Re: firewall for my laptop ?

2003-12-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Derek Broughton wrote: > On December 25, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> > Is there a simple (Debian) way to install a firewall on a laptop ? >> >> The same sort as for any other Debian machine

Re: firewall for my laptop ?

2003-12-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Derek Broughton wrote: > On December 28, 2003 07:55 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Derek Broughton wrote: >> >> > For instance, I completely trust everything on my SOHO network, but >> > don't trust my connection t

Re: wireless network problems

2003-12-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Tim Folger wrote: > I've been having trouble getting an orinoco gold card to work on my > laptop with woody using the bf24 kernel. I'm a newbie and am thinking > about taking the plunge and trying to compile a custom kernel. Does > anyone have any recommendations for a kernel t

Re: KDE Battery monitor for ACPI

2004-03-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Patrick Doyle wrote: [...] > It looks now like I should just upgrade to the latest KDE. Since I am > somewhat new to Debian (although not new to Linux, and certainly not > new to upgrades gone awry), I am a little paranoid about just editing > my sources.list file and executin

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: [...] > Anyway, here's my questions, non strictly laptop specific, but very > much related to it 1)When I start pppd connection (I use wvdial, I > find it a lot easier and intuitive), I get [...] > So far, so good then. However, when I ping, I don

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bill Marcum wrote: > >> Do you have any other network device with a default route? > > I usually do, but I bring it down before opening pppd, with ifconfig > eth0 down etc. Two other things that may be helpful: if you post t

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> Two other things that may be helpful: if you post the routing table >> *before* you dial out with ppp, > > all right, that's the whole story: > I star

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > >> However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've >> got an entry export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 which is probably what I don't >> want in the first place. I'll comment that out, and

Re: arp-discovery in laptop-net package

2004-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Mauro Darida wrote: > I am trying to make working the laptop-net package on my woody but > when I try to load a scheme I get a misterious error: > > # /etc/init.d/laptop-net scheme test > # arp-discovery uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) > # dpkg -S arp-discovery > # laptop-n

Re: Moving to 2.6 and wondering about wireless

2004-04-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: >> Going to 2.6 usually means going to ALSA sound, which means that >> sound stops working until you can figure out how to get it going >> again. ALSA drivers are significantly different from O

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy > shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from > linux. > Can anybody help me please? The basics: A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a SCS

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for you reply: >> >> The basics: >> >> A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a >> SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protocols. > > Ok, I did not know that to sta

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Uwe Brauer wrote: >>> On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] >> It's great that the KDE community is addressing ms* floppies, but, >> remember mtools (i.e. mcopy and mdir and mdel) allows one to iteract >

Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub

2004-04-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jeff Coppock wrote: > I've been experimenting with the new NetInst CD in VMWare, since I > don't have a scratch system. The installer defaults to Grub for a boot > loader and also defaults to installing into MBR. The setup also uses > an initrd kernel. [...] > I've been using

Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub

2004-04-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Steinar Bang wrote: >> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Also, why is the bootloader default changing from Lilo to Grub? > >> No idea. The developers liked it, its supposed to be the next thing >> ... ;-) The only thing better I see about it is that you don't need >

Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub

2004-04-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Jeff Coppock wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:24:02 +1000 > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Steinar Bang wrote: >> >>>>>> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >

Re: hdd defragmentation / e2defrag

2004-05-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 26 May 2004, Stephane Provost wrote: > I also want to defrag my drive. When I ran e2defrag, it said the drive > should be unmounted (ok easy, I guess I'll need a bootdisk, I want to defrag > /dev/hda0) and also I'll have to run the bootloader configuration tool > because the image may have moved

Re: List based subject line

2004-05-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 27 May 2004, Larry Colen wrote: > I use this account for all my linux related mailing lists. All of the > lists but this one have the list name at the start of the subject: > ie. > Subject: [debian-laptop] list based subject line > > I'd like to propose that this list do so as well. I can't be t

Re: Debian for AMD Athlon

2003-10-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, als wrote: > I needed to know whether I will be able to get Linux to run with my > AMD Athlon processor for my laptop. If so, which architecture-port > should I download, from the debian site. i386 Daniel -- 20+ years as a vegetarian and the guy who steals my credit

Re: firewall for my laptop ?

2003-12-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Is there a simple (Debian) way to install a firewall on a laptop ? The same sort as for any other Debian machine, yes. :) I use and recommend the 'firehol' script, which is available in testing, and is the only firewall "helper" package I have yet found

Re: firewall for my laptop ?

2003-12-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Derek Broughton wrote: > On December 25, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> > Is there a simple (Debian) way to install a firewall on a laptop ? >> >> The same sort as for any other Debian machine

Re: firewall for my laptop ?

2003-12-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Derek Broughton wrote: > On December 28, 2003 07:55 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Derek Broughton wrote: >> >> > For instance, I completely trust everything on my SOHO network, but >> > don't trust my connection t

Re: wireless network problems

2003-12-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Tim Folger wrote: > I've been having trouble getting an orinoco gold card to work on my > laptop with woody using the bf24 kernel. I'm a newbie and am thinking > about taking the plunge and trying to compile a custom kernel. Does > anyone have any recommendations for a kernel t

Re: I'm looking to change my laptop

2004-10-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 1 Oct 2004, Pere P. wrote: > Anyone has experience on a IBM laptop model Thinkpad R51? Others have recommended the Thinkpad hardware list which, frankly, is great for this sort of thing. I have an earlier IBM laptop, an A31p, and experience with a range of newer models but, sadly, not that spe

Re: remote backup

2004-10-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > my laptop once it is connected: > what is the best way to do so ? My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in testing and unstable. That will happily produce long term archival bac

Re: Automatic scanning for network

2004-10-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 6 Oct 2004, Kfir Lavi wrote: > i have wireless Ateml card. > When i insert it it start to send dhcp packets in order to get ip, but i need > to tell it by hand 'iwconfig eth0 essid WLAN". > Is there a way to automate this? Install the `wireless-tools' package, then add bits like this to your /e

Re: KDE Battery monitor for ACPI

2004-03-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Patrick Doyle wrote: [...] > It looks now like I should just upgrade to the latest KDE. Since I am > somewhat new to Debian (although not new to Linux, and certainly not > new to upgrades gone awry), I am a little paranoid about just editing > my sources.list file and executin

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: [...] > Anyway, here's my questions, non strictly laptop specific, but very > much related to it 1)When I start pppd connection (I use wvdial, I > find it a lot easier and intuitive), I get [...] > So far, so good then. However, when I ping, I don

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bill Marcum wrote: > >> Do you have any other network device with a default route? > > I usually do, but I bring it down before opening pppd, with ifconfig > eth0 down etc. Two other things that may be helpful: if you post t

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> Two other things that may be helpful: if you post the routing table >> *before* you dial out with ppp, > > all right, that's the whole story: > I star

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > >> However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've >> got an entry export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 which is probably what I don't >> want in the first place. I'll comment that out, and

Re: arp-discovery in laptop-net package

2004-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Mauro Darida wrote: > I am trying to make working the laptop-net package on my woody but > when I try to load a scheme I get a misterious error: > > # /etc/init.d/laptop-net scheme test > # arp-discovery uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) > # dpkg -S arp-discovery > # laptop-n

Re: Moving to 2.6 and wondering about wireless

2004-04-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: >> Going to 2.6 usually means going to ALSA sound, which means that >> sound stops working until you can figure out how to get it going >> again. ALSA drivers are significantly different from O

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy > shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from > linux. > Can anybody help me please? The basics: A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a SCS

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for you reply: >> >> The basics: >> >> A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a >> SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protocols. > > Ok, I did not know that to sta

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Uwe Brauer wrote: >>> On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] >> It's great that the KDE community is addressing ms* floppies, but, >> remember mtools (i.e. mcopy and mdir and mdel) allows one to iteract >

Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub

2004-04-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jeff Coppock wrote: > I've been experimenting with the new NetInst CD in VMWare, since I > don't have a scratch system. The installer defaults to Grub for a boot > loader and also defaults to installing into MBR. The setup also uses > an initrd kernel. [...] > I've been using

Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub

2004-04-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Steinar Bang wrote: >> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Also, why is the bootloader default changing from Lilo to Grub? > >> No idea. The developers liked it, its supposed to be the next thing >> ... ;-) The only thing better I see about it is that you don't need >

Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub

2004-04-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Jeff Coppock wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:24:02 +1000 > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Steinar Bang wrote: >> >>>>>> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >

Re: hdd defragmentation / e2defrag

2004-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 26 May 2004, Stephane Provost wrote: > I also want to defrag my drive. When I ran e2defrag, it said the drive > should be unmounted (ok easy, I guess I'll need a bootdisk, I want to defrag > /dev/hda0) and also I'll have to run the bootloader configuration tool > because the image may have moved

Re: List based subject line

2004-05-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 27 May 2004, Larry Colen wrote: > I use this account for all my linux related mailing lists. All of the > lists but this one have the list name at the start of the subject: > ie. > Subject: [debian-laptop] list based subject line > > I'd like to propose that this list do so as well. I can't be t

Re: PPPoE / Access Concentrator

2004-06-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NB: It is much nicer to create a new thread rather than reply to an existing message and change all the details - some hidden features, like the `References' header, don't get changed that way, so your message shows up in the middle of another running subje

Re: PPPoE / Access Concentrator

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Jun 2004 at 11:13, Daniel Pittman wrote: [...] >> That depends. Is this a "bridge mode" device, or does it handle the >> PPPoE layer internally? > > My Zyair B-2000 V2 (I wasn't very precise in my last email

Re: hangs on startup at "Choose your current network environment screen"

2004-06-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 18 Jun 2004, peter robinson wrote: > this is my first attempt at a debian installation, so please forgive if this > is a stupid question (and yes, I did search google/the archives :-) ). > > After an initial installation of the basic system on a hp pavilion ze4600 > (Debian 3.0 release 1a), I us

Re: hangs on startup at "Choose your current network environment screen"

2004-06-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Jun 2004, peter robinson wrote: [...] > ===>>> Thanks. Unfortunately, it didnt quite work. I booted from DVD with the > installation DVD and booted as > rescue root=/dev/hda1 > The rescue system appeared to boot, but the same screen appears and > freezes... Try booting with: rescue root

Re: power off on dell inspiron

2004-06-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 25 Jun 2004, John Taber wrote: > I've just installed Knoppix 3.4 with kernel 2.4.26. Now the power off is not > working right - upon reaching "halted" screen blanks but the machine does not > shutdown and the screen reactives when return is pressed. > Any ideas ? (It shut off fine with Knoppix

Re: power off on dell inspiron

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 25 Jun 2004, John Taber wrote: > As my Knoppix/Debian loads, it appears to load ACPI - maybe I need to adjust a > ACPI config file ? Hrm. I couldn't say, I fear -- I don't use ACPI on my laptop, only APM. It is possible that the ACPI system doesn't support your hardware well enough to power it

Re: [OT] Re: GRUB, BIOS e HD 40GB and Reply-To:

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 25 Jun 2004, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: > sorry for the previous message, I mistyped -laptop for -italian > > why debian mailing lists do not send messages with a > Reply-To: header which instructs mail client to reply a message to list > instead of sender? Because many people, including the list

Re: debian wireless weirdness netgear mr814v2 and belkin card

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 29 Jun 2004, Joe wrote: > I have a laptop that I have installed debian on. On one wireless > network I can connect just fine. But on a second wireless network I > have problems. Other clients connect fine on both networks, so I know > the access points are both fine. > > My problem is that on my

Re: Un-installing this......

2004-07-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 8 Jul 2004, Bill Gladney wrote: > I see all kinds of help files.in here on this site.but noticed > there is not one piece of info on how to get this program off a > computer... That isn't usually such a problem, so people don't document it much. :) > maybe 'cause it's impossible to do.

Re: Un-installing this......

2004-07-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 8 Jul 2004, Jeff Avveduti wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On 8 Jul 2004, Bill Gladney wrote: >> >>> I see all kinds of help files.in here on this site.but noticed >>> there is not one piece of info on how to get this program off a >>> c

Re: boot wireless net connection

2004-07-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 12 Jul 2004, Kim Hawtin wrote: > Randall Smith wrote: >> I have a wireless connection on pcmcia. When booting, the network >> connections come up before pcmcia, so my wireless connection does not >> come up. What is the best way to bring up the wireless connection on >> boot. > > i am not sure

Re: Intel WLAN 2200BG - Ndiswrapper - iwconfig

2004-08-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 5 Aug 2004, Tim Taubert wrote: > i have a problem with my wireless lan card in my acer travelmate. > i'm using ndiswrapper and some windows driver to load my card.. iwlist also > finds the ap.. > > the only thing that isn't working is "iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor".. he says > "invalid request" o

Re: new laptop recommendations?

2004-08-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote: > i must buy a new notebook to replace my declining inspiron 3800. > as it is unplanned, i must be a bit budget-minded, but i still > need some power features. i don't need a desktop replacement, > but i also don't need ultra-portable. > > inspiron 5150's

Re: new laptop recommendations?

2004-08-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:18:28AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote: >>> i must buy a new notebook to replace my declining inspiron 3800. >> My recommendation would be for an IBM laptop

Re: new laptop recommendations?

2004-08-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 13 Aug 2004, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:48:20PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> *nod* Also, the Intel "Extreme" graphics chips have decent Linux >> support, as I understand it, and that is the new budget chip in IBM >> laptops. >

Re: Dhcp debian install

2004-08-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Aug 2004, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > I'm trying to install debian Linux on my portege R100. I haven't > floppy or CDRom, but I have another laptop with CDRom, therefore I'm > trying to made DHPC boot with PXElinux. The boot is OK, I use for it > 'root.bin' and 'rescue.bin' on '/tftpboot/.' wit

Re: clean storage device

2004-08-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Aug 2004, Martin Wegmann wrote: > I is rather not a 100% laptop question but it is due to the small storage > device on my laptop (30 GB on IBM T40). Occasionally I feel very old when people say things like that - I remember when a 30MB disk was almost unimaginably big. :) > I partitioned

Re: kernel 2.6.x compile guides

2004-08-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 17 Aug 2004, Jeff Avveduti wrote: > I have looked around and found a few guides but not much luck. > anyone have a 2.6.x compile guide that worked for them? Just to compile it, or to make it work afterwards? To just compile it, install `kernel-package', download the source into /usr/src/linux

Re: GUI

2004-09-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 3 Sep 2004, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > As we already seem to be on the subject of GUI's i would like to know how to > set up Windowmaker. > > I have a (very slow) laptop which i use an an access point and storage > server, and i was thinking of installing a GUI which will only be needed > occasiona

Re: X resolution on a Gateway M305

2004-09-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 4 Sep 2004, SML wrote: >> in the Xlog there is this line which seems to indicate that X is aware >> that 1024x768 is possible: >> (II) I810(0): Display Info: LFP (local flat panel): attached: TRUE, >> present: TRUE, size: (1024,768 >> (II) I810(0): Size of device LFP (local flat panel) is 1024 x

Re: Debian on ThinkPad T41p: a report and a question

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 7 Sep 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote: [...] > The one problem I am having is quite odd: I find that remote sessions > through a ssh tunnel hang intermittently after a few kilobytes. My > old laptop (a Sony Vaio) also running Sarge with the same setup and > wirelessly attached to the same router

Re: ati radeon 9700M and X

2004-09-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 7 Sep 2004, Derek Broughton wrote: > On September 7, 2004 09:21 am, Michael Olson wrote: >> Tim Taubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> i'm sure i can select it at the installtion process, can't i? ... i >>> crashed my whole system with this damn ati stuff.. dpkg is not working >>> anymore.. ext

Re: SpeedStep-Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 8 Sep 2004, astryx wrote: > I have downloaded kernel-2.6.8 (debian-unstable package) via apt-get and > have overwritten the speedstep-centrino file with the one published on > http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html. ...er, which file published there? I can see various patches to introduce the Centr

Re: place order

2004-09-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 15 Sep 2004, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org wrote: > Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:06, tijani jojo wrote: >> >>> hello, >>> i want to place an order of computer laptop pentium 4 i need about 5 >>> pcs i want u to calculate the total price of the laptops wi

Re: loss of character "s" in x

2004-09-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 15 Sep 2004, Markus Uhlmann wrote: > frequently the "s" key ceases to work under x (no hardware problem, > works in text consoles) and can only be re-activated by ctrl-alt-f'ing > to a different console and back to x. > > the problem might be triggered by pressing "ctrl-x ctrl-s" in emacs, > wh

Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 24 Sep 2004, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I already have the > debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much. I just > do not know how to create a repository of custo

Re: Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.12, why? Incredible slow.

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 12 Jul 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > I was using 2.6.11 kernel on my Vaio Picturebook, and I had some > outstanding issues with ACPI, so I wanted to install the 2.6.12 kernel. > As I didnt find a debian specific 2.6.12 kernel, I grabbed the one from > Kernel.org, the latest stable one. I compiled

Re: Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.12, why? Incredible slow.

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 12 Jul 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:54:34 +1000 > Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 12 Jul 2005, Benedek Frank wrote: >>> I was using 2.6.11 kernel on my Vaio Picturebook, and I had some >>> outstanding issues with

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 13 Jul 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > Martin Theiss wrote: >> I advice you not to take my packages anymore. There are newer ones, which >> will also get into unstable. According to the latest Debian newsletter >> have a look at http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ > > I have a problem with

Re: USB floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 15 Jul 2005, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > is anyone using a usb floppy successfully?? > i'm running debian etch with a custom debian kernel 2.6.11. Yeah, without any problem. I have an IBM branded TEAC USB floppy drive, very similar to yours: [...] > usb 2-1.4: new full speed USB device using uh

Re: Newfish installing debian on Gatweay 4530GZ

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 18 Jul 2005, Ryan Leinweber wrote: > I'm totally new to Linux and Debian and I would like to find out what > all the excitement is about. I would like to install Debian on my > gateway laptop but I need some help. My first question is: > > What installation manual do I need to download? I think

Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
Nate Duehr wrote: > Ian Greenhoe 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. >> >> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main co

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have decided that I would like to switch home network (just our two > notebooks) to wireless and I would like to make it WPA-secured. Can anybody > suggest the most simple WPA configuration using wpasupplicant, please? network={ ssid="myssid"

Re: keyboard problem

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
ggyao 2005 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when I installed the debian, I had an option to install a predefined list of > softwares. > Later I can also recall this option by "tasksel". when the selection screen > show up, I > can move my cursor to each item. BUT after I pressed "Enter", there is n

Re: Kernel and modules configuration optimized for IBM ThinkPad R50e

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
"Gorjanc Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just bought IBM ThinkPad R50e and I successfully installed Debian > testing on it. Works nice. Is there anyone who is willing to share > kernel (2.6) and any modules configuration optimized for this brand? > I really get lost in 'make menuconfig', i

Re: Kernel, modules and GCC format

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
"Gorjanc Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>"Gorjanc Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> I just bought IBM ThinkPad R50e and I successfully installed Debian >>> testing on it. Works nice. Is there anyone who is willing to share >>> kernel (2.6) and any modules configuration optimized fo

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >>> I have decided that I would like to switch home network (just our two >>> notebooks) to wireless and I would like to make it WPA-secured. Can >>> anybody suggest the most simple WPA configura

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> If I had realized that you wanted to use NDISwrapper with the card I >> would have suggested that there may be issues. Also, as noted, you may >> need a newer driver or firmware for the Orinoco card

Re: Kernel, modules and GCC format

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
"janjansenbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's the easiest to stick with the kernel versions available in the > Debian repository you are currently running, for example Debian > 'testing'. > > Just remove the gcc link towards gcc-4.0 and create a new symbolic link > towards gcc-3.3, the one used

Re: Kernel, modules and GCC format

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
"janjansenbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you explain how update-alternatives works in practice ? The manual page update-alternatives(8) does a pretty good job, but the short and curly of it is: update-alternatives maintains a bunch of symlinks for things like gcc, vi, and other applicatio

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