Re: Debian 8.8 in Asus X441SA

2017-05-19 Thread Daniel Echeverry
Hi Anil 2017-05-19 8:22 GMT-05:00 Anil Duggirala : > Thanks a lot Daniel, > I know about backports, but could you tell me exactly what package I > need to install? Do I need to uninstall some other package? > After that you install the jessie-backports, could you install the new kern

Re: Debian 8.8 in Asus X441SA

2017-05-18 Thread Daniel Echeverry
a bad situation after initial install, > please help! > thanks! > -- Daniel Echeverry http://wiki.debian.org/DanielEcheverry http://rinconinformatico.net Linux user: #477840 Debian user

Re: Installing debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso on a partition of a Macbook 5,2

2014-01-26 Thread Daniel Landau
On 25.01.2014 08:36, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Daniel Landau <mailto:daniel.lan...@iki.fi>> wrote: > My main questions for now are the following: > During installation I get to the 'Host name for this system'. There's a > &

Re: Installing debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso on a partition of a Macbook 5,2

2014-01-24 Thread Daniel Landau
ld be most helpfull. Also could you reiterate step by step what you tried, and at which points something different from what you expected happened (again including the error messages). Daniel Landau signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: managing networks on laptop

2014-01-06 Thread Daniel Landau
ger connects to my wireless network automatically even before login. I guess it could depend on what starts it (i.e., on login or by an init system). I start it with systemd on system startup. Daniel Landau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-07-01 Thread Daniel Landau
On 2013-07-01 16:07, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 01.07.13 15:56, Daniel Landau wrote: Could you please go to General Screen as mentioned on page 179, section 25.3? Is the domain set to .local? What happens if you put back your ISP DNS servers but change domain name to something different

Re: it is avahi? Re: network

2013-07-01 Thread Daniel Landau
from Android devices wirelessly with ftp), now I can't. I realize this is off-topic, but does anybody have any idea or pointers to material on how to get resolving of local hostnames to work again? Daniel Landau On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Sebastian Salvino wrote: > if you are using

Re:: Installing debian wheezy on MacBookPro9,1

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel Landau
artitions. If you can get rid of partition number 3 on your list, you have the option of fitting the three operating systems + efi to the four partitions allowed by the hybrid efi-mbr approach. In that case you'd use a swap file instead of a swap partition. The linked page is for Arch, but should be adaptable to Debian too. Daniel

Re: how-to-password-protect-ubuntus-boot-loader

2012-10-07 Thread Daniel Landau
nd grub-mkconfig e.g. $ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg There might be some 2's there after any of the grubs (grub2-mkconfig, /boot/grub2). Check which of the commands and directories do you have in your computer. Daniel Landau

Re: Ethernet connect problem

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Bryan
-- Forwarded message -- From: pahnin sd Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:48 AM Subject: Re: Ethernet connect problem To: Jonas Andradas Cc: debian laptop mailing list On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:13 PM, pahnin sd wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Jonas Andradas wrote:

Re: Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Perinols
Hello Dirk, thank you so much for your reply. I will try the opensource drivers and will be back with details. Thanks again!

Re: Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Perinols
I tried also the ati drivers from ati's website. They install fine but upon restart, they don't work. What can I do? It's been 5 days now with no luck trying to get ati drivers to work. > >

Re: Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I didn't removed the proprietary drivers yet. I tried your solution. Output of aticonfig --initial -f is : Uninitialised file found, configuring. Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf Saving back-up to /etcX11/xorg.conf.fglrx-0 And aticonfig --acpi-services off returns no output,

Re: Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Daniel
Ohh there is also an ati open source driver which I need to try. How do I remove this proprietary drivers which I installed using debian wiki? I really don't know.

Re: Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Daniel
I haven't received no answer. The last thing I got was from Adrii asking me what type of video card I have. Please cc me then.

Re: Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Daniel
No response yet. I am the only user using debian squeeze with an ati card in the world?

Ati drivers don't start on laptop

2010-12-17 Thread Daniel
Hello, I'm using debian squeeze. My kernel is amd64 and the system is i386. I think the installer automatically installed the amd64 kernel because it detected that my t4300 intel processor can support 64 bit. The problem is, everything works except for my ati hd4330 and touchpad. I followed the deb

Ati hd4330 problems installing diver

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel
Hello again, I'm trying to install the ati drivers for my ati hd4330 laptop card. I have followed the debian wiki but no luck. I did all the steps. I can see ati catalyst control center in system>preferences but it doesn't start. I can't run any games like nexuiz and others. Any suggestions? What

Debian lenny on a dell inspiron 1545

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel
Greetings everyone! I'm not an advanced user. I started out with another distribution based on Debian but I wanted to move to Debian as those were not suitable for me in the sense that they were not stable. I managed to install debian lenny on my Dell Inspiron 1545 (thanks to the graphical option w

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > Package: > uswsusp Couldn't find this in squeeze, so used unstable's version. S2disk works ok and s2ram doesn't. I think when I close the lid it uses command pm-suspend (found this after some research.) Thanks, Dan -- To UNS

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:55:17PM +0300, Vladimir N. Indik wrote: > > What package? I get command not found when running these as root. > > > uswsusp I installed from unstable as I couldn't find it in squeeze... > Use apt-file or web interface on http://packages.debian.org/. Yes, apt-file is

Re: suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:14:26AM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > Hi, > > s2ram > s2disk What package? I get command not found when running these as root. > > and put your script in.. /etc/pm/sleep.d > this direcorty is generated by the package pm-utils in which you can > also find the docs h

suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Can someone please advise me how to suspend from the command line? Also when my laptop lid is closed, the system suspends. I'm just on the command line, no gui is running. I see this in syslog, but am unsure what program is responsible...? Feb 3 18:16:58 debian-eeepc kernel: [ 3493.605992

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Ditto to the T61/Lenovo suggestions. There is also very good > documentation on the entire ThinkPad series. > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki > > and a great list > > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad I'll

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
Thanks, I'll give this one a look also. I hear very good things about the thinkpads, which is excellent. Thanks for everyone's help. Daniel. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:47:48PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > >

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:34:00PM +1300, James Clark wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > >have to pay Au$2,000 to buy one locally? > > I wouldn't pay more than $1300nz for a new laptop. That way you can > get an upgrade every 18 months, by which time the hardware will be >

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Yes, thanks for sharing. I'm going to increase my budget by $800, and get a Lenovo thinkpad X200. Anyone got one of these, what do you think of it? I found it on amazon for $1100, which I could probably get shipped out here to Australia by a third party, for under au$1300, in total costs. Howeve

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
> Dan, you should definetely ask the computer retailers in your area > about Debian (or just mention Linux) support on the laptop. Even > though chances are slim that they will bother making a recomendation, > if we do not let them know that there exists a Debian / Linux market > then they will nev

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Agree to that. And in some countries where laptops are sold with Windows > product installed by default, many manufacturer will propose to move it away > and to give you some money back. Check that on the web site of the > manuf

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:25:56PM +0100, Krzysztof Walkiewicz wrote: > Maybe that link will be useful for you: > > http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/toucan/ Thanks, had a quick read, looks handy. Dan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

what laptop to buy

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi all, I'm having great difficulty in finding a laptop suitable for my needs. I'm vision impaired and a student, so primarily will use the machine for school, and at home. Here is what I'm looking for: good debian linux support, including wifi, ethernet, sound, and the general hardware of the m

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
Erik Sundin writes: > Den Wednesday > 08 April 2009 03.44.30 skrev Daniel Pittman: >> Preston Boyington writes: >> > After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided to >> > streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existi

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
ch zero benefit to a custom kernel for "performance" reasons. > After I get the kernel compiled, can I just apt-pin it to keep it from > getting upgraded later? Examples? Using the `kernel-package' tools, which are well documented, none of this is an issue any more than t

Re: Lightweight Local Mail Solution

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
you could use nullmailer, which does queue, but which is not LSB compliant[1] but is otherwise excellent. Otherwise, yes, just run a real MTA, in my view. If it doesn't queue on a laptop, which will be run offline at some point, then it isn't worth bothering with at all. Regards,

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
and some > say no. That would be because it depends significantly on your willingness to run the non-free NVIDIA drivers. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
to a user account; while you can violate that you will find that it does[1] open security holes by violating upstream maintainers assumptions. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] More precisely, "is extremely likely to without very, very careful configuration on your part, such th

Re: I can get online :)

2007-09-06 Thread daniel baker
Ok I updated my system and Im now running.2.6.18-5-686 which for some reason does not load the ipw3945 module on start up. nor can i invoke it with modprobe. i tried reinstalling but this does not solve the problem. I can use the lilo boot menu to boot the "old linux" 2.6.18-4-686 and use the

Re: [Fwd: Heathcliff for Saturday March 17, 2007]

2007-03-20 Thread Daniel Flemming
On 3/20/07 4:05 PM, "Ian Greenhoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Non-subscribers who have not successfully posted before: > > First, the message is put in a temporary queue. > > Second, an auto-generated message is sent to the "From:" address and > the "Reply-To:" address. Ugh! at least a thir

Re: WEP

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Flemming
On 3/3/07 8:24 AM, "Freddy Freeloader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Reitmeir wrote: >> On Sam, 03 Mär 2007, Micha wrote: >> >>> pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> in fact you can implement much more secure communications with absolutely no "wireless encryption" but that take

Re: Repositories

2007-02-28 Thread Daniel Rodríguez
> Hello. I'm receiving error messages whenever I run an application > related to APT, repositoroes, etc. I haven't made any changes, it > just started several weeks ago. I've run 'apt-get update' several > times, with no positive effect. The error messages are too numerous > to post all. Pleas

2.2 to 2.4 upgrade - pcmcia issues

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Flemming
I have an antique 486 laptop that was formerly running a 2.2 kernel and sid without any trouble. For various reasons, I've decided to start using it again, but of course the new libc6 wants me to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. The new kernel compiled and seems to boot fine, but it doesn't recognize PCMC

Re: Debian 2.6.17-9 Cisco Aironet 350 can't get a compiled module to run

2006-12-04 Thread Daniel J. Axtens
you can do something like 'zcat /proc/config.gz > .config; make menuconfig' and start from there. You might also find a config file in /boot/, but again, I can't check that. HTH, Daniel -- Neuronstorm: neuronstorm.sourceforge.net The Neuronstorm Blog: leinad-golb.blogspot.com -

Re: Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-17 Thread Daniel Devost
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:39:18AM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: On Mon, 16 Okt 2006, Daniel Devost wrote: >I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I > have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that > holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Bo

Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel Devost
mounted in the cdrom bay. Once etch is booted, I can mount /dev/sda1 and read/write to it. Not sure what is going on. Thanks in advance, Daniel Devost menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 root(hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1

Re: GPRS under Debian

2006-06-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
lems at all getting GPRS working through my system, so it does work under Debian. Regards, Daniel -- Digital Infrastructure Solutions -- making IT simple, stable and secure Phone: 0401 155 707email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digital-infrastructure.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Fwd: poslite to dalej..

2006-05-26 Thread Daniel Mihalyi
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Matus Mala wrote: __ Pôvodná správa: > > > > > >>>V normálnom prípade meposielam okazy tohto rázu, ale tento list > >>>prisiel od jedne mojej velmi dobrje priatelky, kto je advokátka, a > >>>vyzerá to byt zaujímaovou moznostou. Ak

Re: Deb-Sid: last updates: BAD:pcmcia,wireless-ipw2200,ogg123

2006-01-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
PCMCIA stuff has changed in recent kernels in a way that requires new tools, about which you should have read in the notes for the package, and my be the cause of your issue there. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acer hotkeys

2006-01-01 Thread Daniel Kämtner
boot time (perhaps in the backround) regards Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suspend-to-ram and powersave

2005-12-22 Thread Daniel Kämtner
ge thing is that if I do directly in the console: $ echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state the laptop enter in suspend-to-ram mode. sorry, this is only a question to understand suspend-to-ram: .. how you get back from suspend mode to run the laptop again? daniel So, I think this shoul

Re: ethernet after boot problem

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
ecure system without your needing to understand the lowest level details of the iptables system, which is a good way to be safer while you learn there. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem: kernel-image install -> menu.lst updated with wrong partition info

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
ve not been able to find the offending > repository of this information. In the comments in /boot/grub/menu.lst, there will be a line akin to this: # kopt=root=/dev/md1 Ugly as that is, that is where the auto-magic configuration stuff happens. There is another line, with 'groot' r

Re: acer hotkeys

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Kämtner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi Daniel, did you run apt-get update first? James Hi, JAMES you here... : ) thanks this was wrong, now it runs... regards Daniel On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, kaemtner wrote: hello... i add the following link to /etc/apt

Re: acer hotkeys

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Kämtner
. - stat (2 Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden) Can't open list: http... dir and file not found. Can anyone help? regards daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beschwerde - Unzufrieden

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Kämtner
Tobias Wolter schrieb: On 2004-09-14T12:46:16+0200 (Tuesday), Renate und Hans Zeitner wrote: Sehr geerthe Damen, Herren, hiermit möchte ich meine Unzufriedenheit ausdrücken. Ersten, Gebührenerhöhung auf 21,- € zweitens, keine Fernsehzeitschrift,nicht einmal eine kostenlose Kurzinformation.

Re: small screen area on Toshiba Satellite

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kämtner
ot;Display" Depth 24 Modes "800x600" "640x480" < del !!! edit to : Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" < del !!! edit to : Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode0666 EndSection restart as root wit command: /etc/init.d/gdm restart Regards daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: small screen area on Toshiba Satellite

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kämtner
uot;Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600&q

Re: Acer travelmate acerhk.0.5.28 hotkey problem

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kämtner
package with apt when the suffix is *.deb? regards Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Acer travelmate acerhk.0.5.28 hotkey problem

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kämtner
Rumble, Lee Craig schrieb: Apt-cache search acer No there is nothing found like "acerhk*" which source do you mean? regards Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Acer travelmate acerhk.0.5.28 hotkey problem

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kämtner
Martin Vlk schrieb: Hi Daniel, I can help you with that, but you need to tell me where to get the hotkey driver from. I haven't been able to find it so far (not that I tried too hard though). I get this driver from http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/ regards D

Acer travelmate acerhk.0.5.28 hotkey problem

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kämtner
Hello is there anyone how could help me to install the acerhk - driver for hotkeys? I crashed by edding the makefile, because i´m a nooowby. regards Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video-in on laptop

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
l hardware, and almost certainly not on that particular piece. If you have a USB2 or IEEE-1394 bus on the machine, any number of devices exist that allow you to capture analog television and, of course, then display it in some fashion. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Debian Etch in Gateway 7330 GZ

2005-11-18 Thread Héctor Daniel Fuentes Silva
7;s Running, the Lap Top appears like a mixer, haha, the video Fan always on the Top. Or there are somthing wrong :S Any help or comments? Thanks in Advice.. Atte: Héctor Daniel Fuentes Silva -- ___ Check out the latest

Re: Running DHCP once wpa_supplicant associates with an AP?

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
ant should already be waiting to auth on the network when dhclient starts. If you feel strongly enough, file a wishlist bug about moving the startup earlier in boot so that it *is* up before the network starts; that probably should happen anyway. Daniel Footnotes: [1] Personally, I manuall

Re: How to use password-protected wireless networks?

2005-10-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
networks in the configuration file, and then wpa_supplicant just runs quietly in the background and deals with authentication without you needing to do anything more. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with a Gateway7330GZ

2005-09-26 Thread Héctor Daniel Fuentes Silva
Hi everybody.. I'm trying to install Debian Sarge onto a Lap-top Gateway 7330GZ, in the firsts steps, It's so cool, but, when the installation reboots, just don't Reboot, sombody could help me, Anithing Can I do?? Thanks.. Best regards!! -- ___ Ch

help configuring video display with ibm r30 and debian 3.1

2005-09-26 Thread Daniel Brewer
-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- -- Daniel Brewer Content-2B Business Information Services Mobile: + 61 (0)411 652 121 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel, modules and GCC format

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
l the choices for a package available, and so forth. To configure something, run as root: ] update-alternatives --config Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel, modules and GCC format

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
a new symbolic link > towards gcc-3.3, the one used to compile the kernel 2.6.11 provided > currently in testing repository. Better: use update-alternatives to manage that symlink for you. :) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> If I had realized that you wanted to use NDISwrapper with the card I >> would have suggested that there may be issues. Also, as noted, you may >> need a newer driver or firmware for the Orinoco card

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >>> I have decided that I would like to switch home network (just our two >>> notebooks) to wireless and I would like to make it WPA-secured. Can >>> anybody suggest the most simple WPA configura

Re: Kernel, modules and GCC format

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
fault kernel: >> >>The only significant feature that isn't supported by it[1] is the IBM >>ACPI extras, which you can live without, and it does come with >>everything compiled as modules nicely. >> >>Once you *know* why you need a custom kernel, build one. Cha

Re: Kernel and modules configuration optimized for IBM ThinkPad R50e

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
does come with everything compiled as modules nicely. Once you *know* why you need a custom kernel, build one. Change for the sake of change is seldom /forward/ progress. ;) Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...and that is in the mainline kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: keyboard problem

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
item. but I could never made it. > > Can anyone tell me how to make the choice via the keyboard? Mine is compaq > presario > 2190US laptop. Space bar, I believe, toggles the selection state. Return should commit the action. Not very intuitive, but there you go. Daniel -- To UN

Re: [T41] Matching APM functionnalities with ACPI

2005-08-10 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Hi, A follow-up with some problems solved (and how to solve them, for the archive), as well as one pending issue (almost a show-stopper for me). Daniel Déchelotte a écrit : > With /etc/acpi/events/lid and /etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh from > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure

[T41] Matching APM functionnalities with ACPI

2005-08-06 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
PI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y Cheers, -- Daniel Déchelotte http://yo.dan.free.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
ailable, and it should just work(tm). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
ilable as part of Debian/stable. The security fixes from them will be backported to the version of Firefox that was included in /stable, though, and the package will be released with the problems solved. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newfish installing debian on Gatweay 4530GZ

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
ask. One word of caution: running Linux on a laptop is a bit harder than running it on a desktop, because things like suspend to ram or disk are less than easy to get working. Regards, Daniel -- True love comes gently, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get you

Re: USB floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
he device to work. Try the Linux USB developer mailing lists. Google them, I don't know the address myself. :) Daniel -- Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. -- Balthasar Gracian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
everything can update nicely. As a side note, though, my system is running OK with the 3.4 ABI GLU library, but the Debian/unstable x.org packages. Maybe you should hold back the GLU package until the update is done, but pull in the x.org server and other libraries? Daniel -- The illit

Re: Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.12, why? Incredible slow.

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 12 Jul 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:54:34 +1000 > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 12 Jul 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: >>> I was using 2.6.11 kernel on my Vaio Picturebook, and I had some >>> outstanding issues with

Re: Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.12, why? Incredible slow.

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
s to time out *every* transaction on the .12 kernels. This is caused by an upstream API change. udev from unstable should correct this, as I understand it. Otherwise, can you tell us *where* in the boot process things are slow? Regards, Daniel -- Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept

Re: Debian on LG's LW60 notebook

2005-04-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
go with /unstable or /testing, two key tools are the 'apt-listchanges' and 'apt-listbugs' packages. They tell you what is going to change, and what bugs have already been reported, *before* you install packages. Very helpful. Daniel Footnotes: [1] Something you want

Re: IBM T42 - Sarge or Sid?

2005-04-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
t; something broken. Automatically updating unstable is, as you note, a bad idea. If you do want to use this, my advice (aside from don't automatically update) is to use apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs, and to make *sure* you test on a scratch machine before a production machine.[1] Daniel Fo

Re: Toshiba battery dead

2005-03-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
as well. When the charge gets low enough, the voltage drops away too, and eventually this will get low enough to kill off the integrated device and result in the symptoms you see. I have had this happen with a number of batteries over the years, and none of the laptops have been at fault yet. So, yo

Re: 700m SD driver link

2005-03-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
ility of the driver kit. Daniel -- A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -- C. S. Lewis, _The problem of pain_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Copying Debian to another drive

2005-02-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
is a vastly superior solution. Either of those will run at around half to two thirds the speed of the raw dd as well, so unless half an hour of your life is worth that much to you, I strongly advise against anything but copying files to a new filesystem. Daniel -- When you steal from on

Re: SD Card

2005-01-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
better or worse, the *suggested* designator in the relevant RFC documentation is '-- ', or DASH-DASH-SPACE, on a line of its own... The space at the end is, indeed, a bad design decision, but it is what the document actually states. Gotta love significant white-space. :) Regards,

Re: Debian on Thinkpad 755C with NO cd-rom drive

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Schmidt
Ioana Glitia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Has anyone installed Debian or any kind of Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 755C > (or anything similar) that only has a floppy drive, no cd-rom drive and > no network connection? I've got a pc with network connection of course > so I could get whatever I need

Re: CDROM drive reads too slow

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
ptop is detected as ide, not as > scsi, or so it seems. The device name is /dev/hdc. That would be because you have an IDE CD drive, my friend. Once upon a time there was a "SCSI Emulation" over the IDE disk but, these days, people just send ATAPI commands over the IDE bus directly.

Re: Advice needed: Accessing usb storage

2005-01-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
v to create a useful name for the device when it is inserted. 2. Edit your fstab to have a user-mountable entry for that device. (man 5 fstab, and look at the section on the 'fs_mntopts' for details.) Alternately, you can skip the udev bit and just never put more than one memory st

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
new port. But, I do need a tool that will set all those default rules > for spoofing in invalid ip blocks that are not specific to how my > machine is configured. firehol should be able to express that configuration in about five lines of code, if you want, while still letting you add anyth

Re: Firewall and Laptop

2004-12-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
set it up as a simple firewall. It also allows you to do whatever magic (none, I suspect, but you specifically mention the setup, so there must be something) you need for the dynamic nature of the connection. Regards, Daniel -- What we call reality is an agreement that people have a

Re: Custom DSDT--The Debian Way?

2004-12-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
incompatible with both future kernel plans where early boot-time code like partition detection move to an initrd, and with Debian kernels -- they use an initrd by default. The preference for the built-in DSDT has a lot to do with this. :) Regards, Daniel -- Paperwork is the embal

Re: DVD on Thinkpad?

2004-11-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 20 Nov 2004, LoÃc Minier wrote: > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Nov 19, 2004: > >> On 19 Nov 2004, LoÃc Minier wrote: >>> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Nov 19, 2004: >>> >>>> Then, in /usr/share/doc/libdvdnav3/exampl

Re: DVD on Thinkpad?

2004-11-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Nov 2004, LoÃc Minier wrote: > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Nov 19, 2004: > >> Then, in /usr/share/doc/libdvdnav3/examples is a script that will >> download and install the 'libdvdcss' package for you. > > Or you might prefer the Debian r

Re: DVD on Thinkpad?

2004-11-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
dnav3' package, but if not install that yourself. Then, in /usr/share/doc/libdvdnav3/examples is a script that will download and install the 'libdvdcss' package for you. Note that this is not needed to view DVD content that is not encrypted with CSS, and may be illegal where yo

Re: pppoe on two different laptops

2004-11-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
rade-HOWTO/mtu-issues.html#AEN2563> This is usually visible as small packets working, but large packets failing. So, you see connection and can ping things, but your web request gets a tiny way and then stalls on large packets. :/ Daniel -- Copyright law is totally out of date. It is

Re: why cant i kill processes?

2004-11-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 2 Nov 2004, JoÃo LourenÃo wrote: > Kill, by default, send SIGTERM (code 2) to the targeted process. Signal 2 is 'INT'; Signal 15 is 'TERM', pretty much as a standard. Regards, Daniel -- Beware of programmers who carry screw drivers. -- Leo

Re: Automatic scanning for network

2004-10-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
add bits like this to your /etc/network/interfaces file for the wireless interface: wireless_mode managed wireless_essid sample wireless_key1 1234567890 Alternatively, consider `waproamd', which may be what you are after. Regards,

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