Open Source ???

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Bustin
Now I'm confused. Well, OK, I was born that way. New Debian installation. Need to compile some source code, build an object. Have makefile and a .C file, provided by NIC card vendor. Run make. Make complains that modversions.h is not found. It seems to be a deeply nested dependency. I'm

Re: Open Source ???

2001-11-05 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 11:54 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian distribution CD. So which .deb file do I need to get this steenking header file? Is there some clue in the naming of this distro (2.2.18pre21

Cable Modem Setup?? (Newbie...)

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
Whew. Maybe I'm not ready for this. Trying to get my new Debian/potato box talking on a cable modem setup (adelphia.net) through a LinkSys 4-port Cable/DSL router. The two other machines on this private net are Win98 boxes. Adelphia uses DHCP, and AFAIK there are no fixed IP addresses

Re: Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 01:47 PM 11/4/01 -0500, Paul Deniston wrote: RESEND of previous html message: I'm trying to install via http w/ a cable modem. My problem is that I've installed base using floppies but my card (a d-link DFE-530TX+) is not supported in the drivers disks. My card did come w/ a disk w/ linux

Re: Network card problem

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 11:36 PM 11/4/01 +0100, you wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 14:32, Raphael Bustin wrote: As it turns out, the file rtl8139.o exists on my debian/potato box, in at least one or two places. Which Chip is it? Realtek 8139 or 8129? If you have the 8139 you could/should use the 8139too # driver

D-Link DFE-530TX: the -REAL- driver

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
I found a very interesting page on D-Link's website: http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=487 wherein a clue may perhaps be found. It seems that Revisions A, B and C of this board (the DFE-530TX+) do indeed use rtl8139.o from the standard distribution. However: For Rev. D1 and D2 of

Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board

2001-11-04 Thread Raphael Bustin
At 07:23 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:39:28PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please please tell me that the install has significant improvements in woody? That is package 'boot-floppies', right? One would hope. On the other hand... I'm apparently one

New User. Hello

2001-11-03 Thread Raphael Bustin
Hello All. Debian Newbie here. I'm curious why there's no deb package for the latest (4.10 ?) version of XFree86. Or at least, I haven't found it on debian.org. Are there issues running 4.10 of XFree86 on potato? It seems my video card (the one I want to use, a Matrox G450) is only supported