Re: wireless questions

2003-06-29 Thread Clemens Mangler
hi daniele! the airport works without problems, the the airport extreme not! i have wmwavwmon kismet and airsnort running on my ibook (with an airport card) you can not attach an external antenna to an airportcard in powerbooks or ibooks, since it is built in bye clemens On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11

Re: Printer Configuration

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:40:41 -0300, José Leônidas Bier Brasileiro wrote: > I'm struggling to configure my Epson Stylus Color 670 printer to my 233 iMac > with Woody installed, but I'm ot having much success... > > I installed the CUPS package and tried to configure the printer through > Control

Re: Apple PowerMac G5

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:10:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > If they can sell the north bridge, there will assuredly be third parties > who will do such boxes You are assuming a perfect world... > and if ibm is serious about linux on ppc I wonder... > they will sell motherboards

Re: wireless questions

2003-06-29 Thread Joerg Fabian Lesch
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Daniele wrote: > hello, > i'm about to buy the airport card. is it fully compatible with debian? > does anybody have tried to compile tools such wavemon, kismet or airtraf > on debian ppc? yep it works. I used airsnort with it. u have to patch the drive to enable monitormode

altered boot floppy for hd boot?

2003-06-29 Thread Jim
Hello all, I have a Powerbook g3 (Oldworld), installed with floppies from: http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/boot-floppies/release/ppc/powermac/images-1.44/ I am now trying to boot from the hard disk, similar problem to this thread:http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-2002

SunRPC in benh kernel installation

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Excuse me if this is a too basic question. I am trying to install benh's kernel at my iBook SE (Graphite FireWire iBook). I got the 2.4.21 source from unstable, then updated it by rsync'ing benh's. I managed to compile it all right with make-kpkg, but when dpkg -i

best airport card for ibook2?

2003-06-29 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, could anyone suggest best airport card for ibook2 combo? Thanks.

Re: KDE problem on startup

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Gonzales
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 06:38, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > When KDE is starting, it goes through like 5 stages represented by > icons. Unfortunately, I can't remember them all but on the second one, > where it's starting system something or other it hangs for a long time, > then the startup screen di

Re: no sound from audio cd

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:55:21 +, gm c wrote: > I cant get sound from audio cd using XMMS. If I enable the cdaudio input > plugin I can see the tracks listed in the "load file" window when I select > play-file,but no sound. When I have the same problem, but I can't read your message

Fn keys (was: Supported systems)

2003-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:38:17 +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 0:39 Uhr +0900 26.06.2003, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >it is supported (I have a French Titanium with a Debian > >distribution), but not completely: fnset doesn't work on it (BTW, > >I couldn't find fnset in Debian -- is there a rep

Re: Bootsplash / atirage

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Noferini
From: Leandro Noferini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bootsplash / atirage To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: tin/1.5.19-20030610 ("Darts") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-ben10-int (ppc)) Oliver Ripka scriveva: > anybody got bootsplash running on an powerpc(e

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-29 Thread Sam
>>[T]oday I got some "Oops" messages running BitchX (which >> of course had been working before, and worked again after I restarted). >> So I ran ksymoops on the kernel log in /var/log (I can't remember what it >> is called, /var/kern.log I think). This showed that I actually got an >> Oops yeste

Re: KDE is about to be removed from my TiBook, why??

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:44:09 +0100, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > I'running KDE 3.1.2 on debian testing (and a bit unstable), for a long > time apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade had packages kept back that come When doing so, it is important to follow the apt HOWTO manual when upgrading: apt-g

newbee: mozilla upgrade thin fonts

2003-06-29 Thread gunner carstens
I upgraded to mozilla1.3.1-3 and suddenly all fonts are very thin and nearly unreadable no matter what font I use. Reading slashdot is a pain because the italic fonts used there is ugly. And in the mozilla-mail the mail fonts also are thin, and bold face undistinguisable from non-bold. I

Re: Apple PowerMac G5

2003-06-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:07:44PM +0800, Rees Boffey wrote: > > do you have any urls regarding ibm's boxes? No, but they told at Cebit that they will be shipping blades with ppc970 by year's end. Come to think of it they may be url's for that, google should find them for you. If they can sell t

Printer Configuration

2003-06-29 Thread José Leônidas Bier Brasileiro
Hello there! I'm struggling to configure my Epson Stylus Color 670 printer to my 233 iMac with Woody installed, but I'm ot having much success... I installed the CUPS package and tried to configure the printer through Control Center > Printing Manager > Add Printer Wizard. All my efforts re

Re: Supported systems (Was: Apple PowerMac G5)

2003-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:24:42 +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > So far, YDL isn't doing any developement work on the kernel or > drivers. They do support me in some ways, they do a bunch of testing and > they have a lot of work setting up a working userland environement, but > most of the Powe

Epson serial printer configuration.

2003-06-29 Thread Christian Leimer
Hi! I am new to linux and i have a Umax S900 or Pulsar and I use sid. I have found that I must use these commands to print under linux with my Epson Stylus color 740 using CUPS: stty 230400 raw -echo cstopb

Trying to start the installer on PowerBase 200.

2003-06-29 Thread David Woyciesjes
***I'm not subscribed to this list yet, so please CC to me so I can stay in the loop of replies... I have here a PowerBase 200, running MacOS8.6. I loaded BootX 1.2.2, and I'm currently having trouble starting the installer from the recommended ramdisk image. I did specify the ramdisk imag

Re: iMac static

2003-06-29 Thread Joss Winn
I may be way off here (I haven't been following the thread) but I had an annoying buzz with my iMac DVD 500 sound a couple of years ago and I'm pretty sure I got rid of it by muting all the sound channels except the speaker and master volume. If that fails, installing alsa is not too difficult.

Kernel-Build: CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT

2003-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all. I'm making my config file for a fresh kernel 2.4.21, and I when I was asked whether I want to activate the build option CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT I asked Google (I have to ask Google because I do not understand too much of how a kernel is working): And according to what I found there (I mad

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:47, Sam wrote: > I wrote: > >> Have we gotten to the point where I should copy all the "Oops" messages > >> from the logs and paste them into an email? > The helpful Michel Dänzer (Where are you from Michel? Switzerland, Bern to be exact. > How do I pronounce your name

wireless questions

2003-06-29 Thread Daniele
hello, i'm about to buy the airport card. is it fully compatible with debian? does anybody have tried to compile tools such wavemon, kismet or airtraf on debian ppc? are there any dedicated tools? can i attach an omnidirectional antenna to it? (i mean, instead of the built in antenna i screw on a d

Re: Apple PowerMac G5

2003-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:48:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:46:50PM +, paubert wrote: > > > Not exactly since there are several claims that this is an Apple design, > > > but the 970 bus "was designed exclusivel

Re: Need recommendation for tape drive for new G4

2003-06-29 Thread Ralf Saalmueller
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 04:00:06 +0200, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'm looking at purchasing a dual 1.25GHz PowerMac with an 80GB or 120GB > HDD. I need a tape backup unit and have been quoted prices by my local > Apple reseller for the following units. > 1) Sony AIT1 35/90 Internal Tape Drive. >

Re: Supported systems (Was: Apple PowerMac G5)

2003-06-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 0:39 Uhr +0900 26.06.2003, Vincent Lefevre wrote: it is supported (I have a French Titanium with a Debian distribution), but not completely: fnset doesn't work on it (BTW, I couldn't find fnset in Debian -- is there a replacement?). Try powerprefs. (Note that it's dependency pbbuttonsd some