Re: supported hardware

2003-02-01 Thread Lee W
Hi James, IMHO your best bet would be a serial-port (RS232) external modem, the majority of internal modems are winmodems so probably won't work. If you definately need an internal one I have had success with the Hayes/Zoom V.92 modems (Lucent chipset), not sure if they are available where you

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Lee W
It is also more space appropriate to do this headless than to go with a separate traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I'm not walking into more headaches than I can guess at at present. Hi Mark, Given that you are putting all this in a rack, Have you considered using a KVM switch,

Re: Debian as a Personal Video Recorder??

2003-01-13 Thread Lee W
Is there anyone here on the list that is using Debian as a personal video recorder? Anybody able to get an unattended machine to record a couple of different shows a week? I think I'm gonna need a WinTV card, as these seem to be linux supported, but apt-cache search doesn't turn up any

Completely Virtual Mail Server

2003-01-08 Thread Lee W
Hello, I am trying to create a completely virtual mail server (i.e. no shell accounts). If itself this is not a problem as Postfix is capable of doing this however, I wish to add a slight twist to the query. Is it possible to do Filtering as well. I have STFW and searched the archives and come

Re: Completely Virtual Mail Server

2003-01-08 Thread Lee W
snip Thanks for the suggestion. I did look into cyrus however I dismissed it because it did not appear to support SQL databases, which almost all of Postfix lookup tables can be read from. If I knew more about the C programming language I would consider writing either a patch to the

ASUS SC875 and debian 1.3.1 install problems

1998-07-02 Thread Lee W. Glenn
Hi all, I'm a newbie to linux, or trying to be since I have not been able to install it on my system. I have the install/bootable CD but since my drive is SCSI it will not boot. So I rawrite2'ed a rescue floppy to install from. It detects the sc875 SCSI controler as an NCR875, which I believe

NCR SCSI - which debian kernel will work

1998-07-02 Thread Lee W. Glenn
Hi, After spending many hours last night and today searching the net I found a few references to other people having similar problems to me. (The system hangs on my NCR53c875 SCSI controller when I try boot from the rescue disk to try and install debian bo 1.3.1. Incidently Caldera works...)