Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Hi. I just want to let you know that I have run into exactly the same behavior as you did. Originally I compiled my kernel with the PCMCIA driver as a module. I recompiled to make the PCMCIA driver integral (i.e., I selected "y" instead of "m" for PCMCIA in "make xconfig") and since then I have

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Please note that this problem is addressed in the scripts for the ALSA sound drivers furnished in the alsa-base package (... get the latest version). The package includes a file /usr/lib/alsa-base/snd-dev-utils which contains bash functions which you may find useful. Thomas Please reply not to t

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-04 Thread Thomas Hood
> anyone else have trouble getting the serial port on a thinkpad > 560e to work? the standard PC io port and irq values don't > seem to work. Check the "Serial port" section my web page for info that may help you: Thomas Hood's Debian GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 600 site: http://panopticon.

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-04 Thread Thomas Hood
and posted away. Thomas Hood Tom Vier wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:01:01PM -0500, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > anyone else have trouble getting the serial port on a thinkpad > > > 560e to work? the standard PC io port and irq values don't > > > seem to

Re: Turning off esd

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Please note that this problem is addressed in the scripts for the ALSA sound drivers furnished in the alsa-base package (... get the latest version). The package includes a file /usr/lib/alsa-base/snd-dev-utils which contains bash functions which you may find useful. Thomas Please reply not to

Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Hi. I just want to let you know that I have run into exactly the same behavior as you did. Originally I compiled my kernel with the PCMCIA driver as a module. I recompiled to make the PCMCIA driver integral (i.e., I selected "y" instead of "m" for PCMCIA in "make xconfig") and since then I have

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-04 Thread Thomas Hood
> anyone else have trouble getting the serial port on a thinkpad > 560e to work? the standard PC io port and irq values don't > seem to work. Check the "Serial port" section my web page for info that may help you: Thomas Hood's Debian GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 600 site: http://panopticon

Re: thinkpad 560E serial port

2001-02-04 Thread Thomas Hood
and posted away. Thomas Hood Tom Vier wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:01:01PM -0500, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > anyone else have trouble getting the serial port on a thinkpad > > > 560e to work? the standard PC io port and irq values don't > > > seem to

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
and figure > out why it is happening? I don't know who is loading the module, sorry. However, you can prevent eth0 from being ifup'ped via the hotplug mechanism by changing the mapping stanza to this: mapping hotplug script grep map eth1 Then only eth1 will be brought u

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
h upgrading to 2.6.5, but I also > suspect my wireless hardware is failing since I often have to hard reset > my AP. It is most likely buggy drivers causing lockups. Expect further problems. Debian's support for dynamic configuration sucks. To gain an understanding of how badly it sucks,

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
rds then you always need cardmgr per se. When you put an "exit 0" at the top of /etc/pcmcia/network you only disable the interface configuration code. However, cardmgr is still used to load drivers, to control the sockets, to beep, etc. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems getting static ip to work

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a pcmcia card. > I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP > address. > by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in the appropriate > fields (I actually used pcnetconfig, so it generated the file fo

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-13 Thread Thomas Hood
of the Debian Reference. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no sound on thinkpad 600 - kernel 2.6.8

2004-09-17 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:00:11 +0200, Carlos Gabriel Drach wrote: > Hi, i have no sound (i cant hear nothing), but see that modules > (cs46xx) are loaded. cs46xx is not an ALSA driver; it is an OSS driver. What you want is snd-cs46xx. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?

2004-10-04 Thread Thomas Hood
User space cannot veto APM suspend requests in current Linux kernels. What is keeping your machine from suspending is the firmware. If you have a PCMCIA card then try ejecting it before attempting to suspend. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Apt-get update killed i810 audio?

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Hood
to /etc/modules. (I am not sure whether or not hotplug loads ALSA modules at boot time.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Choose Libranet or Ubuntu if you want all of the above plus easier installation and configuration, minus some freedom. Choose RedHat if you want to use what the majority of corporate users of GNU/Linux are using. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-27 Thread Thomas Hood
; we know it is not like that... those guys are working for peanuts, and are > doing a bloody good job. Even Aple is using linux, and they have many good > guys working for them... so it is not like this. Apple's operating system is not based on Linux. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.6.9 and thinkpad source package

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
d of what seems to be the right place for > custom kernels /lib/modules/2.6.9y. > > Any ideas please? Probably you need to give make-kpkg the "--append-to-version=y" option. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my kde sound problem

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
; depends on libesd). That should be libesd-alsa0. BTW, you don't need alsa-oss unless you intend to use the aoss program. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/thinkpad keeps disappearing

2005-01-30 Thread Thomas Hood
the latest version (5.8-3) of thinkpad-base in order to get the /etc/udev/permissions.d/thinkpad.permissions file. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-alsa bug?

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
sactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...'. done. You need to load the driver modules for your card. See the "loading modules" section of alsa-base README.Debian file. Also, I suggest you upgrade to alsa-base 1.0.8-4 and alsa-utils 1.0.8-1. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBS

Re: How to use guessnet with wireless

2005-03-01 Thread Thomas Hood
associated. E.g., here is the logical interface definition I use for the wireless network with name 'lubber'. iface home-wireless-static inet static test wireless essid lubber address 192.168.1.9 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameserve

Re: Help, ALSA and Nvidia

2005-03-01 Thread Thomas Hood
is is the msg from kern.log: > > ALSA > usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2003: > MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xf200) Did a previous version of ALSA work? Which version(s)? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: make-kpkg won't compile thinkpad-source

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
rom thinkpad-source "automatically". First you have to unpack the source tarball manually. cd /usr/src rm -rf modules/thinkpad tar zxvf thinkpad.tar.gz -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snd-cs4236 and Thinkpad 600E

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
ility PS2.EXE? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snd-cs4236 and Thinkpad 600E

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Hood
dma2=0 && /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-cs4236 The procedure is slightly different if you are running a 2.4 kernel. Then you have to edit /etc/modutils/alsa-base and add a line like this: options snd-cs4236 dma1=1 dma2=0 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problems with /etc/interfaces

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas Hood
d set up ifrename so that the name assigned by the kernel ('wifi0' or whatever) is changed to something else (e.g., 'wifi_a') that is always the same for that card. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apm sleep doesn't work under 2.4.19 and 2.4.20

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas Hood
ts". I don't think that this is the same bug. > Does anyone have any ideas? The error is being returned by the firmware. The apm driver simply reports this and exits with an I/O error. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do Y

Experimental package available: ifupdown-roaming

2003-01-28 Thread Thomas Hood
/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html provided you forgive me for the abominable awk script in ifscout and resolve to send me all and only constructive criticisms (which could includes the criticism "This was a big waste of time, because yadda yadda yadda."). -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Re: Experimental package available: ifupdown-roaming

2003-01-30 Thread Thomas Hood
ide effects on network configuration. (Side effects are OK in whereami, but not in a utility that wants to play nicely with ifupdown.) Since you have expressed interest in SSID detection, I'll work on that today. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: cardmgr, usbmgr, and hotplug

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
usbmgr? Hot plug PCI (Cardbus) drivers are not managed by cardmgr; they are managed by the "hotplug" subsystem. > If I have hotplug installed, can I remove pcmcia-cs and usbmgr? > Should I? If you want to use non-Cardbus PCMCIA cards then you still need cardmgr. -- T

Re: pcmcia freezes

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
be relevant. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

ifupdown-roaming -- automatic network configuration selection for ifup

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
this. :) Please let me know if and how it works for you. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Re: pcmcia freezes

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
nflicting with a built-in serial port. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Re: Choosing network settings at boot?

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas Hood
ut during startup. Remove the name of the offending interface from the list of "auto" interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces? -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from Ne

Re: How to disable the 'Stand-By' mode on APM? and ACPI problem...

2003-02-10 Thread Thomas Hood
Try standing by by doing apm --standby instead of pressing the "standby" key on your machine. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-02-11 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:35, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Write a cronjob that logs the battery level apmd already does this. (Be sure to get the apmd from unstable.) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
tter tool out there because I would like to integrate it into ifupdown-roaming. (Note: ifupdown-roaming version 0.26 is available at http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html .) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
t; utilities) has to put the 802.11b card into rfmon mode in order to work. Is this correct? I would rather avoid putting the card in rfmon mode when doing location detection because some cards (e.g., the Cisco Aironet) have to be cold reset to get them out of that mode. --

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 17:52, Timothy Ball wrote: > Wow... you're extremely wrong about the aironet card (at least wrt to > the lm350 cards). I'm glad to be informed of that. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yah

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
setup as normal. Thanks for the tip. Have you tried "iwlist scan"? That's what I'm using now. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-05 Thread Thomas Hood
roken and lacks some important features. However, once the work is done, guessnet will work like ifscout, only faster. :) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Hood
e adjusts interface settings then ifupdown gets confused. Whereami does so: it adjusts interface settings to do its probing but does not restore the settings afterward. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[ANNOUNCE] resolvconf -- Auto-manage the resolv.conf file

2003-07-14 Thread Thomas Hood
understanding of how resolvconf works. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties. -- Thomas Hood GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 600X page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm

Re: pcmcia-cs trouble

2003-07-14 Thread Thomas Hood
, say) to be ifupped on hot plug and others to be left alone, then add a stanza like the following. mapping hotplug script grep map wifi0 -- Thomas Hood P.S. Sorry this message won't thread properly.

Re: ppp can't get a route?

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:47, Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > It _should_ be automatic. I use ppp once a week, and ethernet the rest of > > the > > time. When I bring up ppp it always overrides the default route. The ppp > > config parameter is something obscure like "defaultro

Re: exim on laptops: smarthost on demand

2003-07-28 Thread Thomas Hood
se ifscout, the automatic interface mapper that comes with ifupdown-roaming. You can get the latest package at: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html -- Thomas Hood On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:23, Christian Lyra wrote: > I use to use the ifupdown-roaming package. With this p

Re: How should I manage multiple wireless lan configs?

2003-08-09 Thread Thomas Hood
fupdown-roam.html -- Thomas Hood

Re: ACPI and anacron

2003-08-10 Thread Thomas Hood
> So my workaround is: I changed the acpi path from > /proc/acpi/0/ to /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ in /usr/bin/on_ac_power. Upgrading your powermgmt-base package would have done that too. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Need help on configuring laptop-net

2003-08-21 Thread Thomas Hood
Xavier Maillard wrote: > Anybpdy can help me to configure it please? Get the laptop-net-doc package. For an alternative autoconfigurer, look at ifupdown-roam. http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roam.html -- Thomas Hood

Re: Need help on configuring laptop-net

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Hood
> What I expect is a tool able to set the WHOLE laptop > configuration according to the current environment. > > For example, at home I use my wired network with a Xinerama'd > Xsession in 16bits. At work, I am using a wireless connection > and no Xinerama. My printers are different, etc... Ifupdo

[ANNOUNCE] resolvconf -- Manage the resolv.conf file

2003-09-01 Thread Thomas Hood
want to gain an understanding of how resolvconf works. Please file bugs through the bug tracking system if you run into any difficulties. -- Thomas Hood Resolvconf package: http://packages.debian.org/resolvconf GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 600X page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600ln

Re: Two fixed network cards

2003-09-07 Thread Thomas Hood
working, maybe you could let > us know what you did. You should try the very latest release of ifplugd and if that doesn't work then continue trying the releases as they come out. The author of ifplugd is still busy improving the wireless network link detection code. -- Thomas Hood

Re: ignore system APM suspend on AC power

2002-03-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Jaume: If you want system suspend requests to be ignored while on ac power, what you would need to do is set SUSPEND_ON_AC=false in /etc/apm/apmd_proxy.conf. The default is "true". Even so, that won't do it. Current kernels do _not_ support the rejection of suspend requests. It is not a question

Re: APM Suspend on I8K

2002-04-11 Thread Thomas Hood
--- I've got my Dell I8K running Sid with a 2.4.17 kernel and everything works just fine. I only have one problem with the system. If I use Fn + Esc to suspend, or if I close the cover, the BIOS seems to handle the suspend. That is, none of th

nsc-ircc "wrong chip version"

2002-04-14 Thread Thomas Hood
IrDA folks: I think the test should be removed. If it isn't removed, the code should at least be changed so that instead of "Wrong chip version 16" it says: Wrong module I.D. 0x1 where 0x1 is the content of the high nybble. // Th

Re: tpctl on a thinkpad

2002-04-24 Thread Thomas Hood
You (who aren't root) need read permission on /dev/smapi in order to examine settings. You also need write permission in order to change settings. Try sudo tpctl --H -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Using a PS/2 mouse, USB wheel mouse, gpm, and X simultaneously?

2002-04-27 Thread Thomas Hood
gpm can only read one mouse at a time SFAIK; however X can handle multiple mice. See the "multiple mice and X" section of my web page for more info: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm#secmouse signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ignore system APM suspend on AC power

2002-03-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Jaume: If you want system suspend requests to be ignored while on ac power, what you would need to do is set SUSPEND_ON_AC=false in /etc/apm/apmd_proxy.conf. The default is "true". Even so, that won't do it. Current kernels do _not_ support the rejection of suspend requests. It is not a questio

Re: APM Suspend on I8K

2002-04-11 Thread Thomas Hood
--- I've got my Dell I8K running Sid with a 2.4.17 kernel and everything works just fine. I only have one problem with the system. If I use Fn + Esc to suspend, or if I close the cover, the BIOS seems to handle the suspend. That is, none of t

nsc-ircc "wrong chip version"

2002-04-14 Thread Thomas Hood
IrDA folks: I think the test should be removed. If it isn't removed, the code should at least be changed so that instead of "Wrong chip version 16" it says: Wrong module I.D. 0x1 where 0x1 is the content of the high nybble. // Th

Re: tpctl on a thinkpad

2002-04-24 Thread Thomas Hood
You (who aren't root) need read permission on /dev/smapi in order to examine settings. You also need write permission in order to change settings. Try sudo tpctl --H -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Using a PS/2 mouse, USB wheel mouse, gpm, and X simultaneously?

2002-04-27 Thread Thomas Hood
gpm can only read one mouse at a time SFAIK; however X can handle multiple mice. See the "multiple mice and X" section of my web page for more info: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm#secmouse signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: apm sleep doesn't work under 2.4.19 and 2.4.20

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas Hood
ts". I don't think that this is the same bug. > Does anyone have any ideas? The error is being returned by the firmware. The apm driver simply reports this and exits with an I/O error. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do Y

Experimental package available: ifupdown-roaming

2003-01-28 Thread Thomas Hood
/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html provided you forgive me for the abominable awk script in ifscout and resolve to send me all and only constructive criticisms (which could includes the criticism "This was a big waste of time, because yadda yadda yadda."). -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Experimental package available: ifupdown-roaming

2003-01-30 Thread Thomas Hood
ide effects on network configuration. (Side effects are OK in whereami, but not in a utility that wants to play nicely with ifupdown.) Since you have expressed interest in SSID detection, I'll work on that today. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: cardmgr, usbmgr, and hotplug

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
usbmgr? Hot plug PCI (Cardbus) drivers are not managed by cardmgr; they are managed by the "hotplug" subsystem. > If I have hotplug installed, can I remove pcmcia-cs and usbmgr? > Should I? If you want to use non-Cardbus PCMCIA cards then you still need cardmgr. -- T

Re: pcmcia freezes

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
be relevant. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

ifupdown-roaming -- automatic network configuration selection forifup

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
this. :) Please let me know if and how it works for you. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSC

Re: pcmcia freezes

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
nflicting with a built-in serial port. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Choosing network settings at boot?

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas Hood
ut during startup. Remove the name of the offending interface from the list of "auto" interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces? -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from Ne

Re: How to disable the 'Stand-By' mode on APM? and ACPI problem...

2003-02-10 Thread Thomas Hood
Try standing by by doing apm --standby instead of pressing the "standby" key on your machine. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-02-11 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:35, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Write a cronjob that logs the battery level apmd already does this. (Be sure to get the apmd from unstable.) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
tter tool out there because I would like to integrate it into ifupdown-roaming. (Note: ifupdown-roaming version 0.26 is available at http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html .) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
t; utilities) has to put the 802.11b card into rfmon mode in order to work. Is this correct? I would rather avoid putting the card in rfmon mode when doing location detection because some cards (e.g., the Cisco Aironet) have to be cold reset to get them out of that mode. --

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 17:52, Timothy Ball wrote: > Wow... you're extremely wrong about the aironet card (at least wrt to > the lm350 cards). I'm glad to be informed of that. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yah

Re: ls[wireless]

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
setup as normal. Thanks for the tip. Have you tried "iwlist scan"? That's what I'm using now. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug forifupdown-roaming

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Hood
e adjusts interface settings then ifupdown gets confused. Whereami does so: it adjusts interface settings to do its probing but does not restore the settings afterward. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug forifupdown-roaming

2003-06-05 Thread Thomas Hood
roken and lacks some important features. However, once the work is done, guessnet will work like ifscout, only faster. :) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ANNOUNCE] resolvconf -- Auto-manage the resolv.conf file

2003-07-14 Thread Thomas Hood
understanding of how resolvconf works. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties. -- Thomas Hood GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 600X page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: pcmcia-cs trouble

2003-07-14 Thread Thomas Hood
, say) to be ifupped on hot plug and others to be left alone, then add a stanza like the following. mapping hotplug script grep map wifi0 -- Thomas Hood P.S. Sorry this message won't thread properly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp can't get a route?

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:47, Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > It _should_ be automatic. I use ppp once a week, and ethernet the rest of the > > time. When I bring up ppp it always overrides the default route. The ppp > > config parameter is something obscure like "defaultroute"

Re: exim on laptops: smarthost on demand

2003-07-28 Thread Thomas Hood
se ifscout, the automatic interface mapper that comes with ifupdown-roaming. You can get the latest package at: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roaming.html -- Thomas Hood On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:23, Christian Lyra wrote: > I use to use the ifupdown-roaming package. With this p

Re: ACPI and anacron

2003-08-10 Thread Thomas Hood
> So my workaround is: I changed the acpi path from > /proc/acpi/0/ to /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ in /usr/bin/on_ac_power. Upgrading your powermgmt-base package would have done that too. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: How should I manage multiple wireless lan configs?

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Hood
fupdown-roam.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help on configuring laptop-net

2003-08-21 Thread Thomas Hood
Xavier Maillard wrote: > Anybpdy can help me to configure it please? Get the laptop-net-doc package. For an alternative autoconfigurer, look at ifupdown-roam. http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roam.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Need help on configuring laptop-net

2003-08-21 Thread Thomas Hood
> What I expect is a tool able to set the WHOLE laptop > configuration according to the current environment. > > For example, at home I use my wired network with a Xinerama'd > Xsession in 16bits. At work, I am using a wireless connection > and no Xinerama. My printers are different, etc... Ifupdo

[ANNOUNCE] resolvconf -- Manage the resolv.conf file

2003-09-01 Thread Thomas Hood
want to gain an understanding of how resolvconf works. Please file bugs through the bug tracking system if you run into any difficulties. -- Thomas Hood Resolvconf package: http://packages.debian.org/resolvconf GNU/Linux on a ThinkPad 600X page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600ln

Re: Two fixed network cards

2003-09-07 Thread Thomas Hood
working, maybe you could let > us know what you did. You should try the very latest release of ifplugd and if that doesn't work then continue trying the releases as they come out. The author of ifplugd is still busy improving the wireless network link detection code. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Apmd Oops -> ALSA Fatal Error

2004-01-14 Thread Thomas Hood
y to shift left an inch or so, wrapping > around to the right side. This is fixed by "switching back" > to the X's VC. One of the PCI drivers appears to be oopsing in its PM resume code. Try upgrading the kernel. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?

2004-10-04 Thread Thomas Hood
User space cannot veto APM suspend requests in current Linux kernels. What is keeping your machine from suspending is the firmware. If you have a PCMCIA card then try ejecting it before attempting to suspend. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Apmd Oops -> ALSA Fatal Error

2004-01-14 Thread Thomas Hood
y to shift left an inch or so, wrapping > around to the right side. This is fixed by "switching back" > to the X's VC. One of the PCI drivers appears to be oopsing in its PM resume code. Try upgrading the kernel. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
and figure > out why it is happening? I don't know who is loading the module, sorry. However, you can prevent eth0 from being ifup'ped via the hotplug mechanism by changing the mapping stanza to this: mapping hotplug script grep map eth1 Then only eth1 will be brought up on hotplug. -- Thomas Hood A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.-- Pascal

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
h upgrading to 2.6.5, but I also > suspect my wireless hardware is failing since I often have to hard reset > my AP. It is most likely buggy drivers causing lockups. Expect further problems. Debian's support for dynamic configuration sucks. To gain an understanding of how badly it sucks, start reading the bugs open against hotplug and ifupdown. -- Thomas Hood

Re: WLAN-Card on Sarge

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
rds then you always need cardmgr per se. When you put an "exit 0" at the top of /etc/pcmcia/network you only disable the interface configuration code. However, cardmgr is still used to load drivers, to control the sockets, to beep, etc. -- Thomas Hood

Re: problems getting static ip to work

2004-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> I have a laptop running Debian, whose network interface is a pcmcia card. > I use it as an IMAP mail server. Recently, I tried giving it a static IP > address. > by changing /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and filling in the appropriate > fields (I actually used pcnetconfig, so it generated the file fo

Re: persistent interface

2004-06-13 Thread Thomas Hood
of the Debian Reference. -- Thomas Hood

Re: no sound on thinkpad 600 - kernel 2.6.8

2004-09-17 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:00:11 +0200, Carlos Gabriel Drach wrote: > Hi, i have no sound (i cant hear nothing), but see that modules > (cs46xx) are loaded. cs46xx is not an ALSA driver; it is an OSS driver. What you want is snd-cs46xx. -- Thomas Hood

Re: failed ifup leaves device up

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
gt; ifup later it fails because the device is already up. Is it a bug in > ifplugd, ifupdown, or my misconfiguration? The behavior is documented in interfaces(5). See also bug #286148. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

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