Problem removing pcmcia-cs

2000-02-10 Thread Scott Thomson
How can I remove a broken pcmcia-cs package from my slink installation while I am running a kernel without module support. When I try to dpkg -r pcmcia-cs, it complains that it is a broken package and that it recommends I install it again. When I try to reinstall it, the configuation fails because

Re: pppd/modem frustration.

2000-02-10 Thread Jonathan Chang
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Hans wrote: > I've posted a question about this earlier this week, but nobody responded. > Is it that much out of the ordinary that no-one can give me some hints or > tips? > > - when connecting to my ISP the connection comes up with the correct flow > rate 11500 > - after abo

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
curious what makes IMAP so important ? ive had tons of ISPs and been on tons of networks and all of them used POP3 .. what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? nate On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: jaldha >There was some discussion of having the IMAP folder root be configurable jald

Re: PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
look your modem(s) up on this page: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2207b.html confirm they are not winmodems, chances are if you paid less then $90 US. it is a winmodem. anyways if it is not, i think it would be easiest to contact tech support from the company that makes it and ask em how to ge

Re: PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread paul
> Hi, > > I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we > read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure > of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info > about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI > Rockewell compatible

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2000-02-10 Thread Ville Luolajan-Mikkola
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Re: Rebuild?

2000-02-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
> davidturetsky wrote: > > I just tried to boot from the floppy after previously finding keyboard > and mouse frozen with my stab at installing x > > the boot process paused with "/dev/hda was not cleanly unmounted, > check forced" > > Only Ctl-c got it to continue Bad move. Linux was not froz

gcc

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
I plan to convert some c/c++ from a Windows/Visual C++ environment to gcc under Linux. I may also use cgicc in some applications   I've glanced through the info files and while helpful, omits a lot of information that would expedite the process   Are there any good books or other documentatio

Re: Firewall or router

2000-02-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
The laptop needs the following settings: - Gateway - your Debian box (192.168.2.1) - a route to the 192.168.2.x network The Debian box needs: - forwarding enabled - Gateway - your FreeBSD pc (192.168.1.1) - a route to the 192.168.2.x network - a route to the 192.168.1.x network The FreeBSD box wi

Rebuild?

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
I just tried to boot from the floppy after previously finding keyboard and mouse frozen with my stab at installing x   the boot process paused with "/dev/hda was not cleanly unmounted, check forced"   Only Ctl-c got it to continue   The login failed with, "unable to change tty /dev/tt1: Ille

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

2000-02-10 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:54:59PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > > The machine is quite old, still has an ISA bus, circa 1993, running > Linux 2.0. Ihe hwclock version is ... lesseee > > # hwclock --show > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. > # hwclock --version > hwclock 2.1/util-li

Firewall or router

2000-02-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi. I've just got a laptop computer. I already have a two-computer network running with a FreeBSD box doing NAT and firewalling, and a Debian box behind it. I need to obtain means of connecting my notebook to the 'net. Because I'm too cheap to buy a hub, and also because I have a bunch of networki

Re: IMAP doesn't really *delete* messages when they're moved....

2000-02-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm using the regular imap daemon. When I move files from my inbox to > another folder with Outlook Express, the messages seem to get marked as > deleted. However, when I click "purge", they don't delete. I have to > explicitly UNdelete them and then delet

So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
There was some discussion of having the IMAP folder root be configurable (i.e $HOME or $HOME/mail). A few days ago I wrote of a way to do this. Mind you it came with a big fat warning from the author but I would have assumed *somebody* tried it. No one has gotten back to me to tell me if it work

RE: PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
All you should need to set up the modem is what serial port it is on. For example, my modem is on Com4, so I just told pppconfig, etc, to use /dev/ttyS3, and everything worked. You can use "dmesg |more" to find out what devices the kernel is finding. You can use the command "lspci" to find out w

Re: mysql problems

2000-02-10 Thread Marcin Kurc
same here, need fix quick :) On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:55:29PM -0500, Steve Kondik wrote: > is anyone experiencing major problems with the latest mysql in woody > [and potato]? none of my grant tables seem to get usuable, although > the data is still there and correct. > > > -- > Unsubscrib

mysql problems

2000-02-10 Thread Steve Kondik
is anyone experiencing major problems with the latest mysql in woody [and potato]? none of my grant tables seem to get usuable, although the data is still there and correct.

Re: PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:32:06PM +0800, gou.dedalus wrote: > > I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we > read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure > of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info > about this, so please help! Bot

PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread gou.dedalus
Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no win

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #253

2000-02-10 Thread Eugenio Sanchez
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Re: Java compiler

2000-02-10 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:25:36 -0500 (EST) Jozef Skvarcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I heard that it is possible to speed-up Java programs by > compiling them into binaries (instead using JVM). Can someone > point me into a place where I could find more information? Which > compiler should I u

apache auth_ldap problems

2000-02-10 Thread Tim Bell
Has anyone got auth_ldap working with apache? I'm using apache 1.3.9-10, and auth_ldap doesn't seem to be included. The changelog.Debian says: apache (1.3.9-6) unstable; urgency=low * Compilation of mod_auth_ldap is optional. -- Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun

Re: Java compiler

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
This may not be quite what you have in mind, but I believe this is now routinely done when locally invoking javac and by the latest browser under the rubric, "Just-In-Time Compiler." I believe the question is addressed at Sun's site, java.sun.com David - Original Message - From: Jozef Sk

Java compiler

2000-02-10 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
Hi, I heard that it is possible to speed-up Java programs by compiling them into binaries (instead using JVM). Can someone point me into a place where I could find more information? Which compiler should I use? Jozef Skvarcek _ Dept. of

Re: Mail & PGP

2000-02-10 Thread Adam Shand
> Hmm. I've never had any problems with it, but YMMV. (Not SMTP, by the > way, but RFC 822.) yeah you're right. > See, that drives me up the wall. I don't like the fact that it all goes > through another editor (and one so badly written that it needs to insert > a spurious blank line at the end

Re: suExec annoyances

2000-02-10 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Can anyone explain to me the restriction on where I can place cgi > > scripts if suExec is being used with apache? As best as I can > > understand, all cgi scripts must be contained under the *global* > > DocumentRoot in order for suExec to run them.

Re: Mail & PGP

2000-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote: > * because you can't (nicely) edit the headers while you are editing the > message you are forced to do it at the "pre-send" screen. this is okay > (though a little strange for a user used to pine/modern gui > mailers) however if you have a long To: or

weird problem with new kernel (8000)

2000-02-10 Thread Tim Nicholas
A friend of mine has been setting up a new box with debian to do a variety of things, we decided that we wanted to run kernel 2.2.x for various reasons but we have not beenm able to get it to boot. When we install the new kernel and _try_ to reboot it prints LILO: new Loading new 8000 8000 8000

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-10 Thread ferret
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:20:46PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? > > > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-f

Re: DVD

2000-02-10 Thread ferret
Last I was browsing creative.com (looking for tech info on an OEM sound card ALSA doesn't like) I blundered into a CVS repository of a driver for their Dxr2 decoder kit. It's at opensource.creative.com, and it looks fairly spiffy from what I know about DVD (nothing). On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, aphro wro

Unable to log in via console

2000-02-10 Thread Peter Good
Ok, here's an interesting one, Installed potato recently and added KDE into the equation, Start the machine, everything works perfectly, you can log in via kdm etc, su in a console to do superuser etc. Yesterday tho, i decided i wanted to do something in console, pressed ctrl-alt-f1 to drop to a co

RE: Read-only File-system!

2000-02-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
I rebooted and now It stops after it gets to VFS: mounting root file-system Hey, I recompiled my kernel and then I logged in a few times without problems. I was using gomconfig (I thought that would get sound working in WMaker and in games), but after that I got /dev/cdrom permission errors

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-10 Thread Mike Werner
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:20:46PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US p

x

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
I used xf86config to try to create an x platform, and with the failure of earlier attempts, reduced the screen choices. Lo and behold, when I just boot up, I came up to a screen (somewhat inelegant) with a big fat x toward the middle, but with the mouse and keyboard otherwise apparently froz

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:04:05PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > When the last Debian release was coming up, I had deselect downloading from > > stable, frozen, and unstable. Then, some time ago, 'frozen' went away. This > > caused dselect to complain a lo

Help Disk Crashed: How to rebuilt

2000-02-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I need help with the following. My disk which had /usr crashed. I was glad that /var and /etc on separate disks were still okay. But well since I am using Debian I have lots of problems. Problem #1 is that apt-get refuses to get new applications because it claims that those applications exis

Re: Mail & PGP

2000-02-10 Thread Adam Shand
> Hmmm, I don't think that's true, AFAIK you can configure mutt to edit > the header in the message body however you want. See its man files. as it says just below where you cut off the quote: editing that field and then scrolling through it. when you set 'set edit_headers' on you can edi

RE: Kernel Compilation Trouble

2000-02-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Thanks for the tip, that worked perfectly Cameron Matheson -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:28 PM To: Cameron Matheson Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:Re: Kernel Compilation Trouble A long t

Read-only File-system!

2000-02-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I recompiled my kernel and then I logged in a few times without problems. I was using gomconfig (I thought that would get sound working in WMaker and in games), but after that I got /dev/cdrom permission errors in xmcd. I edited the /etc/group file so that I was in the audio, cdrom, flopp

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