Re: apt-get problem

2005-03-08 Thread Alvin Smith
y 'apt-get -f install' with no packages > (or specify a solution). > > how on earth do I get around this? I seem to now be at the position that > I can no longer install or remove anything via apt, which is getting > very frustrating... > > any suggestions > > Ben May not be the solution, but check your sources.list. Did you do a "dist-upgrade"? -- Alvin Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: loosing wireless connection

2005-01-27 Thread Alvin Smith
On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:10 pm, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2005 16:19, Alvin Smith wrote: > > > A wild guess would be your pcmcia card going into a power-saving mode. > > > > If so, then how, or where, do I tell it to either wake up, or not to

Re: loosing wireless connection

2005-01-27 Thread Alvin Smith
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:44 am, Juraj Ziegler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote: > > My system: > > > > Dell Inspiron 8000 > > Belkin Wireless Notebook Network Card F5D6020 VER. 2 > > Debian Sid > > > > When I

loosing wireless connection

2005-01-27 Thread Alvin Smith
My system: Dell Inspiron 8000 Belkin Wireless Notebook Network Card F5D6020 VER. 2 Debian Sid When I first boot, or when I first insert the PCMCIA network card into the computer, networking works just fine. But after a period of non-use, I can no longer ping the gateway. If I restart the netw

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2005-01-03 Thread Alvin Smith
Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or Knoppix, When you installed Ubuntu you were asked to create a user. That user is given root via sudo. So, you can do: sudo synaptic At the command prompt. And you will then be asked for *your* password. You can also set a password for root from the command prom

Re: Laptop recomendation?

2004-12-31 Thread Alvin Smith
On Friday 31 December 2004 07:51 pm, Mark M wrote: > Hi, Apologies if this is OT. > > I have never bought a laptop before and was hoping for some > recomendations. > What kind of money are you talking? I have a Dell, but if I had my drothers I would have a Thinkpad. -- pea

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-26 Thread Alvin Smith
respond. Again, I have > tried looking, but keep coming up with tons of info for Fedora and > Mandrake. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanx, > Ryan I would recommend trying Knoppix, Mepis or some other bootable Debian based distro so that you can see how it looks befor

Re: Replying to spam

2004-10-29 Thread Alvin Smith
lease refrain from it. > > That's not grumpy, this is grumpy!: > STOP REPLYING TO STOOPID WINDOZE LUSERS Noted. My mistake. -- Alvin Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2004-10-29 Thread Alvin Smith
On Friday 29 October 2004 07:00 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday 29 October 2004 02:32 pm, garry waddington wrote: > >> please help I have formatted my cf62 la

Re:

2004-10-29 Thread Alvin Smith
On Friday 29 October 2004 02:32 pm, garry waddington wrote: > please help I have formatted my cf62 laptop to put w98 se on it wont let me > boot up please help boot w98 cd to command prompt. run fdisk /mbr. -- Alvin Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj