Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin: > > ake-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-686-smp" --revision > 2.6.12-1-686-smp--config old configure > I note that you are using the --revision flag with the value > 2.6.12-1-686-smp. > However, the ./debian/changelog file exists, and has a different value > 2.6.12-1-686. > I am conf

Re: PCMCIA Card that supports WPA 802.11g - Exists?

Greg Cockburn: > > is there such a card that works in Linux, that supports WPA-PSK, on 802.11g? Yes. See for a list. I didn't test it very much, but WPA should work with all or most of them. I have a Proxim 8480WD myself (which is a relabeled Orinoco a/b/g

Re: Debian release cycle question

Rony: > > I have question regarding the Debian release cycle. The packages from > unstable stay for few days before moving to testing. Can someone > enlighten me, what do the packages do in the testing? Debian release > circle can be 1-2 years. Do the packages need to stay for such long > time in

Re: Debian release cycle question

Jochen Schulz: > > - When the Release Manager (currently Steve Langasek aka "vorlon") > thinks that testing is in shape, testing (yes, every single package in > it!) will the former stable release. Usually, directly after a release ^ The missing word

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

Craig M. Houck: > > You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan > on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. When you are using a Pentium M processor and have almost no load, it is intended behaviour that the fan doesn't run. That's the whole point of thi

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

Hex Star: > > /me wonders if your laptop may have died due to some messing around with the > fan acpi config? :P Fortunately not! It's just the power supply that is dead. ACPI worked fine for the past two years. J. -- My medicine shelf is my altar. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: accented characters in console and openoffice

Pedro Neves: > > After upgrading some packages in Unstable, I lost the ability to write > accented characters on both the console and Openoffice 2. All other apps > work fine (Jpilot, Kwrite, Lyx, etc.). I am experiencing the same problem with xfce4-terminal. Additionally, å lot of characters sho

Re: ieee80211 package not installable-- IT WORKS!! Thanks everyone

Krzysztof Fabja?ski: > > What about WPA?? As far as I know, you *have* to use wpasupplicant when you want to use WPA. It should be quite easy to configure once you know exactly what kind of WPA you want to set up. There are a lot of examples in the default configuration file. > what /etc/network

Re: no sound flash animations

rancid pickle: > > I previously posted regarding no sound with flash animations last > week. [...] If you are using Firefox (I think you didn't mention the browser you are using), you may want to try editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. I got this to work by setting the only value there to "aoss", but

Re: suspend on laptop overheating

Tzafrir Cohen: > > Aug 21 00:02:40 localhost kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point > Aug 21 00:02:40 localhost kernel: Critical temperature reached (73 C), > shutting down. -- snip > I would like to change the command it runs to a script that will > basically run: > > hibernate || shutdown Hm, I o

Re: Changing cpufreq

Lars Staun Knudsen: > > I'm running Etch on my Asus M6Ne (1.6 GHZ) with a custom 2.6.18.1 > kernel. When i'm running on AC the cpufreq is changing all time from > 1,6 GHz (100%) to 1,2 GHz (75%). And as soon as i run on DC the > frequency is constant 1,6 GHZ. > The strange thing is that in my defa

Re: netgear wg511 unter etch auf thinkpad 600e

Matthias Alpen: > > eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any Ich hatte auch mal so eine Karte und erinnere mich dunkel an dieses Verhalten. IIRC kann man die Karte dadurch "resetten", dass man sie explizit in den managed mode bringt, also durch "iwconfig eth0 mode managed". J. -- As a child I pulled

Re: netgear wg511 unter etch auf thinkpad 600e

Mike Jankowski: > > Ich habe ebnfalls ein Thinkpad, aber das T21. Ich habe auch eine > PCMCIA-Karte von Netgear, die wg511v2. Die heißt zwar ähnlich, enthält aber ganz andere Hardware als dir richtigen prism54-Karten. J. -- I can tell a Whopper[tm] from a BigMac[tm] and Coke[tm] from Pepsi[tm].

Asus M2400N & kernel 2.6.19

Hi, just a quick note for owners of Asus (and maybe other) notebooks with broken BIOSes: kernel 2.6.19 won't boot on your machine if you have local APIC enabled. Disable it in the kernel configuration or, if you use Debian's stock kernels, pass "nolapic" as parameter to the kernel. J. -- I star

Re: Asus M2400N & kernel 2.6.19

WANG Xu: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:33:16AM +0100, dieEasy wrote: >> >> I own an Asus A6T-AP025H and occasionally experienced kernel panic due >> to apic enabled on both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 (compiled by me). Of course >> disabling it solves the problem, but I tried just rebooting and it worked. >>

Re: debian newbie questions

Kevin Kempter: > > 1) It looks like debian sarge is running the 2.4 kernel, did I miss > something? > If this is correct can I easily upgrade to a 2.6 kernel? 2.4 is the default, but you can start the installation process with a special boot parameter with 2.6. But beware that the latest kernel

Re: debian newbie questions

Jochen Schulz: > Kevin Kempter: >> >> 6) how can I setup a dual head install? > > The keyword for web searches in "Xinerama", but apart from that I cannot > help here. Correction/addition: you do not here Xinerama, it is just one option. The wikipedia

Re: synaptic? what no opensource driver?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > This group is full of people wanting the synaptics touchpad driver. s/wanting/having. > My > touchpad works fine, but only as a touchpad. There are no options to > configure it to not open things on tap, or scroll when i run my finger > down the side of the touchpad. Do

Re: Asus M2400N --- ACPI problem

* =?gb2312?B?zfXP/sHW?=: > > Can anybody help me to make the ACPI work? > > kernel: 2.6.3 I propose to update to kernel 2.6.6 (images should be in sarge). I don't remember the exact versions, but I had some trouble with the very early 2.6 versions, too. Especially concerning ACPI. BTW: the inte

Re: AW: AW: network installation - wlan/plip

* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a netgear WG511 (11 and 54 Mb/s, 802.11b,g) bought from a > german electronic market discounter (cheap), because my Zyxel DSL > WLAN-Router supports this. You need a driver available as a patch for > several kernel sources. I was sucessfull with 2.4.25 and 2.6.4 (

Re: using acpi

* Bernhard Kleine: > > Hi, > since I have already asked some days before whether anybody could > provide scripts for acpi support e.g. to shut down the screen when the > cover is closed and since I did not receive any response,=20 > > I will ask again: > > Is there someone to share his experience u

Re: Installing Debian on ASUS

* Sigit Basuki Wibowo: > > I wanted to install Debian on my Laptop (ASUS L2000) > but I had problem. After booting from Debian CD, the > appearance on the screen was quite strange. The > problem was the two or three last lines appeared on > the top of the screen. Anyway, I insisted to install > it.

Re: Centrino CpuFreq

* =?gb18030?Q?=C0=EE=D1=E5_Li_Yan?=: > > My T42's CPU can run @221Mhz under windowsXP, How do you tell? Do you use something like SpeedswitchXP? > but with powersave governer provided by Linux 2.6.9, it's > cpuinfo_min_freq is 600Mhz. Any ideas? I think Windows may lie to you. As far as I know

Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

* Benedek Frank: > > I just got an old Toshiba Libretto L1 from Japan, that has no CDrom, nor LAN. > I have a Netgear 401 card that works fine with Debian, at least when I do a > CD install with Sarge, from the 110MB install CD, it detects my Card as > Orinoco just fine and I can do a Network in

Re: Wireless network adapter

* Long Li: > > The pcmcia_core module have been loaded, need some > other drivers be loaded? If yes, could you tell me > the module name? I also wonder if there are some > other packages need to be installed. By the way, I > use the kernel 2.6.8 and "testing" release. You'll definately need the

Re: My LCD screen is not as bright as it is in Knoppix or ms-win

Kevin Zhao: > > I am curious where does this difference come from, and where to can I > adjust (besides using ACPI) the brightness of screen? Maybe it's just the background image that's brighter? Seriously, I regularly dim my display when I open up Firefox since my background is generally

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

Benedek Frank: > would be great. > > K02mountvirtfs S05bootlogd S30checkfs.sh S48console-screen.sh > K36discover S05initrd-tools.shS30procps.shS50hwclock.sh > K36mountvirtfs S05keymap.sh S35mountall.sh S55bootmisc.sh > K38pppd-dns S07hdparm S36ud

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

Benedek Frank: > > This is unacceptable. I am looking for a NEW email client. I like a GUI email > client, that has features such as putting emails to the folders I want them > to go (filtering) and has support for more than one POP account. Any takers > on this? Will pine do this for me? Can i

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

Koen Vermeer: > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:01 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > > How can I get rid of KDE and Gnome? apt-get uninstall kde gnome ?? No, but look at their dependencies (and the dependencies' dependencies...) and try to remove what you don't need. Sound tedious? -It is. > I'd be a bit

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

Hi, First of all: I wasn't paying attention and thought these are your *startup* scripts (rc2.d)... Benedek Frank: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:47:26 +0200 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Benedek Frank: > > > > > > K02mountvirtfs S05boot

Re: cpufreqd vs. powernowd

Paul Puschmann: > Florian Dorpmueller wrote: >> >>> Stimmt gar nicht: >>> http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/195910.htm?prn=Y >>> >> Da gehts aber um den Pentium-M und nicht um den P4. > > Bist du dir sicher? > Unter CPU-specific drivers steht ja auch p4-clockmod und das ist ja für >

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

Benedek Frank: > > Can I ask a dumb question? Sure! > What is the difference between like KDE and > Gnome and XFCE, which are Desktops, and like fluxbox, blackbox etc > that are Window Managers? We just had this discussion on debian-user. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg01927

Re: Asus M2400N --- ACPI problem

* =?gb2312?B?zfXP/sHW?=: > > Can anybody help me to make the ACPI work? > > kernel: 2.6.3 I propose to update to kernel 2.6.6 (images should be in sarge). I don't remember the exact versions, but I had some trouble with the very early 2.6 versions, too. Especially concerning ACPI. BTW: the inte

Re: AW: AW: network installation - wlan/plip

* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a netgear WG511 (11 and 54 Mb/s, 802.11b,g) bought from a > german electronic market discounter (cheap), because my Zyxel DSL > WLAN-Router supports this. You need a driver available as a patch for > several kernel sources. I was sucessfull with 2.4.25 and 2.6.4 (

Re: using acpi

* Bernhard Kleine: > > Hi, > since I have already asked some days before whether anybody could > provide scripts for acpi support e.g. to shut down the screen when the > cover is closed and since I did not receive any response,=20 > > I will ask again: > > Is there someone to share his experience u

Re: Installing Debian on ASUS

* Sigit Basuki Wibowo: > > I wanted to install Debian on my Laptop (ASUS L2000) > but I had problem. After booting from Debian CD, the > appearance on the screen was quite strange. The > problem was the two or three last lines appeared on > the top of the screen. Anyway, I insisted to install > it.

Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?

Benedek Frank: > > [...] MC for console is pretty good, but I cannot browse SAMBA > shares with it. Why not? My mc from sarge has an entry both in the "Left" and in the "Right" menu that says "SMB Link". SMB is the name of the protocol that Samba uses (hence the name). Works fine for me. J. --

Re: i810 driver and X

Takis Diakoumis: > > when switching to external display the top of the screen is garbage and > the screen has moved down. when switching to both screens - both exhibit > the top 50 or so pixels as garbage and when switching back to laptop > screen only it stays as garbage. the only way i can retri

Re: i810 driver and X

Takis Diakoumis: > > i'm experiencing a problem when switching views from laptop lcd to > external display and back or with both. Some perhaps interesting links about this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285818 http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/200

Re: gnome-terminal

Willie McKemie: > > A while back, I stumbled on the gnome-terminal feature that allow one > to pass a URL to a browser very easily; I've become quite a fan of that > feature. However, I have found it nowhere documented. And, I have a > new install that calls up Konqueror rather than Firefox.

Re: gnome-terminal

Willie McKemie: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:10:01PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > > > > On my system, using Gnome, I use the > > Applications > Desktop Preferences > Advanced > Preferred Applications > > menu and choose Web Browser. > > Thanks to Eric, Jochem, and Vivek! I am not at all familia

Re: gnome-terminal

Willie McKemie: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:08:14PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > Don't ask me where this stuff is saved in the file system but Gnome uses > > the "gconf" system. Run gconf-editor to get an idea. It looks a bit like > > the Windo

Re: Convert emails from KMail, or from Sylpheed

Benedek Frank: > > p.s. Of course I am still looking for an easier solution if there is one, > like > a script, etc. I don't think you will find a solution much simpler than setting up dovecot. J. -- If I was a supermodel I would give all my cocaine to the socially excluded. [Agree] [Disagr

Re: Best "network manager"

Bill Moseley: > > When I'm away from my home lan I create an ssh tunnel from localhost > port 2525 to port 25 on my mail machine so sending mail still works. > That also means I have to update my exim.conf file's smarthost setting > to deliver all mail to localhost:2525. IMHO a good idea. I tunne

Re: Netgear wg511, 2.6/Sarge - weird?

Rusty Carruth: > > Ok, I'm playing with a friends Netgear WG511 card under > Sarge/kernel 2.6. When did your friend purchase the card? And what's printed at the bottom? Unfortunately, Netgear decided to switch chipsets without changing the product name or the PCI-ID. Therefore they are hard to tel

Re: Wireless network card

Jaromir Moskvan: > > the Netgear WG511 is definitely supported Unfortunately this isn't true anymore. Netgear decided to switch away from the well-supported prism54 chipset to something else without changing the model name or even the PCI-ID (which makes the Linux kernel think it is prism54 altho

Re: Netgear wg511, 2.6/Sarge - weird?

Rusty Carruth: > > eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any This is bad. You can try do 'iwconfig mode monitor' or 'iwconfig mode managed' and see whether the output still stays the same. > During all the above the green light never let a peep of greenness out. This is also bad. What does 'cardctl s

Re: cpu throttling--what is it?

Luca Pireddu: > Could someone explain to me (or point me to where I can find an answer) what > CPU throttling is? My sony vaio has 8 CPU throttling levels: It is a cheap replacement for real performance states (and probably doesn't give you much additional battery lifetime, if at all). If you th

Re: Netgear wg511, 2.6/Sarge - weird? -- no, not weird any more: apparent success.

Rusty Carruth: > > kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2 > kernel: PCI Enabling device :09:00.00 ( -> 0002) > kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt ...blah... > pci.agent[4578]: prism54: loaded successfully Congratulations, you have a working wifi card. >ifconfig eth2 up > > and suddenly

Re: asus_acpi module install problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I'm new to linux, I've just installed a debian distro of it (version 31r0a, > kernel 2.4.27 because I didn't manage to install with 2.6) on my laptop > (ASUS A3500N) and I'm trying to get the system working. > Unfortunately I had problems during the asus_acpi installation...