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2003-03-19 Thread Gustave Peterson
ok folks i don't want to be rude. but if I can figure out how to use linux i ought to be able to write an unsubscribe email, No? The reason why I sent it to the list is because I swear that this hasn't worked like 3 times already. I've even emailed to the webmaster. this email should be an e

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Derek" == Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Derek> As near as I can tell, when you put stuff in Derek> /etc/network/interfaces, it gets executed at init time, Derek> before pcmcia gets started. If your card is already Derek> inserted, then when pcmcia _does_ start, i

no screen found on Sony PCG-GRX 500

2003-03-19 Thread asubedi
(my email server seems to be a bit screwed, few days ago it was sending the same mail four times.) I set up my x using the following command: apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect && dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 && apt-get install xserver-xfree86 After that I installed KDE.

no screen found on Sony PCG-GRX 500

2003-03-19 Thread asubedi
(my email server seems to be a bit screwed, few days ago it was sending the same mail four times.) I set up my x using the following command: apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect && dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 && apt-get install xserver-xfree86 After that I installed KDE.

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Derek" == Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Derek> As near as I can tell, when you put stuff in Derek> /etc/network/interfaces, it gets executed at init time, Derek> before pcmcia gets started. If your card is already Derek> inserted, then when pcmcia _does_ start, i

no screen found on Sony PCG-GRX 500

2003-03-19 Thread asubedi
(my email server seems to be a bit screwed, few days ago it was sending the same mail four times.) I set up my x using the following command: apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect && dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 && apt-get install xserver-xfree86 After that I installed KDE.

no screen found on Sony PCG-GRX 500

2003-03-19 Thread asubedi
(my email server seems to be a bit screwed, few days ago it was sending the same mail four times.) I set up my x using the following command: apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect && dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 && apt-get install xserver-xfree86 After that I installed KDE.

battery-stats package uploaded to unstable

2003-03-19 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, finally the battery-stats package by Karl Jorgensen http://karl.jorgensen.com has reached Debian unstable. This package was discussed in this list and available on his page for some time already. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/battery-stats.html battery-stats 0.3.2-1 Collects sta

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread mi
> > 1) it does "pre-up /etc/pcmcia/network start" - isn't this a bit > > circular, when > > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts does "/sbin/ifup"? There's a thread from Jan 7 2003 Re: PCMCIA NIC & internal NIC Allow me to quote Shyamal: "PCMCIA cards are brought up by the PCMCIA subsystems, the other networ

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Olds
The 600X is a fine machine for running Debian. There are a lot of pages with useful information on how to configure Linux for it, and I've found the speed to be just fine. I had no problems getting X running, and hibernate & suspend work as they should. My only current complaint is the cost of r

battery-stats package uploaded to unstable

2003-03-19 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, finally the battery-stats package by Karl Jorgensen http://karl.jorgensen.com has reached Debian unstable. This package was discussed in this list and available on his page for some time already. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/battery-stats.html battery-stats 0.3.2-1 Collects sta

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Mike Beattie
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:47:55PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > OK, that obviously wasn't necessary - I probably did it myself long ago. I've > used etherconf to reconfigure my network without any damage - but without > fixing > things. No, because ifupdown is not what controls the pcmcia soc

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread mi
> > 1) it does "pre-up /etc/pcmcia/network start" - isn't this a bit > > circular, when > > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts does "/sbin/ifup"? There's a thread from Jan 7 2003 Re: PCMCIA NIC & internal NIC Allow me to quote Shyamal: "PCMCIA cards are brought up by the PCMCIA subsystems, the other networ

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Olds
The 600X is a fine machine for running Debian. There are a lot of pages with useful information on how to configure Linux for it, and I've found the speed to be just fine. I had no problems getting X running, and hibernate & suspend work as they should. My only current complaint is the cost of r

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Mike Beattie
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:47:55PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > OK, that obviously wasn't necessary - I probably did it myself long ago. I've > used etherconf to reconfigure my network without any damage - but without fixing > things. No, because ifupdown is not what controls the pcmcia socket

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Glen Mehn
Thomas Klinger wrote: Hi, currently I have a really good offer of an used IBM Thinkpad 600X and now I'm thinking about to buy for installing and getting involved into Debian linux. Maybe later as a development workstation for my projects. Do you think it is worth to buy it? Is it difficult to g

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Pasi Oksa
TP 380DX with Debian woody working pefectly. X configured with Neomagic 2mb. Sound with soundblaster pro (emulated). Pcmcia nic. Only problem was to get the soundcard working.

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Derek Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As near as I can tell, when you put stuff in /etc/network/interfaces, it gets > executed at init time, before pcmcia gets started. If your card is already > inserted, then when pcmcia _does_ start, ifup doesn't get executed. Perhaps I'm > misconfigure

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Derek Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As near as I can tell, when you put stuff in /etc/network/interfaces, it gets > executed at init time, before pcmcia gets started. If your card is already > inserted, then when pcmcia _does_ start, ifup doesn't get executed. Perhaps I'm > misconfigure

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Glen Mehn
Thomas Klinger wrote: Hi, currently I have a really good offer of an used IBM Thinkpad 600X and now I'm thinking about to buy for installing and getting involved into Debian linux. Maybe later as a development workstation for my projects. Do you think it is worth to buy it? Is it difficult to get

Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas Klinger
Hi, currently I have a really good offer of an used IBM Thinkpad 600X and now I'm thinking about to buy for installing and getting involved into Debian linux. Maybe later as a development workstation for my projects. Do you think it is worth to buy it? Is it difficult to get the TP running with L

Q on NIC

2003-03-19 Thread Bukovszki Gabor
HY list!! I am new on this list so let me intorudce myself fist. I am Gabor Bukovszki, university student from Hungary, Veszprem Hy all..>) I've bought a Toshib Satellit S2210 CDT an installed a debian on it. Everything works fine, expect my PCMCIA NIC its an NE2000 compatible, D-Link DFE650-TX

Re: Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Pasi Oksa
TP 380DX with Debian woody working pefectly. X configured with Neomagic 2mb. Sound with soundblaster pro (emulated). Pcmcia nic. Only problem was to get the soundcard working. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Derek Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As near as I can tell, when you put stuff in /etc/network/interfaces, it gets > executed at init time, before pcmcia gets started. If your card is already > inserted, then when pcmcia _does_ start, ifup doesn't get executed. Perhaps I'm > misconfigure

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Derek Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As near as I can tell, when you put stuff in /etc/network/interfaces, it gets > executed at init time, before pcmcia gets started. If your card is already > inserted, then when pcmcia _does_ start, ifup doesn't get executed. Perhaps I'm > misconfigure

Thinkpad 600X - worth to buy it for Debian?

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas Klinger
Hi, currently I have a really good offer of an used IBM Thinkpad 600X and now I'm thinking about to buy for installing and getting involved into Debian linux. Maybe later as a development workstation for my projects. Do you think it is worth to buy it? Is it difficult to get the TP running with L

Q on NIC

2003-03-19 Thread Bukovszki Gabor
HY list!! I am new on this list so let me intorudce myself fist. I am Gabor Bukovszki, university student from Hungary, Veszprem Hy all..>) I've bought a Toshib Satellit S2210 CDT an installed a debian on it. Everything works fine, expect my PCMCIA NIC its an NE2000 compatible, D-Link DFE650-TX

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Ivar Alm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 04:26 2003-03-19, mi wrote: > >Derek Broughton: > > > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > > > .../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. > > > >In the past that would have been true. > >Now it's changed and the pcmcia t

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mike Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:37:00AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > RTFM://interfaces(5) - around line 70 or so. > > > > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > > ../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. > > What a l

Re: Modem on Fujitsu C1020

2003-03-19 Thread mi
Hola Jordi Cerdan, One possibility is that on your line you may have to predial a '0' ( like with some isdn machines ). Then you can apply this to the dialnumber. afaicr you can put several colons ',,,' after the '0' if a delay is needed. > I have encountered some problems on configuring th

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Ivar Alm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 04:26 2003-03-19, mi wrote: > >Derek Broughton: > > > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > > > .../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. > > > >In the past that would have been true. > >Now it's changed and the pcmcia t

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mike Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:37:00AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > RTFM://interfaces(5) - around line 70 or so. > > > > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > > ../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. > > What a l

Re: Modem on Fujitsu C1020

2003-03-19 Thread mi
Hola Jordi Cerdan, One possibility is that on your line you may have to predial a '0' ( like with some isdn machines ). Then you can apply this to the dialnumber. afaicr you can put several colons ',,,' after the '0' if a delay is needed. > I have encountered some problems on configuring th

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Ivar Alm
At 04:26 2003-03-19, mi wrote: Derek Broughton: > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > .../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. In the past that would have been true. Now it's changed and the pcmcia tools join with etc/network/interfaces. Code's in movement

Re: your mail

2003-03-19 Thread Ivar Alm
At 04:26 2003-03-19, mi wrote: Derek Broughton: > He appears to be using pcmcia nics, in which case changing anything in > .../interfaces won't do him a bit of good. In the past that would have been true. Now it's changed and the pcmcia tools join with etc/network/interfaces. Code's in movement, an

Re: KDE crashes unpredictably on Asus 2400B

2003-03-19 Thread Jan Schumacher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:57, Roberto Vallone wrote: > did you try to telnet on your system. It seems an X crash, so kernel and > other applications would be perfectly "alive" The system doesn't answer to network queries any more. It also works it

Re: KDE crashes unpredictably on Asus 2400B

2003-03-19 Thread Jan Schumacher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 23:28, Jord Swart wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 22:21, Jan Schumacher wrote: > > I am using Ralph Nolden's Woody backport of KDE3.1 and XFree4.2 from Sid, > > as 4.1 doesn't have a suitable display driver. The same thing ha

Re: KDE crashes unpredictably on Asus 2400B

2003-03-19 Thread Roberto Vallone
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:21:52PM +0100, Jan Schumacher wrote: > Hi all, > > on the Pentium version of an Asus 2400 I experience KDE crashes after an > unpredictable period of time. Without any apparent cause, the computer > freezes completely, not even answering to pings over LAN. The system f

Re: KDE crashes unpredictably on Asus 2400B

2003-03-19 Thread Jan Schumacher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:57, Roberto Vallone wrote: > did you try to telnet on your system. It seems an X crash, so kernel and > other applications would be perfectly "alive" The system doesn't answer to network queries any more. It also works it

Re: KDE crashes unpredictably on Asus 2400B

2003-03-19 Thread Jan Schumacher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 23:28, Jord Swart wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 22:21, Jan Schumacher wrote: > > I am using Ralph Nolden's Woody backport of KDE3.1 and XFree4.2 from Sid, > > as 4.1 doesn't have a suitable display driver. The same thing ha