Re: dselect and FTP

1999-07-27 Thread Dean
Don't know about download manager, but you can just restart dselect again and just bypass the select option and should put you back where you were. Dean Paul Nesbit wrote: > > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am using dselect (or apt) to download a pa

Re: dselect and FTP

1999-07-27 Thread andreas pÄlsson
Hello Paul. I tried this yesterday actually and it resumes where it was last time. Just reconnect, start dselect and choose "install" and it will continue. Regards... Andreas Paul Nesbit wrote: > > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am us

Re: dselect and FTP

1999-07-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Jul, Paul Nesbit wrote about "dselect and FTP" > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am using dselect (or apt) to download a package and lose my connection, > will I have to start the process over again? If so, is there any

Re: dselect and FTP

1999-07-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Paul Nesbit wrote: > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am using dselect (or apt) to download a package and lose my connection, > will I have to start the process over again? If so, is there any > reliable download manager for Debian?

dselect and FTP

1999-07-27 Thread Paul Nesbit
My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I am using dselect (or apt) to download a package and lose my connection, will I have to start the process over again? If so, is there any reliable download manager for Debian? -- Paul Nesbit Algonquin College Computing Scienc

minicom was: Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-19 Thread matthschulz
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven schrieb: > > When Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote, I replied: > > Try the command > > man minicom > > to learn about the minicom program for manipulating your modem. I > don't > have personal experience with it, (when I need to do these things, I > write > a perl script o

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-16 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Jiri Baum wrote: Ah, you have a cable modem... and if it's not really Hayes-compatible, you'll probably need to adjust the "chat script" that pon is using (most likely in /etc/chatscripts/ ). IT WORKS! I noticed that the modem returns NO CARRIER quite often in minicom. I removed abort on "NO CARR

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > I found some additional information about the cable modem: Ah, you have a cable modem... and if it's not really Hayes-compatible, you'll probably need to adjust the "chat script" that pon is using (most likely in /etc/chatscripts/ ). Once you get PPP up and running, tha

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-14 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
> > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why > > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? > > Simple enough - the modem wasn't in command mode, it was at the end of > the previous dial Oh, of course. Didn't think of that. > (that failed) but somehow the

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Helge Hafting: > You wrote: > > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > > > ppp.log: > > ... > > > send (ATZ^M) > > > expect (OK) > > > ^M > > > NO CARRIER > > > -- Failed ... > > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why > > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? > >

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-10 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
When Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote, I replied: Try the command man minicom to learn about the minicom program for manipulating your modem. I don't have personal experience with it, (when I need to do these things, I write a perl script or something to gain access to the port/modem) but I've see

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've seen messages to this list which have been enthusiastic about minicom. Hope this helps. > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van:Helge Hafting [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 1999 19:55 > Aan:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Onderwe

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van:Helge Hafting [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 1999 19:55 Aan:debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: DSelect and ftp You wrote: > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > > ppp.log: > ... > > send (ATZ

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Helge Hafting
You wrote: > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > > ppp.log: > ... > > send (ATZ^M) > > expect (OK) > > ^M > > NO CARRIER > > -- Failed > > Failed (NO CARRIER) > > Connect script failed > > exit. > > That sounds as if ppp (or chat) is sending `ATZ' to the modem, expecting to > get back `OK' but getting `NO

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Jiri Baum writes: > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? ATZ means "soft reset and restore stored profile 0". Perhaps profile 0 is whacky. Try AT&F0 to restore factory profile 0. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTE

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > ppp.log: ... > send (ATZ^M) > expect (OK) > ^M > NO CARRIER > -- Failed > Failed (NO CARRIER) > Connect script failed > exit. That sounds as if ppp (or chat) is sending `ATZ' to the modem, expecting to get back `OK' but getting `NO CARRIER' instead. Is that right? That'

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following > message: > > Connecting to ftp.debian.org > Failed to connect The ftp program normally doesn't dial the modem for you, because it doesn't know whether you aren't just intending to use the ethern

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following > message: > > Connecting to ftp.debian.org > Failed to connect The ftp program normally doesn't dial the modem for you, because it doesn't know whether you aren't just intending to use the ethern

DSelect and ftp

1999-02-05 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have formatted a harddisk (to make it 100% microsoft-free) and installed debian linux 2.0 from floppy disks. Then I tried to install packages using dselect with ftp access. The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following message: Connecting to ftp.debian.org Failed t

dselect and ftp: Packages file not found

1998-02-09 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, If I use dselect with ftp access, it complains about a missing Packages[.gz], although I am sure it's there (I checked this manually with ftp). Here are the details: ftpsite=ftp.eunet.be username=anonymous ftpdir=/pub/linux/debian distribs=bo It sais: "Cd to /pub/linux/debian/...

Re: Q: dselect and FTP

1996-12-18 Thread Christian Meder
> I've been installing, purging, etc several packages with dselect. After > quitting I wanted to install some other thing and, to my surprise, ftp is > no longer available as an Access method (just cdrom, nfs, harddisk, > mounted, floppy). Probably I did something wrong when installing things,

Q: dselect and FTP

1996-12-17 Thread Ricardo Aler Mur
Hello, I've been installing, purging, etc several packages with dselect. After quitting I wanted to install some other thing and, to my surprise, ftp is no longer available as an Access method (just cdrom, nfs, harddisk, mounted, floppy). Probably I did something wrong when installing things,

Bug#4291: dselect and ftp

1996-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: base Version: ? Kevin Buhr writes ("Re: dselect and ftp"): ... > You did nothing wrong: when I installed Debian 1.1.5, I noticed that > the "dpkg-ftp" had been *automatically* deselected, and I had to > manually fix that. I just forgot to file a bug rep

Re: dselect and ftp

1996-08-23 Thread Kevin Buhr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- "David J. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | My recent ftp debian 1.1 installation was a great success, | except that I appear to have deleted a package needed for | further ftp installations using dselect You need to reinstall "dpkg-ftp". |

dselect and ftp

1996-08-23 Thread David J. Evans
My recent ftp debian 1.1 installation was a great success, except that I appear to have deleted a package needed for further ftp installations using dselect I don't know where I went wrong, but was trying to save some disk space and probably pressed a - when I should have selected an =. C