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2004-10-22 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Gorka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Because of my poor English I'll try to explain it in Spanish. OK, please take it to debian-user-spanish then. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBecsIUz

[Fwd: Re: ext3 journal problem]

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
sized inclosures for laptop drives, which USB connect to other PCs. I have found mine handy for such transfers or just storage, if one swapped out a smaller drive for a larger one. MarvS On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian de

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Check for new drivers at the nvidia.com Thomas Beresford wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Which driver does your modem use? Are you sure you actually CONNECT to the ISP Compare: # ping 30.57.4.70 64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=239.2 ms 64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=240.0 ms 64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=230.0 ms 64 bytes from 1

ext3 journal problem

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop system (currently on laptop), blocking booting or e2fsck. The precipating event may have been the copying of a tarball to /root/ which exceeded Root's reserve space. The shut down appeared normal, but the reboot failed. I have an alternate Red

SCSI through PCMCIA card

2002-04-30 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
With the goal of writing CDs from my laptop, is their any experience with using a PCMCIA to SCSI adaptor under Linux? While I have a USB port, the CD burner HowTo is at this time only recommending SCSI port CD burners for use under Linux. MarvS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Which are the network .deb-s of Debian GNU/Linux ?

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I understand that there are certain .deb-s that : > 1) make your Linux box a router (I want him\her to at least identify on being > ping-ed > by others on the network , and accept telnet and ftp connections) . > > 2) that get on with the basic bit of networking., DH

CDROM with device file system.

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
My ATAPI CDROM drive /dev/hdc is fine, provided the devfsd daemon is not implemented during bootup. If /dev/hdc mounting is attempted AFTER devfsd is called, the mount fails. Insights? MarvS

Re: major problems (was:Re: fetchmail)

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
The XF86Config serving Root must then be in /root Copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config for use by other users. MarvS >Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > > > With respect to startx, > > check for a .xsession files in your /root/

mail direct to Internet

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
On laptop from Home, my mail is sent through Netscape Messenger to smtp.rcn.com, with rcn.com my IP. RCN.COM does not accept smtp from other domains. With laptop at work I have a LAN gateway to the Internet, and should be able to send mail directly from the laptop. But how should Messenger + exim

[Fwd: RMMODing a console font]

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Debian was easily installed on my Gateway Solo 3500 laptop, with ATI Mach64 Rage Mobility graphics card. The best VGA console fonts are obtained by # insmod atyfb providing slim 80x30 fonts in the text console. However Xwindows does not stabilize subsequently with this driver active, AND # rmmod

RE: Wordperfect Suite 8 for Linux

2001-08-09 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Nathan, THere is a Debian program called alien, under which $ alien -r SomePackage.deb will be converted to a SomePackage.rpm You could query the Debian list debian_user for someone who lives close to you and could do the conversion. The Wordperfect.deb would have to be copied from the CD to th

PCTEL driver for kernel 2.4.x: Announcement:

2001-05-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:43:26 +0200 > From: Jan Stifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Announcement: PCTEL driver for kernel 2.4.x > > hello, > > The driver version is: >PCTEL Linux PCI driver, version 4.27.211 > It should work on all 2.4.x kernels. > > http://www

Intel® V.90 modem chipset driver for Linux

2001-03-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Original Message Subject: Intel® V.90 modem chipset driver for Linux Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:04:38 -0800 From: "Araneda, Dorian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For those intersted in the Intel® V.90 modem chipset driver for Linux please visit

Re: kernel menus

2001-03-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
little experiment. marvS >Jo Geraerts wrote: > > Hello, > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > > > # ls -l /usr/include > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 1 14:46 /usr/include -> > > kernel-headers-2.1.17/include > > how the heck d

kernel menus

2001-03-01 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Trying to keep Lucent WinModem drivers available to Users for kernels-2.4.nn, now 2.4.2, I've run into menu config problems My # ls -l /usr/include lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 1 14:46 /usr/include -> kernel-headers-2.1.17/include While I can do the ancient: make config I'v

PCTEL driver for kernel verions 2.4

2001-01-21 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
For any of you with PCTEL modems, http://www.geocities.com/tom_in_rc/pctel/ pctel-2.4.tar.gz is a driver package for PCTel modems under kernel 2.4 submitted by Thomas Wright,

Netscape TT font choices

2001-01-10 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Using the xfs xfstt font delivery services, all is fine except for one minor nuisance. Under Netscape the choices: Variable Width Font: Arial Narrow (Ttf) Fixed Width Font: Courier New (Ttf) There is the occassional warning: Warning cannot convert string helvicita-bold--

Gnome-name-service function???

2000-12-22 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Anyone know what the gnome-name-service does? THere's no info on my onboard documentation. It's part of the gnome-bin.deb packages Killing seems to be without ill affect on my stand alone laptop, MarvS = 4:41pm up 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 42

getty problem

2000-12-11 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
On a old NEC 486 50mHz Versa V\50 laptop, the following periodically appears in the text console. What is an appropriate modification. MarvS -- Several repeats of: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype]

XF86Config for NEC Versa V/50

2000-12-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Anyone have info that might help with setting up X on an ancient Versa V50 Laptop. If has a WD90C24 chipset WD90C[23]X=[0x32 0x34] clocks 28.32, 49.83 videoram 1024 Please copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MarvS

Re:during make-kpkg I get i386-none not in remapping table

2000-12-01 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
When working with these Very Recent sources, its important to have required versions of the software. After installing sources, do a grep ";" /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.0-test11/Documentation/Changes which picks out a table relating how to test versions of critical software: o Gnu C

2.4.0-test11, PCMCIA ethernet card through yenta-socket

2000-12-01 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
My PCMCIA "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575BT", "LAN Cardbus Card", "001" manfid: 0x0101, 0x5157 function: 6 (network) PCI id: 0x10b7, 0x5157 is working fine under 2.2.17 and under the 2.4.0-test11 with the "old way" PCMCIA support of compiling all the pcmcia modules, # lsmod Module

Copying / partition, segmentation fault

2000-10-18 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
A 54 Gig drive has been installed and Winswish & Linux paritions made, in preparing for a complete shift to the new disk. This is a udma66 Western Digital, but being driven off the old controller on an ASUS mother board, with a BIOS upgrade supporting the big disk. The new Linux root partition is a

X PixMap library not installed

2000-10-16 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Even though I just: dpkg -i xpm4g_3.4k-5.deb, The X PixMap library When pcmcia source is installed: X Windows include files found. X PixMap library not installed. If you wish to build the 'cardinfo' control panel, you need the XPM library and the X Windows include files. See the HOWTO

Re: SCSI card

2000-10-14 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Sarah, >With a bit of research I located this site: >http://support.umax.co.uk/technotes/f096B.htm >Which tells me the card is a dtc-3181le and can be set up under linux >using: >insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=255 ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181e=1 While not being able to help you directly, I can make

Re: 2.2.4pre9 and modules

2000-10-06 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
For the major compile, pre2.2.4pre8, the kernel-package.deb route has worked fine. Within /usr/src/linux make-kpkg --revision=laptop.1 kernel_image After which dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-version.deb installs kernel+selected modules. I've had to do the pcmcia modules "by hand" h

Where has the penguin gone?

2000-10-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
The kernel config choices: # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y are supposed to support a penguin graphic during the initial boot. This worked for me under 2.2.12 but not under 2.2.17 Can someone tell me the current conf

Mark Spieth's ppp correction works for 2.2.17, supporting ltmodem.o driver

2000-10-04 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Background: The Lucent supplied binary ltmodem.o winmodem driver worked tranparently through kernels 2.2.14, but changes in ppp.o caused it to fail for 2.2.15 and later kernels. Mark today reported a potential solution for 2.2.16 sources. The email is transmitted under a just compiled 2.2.17 kern

sb.o under 2.4.nn

2000-09-27 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Please respond to me as well as the list. I'm having trouble achieving sb.o functionality under 2.4.0-test8 for a ESS1869 card. Under a custom kernel 2.2.14, sound is set with: /sbin/modprobe sound /sbin/insmod uart401 /sbin/insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 e

RE: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-17 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Under Kernel 2.2.14 the following is effective: The critical kernel compile settings are: grep SOUND config-2.2.14 | grep -v not CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_LOWLEVEL Following advice in: /usr/src/linux-2.4-test7/Documentation/sound/ESS /usr/src

Latop to Desktop ethernet

2000-08-23 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
To just do simple FTP between my laptop and desktop without any other network, what are the appropriate script settings? PCMCIA ethernet cards are functional in each. Please copy to me as well as the LIST. MarvS

tail -f termination, after ppp established.

2000-07-20 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the List. The script below is user to establish dial-in. #!/bin/sh # connect to IP through Lucent WinModem echo " " echo Inserting Winmodem Lucent Tech ltmodem.o driver /sbin/insmod -f ltmodem pon $1 tail -f /var/log/syslog ---

RE: serial mouse

2000-06-16 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
1) First make sure your are describing the mouse port as: /dev/ttyS0 NOT /ttys0 2) If you have installed gpm-frozenVer.deb, this update sets up to new mouse devices: /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctl and more over,with WARNING sets /dev/mouse -> /dev/gpmdata (a Bug report has been filed) Thus i

Re: LT Winmodem module (ltmodem.o)

2000-06-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
On my Compaq Armada 1500c with integral LTmodem, the ltmodem.o binary worked fine with kernels up to 2.2.14, but support is at least temporarily broken with kernels compiled from 2.2.15 source. My kernels are compiled with choices # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=

Anyone have kernel-source-2.2.14.deb

2000-06-12 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
For reasons not yet explained, kernel-source-2.2.14.deb is not at the DEB respositories though its Package WWW page is still up at www.debian.org. I need to do a compile with 2.2.14 source, to support both OSS sound and the ltmodem.o winmodem binary, which doesn't (yet work) with 2.2.15. Does a

Debian & Corel, RE: Compaq Armada installation

2000-06-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Re: Right now I'm confuse how to install Corel Linux OS by install the Debian OS first?. Can you explain more? Or is there any website that explain about this?. It's is because my Compaq Armada 7750MT cant display the X interface during installation. I've tried to scroll all the X server by doing

Beware the potatoe mouse

2000-05-29 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
This is an early warning concerning mouse function, whose relevance to you will depend upon your particular hardware and XF86Config file. Currently all is fine on my desktop which is mostly a Slink/Stable installation. The gpm console mouse daemon is running with affecting my good functionality u

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-29 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has ide-floppy servi

poff & rmmod ltmodem, script problem

2000-04-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
When I ppp connect through a Lucent Tech Winmodem, the sequence is: insmod -f ltmodem with force (-f) necessary because the supplied binary ltmodem.o is not matched with my kernel-2.2.14 pon can then complete the connection with the modules autoloaded being: sound 56088

Winmodem installation OK

2000-03-12 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Just wanted to report the successfull installation of WINMODEM function on a Compaq Armada 1500c laptop. This laptop comes with an internal modem described as a Compaq Armada 56K V90 but which Roger J. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> related (for a later Armada model) is a winmodem with the Lucent T

pcmcia-source_3.1.10-1 wants "Connection"

2000-02-24 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
(cd $module; \ if ./debian/rules KVERS="2.2.14" KSRC="/usr/src/linux" \ KMAINT="Marvin Stodolsky" KEMAIL="marv" \ KDREV="compaq.01&qu

The Corel_Linux news-list (COLOS)

2000-02-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Debians, The COLOSers could benefit from a few experienced Debians. As you know. Corel-Linux is an acknowledged variation upon Debian. And most of the problems the COLOS newbies are running into are not COLOS specific. For a while I've responded to some technical questions, but I don't have tim

Corel Linux non-grephical installation

2000-01-31 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Yesterday I related that the standard CD isolation wasn't going past the attempted Graphical interface setup. During today's snowstorm around Wash DC, I did achieve a work around. First I knew that my multiaged PC hardware was basically OK, because a Debian installation was already working well.

Re: modprobe problem in potatoe:

1999-07-02 Thread marvin stodolsky
I have problem with modprobe in potato. When I run #modprobe sound it returns conf:73: missing module argument but insmod soundcore; insmod sound workfine. This use to work before I upgrade packages today! Chanop -- The module soundlow is probably additional

cs: warning: no high memory space available!

1999-04-29 Thread marvin stodolsky
During boot of a Dell Inspiron 3000 laptop with a 2.0.36 kernel, the warning (indicated by below) is recorded by dmesg. While there are no manifest performance defects, I'd like to understand it. - Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5 kernel build: 2

PCMCIA warning

1999-04-29 Thread marvin stodolsky
With a 2.036 kernel and a US Robotics 33.6 modem + ethernet PCMCIA card, the warning below (marked by <) during boot, and as later displayed by dmesg. Manifest decrease in functionality is not evident, but it would be nice to understand it. Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5 kernel build: 2.0

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-21 Thread marvin stodolsky
My WP8 installation is up and working. Herein a few cautions are passed along, learned during setting up on my Dell Inspiron Laptop, which is a dual boot Win95 & Linux. 1) Do gunzip and tar -xvf the files in some Linux directory like /tmp Unpacking in a DOS/Win95 partition is inadequate because a

[Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

1998-10-28 Thread marvin stodolsky
The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs--- Begin Message --- Thanks Marvin, I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and sure enough problems have disappeared. Now if I could just get it to make coffee in the morning... T

Re: ppp vs windows dialup networking

1998-10-19 Thread marvin stodolsky
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the > progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed > that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information > when connecting via ppp? > > Also, I have had a problem where

Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !

1998-10-18 Thread marvin stodolsky
Ivan, From the info supplied, it seems you may have some yet Ill defined incompatibility between, Linux and your ATAPI CD, since the CD does work under Win95. You can try reading another CDROM. just do assess whether (unlikely) some problem with the Debian CD) This is only a slight diffi

Re: mkwhatis?

1996-11-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? > >P. *8^) > > -- > >Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies > >

EROLS IS Provider access problem

1996-11-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Has anyone been able to establish a PPP connection with Internet Service provider EROLS.COM under Linux. For DOS-Windows EROLS uses the SHIVA PPP, which works fine. It uses dynamic addressing for both LOCAL and REMOTE But establishing the same connection under LINUX, trying to use DIP or PPPD h