Re: I have a doubt on compaq

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Patterson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:35:19PM -0500, Diego Ramos V. wrote: > or I must get debian 5.0 for working out That is the route to go. Also, the cq60 came in several different variations, But I think they're all dual core: try the amd64 flavor of Debian-5.0 -- Dave signature.asc Description: D

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-01 Thread Dave Patterson
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:07:09PM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > Hello, Hi! > > I have recently installed Debian Linux > v5.0.0 on my amd64 processor laptop computer. Unfortunately, the Ah. Not to fret, we'll have you running shortly. We need more information, though. Please post make

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Patterson
* Mykola Nikishov [2009-03-02 22:03:42 +0200]: > "John Wesley Cooper" writes: > > > Unfortunately, the installation apparently did not detect my Broadcom > > 4321AG Wi-Fi adaptor, and thus I am unable to connect to my 128 bit > > WEP encrypted wireless network. > > What about using an official

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-08 Thread Dave Patterson
* John Wesley Cooper [2009-03-08 18:25:33 -0700]: > ...Can anyone tell me where I might be able to download a pre-built > installer for this driver? ndiswrapper is a pre-built installer. it's designed to wrap around windows wireless drivers so that Linux can use them. try this: wget http://ft

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Patterson
* John Wesley Cooper [2009-03-08 18:25:33 -0700]: > ...Can anyone tell me where I might be able to download a pre-built > installer for this driver? linux-headers-`-uname -r` *Caution: those are backticks, NOT quotes* sorry, should read: apt-get install linux-headers-`-uname -r` :/ -- Da

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-10 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paolo [2009-03-10 08:27:04 +0100]: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:04:43PM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > > > > bash: ndiswrapper: command not found > > > > I'm guessing that this means I need another software package... but which > > one? > > $dpkg --search ndiswrapper > ndiswrapper-co

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-11 Thread Dave Patterson
* jwesleycoo...@cox.net [2009-03-11 20:36:35 -0400]: > Forgive me, but I have absolutely no prior experience with Linux, and the > bulk of my programming experience is in two forms TI-BASIC, which is a > high-level language for Texas Instruments made graphing calculators, so I'm > not really s

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paolo [2009-03-12 07:53:33 +0100]: > or more quickly: > > $ sed -i /^Reading/d /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > > (w/out '$' in col 1, of course) > I'm in Thailand. I don't have the inclination to fly over and teach sed right now. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paolo [2009-03-12 12:43:50 +0100]: > But that'd just be an easy way to do the job. Cheers. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Patterson
Odd. I thought I had posted this to debian-laptop, but it went to debian-user instead. Must have been tired. Anyway: * John Wesley Cooper [2009-03-12 19:41:34 -0700]: > I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a > ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to

Re: Help!!!!

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Patterson
* Alejandro De Leon [2009-05-01 08:59:18 -0400]: > -Hello!!! please i have one *laptop HP Pavilion dv5-1250us amd turion x2 > ultra* but i install debian linux and i have drivers problems, sound, video, > wireless, etc. please i need help!!! >

Re: gnome one task bar missing

2006-01-08 Thread Dave Patterson
* Martin Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-08 09:40:13 +]: > Hi there, > > * Donna Kosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at [20060108 07:47]: > > well i can't get that task bar back. Right click on an empty spot on the panel you have, select new panel, then move the new one where you want it, by

Re: gnome one task bar missing

2006-01-08 Thread Dave Patterson
* Donna Kosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-09 15:22:12 +1100]: > >thanks Dave that fixed it, and i right clicked on panel after it to >make panel smaller. >cheers for that NP... By the way, Gnome will holler at you if you try to delete that last panel - like I've tried to do by mistak

Re: Activated pcmcia or wireless Card or both ...

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Patterson
* David Andreoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-11 13:03:28 +0100]: > Good morning, > > I have a laptop ACER Travelmate 4150 Lmi, i would like use my pcmcia > port (ENE 712/4) with a netgear WG511T wireless pcmcia card. > So I download and install latest kernel on debian.org ( via apt-get > ).Cu

Re: Activated pcmcia or wireless Card or both ...

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Patterson
* Tom Alderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-11 13:53:45 -0500]: > I have a cheaper acer, the Aspire 3000. And I also have a netgear > wireless card. I had to use ndiswrapper with the winblows 2000 driver > to get the card to work. It works ok except, I cannot use tools like > kismet. > > My card

Re: Ah, the Irony...

2006-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
* Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 11:00:23 -0500]: > I usually don't comment on things like this: > > > Thank you, > > Administrator > > The irony is just too amusing, though, not to highlight. > Heh,Heh.. -- Regards, Dave -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: New web forum for linux on laptops: http://www.openlaptops.org

2006-01-27 Thread Dave Patterson
* Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-27 16:51:27 +0100]: > OpenLaptops is a place for people to share experiences about their laptops, > and > help others with similar problems on similar laptops. It is to talk about new > issues with power saving, and mobile gaming. It is here to suppleme

Wierd cdrw drive behavior...

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
Running KDE on a HP Compaq nx7010 with a TEAC DW-244E-A DVDR/CDRW Drive. I get this error during boot: Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x34 { Aborte

suspend to encrypted swap..

2006-06-25 Thread Dave Patterson
Hi, all.. Does anybody know a good howto on suspending to an encrypted swap partition using cryptsetup, cryptsetup-luks, or other means? It would be convenient... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: suspend to encrypted swap..

2006-06-26 Thread Dave Patterson
* Stefan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 11:37:21 +0200]: > I guess you mean suspend-to-disk, because suspend-to-ram has no > problem with it et all. > > I just get it working to resume from resume from my swap on lvm on > cryptsetup-luks. > > I used the new userspace suspend from 2.6.

Re: yaird, kernel 2.6.17 and dm-crypted disks

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Patterson
* Miroslav Maiksnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-13 00:12:36 +0200]: > Problems with /etc/crypttab are: > 1) I'm not using it at all, because it is located on encrypted partition and > at the moment, when it become accessible is everything already set up. > 2) when I setup information in cryptt

kde, hotel rooms, wifi, and guarddog

2006-07-22 Thread Dave Patterson
Attempting to login to my hotel's wifi via the browser login screen after I've established connection with wireless assistant fails until I've turned off Guarddog. Up and running, turn Guarddog back on, can surf normally. How can I tell what port to open? -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Descr

kde, hotel rooms, wifi, and guarddog

2006-07-22 Thread Dave Patterson
Attempting to login to my hotel's wifi via the browser login screen after I've established connection with wireless assistant fails until I've turned off Guarddog. Up and running, turn Guarddog back on, can surf normally. How can I tell what port to open? -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Descr

Re: kde, hotel rooms, wifi, and guarddog

2006-07-22 Thread Dave Patterson
Apologies for the dupes... hamfisted here. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver

2007-02-07 Thread Dave Patterson
Bhasker C V wrote: I run Etch on my T42. I use gnome desktop. I installed xscreensaver. > After this, I understood that xscreensaver daemon is a seperate daemon yep. > How do i import the xscreensaver savers into the > gnome-screensaver ?

Re: hwclock

2007-04-22 Thread Dave Patterson
* Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-22 22:09:05 +1200]: > Won't that mean that my hardware clock will have to be adjusted whenever > there is a daylight savings transition? No. Running localtime will automatically correct for DST. The new US DST was compensated for quite some time b

Re: etc floppy install question

2007-04-26 Thread Dave Patterson
* Hugo Mallinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-26 17:01:59 +0100]: > Hi, I have a pretty complicated (at least to me) problem with a DEC > HiNote Ultra 2000. I don't have the CD drive, so I'm trying to do a > network install. The onboard ethernet and modem are handled by a > Xircom combo card

Re: etc floppy install question

2007-04-27 Thread Dave Patterson
* Hugo Mallinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-26 22:00:33 +0100]: > Hey Dave, thanks for the quick reply. Luck, I guess, anyway, this is an interesting problem. Haven't dealt with a DEC product in a long time. They built great hardware, I don't care what anybody says... > > It's the Etch flop

Re: problem with rebooting

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Patterson
* Giancarlo Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-26 09:24:09 +0200]: > I have tried to install Debian Sarge on my notebook, a Toshiba Satellite > P10-792 with an Intel Pentium 4 processor, which has currently Windows XP > running. I installed Debian from the CD and apparently it was all ok, but as

Re: problem with rebooting

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Patterson
-2-386 > savedefault > boot > > best regards, > Giancarlo > > > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:47 AM > Subject: Re: problem with rebooting > > -- Regards, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Patterson
try http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/185 -- Regards, Dave -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Patterson
* Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-22 16:15:14 +0200]: > Bob Alexander ha scritto: > >I have a Thinkpad T40 (ATI Rad M9 1400x1050 panel) Debian system > >tracking sid. > > > > I am now using aptitude and have > > deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian testing main > do: '...

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Patterson
* John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-22 10:49:29 -0600]: > > Bob, > > I have the following in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.debian.org/ experimental main non-free contrib > #deb-src http://ftp.debian.o

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Patterson
* Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-23 10:04:56 +]: > > Just let me be sure I understand. With a setup similar to the above: > > 1) "aptitude install PKG1" would be installing PKG1 from testing > > 2) "aptitude update; aptitude upgrade" would be upgrading packages with > new rele

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: shutdown makes me reboot]

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Patterson
attached -- Regards, Dave -- --- Begin Message --- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-23 17:54:37 +0200]: > Hi, > I have this small problem with kernel 2.6.8 on debian sarge: > when I choose to shutdown I have a reboot. At GRUB I have to boot with the > previous kernel (2.4.27) in

Re: Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Patterson
* Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-23 18:59:30 -0700]: > probably kernel-image-2.6.8-i686 (likely will be installed by > default). Nope. 2.6.8-i386 installs by default. Better performance can be gained by later installing a stock kernel-image-2.6.8-i686, but that still misses the bisc

Re: Quick Newbie Question: Archictecture Type for Centrino?

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Patterson
* Arjen Verweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-24 08:09:06 +0200]: > And use libc6-i686 on machines that support it. > Thanks, missed that one... -- Regards, Dave -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toshiba Sat. Laptop c2002 CE

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Patterson
* Frederick Royce Perez . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-24 09:24:57 -0400]: >Hello : > I wrote a while back of my interest in putting a useful interface > on this laptop . I was stymied by the lack of visibility opening CD > DVD burned with Debian OS . I was vaguely aware that the color o

Re: Toshiba Sat. Laptop c2002 CE

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Patterson
* Frederick Royce Perez . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-24 10:23:32 -0400]: > > Dave : > > Debian 3.0r5 alp.disc One- Among about five or six of which Roxio >Toast shows the earliest being 05/28/2005 . I possess these monuments >to stalled pursuit yet . A letter from May 26 spare