Issues with ethernet in testing/lenny

Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card, at least according to the Windows Vista devise manager. Anyway, I do have a very basic

Re: converting file system

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:18:53AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:04:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > > Thi

Re: Opinions XFS

Mumia W.. wrote: > David Brodbeck wrote: > > However, it doesn't journal data, only metadata, so you may lose a > > bit of data if the system goes down uncleanly. The filesystem > > will be protected from corruption, however. (Ext3fs can also be > > configured this way, but its default is to jour

Re: Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

On Fri August 3 2007 21:50, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:15:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri August 3 2007 12:48, Vasil Benov wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype 1.4 beta) applications are > > > blurry. Has anyone encountered the sam

Re: Adaptec 2100s

i dumped into 'busybox' but i cant find /etc/mkinitramfs... in /etc i can only find: modprobe.d, scsi_id.config udev. thanks. Fabrizio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Adaptec 2100s

i report the "i20" boot sequence... i think it can be helpful: i20: checking for pci i20 controllers... iop0: controller found (:00:09.0) iop0: installed at irq 5 i20: iop0: activating i20 controller... i20: iop0: this may take a few minutes if there are many devices iop0: HRT has 1 entris of

Re: Opinions XFS

On 08/03/2007 10:37 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: --- El Vie 03 Ago 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: mi: XFS and grub do not work nicely together, therefore you'll need /boot mi: mounted with EXT3, everything else can be XFS, even / . mi: And What about lilo?

Re: Opinions XFS

On 08/03/2007 09:44 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: [...] I think there's a bit of Not Invented Here syndrome with XFS that causes people to be wary of it, but in my experience it's a rock-solid filesystem. However, it doesn't journal data, only metadata, so you may lose a bit of data if the system

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:04:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to > > > conv

Re: converting file system

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to > > convert? Create a new LV, make the new filesystem, tar the data over to > > it. Whe

Re: Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:15:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri August 3 2007 12:48, Vasil Benov wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype 1.4 beta) applications are blurry. > > Has anyone encountered the same problem? > > There is a thread on the Ubuntu mailing list, b

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:35:54AM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote: > I tried to change the IDE cables (I had a few spares from my father's > computer). > I happened to notice that I had a 40 pins cable. I replaced it with a 80 pins > cable. I have two, I tried both: nothing changed. I still hav

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to > convert? Create a new LV, make the new filesystem, tar the data over to > it. When everything is working, delete the old LV. If you need extra > space dur

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:17:21PM -0400, Phill Atwood wrote: > I had run into ntfs-3g while googling earlier. It does intrigue me. > Making my own package to install it is probably way over my head. > Although, I would like to get into package maintenance. If this is not > too big a piece to c

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Francois, > > I agree with Doug: CRC errors shouldn't be ignored. At _best_ they are a > sign that something in your system is marginal. At worst you end up > reading and/or writing bogus data. The fact that the errors persisted > after y

Re: Opinions XFS

Sergio Belkin wrote: > --- El Vie 03 Ago 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] encontró un teclado y tipeó lo > siguiente: >> mi: XFS and grub do not work nicely together, therefore you'll need /boot >> mi: mounted with EXT3, everything else can be XFS, even / . >> mi: > > And What about lilo? > lilo work

Re: Opinions XFS

Sergio Belkin wrote: > --- El Vie 03 Ago 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] encontró un teclado y tipeó lo > siguiente: > > mi: XFS and grub do not work nicely together, therefore you'll need /boot   > > mi: mounted with EXT3, everything else can be XFS, even / . > > mi: > > And What about lilo? I would n

Re: Opinions XFS

Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed > because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good > alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should be relegated to > critical missions servers. I like and have u

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:17:21PM -0400, Phill Atwood wrote: > > > > Success. Although I can't say that I really understand. Setting > umask=0222 in the /etc/fstab file did the trick. I don't understand why > mounting a ro partition to a directory with just write permissions would > work. 054

Re: Opinions XFS

--- El Vie 03 Ago 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > mi: XFS and grub do not work nicely together, therefore you'll need /boot   > mi: mounted with EXT3, everything else can be XFS, even / . > mi: And What about lilo? -- Sergio Belkin Teléfonos 15-5494-5143 //

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Sat, 2007-04-08 at 01:24 +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi Phil, > > err ... well, which suggestion? Anyway, I found the following: > Maybe it was Doug who made the suggestion. > * Are you using "alternative data streams" [sorry, that's an direct German to > English translation ... d

Re: Opinions XFS

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:44:03PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > I have a MythTV system where there are lots of large (2+ gigabyte) > video recordings. With ext3, deletes would block all writes to the > filesystem until they completed, causing skips if there was an > ongoing recording. W

Re: converting file system

On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Is there a way to convert from ext2 to anything? Well, you can convert from ext2 to ext3 just by adding a journal with tune2fs and remounting. The actual on-disk format is identical; the journal is just a special 'file.' -- To UNSUB

Re: Opinions XFS

On Aug 3, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Miles Bader wrote: What about speed? I've noticed that on some systems I use that have XFS filesystems, many file operations are slw -- in particular, deleting files seems to take forever. Ext2/3 seem much, much faster in general... That's almost prec

Re: Opinions XFS

Quoting Sergio Belkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should be relegated to critical missions servers. X

Re: Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

On Fri August 3 2007 12:48, Vasil Benov wrote: > Hi all, > > The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype 1.4 beta) applications are blurry. > Has anyone encountered the same problem? > There is a thread on the Ubuntu mailing list, but it does not offer any > solution. I noticed that too a while ago, one

Re: Opinions XFS

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:37:31PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > >> I love XFS!! >> >> The only thing I cannot do with XFS is boot from that disk so I need to >> make a `/boot' partition to get it to boot but the rest is works great!! >> Smoothly :) > > W

Re: Opinions XFS

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:37:31PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > I love XFS!! > > The only thing I cannot do with XFS is boot from that disk so I need to > make a `/boot' partition to get it to boot but the rest is works great!! > Smoothly :) Why can't you boot from it? Doesn't GRU

Re: Opinions XFS

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:04:44PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Sergio Belkin wrote: > >Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed > >because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a > >good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should b

Re: Opinions XFS

Sergio Belkin wrote: >> JL: The only thing I cannot do with XFS is boot from that disk so I need to >> JL: make a `/boot' partition to get it to boot but the rest is works >> great!! JL: Smoothly :) >> JL: >> JL: Regards, >> JL: Jose Luis. > > Thanks for your opinions, so is not possible boot from

Re: Opinions XFS

--- El Vie 03 Ago 2007, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > JL: Sergio Belkin wrote: > JL: > Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was > amazed JL: > because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs > should be a good JL: > al

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

On 2007-08-03, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't suppose that, while it has to be in .doc format, it doesn't have > to be editable? Could you make each page an .eps (or other graphic > image) and plonk it down on a page in OO and then save it in .doc? It > would then _loo

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Francois Duranleau wrote: On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought he got the errors with the old kernel (and had for a long time) but they did not trigger a filesystem check. My hunch was that the 2.6.x IDE driver (or ext3 driver) is handling t

Re: Opinions XFS

Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed > because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good > alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should be relegated to > critical missions servers. > > Thanks in adv

Re: converting file system

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:15:42PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: from the RM bug report: - The final step in converting a filesystem, reordering the blocks of the target filesystem, is apparently programmed in a very inefficient way, and it can take weeks

Re: Opinions XFS

Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was >> amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs >> should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should >> be relegated to critical missions servers. >

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:15:42PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > from the RM bug report: > > - The final step in converting a filesystem, reordering the blocks of > the target filesystem, is apparently programmed in a very inefficient > way, and it can take weeks for large filesystem

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:44:39PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Is there a way to convert from ext2 to anything? > I think its the tried-and-true method of tar by way of spare space on some device. This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to convert? Create a new LV,

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:44:39PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: >> On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're

Re: Opinions XFS

Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should be relegated to critical missions servers. Thanks in advance!

Opinions XFS

Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should be relegated to critical missions servers. Thanks in advance! -- Sergio Belkin -

Re: converting file system

Andrew J. Barr wrote: On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by doing a ba

Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:56:05PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [1] I dare you, I double-dare you! make me! make me! ;-P A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:38:36 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > that's a semi-solution to the problem, but I could find an > extension to the browser somewhere with Google that makes it open things > with the browser I've tried to find such thing everywhere but all failed. Please share the url that yo

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Hi Francois, On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: > On 2.4.27, I get the CRC errors (not at boot time, later, and all the > time thereafter), and I've been having them for many years. I mentionned > just in case there might be a link with my problem. Otherwise, I am not > trying to solv

Re: VLC missing from Debian Testing repository!

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:45:30AM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > * Franck Joncourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-03 > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > > I am looking for VLC. Aptitude is unable to locate it, so I looked at the > > > website. I find that

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs - supported?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/07 15:49, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/03/07 05:37, Csányi Pál wrote: > Is the D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs > supported by Debian GNU/Linux Etch? > > Yes. Out of the box with the 8139too dri

re: security newby

The first thing to do with a firewall is to deny all incoming traffic. Once that's been taken care of then decide on which specific types and sources of incoming traffic to allow. This way you can clear out offending ip addresses since they'll all be banned with your first firewall rule. The

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:44:31PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I am aware that the problem lies entirely in the inconsistent and > undocumented .doc format. And I know that rtf suffers from many of the > same deficiencies. And I know that pdf is far preferable for most > purposes. For reasons th

Re: VLC missing from Debian Testing repository!

* Franck Joncourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-03 > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > I am looking for VLC. Aptitude is unable to locate it, so I looked at the > > website. I find that it is present in Stable, Unstable, and OldStable, but > > not in Testing

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

Thank you everyone for your comments. I am aware that the problem lies entirely in the inconsistent and undocumented .doc format. And I know that rtf suffers from many of the same deficiencies. And I know that pdf is far preferable for most purposes. For reasons that are beyond my control I am re

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

Stephane Durieux wrote: > I have noticed that my clients are not declared in > /etc/hosts They won't need to be if you use DNS. But it is acceptable to list them in the local files. Local files override network DNS. > if I put them in /etc/hosts (and in nis table to be useful) > everything is f

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs - supported?

Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 08/03/07 05:37, Csányi Pál wrote: > >>> Is the D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs > >>> supported by Debian GNU/Linux Etch? Yes. Out of the box with the 8139too driver. This will be discovered and configured automatically. > > I find a Forum on the Lin

Re: converting file system

On Aug 3, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by doing a backup, going single-user, unmount the partition, remake the filesystem, mount it, and restore the backup, then shutdown back to multi-user. You can do the same thing with / if

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:26:11PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote: > On 2.4.27, I get the CRC errors (not at boot time, later, and all the > time thereafter), and I've been having them for many years. I > mentionned just in case there might be a link with my problem. > Otherwise, I am not trying

Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

Hi all, The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype 1.4 beta) applications are blurry. Has anyone encountered the same problem? There is a thread on the Ubuntu mailing list, but it does not offer any solution. Any help is appreciated I am using Debian Etch with Gnome Regards -- Vasil Benov, Mobile:

Re: design focus [was Large initrd, was booting problem (udev related?)]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:25:15PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:54:57PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:34:00PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > However, don't all those modules in the initrd end up staying in the > > > kern

Re: Setfont

Loeghmon T. Nejad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a minimal installation of Debian Etch (with xserver-xorg-core > installed) that gives me an error message when I run the script -at the > bottom of this email. > The message says, I think you are missing the 'kbd' package which contains setfon

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought he got the errors with the old > kernel (and had for a long time) but they did not trigger a filesystem > check. My hunch was that the 2.6.x IDE driver (or ext3 driver) is handling > the error condition

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:41:52PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're > > talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by > > doing a bac

Re: converting file system

On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're > > talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by > > doing a backup, going

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Hi Douglas, On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:28:58PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > > Now, when I boot my computer using the new kernel, I get an error > > > message during filesystem che

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're > talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by > doing a backup, going single-user, unmount the partition, remake the > filesystem, mount

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:28:58PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > Now, when I boot my computer using the new kernel, I get an error > > message during filesystem check saying it contains errors (sorry, I > > don't have a more precise

Re: converting file system

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:23:06PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Is there a method to convert an ext3 file system created with -T > largefile4 to a normal ext3 file system with normal block sizes ? > (without losing data). I don't think that -t largefile changes the size of block sizes but chang

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: [ . . . ] > Now, when I boot my computer using the new kernel, I get an error > message during filesystem check saying it contains errors (sorry, I > don't have a more precise error message, and I have no logs) and > it then mounts the filesystem read

Re: VLC missing from Debian Testing repository!

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 23:08:16 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I am looking for VLC. Aptitude is unable to locate it, so I looked at the > website. I find that it is present in Stable, Unstable, and OldStable, but > not in Testing ! http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian

ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Hi! I have a somewhat strange problem at home. Lately, I decided to finally update my kernel from 2.4.27 to 2.6.18 (actually now it would be 2.6.21, but when I tried it was 2.6.18). I installed the source package, compiled the kernel as I used to with the previous one (didn't change much the confi

Re: VLC missing from Debian Testing repository!

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I am looking for VLC. Aptitude is unable to locate it, so I looked at the > website. I find that it is present in Stable, Unstable, and OldStable, but > not in Testing ! > More information on th

Re: scp non-overwrite option

Thanks Bob. On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:17 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bhasker C V wrote: > > I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on > > FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files. > > But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cann

converting file system

All, Is there a method to convert an ext3 file system created with -T largefile4 to a normal ext3 file system with normal block sizes ? (without losing data). Thanks -- Bhasker C V Registered Linux user: #306349 (counter.li.org) The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed L

VLC missing from Debian Testing repository!

I am looking for VLC. Aptitude is unable to locate it, so I looked at the website. I find that it is present in Stable, Unstable, and OldStable, but not in Testing ! -- Masatran, R. Deepak -- This message has been scanned f

Re: Looking for driver Compal EL80

Adrian Chapela escribió: Jeff D escribió: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am looking for a driver for the wireless / bluetooth switcher of a Compal El80 laptop. Some tips ?? I can't find this to active / de-active the wireless or the bluetooth by soft. The laptop has a

Re: Looking for driver Compal EL80

Jeff D escribió: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am looking for a driver for the wireless / bluetooth switcher of a Compal El80 laptop. Some tips ?? I can't find this to active / de-active the wireless or the bluetooth by soft. The laptop has a hardware switch but it als

Re: design focus [was Large initrd, was booting problem (udev related?)]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I guess the problem is related to this notion of trying to compete with MS. If people 'buy' brand A because they like features x,y, and z, and brand B has the goal of gaining market share, it will tend to morph into a clone (feature-

Opera or kde-pim

Thought I would ask, to see if anyone has drop kmail (kde-pim) and switch over, to Opera to use it for email, web, IRC, IM, etc how does it compare ? any advantages, besides a single app verus multiply apps.. Kinda like the idea, of a unified app, that can do it all (within) itself. Thanks

design focus [was Large initrd, was booting problem (udev related?)]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:54:57PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:34:00PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > However, don't all those modules in the initrd end up staying in the > > kernel anyway, or do they get unloaded during boot? If they stay, and > > 'most' m

question on spell checking and hyphenation

Hi, I'm looking for a command line tool which could accept a word and return all legal hyphenation points. I know, that this could be done with TeX, but parsing it's output is difficult. Is there any program which can do this? Or might there be a library which could be used? Thanks, -- cs

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

Tyler Smith wrote: > I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with > colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX > and BibTex, but in the course of my work I have to deal with WYSIWYG > documents where formating is critical. latex2rtf is mostly adequate > f

Re: Looking for driver Compal EL80

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am looking for a driver for the wireless / bluetooth switcher of a Compal El80 laptop. Some tips ?? I can't find this to active / de-active the wireless or the bluetooth by soft. The laptop has a hardware switch but it also has a software s

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > over in OpenOffice only to find that when the same document is opened > in Word the formatting is screwed up. And you are, of course, aware that .doc format is NOT consistent (and it was never meant to be). If you need to have the sa

Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:34:00PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > However, don't all those modules in the initrd end up staying in the > kernel anyway, or do they get unloaded during boot? If they stay, and > 'most' modules get added, how is that different than having a huge > monolithic ke

Re: Security newbie?

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:15:38AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > Art Edwards wrote: > > > >I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication > >of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply > >to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many a

Re: Start booting hard drive, from a CD

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: * Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-03 On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:42:22PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard dri

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs - supported?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/07 07:56, Csányi Pál wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:27:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/03/07 05:37, Csányi Pál wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> Is the D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ether

Re: Adaptec 2100s & Debian stable

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:29:38PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote: > 2007/8/3, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:51PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote: > > > i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which > > > manages 2 disks in RAID-0. t

Re: Start booting hard drive, from a CD

On Friday, 3. August 2007 15:12, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary > solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive. > How can I make such a CD? Thanks! > > -- > Masatran, R. Deepak

Re: Start booting hard drive, from a CD

* Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-03 > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:42:22PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary > > solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive. > > How can I mak

Re: how to set up a wireless network?

On 8/3/07, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (quote) > Bluetooth uses the same frequency range as 802.11b and g ... > (end quote) > > That's right, and you're also right about the power meant to be limited to > less than a "normal" 802.11 transceiver. I've mostly seen Bluetooth run as > an

Re: Security newbie?

Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules

Debian Live CD for AMD64 from Etch?

Which Debian Live CD is for AMD64 from Etch? I found only . By the way, is the above image 1. RC1 of Live CD of Etch? OR 2. Live CD of RC1 of Etch? -- Masatran, R. Deepak

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:47:14PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: > I have noticed that my clients are not declared in > /etc/hosts if I put them in /etc/hosts (and in nis > table to be useful) everything is find. > > Nevertheless I don t understand how the nfs can make a > resolution via dns of

Re: Start booting hard drive, from a CD

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:42:22PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary > solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive. > How can I make such a CD? Thanks! The answer will depend on why you can't

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs - supported?

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:27:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/03/07 05:37, Csányi Pál wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Is the D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs > > supported by Debian GNU/Linux Etch? > > > > > > If I try to co

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

--- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Stephane Durieux wrote: > > client <-> server <-X-> internet > > > > That is exactly my issue . Excuse me for not being > > clear ! Anyway, has somebody a solution . > > I have read that client and server must be able to > > make a reverse resolut

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs - supported?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/07 05:37, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! > > Is the D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs > supported by Debian GNU/Linux Etch? > > > If I try to compile linux-image-2.6.18 from source, in menuconfig > can't to find driver for this

Start booting hard drive, from a CD

I am unable to boot from my hard drive due to some problem. As a temporary solution, I want to make a CD, and use it to start booting the hard drive. How can I make such a CD? Thanks! -- Masatran, R. Deepak -- This message has been scanned for viruses and

Adaptec 2100s & Debian stable

I remember a "waiting for root filesystem" when I was using a software RAID and my drivers didn't load. I had to edit /etc/mkinitramfs/modules and make sure my "md" driver was added to the initrd image. It is possible that you need some driver to load to access your RAID? If you wait, say,

how to set up a wireless network?

(quote) Bluetooth uses the same frequency range as 802.11b and g ... (end quote) That's right, and you're also right about the power meant to be limited to less than a "normal" 802.11 transceiver. I've mostly seen Bluetooth run as an extra protocol on top of 802.11b/g and thus no extra gizmos

D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs - supported?

Hello! Is the D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet card 10/100MBs supported by Debian GNU/Linux Etch? If I try to compile linux-image-2.6.18 from source, in menuconfig can't to find driver for this card. Is there some experience with this PCI Ethernet card on Debian Etch out there? Any advices

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