Re: wifi network connection

2007-12-23 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Mon December 24 2007 2:43 am, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing an experiment to set up a home wifi network. The setup is > descripbed as follows: [snip] > The wifi local LAN IP address to 192.168.2.1. [snip] > I have another desktop connect tot he wifi LAN via udhcpc, it gets the > ip address 19

3G usb modems

2007-12-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I'm going to buy a laptop and sign up with a cellphone operator for 3G internet access. Most of their equipment are USB modems, are these easily configurable? For net in general, what are the best tools to monitor and measure traffic? -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBS

keyboard remapping (repost)

2007-12-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê. I'd like to do the same with 6 other letters and there are 3 ways. - The correct one, where ^+letter would result in that same letter with ^ -

Re: wu-ftpd: how to set maximal transfer rate

2007-12-23 Thread Branko Djurkovic
Try this: http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_virtual_hosting_pureftpd_mysql_quota http://www.howtoforge.com/pureftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting On Dec 24, 2007 4:15 AM, J. Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want my ftp server eating all the bandwidth. How can I limit > transfer rate? Thank

wu-ftpd: how to set maximal transfer rate

2007-12-23 Thread J. Little
I don't want my ftp server eating all the bandwidth. How can I limit transfer rate? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Live / lh_build error mounting /proc

2007-12-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When attempting to run sudo lh_config && lh_build I am eventually given error messages saying something about not being able to mount /proc: P: Begin caching chroot stage... P: Begin mounting /proc... E: lh_chroot_proc missing There is also some

about your music, please read..

2007-12-23 Thread music
Hi, I checked out your music page, and want to invite you to start a free artist page at IAC. IACmusic.com is an indie allstar site, it recently got mention in Rolling Stone, and has been called the most innovative music site on the web. Cashbox Magazine liked the site so much that now all

wifi network connection

2007-12-23 Thread hce
Hi, I am doing an experiment to set up a home wifi network. The setup is descripbed as follows: I have a laptop running Debian connected to the ISP via phone line (ppp), the laptop has also an ethernet port, I set it to 192.168.5.1 which connectes to a wifi router at Internet port. The wifi local

Re: How do I set up sudo..

2007-12-23 Thread Alou Dialy
I installed another etch and I used the expert option I am not an expert but I could choise it to set up sudo for me and then sudo worked like I wanted it to but I still cant figure out how. The /etc/sudoers looks just like mine it added, alou ALL = (ALL) ALL, to the default one. And my PATH is the

Re: zune compatibility

2007-12-23 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DF> On 23 Dec 2007 02:29:19 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ok kids, some of you must have a zune. how are you accessing the >> thing? i've only found word on google of installing some sort of stupid 0 >> windows emulation.

Re: how to avoid cheking sum on installing package

2007-12-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/23/07, abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install flashplugin-nonfree on sidux > > > apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree > > but I got the error (md5sum mismatch), I want to avoid the checking That error means that your download is corrupted and you must try

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

2007-12-23 Thread Robert Hodgins
Best of the season to all. And may we spend the new year helping and being helped on this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't find newly added fonts in 'xfontsel'

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:31:09AM +0800, Michael Yang wrote: >> But it seems doesn't work adding the font path automatically. When the >> system is rebooted, I have to manually add the fontpath by "xset +fp" >> command to make the font path available to "xfontsel". You could put the commands in

Re: keyboard remapping

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:10:24PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. I have X and (for the time > being), GNOME. My locales are en_US.UTF-8, although i'd rather they > were pt_PT.UTF-8 by default. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has > deadkeys. I

[OT] The meaning of kiss (was Re: what to take off the root partition)

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:03:48AM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:16:33AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > In other words, don't worry about it. I haven't heard of anybody having > difficulty. Since its a generic error message (the raid system doesn't > know the system is shuting down), its too bad that the sysvinit > maintainers don'

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 07:40:22PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:25:20 + > Rui Manuel Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > P.S. sorry my bad english, i'm portuguese > > I'm a mixture of several cultures, so how screwed up does that make > me? ;-) Not as bad as the poor

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 03:18:16PM +, Rui Manuel Martins wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:44:09PM +, Rui Manuel Martins wrote: >> >>> I want to configure the installation cd of Debian, changing the packages >>> to "determine" wich software i want installed

Re: DVD drive misbehaves after a while, kernel problem?

2007-12-23 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:14:50PM -0700, Matthew Dale Moore wrote: > > Dec 18 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears > > confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request. Dec 18 > > 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady > > S

Re: how to avoid cheking sum on installing package

2007-12-23 Thread David Fox
On 12/23/07, abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Download done. > md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz > The Flash plugin is NOT installed. You probably don't want to install it if the md5sums don't match, and probably don't want to bypass that check either. Why not t

Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-23 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:16:48AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is there something else available? Is there another way to use the tools > > I have already mentioned? Is there a clean way to move to 64-bit > > relatively system-independent disk ad

fglrx: openGL broken for screen width greater than 1760 pixels (bug #450426)

2007-12-23 Thread Erik Steffl
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450426 Since fglrx-driver 8.42.3-2 most of the openGL screen (either full screen or windowed) is corrupted when the width of the openGL window is more than 1760 pixels. The way it looks: top of the window (1/4 or so) looks OK, the rest of th

Re: zune compatibility

2007-12-23 Thread David Fox
On 23 Dec 2007 02:29:19 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok kids, some of you must have a zune. how are you accessing the > thing? i've only found word on google of installing some sort of stupid 0 > windows emulation. tell me that isn't the only option. If not

Re: How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I install all packages with the "game::arcade" tag? > > aptitude install '~Ggame::arcade' should do it. Be warned that this > will install a *lot* of stuff: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search '~Ggame::arcade' | wc -l > 246 Cryptic,

Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-23 17:39 +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > OK but I try to use Debian Etch i386 arch with linux-image-2.6-amd64. > I think I must use this linux-image because of my Intel Core 2 CPU. No, linux-image-2.6-686 would just work fine. In fact, it would spare you from the mess with the Nvidia modu

Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
Micha wrote: > unless you are doing memory intensive calculations or have a lot of memory (I > would say that probably 3+ GB although some say more), you're probably better > of with the i386 distribution. The i386 architecture is famously scarce of general-purpose registers. This, combined with a

Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-23 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: > Using 64 bit has more memory overhead and no performance advantage for most > stuff (even performance decrease for some stuff). Also not everything is > available for 64 bit yet. Like what? You make it sound as if there were a lot of s

Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-23 Thread Paul Csanyi
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:04:43 +0200 keltezéssel Micha azt írta: >> For what reason should I download and install debian amd64 distribution? > unless you are doing memory intensive calculations or have a lot of > memory (I would say that probably 3+ GB although some say more), you're > probably better

how to avoid cheking sum on installing package

2007-12-23 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I tried to install flashplugin-nonfree on sidux apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree but I got the error (md5sum mismatch), I want to avoid the checking here is the error 2550K .. .. .. .. .. 87% 11.11 MB/s 2600K .. .. .

Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-23 Thread Micha
unless you are doing memory intensive calculations or have a lot of memory (I would say that probably 3+ GB although some say more), you're probably better of with the i386 distribution. Using 64 bit has more memory overhead and no performance advantage for most stuff (even performance decrease fo

Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?

2007-12-23 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I have installed Debian Etch on my hardware with Intel Core 2 CPU. In the repository I have linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 and now I have it installed. I think I can use it with Debian Etch system, and don't must download and install the debian amd64 distribution, right? For what reason shou

Re: How can I know whether is Intel Core 2 CPU with EM64T extension? cat /proc/cpuinfo don't show this

2007-12-23 Thread Manuel CISSE
Hi, On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 11:21 +, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > How can I know whether is Intel Core 2 CPU with EM64T extension? > > Well this was a stupid question, sorry! > > The answer can be find with Google, and yes, > Intel Core 2 CPU is with EM64T extension. /proc/cpuinfo doesn't show "em

‎GDM/KDM users not displaying in list on Sid

2007-12-23 Thread Vít Pelčák
OK. I solved it. In case anyonwe is interested In /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc there is line HiddenUsers=. So, delete user you don't want to hide. I have absolutelly no idea how did users got there, but fortunatelly I found it and fixed it. I hope it helps someone. Regards Vit Pelcak -- To UNSUB

Re: How can I know whether is Intel Core 2 CPU with EM64T extension? cat /proc/cpuinfo don't show this

2007-12-23 Thread Paul Csanyi
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:33:43 +0100 keltezéssel Paul Csanyi azt írta: > Hello! > > I red on the web page http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ that: > "The port consists of a kernel for all AMD 64bit CPUs > with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T > extension, .." > > Before I go to download

Re: How can I know whether is Intel Core 2 CPU with EM64T extension? cat /proc/cpuinfo don't show this

2007-12-23 Thread Micha
emt64 is not an extension. It means that the cpu is 64 bit. Intel core 2 duo is 64 bit and thus supports emt64 On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:33:43 +0100 "Paul Csanyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I red on the web page http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ that: > "The port consists of a kernel

How can I know whether is Intel Core 2 CPU with EM64T extension? cat /proc/cpuinfo don't show this

2007-12-23 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I red on the web page http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ that: "The port consists of a kernel for all AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, .." Before I go to download and install amd64 Debian distribution, I whish to know that my Intel(R) Core(TM)2 C

atimes not updated through NFS

2007-12-23 Thread Andre Majorel
After upgrading an NFS server from kernel 2.6.12 to 2.6.23, the atime of files is not updated any more when clients read them : client$ ll -u --time-style +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S /nfsmnt/zz -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 0 2007-12-21_14:58:11 /nfsmnt/zz client$ md5sum /nfsmnt/zz d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998e

Re: need help on getting CD-Writer working in etch

2007-12-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-23 03:14 +0100, Serena Cantor wrote: > I attach a CD-Writer(hdb) after installing etch on hda > > According to /usr/share/doc/wodim/README.ATAPI.setup: > > "If you have just one CD writer in your computer, CD-writing should > work out of the box. There should be a symbolic link /dev/cdr