Permission Needed to Use ttyS1?

When I tried wvdial for the first time (it was set up for me during the Dialup installation), it said, Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied. I know a little something about permissions, but I don't know about that one! Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Newbie Lookin' for Libraries

to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: 0.0 The above was while I was logged on as root. Not a library question, but a couple of times, alien has reported, 822-date did not return a valid result. However, the process seemed to be successful. Is there a problem? Lane Lane Lester / Madison

Reporting RAM

What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have? My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding the mem= line to lilo.conf, but it doesn't work for me. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

My First Debian Install

I cry for help on this. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

MBRs Are Dangerous Things

to add another Linux. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Which Boot Manager?

that it can happen. I do use EZ-drive to manage the two 10-gig drives in my system. So is there an approach I can use that will manage these OSes? Preferably without having to reinstall any that are already there? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Coming to you through Corel

Re: What is apt-get

questions. g Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Coming to you through Corel Linux

Re: Network card driver

. `dmesg` has the following info. Unknown Tulip-style PCI Ethernet chip type 11ad c115 detected: not configured. I have a Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 PCI card. Does this indicate that my slink release cannot handle the card? Thanks, -Lane - Original Message - From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL

Re: Trouble with IP forwarding

substitution so the ISP thinks all the traffic is comming from your gateway. Response packets have the origial header restored when it hits your gateway so it can be moved on to the proper system. Good luck. -Lane -Original Message- From: Michael B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user

Re: fixing my host name!

Although the scenerio you paint shouldn't be causing a problem, you could get a permanent hostname through dynip.com (see www.dynip.com). It is a for $ service but pretty cheap last I checked. No I do not use it (yet) but a friend of mine does and he is very happy. I understand they have or are

Re: Linux and Security

Who was it that said, if you turn the sausage grinder backwards - you dont get a pig out.? I always thought this was a very descriptive way to explain the unix encryption routine. -Original Message- From: Kyle Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:

Re: some email won't go...

Does it fail using the fully qualified domain name? I am not very familier with other sendmail programs and could not tell if your config is using sendmail... If so, check your sendmail.cf file and make sure you have an alias for the receiving machine as 'sewage' without any domain. -Lane

Access to 1.2.8 from 2.0.6

there on this! Than k you, Mark Mark S Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | 3rd Wave Technologies

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