MAC address not shown?

2004-06-22 Thread David Piniella
r (i'm guessing this because it's getting the IP that the MAC address is tied to). Any ideas or suggestions would be most welcome, -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can this be a DNS problem? or ... ??

2004-06-10 Thread David Piniella
ver, Mozilla doesn't seem to have a comparable config file. I'm using the Debian 'Sarge' distro. I can't even think of anything to investigate. Ideas? Seen something like this before? Nick -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which Debian version?

2004-06-08 Thread David Piniella
npin/linux_audigy_faq.html for instructions w/r/t 2.6 kernels (I think the instructions are also good for 2.4 kernels, but i'm not sure.) - large amounts of RAM need to be enabled in a compiled kernel; you might be able to just pass the amount of RAM to the kernel at the linux: boot prompt. --

Re: Broken Evolution in unstable

2004-06-04 Thread David Piniella
s two solutions as far as I can see: 1) Use evolution1.5 from experimental (but that is a development version...) 2) Install the libsoup2.0 package from 'testing'. It seems to live happily alongside the newer libsoup packages and works for me. HTH Tristan -- David Piniella University of Miami

Re: Linux on a Windows XP computer?

2004-06-02 Thread David Piniella
;ve been under the impression that any external modem will work in Linux but the data for some models.omits Linux in their operability list. I'd like to have audio but it doesn't have to be super quality I'm not a music fanatic so the cheapest sound card would be OK as l

Re: Bind9/named/DNS help needed

2004-06-01 Thread David Piniella
domain.he's.looking.for.tld instead of changing another machine's settings... -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lilo question..

2004-06-01 Thread David Piniella
onf, move kernels around, etc. Heck, if your Mandrake boots, you can do all that too. Can you give me poiters to do that? -ishwar -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT problem: postgresql won't install/uninstall/upgrade/reinstall

2004-05-28 Thread David Piniella
Caplan Vario Software Ltd (+44) 121-515 1154 -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compilling Kernel 2.4.25 on Debian 2.0r3

2004-05-24 Thread David Piniella
make modules make modules_install Then mkinitrd -o /lib/modules/ After that I copied the System.map and initrd.img to the /boot dir. Finally I boot using grub. Talk about going about it the hard way :-) Check this out: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html -Roberto Sanchez --

Re: Another shell scripting question

2004-05-21 Thread David Piniella
laris, FreeBSD, et al.) -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

differences between kernel-tree and kernel-source and kernel image

2004-05-14 Thread David Piniella
or something else? How can I find this out without installing the package? thanks, -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-05-14 Thread David Piniella
ideas? -ishwar http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-boot you need to start the ssh daemon, so # /etc/init.d/sshd start you might want to put ssh in one of your init scripts so that it starts when the computer does; for this you'll want to look at the documentation

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread David Piniella
5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71 +55 (11) 5686 9607 04.674-000 São Paulo, SPBRASIL http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ Actually, could't he download Sarg with jigdo? http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ -- David Piniel

Re: mouse freezing in X Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
Kent West wrote: David Piniella wrote: I'm running a woody unstable box, GUI is X-Windows with XFCE4; my mouse keeps freezing in x-windows. I can use the keyboard to do stuff in xfce (run commands, tab through options, type in an xterm, etc) and if I go to another console (e.g., alt-F2,)

mouse freezing in X Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
se freezing (or how can I find out myself?) and can I renice a running process? if so, how? -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script to change background in X windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
) at random intervals or set times. -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

script to change background in X windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
t if there is already something like this. Any pointers would be appreciated, thanks, -- David Piniella University of Miami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: read ms-access .mdb files

2004-03-18 Thread David Piniella
nd an office CD,) you can install Office (and IE) on linux; I've done this with a SuSE box and a Debian woody box. It's done via wine and you'll need the windows CDs. I have not done much work with access so can't say specifically about that, but i know it runs offic