Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

2005-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On 07/28/2005 07:24 am, Nate Duehr wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Nate Duehr wrote: > >>>To get security updates on standard Debian, (including backported > >>>security patches), add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list > >>>and then do an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade. > >>> > >

Re: Male sexual enhancement formula^

2005-05-23 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 23 May 2005 01:29 pm, Willie McKemie wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:36:07AM -0700, Arabella wrote: > > Penis enhancement patch, doctor approved and recommended. > > Other lists do not have this pervasive spam problem. Isn't there a > solution better than un-subscribing? I did not s

Re: Need pharmacy

2005-03-16 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:53 am, Bryce wrote: > Do you want inexpensive Valium? I think something is wrong spammers should not be able to do this. Is the list server misconfigured? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]@p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Help, ALSA and Nvidia

2005-02-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:31 am, Rony wrote: > Hi, > > ALSA in my Toshiba seems not working. It worked quite sometime ago, > forgot which kernel i was using that time. I reinstall Debian several > times at my laptop, and now ALSA seems not working. > > I'm using kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 now. I tr

Re: ndiswrapper, kernel panics

2005-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On 02/23/2005 03:04 am, Romana Branden wrote: > > kernel panic : > lots of stuff thats hard to capture (can if necessary), but ends in: > kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt > interrupt not syncing > > and then thats it, hard reboot.. > > google is coming up with stuff, but nothing with

Re: /dev/thinkpad keeps disappearing

2005-02-05 Thread Pollywog
On 02/05/2005 07:55 pm, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > If that works okay. I tried that with "hisax" and it didn't work. Also > udev didn't remember manually added device nodes. So I used the approach > I described above and this works fairly well. At work I used this > approach to make udev VMware a

Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-02-01 Thread Pollywog
On 02/01/2005 05:50 pm, Dale Harris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:20:31AM -0400, Derek Broughton elucidated: > > Given that Pollywog's already been told to use make-kpkg, that would be > > redundant :-) (ie, make-kpkg always does a make *config) > > True, and I was the one who told him. Howe

Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-02-01 Thread Pollywog
On 02/01/2005 01:05 pm, Dale Harris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Kai Hildebrandt elucidated: > > Yes, but cramfs is not a recognized initrd filesystem. > > > > Kernel 2.4 does also have cramfs suppport. > > Oh okay, perhaps make-kpkg is just handling things for me in the > bac

Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-01-31 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:05 am, Dale Harris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:01:11AM +0000, Pollywog elucidated: > > I could not find it and I even went through every question in 'make > > config' since I could not find it using 'make menuconfig'. I t

Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-01-31 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:16 am, Dale Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:27:53PM +0000, Pollywog elucidated: > > I use the Debian source package to compile kernels, since my system is > > using initrd I need to use Debian kernels. > > Well, that's not exa

Re: compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-01-31 Thread Pollywog
On 01/31/2005 09:46 pm, Joerg Beyer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:49:52PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > Has anyone tried to compile a kernel newer than 2.6.8 and failed due to > > some gamma_drv or gamma_drm error? I have seen a few posts in which > > people say they comp

compiling kernels newer than 2.6.8

2005-01-31 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone tried to compile a kernel newer than 2.6.8 and failed due to some gamma_drv or gamma_drm error? I have seen a few posts in which people say they compiled their own kernel so there must be a way of getting around that gamma_drm problem. I have compiled 2.6.8 kernels but with more rec

Re: debian-alsa bug?

2005-01-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 January 2005 06:47 pm, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:30:14 +0100, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote: > > wlv:/home/wlv21# /etc/init.d/alsa stop Storing ALSA mixer > > settings...failed. nymphie:/home/wlv21# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting > > ALSA.../etc/init.d/alsa: Error:

Re: debian-alsa bug?

2005-01-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 January 2005 06:26 pm, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote: > Hi > i'm trying to use alsa (alsa - alsa-base package) as my sound driver on > a Dell Inspiron 8600, but nothing works. I've even compiled a new kernel > 2.6.9, hoping that it would mysteriously fix the bug. When i run > alsaconf

Re: /dev/thinkpad keeps disappearing

2005-01-30 Thread Pollywog
On 01/30/2005 10:34 pm, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:40:12 +0100, Pollywog wrote: > > The bigger problem is that /dev/thinkpad disappears after reboots. > > If you have udev then the file should reappear when you load the thinkpad > module. > > You can set u

/dev/thinkpad keeps disappearing

2005-01-29 Thread Pollywog
I have an old Thinkpad and I have installed the thinkpad-modules but I can't get them to work. First, I am not sure how to get /dev/nvram to have chmod 664 permissions after a reboot or if this is a good idea. I am the only user of the laptop, btw. The bigger problem is that /dev/thinkpad dis

Re: setting up network [SOLVED]

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On 01/24/2005 12:25 am, Loren A. Linden Levy wrote: > You should post the /etc/network/interfaces file so we can all see it, > that is those of us silently following the thread. I already posted the original and I made very few changes to the file. I set it up to that eth0-home comes up by defaul

Re: setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:12 am, NicolÃs VelÃsquez "O. wrote: > Hello there, > > I guess the best way to find out how to configure your nic on a network > is to ask the administrator, you could use ethercap thou. > > If you switch between different networks, consequently different nic > configur

Re: setting up network [SOLVED]

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
I think I have solved the problem. I edited my interfaces file so that when I am away from home, I use 'ifup eth0=eth0-away' and that should start dhcp. That was the easiest though not the fanciest thing to do. Fancy will have to wait until I find out more about how this works. 8) -- To UN

Re: setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
Here is my interfaces file, the one that works. I have tried adding the schemes and that makes things NOT work. I do not have the resolvconf package installed but even when I installed it, it did not fix the problems and besides, the laptop has a nameserver installed. BTW the gateway (a Linksys

Re: setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On 01/23/2005 08:44 pm, Michael Perry wrote: > You could also extend the approach to doing schemes or themes inside > the /etc/network/interfaces file for wireless and wired networks. I > travel with laptops to several settings that vary between wireless and > wired. I have a set of schemes that

Re: setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 23 January 2005 07:55 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > If you're not averse to a little bit of hand editing, this is how I do > it: > > In /etc/network/interfaces > -- > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.12.14.16 > netmask 255.255

Re: setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On 01/23/2005 07:26 pm, Kai Hildebrandt wrote: > > I use the map-scheme to decide which connection has to be used. If you > have an Internet router at home your laptop can ping on this should > work. > > You have to define a mapping in /etc/network/interfaces: > > Probably this is what you want?

Re: setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On 01/23/2005 06:50 pm, Alan Pope wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:37:02 +0000, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am planning to stay at a hotel which has Internet access but I know > > nothing about the IP addresses they use. I am assuming they use dhcp. > >

setting up network

2005-01-23 Thread Pollywog
I am planning to stay at a hotel which has Internet access but I know nothing about the IP addresses they use. I am assuming they use dhcp. If I know nothing of their network, what is the most convenient way to get my laptop connected? I am using KDE on a Debian Sarge system and my laptop is

ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. Now I want

ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. Now I want

RE: CDRom

2000-02-29 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Feb-2000 Tom Powell wrote: > Can anyone help me with my CDRom. I am installing > > the Linux system, and it will not let me mount the > > CDRom. Refuses as a illegal request. > > Cheers Tom Powell It refuses even when you are root? I made myself (user pollywog)

Re: Install problem on laptop Toshiba T4400sxc

2000-02-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Feb-2000 Heather wrote: > > On a few disty/system combinations where things were acting weird, I found > it > suitable to partition in one pass, reboot, then assign the partitions and > use > them in a new pass. I never did figure out how to do it that way, so I had to settle for just one

RE: skipping fsck at boot? (was Re: BUG?! no pcmcia ethernet on

2000-02-09 Thread Pollywog
How do I get suspend to work on a ThinkPad 560 in Linux? Perhaps I did not set it in the kernel, I'm not sure. It will turn off when I give the command 'shutdown -h 0' so I don't have to use the switch to turn it off. -- Andrew

Re: pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-Jan-2000 Bradley M Alexander wrote: > I don't know if its the "correct" way, but I get the pristine kernel > sources (an old habit from my RH days), and build my kernel. Since I have > the pcmcia-cs deb installed, I go into the pcmcia source tree and do a > make config and a make all. Once t

Re: pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Jan-2000 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Since I compile my own kernel so I put pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules on hold. > I > allow upgrade of pcmcia-source, so I know if there is new pcmcia available > or > not. > > Then, win pcmcia-souce I use "fakeroot debian/rules bianary-modules" and > "faker

Re: pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Jan-2000 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Since I compile my own kernel so I put pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules on hold. > I > allow upgrade of pcmcia-source, so I know if there is new pcmcia available > or > not. > > Then, win pcmcia-souce I use "fakeroot debian/rules bianary-modules" and > "faker

re: pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Pollywog
Pollywog wrote: >I just performed an apt upgrade on Potato and my pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source >were upgraded. Every time these packages are upgraded, it breaks my network. >I usually just reinstall my old packages and get things working that way, but >my question is: what is the co

re: pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Pollywog
Pollywog wrote: >I just performed an apt upgrade on Potato and my pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source >were upgraded. Every time these packages are upgraded, it breaks my network. >I usually just reinstall my old packages and get things working that way, but >my question is: what is the co

pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Pollywog
I just performed an apt upgrade on Potato and my pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source were upgraded. Every time these packages are upgraded, it breaks my network. I usually just reinstall my old packages and get things working that way, but my question is: what is the correct way of dealing with this prob

pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Pollywog
I just performed an apt upgrade on Potato and my pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source were upgraded. Every time these packages are upgraded, it breaks my network. I usually just reinstall my old packages and get things working that way, but my question is: what is the correct way of dealing with this prob

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Jan-2000 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > /etc/init.d/network is the script that start network. So in this case, it > starts bothe lo and eth0 interface. Thanks. That is where I have my scripts on my desktop. I believe the links are incorrect and that is the cause of my problems. -- Andrew

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Jan-2000 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > /etc/init.d/network is the script that start network. So in this case, it > starts bothe lo and eth0 interface. Thanks. That is where I have my scripts on my desktop. I believe the links are incorrect and that is the cause of my problems. -- Andrew

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Jan-2000 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > check your /etc/rc?.d that pcmcia is start correctly, also note that > /etc/init.d/network should start only lo interface. > Ethernet pcmcia interface should be start by /etc/pcmcia/network script > which > will be run automatically when the ethernetcard i

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Jan-2000 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > check your /etc/rc?.d that pcmcia is start correctly, also note that > /etc/init.d/network should start only lo interface. > Ethernet pcmcia interface should be start by /etc/pcmcia/network script > which > will be run automatically when the ethernetcard i

Re: XF86Config and 365x tp

2000-01-02 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jan-2000 JC Helary wrote: > Le Sat, Jan 01, 2000 a 05:36:43PM -0800, Heather a ecrit: > >> trying to "pick a screen". You probably have a TFT, not an LCD, anyway. > > Right, I am just not used to call it by it's name ;-) > > Thanx everybody for the answers, as soon as I get my cdrom back

Re: XF86Config and 365x tp

2000-01-02 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jan-2000 JC Helary wrote: > Le Sat, Jan 01, 2000 a 05:36:43PM -0800, Heather a ecrit: > >> trying to "pick a screen". You probably have a TFT, not an LCD, anyway. > > Right, I am just not used to call it by it's name ;-) > > Thanx everybody for the answers, as soon as I get my cdrom back