still more troubles with connecting for the update sources

2002-10-02 Thread Scott B. Berry
Hello there, I am still having problems. I hand coded in the deb ftp.us.debian.or and the rest of that line but it just refuses to connect with my modem. Just so people know I am using dialup right now. Scott Berry Msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo Messenger: electronicman1960 If you are interested i

a question about resloving

2002-10-02 Thread Scott B. Berry
Hello everyone, Got my modem firing up on Debian. I have a very strange issue going on. I am trying to update the packages for Woody and I am finding that when I try to update the error message I get is "something wicked has happened and the resolving to http://us.debian.org is not working". I

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2002-09-21 Thread Scott B. Berry
QUESTION ABOUT MODEM DIALINGhELLO THERE, i HAVE NOW GOT MY MODEM WORKING i AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THOUGH WHY IT IS NOT DIALING. i GET A DIAL TONE BUT NO DTMF TONES OR TOUCH TONES. i RETRIED CONFIGURING PPPCONFIG WITH NO SUCCESS AND i AM NOT UNDER ANY STRANGE CIRCUMSTANSES SUCH AS PBX'S OR

question about Supra Express 56i

2002-09-19 Thread Scott B. Berry
Don, See my question after your comment. I just had to set up a serial port using the I/O and IRQ that the BIOS assigned. Okay how did you set up this IRQ and i/o port? What commands did you use? Because this is an ISA modem so I think I will give this a run. Do I necessarily have to turn off

a continuing of the modem saga

2002-09-19 Thread Scott B. Berry
I did forget to say in the "isapnp.conf" file I did not see any dma settings but it did see the modem. Scott Berry Msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo Messenger: electronicman1960 If you are interested in scanning and you are blind please come join our police scanner list. To subscribe send a message to

learning how to set up a win modem

2002-09-19 Thread Scott B. Berry
I am wondering since I have a supra Express 56i how to set it up in my linux box. I have read the winmodem how to. This box is a Pentium 300 with 6.4Gb of hard disk space with 64mb of Ram. I am using speech synthesis built in to the kernel called Speakup. If anyone is interested you may read m

question about editors for lil.conf and other configuration files

2002-09-17 Thread Scott B. Berry
Hello everyone, I am wondering if there are any other editors included in the base system besides vi? I don't care for it much. If not, how can I get some other editors to and other programs. i don't havemy modem set up yet but definitely need something differnt. Scott Berry Msn: [EMAIL PROTECT