can't connect to my isp

1999-08-16 Thread Wonko
i had no problems with this before and all of a sudden i couldn't connect. i din't upgrade anything either. i left my connection on for a day and when i came back it was dead and i couldn't reconnect. it works fine with windows but not linux, what could be the problem?

what's the autoexec.bat equivalent here?

1999-08-16 Thread Wonko
i kind of messed up my xf86 and during boot it says starting xfs x font server and just pauses, how do i disable this from trying to load so i can login and reinstall? i have a rescue disk and everything so just point me to the file i have to edit. thanks

Re: potato broke my everything!!

1999-08-12 Thread Wonko
when i did that the eroor is : undefined symbol: stdout. what now? Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Wonko wrote: > > > when i get to running dpkg-deb there is an error: libdpkg.so.0 cannont open > > shared > > object file: no such file or directory, any o

Re: potato broke my everything!!

1999-08-12 Thread Wonko
when i get to running dpkg-deb there is an error: libdpkg.so.0 cannont open shared object file: no such file or directory, any other ideas? Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Wonko wrote: > > > i reinstalled linux using the base floppies and decided instead of > >

potato broke my everything!!

1999-08-12 Thread Wonko
.d/rcS and thenext line is cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc, then at the login where it usually said wonko login: it said (none) login: and when i tried my pass it said error changing to /dev/tty1 and i couldn't login. does anyone know what to do? i really don't to d/l the packages for anoth

damn glib

1999-08-06 Thread wonko
i installed glib1.2.3 but gtk+ says cannot find glib1.2.3 anyway what do i do?

Re: how do i apt-get glibc?

1999-08-05 Thread wonko
i meant glib sorry, and the file name on the site ends with .deb doesn't that mean it's a legitimate package? Pollywog wrote: > Did you really need glibc or did you mean glib ? > > Don't get glibc if you really meant glib. That mistake might break your > system. > > -- > Andrew

Re: how do i apt-get glibc?

1999-08-05 Thread wonko
sorry didn't realize i was e-mailing only you, thanks Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 4 Aug, wonko wrote about "how do i apt-get glibc?" > > since my other question was answered so promptly (thank btw) i'm asking > > another one. > > how do i apt-get

no bash commands work

1999-08-05 Thread wonko
i use xdm to logon in x and everything works in x, but when i switch to a different terminal for any command it says bash command not found, and i can't restart without going into xdm since i can't run the command... help!

i can't install gtk+

1999-07-30 Thread Wonko
i had 1.0.9 gtk and i wanted to upgrade (for gaim) that required a new version of glib, i installed 1.2.3 but gtk+ during ./configure still says i have an old version, anyone know how i can make it recognize? thanks

oops nevermind my last question

1999-07-19 Thread Wonko

clean umount?

1999-07-19 Thread Wonko
evrytime i restart it says hda2 not cleanly unmounted and it takes 10 minutes checking inodes or something like that... when i shutdown i type 'shutdown now' is this right? i tried all the number combinations in fstab and nothing works, what should i do?

i'm dying here

1999-07-13 Thread Wonko
is there ANY way to setup my stb v4400 AGP card with x? i'm about to smash everything in my house

my compiler cannot create executables

1999-07-12 Thread Wonko
at least thats the error that i get when i try to install qvwm, whatever shall i do?

can't get XF86 to work

1999-07-08 Thread Wonko
i ran xf86config and xf86setup and had the same result, after i selected all the options and ran startx i get an error sayinf all of the selected devices were not found and fatal error: no screens found. i tried every combination in xf86and still nothing works.help!