URGENT HELP NEEDED (repost)

2001-03-25 Thread Razvan Sandu
Hello! Many thanks to the people that answered my previous questions - they were very helpful! Anyway, one more to complete the installation of some new workstations & server: Where is the correct place - according to FHS - where the users on a system should keep their *common* files? I mean a d

Re: Status Timeout

2001-03-25 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I keep on receiving at irregular intervals the following message on my console: > > hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE > ide0: reset: success > > What is the meaning of it? I waited before an

Re: Ip_Forwarding

2001-03-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:58 PM 3/25/01 -0800, Shane McKeown wrote: >Ok, I have attached the answers to the remaining >questions Ray, sorry I didn't include them the last >time. OK. This is still a bit jumbled, and you didn't answer quite everything, but let's see what sense we can make of it. 1. When ppp is runni

Little problems after Upgrade XFree86

2001-03-25 Thread Marco Calistri
Hello,I'am very happy to be finally able to use the new XFree86-4.0.3 but some problems ar coming out: i.e.:attempting to start xterm I get this message: -- [root@linux /]# xterm xterm: error in loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -

Re: Internet with 2.4.2.

2001-03-25 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seems you just did, but AFAIK there is no such thing as an email > letter-bomb so you may do so with impunity. I am still trying to find a > kernel.org site that will yield modutils to a www4mail server (funny, I > hat no trouble getting patch-2.4.1

Re: Internet with 2.4.2.

2001-03-25 Thread Ken Moffat
Thanks, Mike, for this quick reply. I'll give these aliases a try in a day or so. I have to say, though, that I'm not that hopeful - I usually try to configure ppp support in to the kernel, rather than using modules. When the connection has been made, kppp tries to negotiate a protocol, then fai

Re: Ip_Forwarding

2001-03-25 Thread Shane McKeown
Ok, I have attached the answers to the remaining questions Ray, sorry I didn't include them the last time. --- Shane McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, here are the outputs from each of the commands: > > ifconfig -a:> > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > 00:10:4B:1E:93:EF >

ADSL-ISDN

2001-03-25 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
Hallo, Is there already some experience with ADSL ? I installed all the hardware, rp-pppoe ( Roaring Penguin pppoE ) and the first result was a complete breakdown of my server-box and main-box .No conection through ISDN was more possible. ADSL did also not work. I got the messages about Access-Con

Re: Ip_Forwarding

2001-03-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:23 AM 3/23/01 -0800, Shane McKeown wrote: >Ok, here are the outputs from each of the commands: Shane, you only answered about half of the questions I asked. The answers you gave (deleted here to save space) do not suggest to me a cause for your problem. Please re-read my earlier reply. If

Re: Internet with 2.4.2.

2001-03-25 Thread Charles E. Gelm
Pardon me, all: Is discussing prototype kernels on a *newbie* list an oxymoron? Just wondering. Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: Internet with 2.4.2.

2001-03-25 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: > Lawson, > > can I butt in here, please ? I've tried various kernels since about > 2.4.0-test6, all with pppd 2.4.0b1, but never managed to get pppd to > work. Using a regular modem, my reading of the config documentation was > that I only needed async pp