tomcat4, cocoon

2004-11-17 Thread Richard Weil
Does anyone I have cocoon working with the Debian tomcat4 package? I keep getting java security related errors. Richard __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: lvm and initrd

2004-11-05 Thread Richard Weil
Does the system run on LVM2 w/o a custom compiled kernel? If so, then this comment will not be helpful. If not, then ... As I understand it, by default the Debian mkinitrd will create an initrd based on the current root device. So, if you're using a non-LVM2 root device to build an initrd

grub, raid1 help

2004-10-29 Thread Richard Weil
I have a machine with three SCSI disks, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc. The machine boots off of /dev/sdc and I've put /dev/sda and /dev/sdb into a raid1 array, /dev/md0. I can not get the machine to boot off of /dev/md0; I keep getting kernel panics. Since everything else seems fine, I think the

Re: grub, raid1 help

2004-10-29 Thread Richard Weil
If you get kernel panics after GRUB has loaded your kernel, I would suppose the kernel just isn't RAID1 enabled. That's a good point. The kernel does panic after loading. I've used the stock Debian kernels w/ a rebuilt initrd in order to include RAID and, when that wasn't working, I built

kernel panic w/ 2.6.8 and, separately, w/ RAID

2004-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
Here's the system: K7 SMP system w/ 3 scsi drives. New install of debian sarge, running 2.6.x kernel. Using stock kernels w/ udev. Everything is installed on 1 of the three drives. Situation: o I installed the 2.6.7 kernel and the machine boots okay. There are some errors about modules related

Re: opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

2004-10-08 Thread Richard Weil
module. All of the dri, drm, glx is in the XFree log. Is there a missing kernel module? Thanks, Richard --- Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it take to get

opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Weil
What does it take to get hardware accelerated open gl working? I'm running a mix of sarge and unstable (mostly sarge) w/ stock debian 2.6.8 kernel on an ibm t30. The graphics chip is an ati radeon mobility M7, which is also identified as the Mobility 7500. I believe xfree is configured

Re: opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Weil
class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 So, unless I misunderstand the log, I'm using the radeon driver. Thanks, Richard --- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

e2fsck, smartmontools

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Weil
Can e2fsck repair/cope with physical problems with a disk? smartmontools found a number of bad blocks on my hard drive. I don't remember the exact wording. Other disk parameters seemed fine, i.e., the disk as a whole was not in imminent danger of failure. Can e2fsck, or some other program,

Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

2004-08-30 Thread Richard Weil
I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC which is SATA. I got it at the beginning of the year. I run Sarge on it no problems w/ the 2.6.7 kernel. It comes with some crap on the drive. I did a fresh install, wiping the drive clean in the process and I've had no problems. I just installed Sarge on another

mkinitrd + lvm2 help

2004-08-27 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having problems creating an mkinitrd image where I want the / directory to be lvm2. Setup: o Using stock 2.6.7-k7-smp w/ udev o Volume group named vg created from /dev/md1 o Logical volume root on vg = result: a lvm2 device called /dev/vg/root o Mounted /dev/vg/root on /mnt and copied

using java-package

2004-08-20 Thread Richard Weil
I installed java-package from unstable and downloaded the sun sdk1.4. Using make-jpkg I created a .deb file which I then installed. How do I now get my system to see this version of java? No links were created in /etc/alternatives. On a different system in the past I used a tool from

raid 5 on boot? root?

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Weil
I don't know if my configuration is (a) setup badly, or (b) impossible. Before I spend too much more time on it, I wonder if anyone has relevant experience. Is it possible to have both boot and root on RAID 5? I'm getting a kernel panic mid-way through boot. Assuming it's not possible, what about

openldap2, sarge

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Weil
I've been waiting for the unstable version openldap2 to propogate to sarge since there were reported severe problems with TLS with the version currently in sarge. I checked on the status today and it says: Package is in freeze; use testing-proposed-updates for changes Also, looking at the list

Re: OT yahoo mail not getting debian-user

2004-08-17 Thread Richard Weil
I've been getting the list at my yahoo address, but the times seem a little off. Richard --- Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been getting messages from the debian-user list the last few days, but messages are still showing up on the list. I have checked filters and blocked email

Re: mkinitrd: RAID support requires raidtools2

2004-07-22 Thread Richard Weil
What do you mean you've installed raidtools2 but are using mdadm? I believe the problem could be this: o initrd-tools works on the assumption you're using devfs o if you're not using devfs, but you are using raidtools2 to manage your array, then software RAID should still work (I say this

why devfs w/ 2.6.x kernel? prob w/ initrd-tools

2004-07-09 Thread Richard Weil
What's the rational for building 2.6 series kernels with devfs? Devfs is deprecated. Simply ignoring it would seem fine, but ... a bug report was filed against initrd-tools because it won't work with root raid on a system on which you're not using devfs. I was glad to see this bug report because

Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

2004-07-08 Thread Richard Weil
If this isn't a problem that suddenly manifested itself, it might be the ide cable to the drive. I had a drive running slowly (a Maxtor, too) and just got a big improvement in it's performance by using a new cable. I got a round ATA133 cable for $4.00 and the drive's performance radically

Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

2004-07-08 Thread Richard Weil
and it was not labeled at all. --- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:28:19AM -0700, Richard Weil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find out why my disk performance is so slow -- 150x worse than a comperable system

sarge, gnome icons gone

2004-06-18 Thread Richard Weil
I updated my sarge system yesterday and gnome upgraded to 2.6 -- great! However, all of the icons are now gone and I can't see how to get them back. The different themes are all there, but no icons. Any suggestions? Thanks, Richard __ Do you

raid5, grub?

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Weil
Is it possible to put /boot and / directories on a RAID5 device? I've found examples of RAID1 using GRUB, but not RAID5. RAID5 seems tricker, because you can't do something like: grubroot (md0,0) grubsetup (md0) and in the context of RAID5, referring to the individual drives isn't very helpful.

Re: /dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-21 Thread Richard Weil
of make. Thanks, Richard --- John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Sarge with a 2.6.5 kernel. I'm trying to create a RAID 5 array of three disks (though for initial setup I'm only using two of three). When I reboot, udev does not re

raid and udev

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Weil
Does anyone have a RAID system running with udev? If so, how do you get /dev/md0 to show up on reboot? Running Sarge w/ 2.6.5, my /dev/md0 is wiped and not restored on reboot. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Richard __ Do you Yahoo!?

/dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-19 Thread Richard Weil
I'm running Sarge with a 2.6.5 kernel. I'm trying to create a RAID 5 array of three disks (though for initial setup I'm only using two of three). When I reboot, udev does not re-create my /dev/md0 device, so the RAID array won't start. Any suggestions? I found a posting online saying that udev

suddenly only root can login

2004-05-12 Thread Richard Weil
I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine. Today, for some reason, no one but root can log on to the machine. All of the users are still on the system. Once logged into the system as root, it is impossible to su to one of the users. Also, none of the users who access the system via samba can

Re: suddenly only root can login

2004-05-12 Thread Richard Weil
: what's listed in /etc/shells --- Jacob Bresciani Systems Analyst Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Bus: (780) 492-7368 Fax: (780) 492-1811 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12-May-04, at 12:59 PM, Richard Weil wrote: I'm running sarge on a fairly

Re: suddenly only root can login

2004-05-12 Thread Richard Weil
unstable: libpam-runtime libpam0g libpam-modules For all of the packages I alse did dpkg-reconfigure, but there were no questions asked. Richard --- Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine. Today

Re: suddenly only root can login -- ANSWER

2004-05-12 Thread Richard Weil
to the internet and there are only two people w/ shell access. If it were done manually, the system would have had to have been cracked, which seems unlikely. Thanks, Richard --- Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked the files in /etc/pam.d and nothing looks out of the ordinary

grub, deleted menu.1st by mistake

2004-05-11 Thread Richard Weil
I have a fairly findamental problem with GRUB right now. I appear to have accidently deleted the menu.1st file in /boot/grub. My machine gets to the grub prompt and then I'm stuck -- I can't get any command to work. Also, GRUB seems to have so taken over the boot process I can't boot from cdrom

Re: grub, deleted menu.1st by mistake

2004-05-11 Thread Richard Weil
I got the machine to boot and I restored the menu.1st. Remaining question, though -- how can I make grub boot from a cdrom? Thanks, Richard --- Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fairly findamental problem with GRUB right now. I appear to have accidently deleted the menu.1st

Re: Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Weil
I guess there could be a bug. I'll file a bug report against 2.6.5, though it seems like such an odd problem. Richard --- Mike Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been able to duplicate the problem you describe, to the letter. But, I can't say why, or what to do about it. You're not

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Weil
Just a small update, since I'm sure someone will someday search and find this thread ... I got it working. The grub configuration in menu.1st was fine; windows had overwritten the MBR. I don't know if it's possible, but I *may* not have installed grub to the MBR the first time (I don't recall

grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having a grub/dual-boot problem. I'm running Sarge with the kernel from the initial install. The hard drive has 4 primary partitions: part 1 = win xp part 2 = /boot -- marked bootable in partition table part 3 = / part 4 = swap I installed win XP into part 1. I then installed Sarge and

2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
A 2.6.4 versus 2.6.5 oddity in Sarge ... I have a hosted machine that is running Sarge with a self-compiled 2.6.4 kernel. The kernel matches the hardware very well, the kernel was made using kpkg, and update-grub is linked into the process of installing or uninstalling a kernel. The source for

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
(and where grub lives). Perhaps this is wrong, but I interpret root in the context of grub to basically mean grub's root. Richard --- Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:35, Richard Weil wrote: I'm having a grub/dual-boot problem. I'm running Sarge

Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
... Richard --- Derek Broughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [sorry Kenneth if you got a private copy. my bad...] On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 20:41, Richard Weil wrote: The source for 2.6.5 came into Sarge a day or two ago. I complied

re-post: broken dependencies, surgery on package database

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Weil
I posted this same question on Monday, but got no suggestions. So, giving it another shot ... I seem to have really broken a couple of packages and I now I can't do anything with dselect/aptitude. None of the dpkg commands, even using --force, is helping me fix the problem packages. So, I'm

broken package dependencies

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Weil
I seem to have really broken a couple of packages and I now I can't do anything with dselect/aptitude. None of the dpkg commands, even using --force, is helping me fix the problem packages. So, I'm looking for some help on how to perform surgery on the package database. I compiled the 2.4.23

Re: Tomcat woes

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
I haven't tried out opencms (but it looks like I should, since I'd also like to find a working content management system) but I have had some problems with Cocoon, another webapp, in Tomcat. So, my comments/suggestions may not be that helpful, but: o The permissions may be part of the problem.

Re: oopadmin/spadmin problem?

2002-10-14 Thread Richard Weil
: Richard Weil, 2002-Oct-14 09:50 -0700: I added some new fonts to my system and I want to make sure they've been added to OO. But when I start oopadmin (formerly spadmin), I get a blank, full screen. It happens when I run oopadmin as either a normal user or root. Is there a problem

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Richard Weil
A note about getting gworkspace running ... I'm running testing, but I got the gnustep and gworkspace debs from unstable, since it looked like there had been several changes. With that said, I couldn't start any GNUstep apps, including gworkspace, until I added the following to my .bash_profile:

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread Richard Weil
I don't use Mac OSX, but you might want to take a look at gworkspace ... its a GNUstep app that sounds similar to what you're looking for. I just installed the GNUstep libraries, gworkspace and gnumail the other day and have been trying them out. The gworkspace project homepage is linked from

gnustep config problem

2002-09-27 Thread Richard Weil
Can anyone provide some advice on getting gnustep working properly? When I try to run an app that uses the gnustep libraries, like gnumail or gworkspace, I get lots of errors related to not finding configuration files at ~/GNUstep/Defaults/.GnustepDefaults. This is fair, since there is no

another openoffice program

2002-09-23 Thread Richard Weil
I'm running sarge with a couple of unstable programs. I upgraded OO last week remotely; an upgrade appeared when I ran dselect, so I upgraded. Now, when I run OO, the rulers are _extremely_ narrow, as are the tollbars at the top. The buttons are still in the toolbars, but no text. All menus are

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: irq7.

2002-06-27 Thread Richard Weil
I didn't look at the kernel source and I don't remember seeing the discussion on the list, but I think I got rid of this by unchecking 'Local APIC support on uniprocessor' under 'processor type and features' in the kernel config (using make menuconfig). Obviously, this then involves recompiling

Re: mod-ssl problem

2002-06-27 Thread Richard Weil
I posted this a couple of days ago and didn't get any response ... thought I'd try again in case a clueful mod-ssl user had simply missed it. I've tried a few different things, but I'm basically at the same point. --- Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get mod-ssl working

mod_ssl problem

2002-06-25 Thread Richard Weil
I can't seem to get mod_ssl working and I don't see why. I'm using apache 1.2.6 and libapache-mod-ssl 2.8.7. I modified httpd.conf per instructions, including adding the cut-and-paste info. I then ran mod-ssl-makecert as root in the /etc/apache directory. I got some errors when I tried to make a

install of moz plugins

2002-05-08 Thread Richard Weil
What's the proper way to install a mozilla plugin, like Flash, that obviously isn't packaged? I went ahead and installed the Flash plugin per its instructions, i.e. copying a few files into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Is there a different, more technically correct approach, like installing in

Re: How to mount external usb drive

2002-04-02 Thread Richard Weil
There actually is a kernel option/filesystem usbdevfs that is separate from devfs. If you used devfs you probably wouldn't need usbdevfs, since I think they would serve the same role (though devfs does more than usb devices). I believe you can use usb devices without usbdevfs, but you may have to

Bastille, ssh bug?

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Weil
I ran Bastille and selected the option to disable rsh. I then tried ssh shortly afterward and had a problem; I got a no permissions error. I looked at ssh and saw that no user or group had any permissions for ssh. Thinking it might have been related to the Bastille set-up, I looked and saw that

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-16 Thread Richard Weil
There's been a few threads about the Promise ATA133 controller in the past week. You can boot of the disks attached to the controller. Assuming you have nothing on the ide disks, here are the basic steps: 1. Attach the ide disk(s) to a controller your current kernel supports, probably the ide

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-14 Thread Richard Weil
I don't think your kernel will recognize the controller at all, regardless of whether you us it as an ata100 or ata133. The ac kernel has the ide patches that contain the driver for this controller and I think the 2.4.19 pre patches do as well. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2002

Re: Promise ATA/133

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Weil
Yes, though it was a little bit of a pain. The controller is supported in the ac series, but not yet in the main kernel (though I think it is in the 2.4.19 pre series). What I had to do to get it to work is: 1. Attach drive to motherboard IDE controller. 2. Install system, get kernel source,

root w/o .journal

2002-03-12 Thread Richard Weil
How do make an ext3 root partition without a .journal file? For a normal partition you umount the filesystem before using tunefs -j and then there is no .journal. But how do you umount root? Do you need to do a mke2fs -j during installation? Thanks.

Re: ALSA modules not loading

2002-03-06 Thread Richard Weil
? I ran into the same problem. If you edit your alsa config file (in /etc/alsa/modutils) you will see the line that contains the snd_dac_etc stuff, just delete the whole line and things should work. Caleb On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 16:23, Richard Weil wrote: Yet another ALSA question

ALSA modules not loading

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Weil
Yet another ALSA question ... Problems are with a maestro-2 (es1968) soundcard running on 2.4.18-ac3, ALSA compiled from source on an up-to-date Woody system.[Same problems occurred with other kernels, but I never fixed them.] In a nutshell, the ALSA modules won't load automatically. If I use

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Weil
, at the Lilo boot prompt, I said root=/dev/md1 and that worked -- into the RAID device I went. Then I followed the other steps of adding the /dev/hda partitions. Thanks for the help. Richard --- Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:28:46PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Weil
One last question ... how can use the swap partitions on both /dev/hda8 and /dev/hdc8? I did _not_ put the swap partitions in a RAID setup. Should I simply list both swap partitions in /etc/fstab? Thanks. Richard --- Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took a little bit of experimenting

RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
Hi -- I need some help setting up RAID 1 on a fresh Woody install. The software is newer than the docs, particularly for Lilo, so any help from those with experience would be most appreicated. My hda and hdc drives are identical in size. hda is divided into multiple partitions -- / (/dev/hda2),

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
There's a mini-HOWTO; here's a link: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html Unmount the partition the data is on as quickly as possible and then follow the howto. If you do a google search there was also a recent article someplace about undelete. Unfortunately it seems to work

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
/mdY? Or, will I need do something like the HOWTO suggests for the root filesystem for all the filesystems: - create /mnt/newroot - then: cd / find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Thanks. Richard --- Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:32:17AM -0800, Richard

vim, remote (ftp) editing

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Weil
Does anyone have experience with the new vim 6.0 (in testing) feature of being able to edit a file via ftp? I invoke the command per the documentation, but instead of simply using ftp, it appears to use rcp and/or ssh, which isn't setup on the server I'm ftp'ing into. Is there some Debian default

using mkinitrd

2001-12-10 Thread Richard Weil
I've compiled a custom kernel using kpkg, but I'm unsure how to make an initrd like the official kernels. I configured a 2.4.16 kernel with support for cramfs and initrd. I tried using mkinitrd by invoking: mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.16 and it output lots of junk to the xterm I was in. So, before

tape drive problem

2001-12-05 Thread Richard Weil
Hi -- I can't access use my tape drive with the tar or mt programs and could use some help. I'm running a 2.4.12 kernel and using a SCSI Seagate DDS3 tape drive. The drive appears to be recognized fine on bootup (by looking at dmesg) and the relevant modules are loaded -- st and scsi_mod. The

apache w/o mysql

2001-12-03 Thread Richard Weil
I thought I saw a post about this but I couldn't find it in the archives -- why does the apache in testing (as of a few weeks ago) depend on mysql? How difficult is it to remove/change this dependence, or is mysql really necessary? Thanks. Richard

logging out users

2001-11-20 Thread Richard Weil
How do you logout leftover sessions? For example, I ssh'd into my debian box, the connection went down because of line problems, and when I log back in the old session is still there. I don't know how to kill it. This happened a couple of times, so in one case I killed the the ssh pid thinking

Re: network card problem

2001-11-13 Thread Richard Weil
You don't happen to remember the name of the utility do you? I found a few possible suspects on the 3com website -- I'm not sure which of them, if any, will do the job. Thanks. Richard --- hmike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:59, Richard Weil wrote: I tried this and still

network card problem

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Weil
I just installed a second network card in a machine in which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old 3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to /etc/network/interfaces with an address and netmask, but I can't get the machine to recongize it. On bootup, the messages seem to indicate that it

Re: network card problem

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Weil
includes a setup utility, but I'm not sure what to change. Any suggestions? Thanks. Richard --- Greg Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 November 2001 10:51 am, Richard Weil wrote: I just installed a second network card in a machine in which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old

Re: network card problem

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Weil
-a) If somebody could give a better help . Have fun ! % *** Richard Weil wrote: *** % I installed the 3c5x9utils package as suggested and I % think it's indicating the problem, but I'm not sure % how to interpret the results (or what to do about it). % I run the diagnostic and it finds both cards

Mozilla slow?

1999-10-27 Thread Richard Weil
and the whole system bogs down a huge amount. Obviously, Mozilla also runs slowly then as well. I know Mozilla is alpha, so I was wondering if this a Mozilla issue or is the regular Netscape Navigator the same (before I download Navigator)? Thanks. Richard Weil

restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Richard Weil
How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon process pid. Richard

X startup errors

1999-10-22 Thread Richard Weil
Where are errors in XFree86's start-up logged? At boot I get the message: Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration ... error in configuration file This then prevents xdm from starting. I'd like to see what part of my XF86Config file is causing the problem if possible. Thanks. Richard

Re: external modem problem

1999-10-21 Thread Richard Weil
the modem off, and another time it hung the shutdown process until I turned the modem off. I seem to have something seriously misconfigured -- any help would be much appreciated. Richard Richard Weil wrote: Aaargh. I had posted about a problem I was having with my external modem a few days ago

Re: PCMCIA modem not identified

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
I made the suggested change but I'm still experiencing the same problem. Dave Thayer wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:59:21PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: I'm running Potato on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I've compiled a 2.2.12 kernel and the PCMCIA modules using kernel package. The system

external modem problem

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
Aaargh. I had posted about a problem I was having with my external modem a few days ago and then it suddenly started working. Well now, without my having done anything much, it now seems to have stopped working. I'm running Potato with a 2.2.12 kernel. The modem is a US Robotics 56k Fax modem.

local delivery agent

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
Hi, I'm setting up mail on my machine using, among other packages, exim and procmail. As I understand it, either exim or procmail can be used as the local delivery agent. It seems like it might be easier to let exim act as the local delivery agent and simply use a .forward file to get procmail

PCMCIA modem not identified

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Weil
I'm running Potato on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I've compiled a 2.2.12 kernel and the PCMCIA modules using kernel package. The system seems to work fine, except it no longer recognizes my PCMCIA card modem. When I insert the card I get a low beep than a high beep and it loads the memory_cs module

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Weil
Can /etc/modules be deleted safely? After upgrading from 2.0.36 - 2.2.12 I noticed that /etc/modules was trying to load modules I didn't need/want. I ended up commenting everything out. Is there any reason not to delete the file? Richard Weil Hans Gubitz wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09

external modem problem

1999-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having a problem with an external US Robotics 56K Faxmodem. I'm running a Potato system with the 2.2.12 kernel on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I have never gotten the modem to work with Linux before, but I have used it with Windows. The problem is this: when I run Minicom (or anything else that

Re: external modem problem

1999-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
Oops. I feel a little silly. Almost right after posting this message I installed and ran a version of the 2.2.12 kernel I compiled with plug-and-play included and the modem works fine now. Thanks anyway. Richard Weil wrote: I'm having a problem with an external US Robotics 56K Faxmodem

Re: debian-newbie list

1997-02-21 Thread Richard Weil
Hi, I am a Linux (and Unix) newbie so before installing Debian I followed this list for a while to get a sense of the likely problems and possible solutions. Even without posting the list is helpful, but the sheer volume of messages is difficult to handle. I think Bruce's idea of building a web