Re: sudden wireless problem

2011-07-31 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:13:50 -0700 (PDT), Steven Sciame writes: > steven@debtop:~$ su > Password: > debtop:/home/steven# lspci -vnn |grep BCM4306 > 02:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g > Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) > debtop:/home/steven# ls /e

wallpaper desktop files on Debian [was restoring MBR]

2011-07-31 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 18:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Forwarded Message > > > From: Tomas Kral > > > To: Camaleón > > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > > Not sure if I am quite in the subject. > >

Re: wicd

2011-07-31 Thread Alexander Batischev
Hello! On my EeePC 900HA I couldn't connect after resuming from suspend/hibernate, wicd showed that there's no network connections available. But when I turn WiFi off, then on again and run the following command as quick as possible: $ sudo modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1 wicd started seeing ne

Re: wicd

2011-07-31 Thread ariestao
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:02:13 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I recently obtained a used laptop, which I fixed up. It is relatively good (IE, a Pentium IV) so I'm not too worried about it being able to power the applications I'm hoping to run. Generally, I prefer using a less cluttered machi

lenny->squeeze upgrade - failed with grub-pc upgrade

2011-07-31 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
Hello, In the process of upgrading from debian lenny amd64 to debian squeezy amd64 I was able to successfully upgrade to kernel 32 and new udev. Then after reboot I followed with apt-get dist-upgrade. Everything went fine, but towards the end I was asked to upgrade to grub-pc. During this choice I

wicd

2011-07-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I recently obtained a used laptop, which I fixed up. It is relatively good (IE, a Pentium IV) so I'm not too worried about it being able to power the applications I'm hoping to run. Generally, I prefer using a less cluttered machine with minimal software. So, I loaded the laptop with lxd

SOLUTION: Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-31 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:05 Tue 26 Jul, Dr. Ed Morbius (dredmorb...@gmail.com) wrote: > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > Chromium and Firefox. > > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and > Firefox 5 isn't available either. > > I'd like to manage e

Re: sudden wireless problem

2011-07-31 Thread Steven Sciame
 Hello Thank you for the reply. - Original Message - > From: Volkan YAZICI > To: Steven Sciame > Cc: Debian User > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 7:08 AM > Subject: Re: sudden wireless problem > > What does this output: > > --8<---cut here---start-

Re: S-Video on Debian

2011-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Brian, On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:47:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > When I connect an S-Video cable to the television, I am able to see > > the settings on the KDE Display Applet, and can configure it. However, > > no output manages to get through to the television. > > This is what I do. > >

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

2011-07-31 Thread Christoph Pilka
Hi, there's lot of work I've done to document all the stuff, so I'd really appreciate if anyone here has the time to translate the howtos. The idea with the copy back sounds fair. But please don't forget to refer the original work within your translation ;-) Cheerio, Chris > Would you mind if the

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:52:53 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > Sometimes restoring a backup copy of the master boot record can be > > even more dangerous than wiping it out. The master boot record contains > > the master bo

Re: S-Video on Debian

2011-07-31 Thread Brian
On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 14:58:04 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I have an S-Video cable which I'd like to connect to a TV. It works on > a friends laptop with Windows. On Debian I have: > > xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7 > xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3 > KDE 4.6.2 > > When I connect an S-Video cable t

figuring out sound device?

2011-07-31 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
I want to extract sound from a youtube video (I dont care about the video part, only sound). I did $ ffmpeg -i /dev/dsp -o /tmp/song.mp3 However that does not seem to work because I do not know how to tell ffmpeg that the video has finished and give me the output. If I press ctrl-c, the comman

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:30:38 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > ... > But regardless the option the user select at install time (do not install > any bootloader, install it in a partition or another place or just > putting it into MBR), it would be nice the installer makes a copy of the > original M

OT - boot floppy (was restoring MBR)

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:19:31 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote: > > Not sure if I am quite in the subject. > > But in the old Potato days, the installer always asked to stick in a > floppy disk to write a new MBR on it. Leaving hard drive untouched. The maintainer scripts for kernel image packages

S-Video on Debian

2011-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi. I have an S-Video cable which I'd like to connect to a TV. It works on a friends laptop with Windows. On Debian I have: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3 KDE 4.6.2 When I connect an S-Video cable to the television, I am able to see the settings on the KDE Display Appl

Up to date Sid, Compile error, Linux 3.0

2011-07-31 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I also got this error with the 3.0-rc, but I thought it might get fixed. Up to date Sid, the 2.6.x kernels compiled fine. /usr/bin/make -j4 EXTRAVERSION=-random0.1 ARCH=i386 \ -C Documentation/lguest make: *** Docu

MiniDLNA and wav files

2011-07-31 Thread Diederik de Haas
Hi, I'm using minidlna (version 1.0.21+dfsg-1) to serve (music) files to my (Pinnacle/Roku) SoundBridge device. My collection contains mostly mp3 files and some wav files. When I browse my collection and select a wav file to play nothing seems to happen. If I have other files (mp3) in the play

Re: Horrible atheros wifi performance

2011-07-31 Thread Rob Gom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 28 Jul 2011 at 21:40:20 +0200, Rob Gom wrote: > >> Hi all, >> could you help me analyzing my wifi issue? I have atheros card and >> internet access is very flaky, slow, unreliable, ping to wifi router >> drops, things like that. When I connec

Re: KDE4.4 desktop customization for multiple users.

2011-07-31 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, John: >I think that's the hard way. Using KIOSK is probably easier and more >consistent (e.g., KDE does not normally read all the bash profile/rc >scripts). Alas, I'm flat out today through Monday so I don't think >I'll have time to answer the previous questio

Re: OT

2011-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Have you ever read a HTML formatted mail send by me before ;)? But since > it's possible to sent HTML it might help people to understand scripts. > IMO the backslash could confuse people. Just 2 cents, Ralf > > PS: I guess you really helped

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Sthu Deus
Hi, Ralf: >I've got for my bullshit PC Is it absolutely necessary to use such wording?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e358a36.8326cc0a.2e90.3...@m

Re: OT

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:21:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 15:57 +, > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: >> No, please, avoid using HTML in this mailing list, it's barely >> readable. >> >> Greetings, >> >>

OT

2011-07-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 15:57 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > No, please, avoid using HTML in this mailing list, it's barely > readable. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón Have you ever read a HTML formatted mail se

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Tomas Kral > > To: Camaleón > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > Not sure if I am quite in the subject. > > > > But in the old Potato days, the installer always asked to stic

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:57:57 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 17:30 +0200, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> But regardless the option the user select at install time (do not >> install any bootloader, install it in a partition or another place or >> just putting it into MBR), it would be

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1449, resp. Re: restoring MBR and 2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Since this list allows HTML, we should use it, instead of using cryptic lines > including the backslash. There's nothing cryptic about backslashes. >From the "Code of Conduct" section of http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ "Never send you

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 17:30 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:19:31 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> > >> > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: > >>

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1449, resp. Re: restoring MBR and 2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:28:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: >> > > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: > > > Very important is "overnight cron jobs"! From time to time I backup my > MBR manually, btw. also using dd and adding

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1449, resp. Re: restoring MBR and 2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Camaleón > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: restoring MBR > > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:06:14 + (UTC) > > > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: > > > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this:

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:19:31 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: >> > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: >> > >

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: > > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: > > > > dd if=/dev/sda \ > > of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin

Re: picture import from camera - gthumb

2011-07-31 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 11:48 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:35:52 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote: > > > How do I import pictures from a digital camera on Squeeze? > > With many dsc cameras you only need to connect it and it will be mounted > under /media. Then the usual copy/paste... >

(almost solved) Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:07:28 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 13:22:45 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:24:11 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> >> > Oh, and I forgot to say in the previous mail: Turn everything >> > fiddling with the wifi interfaces off, that is, nm, ho

Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing

2011-07-31 Thread Brian
On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 13:22:45 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:24:11 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > > Oh, and I forgot to say in the previous mail: Turn everything fiddling > > with the wifi interfaces off, that is, nm, hostapd, etc., before trying > > any manual method. > > Hey

Re: 2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: folks, hi, bug reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636123 i was wondering if anyone else has a similar configuration (booting off of root LVM partitions) and had encountered similar issues of root filesystems being unrecognised. I ru

Re: sudden wireless problem

2011-07-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On Sun, July 31, 2011 9:49 pm, Steven Sciame wrote: > Any help would be much appreciated.  I've seen this problem on some hardware. The best thing to try is to shutdown the machine fully and remove all power source, then try to restart it -- if wireless isn't functional and you have multi-bo

Re: 2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > folks, hi, > > bug reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636123 > > i was wondering if anyone else has a similar configuration (booting > off of root LVM partitions) and had encountered similar issues of r

Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:24:11 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:02:02 + (UTC), Camaleón writes: (...) >> But when I try to connect, both of my wifi cards fail: >> >> wlan0 → broadcom 4313+brcmsmac (...) >> Authentication with 00:26:44:df:60:91 timed out. >> wlan2 → ral

Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing

2011-07-31 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:02:02 + (UTC), Camaleón writes: > In testing I have "2.6.39-2686-pae" > [...] > > Good idea. Done... > > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > > # WPA-PSK/TKIP > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > > network={ > ssid="WLAN_6D" > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > p

Re: picture import from camera - gthumb

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:04:51 +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-07-31, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> When I try to install gthumb on Squeeze it insists on removing the >>> whole gnome-desktop. >> >> That should not happen at all. If yes, either report it or put here the >> output you get when you try to insta

2.6.39-amd64 lvm-based root: fails to boot

2011-07-31 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
folks, hi, bug reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636123 i was wondering if anyone else has a similar configuration (booting off of root LVM partitions) and had encountered similar issues of root filesystems being unrecognised. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: > > dd if=/dev/sda \ > of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin \ > bs=512 \ > count=1 >> $LOG 2>&1 > >

Re: sudden wireless problem

2011-07-31 Thread Volkan YAZICI
What does this output: --8<---cut here---start->8--- # lspci -vnn | grep BCM4306 # /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop# Stop nm. # ifdown wlan0 # For any case. # ifconfig wlan0 up # Take wlan0 up. # iwlist wlan0

Re: picture import from camera - gthumb

2011-07-31 Thread Curt
On 2011-07-31, Camaleón wrote: > >> When I try to install gthumb on Squeeze it insists on removing the whole >> gnome-desktop. > > That should not happen at all. If yes, either report it or put here the > output you get when you try to install that package. I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze

Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:52:49 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:46:56 + (UTC), Camaleón writes: (...) >> I wonder if someone is currently using this driver and what are his/her >> experiences. > > I'm using brcmsmac since 1 year without a problem. (...) Thanks for repliy

Re: network-manager to share connection

2011-07-31 Thread mauricio . contreras
T Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Movistar (http://www.movistar.com.ar) -Original Message- From: Carl Fink Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:17:08 To: Subject: network-manager to share connection According to the docs I can find, if I use nm-applet >> Edit Connections >> Auto Eth0 >> Edit >> IP

sudden wireless problem

2011-07-31 Thread Steven Sciame
Greetings, Last night my wireless suddenly stopped working.  The only thing I did differently from any other night that I can think of is close the lid while the computer was trying to Hibernate.  Ten minutes later I realized I needed to send one more email so I tried to wake the computer up an

Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:14:01 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote: > On 2011-07-29 17:11, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard >>> Product Name: HPE-530sc >> >> (...) >> >> Mmm... is this your "little monster"? :-) > > Why yes it is :D >> >> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: dd if=/dev/sda \ of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin \ bs=512 \ count=1 >> $LOG 2>&1 Okay, well this script isn't perfect and it sure won't help after t

Re: picture import from camera - gthumb

2011-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:35:52 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote: > How do I import pictures from a digital camera on Squeeze? With many dsc cameras you only need to connect it and it will be mounted under /media. Then the usual copy/paste... > On Lenny I installed gthumb application that was called by >

Re: Error message from apt-get installation

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 31 July 2011 10:24, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Whenever I install a program now with apt-get I get the following >> error message;- >> === >> Processing triggers for man-db ... >> No p

Re: Error message from apt-get installation

2011-07-31 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Whenever I install a program now with apt-get I get the following > error message;- > === > Processing triggers for man-db ... > No protocol specified > frontend: cannot connect to X server

Re: Error message from apt-get installation

2011-07-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/07/11 19:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Processing triggers for man-db ... > No protocol specified > frontend: cannot connect to X server # dpkg --get-selections readline-common readline-common install If you do get the above result try:- #dpkg-reconfigure debcon

Error message from apt-get installation

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
Whenever I install a program now with apt-get I get the following error message;- === Processing triggers for man-db ... No protocol specified frontend: cannot connect to X server :0 debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Baurzhan Ismagulov
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 06:27:18PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the > > internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it > > has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the > > backup

Re: Kmail woes!

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 31 July 2011 09:32, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday 31 July 2011 1:19:44 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I've been using KDE for several years now and much prefer kmail over >> other email programs, however, the newest kmail has one glaring >> problem for me! It separates each days emails and puts

Re: Kmail woes!

2011-07-31 Thread Matthew Moore
On Sunday 31 July 2011 1:19:44 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've been using KDE for several years now and much prefer kmail over > other email programs, however, the newest kmail has one glaring > problem for me! It separates each days emails and puts a horizontal > grey bar between the days. For me I

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/07/11 21:28, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the > internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it > has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the > backup of the MBR ava

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Hi All, What about the mbr package and the "install-mbr " command ? This MBR is wonderfull, it does exactly what is waited if you dont press any key : boot on the flaged partition, but you can also press a key and choose another partition (not flagged) to boot from (even a floppy). Have a nice

Kmail woes!

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've been using KDE for several years now and much prefer kmail over other email programs, however, the newest kmail has one glaring problem for me! It separates each days emails and puts a horizontal grey bar between the days. For me I dislike it and want to remove it, but how please? I prefer the

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-31 Thread Zoran Kolic
> And what if the system doesn't have an optical drive? Buying an external > drive shouldn't be the easiest option. I installed debian on headless server with no problem. No cd drive. What should be a problem with usb stick in usb adapter? > > nor does its owner have any friends with an optical d