Re: getting nforce4 NIC to work with forcedeth driver.

ng in the netinst iso may not help, a similar situation here with the via sata drivers for my asus mobo. -- Raghavendra Bhat Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IPtables front end

Stephen wrote: >> searched Google for 'sit0' and it appears to be a ipv6 thing -- is >> that assuption correct? It is the IPv6 interface, it shows up when you do an 'ifconfig -a'. -- Raghavendra Bhat Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or n

Re: Make an updates disk?

e Reading this can also help http://puggy.symonds.net/~rajesh/localdeb.html -- Raghavendra Bhat Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking -- Richard M. Stallman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mii-tool eth0 wierdness

Simon >> mii-tool -v eth0 >> eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link >> product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0 >> basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex >> basic status: no link >> capabilities: >> advertising: > >> and its connected to a 100Mbit hub Try 'mii-tool -v --force-media=100baseTx-FD eth0

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

H. S. >> there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left speaker The first thing you have to do is to get the chassis of the machine earthed properly, either via your power plug or 'crocodile-clipping' a good earth-wire to the chassis. Later you can screw on a pucca earth-

Re: how to disable /tmp clean on boot

Vijaya >> When Debian is booted i find that /tmp is cleaned.. How do i >> disabled it? Look in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, towards the end there is an uncommented line like this "rm -f /tmp/.clean /var/run/.clean /var/lock/.clean". Comment it. Do other files other than the dotted files

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

Siju >> Do you know some software packages for debian (source is also fine) >> that helps in plant design & layout! Pipeline designs, Automobile >> designs. Kivio, a flowcharting program from the KDE Office Suite. It offers basic flowcharting abilities. Objects are scriptable, a backend p

Re: kernel 2.6.7 & 2.4.18

>> thanks for the reply np, ur welcome. >> why is this module-init-tools required? The `module-init-tools' package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above). It serves the same function that the "modutils" package

Re: kernel 2.6.7 & 2.4.18

Vijaya >> need 2.4.18 kernel in particular..Is it possible to have that also >> after having a higher version Yes, it is possible. Both can exist peacefully. Kernel v2.6.x requires you to have the module-init-tools package installed. -- Ragu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

Ryan Waye > /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl/5.8', which is also in package > libquantum-entanglement-perl > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb [..] > Any suggesti

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

Vijaya > i need this for my mail server If you need it for your mail server, the default MTA Exim on Debian can handle 'rewriting' via /etc/email-addresses. Inside /etc/email-addresses, map john --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hth. -- ragOO VU2RGU Help keep the Radio Spectrum FREE Help keep Co

Re: KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

Ed > I tried your suggestion and logout still causes a lock-up. My suggestion was just an escape route, not a real fix to the problem. The problem is the lock-up; in my case it clears up after an xserver reboot. > (Would switching to another version of X -- like X.org -- solve the > er

Re: KDE 3.3 Fails to Logout Cleanly

Ed Sutherland > When I try to logout, the screen goes to black and the cursor > locks-up. The only way to reboot then is to hit the reset I have the same repeatedly reproducible bug on my 3Dfx Voodoo 3000 card based X system. This is an issue with the X server infrastructure as I am a

Re: How to make my own .debs

David posts: > Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a > downloaded tarball? There is a way out in `checkinstall' and you can install the debian package of that by doing an `apt-get install checkinstall'. Unzip-untar the tarball and go into the source dir.

Re: Samba LDAP Help

Ignatz Sol posts: > Any pointers to tutorial-style pages would be greatly appreciated http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf An excellent guide "Samba-3 by Example" by John H. Terpstra. -- ragOO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: HA LDAP cluster documentation

karunakaran posts: > our team is working in Building the HA LDAP clusters How did you build this cluster? How is IP take-over established in case of failure of the main node? Is it through the `heartbeat' package? What type of clients are connecting to the LDAP server? > so our team wants

Re: can't logout on consoles

Shawn posts: >> experienced that when logging out on a console the message "logout" >> appears and the session hangs Have had a similar experience after upgrading `util-linux'. The package util-linux supplies getty, getty is the culprit here as it does not immediately free the tty after l

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

Monique posts: >> I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely >> usable, but google seems to disagree Should the PDF format be used and recommended by governments? The Govt. of India is calling for opinions and this link is interesting http://gnu.org.in/philosoph

Re: chrony_1.20-2 Released

John Hasler posts: >> may have problems in the rtc stuff, especially on 440BX/GX boards Would do that, maybe backport chrony for woody and test on these chipsets. Great package John, tnx. Amongst the best alongwith pppconfig! -- ragOO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limiting port speed

Rus posts: >> what comamnd I can use to force an network card down the 10mbp 1/2 >> duplex `mii-tool' is the command. Use it with the -F option and choose the media you want. -- ragOO Amateur Radio VU2RGU Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, You'll

Re: Setting up debian package server for installation over ethernet

Vikas posts : >> are planning to set up an ftp/http server which hosts the debian >> packages, so that people can install Debian on their machines over >> the office intranet. Welcome move indeed! Please read the link and you may find it helpful http://www.telenovela-world.com/~spade/li

Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

Tom posts: >> deinstalled due to missing dependencies, but the 2nd time through >> they work. (This time, it was most of the qt3*-dev and gtk2*-dev and >> relateds.) When did you notice this ? When I installed the procps of `sid' v3.x.x, chkrootkit was informing that I had a LKM worm

Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

Roberto posts: >> also downloaded chkrootkit from the upstream site, and it came out >> clean. Should I worry yet? Maybe the first thing you should do is to downgrade all the upgraded packages to stable/woody. Backup critical data and wait! Let us hear the extent of damage and then p

Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

Jerome posts: >> What happens to www.debian.org ? Someone has cracked all the servers of the Debian Project. There has been a severe security mishap and guys should uninstall all stuff downloaded and installed in the past 2 days. Please do not apt-get anything right now! Please

Re: exim4 keeps mail

Francois posts: >> don't have tuned the configuration file myself. > >> Any idea ? Inside your /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options, please add the given below line and restart the exim4 daemon smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 # This sets the maximum number of messages that will

Re: mutt tips

Alex Malinovich posts: >> Any tips you might have for making life easier Inside mutt when you press C-?, if you add this line in your .muttrc # Mailboxes to check for presence of new mail mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/Inbox*` `echo $HOME/Mail/list*` `echo $HOME/Mail/sent*` you can see a N against

Re: SSH: Corrupted MAC on input error - keeps recurring

Anand posts : >> got a Debian 3.0 stable server running (with a few packages from >> testing) It is better to use back-ported Woody packages of the stuff you want instead of a mix of woody and sarge. >> get the error "Corrupted MAC on input" or "incorrect MAC on packet" >> with both client

Re: sed howto

Lukas Ruf posts : >> assume you've seen: >> >> Thus, regular expressions? Maybe this would also be of help http://www.dreamwvr.com/sed-info/sed-faq.html -- ragOO, VU2RGU :: Visit us at http://symonds.net/~fsug-kochi/ Helping to keep th

Re: Flickering

Harshu posts: >> running session at 1024x768 resolution with hysnc and vsync to be >> 3-50 and 50-150 that I entered How did you deduce this value ? Maybe the problem is due to this. Can you change it to say 30-50?? -- ragOO, VU2RGU :: Visit us at http://symonds.net/~fsug

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

Kai posts : >> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, >> could they be pilfered for my purpose? The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff. They can be pilfered and you can re-master your own Knoppix CD. It is very easy. The following links will be of help, h

is software raid across two networked machines possible ?

Hello I have two PCs connected having IPs 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3, in one machine I am having an 80 GB HDD and the other 20 GB. My critical application software is running in the 20 GB HDD machine. I want to mirror this across the network on to the machine having this 80 GB HDD. Th

Re: Fetchmail Problem!!!!

somu wrote: >> "socket error while fetching from mail.rediff.com" >> >> What should I do? Rediffmail does not have POP3 service. I think that they use IMAP or maybe even web-based services. Try picking your mails via a client which has IMAP support. Fetchmail can bring in mails from a

Re: How to check a set of Woody CD's for integrity

Vineet Kumar: >> If it doesn't, then think about digging deeper to find out what differs I have had downloaded the ISO images and the checksums match. A small doubt though, I can burn CD-Rs using these images without any hitch. But when I do a `dd' of the resultant CD/s, the generated ima

Re: new ssh and "Accepted hostbased" in logs

Vineet Kumar posts : >> since upgrading to the woody/updates ssh package (3.3p10.0woody1) ^ As of now `ssh_1:3.3p1-0.0woody4_i386.deb' has come up in security.debian.org. Does this give a fix to this issue among others ? -- rag

Re: xine 0.9.9 problem

No spam posts : > I upgraded my Xine, from 0.7 to 0.99. > > Now it wont work anymore. Please upgrade the libxine0 package from 0.9.9-1 to 0.9.9-2. This had made it into http://incoming.debian.org/ as of yesterday evening. Hope you are able to run xine-ui -- ragOO, VU2RGU<->http://gnu

Re: Has anyone used the debian CD...

kotian posts : > If the version is 2.4.17 based or later. Then I may buy the book for > the sake of CD This O'Reilley book comes with `slink' which is older than `potato'. No way you get the 2.4.x series of the kernel. Do not buy the book for the sake of the CD, both are not worth the rupees

Re: How to power off the PC after shutdown

jsalord posts : > How to power off the PC after shutdown under Debian ? Hardware trick: This applies to all ATX power supplies, hold down the ON/OFF (big) power button down for about a minute, the supply switches off by itself. Software trick: Add the line append="apm=on" into your /etc/l

Re: Pump and Dhclient

Martin Wuertele posts : > modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line This is already there in my /etc/network/interfaces file. It fails to work. Only if I run udhcpc as root, does the eth0 device come up. How does one bring up the eth0 interface automatically upon boot ? -- /(__ _

Re: Pump and Dhclient

Adam Majer posts : > like udhcpc since it is very small and seems to work quite reliably. I start udhcpc manually. What is the best way to start udhcpc while booting up ? Is it OK to create a symlink farm using update-rc.d ? How are you doing this ? TIA. -- /(__ __|\ ragOO, VU2RGU<->h

Re: Configuring a modem

Eric posts : > not clear on how to set it to recognize my modem. Any suggestions ? Apt tools for the job that jump to mind are minicom and the versatile Debian dial-up utility called pppconfig. You can discover your modem S registers using minicom. pppconfig makes things easier to dial-up

Re: How to share cable connection ?

Thomas Graham posts : > is it possible to use DHCP server to share cable connection to LAN ? You need not use a DHCP server per se because usually the cable modem has a DHCP server embedded in. My Motorola SB 3100 modem can assign IP addresses dynamically. Read on the relevant info: --

Re: Flash Player, GPLed Flash player available

debian-user posts : > the Flash player to stop working. I've done trouble shooting, including > installing the latest version of Netscape 6.2.1. This may not solve your problem though, do have a look at a GPLed Flash player/plug-in. http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/ HTH. -- /

Re: Mail Help ! What is the MTA ?

Feb 14, 2002 @02:48:12PM -0800, Rodney posts : > for eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there a > way to get it back to normal as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you kindly tell what Mail Transfer Agent are you using ? With Exim, you can re-write your headers via the /etc/email-addresses f

Re: Bind/DNS

Feb 13, 2002 @09:22:54PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck posts : > Does anyone have a down and dirty, current and quick HOWTO on setting > up BIND for a few domain names ? Not dirty anyway, bind9 specific http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.cgi/~checkout~/hints/bind.txt?rev=1.3&content-type=te

Re: What hppened to vhctime?

Feb 12, 2002 @07:56:03PM -0500, stan posts : > discovered a neat little utility called vcstime. > > this does not seem to be in woody. Please install the package `console-tools' and you are set. `apt-get install console-tools'. HTH. -- /(__ __|\ ragOO, VU2RGU<->http://gnuhead.dyndns.or

pdnsd: disk cache file error

Hello: As of recent, I am seeing that the pdnsd.cache file in /var/cache/pdnsd is not growing. Above and over that, while pdnsd is started, it spews out this error inside /var/log/syslog: Feb 8 06:38:29 localhost pdnsd[366]: pdnsd-1.1.7 starting. Feb 8 06:38:29 localhost pdnsd[366

Re: kernel upgrade problem

Deva Seetharam posts : > .. TIME: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 > > and the machine hangs after this message. what is going on? Is this not an RTC issue ? You need to insmod the rtc module if you are using the stock kernel 2.4.17 image. Better still, do recompile your kernel; after enabling the

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

dman posts : > | even more interesting... > | the 2.2.20 kernel reports: > | total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > | Mem: 994078720 42676224 951402496 10178560 8065024 21536768 > | MemTotal:970780 kB > > use 'free -m' to see smaller (easier to read) numbers. > The c

Re: dnscache and local network

[Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:41:20PM +] Rocha : > would want all the computers in my intranet, accessing a tinydns > server to resolve their hostnames, skipping the hosts file There is a small nifty caching DNS utility called as 'pdnsd' which can save DNS records back onto your hard disk

a cablemodem and mulitcast packet noise@console

Hello: First off, I should thank mad duck (martin krafft) and Brian Bassett (ipmasq maintainer). I had this problem of my Motorola SB3100 cable modem, spewing forth multicast packet log details on my console every 3 minutes after getting 'ipmasq' installed. When I stop the ipmasq

Re: mutt and urlview oddity

[Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:34:21PM -0500] Brian Clark : > macro index \Cb "|urlview\n" macro index \cb |urlview\n > macro pager \Cb "|urlview\n" Please comment out this line. > Ideas? Anyone experienced this problem? I had. Now, I have solved it. Pressing 'Ctrl-B' shows me the URLs emb

Re: procmail recipe not working

[Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:16:48PM -0500] dman : > I saw a mention of a distributed spam-identification system in the > weekly news, so I'll check that out too sometime. Get yourselves the razor, dman. It is very good at catching and reporting spam. apt-get install razor -- ragOO, V

Re: dhcp-client

[Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:36:53PM +0530] Sridhar M.A. : > Can somebody give me some pointers to set it up ? Usage of dhcp-client is recommended over dhcpcd. You have to enable CONFIG_FILTER=y in your kernel configuration options for dhcp-client to work properly. Maybe in stock kernel-image pac

Re: [LIH] Re: Fetchmail problems

[Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:03:03AM +0530] Sridhar M.A. : > should I file a bug report ? How do I go about it ? This bug might have already been reported. There is this nifty utility based on Python called as 'reportbug'. It does what it says and helps you find out whether the 'bug' has al

Re: tdfx in 2.4.5 Kernel - Where?

[Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0500] JakeCat : > looked in Character Devices as told, but it's not there! .. Ahhh...then you have not looked enough ;-) Scroll down to enable the DRM module for 3dfx cards. The section 'Console Drivers' also has 3Dfx modules for frame buffering. The more

Re: Netscape6.2/Mozilla0.9.5 broken for Debian/Sid

[Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:48:36AM -0500] James Freels : > I suspect java-related issues, but I am certainly not sure. Both > packages are slow on my system anyway. Suggest that you try Galeon, it has very a many good feature plus it uses your mozilla as the engine. -- ragOO, VU2RGU<->

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

[Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:47:58PM -0500] dman : > | Now I use mutt, which allows me to use my own text editor (emacs), > > Ditto, but ugh (I use vim :-)). Zile (zile is lossy emacs) is a fantastic drop-in replacement for vim. Emacs-like key-bindings and loads up very fast when called from wi

dhcp-client modifies resolv.conf

Hello: In my home machine (sid+dhcp-client 3.0final-1+kernel 2.4.x), /etc/resolv.conf does not get modified when I do a 'networking daemon restart'. At a location machine (potato+dhcp-client 2.0pl4-2+kernel 2.4.x), the same gets modified with entries of the service provider's DNS nu

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:40:16PM -0800] Paul 'Baloo' Johnson : > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote: > > > one that I think is coming from my cablemodem itself (?). > > What's the source IP on the one you think is your cable modem? I > don't *think* any models generate traffic on their own

Re: Occasional Network/DHCP weirdness

[Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:50:58PM -0500] David P James : > our ISP uses DHCP that's what the server set to use and most of the > time it works just fine (It's set up with dhcp-client). But every now > and then it loses the connection altogether Is the server a 'Potato' one ? I have observed

Re: Is there an easier way to fake deb package?

[Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:35:53AM +1100] Steve Kieu : > complain dependencies with others; is there the best way to fake it ? The 'equivs' package will do this for you, create a dummy package. Do an 'apt-cache show equivs' to get more info. HTH. -- ragOO, VU2RGU http://gnuhead.net.dhis.org/

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

[Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:06:15AM -0700] Michael Patterson : > The cablemodem setup still isn't working Are you using dhcpcd on a 'Potato' box ? Can you purge the dhcpcd package and instead, install dhcp-client ? > seems to have something to do with dhcpcd dhcpcd never worked for me and

Re: apt-get & firewall

[Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:02:09PM +0100] Davi Leal : > What ports must be opened in the firewall so that the machine behind it > is able to use "apt-get" to realize an 'dist-upgrade'?. That depends on the apt-get method you have specified inside your /etc/apt/sources.list. Ports to let th

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

[Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:10:13AM +0100] Eduard Bloch : > if you take official Linus' sources, don't use them. They don't > support for many filesystems on initrd, including cramfs needed by our > mkinitrd. Use the kernel-source-2.4.13 package from Sid. This is very useful info. How does o

Re: OT: Firewall question

[Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:21:19PM +0200] Tarjei Huse : > but other trafic being stopped for unknown reasons. Has anyone > experienced things like this ? I too had a similar problem and tnx to a hint from dman, I was able to stop it from being echoed on to the console/screen. The problem

Re: Test (was the list down last night ?)

[Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 09:23:39AM -0500] Hall Stevenson : > Have only rec'd about (6) messages on debian-user since around 7:00pm > EST last night. That's certainly unusual for this list... A flood of messages await you. ;-) I received about 150 messages at one go, a couple of hours back. -- r

Re: realtek RTL8139(A) driver

[Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:12:13AM -0700] Manish Shah : > I have a realtek RTL8139(A) PCI fast ethernet card. Please do let me > know where I can find the driver and directions for installing it Load the module '8139too.o' either via the modconf front-end or via the modules.conf. If you want a

Re: Forcing DHCP renewal

[Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:44:03PM -0400] David Priban : > I've been trying to force DHCP renewal before the lease time expires I am not sure but is this not illegal to try on a commercial provider's DHCP server. Will they not sue us if we try to hijack the expiry of the lease period of their all

Re: pump doesn't really exit

[Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:38:46AM -0400] Shaya: > while the parent eventually quits (when I get the IP) the child keeps > on pumping away Do a 'ps auwx' and see whether the parent process has become a zombie process. Is the child process still active ? It would be better if you switch to 'dh

Re: How can I get ntp working?

[Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:36:38AM -0500] Dave Sherohman : > ntpdate sets the time to be correct now. ntpdate sets the system time after syncing with the time server. Now you have to update the hardware clock by doing a 'hwclock -w' before you do a reboot/halt. Have I gone wrong somewhere ?

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

[Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:44:52PM -0700] Ron Farrer : > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? > Is there any gotchas for doing one over the other? None at all, AFAIK. I am using an Intel Ether Pro+ and an RTL 8029A on the router. The LAN consists of machines ha

Re: how to stop dhcp-client echo on console ?

[Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:34:52PM +0200] martin f krafft : > this is a note from iptables, not from dhclient. Thanks for this help. Yes, it pops up again when I start ipmasq which calls up iptables on a 2.4.x setup. Goes off when the ipmasq service is switched off. > is tryinig to multicast on

Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

[Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400] Stan Brown : > Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat. > > Where can I turn this off? Either do a 'dpkg --purge dhcp/dhcp-client/dhcpcd' or better still remove instances of the dhcp symlink from all run-levels by doing an 'update-rc

how to stop dhcp-client echo on console ?

Hello: I am using dhcp-client on my 'sid' machine and everything is working fine except for the below given echo. The same is echoed onto the currently logged/shifted console every minute or so. Can this echoing be stopped or piped off ? Is this a dhcp-client issue or am I doing s

Re: DHCP problems with cable modem

[Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:15:18AM -0400] David Priban : > > > > a cable modem, and the DHCP server requires that I send in my > > > > hostname with my request. So far, I have tried (and failed at > > > > using) > the interface is configured via dhclient-script according info > receiv

Re: ping works not on all sites

[Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:23:53AM +0200] Timo Blazko Boewing : > DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging as > well as the real hostname of a destination machine. Please do note that the ping derived from netkit-ping_0.10-8_i386.deb is broken. But for me, ping from ip

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

[Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:40:48AM +0800] --- : > i dont think mtv can play vcd's... try using xine. > > http://xine.sourceforge.net Sorry, I never knew this. There are debs of xine too. For a preview release of xine, please add the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://peop

Re: buggy broadband (?)

[Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:41:22AM -0400] Don Berkich : > The cablemodem, however, does not appear to lose sync: > receive, send and online lights are steady-on. Do not go by what the lights say ! They will be on even when the upstream/downstream signals are weak. > How do I isolate the problem?

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

[Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:40:15PM +] p : > cannot open cd-rom device: /dev/cdrom > > permission denied User who is accessing the vcd in the cdrom drive does not have permissions to do so. Please add the user, say 'foo' to the 'cdrom' group by doing 'adduser foo cdrom' at the su/root prompt.

Re: ext3 howto

[Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:49:46AM +] Rajesh Fowkar : > Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: > >You want to make sure that copying and pasting *most* > >of your HOWTO from this page > If this has hurt somebody than I apologise. > No, not at all. It is that some guys who post, may not h

Re: capt in woody

[Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:40:33PM -0700] Aaron : > Has capt been deprecated already in favor of > something else? Deity is the package to look out for. Capt has been obsoleted by deity and it is now a dummy package wrapper for deity. 'apt-get install deity' will help you now. -- GPG: 1024D

Re: exim and outbound domain name

[Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:10:39PM -0700] Xucaen : > changed all the appropriate files when I changed > the hostname, but it would seem that I missed > one. Does anyone have any ideas? In either /etc/exim.conf or /etc/exim/exim.conf, what does the hostname in the rewrite section say ? Change the h

Re: where to do iptables setup?

[Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:08:37PM -0500] will : > apt-get install ipmasq > > unless i've missed something? Vineet should get a dependency error now. You have missed 'iptables'. Is my thought process patently wrong ? 'ipmasq' is a package which depends on the basic package 'iptables | ip

Re: ReiserFS and potato

[Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:53:57PM +0530] Rajkumar S. : > Which is the best way to get that going ? Is their > any boot floppies which can be used with the potato > CD so that. [] Download the ReiserFS 'rescue' and 'boot' disks from this link ie. the Zoltan boot disks. http://debia

Re: Is debian-user-digest working?

[Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:12:44AM -0700] Jim McCloskey : > (it stopped coming about 3 or 4 days ago for me at least). The last digest was Volume 101 : Issue 839 and it was on the 9th. > Watch out when it gets fixed ... Hehe... Watch out for the deluge when it rains in the mountains :) --

Re: Noisy phone line drops connection

[Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:04:16PM -0400] Scott_Patterson: > Is there some parameter or option I can set that won't > cause the connection to drop when there is some line > noise/static ? Try dialing up after adding 'ATS10=247' to your modem init string. -- ragOO, VU2R

Re: the new pppconfig and some errors

May 11, 2001 at 09:32, ragOO : > Where am I going wrong ? Am I missing something ? > Answering my own post... John Hasler, the maintainer of pppconfig helped me off-list in getting this fixed. Since this post, he has released two successive versions which has addressed this problem. The problem

the new pppconfig and some errors

Hello: I upgraded pppconfig to 2.0.6 and now when I run the pppconfig perl script, errors on line 71, line 219 and more are reported. Where am I going wrong ? Am I missing something ? I am able to connect to my ISP using pon and poff too is doing its job. -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Wa

Re: logitech first wheel mouse

May 05, 2001 at 05:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Anydoes who owns a mouse like this and makes scrolling > work in netscape pls kindly tell me how you did it. > http://jonatkins.org/imwheel/ -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE...Amateur Radio Keeping your Software FREE.the

Re: libssl096

May 02, 2001 at 09:19, Sridhar: > I found libssl 0.9.6. Does this provide libssl096? > If not, where can I get the package? > Yes, it does. libssl096 is a virtual package. This is provided by libssl0.9.6. You can get this by adding the line deb http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US stable

Re: startx not working

Kevin C. Smith posts: > now startx does not work. Can start xdm, but will now > go further then the login screen. This happen to > anyone else, and what is causing it? It is an issue with the pam modules/library. Happened after you specifically updated your 'libpam0g' package. The drm module p

Re: char-major-10-135

Ethan posts: > yes, hwclock uses /dev/rtc, well at least on powerpc > it does, without a working /dev/rtc it fails. You may be right with a PowerPC but your reasoning will not work on an x86 machine. Can we say that the original poster did not give us architecture details ? ;-) > checking it

Re: char-major-10-135

Ethan posts: > hwclock uses it to update the hardware clock, this > is done at shutdown to keep the clocks synchronized. Agreed that 'hwclock' updates the hardware clock while shutting down the m/c. This does not have anything to do with the 'rtc' module and hwclock does in no way use it. Th

Re: MTA security

Dave Sherohman posts: > I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced > that it would be a good choice for functionality and security. What is the exact reason for not being convinced about exim ? Go ahead but before that read Yann Golanski's papers on setting up exim for catering to o

Re: Corrupted partions?

SoftHome posts: > /dev/hda41574 2485 3670852+ 83 Linux > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 127, 63) > > Can anyone give me a little insight into this. Should > I worry about it ? You have to worry real bad if you have go

Re: hardware clock keeps local time?

Michael A. Miller posts: > I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine Adding a Win 9x partition has nothing to do with the Debian system you have. Why are you coming to the conclusion that 1+5=7 without doing some research first ? > I've changed "UTC=yes" to "UTC=no" in /etc/defaul

Re: Which IDE to use with Gnome?

Abyss posts: > Which IDE packages are most people using and is > there a clear winner? To take off real fast from the starting blocks, use glade-gnome. It is a very good RAD tool but all GUIs suck. Why do you need a winner to get your work done ? -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE

Re: kmod

Andrew D Dixon posts: > I've been looking around for documentation on it and > can't seem to find anything useful. You have not been looking at the relevant docs. Have you gone through the Debian Policy manual ? Do that so that you become very clueful. > Does anyone know of a good reference f

Re: char-major-10-135

Philipp Lehman posts: > is that for "real time clock"? Do I need kernel support > for that? Yes, it is. You need to compile 'rtc support' either into the kernel or as a module. > Can I safely change the alias to "off"? Go ahead, you can switch it off. Usually a normal 'joe' user does not r

Re: fast graphics in testing. please to help?

mudbuddha Last Name wrote: > What is the fastest card that would have driver in > debian ftp for very fast opengl? Try nVidia Riva TNT-2 chipset cards, they have got good support. I hope the mudBuddha smiles :-) -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE...Amateur Radio Keeping you

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