Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card

2014-09-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 09/06/2014 10:14 PM, fanghua ye wrote: > Hello all, > > since many days I am dealing with installing debian wheezy on Acer > Aspire E1-532. > First I tried the Net installer, sadly the Atheros AR956x wireless card > was not detected :(. > I guess a driver is needed and found > compat-wireles

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card‏

2014-09-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 09/07/2014 12:21 PM, fanghua ye wrote: By the way, I remember the laptop was equiped with Win 7. Win 7 or 8 is installed on most x86 computers because they wound n't be sold without an OS. Wheezy was successfully installed in Virtualbox with official netinstaller. Now Win 7 is completely

Re: debian wheezy does not support Atheros AR956x Wireless card

2014-09-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 09/07/2014 12:02 PM, fanghua ye wrote: > thanks for your suggestion. > It showed the installer could not detect any network hard ware, neither > ethernet nor wireless card :(. > > Also many thanks to Andre, Cindy-Sue, Scott and Carlos for suggestions. > Sofar I tried the unoffical cd installer

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15

2015-03-10 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 03/09/2015 05:45 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: I have a new Acer Aspire E15 that came pre-loaded with Billyware, and after first checking it out with FreeBSD I upgraded it to Debian 7.7.0 (although I see that 8 is now out). It sees neither the wireless nor the trackpad, although FreeBSD found them

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire E15

2015-03-10 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 03/09/2015 11:39 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: root@debbie:/home/dave# grep non-free /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-up

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-25 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 03/23/2015 07:03 AM, Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: Hello...I wanted to know if anyone has been able to use Debian wheezy on the laptop Dell 7535. Is this a new model? I have been able to install Debian on the laptop successfully...however I got some issues after installation: - No Sound Try $

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-29 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 03/29/2015 05:42 PM, Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: Hello friends.. i want to thank you for your help..some of my problems have been solved but some still persists. The Wifi and Screen brightness control problem have been by installing backport kernel and firmware. However I still have sound problem.

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-29 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 03/29/2015 05:42 PM, Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: And i am also facing another problem now after installing the new kernel..when I click on Shutdown, my laptop restarts instead of shutting down.. After restart you can login on tty1 (or ttyn) after a Login as root and do: # poweroff If your la

Re: Debian Wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-04-01 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 03/31/2015 03:28 PM, Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: Hi Michael, I don't think it is a hardware issue because when I boot to Windows and shutdown from there, the system shutdowns properly. The problem occurs only on Debian. I think Michael might be right. Maybe the problem is caused by a ACPI-funct

Re: Laptop

2015-04-12 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/11/2015 06:57 PM, Tobias wrote: Hi, can somebody recommend me a Laptop that will be able to run Jessie and meets business-related requirements (long battery life, low noise emission, SSD optional) and is not too expansive? Thanks in advance! Check h-node.org? Are too expansive laptops

Re: Laptop

2015-04-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/11/2015 07:22 PM, Luca Panella wrote: Hi, Check the Dell Latitude e5450. Which model do you recommend? AFAIK there are 19 Dell Latitude E5450- models with: Screens 1920x1080 and 1366x768 CPU's Ci7 Ci5 Ci3 500 GB HDD's 256 GB SSD's ... etc. ... Best regards, Luca Best regards, Ja

Re: Laptop

2015-04-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/11/2015 06:57 PM, Tobias wrote: Hi, can somebody recommend me a Laptop that will be able to run Jessie and meets business-related requirements (long battery life, low noise emission, SSD optional) and is not too expansive? Thanks in advance! New or used? Year? 2013? 2014? I think you

Re: Laptop

2015-04-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/13/2015 03:56 PM, Luca Panella wrote: Il 13.04.2015 15:37 Jan-Rens Reitsma ha scritto: Which model do you recommend? AFAIK there are 19 Dell Latitude E5450- models with: Screens 1920x1080 and 1366x768 CPU's Ci7 Ci5 Ci3 500 GB HDD's 256 GB SSD's ... 1920x1080 i7 8g

Re: Laptop

2015-04-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/13/2015 04:02 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.04.15 15:37, Jan-Rens Reitsma wrote: On 04/11/2015 07:22 PM, Luca Panella wrote: Hi, Check the Dell Latitude e5450. Which model do you recommend? AFAIK there are 19 Dell Latitude E5450- models with: Screens 1920x1080 and

Re: Installing Debian with only 64mb RAM

2015-04-20 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/18/2015 03:43 PM, peter.schleichm...@t-online.de wrote: Hi there, I've found an old laptop (MAXDATA Artist Stanford) with 64mb ram and tried to install a minimal Debian system. The installer warned me about low system memory but I could continue. I didn't select any additional kernel modu

Re: Debian netinstall over wifi?

2015-05-04 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/03/2015 08:40 AM, Uroš Jarc wrote: I have a question obout installing debian. Ubuntu has this option which can install all mising packages from ethernet of wifi, while debian has only ethertnet option. The firmware I prepaire works... But if I do netinstall, debian will not ask for wifi ke

Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-06 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/02/2015 10:54 PM, Glen Reesor wrote: I have done a fresh install of Jessie on an old Acer laptop and the fan never runs, so it overheats. Interestingly, the fan *does* run when running the livecd. I've compared syslog, daemon.log, and lsmod and found: Maybe your problem is solved after y

Re: Problem in changing permissions for a directory

2015-05-07 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 04/30/2015 04:04 PM, Arghya Das wrote: why cant i change values of this file : /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I tried to change ownership of the directory but : my_username@019:~$ sudo chown my_username /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ chown: changing ownership of `/proc/sys/net/ipv4/': Operation not pe

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-08 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/08/2015 01:45 AM, real bas wrote: Hi guys, It's early to talk about but the memory usage it's too much (3.5 GB RAM) with Debian Jessie. I using ISO (cd-1) of debian.org and have this problem. 32 bit or 64 bit version? For amd64 jessie and 4 GB memory: $ uname -r 3.16

Re: Circulant matrix

2015-05-08 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/08/2015 09:47 PM, Arghya Das wrote: This is a programming question : Does anyone know how to rotate a 2d matrix circularly for 'n' times in suppose C language...? It would be a lot of help if you could explain with code. Hint : each row vector needs to be rotated one element to the right

Re: Circulant matrix

2015-05-09 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/08/2015 10:48 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 01:17, Arghya Das wrote: This is a programming question : Does anyone know how to rotate a 2d matrix circularly for 'n' times in suppose C language...? It would be a lot of help if you could explain with code. Hint : each

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-10 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/09/2015 03:11 PM, llcfree wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 13:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I find the biggest consumer of ram pages on my system to be the web browsers Chromium and Firefox (Iceweasel). The web has gotten to be a ram hog and when my machine is in need of memory I exit the

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-11 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 05/10/2015 08:34 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Jan-Rens Reitsma wrote: 4 GB DDR3(L) modules are not very expensive. If my laptop had a slot to insert another dimm that would be great. I would happily stuff several more gigs into it. But I can't. My ThinkPad T60p is already max'd out

Re: Memory usage Debian Jessie (stable)

2015-05-12 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
stensen mailto:j...@uwo.ca>>: Jan-Rens Reitsma mailto:jan.rens.reit...@gmail.com>> writes: > $ free -h > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 3.7G 3.5G 182M 153M 363M 2.1G

Re: USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 06/13/2015 04:18 AM, Michael wrote: Hello, First of all: I can listen to music in all the players, by internal speakers or by headset headphones. I bought a Creative Live HD VF 0790 usb webcam, which is advertised to work with Linux, and plugged it into a Thinkpad 410s. According to dmesg

Re: USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 06/13/2015 11:50 AM, Michael wrote: Jan-Rens, What's the output of: $lsusb -v | grep Device Buss 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4097Creative Technology, Ltd then some Root Hubs and the Mouse To me this looks like the output of $ lsusb | grep Device Don't forget the -v option:

Re: USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-13 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 06/13/2015 11:50 AM, Michael wrote: Jan-Rens, What's the output of: $lsusb -v | grep Device Buss 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4097Creative Technology, Ltd Example: On my T410 $ lsusb | grep Device gives: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching H

Re: USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-14 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 06/13/2015 11:50 AM, Michael wrote: Jan-Rens, What's the output of: $lsusb -v | grep Device Buss 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4097Creative Technology, Ltd Try this: $ wget http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids > usb.ids $ nl usb.ids | grep 041e 1231 041e Creative Technology, Ltd

Re: USB audio device (webcam) for thinkpad 410

2015-06-14 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
On 06/13/2015 04:18 AM, Michael wrote: According to dmesg, it is recognized by name and the kernel (v. 4.0.5) seems to use the uvc driver. Is the uvc driver a (generic webcam) usb video driver? What is the description of uvc in the output of: $ /sbin/modinfo uvc Maybe the video driver is