re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, I checked the cables and they're in properly. I know because I have done volunteer work with smartco-inc.org since 2006 and what I do is disassemble computers for recycling. I think I will put together a system disk with a screen reader program on it and put that in the drive and boot the

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread keith
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 10:30 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The floppy won't even refoprmat. Also, putting a never used floppy > in > that drive and attempting to format it fails as well. > Checked all the connections? Cables damaged? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:49:31 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell wrote: > I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on > bsd wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing > permissions on the /dev/fd0 device. > > Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 09:45:57 AM EDT > ro

Re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/06/12 10:30 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: The floppy won't even refoprmat. Also, putting a never used floppy in that drive and attempting to format it fails as well. On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, keith wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I think the floppy in this machine

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
The floppy won't even refoprmat. Also, putting a never used floppy in that drive and attempting to format it fails as well. On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, keith wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd >

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread keith
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd > wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing permissions > on the /dev/fd0 device. Looks like the FAT is corrupt. If the data is important to you, t

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing permissions on the /dev/fd0 device. Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 09:45:57 AM EDT root@stmarys:~# dmesg | regrep fd0 [1.083042] Floppy drive(s): f

Re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 08:29 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 08:26:58 AM EDT > jude@stmarys:~$ mdir a:/ > plain_io: Input/output error > plain_io: Input/output error > init A: could not read boot sector > Cannot initialize 'A:' > jude@stmarys:~$ exit > exit > > Scrip

SOLVED Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:41:43PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
will trillich wrote: > i never have understood the "command > line args" portion of modconf: "Please enter any command-line > arguments for the XYZ module. Many modules can autoprobe and do > not require additional parameters." i don't understand the > syntax needed. The 'command line args' portio

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-24 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: >okay, once i detect the io/irq via qdos, how do i replicate that >under linux? is it lilo? Just put it in /etc/modules, if it isn't found at load time. 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 You only need to use append="ether=10,0x300,eth0" if your driver is compiled

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-24 Thread Richard Hector
will trillich wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipmasq -v I haven't got ipmasq - is it a seperate package? Should I have it? > /sbin/ipchains -A input -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l > /sbin/ipchains -A output -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:41:43PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 07:40:45PM -0200, Rafael Sasaki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:30:28PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifdown eth0 ; ifup eth0 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifconfig eth0 > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:8C:82:CF:3B > > inet add

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:28:42PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:30:28 -0600, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > >[didn't get any response on this last time -- i'm reposting with >a new subject line hoping to get some assistance... thanks] > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll >re

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:30:28PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > 3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or > out. > > any pointers are appreciated -- he

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:30:28 -0600, will trillich wrote: >[didn't get any response on this last time -- i'm reposting with >a new subject line hoping to get some assistance... thanks] > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato syst