WVDial

SS> Has anyone gotten wvdial to work with static IP? ISDN? What's the problem with fixed IP on a dial-up? Is your ISDN treated like a modem? (I know nothing about ISDN) If so you could try editing the /etc/wvdial.conf file and put the correct init strings in there Ian W Karachi, Pakistan

Netscape Communicato

Have you tried the package wvdial that is in _some_ of the Debian distributions? (Certainly in frozen). Very easy to configure and it seems to work. IMO the ppp stuff is a nightmare - before finding wvdial I had ended up with a one-line script with all my ppp options in it as I couldn't get ppp

Win95 as a terminal

JJ> Win95 supports a "Direct Cable Connection" as an Adapter when you go JJ> properties. That said, I tried arduously to get this thing to work b JJ> Win95 laptops without success. I suspect that with the right configu JJ> would work. It needs, for some reason Netbeui & NWLink bound to the Dial-up

dselect / ftp broken

Grab any Perl packages that are outstanding by FTP and then install those using dpkg - that should fix it. I had the same problem when upgrading. HTH Ian W Karachi, Pakistan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SH> Hi -- SH> Through some stupid mistake, I seem to have broken m

ipmasq problems

I've just recompiled the kernel (2.0.33) to include ipmasq support and I now can't connect to the Internet via my PPP dial-up connection :( If I ping www.debian.org then I get unknown host name and if I ping a x.x.x.x address I get "Operation not permitted" I have installed ipmasq once before o

RE: dpkg --help | less

> > And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at > > the moment. > on my system dpkg --help | less works fine. The person who had trouble > with it said it did not work for him/her. Now the problem would be because > their dpkg --help writes to STDERR and not STDOUT. In w

dpkg --help | less

DM> > IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem DM> into DM> try DM> dpkg --help |& less DM> for tcsh And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at the moment. Ian W Karachi, Pakistan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: Dselect problems on a new

MI> Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains: MI> /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 MI> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at MI> /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm line 241 MI> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Socke

Re: dpkg --help | less

II> IW> Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something? AFAICT al II> IW> other packages I have done a | less on to get the help have wo II> IW> expected. II> Dpkg --help prints on stderr, not on stdout as most others do. This II> expected behavior, and a bug is already filed. Right.

dpkg --help | less

On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into the picture at all. To check this out I did dpkg --help 2> dpkg.txt and all the help came out in the file. Is this correct behaviour or am I miss

HP Colorado 5GB IDE

Can anyone enlighten me as to how to use a HP Colorado 5GB Internal IDE tape drive under Linux? I have had a look at various packages that come with Debian, but so far I haven't been able to work out how to get it to work. If there's a HOWTO somewhere then I'd be happy to be pointed in the ri

Off-line newsreader

FB> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Barknecht) FB> Subject: Re: Off-line newsreader FB> > If anybody else has any other suggestions I'll be glad to hear the FB> For the true Forte FreeAgent type of news reader try SKIM or xagent FB> available at your fav sunsite mirror in [...]/system/news/reader

Off-line newsreader

Thanks for all you folks who replied to me regarding an off-line news reader. I d/led slrn and configured it, but as a couple of you suspected it _doesn't_ support d/l of just headers and the picking of interesting articles. I can't afford to d/l all the newsgroups I keep up with - some of the

Debian users and new

JJ> I'm using slrn's scoring to bring Debian-related postings to my atte JJ> The organisation of the Debian community is very mailing-list orient JJ> quite often, I answer Debian-related questions on newsgroups by refe JJ> people to the mailing list. The disadvantage of mailing lists is tha JJ> un

Clean hamm installat

HM> Did you ever use --force-blah with dpkg? Was it ever possible to hos HM> your system without using --force-blah? What is --force-blah? HM> I upgraded my system before Scott's HOWTO was written; at that stage HM> it was fairly simple and all the dependencies seemed to prevent HM> me from doing

SEUL packaging, etc.

FE> > I would like to make it almost trivial for a user to install a FE> > package, i.e. click in a hypertext help/wizard window and it FE> > will install what is required for functionality set "X". I couldn't agree with you more Fred. I thoroughly enjoy Linux, but I found it hard to get into. I

divide the list in beginn

IT> Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced Problem is that you couldn't stop mis-posting, so you'd end up with people posting twice, once in the newbies group and once in the experienced group "just in case nobody in the newbies group knows the answer", so you'd en

NTFS driver as modul

AB> > MM> BTW I've got the same problem, when I've changed kernel... AB> > MM> Even I don't tour on: AB> > MM> Set version information on all symbols for modules AB> > AB> > Weird. Is this a bug perchance? AB> It's not the ideal fix, but the 2.1.x kernels have much better NTFS AB> - even (expe

NTFS driver as modul

MM> > I have tried all sorts of things to get around this, what have I m MM> > I have not got module versioning installed in the kernel as far as MM> MM> Try to recompile the module under new kernel v33 or insmod it with o MM> force: MM> insmod -f ntfs.o I did, a number of times MM> BT

Libc5 / Libc6

BN> > I want to upgrade one or two of the packages on my system beyond t BN> distribution. The newer packages are all requiring libc6, but that c BN> (in DSELECT) with libc5 which is a dependence to a _very_ large numb BN> programs. =:| BN> > BN> > What should I do? Forget it and wait? BN> One

IP-Masq (was Re: ms explo

JS> I suppose I will have to load specific modules manually as I read JS> somewhere that kerneld will not auto-load masq modules (true ?). I JS> be giving it another bash later tonight as I've just d/loaded and JS> installed kernel-source-2.0.32-2.0.32-3.deb so that may make things JS> hopefully.