Re: Lenny. How to start WiFi networking from console?

2009-02-26 Thread Ji ZhengYu
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Debian 5 Stable. > System installed from KDE CD ISO. Graphic logon screen is stopeed by > > # sysv-rc-conf kdm off > > So the system initially boot into plain text console. > WiFi interface is eth1. According to # ifconfig it is up after bo

Re: Lenny. How to start X from console with a chosen DM?

2009-02-26 Thread Ji ZhengYu
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Debian 5 Stable. > System installed from KDE CD ISO. Graphic logon screen is stopped by > > # sysv-rc-conf kdm off > > So the system initially boot into plain text console. WindowMaker > display manager was added. Now I am trying to start X

Lenny. How to start WiFi networking from console?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Debian 5 Stable. System installed from KDE CD ISO. Graphic logon screen is stopeed by # sysv-rc-conf kdm off So the system initially boot into plain text console. WiFi interface is eth1. According to # ifconfig it is up after boot. # iwconfig eth1 ESSID [essid name] key s:[WPAkey] mode Managed

Lenny. How to start X from console with a chosen DM?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Debian 5 Stable. System installed from KDE CD ISO. Graphic logon screen is stopped by # sysv-rc-conf kdm off So the system initially boot into plain text console. WindowMaker display manager was added. Now I am trying to start X session with WindowMaker $ exec startx WndowMaker X doesn't start

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Mark Goldshtein writes: [...] > During network configuration, there are ESSID and encryption input > fields. WiFi network encryption seems to be limited to WEP only. A > least, it is the only visible one at the installation screen. Would to > you please to explain, how to add WPA encryption pas

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Daryl Styrk
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: [1] I personally recommend using DVD-1 for offline installation. That would be an option if all the machines here had DVD drives. At least 2 of the older machines can only read CD's. I suppose DVD's will soon become todays CD's in terms of popularity and use, as co

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:10 -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > > > > > Yes, think so. Seems to be strange a bit. Isn't WPA (or WPA2) a widely > > used encryption method? > > > It's all I have ever used. That's reasonable. > I hope to see WPA supported in the near future. T

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Goley
I would recommend using a live cd (preferably Kubuntu Live Install CD) and then install Lenny using debootstrap. That's the complex way to do it! That depends if you need network access while you are installi

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Daryl Styrk
Mark Goldshtein wrote: Yes, think so. Seems to be strange a bit. Isn't WPA (or WPA2) a widely used encryption method? It's all I have ever used. I hope to see WPA supported in the near future. For the time being I've been fortunate enough to have a laptop near by I use a crossover cable

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On 2/26/09, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:09 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> On 2/26/09, Robert Goley wrote: >> >> Not sure about this on the Lenny installer. >> If the wpa_suppli

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:09 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On 2/26/09, Robert Goley wrote: > > Not sure about this on the Lenny installer. > If the wpa_supplicant command exists, you

Re: Как сделать начальную заг рузку в "чистую" консоль?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Sorry, wrong mailing list! 2009/2/26 Mark Goldshtein > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Yuri Kozlov wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:12:02 +0300 >> Mark Goldshtein > wrote: >> >> > >> Подскажите пожалуйста, как сд

Re: Как сделать начальную заг рузку в "чистую" консоль?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Yuri Kozlov wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:12:02 +0300 > Mark Goldshtein > wrote: > > > >> Подскажите пожалуйста, как сделать начальную загрузку пользователя > > >> прямо в консоль? > > >> > > > > > > $ sudo apt-get install sysvconfig > > > $ sudo sysvconfig >

Re: Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
> > Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> On 2/26/09, Robert Goley wrote: >> >> >>> Not sure about this on the Lenny installer. If the wpa_supplicant >>> command exists, you can probably write out the config file by hand and >>> start up the wireless interface by hand. Definitely the longer way to >>> do

Lenny. How to add WPA encryption to installer?

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Debian 5 Stable installer. KDE CD ISO. IBM ThinkPad R40. Installer: configure networking step. Hardware: Intel 2100 WiFi, firmware was successfully added from an external USB floppy (ipw2100-1.3.fw). During network configuration, there are ESSID and encryption input fields. WiFi network encryption

Thinkpad T23 external VGA port problem

2009-02-26 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! I recently got a Thinkpad T23 (S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05) graphics adaptor) which works very well with Lenny. However, I have problems using the external VGA port. According to the Thinkwiki[1] I tried to use "s3switch" to enable / disable the output to internal LCD and external C