Re: Mounting local filesystems: failed!

2005-10-19 Thread Dominique Orban
oauto'... It might just be a glitch somewhere as nothing seems wrong as far as I can tell. Thanks much for any help. Dominique On 10/19/05, Ian Greenhoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:12 -0400, Dominique Orb

Mounting local filesystems: failed!

2005-10-19 Thread Dominique Orban
Hello, I am running Debian Testing, kernels 2.6.12-1-686 and 2.6.12-1-686-smp and upgraded recently a number of base packages, including udev, cpio, xorg but also basic services config files, kde, etc. Since the upgrade, at each bootup of either kernel, I see the following message printed in red:

Re: Debian Sarge + madwifi : cannot bring up interface ath0

2005-08-03 Thread Dominique Orban
On 8/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having problems setting up a D-Link DWL-AG660 aswell which by now is > just completely doing my head in. > I can't figure out why it's not working. > Some (usefull) outputs will be pasted below but it seems to be quite > identical as pos

Wifi connection managers in Debian

2005-08-01 Thread Dominique Orban
Hello, I have read messages on this list and Debian manuals but am clear on how to get a wifi connection manager to work properly. I am running Debian Sarge and updating regularly my packages from 'testing'. KDE is my desktop manager of choice. I have a Netgear WG511T PCMCIA wireless adapter whic

Re: touchpad too sensitive

2005-07-29 Thread Dominique Orban
On 7/29/05, Andy Dolbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/28/05, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you give more information? What do the 'input devices' sections of > your > > XF85Config file say? Are you using the synaptics driver (try 'lsmod > synaptic')? > > There are several option

Re: startx wont start what I need it to start

2005-06-21 Thread Dominique Orban
On 6/17/05, Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded to X4.5 as the ATI driver didnt work with my laptop, only in the > > recent version. I am on Sarge by the way. SInce I have upgraded, startx just > > brings up the regular basic X window, with the strange greenish bacground

Re: Debian Sarge + madwifi : cannot bring up interface ath0

2005-05-31 Thread Dominique Orban
Hello Andrew, On 5/31/05, Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 12:52 -0400, Dominique Orban wrote: > > > > Regarding the wireless card, I installed the madwifi drivers, loaded > > the modules, but 'ifup ath0' gives: > &

Re: Debian Sarge + madwifi : cannot bring up interface ath0

2005-05-31 Thread Dominique Orban
is no such device: SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device. ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device (this is probably the output of dhclient trying to access a device which hasn't been created). Dominique > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:33, Dominique Orban wrote: > >

Re: Debian Sarge + madwifi : cannot bring up interface ath0

2005-05-31 Thread Dominique Orban
ng up the interface, the output of 'lspci' confirms that it is an Atheros. I can modprobe wlan, ath_hal and ath_pci manually without problems or errors. Unfortunately, still can't bring up ath0. Is there more information that I could provide which would be helpful? Thanks for the reply, D

Debian Sarge + madwifi : cannot bring up interface ath0

2005-05-31 Thread Dominique Orban
Hello, I am running Debian Sarge on a Pentium 4 laptop with kernels 2.6.8-2-386, 2.6.8-2-686 and 2.6.8-2-686-smp. My difficulties with wireless networking are identical with all three kernels. I apologize in advance if this message is a bit long; I hope to provide useful diagnostics. I have a Net