Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:54:10PM -0700, e3c wrote: > Thank you for your reply, > > What I am trying to load as far as I have been able to tell is slink 2.1. > However the > package that I purchased has nothing called tecra on it. Is this another > boot image or > ? If it is a boot image is it

Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread e3c
Thank you for your reply, What I am trying to load as far as I have been able to tell is slink 2.1. However the package that I purchased has nothing called tecra on it. Is this another boot image or ? If it is a boot image is it available ftp on the www? Thank you for your time, Scott Ron Rad

Re: NIC sharing?

2000-07-13 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 07/13/00, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Im running a dsl network where I have a real IP on eth0. I was > wondering I could setup a new network for use in masquerading via > eth1...can the single network card translate the non routable > network as well as the physical static one? Yes. Set up IP alias

Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread e3c
Thank you for your reply, What I thought was Debian loading drivers for the hard drives was actually Debian identifying the scsi controller since I have a dual controller card it happens twice. So it was not loading drivers as I first thought. Although I did disconnect everything except for the

NIC sharing?

2000-07-13 Thread Ethan Pierce
Im running a dsl network where I have a real IP on eth0.  I was wondering I could setup a new network for use in masquerading via eth1...can the single network card translate the non routable network as well as the physical static one?

Re: Autologin on Serial Console

2000-07-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Simon Tennant wrote: > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in > the house. Cool ;) > > I curre

SCSI tape errors

2000-07-13 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i have set up a SCSI DAT tape onto debian slink with kernel 2.0.38 and nfs (no_root_squash) mounted an IBM AIX directory. I use a simple backup program which tars the files from the AIX directory onto tape. It works for a little while but i think it gets into trouble when it trys to proccess

Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should try using the tecra image (on the official cd release of slink (2.1), it's on cd 2 if I recall correctly, so try booting from cd 2) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, e3c wrote: > I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to > recieve help from the Debian

Re: Debian and WordPerfect

2000-07-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have run both WP 7 and 8 under slink and potato. WP 7 works flawlessly, while WP 8 seems to have problems with some window managers (I can't seem to focus on the document window) but works well with others. Be sure you have all the necessary (libc5) libraries installed. On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at

Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi Scott! Your SCSI card is being identified correctly. Although it's designated AH2940x, it uses an AIC7xxx chipset. Here is the output of /proc/pci for my card: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back ca

Re: display export??

2000-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ragga Muffin wrote: > > do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am I on > > the right track? > > Yes and no. What yuo need to do is temporarily permit x-connections from > your localhost if you want to start an

system lock on boot

2000-07-13 Thread e3c
I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to recieve help from the Debian comunity. My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a store. I boot from

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein writes: > Help me understand why the absence of a shell login process on these > machines constrains them from using a simple exchange of username and > password. It doesn't. You can use username/password authentication to connect to a machine on which you can not get a shell. It's

Re: Debian and WordPerfect

2000-07-13 Thread Judith E Bush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a > segmentation fault on both. I had no luck getting WP to run under Slink. Some of my notes should be in the archive for this group; I'm attaching my first message to the WP8 "support" Co

ms sidewinder gpad 2.4.0test fix

2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Hello If anyone is running a 2.4test kernel with the v2 input drivers, and has the problem with the sidewinder gamepad directional controls not working, I have a replacement sidewinder.c file from Vojtech Pavlik that fixes it. It's only 20k but I don't like attachments on the mailing lists so I w

Re: Autologin on Serial Console

2000-07-13 Thread Bob McGowan
Simon Tennant wrote: > > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in > the house. > > I currently have to login and run "t

Re: kerneld message

2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan Heaney
> You should check your startup scripts. Somewhere, you have enabled > starting kerneld, you need to find that place and disable it. cd /etc/init.d mv kerneld kerneld.old reboot Jonathan

Re: kerneld message

2000-07-13 Thread Bob McGowan
Ragga Muffin wrote: > > Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > I have just compiled my first kernel (!) on my Debian frozen box. It is > > 2.2.15 > > After the reboot all seems well, except a message during boot: > > > > kerneld: you almost certainly don't want to be running kernel

Re: uninstall help

2000-07-13 Thread Bolan Meek
Jake wrote: > > Hi, > I just installed Debian 2.2 version but I want to unstall and then reinstall > it.I want to uninstall it because: > 1) I have win-98 on it with two partitions of 2.6 GB which I might not able > to access once LiLo is booted.Can u help me with that? > 2) I am not able to confi

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread Bob McGowan
The PAP protocol for user authentication sends the user name and password, just as you would use if using a login. But the authentication process is handled by the PAP protocol implementation on the host rather than by a login implementation. I think there may have been confusion with the PAP pro

Re: kerneld message

2000-07-13 Thread Ragga Muffin
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have just compiled my first kernel (!) on my Debian frozen box. It is > 2.2.15 > After the reboot all seems well, except a message during boot: > > kerneld: you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld >with >= 2.2.x > > I

kerneld message

2000-07-13 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have just compiled my first kernel (!) on my Debian frozen box. It is 2.2.15 After the reboot all seems well, except a message during boot: kerneld: you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld with >= 2.2.x I assume that to be true. I am not sure if this just appears sinc

Autologin on Serial Console

2000-07-13 Thread Simon Tennant
I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in the house. I currently have to login and run "tcpdump -i eth1". I'd like tcpdump t

Re: Debian and WordPerfect

2000-07-13 Thread Mike Werner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a > segmentation fault on both. > > Does anyone know of a reason for this? Which version of Word Perfect? I've got WP8 here, and it runs just fine. I'm currently running woody, but I know I had WP a

Re: unable to unmount

2000-07-13 Thread Ragga Muffin
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after > the other machine is switched off, I am unable to umount the cdrom ~~~ Please elaborate. Do you mean you just shutdown the other machine ? Or that

Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro

2000-07-13 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Thanks to all who responded. I discovered that the Rage128 support in the XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA xserver does work with this card if you tell it what the video chipset identification. It appears that the Rage 128 Pro chips are not properly detected as can be seen in the lines below. I got it to wo

Re: display export??

2000-07-13 Thread Ragga Muffin
"Ethan Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings. When I > used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be run as root - > like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do was su and run them. > Now in debian wh

Debian and WordPerfect

2000-07-13 Thread bsamuels
Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a segmentation fault on both. Does anyone know of a reason for this? Barry Samuels

Re: display export??

2000-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Bolan Meek wrote: > I'm not understanding how to > directly change this, but an easy work-around is to CTL-ALT-F2...F3, > log in as root, and startx -- :1. This starts a new display. > > Then, you can flip between them with CTL-ALT-F7 ..

Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Moritz Schulte wrote: > > There are a few other chages required depending on arhcitecture / what > > drivers you are compiling so I would get the latest patch from testing > > (6, which I'm just about to compile - hopefully it has repaired the > > parport_pc problem that the last few have had, alt

Re: display export??

2000-07-13 Thread Bolan Meek
> Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings. > When I used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be > run as root - like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do > was su and run them. Now in debian when I try such a move, i g

uninstall help

2000-07-13 Thread Jake
Hi, I just installed Debian 2.2 version but I want to unstall and then reinstall it.I want to uninstall it because: 1) I have win-98 on it with two partitions of 2.6 GB which I might not able to access once LiLo is booted.Can u help me with that? 2) I am not able to configure my network in the Linu

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:35:32PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nils asked about connecting some machines that serve Windows dialup clients > from Linux: i.e., what kind of weird authentication are they likely to use? > Joey answered that they most likely just use PAP. Turns out he was right. Hel

display export??

2000-07-13 Thread Ethan Pierce
Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings.  When I used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be run as root - like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do was su and run them.  Now in debian when I try such a move, i get a "cant set display" n

Again about random signatures...

2000-07-13 Thread gianluca
Hello to all... I manage to set up signify to have a random signature for mutt. My question now is: how can I make this also with slrn ? I try to play with the slrnrc file but have no luck. Any suggestion ? Thanks bye Gianluca -- Home Page Contro i brevetti sw Boico

PCI 338-A3D sound card driver????

2000-07-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does any body have this, or knows how to get it? Is not supported by ALSA, yet. Thanks, antonio.

Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Mike Garfias wrote: > > Ok, its been too damned long since I've had to apply patches to anything. > Can you tell me the way the directories need to look in order to apply > > > the patch OK assuming your kernel source is in /usr/src/linux, dump the file e.g. test4-pre6.gz into /usr/src/linux and

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein writes: > Did I misunderstand the question? Nils asked about connecting some machines that serve Windows dialup clients from Linux: i.e., what kind of weird authentication are they likely to use? Joey answered that they most likely just use PAP. Turns out he was right. -- John Hasl

Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 07:56:25PM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > Moritz, the patch has subsequently been corrected - you can use the > updates in pub/linux/kernel/testing to get the latest patch. I've > amended the relevant section below. [...] > wrong way round, it's now > [...] thnx for

Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Mike Garfias
Ok, its been too damned long since I've had to apply patches to anything. Can you tell me the way the directories need to look in order to apply the patch? Umm, as well as the command needed to apply the patch. Jeez, I feel like a gimp Jonathan Heaney spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > M

Re: lilo

2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan Heaney
It's just how lilo works. There is a hint in the manpage as to a case you may want to be in a different directory other than your / directory (the -r switch, which does a chroot to the dir you specify). The example given where this may be useful is if you are repairing a setup from a boot floppy.

lilo

2000-07-13 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, It seems to me that everytime I upgraded or installed a new version of the lilo, the configuration would also failed unless the currect directory is at root ('/'). Any idea why and/or fixes? TIA! --- tcp

Re: keeping track of used IRQs?

2000-07-13 Thread Krzys Majewski
cat /proc/interrupts is great, thanks to all who suggested this. -chris On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 10:31, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? > > Is there a utility for this? -chris > > I guess you

Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Moritz, the patch has subsequently been corrected - you can use the updates in pub/linux/kernel/testing to get the latest patch. I've amended the relevant section below. >use the following patch: > > --- linux/kernel/timer.c.orig Thu Jul 13 15:51:31 2000 > +++ linux/kernel/timer.cThu J

Re: Debian + other distribution (more questions)

2000-07-13 Thread morten
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:49:27AM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > > Hi again, debianers, > > continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD, > > Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my > RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I selec

unable to unmount

2000-07-13 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after the other machine is switched off, I am unable to umount the cdrom from the server. I am using potato. I am forced to reboot the machine to get the cdrom out. I tried fuser but no use Any suggestions ? Suresh

Re: libssl09 vs libssl095a

2000-07-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to install libapache-mod-ssl, but am unable to for the >following reason: libapache-mod-ssl depends on openssl and libssl09. >openssl depends on libssl095a. libssl09 and libssl095a conflict with one >another, mak

Re: keeping track of used IRQs?

2000-07-13 Thread Brendan Cully
On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 10:31, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? > Is there a utility for this? -chris I guess you want something more than cat /proc/interrupts or lspci -v ? -- was ist los? bist du krank? pgp5pJt9HUUAN.pgp Description:

RE: keeping track of used IRQs?

2000-07-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
cat /proc/interrupts > -Original Message- > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:32 PM > To: Debian user list (undigested) > Subject: keeping track of used IRQs? > > > How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? > Is there a u

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:22:51AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Joey, typo, yes? (And yeah, it's just ppp.) > > PPP with PAP authentication. Did I misunderstand the question? Dialup Networking in Windows is not restricted to PAP. -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptur

keeping track of used IRQs?

2000-07-13 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? Is there a utility for this? -chris

wu-ftpd chroot environment

2000-07-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all Debian users, I use proftp as a ftp server but now I have to maintain a wuftpd server and want to know how to restring a client to a chroot dir (he can login into ftp server but dont have to permit he to change to other dir another his home) with wuftpd. Anyone knows

Re: MS Proxy with Linux

2000-07-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The MS Proxy Server supports the special, proprietary Microsoft Proxy Server service and also optionally supports the Socks4 protocol. The socks4 protocol must be enabled by the administrator. Once this is enabled you may use the debian socks4-client (or whatever it's called) with the run-socks scr

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein writes: > Joey, typo, yes? (And yeah, it's just ppp.) PPP with PAP authentication. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Nils Lohner writes: > Searching through the packages didn't show anything that could emulate > the windoze dialup procedures... or is the dialup networking just PPP > negotiation? Probably. Just run pppconfig and see what happens. Email me if you need help. What are these machines running? --

Re: Lastest sawfish debs?

2000-07-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:09:06PM +0800, Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats all good and well if you want to upgrade to helix gnome. > What if you just want to run standard gnome, and use sawfish Helix GNOME is "standard" GNOME. GNOME itself no longer provides packages; that is lef

kdelibs3 in latest KDE2 builds working?

2000-07-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Has anyone else been having trouble getting the latest kdelibs3 for KDE2 in kde.tdyc.com working? It looks like the July 2-3 builds are still the latest ones and I haven't been able to get them working because it can't install kdelibs3. Keeps saying something about subprocess returning an erro

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 06:33:47AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > It's probably just PAP but I've never actually had to try it. ^^^ Joey, typo, yes? (And yeah, it's just ppp.) -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond

Re: ownership & permissions of /var/spool/news/control/

2000-07-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:27:25AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to > work with this directory. It cant do anything with it, as it is > root:root and 755. FWIW, a (somewhat) recent install of inn2 on potato here resulted

Re: apt-get problems

2000-07-13 Thread Bolan Meek
Frodo Baggins wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit: > >On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: > >> Hi there ... > >> > >> ...apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing > >> the lists, I got an error

Re: Creative Soundblaster 16 PnP ISA

2000-07-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Its a PNP, so you need: 1. Install isapnp package. 2. Run pnpdump and create a config file for your card. 3. Run isapnp with that file. Use IRQ,IO, etc settings same as you supply to your kernel (if possible. pnpdump will tell you). 4. Compile sound support as a module. 5. reboot with your new ker

Re: Lastest sawfish debs?

2000-07-13 Thread Corey Popelier
Thats all good and well if you want to upgrade to helix gnome. What if you just want to run standard gnome, and use sawfish 0.30? Does the development of helix gnome now mean sawfish wont be packaged into woody as a standalone window manager now? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.

Re: dial-up

2000-07-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Chris Mason wrote: > > I'd like to add one dial-up access modem to my firewall machine. What do I > need to install to the machine to allow dial-up access? > mgetty, pppd, & a modem!

Debian + other distribution (more questions)

2000-07-13 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Hi again, debianers, continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD, Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I select it to initialize the existent swap partition or this will damage my RedHat? How sho

kernel null pointer violations

2000-07-13 Thread Michael Soulier
Well, I ditched dhcp last night and tried setting up the ethernet card with just ifconfig and a static IP. I got the same kernel complaints. So, it's not dhcp. Now, I looked on the cdrom that Rogers gave me. Under directory /cdrom/NETCARDS/SOHOware/SFA110A.PCI/LINUX I find... [EMAIL

Re: swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Tony Laszlo
Many thanks to Jeff and Matthew for the advice on my swap dilemma. On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Green wrote: > Find someone who owns a copy of pq-magic. The DOS version will run from On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > (this will give you a file 4Mb large, containing all 0's, in the ro

Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro

2000-07-13 Thread Brian Stults
I had to upgrade to 4.0 you use my card. The debs aren't available yet for reasons that have already been discussed on this list. However, you can get the binaries or source code from xfree86.org. I used the binaries and it was a snap. The driver is called "r128". They have pretty good documen

Re: swap partition too small

2000-07-13 Thread Ethan Pierce
I use a bootable partition magic diskette to move partitions around.works flawlessly. Let me know if you want the disks - Original Message - From: "Tony Laszlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:58 AM Subject: swap partition too small > In trying to conserve t

Re: Lastest sawfish debs?

2000-07-13 Thread Brian Stults
Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all > > I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to > arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the > official release is 0.3. > > thanks > > Richard I got the .30 version via apt a couple days ago. You might want

ownership & permissions of /var/spool/news/control/

2000-07-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to work with this directory. It cant do anything with it, as it is root:root and 755. I assume this is wrong. Did something weird happen to me, or should I file a bug report? hawk

Re: Lastest sawfish debs?

2000-07-13 Thread Marti Hooijmans
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Richard Black wrote: >Hi all > >I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to >arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the >official release is 0.3. Hello Richard, If you add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:00:36PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:56:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > > > > http... > > > [...] > > > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17

Re: VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Moritz Schulte wrote: > which? pre10 or pre11? > if this doesn't solve the problem, you should report it on linux > kernel mailing list.. No. pre6-1 which is in unstable. I just used dselect and selected the most recent avaliable there. Maybe I must download another version a

Re: VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:56:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > [...] > > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... > > [...] > > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 > > [...] > > > > 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2.2.17pre? it's a problem in 2.2.16

Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:24:55AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I'm trying to compile 2.4.0-test3 on potato unsuccessfully! it's a kernel problem.. [...] > timer.c: In function `update_process_times': > timer.c:580: structure has no member named `priority' > timer.c:580: `DEF_P

Re: Debian + other distribution

2000-07-13 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Hi debian community, Well, I erased all on my HD and installed just RedHat, Now I want to install Debian 2.2 without erase RedHat. My question is about lilo. On the installation of RedHat I installed lilo on the MBR. But my version of lilo is a bit old. So I prefer

Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?

2000-07-13 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, I. Tura wrote: > At 19.39 11/7/00 -0300, heu escrit: > > > > Dear fellow users, > > > > I'm now in the market for a portable computer and I'd like to > > buy an inexpensive notebook (I've got a limited budget for > > that). While a have considerable experience

Re: VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:47:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > [...] > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... > [...] > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 > [...] > > 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2

Lastest sawfish debs?

2000-07-13 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the official release is 0.3. thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org

Re: automated data distribution

2000-07-13 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > I'm trying to find some software that will work with Linux to > facilitate automatic data distribution across a Win9x/NT network. Does > anything like this exist for Linux? Preferably Free (speech, not beer) > but I'll take any suggest

Re: dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-13 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:21:03PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his > 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very > very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it > bombs out with not enough

Re: Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Nils Lohner wrote: > I need to set up a Debian box (potato) to connect to to some machines that > are set up to receive the 'Dialup Networking' connection from Windoze, and > there's no shell access so you basically need the protocol as far as I can > tell. Is there any way to set this up to al

compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato

2000-07-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to compile 2.4.0-test3 on potato unsuccessfully! The error is: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -fno-strict-aliasing -c -o timer.o timer.c timer.c: In fu

Re: MS Proxy with Linux

2000-07-13 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: => Hi, => => Have anyone been able to use MS Proxy Server with => Linux client? => => Please explain the configuration of the MS proxy server => as well as the Linux client box! Try to use the tsocks library, setting the LD

MS Proxy with Linux

2000-07-13 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Have anyone been able to use MS Proxy Server with Linux client? Please explain the configuration of the MS proxy server as well as the Linux client box! TIA --- tcp

Dialup Help!

2000-07-13 Thread Nils Lohner
I need to set up a Debian box (potato) to connect to to some machines that are set up to receive the 'Dialup Networking' connection from Windoze, and there's no shell access so you basically need the protocol as far as I can tell. Is there any way to set this up to allow Debian boxes to connec

dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-13 Thread Mark Phillips
My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough memory! Now his machine has always been a bit slow, but we've always b

ssh and telnet connecting problem

2000-07-13 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi, i can't connect from a ssh or telnet client to my Linux machine. I've installed everything that is needed. i get the message: "connection established" and then nothing happens. no problem with FTPclient. do i have to add some lines in /etc/inetd.conf or any other configuration file? Any deamon

Creative Soundblaster 16 PnP ISA

2000-07-13 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi List, i can't get my soundblaster to work. i' ve compiled it in the kernel with the io, irq, dma, and dma16 settings i have in DOS (io=220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5). i also tried other settings but it doesn't work! dmesg output: "sound initialisation start" "sound initialisation end" nothing more.

Re: user space nfsd?

2000-07-13 Thread Ragga Muffin
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone enlighten me? The remote machines to which I have access are > all Solaris, not Debian. What is "userspace nfs" and how do I set it up? > Or, where can I get the source for Solaris nfsd and will it work if I'm not > root? Presumably I will n

Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?

2000-07-13 Thread I. Tura
Sorry Rogerio to sending the message to you twice. Absent-minded I am. If Microsoft has not changed its contract (EULA or similar) you can demand a refund for the OS you are not going to use. I read this from a man in Australia that also wiped W98 to use just Red Hat in

RE: Swat too slow

2000-07-13 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Swat too slow This sounds like a DNS lookup problem. Check your (Windows) network configuration. My 0.02 €... -Original Message- From: Willi Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:14 PM To: debian-user-list Subject: Swat too slow Hi List, it is

Swat too slow

2000-07-13 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi List, it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client, it takes a very long time til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat normally. Can anyone help me? thanx

Re: VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:47:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: [...] > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... [...] > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 [...] 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2.2.17pre? it's a problem in 2.2.16. if you are running .16, tr

Re: error messages from dpkg

2000-07-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: error messages from dpkg Date: Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:26:04PM -0400 In reply to:Michael Soulier Quoting Michael Soulier([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:22:59AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and run the script by hand > >

dial-up

2000-07-13 Thread Chris Mason
I'd like to add one dial-up access modem to my firewall machine. What do I need to install to the machine to allow dial-up access? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.

VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
Sometimes, the CPU of my machine goes up and this appears in my /var/log/messages: Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... Jul 13 08:39:16 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for wmppp... Jul 13 08:39:16 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for

RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze

2000-07-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, Michalowski Thierry writes: > I think you can bind the freezing of the terminal to other keycodes than > Ctrl-s, but I did not try to, so I suggest you read the appropriate manuals > for the appropriate terminal emulators...unless others have already working > tips! stty is your friend.

RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze

2000-07-13 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze Hi, if you have a terminal without (enough) scrolling capabilities and a lot of messages you do want to read when they appear, then "freezing" is just handy. I think you can bind the freezing of the terminal to other keycodes than Ctrl-s, but I did not

RE: networking questions

2000-07-13 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
As all M$ Windows 95/98/NT/2000 uses a protocal called SMB (Sesssions Message Block), you will have to install SaMBa (http://www.samba.org). The debs are kept in net and otherosfs. To configure SaMBa, I strongly suggest you also download/ apt-get SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool). Once installed

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