Re: problem with Real Tek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Card

2003-11-06 Thread James Miller (office)
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 09:11 AM 11/6/2003 -0800, Ravi Kumar Munnangi wrote: > >Hello, > > > > I have just now installed RedHat Linux 8.0 on my > >system. It has the Real Tek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Card. > > > > After ifup eth0, it gave the message, > > > > modprobe:Can't open

Re: MSN Messenger clones keep failing

2003-11-04 Thread James Miller (office)
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Amin wrote: > > Recently I got my internet connection up at home again and > downloaded the latest versions of Alvaro's MSN Messenger for > Linux and Ayttm for Linux. These are clones meant to get me > into MSN Messenger chat. But they keep failing, saying my > username and/or

Re: Advice about packages

2003-10-01 Thread James Miller (office)
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Phillip Ames wrote: > Hi, > I'm relatively new to using Linux on a daily basis and I was looking for > some information about what the "trends" are for production Linux > machines. I installed RedHat 9, and have mucked about with rpm and > thought that packages were the greate

Re: kernel configuration

2003-09-09 Thread James Miller (office)
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > 3. You only mention kernel 2.4.20-8 and 2.4.18. Is there any version of > 2.4.22 on the system? (actually, I didn't even know there was a 2.4.22 -- > Debian sources seem only go up to 2.4.21.) > Gee, I didn't notice he was talking about 3 different kerne

Re: /cdrom fails to unmount

2003-07-24 Thread James Miller (office)
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Heimo Claasen wrote: > > A good illustration is the behaviour of the Midnight Commander: you > start it somwhere on some branch on the directory tree, then you > navigate _inside_ the prog to _look_ at some other branch/files, and if > you exit MC then your're quite somewhere e

RE: Slack9.0/Atapi-ZIP250???

2003-06-30 Thread James Miller (office)
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Riley Williams wrote: > Hi Hal. > > >>> This box w/Slack8.0/2.4.18; running AOK with an Atapi ZIP250 > >>> internal, as /dev/sda4, as long as I insmod ide-scsi.o.. > >>> (That file also installs sd_mod.o ).. > > >> You're doing this wrong. I have the Atapi Zip100 internal.

SCO suit and Linux kernel

2003-06-18 Thread James Miller (office)
This may seem a bit off topic for this list, but for me, as a newbie, it does involve understanding some things about Linux. I hope it doesn't cause any flame wars or anything. Anyway: I understand that SCO's claims concern only the 2.4.x kernel and later (i.e., the 2.5.x and thus upcoming 2.6 as

Re: disabling X display Manager

2003-06-18 Thread James Miller (office)
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > [...] > > > The other thing to do is to check that when you do start X via gdm, the > > > consoles are present. From the gdm display, you should be able to access > > > them by pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 through CTRL-ALT-F6. > > > >Yes, they do.But then I d

Freesco, old kernel lines, security

2003-06-03 Thread James Miller (office)
I understand that in the world of Linux network security, generally older = worser (more insecure). So, I see that Freesco, a small Linux gateway/router distro that seems to be actively maintained, is using a kernel from the 2.0.x line - 2.0.38 (I understand that the most recent 2.0.x kernel is 2.