wmaker upgrade broken... need help

Hi, folks Any ideas as to what's up with this: debian:/home/jesse# apt-get dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get

want help with sound card...

Hi, folks I have sucessfully re-built my kernel to add support for my Soundblaster Pro card. (An interesting side-effect is that now my backspace key works!! Go figure..) I was having trouble getting CD's to play until I changed the permissions on /dev/cdrom

Re: Green linux user needs help building kernel

Tom, You need to grab the kernel-source-x.x.x package. Next, refer to the nicely done doc.s from http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/kernel.html Good luck! On 10 Jan, Sheila Persons wrote: I am trying to install the drivers for my SCSI cd roms but i am

Re: missing ncurses.h

Bob, I encountered the same problem. ncurses-dev is not in slink, but you can find it in hamm. So as not to mess up my installed packages database, I ftp'd the .deb file manually and used dpkg -i to install it. Works fine now. On 11 Jan, Bob Nielsen wrote: I

Re: file managers

Jay, If you like Windoze Explorer, try Linux Explorer (explorer). They look very much alike! :-) On 11 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, anyone wanna chime in with why they like their favorite file managers (under X)? I'm on the lookout for the cream of the crop. I hate to

Re: help wanted for kernel install

Found it. It was in hamm and not in slink yet. I installed it and now I'm compiling. Hopefully, it will end up ok. Wish me luck! :-) On 9 Jan, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now I cd to linux and I'm in 2.0.36.

help wanted for kernel install

Hi, folks I want to update my kernel (2.0.34) to 2.0.36. I've already upgraded the rest of my system slink, so today I used apt-get to install the new kernel-source. When I switched to the /usr/src/linux directory, I found it was still pointing to

Re: help wanted for kernel install

On 9 Jan, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now I cd to linux and I'm in 2.0.36. This seems right to me, but I must still missing something, because make menuconfig produces the following errors:

wmaker appicon problems...

Hi, folks While running winndow maker, I cannot seem to get any applications to produce icons which are dockable. I've read the user info at their web site, (which suggests right-clicking the title bar, selecting Attributes, choosing Advanced Options and

What tools are useful for script debugging?

Hi, folks The subject says it all. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

Thanks, John! That did the trick!! :-) On 31 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I want to get a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail. I want this to happen without having to manually run pon after I log in. Rename

Help wanted with daemon startup

Hi, folks I want to begin fetching mail as soon as my system boots up, by having fetchmail running as a daemon. What should happen is that fetchmail will trigger diald when it wants to connect to my POP account. Where should I install the fetchmail-up script to enable this? --

How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

Hi, folks What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I want to get a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail. I want this to happen without having to manually run pon after I log in. I also want to be able to detect if the line has gone down and re-connect in that

Re: How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

Ok, tried this and no joy. Any other ideas? When I run fetchmail-up from root's home dir, it seems to work (at least it dials ok). Perhaps the problem is the order in which things are started. How can I set things up to be sure that diald has been started before fetchmail-up runs. BTW,

Re: xterm not found in slink

Gery, I had the same problem. I used apt-get to install xdm and everything worked fine after that. Gery Wrote: Just upgraded to slink. It seems that a package containing xterm, xdm, etc. is missing (and therefore X11 is not working...). Is there a special place for

Re: sendmail config Q.

Hi, folks I have a similar question: Almost every client that uses sendmail to post mail to my ISP uses my login_name.machine_name for the return address. I get my mail from a POP account using fetchmail, so my actual mail address is my [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't have the problem

What can I use to un-zip an M$-DOS *.zip file

Folks, The subject pretty well says it all. Many files on the network are compressed using pkzip for M$DOS. What utilitites are available in Linux to un-zip such things? -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

Damir, Did you make your Linux partition bootable? I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux. Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to the NT loader