you need to have user write permissions on /dev/fd0
or any other device. Your administrator must chmod 766 /dev/fd0.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All.
> I want to use the mtools, but I don't have the documentations about
> mtools (and connot get it now). When I use mtool fro
do you have it enabled in bios ?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to use my InfraRed port in my Debian box (HP Omnibook Xe3,
> kernel 2.4.4) but without any sucess:
>
> It seems that the port it is not recognized by the system.
>
> Can you help me. Tha
here are some more tips
ide 0 master is hda
ide 0 slave is hdb
ide 1 master is hdc
ide 1 slave is hdd
u must know wether your hd is master or slave and if its in ide0 ( primary
)
or in ide 1 ( secondary )
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> zulfiqar:~# dmesg |grep hd
> ide0: BM-
try /dev/hdc instead
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a second hard drive installed and in the Dell BIOS its seen as a 40
> Gig hard drive which is correct.
>
> The system runs Debian Woody with kernel 2.4.17
>
> When I try to partition the second hard drive using
i think if you install the debian package that is done automatically. At
least I installed apace once and it was started from then on automatically
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, linuxman wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am sorry for the stupid question!
>
> Anyone can tell me how to start apache automatically in debi
r you sure you unmutted all channels ?
okay assuming you did. Try adjusting the level for the channel. I run CD's
directly to the sound card, I mean, I have a cable connecting the analog
output of the cddrive to the channel in thecard. gtcd player is a very
nice ( and ligth ) program to choose song
what I would do: take the harddrive to another machine
edit /etc/passwd and in the root entry delete the x next to the user name.
after that, root access does not need password. place the hd back inthe
workstation and turn it on. login as root and change the password as
usual. There are better way
/etc/network/interfaces
more information man interfaces
On 24 Jan 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote:
>
> I have another question about installations. If you install Debian
> with a network card, a number of files/settings are presumably
> createds.
>
> If you install it with out a nic, I assume tha
really ? but you removed the mixer device file first. HA!
you can createnew device files using MAKEDEV
do man MAKEDEV to read more about.
change to /dev directoty. then MAKEDEV mixer anbd everithuig should be
fine
On 22 Jan 2002, Mike Atamas wrote:
> I accidently made /dev/mixer/ a link to a
Personaly, I think that working for fun on spare time gives the best
achievements, as that happend with my self. I dont state here that
developers should work harder. NOT AT ALL. But somekind of non-monetary
reward should be given. Even if some take advantage of others work, what
debian and free s
ythe pci bus is faster, though if your card is 700hz ( really ?? ) theres
notrhing you can do. Best choice is to check in the new card manual for
specifications before buying.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, amir isf. wrote:
> Hello
> I used and programmed opti931 sound card in dos (ISA).
> My program nee
im sorry.
actually its
http://www.wimsbios.com
sorry
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Muchlas Yusak wrote:
> i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard.
> i dunno what manufacture made that mb. specification is TK 8881 - FA 20.what
> should i do?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
you should try to find the manufacturer and the board manual
you can start by
http://www.wims.com
to identify the manufacturer.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Muchlas Yusak wrote:
> i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard.
> i dunno what manufacture made that mb. speci
is your modem isa or pci?if its pci then you should be ok. your bios
should not idenitfy pci devices in the same irq. if its isa, then try
changing the modem's irq, either by isapnp , if supported, or by its DOS
configuring disk. Also, you can try using the bios setup to make it assign
a diferent i
I'm running linux 2.4.14. Im going to check that CONFIG_PPDEV thing. I
dont know why yet but how does the control lines in the parallel port get
controled with the lp driver ? There must be some magic () that
that thee user programs are unaware of. Looks like its a great time to
read the linux ker
use biff I think. biff is shell command that tells you of incomming mail.
more details in man biff
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, YO MERITA wrote:
> what can i do to get notified of new mail?
>
> __
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail!
hi folks.
forgive me for posting just another boring message. I am building
some hardware to work in the parallel port. I want to have full control of
the parallel port control register, to use as some signal lines. In the
past two days I have been colecting information on how to use ioctl, and I
etserial will be run
at start up, thus configuring the irq lines; but for testing do the
following:
$setserial /dev/ttySx
will give you the status of the device.
an example is:
$setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 4
J.A.Serralheiro
try mentioning the module name ( withou .o ) in /etc/modules
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm building a new "testing" machine for my wife, and it has a WinTV card
> in it.
>
> If I "modprobe bttv" manually the card works fine. However I would like to
> get this module loaded autma
or you boot with dos and then run loadlin that is in the CD. that should
work I think
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Penguin wrote:
> How do I make the install disks? (Because my 486 won't boot from CD)
>
> Is it $ dd if=/cdrom/some/root.img of=/dev/fd0 -[blah]=1440 ?
>
> I'm using RedHat until my CD set
just compile the kernel the generalw way. make-kpkg will create a package
that u install as if some some software package.
cd to /usr/src/linux and read README file. There u will find all the
instructions u need to compile the kernel without relying on the debian
weay
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Seneca C
at first try to boot with a rescue disk, either a floppy or a instalation
cd.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Mike Kuhar wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Yesterday I built the kernel-source-2.4.17. All seemed well. I had
> re-booted a couple times without problems.
>
> Today, however, I get the error messag
u can use wvdial or pon,
both make the use of pppd.
check wvdial man pages, and the ppp howto. You must configure several
things before u can use dial up connections.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Penguin wrote:
> How do I bring a dialup PPP link with a shell? It's `ifup ' or
> something? Is that all? How
didnt
knew the awnser or they just didnt bother to reply. Its allways a matter
of good will to explain things and you we must live with that. There isnt
any kind of commitment when joining this list.
regards
J.A.Serralheiro
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote:
>
> Have I been killfi
e dai? voce deve ter algum problema de hardware gata. Pegue o manual de
instalacao da distribuicao debian...
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Ana Claudia wrote:
> N?o consigo instalar o 2.2 num athlon 850 placa m?e M810 por que na hora em
> que o instalador n?o consegue ir para a tela gr?fica e volta para a
well the first thing I would do is to investigace configuration files for
control panel or something. As usual, parallel ports come in /dev/lpx (
where x= 0,1,2 etc). You parallel port sould be /dev/lp0.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup my HP LaserJet
hi. After recompiling, u must have compiled the serial driver built in and
that may put your serial ports in diferent devices ( i mean /dev/ttySx )
Another thing is that you may have not compiled the serial driver at all (
not even as a modules); and when you try to use some hardware that is not
de
well, I alreadyt made a floppy but now im starting from pure dos using
.com programs. In fact when I tried to copy it to the floopy i had the
similar problems as u describe, but I compiled the boot1a.bin program so I
could copy it to the floppy with the cat utility. I cant remember how I
did
J.A.Serralheiro
Hi! Its been a while I'm having a small problem. Every time I mount a
floppy using my usual username account, the floopy directory uid is set to
a diferent uid. In this case, my sister's uid. The problem is that I cant
mout/unmount, but cant write to the floppy. When I format it with ext2,
using mk
8259 is an PIC ( peripheral interrupt controler ). Its responsible by
telling the cpu ( with apropriate information ) that some hardware ( HD,
kyb, network adapter etc) is needing cpu attention for some data
transfer/information processing.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Stan Brown([E
something about the printer not being requesting any service and
the interrupt line is generating interrupts. maybe some interference,
I dont know. Its not a problem because the hardware has a bit to let the
cpu know if in fact an interrupt has happened.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
>
well I had trouble like those some times, and I assume that is something
related with a misconfigured kernel configuration file. I reinstalled the
source ( lazy ) and reconfigured the kernel to compile, and everything
went just fine.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, C wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I recently upgra
oh so is your card pnp ?
its easy. just run pnpdump and send its output to isapnp.conf
./pnpdump > isapnp.conf
then edit the file and uncomment the configuration you desire.
man isapnp.conf will help u a lot.
dont forget, uou must run isapnp every time you reboot.
if that is not done automatic
well I have at home a dec vt320 working on my serial com port
its very easy.
if you isa card has com ports, then it should be equaly easy.
see the file /etc/initttab
usually near "getty" entries, for screen consoles, you have
a comment telling how to put a login prompt at a serial ports
good luck
I think there is supports for the driver dor cs4231-A in the kernel source
check that
otherwise u can download tjhe driver from some where compile. U should
also have sound for linux available. wich you can have by compilingf that
too .
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Norbert Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've
ordinary IDE ( I assume your conner
is an IDE as they are the most popular and cheaper ones). Cables are
diferent too. You need special hardware to have SCSI drives ( SCSI
controler or something ).
regards J.A.Serralheiro
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, esteban alcaraz wrote:
> hello mr.
> I have a ncr
Yes there is an option to reinstall.
I used it once to reinstall something I cant remember. Let me see...oh
It was with apt-get
do the following:
apt-get --reinstall install PACKAGE_NAME
And you should be fine. I didnt test it thought.
According to apt-get manpage --reinstall reinstalls & upgra
When I need some new hardware, first I get a quotation from resellers and
them I check if linux supports it.
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Laurent Fawer wrote:
> Hello,
> I am interested to buy a new machine to install Linux on it, so my
> questions are the next ones:
>
> - Do you know a reseller wh
thats right. With one ethernet plug, you need to have 3 cards. 2 in the
computer that actually is connected to the plug. one card for the pplug
and one card for communications with thte other computer. ofcourse the
other computer must have another card. No special software is needed.
read networkin
and they work
lovely in the machine. Does any one of you has an idea of some kind of bug
with this chip?
the card is a 4LAN.
regards
J.A.Serralheiro
PS: sometimes the computer runs well, but 10 minutes later, it starts
getting slower and slower ( invisible to top that gives a 95 % idle)
until
when I first installed apache, the server main web page was just as the
page in www.gunsamerica.com. Thats what happened... some mistake
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could you please tell what happened to the web page WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM.
>
> Thank-you
>
> Ron Miller
> [EMAIL
I bought an opti firelink. Its ohci compliant, and the kernel driver seems
to deal fine with it. I didnt teste it yet, as I dont have any ucb devices
at home and I just bought it yesterday.
regards
PS check the compliance of the card in the manual
awsome...
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> If you haven't seen this already, telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl,
> and sit back with some popcorn. ;-)
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indic
a) modem with awsering capabilities
b) linux is THE CHOICE
c) there r some utilities, mgetty package I think.
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What should I do to make my machine able to receive dial-ups ? What do I
> need at
> a) The hardware level
> b) The OS level
> c) The so
I,ve had some problems alike too, but usually hangup's happen 30s to 10
minutes after dial up. I assume its a coincidence with the phone line
noise, or isp trouble, because it is some how
intermittent malfunction
There was a weekend I couldn log for more thar 50 seconds.
I dont remember the last
well, try to see if the module is already loaded
cat /proc/modules gives a list of all modules loaded.
If you have an entry in here then all you have to do is ifconfig
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having problems on getting my pcmcia card to work o
interfaces see /etc/network/interfaces
the script /etc/init.d/networking does all the work during startup
yopu just have to load and configure the correct modules
see the ethernet howto.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Ronneil Camara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new with debian, actually I'm 2 hours old now with
well, try a windows dialup to gain access, that is, for registration and
then afterwards your laptop..i dont know if that works
mgetty is something like this. Im not sure, but your program could log in
the other computer through the mgetty program. Then, you can configure
mgetty to run a specified software after login is accepter. Try read the
documentation
for mgetty package.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Ilja Kamps wrote:
> I am
sorry for the second message. I really like you :-)
I got the fuile from national headquarters
http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/files/Drivers/Linux/
thanks
hi folks
While trying to get a driver for this ethernet adpater
( struggling in fact ) I found one that was claimed to be
updated to work under kernel 2.4.x. ( file linux_2_4_dp83815.tar.gz)Well
the compiler gives lots and lots
of errors during compilation. Im not very good at these driver-program
you can try minicom. its not exactly what you want but it can handle the
job
edit /etc/serial.conf apropriately
you must have some reference to /dev/ttyS2 in this file.
you can assign ttySx as you like. You must be sure that the hardware is
present. LSR safety warnings come up when you assign 2 or more ttySx to
the same hardware or assign hardware that doesnt exist or is n
so, there is no way to know in advance the length of a string unless you
have an identifier, or constant for it.
thanks for the tip andrew. Im sure it will be useful someday.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Andrew Agno wrote:
> J.A.Serralheiro writes:
> > right. It should be strlen(buff )
&g
hello
Can someone tell me how to automatically backup and compress
/var/log/syslog into gzip format or something. Aparently my computer did
this for sometime but then stoped doing it and now the file ir over
3megabyte.
regards
J.A.Serralheiro
right. It should be strlen(buff )
thanks everyone for your help. I think I will try fgets instead.
regards
J.A.Serralheiro
hi. Im trying to read a complete line from a text file.
I use the fscanf( file, "[^\n]",buffer); butit doesnt work. I reads the
entire file until overflow of the buffer.
Can some one tell me how?
I read scanf manual, but it wasnt of much help, for me at leastr.
thanks
can this be a problem in /etc/hosts?
maybe the alias to time.westvaco.com is faulty in this file
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Stan Brown wrote:
> >
> > I have a Debian potato + Progeny box siting in my office, right next to a
> > FreebSD box. Both are conected to the same networ
whats your default route?
maybe thats what the problem
try route add default gw gateway_ip eth1 ( or eth0 )
try also networking howto.
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> I have a Debian potato + Progeny box siting in my office, right next to a
> FreebSD box. Both are conected to the same n
ld NOT be shared.
Here are some facts I found:
when parport_pc configures 0x378 to work, nothing works.
when parport_pc does not, it works fine.
The problem must be a conflict between both ISR's installed.
Any help or comment is welcome
thanks
J.A.Serralheiro
sorry for the third message:) see also man modules.conf
here's my /etc/modules
I load modules sb for awe32 sound card
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are
well theres nothing special about this file. If you dont have it, the most
it can happen is that some modules are not loaded. The file /etc/modules
has in it ( one per line) the modules names of the modules which you want
to load automatically at startup. Do you have any problem about unloaded
modu
well info as seems to have information about particular programming
features of each assembler language, as as supports several architectures.
make info as a see the node machine dependencies
and dont forget to
install binutils-doc
package to get all the as manual, or you will just see something l
ou in advance
J.A.Serralheiro
allright. shutdown -h waits for you to push the reset button or turn off
and back on the power. But very likely you are using an atx board.
Well I heard that to use the full functionality of the ATX board, ( turn
off autmatically) you must configure lilo ( lilo.conf). I also think you
must enable s
are you sure you have the right permitions? if you dont, or there is some
other problem, the file isnt opened and your code still assumes it is.
do somethng like
if ( !( infile = fopen(sdgjflgfdf) ) ) abort();
Dont trust the system :-)
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Andreas Maresch wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I a
I forgot, I was not trying to use this. Its seems to me very unsual. I was
just checking that what was stated on the book and learned anew thing.
regards
J.A.Serralheiro
actually im reading "Software engineering in c" by peter darnell. its
pretty basic. It was
because I was reading this that this problem arised.
Thanks every one for the detailed explanation.
/*Hi folks. Heres a very odd trouble ( for me at least)
I was reading a book where it was stated that
" char *ptr = "text"; " is an allowed declaration and that
the compiler automatically allocates space for the string text and for the
\0 terminating character ( true) .
I decided to
well, do you want to VIEW or CHANGE pdf files?
xpdf is very nice to view.
apt-get install xpdf-i ( this will get the package for you)
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, harsha wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know if there exists a package to **edit** pdf files. I
> have some forms in pdf form which i have
uar=unknown means that you dont have any hardware on those devices ttyS2
and ttyS3. You can put you device ttySx on any io address you want. That
is , you only need to have as many devices as serial ports.
your problem is that very likely your modem doesnt get identified.
try documentation for the
well
probably you have 3 serial ports. two on board and one for your modem.
one way to find wich ports are detect is listing /proc/ioports
3f8 states as ttyS0
2f8 ttyS1
3e8 ttyS2
238 ttyS3
that is, if you stick with the normal settings in /etc/serial.conf
You can ass
further more, I remember I also had a strange problem
I had to recompile pppd in order to work with 2.4
its ne not ne2k. The modules ne will work on pci devices, but I think the
ne2k-pci will not work on isa. Its very likelly that U have ne on your
system as it is a very common and therefore comes withmost installations.
under debian ne.o is in
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net
where 2.4.5 is you
Sorry. Ididnt check that, and its been a while since i did the last
configuration.
well maybe you misconfigured your video card.
Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations.
It may help. be sure you know what chipset your board has. I think yuo can
also choose and "general" chipset that should work on most cards.
If you can put it to work, then use X
hi there. This will not solve your problems, but it may help
see the ppp-howto
a matter of personal skills.
Regards
J.A.Serralheiro
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Alexey wrote:
> > mem=128M
> Thanks, it's OK.
>
> You know, while running DOS or Windows, the CPU is hot (I can touch it),
> even if I do nothing. It becomes cool under Linux!!!
strange, never heard of that.
I think you can workarround this by telling lilo that you have 128m of
ram.
I use loadlin, with the parameter mem=64m
I think lilo is the same, but yu should check first
see the debian instalation manual.
I think you must load a module to identify those ports.
I also think that serial.o does such.
Once I read something about multiport boards in setserial man pages. Try
that. Theres also the serial howto you can check
okay , i think you should tell X that the device you are to use is
/dev/psaux
well, I had notice of some modems that were capable of silent dialing. My
one is, I think. I have a supra 33.6 diamond, isa. Its possible that there
is an option to enable/disable that. im not sure
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a way to perfor
that.
I'm new at this, only a few months, as mainly as a user. How can I
put things back so that gcc doesnt complain any longer
I truly apreciate some assistance
greetings
J.A.Serralheiro
well it seems to me that you are erasing the tape every thursday at 14
hours and 21 minutes. Do you backup in the tape? then you will loose the
old backup. That's fine, but field 4 () day of month) matches every day,
so you will have a backup every day, and an additional backup every friday
this a
a few weeks ago, I enabled bios APM, which has a bug and I didnt knew
about. I had crash, and some files in /lib/something disapeared.
The problem was not a big deal, because I still compiled my own programs
( which are not a big deal too). Then, once I trie to recompile my kernel
for 486 proces
here's a problem. I configured my network configuring
files /etc/network/interfaces
and it works lovelly. The thing is more of curiosity.
I tried doing the configuration with ifconfig
but I cant connect to hosts rather than the ones that lie in the same
portion of network, I mean the ones that ar
well, I had a pci ethernet card identified on /proc/pci
I think the kernel autodetects most pci hardware, yet, the corresponding
drivers may not be built in the kernel. Of course we must trick this by
loading a module. So, by automatically Identifying some hardware doesnt
necessarily mean that the
Im sorry the exact message is:
Clock skew detected. your build may be imcomplete.
sorry
Just for checking this isn't a big thing
the following warning was reported after make menuconfig
clock sweap detected. You configuration may be imcomplete
whats this ? is it harmfull?
thanks
hello. I have an enhanced ide motherboard with a new fujitsu 20 gbyte
harddrive.
When I try to enable dma on the drive the following is reported:
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma= 0 (off)
Is this because the ide controler ( on b
while trying to run a network game, every thing goes well
we do lxdoom-gam-server blah.
when every one is logged we see a lot of things on the screen, but then
the windows that relates to the game it self remains blank. ps ux reposts
that the lxdoom-game-server is idle. We see abolutely nothing i
hello. I have a 20 gbyte fujitsu. My bios didnt recognize the disk as a 20
gbyte so I jumpered the drive to 2gbyte to trick the bios. ( this model
can do that). I boot on MS-DOS and then use loadlin to load boot linux.
I made some tests using dos, and when copying files I get an average disk
transf
hello.
I just found and old plotter HP 7470A in the middle of old scrap.
Every information on how to set this to work under linux will be
apreciated. Meanwhile I will make some search..
thank you
J.A.Serralheiro
J.A.Serralheiro
Hi, is there any staroffice package available from debian?
thank you
way this gives some output is when a simultaneous interrupts
occurs on both ports.
Can any one tell me how this may be solved? ( without probing each port?
that looses bytes ). Because I really hate to buy hardware I cant fully
use.
serial.o reports IRQ_SHARE flag at boot up
sincerely J.A.Serralheiro
hi. Im installing a new linux based system in a computer. I would like to
know how I can find out what ip address to use without having to talk with
the network administrator. Also what would he do to find out what ip
address I am suppose to use.
Clumsy, I tried several ip adresses with ifconfig,
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