Re: PPoE Setup

2002-03-23 Thread Burns MacDonald
Yep, I use it. I use David Skolls' PPOE from Roaring Penguin. It works quite well. We had a small issue locally where we had to kick the modem everynow and then, but that was because of the Bell Nexxia network. The readme, etc that comes with the download is pretty concise and helpful. You may

Re: alteration of screen resolution

2002-03-23 Thread Collins
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:48:19 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 March 2002 06:54 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:49:55 +1000 Keith Antoine [ snip ] I cannot remember how to easily alter the screen resolution. Yes its been talked about often enough

Re: Gentoo

2002-03-23 Thread Collins
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:41:41 -0300 (ART) Cidadão Dorense [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Thu, You will be happiest if you have a high speed internet connection, since all sources are downloaded on the fly from the authoratative ftp site for each.

Re: Gentoo

2002-03-23 Thread Collins
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:25:08 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: opinions here? gentoo rocks. got the guys at work installing it just this week. can choose from ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs for your filesystems.

OT: Bell Labs Says It Shatters Data Delivery Record

2002-03-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
NYTimes: Bell Labs Says It Shatters Data Delivery Record Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies said on Friday that it has doubled the distance and the speed at which data can be sent over long-haul telecommunications networks. But, of course, 10 years ago, they thought the

More Steps March 24

2002-03-23 Thread Mike Andrew
Bulk Storage-ORB-USB Bulk Storage-JAZ-USB a re-write of info supplied by Rick McQueen , Marriane , Roger O. -- http://linux-sxs.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

sdX? Shozbot.

2002-03-23 Thread Mike Andrew
I'm doing some research into this permanent #)(*)(*#$_ pain in the posterior when mounting scsi devices. There is, or was, a kernel append statement that would pre-empt this nonsense and assign hard numbers, does anyone know where that info is? -- http://linux-sxs.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More Steps: March 24

2002-03-23 Thread Mike Andrew
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Re: sdX? Shozbot.

2002-03-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Net Llama wrote: Mike, what pain in the ass are you referring to here?? My guess would be the assignment of device names. Generally they're assigned in order of SCSI-ID and host adapter. The first SCSI hard drive found is /dev/sda1, second, /dev/sda2,

new kernel will not boot

2002-03-23 Thread Keith Antoine
I have a 2.4.18 compiled kernel that has a kernel panic and stops dead. It is complaining that the root= is incorrect and that hdc7 is not root. However the 2.4.17 does boot normally and I cannot see any reason why 2.4.18 complains. I am using grub and have for a long time here is the menu.lst

Re: new kernel will not boot

2002-03-23 Thread Net Llama
My guess is perhaps that you're lacking support for something critical. If you've got SCSI hardware, did you build the initrd correctly, or compile the neccesary support into the kernel? If / is on an IDE drive, did you compile IDE support into the kernel? Did you compile support for whatever

Re: new kernel will not boot

2002-03-23 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:23, Net Llama Hear Ye Oh! Hear Ye GANDALF spake thus: My guess is perhaps that you're lacking support for something critical. If you've got SCSI hardware, did you build the initrd correctly, or compile the neccesary support into the kernel? If / is on an IDE drive, did

Re: new kernel will not boot

2002-03-23 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:05:14 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: I have a 2.4.18 compiled kernel that has a kernel panic and stops dead. It is complaining that the root= is incorrect and that hdc7 is not root. However the 2.4.17 does boot normally and I cannot see any reason why 2.4.18 complains. What