CD drive on a parallel port

2006-09-19 Thread jb701
Hi, I have a laptop without a CD ROM, that cannot take a CD rom, and that cannot take USB either [PCMCIA I/II only, which rules out USB port cards it seems]. I have however obtained a CD drive that connects to the parallel port. With a bit of hassle, this can be got to work with DOS - ie. it

Re: Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

2006-07-09 Thread jb701
Many thanks - I've tracked down the problem to two corrupted files - "available" and "status". Copied across the "status-old" and "available-old" versions and it all seems to work OK. It seems as though the faulty memory caused this corruption [not surprisging I suppose] one way or another -

Voodoo 4/5 display problem

2006-07-08 Thread jb701
I'm using KDE, with a Voodoo 3 card. Excellent display. THen I try to swap it for a Voodoo 4. I get a crawling display [that's how it looks - all the pixels constantly moving]. I looked ona another machine I usually use without GUI - it has a Voodoo 5. I load KDE, I get the crawling proble

Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

2006-07-08 Thread jb701
I was seeing if a memoery stick I had was any good, and put it in my debian machine. All seemed OK, so I tried to install memtest. Went OK until I got aptitude existing with a segmentation fault. I rebooted, but I still get a segmentation fault. I tried to reinstall aptitude with apt-get [ma

Yamaha sw60xg and aureal vortex

2006-04-08 Thread jb701
I'm trying to get an sw60xg midi card working to play midi, so I don't have to have a midi keyboard connected all the time. sw60xg is an isa card. I have line out from my aureal vortex sound pci card attached to line in on sw60xg, and speakers on the sw60xg line out. Running sarge, kernel 2.

Re: Bus error - help!

2006-03-24 Thread jb701
konsole and rosegarden won't run from the kde menu - I get an eggtimer but then they disappear. Inside kde I have tried to run them from xterm, and get a bus error. xterm works in kde, but konsole does not. - Joe On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:14:06 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: K6-2, V

Bus error - help!

2006-03-23 Thread jb701
K6-2, Via MVP3 chipset, kernel 2.4.27, sarge Ran fine as a console-only system. Then I installed kde because I wanted to use rosegarden4. Rosegarden ran biut no midi sound so I fiddled with jackd and other things. No joy but... Now rosegarden and other progs, like konsole, do not run. Lo

Re: KDE programs not working

2006-03-22 Thread jb701
Sorry, should have said: K6/2, kernel 2.4.27, sarge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kde programs not working

2006-03-22 Thread jb701
I was using KDE, a few crashes here and there but I could run Konsole, rosegarden4 and brahms. Now they have all stopped working - I get the egg timer but then they disappear without properly loading. How can I troubleshoot this? All I can think I did was: - make myself a member of root

Re: Routing or iptables problem, or masquerading?!

2006-02-18 Thread jb701
Problem solved! Worked out that what I was really trying to do was use the linux box as a bridge, installed brudge-utils and now everything works. - Joe I have got a bit further with my networking problem, using a linux box as a router, now I have a different problem. I have five machines

Routing or iptables problem, or masquerading?!

2006-02-17 Thread jb701
I have got a bit further with my networking problem, using a linux box as a router, now I have a different problem. I have five machines [Windows PCs and Macs] connected to an ethernet switch. They are all 192.168.0.x One of these has two NICs, and is used to connect in the linux box. The s

Re: Routing problem

2006-02-14 Thread jb701
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot get my linux box to act as a router, I'm hoping someone can help. My setup is sarge on a machine with 2 NICs, 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.2.1. I attach 192.168.1.2 to another machine with 2 NICs [192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.6]. This

Routing problem

2006-02-13 Thread jb701
I cannot get my linux box to act as a router, I'm hoping someone can help. My setup is sarge on a machine with 2 NICs, 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.2.1. I attach 192.168.1.2 to another machine with 2 NICs [192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.6]. This is a Win2K machine, and it routes connections from the l

SMP kernel - modem support

2005-12-05 Thread jb701
I have a dual processor system running sarge with an SMP kernel. It cannot find my modem. When I run the system with a uniprocessor kernel, the modem works fine. The SMP kernel I am using is 2.6.8-2-686-smp. What I would like to know is: does this mean I need to compile a kernel with modem

Re: Lucent Venus Modem Set Up

2005-11-26 Thread jb701
Have rebooted with non-SMP kernel, and the modem works fine. So it's a problem with the SMP kernel not working with the modem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lucent Venus Modem Set Up

2005-11-25 Thread jb701
I've just got hold of a Venus chipset modem, PCI, and put it in my PC. Running Sarge. lspci lists it. But what do I need to do to get it to work as a modem? I've seen something saying run cat /proc/pci, but that doesn't exist on my system. I'm running kernel version 2.6.8.-2-smp. -- To

Dual processor

2005-11-15 Thread jb701
I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How can I tell whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just assume it will have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network email setup

2005-07-15 Thread jb701
First of all many thanks to everyone for the answers to a previous post about getmail and exim - I am now getting there. I am using sarge on a 486 thinkpad, it now successfully connects to the web and sends and receives email using exim and getmail. Mail between users is delivered locally.

Exim question

2005-07-08 Thread jb701
Trying to set up email on my machine, I can receive mail from my dial-up ISP, but I am having trouble setting up exim. I've used eximconfig, but not sure how some of the questions need to be answered. Where do I tell it the name of the ISPs smtp server and other connection details? How do

Getmail question

2005-07-08 Thread jb701
A not-much-user rather than a complete newbie, I've been using Debian for a couple of years. I'm now finally trying to get email working on my 486. I have a user "mail" which I have used to set up getmail. I use a dialup connection. When I connect I do so as root using pon. This works OK.

Side effect of samba?

2005-06-29 Thread jb701
I've installed samba, samba-doc and tethereal, and now my dial-up connection does not work. pon connects me to my ISP, and I can ping the ISP server as well as my address, but I get nothing from pinging anything else, include the name servers. Needless to say I cannot use apt-get now either -