Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
mine where it is by trying to contact prespecified IP addresses and (optionally) seeing what their MAC address is. Intuitively is pretty flexible, and seems pretty nice. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Constructing CD-ROM images

2001-11-01 Thread David Roundy
rectory, and then specify directories to leave out as well as directories to include, which may serve your purpose, although I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for, and may not even help at all... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: problem with freecom cdrom drive (USB)

2001-11-14 Thread David Roundy
nybody knows > anything helpfull tell me. Even if it's just the mailing-list I should > post it. I'm afraid I may not have been very helpful, but perhaps switching to /dev/scd0 will do the trick. If not, then I'm at a loss. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu speed measurement

2001-11-20 Thread David Roundy
and I see 700 mhz while compiling without speedstep. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu speed measurement

2001-11-21 Thread David Roundy
oximately) with speedstep disabled (which it may already be). The difference is that with speedstep on the max speed (compiling kernel) will be different depending on whether or not you are running on battery. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to Manage Linux laptops on and off the network?

2001-11-23 Thread David Roundy
e local scripting it's very powerful. As an alternative to divine, I'd recommend intuitively, which was originally based on divine, but has a somewhat nicer configuration file format. It also has some other features, but since I use it as a plugin to whereami, I don't really use them.

Re: X problem

2001-11-30 Thread David Roundy
ve the problem may be resolved if I > do so, or would it just be a shot in the dark? I wouldn't install 2.5 if I were you, as this doesn't smell like a kernel problem at all. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Weird mouse behaviour!

2001-12-06 Thread David Roundy
ve seen those symptoms several times on multiple computers (and with different mice, most recently with a trackpoint. A first guess would be to uninstall gpm, but apart from that I don't know what you can do. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

2001-12-08 Thread David Roundy
hot idea... Anyhow, I guess that's about all my thoughts on the subject. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X and resuming (Was: Re: Disk waker)

2001-12-12 Thread David Roundy
ution, but I have an X21, and haven't had a problem with suspend/resume while X is running on screen. If you like, I could send you my XF86Config-4... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ltp] X22 issues

2001-12-16 Thread David Roundy
it is, then copy the files onto > two CD's, or use a multi-volume tar archive. If you really think you may want to reinstall windows, you should call up IBM and tell them you messed up the service partition and they'll install a CD. A friend of mine did this. I figure if th

Re: hibernating w/ Thinkpad A22m and lphdisk

2002-01-13 Thread David Roundy
by, and > hibernate. The machine suspends when the lid is closed or by pressing Fn > F4, but how does standby and hibernate differ? Standby is even less powersaving than suspend, and I've never had occasion to use it. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSU

Re: Mobile network configuration

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
mine where it is by trying to contact prespecified IP addresses and (optionally) seeing what their MAC address is. Intuitively is pretty flexible, and seems pretty nice. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Constructing CD-ROM images

2001-11-01 Thread David Roundy
rectory, and then specify directories to leave out as well as directories to include, which may serve your purpose, although I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for, and may not even help at all... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: problem with freecom cdrom drive (USB)

2001-11-14 Thread David Roundy
nybody knows > anything helpfull tell me. Even if it's just the mailing-list I should > post it. I'm afraid I may not have been very helpful, but perhaps switching to /dev/scd0 will do the trick. If not, then I'm at a loss. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: cpu speed measurement

2001-11-20 Thread David Roundy
and I see 700 mhz while compiling without speedstep. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: cpu speed measurement

2001-11-21 Thread David Roundy
oximately) with speedstep disabled (which it may already be). The difference is that with speedstep on the max speed (compiling kernel) will be different depending on whether or not you are running on battery. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: How to Manage Linux laptops on and off the network?

2001-11-23 Thread David Roundy
e local scripting it's very powerful. As an alternative to divine, I'd recommend intuitively, which was originally based on divine, but has a somewhat nicer configuration file format. It also has some other features, but since I use it as a plugin to whereami, I don't really use them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: X problem

2001-11-30 Thread David Roundy
ve the problem may be resolved if I > do so, or would it just be a shot in the dark? I wouldn't install 2.5 if I were you, as this doesn't smell like a kernel problem at all. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Weird mouse behaviour!

2001-12-06 Thread David Roundy
ve seen those symptoms several times on multiple computers (and with different mice, most recently with a trackpoint. A first guess would be to uninstall gpm, but apart from that I don't know what you can do. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

2001-12-08 Thread David Roundy
hot idea... Anyhow, I guess that's about all my thoughts on the subject. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: X and resuming (Was: Re: Disk waker)

2001-12-12 Thread David Roundy
ution, but I have an X21, and haven't had a problem with suspend/resume while X is running on screen. If you like, I could send you my XF86Config-4... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: [ltp] X22 issues

2001-12-16 Thread David Roundy
is, then copy the files onto > two CD's, or use a multi-volume tar archive. If you really think you may want to reinstall windows, you should call up IBM and tell them you messed up the service partition and they'll install a CD. A friend of mine did this. I figure if the windows partition dies, I'll finally get around to deleting it. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: hibernating w/ Thinkpad A22m and lphdisk

2002-01-13 Thread David Roundy
and > hibernate. The machine suspends when the lid is closed or by pressing Fn > F4, but how does standby and hibernate differ? Standby is even less powersaving than suspend, and I've never had occasion to use it. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: how to rescue boot from cd

2002-02-20 Thread David Roundy
ilable. Of course, you can also specify the root filesystem to be your hard disk, at boot time, so it can act as a normal boot disk. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: debian 3 upgrade lost PATH

2002-02-25 Thread David Roundy
'? That will tell you what your PATH actually is, which would help in trying to figure out what your problem is. Have you tried using apt-get instead of dselect? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: debian 3 upgrade lost PATH

2002-02-25 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:13:27AM +1030, Mike Carter wrote: > Thanks David, > > > On 25 Feb 2002, at 6:17, David Roundy wrote: > > > We need to know more about what actually is happening. 'X cannot > > find what it needs' and 'deselect cannot fin

Re: boot-cdrom

2002-03-01 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:27:35AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello all, > > my floppy drive of my laptop is broken: > how can I am replace my boot-floopy by a boop-cdrom ? I believe the debian install CD can be used as a boot cdrom. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread David Roundy
d has to be suid root anyways to allow you to log in as any user). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: how to rescue boot from cd

2002-02-20 Thread David Roundy
ilable. Of course, you can also specify the root filesystem to be your hard disk, at boot time, so it can act as a normal boot disk. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian 3 upgrade lost PATH

2002-02-25 Thread David Roundy
'? That will tell you what your PATH actually is, which would help in trying to figure out what your problem is. Have you tried using apt-get instead of dselect? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian 3 upgrade lost PATH

2002-02-25 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:13:27AM +1030, Mike Carter wrote: > Thanks David, > > > On 25 Feb 2002, at 6:17, David Roundy wrote: > > > We need to know more about what actually is happening. 'X cannot > > find what it needs' and 'deselect cannot fin

Re: boot-cdrom

2002-03-01 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:27:35AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello all, > > my floppy drive of my laptop is broken: > how can I am replace my boot-floopy by a boop-cdrom ? I believe the debian install CD can be used as a boot cdrom. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley