Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread Harry Brueckner
Hi there, I am looking for a way to manage different network configurations for environments I am working in with my notebook (Woody unstable). Sometimes I have to use DHCP, sometimes its a static IP and so on. I tried to find something using 'apt-cache search' but for all keywords I get so

[OT] Problems with new inverter in dell i81K

2003-04-03 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hi all, sorry for the off-topic, and for me bad english. My excuse, i use debian 2.2 Potato on it, i promise migrate to Woody when i resolved this problem ;-P I explained you for someone had same problem and can help me. My dell inspiron 8100 15" lcd (IBM ITSX95E) had broken his inverter. I

Re: autoloading module for pcmcia network card

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi! > Assuming it's a cardbus card... It claims to be one. > >| Apr 2 14:42:52 flyer kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 ( -> > >| 0003) > > Seems not to be cardbus device! Is that all about ? Next, there should be > cardmgr: entries like socket : ID string in the syslog; then cardmgr > ex

Re: autoloading module for pcmcia network card

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:24, Ben Lau wrote: > Please post your /var/log/daemon.log. Well, it used to be: Apr 2 19:03:30 flyer cardmgr[2086]: starting, version is 3.1.33 Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: watching 2 sockets Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: Card Services release does

Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Remo Inverardi
I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no power off. I played around with kernel options, trying to both shutdown using real and protected mode. Any ideas? Than

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread Hugo Wau
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:38, Harry Brueckner wrote: > Hi there, > > I am looking for a way to manage different network configurations for > environments I am working in with my notebook (Woody unstable). Sometimes I > have to use DHCP, sometimes its a static IP and so on. > > I tried to find so

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread L. A. Linden Levy
This would be almost trivial to write as a bash script. i.e. #!/bin/bash /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts if [ "$1" -eq "DHCP" ]; then ifup ifcfg-eth0.dhcp elsif [ "$1" -eq "STATIC1" ]; then ifup ifcfg-eth0.static1 #etc...for more connection fi Then put files of following form in /

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Ivar Alm
At 11:30 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no power off. I played around with kernel options, trying to both shutdown usin

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread David Reviejo
* Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030403 00:39]: > Unfortunatly it seems that apm currenlty is unavailable during the > execution of event.d scripts (someone to confirm ?). Since cron jobs > can take a long time this is a problem (and that can cause hang if you > try to suspend before the end o

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Remo Inverardi
Ivar, > You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a > complete shutdown to work. APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work with the M700 when I last tried it using kernel version 2

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread Werner Heuser
> Any suggestions? See the Debian Laptop Proposal http://tuxmobil.org/debian_linux.html and the Linux Mobile-Guide http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html chapter working in different environments. Werner -- |=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany |=| T. 0049 - (0)30

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Ivar Alm
At 14:08 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: Ivar, > You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a > complete shutdown to work. APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work with the M700

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:20:45 +0200 (CEST) "L. A. Linden Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would be almost trivial to write as a bash script. > i.e. > > #!/bin/bash > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts > if [ "$1" -eq "DHCP" ]; then > ifup ifcfg-eth0.dhcp > elsif [ "$1" -eq "STATIC1" ]; the

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Remo" == Remo Inverardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Remo> I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with Remo> vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under Remo> both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no Remo> power off. I played aroun

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-03 Thread Paulo Lopes
Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody had any

IrOBEX Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux

2003-04-03 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hi, I've a laptop with debian woody 3.0r1 with IrDA configured and working (at least i can use my mobile phone modem) but i'd like to exchange files with windows machines... When i use windows, and i put my laptop near other laptop, there's an icon that say's that another computer is near an

how to get ad-hoc mode working?

2003-04-03 Thread ournewsletter
Hi, I got a wlan-card with orinoco/prism2 chipset. Driver, iwconfig and ifconfig seem to work correctly. The card is accepted as eth1, I can change the ip and switch to ad-hoc mode with iwconfig. Most parameters like essid can also be set. But how do I connect to another client in the ad-hoc mod

two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi Folks. I haven't been writing for a while. In fact I unsubscribed and subscribed again just today (changes in my life and stuff). Anyway, that's probably not very relevant to you. I've got two questions for you. 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian stable (thanks to everyon

Re: how to get ad-hoc mode working?

2003-04-03 Thread fgr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only way I could was using the hostap driver. Regards Fernando Gonzalez El Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:57:32 +0200 escribió: > Hi, > > I got a wlan-card with orinoco/prism2 chipset. Driver, iwconfig and ifconfig > seem to work correctly. > The card

Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi All, I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I can download stuff quite happily, and run loadlin to install. The problem is, as fa

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
I tried that, and it ran for about 2 seconds. I get the impression that it just checks the package db for bad install flags and does not actually go out into the filesystem to CRC check every file... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:55:42 -0500 > "Dwaine Gonyier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian stable (thanks > to everyone who put up on the web some information about ACPI and other > issues with this laptop). Now I would need something with which I can > autodect the networ

Re: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Craig Genner
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:48PM +0200, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Hi Folks. > I haven't been writing for a while. In fact I unsubscribed and subscribed > again just today (changes in my life and stuff). Anyway, that's probably > not very relevant to you. > I've got two questions for you. > >

/var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing: % dpkg -l g++\* dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory A version of it was in lost+found. I mo

RE: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
> 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian > stable (thanks > to everyone who put up on the web some information about ACPI > and other > issues with this laptop). Now I would need something with which I can > autodect the network (if present) I'm connected to amongst a few > pos

What do I need to upgrade 2.2 kernel to 2.4 without an internet connection ?

2003-04-03 Thread Al Dykes
I just installed basic Debian 3.0 on a laptop and find I need a late 2.4 kernel, or better to use my NIC. The only "connectivity" I've got is a CD burner on another (sindows) machine that does have a fast internet connection. Can someone point me to an ISO image or a package I can download. It ha

Re: Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Sale, Nigel wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, > currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. > > The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I > can download stuff quite happil

Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte the pcmcia cdrom drive work during the install) I can install debian without any problems and the system comes up after the install

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread mi
Now there's a weakness, it seems. When the system boots up anacron checks if on mains power, and if not, exits (no daemon started). On the other hand /etc/crontab shows that cron runs only if no anacron is installed. So, while on battery, no cronjobs will be performed. But what now if you bootu

Re: Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Heather Stern
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:25:38AM -0600, Sale, Nigel wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, > currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. > > The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I > can dow

Re: AW: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Nothing aside from the debian setup routine (root password, user account, md5 hashed shadowed passwords, local mail delivery ...). This should surely not be interfering with the kernel!? Joh On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:53:41 +0200 "Stopanes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > What have you

Re: IrOBEX Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux

2003-04-03 Thread Werner Heuser
> How can i do this with my linux laptop? i've heard and read that windows > uses the OBEX protocol, how can i use it on linux? do i need extra > modules? how do i send a file? what do i need to do to receive a file? Take the package openobex-apps and read the OBEX chapter of the Infrared-HOWTO

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0800, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck Avoid Dell IMHO... > cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing: > > % dpkg -l g++\* > dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/va

Re: Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:25:38 -0600 "Sale, Nigel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, > currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. -snip- > Ideally, I'm looking for a kernel/install which does have pcmcia support, > (oth

Re: What do I need to upgrade 2.2 kernel to 2.4 without an internet connection ?

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:58:25 -0500 Al Dykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed basic Debian 3.0 on a laptop and find I need > a late 2.4 kernel, or better to use my NIC. The only "connectivity" I've > got is a CD burner on another (sindows) machine that does > have a fast internet conne

Re: autoloading module for pcmcia network card

2003-04-03 Thread mi
Thomas Friedrichsmeier [Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 11:03]: >| Apr 2 19:03:30 flyer cardmgr[2086]: starting, version is 3.1.33 >| Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: watching 2 sockets >| Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: Card Services release does not match >| Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Frédéric Bothamy
* Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 23:16] : > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0800, Michael K O'Brien wrote: [...] > A couple of months back there was a (short?) discussion in one of the > debian lists on how to recover a fully hosed /var - that's bound to be > in the archive

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread mi
Another question is, what were you doing using dpkg when the laptop died ? -- micha.

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:41:01 -0800 "Michael K O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I'm a bit nervous of the integrity of the status file. Is > there any way to verify the status file? Before you worry about verifying it, copy it somewhere else so you can get back to it. As another precau

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
More investigation into the matter: boot into single user mode ('linux single' at lilo prompt) gets me in - does that help anybody? Joh On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:10:11 -0800 Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio PCG-R505TSK ... wi

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:13, mi wrote: > Now there's a weakness, it seems. > When the system boots up anacron checks if on mains power, and if not, > exits (no daemon started). On the other hand /etc/crontab shows that cron > runs only if no anacron is installed. So, while on battery, no cronjo

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johannes> Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio Johannes> PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the Johannes> bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte Johannes> the pcmcia c

Re: KDE3 + noflushd + call for comments

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I don't run KDE3, but... > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I > saw other people had t

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
This is quite possible, but it would imply that the installation carries over the boot flags I set when booting into the netinstall ('ide2=0x180,0x386') - since I don't tell the kernel anything (willingly) and have not set additional boot parameters during the installation process (when asked fo

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread Dan Christensen
mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now there's a weakness, it seems. > When the system boots up anacron checks if on mains power, and if not, exits > (no daemon started). On the other hand /etc/crontab shows that cron runs only > if no anacron is installed. So, while on battery, no cronjobs will b

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johannes> This is quite possible, but it would imply that the Johannes> installation carries over the boot flags I set when Johannes> booting into the netinstall ('ide2=0x180,0x386') - since Johannes> I don't tell the

Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread Harry Brueckner
Hi there, I am looking for a way to manage different network configurations for environments I am working in with my notebook (Woody unstable). Sometimes I have to use DHCP, sometimes its a static IP and so on. I tried to find something using 'apt-cache search' but for all keywords I get so ma

[OT] Problems with new inverter in dell i81K

2003-04-03 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hi all, sorry for the off-topic, and for me bad english. My excuse, i use debian 2.2 Potato on it, i promise migrate to Woody when i resolved this problem ;-P I explained you for someone had same problem and can help me. My dell inspiron 8100 15" lcd (IBM ITSX95E) had broken his inverter. I

Re: autoloading module for pcmcia network card

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi! > Assuming it's a cardbus card... It claims to be one. > >| Apr 2 14:42:52 flyer kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 ( -> > >| 0003) > > Seems not to be cardbus device! Is that all about ? Next, there should be > cardmgr: entries like socket : ID string in the syslog; then cardmgr > ex

Re: autoloading module for pcmcia network card

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:24, Ben Lau wrote: > Please post your /var/log/daemon.log. Well, it used to be: Apr 2 19:03:30 flyer cardmgr[2086]: starting, version is 3.1.33 Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: watching 2 sockets Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: Card Services release does

Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Remo Inverardi
I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no power off. I played around with kernel options, trying to both shutdown using real and protected mode. Any ideas? Thank

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread Hugo Wau
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:38, Harry Brueckner wrote: > Hi there, > > I am looking for a way to manage different network configurations for > environments I am working in with my notebook (Woody unstable). Sometimes I > have to use DHCP, sometimes its a static IP and so on. > > I tried to find so

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread L. A. Linden Levy
This would be almost trivial to write as a bash script. i.e. #!/bin/bash /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts if [ "$1" -eq "DHCP" ]; then ifup ifcfg-eth0.dhcp elsif [ "$1" -eq "STATIC1" ]; then ifup ifcfg-eth0.static1 #etc...for more connection fi Then put files of following form in /

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Ivar Alm
At 11:30 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no power off. I played around with kernel options, trying to both shutdown using

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread David Reviejo
* Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030403 00:39]: > Unfortunatly it seems that apm currenlty is unavailable during the > execution of event.d scripts (someone to confirm ?). Since cron jobs > can take a long time this is a problem (and that can cause hang if you > try to suspend before the end o

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Remo Inverardi
Ivar, > You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a > complete shutdown to work. APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work with the M700 when I last tried it using kernel version 2.4

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread Werner Heuser
> Any suggestions? See the Debian Laptop Proposal http://tuxmobil.org/debian_linux.html and the Linux Mobile-Guide http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html chapter working in different environments. Werner -- |=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany |=| T. 0049 - (0)30

Re: Different network environments

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:20:45 +0200 (CEST) "L. A. Linden Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would be almost trivial to write as a bash script. > i.e. > > #!/bin/bash > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts > if [ "$1" -eq "DHCP" ]; then > ifup ifcfg-eth0.dhcp > elsif [ "$1" -eq "STATIC1" ]; the

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Ivar Alm
At 14:08 2003-04-03, Remo Inverardi wrote: Ivar, > You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a > complete shutdown to work. APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work with the M700 wh

Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Remo" == Remo Inverardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Remo> I'm using a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, running SID with Remo> vanilla, self compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre6 kernels. Under Remo> both kernel versions, a "poweroff" does a shutdown, but no Remo> power off. I played aroun

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-03 Thread Paulo Lopes
Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody had any a

IrOBEX Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux

2003-04-03 Thread Paulo Lopes
Hi, I've a laptop with debian woody 3.0r1 with IrDA configured and working (at least i can use my mobile phone modem) but i'd like to exchange files with windows machines... When i use windows, and i put my laptop near other laptop, there's an icon that say's that another computer is near and

how to get ad-hoc mode working?

2003-04-03 Thread ournewsletter
Hi, I got a wlan-card with orinoco/prism2 chipset. Driver, iwconfig and ifconfig seem to work correctly. The card is accepted as eth1, I can change the ip and switch to ad-hoc mode with iwconfig. Most parameters like essid can also be set. But how do I connect to another client in the ad-hoc mod

two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi Folks. I haven't been writing for a while. In fact I unsubscribed and subscribed again just today (changes in my life and stuff). Anyway, that's probably not very relevant to you. I've got two questions for you. 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian stable (thanks to everyon

Re: how to get ad-hoc mode working?

2003-04-03 Thread fgr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only way I could was using the hostap driver. Regards Fernando Gonzalez El Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:57:32 +0200 escribió: > Hi, > > I got a wlan-card with orinoco/prism2 chipset. Driver, iwconfig and ifconfig > seem to work correctly. > The card

Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Sale, Nigel
Hi All, I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I can download stuff quite happily, and run loadlin to install. The problem is, as fa

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
I tried that, and it ran for about 2 seconds. I get the impression that it just checks the package db for bad install flags and does not actually go out into the filesystem to CRC check every file... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:55:42 -0500 > "Dwaine Gonyier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian stable (thanks > to everyone who put up on the web some information about ACPI and other > issues with this laptop). Now I would need something with which I can > autodect the networ

Re: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread Craig Genner
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:48PM +0200, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Hi Folks. > I haven't been writing for a while. In fact I unsubscribed and subscribed > again just today (changes in my life and stuff). Anyway, that's probably > not very relevant to you. > I've got two questions for you. > >

/var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing: % dpkg -l g++\* dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory A version of it was in lost+found. I mo

RE: two questions

2003-04-03 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
> 1)I've got my laptop (compaq Presario 700) running debian > stable (thanks > to everyone who put up on the web some information about ACPI > and other > issues with this laptop). Now I would need something with which I can > autodect the network (if present) I'm connected to amongst a few > pos

What do I need to upgrade 2.2 kernel to 2.4 without an internet connection?

2003-04-03 Thread Al Dykes
I just installed basic Debian 3.0 on a laptop and find I need a late 2.4 kernel, or better to use my NIC. The only "connectivity" I've got is a CD burner on another (sindows) machine that does have a fast internet connection. Can someone point me to an ISO image or a package I can download. It has

Re: Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Sale, Nigel wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, > currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. > > The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I > can download stuff quite happil

Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte the pcmcia cdrom drive work during the install) I can install debian without any problems and the system comes up after the install

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread mi
Now there's a weakness, it seems. When the system boots up anacron checks if on mains power, and if not, exits (no daemon started). On the other hand /etc/crontab shows that cron runs only if no anacron is installed. So, while on battery, no cronjobs will be performed. But what now if you bootu

Re: Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread Heather Stern
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:25:38AM -0600, Sale, Nigel wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, > currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. > > The hard disk currently has a small win98 partition which works fine, and I > can dow

Re: AW: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Nothing aside from the debian setup routine (root password, user account, md5 hashed shadowed passwords, local mail delivery ...). This should surely not be interfering with the kernel!? Joh On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:53:41 +0200 "Stopanes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > What have you

Re: IrOBEX Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux

2003-04-03 Thread Werner Heuser
> How can i do this with my linux laptop? i've heard and read that windows > uses the OBEX protocol, how can i use it on linux? do i need extra > modules? how do i send a file? what do i need to do to receive a file? Take the package openobex-apps and read the OBEX chapter of the Infrared-HOWTO

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0800, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck Avoid Dell IMHO... > cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing: > > % dpkg -l g++\* > dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/va

Re: Installation question.

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:25:38 -0600 "Sale, Nigel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian (test) on a laptop which has one pcmcia slot, > currently occupied by a nic, but no floppy or cdrom. -snip- > Ideally, I'm looking for a kernel/install which does have pcmcia support, > (oth

Re: What do I need to upgrade 2.2 kernel to 2.4 without an internetconnection ?

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:58:25 -0500 Al Dykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed basic Debian 3.0 on a laptop and find I need > a late 2.4 kernel, or better to use my NIC. The only "connectivity" I've > got is a CD burner on another (sindows) machine that does > have a fast internet conne

Re: autoloading module for pcmcia network card

2003-04-03 Thread mi
Thomas Friedrichsmeier [Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 11:03]: >| Apr 2 19:03:30 flyer cardmgr[2086]: starting, version is 3.1.33 >| Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: watching 2 sockets >| Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086]: Card Services release does not match >| Apr 2 19:03:31 flyer cardmgr[2086

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Frédéric Bothamy
* Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 23:16] : > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0800, Michael K O'Brien wrote: [...] > A couple of months back there was a (short?) discussion in one of the > debian lists on how to recover a fully hosed /var - that's bound to be > in the archive

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread mi
Another question is, what were you doing using dpkg when the laptop died ? -- micha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:41:01 -0800 "Michael K O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I'm a bit nervous of the integrity of the status file. Is > there any way to verify the status file? Before you worry about verifying it, copy it somewhere else so you can get back to it. As another precau

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
More investigation into the matter: boot into single user mode ('linux single' at lilo prompt) gets me in - does that help anybody? Joh On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:10:11 -0800 Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio PCG-R505TSK ... wi

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:13, mi wrote: > Now there's a weakness, it seems. > When the system boots up anacron checks if on mains power, and if not, > exits (no daemon started). On the other hand /etc/crontab shows that cron > runs only if no anacron is installed. So, while on battery, no cronjo

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johannes> Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio Johannes> PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the Johannes> bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte Johannes> the pcmcia c

Re: KDE3 + noflushd + call for comments

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I don't run KDE3, but... > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I > saw other people had t

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
This is quite possible, but it would imply that the installation carries over the boot flags I set when booting into the netinstall ('ide2=0x180,0x386') - since I don't tell the kernel anything (willingly) and have not set additional boot parameters during the installation process (when asked fo

Re: anacron apm script

2003-04-03 Thread Dan Christensen
mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now there's a weakness, it seems. > When the system boots up anacron checks if on mains power, and if not, exits > (no daemon started). On the other hand /etc/crontab shows that cron runs only > if no anacron is installed. So, while on battery, no cronjobs will b

Re: Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johannes> This is quite possible, but it would imply that the Johannes> installation carries over the boot flags I set when Johannes> booting into the netinstall ('ide2=0x180,0x386') - since Johannes> I don't tell the