Latest Thunderbird, Firefox Available?

2004-09-16 Thread Ed Sutherland
Anyone know when Thunderbird 0.8 and Firefox 1.0PR will be available for apt-get for the ppc? I just tried and the system said I had the most up-to-date versions. Thanks. Ed

2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-16 Thread Bradley M Alexander
Thanks to everybody who posted in response to my earlier question about resizing partitions. It was successful and my Linux partition has breathing room again. :) Once I got the partition freed up, I decided to use LVM2, so I built 2.6.8. Everything works except for two items. First, at boot, n

Re: airport and encryption

2004-09-16 Thread Adam Done
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:17, Dean Hamstead wrote: > i dont think MacOSX will be much help trying to get > wireless going in linux. > > what WAP are you using? > Using 40 WEP set on the orrig base station. > Dean > > Adam Done wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:09, Dean Hamstead wrote: > >

Re: airport and encryption

2004-09-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
i dont think MacOSX will be much help trying to get wireless going in linux. what WAP are you using? Dean Adam Done wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:09, Dean Hamstead wrote: well my understanding is that the 'password'/secret is just a human interface ontop of normal encruption keys i wouldn

Re: airport and encryption

2004-09-16 Thread Scott Henson
Adam Done <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been setting up my wireless using apples airport. So far I have > been able to access the base station with an open network but when I try > to access with a close network and 40bit encryption I am locked out. > > > in the /etc/network/interfaces >

airport and encryption

2004-09-16 Thread Adam Done
I have been setting up my wireless using apples airport. So far I have been able to access the base station with an open network but when I try to access with a close network and 40bit encryption I am locked out. in the /etc/network/interfaces wireless_essid net-name wireless_ke

importing messages/files

2004-09-16 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi, I need help on importing some items I have on macintoshes: 1) messages from OutLook 5.0.3 MacEdition to kmail. 2) files in various appleworks formats and; 3) MSword 5.1 for Macintosh files Thank you, Gunther Furtado

Re: Latest iBook G4 14" and Bluetooth

2004-09-16 Thread Sébastien FRANÇOIS
> I don't see many people using the > native bluetooth. Most people I talk to bought the bluetooth as an > afterthought in the form of a USB dongle. Maybe because only the recent ibooks G4 have the built in bluetooth ? :p I'll try to get my dongle to work someday and describe it in the howto Let

Re: {VIRUS?} hi

2004-09-16 Thread SeeSat-L-request
SeeSat-L info - SeeSat-L is the Internet mailing list for *visual* satellite observers. The mailing list operates with two specific addresses and an additional list of subscribers. The EXPLOSIVE address for SeeSat-L is [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: I have rpm archive from YDL; what to do in debian

2004-09-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > salut Marc... > > * Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-16 09:21 +0200]: > > How can I install a rpm archive in debian > > > > It s about pcmcia > > the package "alien" allows you to convert an .rpm to a .deb, but you > need to have the package "rpm"

Re: I have rpm archive from YDL; what to do in debian

2004-09-16 Thread Sebastian Henschel
salut Marc... * Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-16 09:21 +0200]: > How can I install a rpm archive in debian > > It s about pcmcia the package "alien" allows you to convert an .rpm to a .deb, but you need to have the package "rpm" installed, too. > I think it s a source rpm > > (give the rig

Re: Multiple NICs on Umax S900

2004-09-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:52:45AM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote: > However, if I pinged the IP address assigned to the PCI NIC while the > cable was still plugged into the built-in NIC, it would happily pong back. This is normal linux behaviour. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the

Re: Multiple NICs on Umax S900

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Mullen
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:52:45AM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote: > The plot sickens. I removed both the ATA and video cards, leaving only > the gigabit NIC in PCI slot #1. With this arrangement, I was able to I should probably have mentioned that I not only removed the other two PCI cards (ATA and vi

Re: Multiple NICs on Umax S900

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Mullen
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 01:18:56AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > It seems that the order of the PCI cards also matter for an old PMac > 9500/180MP that I have here: I remember that I had some problems some > time ago, when I tried to install a Realtek 8139 card on that PMac. > Changing the slots h

konsole problem

2004-09-16 Thread David Orlovich
Hi there debian-powerpc people. I'm new to debian, but must say I'm really impressed with how easy it was to install sarge on my iMac - great stuff! Still a few things to sort out but it's great fun. Anyway I have a small problem: I am using Gnome as my desktop environment, but was running konso

Re: Laptop Mode

2004-09-16 Thread Kiko Piris
On 16/09/2004 at 08:54 +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:56:17PM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > > On 15/09/2004 at 20:04 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > Anything else doesn't make much sense. > > > > Nope, this is not true (at least for me :-). > Matthias _is_ right, you ne

Re: iBook G4 + pmdisk + pmud

2004-09-16 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:02:57AM -0500, Bryan Forbes wrote: > 1. When I resume, the clock is set to the time I suspended at. Is there > a fix for this? I know this is because the image that is saved to swap > contains the Linux system time and on resume that time gets put back > rather than rea

Re: Laptop Mode

2004-09-16 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:56:17PM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 15/09/2004 at 20:04 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > IMHO laptop-mode is a dynamic option that must adapt to changing > > conditions. > > This can only be done in conjunction with a power management daemon. > > You're right. >

Re: Resizing PPC partitions

2004-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:55:36PM +0200, Pander wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:16:55PM -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > > > >>I have a Powerbook G3 Pismo, which dual-boots Mac OS9 and Debian. I > >>inherited this laptop in this state, which is fine with me. > >> > >>I