tkispell + gocr.tcl

2002-12-26 Thread Oliver Ripka
hi has anybody got experience with that? i am just trying gocr with very bad results. so i tried gocr.tcl, too. gocr.tcl tells me i have not got tkispell installed, that's ok though i have not. but i am also not able to find this package in the whole debian distribution. may there be a bug in de

Xmodmap for german Keyboard - where are the braces?

2003-03-07 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, This is an iBook with german locales. Console keymap is not mapped as the keys are labeled on the keyboard, but I can enter every char. I was researching now for half an hour to find braces like "[] {}" and "@|€..." on the X keyboard layout. I played with xkeycaps using an the german pc layo

Re: Altgr on iBook

2003-03-08 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, maybe it is helpful for me, who just posted something relating to that problem. so thanks. olliwolli

airport monitor mode/ ben8

2003-04-03 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi list, got a ibook500/standart airport here. I just tried to run kismet, but the ben8 airport module seems not to be patched for montior mode. I remeber that older kernels supported that. So, am I just doing something wrong or is the support simply not included in ben8? TIA olliwolli

Re: airport monitor mode/ ben8

2003-04-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Mark Barr wrote: > Oliver, all- > [..] > with no problems, but when I kick off Airsnort and tell it to start > sniffing, I get the error > > "Could not set promiscuous mode". > > Mark I think you have to set monitor mode (kismet_monitor/iwpriv) and then

MOL not working after latest apt-get upgrade

2003-04-30 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi list, since the latest upgrade of the debian/ppc unstable dist i get errors if I start mac os x within mol. I can not try with an other OS. Sequentially listing of problem: 1. I do "startmol --session=5" as su 2. mol starts up switches the terminal and displays the grey mox screen 3. mol hangs

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-06 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:17:24PM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello! > > I just ran vdr (video disk recorder) on my good old beige G3 without a > problem :-) > > Now I have the next problem: How can I switch on the G3 at a given > time? > > First I tried pmacpow but this does not work

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-09 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hey, On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:45:26AM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello Oliver! > > So how about doing it together to get pmacpow working with the current > kernel? nice intention! > But as I said I am not a programer, long time ago I wrote a little > program (ANSI-C), I wrote little to

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-09 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hey, On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:45:26AM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello Oliver! > > So how about doing it together to get pmacpow working with the current > kernel? nice intention! > But as I said I am not a programer, long time ago I wrote a little > program (ANSI-C), I wrote littl

2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-05-29 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, I just compiled the kernel from the rsync-server. Mainly because of the included hfsplus support. Beside the really annoying "Blink laptop LED on activity", which I turned out after having it first compiled in(I think on can use this access to the LED for better purposes like programming a g

Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-05-29 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:22:24PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > No seriously, I quite like it. I dunno how much noise the older > powerbooks make, but the one I have is dead silent. So it's impossible > to know when the disk is churning away without having to put your ear on > the keyboard. And ho

Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, this may be interesting for some people on the mailing list. There is now a live cd available for ppc like knoppix, etc. I am referring to this slashdot article: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/03/1625222.shtml?tid=106&tid=185 One can get the images here: http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
> We are on a Debian mailing list, aren't we? Yeah, but sometimes a live cd is even useful for people who use debian. olliwolli

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-06 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, > I suggest a sid-system. does someone else have suggestions ? > Think, in 1 or 2 days we have somewhat useful. Nice thing, you are doing there. So the treath was not in every way useless. But, do you really want to make the cd off a the unstable tree? IMHO the current unstable tree is _rea

some basic problems with ppc assembler

2003-06-25 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, I try to understand some ppc-assembler-code but it is harder than x86 to me because of the missing documentation. I have a big reference from ibm here. And some websites which deal with this topic. So I experiment now with the assembler code of c programms translated with gcc -S file.c For a

Bootsplash / atirage

2003-06-26 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hey, anybody got bootsplash running on an powerpc(esp. ibook w. ati12rage)? I to apply the patch to 2.4.21, which did not work at all. So I tried 2.4.20, that worked but the kernel was not compiled error-free. Then I found this package "kernel-patch-lpp". Tried that. Wont work. olliwolli

another mol issue - failed to map RAM

2003-07-02 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, mol bugs me since the new year began. Here the latest problems: when I run startmol -X I get following error: /dev/zero, open: No such file or directory a "man zero" helped out. But why wasn't the zero device created during the install process? olliwolli

Re: External CDROM RW through USB

2003-07-10 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone had success hooking up external cdrom through the USB? Does > it have to be MAC compliant? I came into a Pacific Digital drive which > would be great to use on my iBook if possible. Of course, I'm talking > about usi

Re: powerbook, airport and kismet

2003-07-24 Thread Oliver Ripka
According to Michael Flaigq on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:25:50AM +0200: > > BTW what are kismet and MacStumbler? > > MacStumbler is kismet for Mac OS X :) little bit more graphical... ;) hi, you don't want to use macstubler on mox, try kismac instead, which is much more advance. olliwolli

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-24 Thread Oliver Ripka
According to Adam Hewitt on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:46:05PM +0800: > Hi All, > > I find it hard to believe that everyone who is running Sid has been > without Oo for the past two weeks (due to no openoffice.org-bin), can > someone tell me what the deal is and what you have done to get around > it?