hin to lib/fnmatch.hno make make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/1/tar-1.13.17' make all-recursive make[2]: Ent

ramdisk bug or error?

2000-02-04 Thread Joseph de los Santos
when I boot from the CD with my system/bios cache enabled I get the message "RAMDISK=compressed image found at block 0" during bootstrap.I was wondering how this can be removed or disabled somewhat not by disabling my system cache because it slows the computer down greatly. I have tried the comm

Problem compiling program with -lmysqlclient

2000-02-04 Thread paulo henrique castro
Dear Friends, Im try compile Qpopper (patched for use MySQL) but I receive this error message: gcc flock.o pop_dele.o pop_dropcopy.o pop_get_command.o pop_get_subcommand.o pop_init.o pop_last.o pop_list.o pop_log.o pop_lower.o pop_msg.o pop_parse.o pop_pass.o pop_quit.o pop_rset.o pop_s

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, paul wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > > > > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it stran

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread Joe Block
> DOUGLAS HUNTER wrote: > I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a > profile for this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so > could you drop me a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for > these. Add deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main

LaTex - Adding packages

2000-02-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to add the 'titlesec' package to my Debian 2.1 system and having a problem. After a little research, my understanding of the process is to add additional Tex packages into one of the home or local directories as defined in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and then run texhash. So, on my system the

Re: Whiteboard for debian?

2000-02-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:13:27 +0100 Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, I'm looking for the whiteboard teleconferencing utility, > available for both Linux and Winblow$. It should be open source of > course... CVW -- http://www.mitre.org/ -- J C Lawrence

Re: problem updating to potato

2000-02-04 Thread Erik Blaufuss
I had the same problem. Try removing the "clock" package first. Works fine after that. --Erik On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > When trying to update to potato I get the following error: > > (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking util-lin

problem updating to potato

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
When trying to update to potato I get the following error: (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb (--unpack): trying to ove

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread davidturetsky
I pass on Paul's post. With a 13.5GB drive, you have to be sure you've correctly addressed the large disk issues discuss there   I particularly found Andries Brouwer discussion (http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html invaluable   David   davidt >From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>davidt

Whiteboard for debian?

2000-02-04 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'm looking for the whiteboard teleconferencing utility, available for both Linux and Winblow$. It should be open source of course... -- TIA Wojciech M. Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab <--> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
I tried resc1440tecra.bin, and that didn't work... this is the error I'm getting... No Hard Drive! No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cables correctly and are turned on befor the system is started. You may to change driver settings at teh boot... or load a driver... Any sugg

Incoming PPP, slink

2000-02-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops and a couple of Linux boxen running samba. I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95 machine at home and be a "full citizen"

Re: odd cron returns

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:40:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : That is, it's not executingthe command in the crontab, but a differetn one : --note thatthe >> becomes a 2>>& : : How do I fix this? What I need here is for cron to *not* send any : mail at all--this account exists

odd cron returns

2000-02-04 Thread hawk
I have the crontab file "mycron" with the contents [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/bin/updatehw >> $HOME/tmp.quizlog which results in the crontab entry of # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.4hHwFM installed on Tue F

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Hello, > I'm having problems... BIG problems. I have been trying to install > Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install > is more like it. Here is what happens: Everything seems to go well up until > the point where I need to mount? a partition or whate

Attention Bruss Sass FWD: failure notice

2000-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce, fix your damn spam filter. You have hit the end of my patience. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: 4 Feb 2000 16:22:36 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at kitenet.net. I'm afraid I wasn't

Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander
Hello,     I'm having problems... BIG problems.  I have been trying to install Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install is more like it.  Here is what happens:  Everything seems to go well up until the point where I need to mount? a partition or whatever. 

Debian Linux on Sony Vaio PCG-XG / PCG-F309

2000-02-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, did anybody ever try/succeed to install Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG-X9 or PCG-F309. It isn't in the list of Linux-able portables yet but perhaps somebody already tried? Nico "It has been said that there are only two businesses refe

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Hello! > > I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t > > work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix > > that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the > > debian m

Subject too vague! (was Re: Does anybody know how I can solve this..)

2000-02-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ron Rademaker wrote: >A few days ago I posted this: > > >I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses >ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of >Nobody

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
If you try to ping something, does it say operation not permitted? If that's the case you'll probably have your ipchains input and output set on DENY all. Add some rules to those chains (perhaps you'll also need to add rules to the forward chain), or just set them to ACCEPT. Ron

CLEARED: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Details: Booting Message: Dell Power Edge Expandable Raid Controller 2 [BIOS VERSION] copyright ADAPTEC CONTAINER #0 ... This is the controller all disks were connected to it is a Adaptec AAC-364 based RAID-Controller with a aic3860Q chip on it. ( screwing it up was fun ) Called 4-channel PERC-

CLEARED: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Details: Booting Message: Dell Power Edge Expandable Raid Controller 2 [BIOS VERSION] copyright ADAPTEC CONTAINER #0 ... This is the controller all disks were connected to it is a Adaptec AAC-364 based RAID-Controller with a aic3860Q chip on it. ( screwing it up was fun ) Called 4-channel PERC-

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: quares >At boot time it says: quares >... quares >FDC0 is post-1991 82077 quares > The PCI-Bios has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command -> 0005 quares >eth0: 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx IRQ5 i've had this problem too, updatin

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread Howard Mann
flost wrote: > > Hello! > I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t > work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix > that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the > debian mailing archive, but I didn`t found any

Re: Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-04 Thread Howard Mann
sudheesh wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know > how to configure my system to use the server specifically for my card. I > have the server installed and Xwindows installed as well, but I don't know > how to configure to use the installe

STL ?

2000-02-04 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
all - is the STL built into gcc 2.9.x and/or egcs  or do i have to download it from SGI's website?  if it's in gcc or egcs which is better to use? thanks --  Patrick Dahiroc E-OIR Measurements Inc. TEL: 703-704-2856  

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:13:30 +0100 (CET) >From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >What's in your /etc/init.d/network?? >What does it say when you do 'ifconfig'? >What does it say when you do 'route'? > >Ron > > >> Hi >> >> I have a 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx (at irq 5) >> >> But at boot

Re: Upgrading kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 ?

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 03:52:59PM -0800, aphro wrote: : On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Anthony Green wrote: : : ninja >I havent read much about ipchains .. but know how to use ipfwadm, is : ninja >there a backward compatability? : : not much backwards compadiblity, i havent gotten around to learning : ipch

Re: Scary bugs

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:27:05PM +0100, Patrik Rak wrote: : On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Pavel Epifanov wrote: [snip] : (For those who are about to suggest me that I use ntpdate at boot : time: No, it doesn't work because the Internet connection may be down : during the reboot.) If you run several serve

Does anybody know how I can solve this..

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
A few days ago I posted this: I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of connection on the windows side is SLIP and i've

Re: StarOffice query

2000-02-04 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Rick: Thanks for responding. Curiously, my BACKSPACE key is a DELETE key on the system in question. On this machine (also slink), it is identical to yours (i.e. a BACKSPACE key). The 'xev' output for the former is: At ve6cta, the BACKSPACE key generates KeyPress event, serial 16, syntheti

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> OK - I've now tried those things, and I get the same old message ... Any more > thoughts? You could try: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/net .o or modprobe /lib/modules/2.2.12/net .o (If the first says unresolved externals). Another option of course is downloading another kernel (eq

a2ps has a bug?

2000-02-04 Thread Raoul van Putten
Since I dist-upgraded, a2ps doesnt seem to work any more. I do a: $ a2ps textfile [packages (plain): 4 pages on 2 sheets] Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D Press Ctrl-D [229 times, independent of the length of the file textfile] /home/rlputten/bin/lpr: fork: Resource temporari

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Tony
OK - I've now tried those things, and I get the same old message ... Any more thoughts? ^There are a few things you could try: ^ ^- Compile a kernel where you don't add your ethernetcard as a module. OK ^- Compile a kernel where you select 'Set kernel version on all modules' ^(or something li

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
My personal solution to this problem is to middle-click to open a new window, stop download, copy the address, paste it to xterm, type Ctrl-A then 'wget' :) But it's not that nice. --- Junichi Uekawa, a.k.a. dancer a member

Isn't there anybody who knows anything about this?????

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
A few days ago I posted this: I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of connection on the windows side is SLIP and i've

Loonies

2000-02-04 Thread Egbert Bouwman
My wife says the proper pronunciation of linux is loonix egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
What's in your /etc/init.d/network?? What does it say when you do 'ifconfig'? What does it say when you do 'route'? Ron > Hi > > I have a 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx (at irq 5) > > But at boot time I got "Network is unreachable". > > Can you help me, please. > > > At boot time it says: >

Re: Module upgrading question

2000-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hating to reboot I wondered what the proper and Debian way whould be > to upgrade/add modules. I want to add audio htat's all, no changes to > the kernel. If I would use make-kpkg kernel_image and install the > generated kernel.deb could I then add the

Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have a 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx (at irq 5) But at boot time I got "Network is unreachable". Can you help me, please. At boot time it says: ... FDC0 is post-1991 82077 The PCI-Bios has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command -> 0005 eth0: 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx IR

transparent proxying

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Meskes
Are there other tools available or is transproxy the only one for this? AFAIK I need some tool to rewrite the URLs so the proxy is correctly addressed. michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651

Re: Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Hello, > > I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know > how to configure my system to use the server specifically for my card. I > have the server installed and Xwindows installed as well, but I don't know > how to configure to use the installed server. > K. Sudh

changeing irqs on serial devices.

2000-02-04 Thread Tim Nicholas
Hey there, On my home computer i currently have a modem and a mouse, both serial. I like haveing multiple displays how ever and since i resently came accross a dumb terminal i thought that i would connect it. So far however i have not been able to get the dumb terminal to work at the same time

Re: PPP kernel support?

2000-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting steve doerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How do you put PPP support into the 2.2.0 kernel? I get the following > message when I try to run pon: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be > because > the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is

Re: new Server and MIME-Types

2000-02-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
> >Michelle, > >usually they are in /etc/mime.types. You haven't written which >WWW server >you use. If Apache, there's a symlink >/etc/apache/mime.types -> ../mime.types >i.e. just to this file. > Sorry, but I have not ask where I must set the MIME-Types !!! In apache I am missing MIME-Types

Re: TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Thanks for your help, but we were not able to install linux because we didnt see any disk for installing in fact there are three controllers, two aha7800 which were both detected, one is connected to the cdrom, the other is dummy. The third controller is the PERC-2 (not SC) pre-controller, whic

Re: TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-04 Thread Manfred Knoke
Thanks for your help, but we were not able to install linux because we didnt see any disk for installing in fact there are three controllers, two aha7800 which were both detected, one is connected to the cdrom, the other is dummy. The third controller is the PERC-2 (not SC) pre-controller, whic

Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-04 Thread sudheesh
Hello, I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know how to configure my system to use the server specifically for my card. I have the server installed and Xwindows installed as well, but I don't know how to configure to use the installed server. K. Sudheesh [EMAIL

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread Peter Good
Quickest way is to upgrade your xserver. Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a profile for > > this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so could you drop > > me a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for these. > > One other

Re: Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
There are a few things you could try: - Compile a kernel where you don't add your ethernetcard as a module. - Compile a kernel where you select 'Set kernel version on all modules' (or something like that, when using make menuconfig it's in the same menu as 'Enable modules'). - Make sure you did bo

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> Hello! > I wanna run a ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP 2x in Debian, Ver. 2.1, but it doesn`t > work...the best result: The screen is repeated 4 times...how can I fix > that...I had already a look to the XFree86.org FAQ and have searched in the > debian mailing archive, but I didn`t found anything usable for

Re: newbie has graphics card problem

2000-02-04 Thread Ron Rademaker
> I have a Diamond Viper 770 but Slink (XF86Setup) doesn't have a profile for > this. Has anyone been able to get X running on these if so could you drop me > a copy of the chip, ramdac and driver used for these. > One other problem how do you tell which port your mouse is attached to ie. > tty0

Q:Kernel version and insmod refusal

2000-02-04 Thread Tony
Hello, I am running/installing a Debian 2.1 distribution that came packaged with the O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux". I guess this is Slink. I have been trying to install the module support for a 3905 3com ethernet card. 3Com supply the driver as c code; I compile this and then try to

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