Re: Problem with rtl8187L driver compilation in Debian Squeeze

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 16:24, frederit mogollon wrote: > Good night. I am a new user in this list. I sorry, by bad use > english. I explain my problem: > > I have an Siragon Canaima NB3050 laptop, with 1,7 GHz Intel Celeron > M430 processor, 512 MB of RAM, 120 GB of hard disk, a graphic card > VIA CN700/P4M8

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/04/12 20:44, Hannu Virtanen wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > From: Scott Ferguson > > -hv said: > >>> I think that you need to get root password. >>> You maybe better to reinstall the whole thing > > Scott Fergu

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/12 23:27, Roshan George wrote: > Even if you know the root password, If you took the time to politely *read* the thread you'll see that the root password is not know. > > > On 4/2/12, Hannu Virtanen wrote: >> >> Ii think that you need to get root password. >> You maybe better to rei

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/12 07:54, tina braxton wrote: > > Thank you for all your ideas. I have now tried all the suggestions for > sudo. Result is "permission denied" That's not a lot of detail Tina, and "permission denied" is not what should have happened. Example of what "should" have happened:- tina@lapt

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/03/12 09:44, tina braxton wrote: > > > *From:* Scott Ferguson > *To:* debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:08 PM > *Subject:* Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop > > On 22/03/12 08:40, tina braxton wrote: >> I

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/12 08:40, tina braxton wrote: > I received a donated laptop about two years ago. It is an older > model--an Acer Travel Mate 2480-2779. It has Debian software, including > Iceweasel browser 3.5.9. > > Build identifier, in case you need it, is Mozilla /5.0 (XII; U; Linux > i686; en-US; r

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/12 10:17, Michael wrote: > And by the way, if someone else likes to answer by explaining how to > break root: Please don't do on public lists, Don't be silly. Security by obscurity is not the Debian model. > and consider if that really solves anything. You won't solve anything if you c

Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop

2012-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/12 11:10, Brandon Richards wrote: > Tina, > > I would go even as far as to recommend Ubuntu. And the same could be said of Debian - except we don't go to their lists recommending they use Debian instead of persevering with a broken derivative. Kind regards. -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Ch

Re: http://www.halftonesystems.com/

2012-03-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/03/12 22:36, MarcFP wrote: > Spam ? Well, yes. *Don't* give them more oxygen and bandwidth than they've already stolen. They spam these lists so the URL will rank in search engines - you've just *tripled* the problem. Either:- ;ignore it ;mark it in your gmail account as spam so you don't