Re: [ltp] Re: Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-)

2006-01-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 05:24 schrieb Nate Bargmann: > > The xlibmesa-dri package in Sid provides the necessary radeon_dri.so > > file and places it in the right place. It supports several other > > cards, but not the savage (yet), unfortunately. > > Let me add that as of today, Jan 2, 2006, t

Re: bootable cd

2006-01-05 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Thnx a lot for all your help. I downloaded systemrescuecd and saved the instructions on how to ripristine the mbr with grub-install and stuff for later (possibly no;) use. Cheers Ale On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Anders Breindahl wrote: On 2006-01-03 1710, Alessandro S

Re: bringing up PCMCIA wireless interface

2006-01-05 Thread Krzysztof Wilk
My understanding was that pcmciautils replaces pcmcia-cs. Do you mean that "ifup $DEVICE" is called automatically without *any* additional tools? Not even hotplug? I invoke "ifup $DEVICE" by hand. Maybe it is not very convenient, but sometimes I do not want to be connected to the network. Bes

Re: [ltp] Re: Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-)

2006-01-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Martin Steigerwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jan 05 05:41 -0600]: > Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 05:24 schrieb Nate Bargmann: > > > > The xlibmesa-dri package in Sid provides the necessary radeon_dri.so > > > file and places it in the right place. It supports several other > > > cards, but not th

Re: Bash script for wireless [SOLVED]

2006-01-05 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 02:26 am, Johannes Zarl wrote: > > > I know how to use grep etc. to find known bits of output, but not > > how to isolate arbitrary output, for example ESSID names. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > I used this in one script of mine: > > available_essids=`i

Re: Bash script for wireless [SOLVED]

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Porter
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 00:59 +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 02:26 am, Johannes Zarl wrote: In the end I used gawk with ":" as a field separator to extract them: networks=$(iwlist eth1 scan | grep ESSID | gawk -F: '{ print $2 }') This can be optimised to - networks=$(iwli

Re: UPDATE - Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? cable? bluetooth?

2006-01-05 Thread Nate Duehr
A. F. Cano wrote: I specifically bought this because it said "Built in Charge function" and I knew how important this is to reinitialize the phone if I end up messing it up. So I get it and surprise! there's no place to plug the charger into the cable. A note to the seller about this tells me

Re: [ltp] Re: Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-)

2006-01-05 Thread Alex Deucher
On 1/5/06, Martin Steigerwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 05:24 schrieb Nate Bargmann: > > > > The xlibmesa-dri package in Sid provides the necessary radeon_dri.so > > > file and places it in the right place. It supports several other > > > cards, but not the savage (ye

Installer hangs/fails

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Abbott
Hi This morning I started the process of installing Debian on my DELL Inspiron 5150. I'm booting the installer off the official 3.1 i386 CD. If I try to use 'linux26' as my parameters, the following displays when the installer hangs during the hardware detection phase: Detecting hardware t

Re: UPDATE - Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? Some success...

2006-01-05 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:12:07AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > >[about the charge function in usb cables ] > > No, most phones are using battery technology and lower voltages these > days that allows for charging from USB. My Motorola RAZR charges from > its USB cable, no problems. The only iss

Oops... Didn't have CONFIG_USB_ACM in the running kernel

2006-01-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Found one critical bit of info after I sent the previous message... On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:28:53PM -0500, I wrote: > ... > I've read at www.bitpim.org that a driver called acm handles the usb > serial port in cell phones, but I don't seem to have it in either > kernel 2.4.22 (woody) or 2.6.8 (

More info - bad HW, woody does't cut it, now have /dev/ttyACM0

2006-01-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Oh well, I keep posting followups to my own questions... I'm finding more info: 1 - the thinkpad apparently has a hw problem with the USB port, so even though it has the latest OS, it never sees the phone. 2 - The 8600 has good hardware but the OS (woody) is too old. That's the reason

Re: Installer hangs/fails

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Abbott
Michael Abbott wrote: This morning I started the process of installing Debian on my DELL Inspiron 5150. I'm booting the installer off the official 3.1 i386 CD. If I try to use 'linux26' as my parameters, the following displays when the installer hangs during the hardware detection phase: D