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2003-03-20 Thread Gustave Peterson
ok folks i don't want to be rude. but if I can figure out how to use linux i ought to be able to write an unsubscribe email, No? The reason why I sent it to the list is because I swear that this hasn't worked like 3 times already. I've even emailed to the webmaster. this email should be an e

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mike Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It seems I'd picked up a version of pcmcia-cs from sid in one of my experiments, but even having downgraded this to 3.1.33-6 it does _not_ seem to invoke ifup/ifdown (all that seems different is the use of hotplug in sid). I _did_ reset DHCP="y" when I

Re: Switching from static IP to DHCP

2003-03-20 Thread Larry Colen
I've been wrestling with the same problem. It would work on static addresses, but if I tried the dhcp entry in /etc/network/interfaces eth0 would come up, but without an ipaddress. I finally looked at /var/log/syslog and it said to make sure that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in the

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Matěj Hausenblas [Tue, Mar 18 2003, 11:19:27PM]: > I would like to know, if in general nowadays the DVD/CDRW drives on laptops > are supported by cdrecord and if getting them to work is the same as getting > a standard drive to work on a desktop PC. (I mean ide-scsi emulation, or eve

Re: Switching from static IP to DHCP

2003-03-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I've been wrestling with the same problem. It would work on static addresses, but if I tried the dhcp entry in /etc/network/interfaces eth0 would come up, but without an ipaddress. I finally looked at /var/log/syslog and it said to make sure that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in th

Re: battery-stats package uploaded to unstable

2003-03-20 Thread xsdg
hrm... what's the difference between this package and ibam? I've been running ibam every minute (:o) through a cronjob for the past few months. I admittedly have looked at the website for neither battery-stats nor ibam, but from what I can tell, both gather statistics about the batter{y,ies}, and

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:21:11AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > Well, no I didn't, but a private email led me to understand the error of > my ways. It still seems odd that I need to leave network.opts saying > DHCP="n" if I want to get ifup to use dhcp. But I do understand that > that's corr

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:48:25 +1200 Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems backwards, I know. but if you leave that file alone, and use > interfaces(5), it'll work. Where can I read about The Debian Way of letting /e/n/interfaces handle pcmcia? Kevin

Re: battery-stats package uploaded to unstable

2003-03-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:20:35PM +, xsdg wrote: > hrm... what's the difference between this [battery-stats] package and > ibam? I've been running ibam every minute (:o) through a cronjob for > the past few months. I admittedly have looked at the website for > neither battery-stats nor ibam,

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:56:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I read about The Debian Way of letting /e/n/interfaces handle > pcmcia? man 5 interfaces e.g: My wireless card is eth1: (builtin ethernet is eth0) /etc/network/interfaces has: ... mapping eth1 script /etc/network

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:36:23 +1200 Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man 5 interfaces > > (for the ifscheme script, see http://bugs.debian.org/15) > > And it Just Works(tm), So, you can see that there is no difference > between using interfaces(5) for a builtin card, or a pcmcia card

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mike Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It seems I'd picked up a version of pcmcia-cs from sid in one of my experiments, but even having downgraded this to 3.1.33-6 it does _not_ seem to invoke ifup/ifdown (all that seems different is the use of hotplug in sid). I _did_ reset DHCP="y" when I re

Re: Switching from static IP to DHCP

2003-03-20 Thread Larry Colen
I've been wrestling with the same problem. It would work on static addresses, but if I tried the dhcp entry in /etc/network/interfaces eth0 would come up, but without an ipaddress. I finally looked at /var/log/syslog and it said to make sure that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in the

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Matěj Hausenblas [Tue, Mar 18 2003, 11:19:27PM]: > I would like to know, if in general nowadays the DVD/CDRW drives on laptops > are supported by cdrecord and if getting them to work is the same as getting > a standard drive to work on a desktop PC. (I mean ide-scsi emulation, or eve

Re: Switching from static IP to DHCP

2003-03-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I've been wrestling with the same problem. It would work on static addresses, but if I tried the dhcp entry in /etc/network/interfaces eth0 would come up, but without an ipaddress. I finally looked at /var/log/syslog and it said to make sure that CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in the

Re: battery-stats package uploaded to unstable

2003-03-20 Thread xsdg
hrm... what's the difference between this package and ibam? I've been running ibam every minute (:o) through a cronjob for the past few months. I admittedly have looked at the website for neither battery-stats nor ibam, but from what I can tell, both gather statistics about the batter{y,ies}, and

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:21:11AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > Well, no I didn't, but a private email led me to understand the error of > my ways. It still seems odd that I need to leave network.opts saying > DHCP="n" if I want to get ifup to use dhcp. But I do understand that > that's corr

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:48:25 +1200 Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems backwards, I know. but if you leave that file alone, and use > interfaces(5), it'll work. Where can I read about The Debian Way of letting /e/n/interfaces handle pcmcia? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: battery-stats package uploaded to unstable

2003-03-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:20:35PM +, xsdg wrote: > hrm... what's the difference between this [battery-stats] package and > ibam? I've been running ibam every minute (:o) through a cronjob for > the past few months. I admittedly have looked at the website for > neither battery-stats nor ibam,

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Beattie
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:56:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I read about The Debian Way of letting /e/n/interfaces handle > pcmcia? man 5 interfaces e.g: My wireless card is eth1: (builtin ethernet is eth0) /etc/network/interfaces has: ... mapping eth1 script /etc/network

Re: your mail

2003-03-20 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:36:23 +1200 Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man 5 interfaces > > (for the ifscheme script, see http://bugs.debian.org/15) > > And it Just Works(tm), So, you can see that there is no difference > between using interfaces(5) for a builtin card, or a pcmcia card