Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread Beco
On 6 August 2015 at 01:54, wrote: > > i forgot to ask an important question, although i'm sure you would have > mentioned it. you can't boot into Windows on this machine, right ? > > No windows near me in any machine. :) > Sure seems like a hardware failure. > I'm starting to think that als

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread briand
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 01:29:50 -0300 Beco wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Thanks for trying to make sense of this mess. > > This notebook has onboard wifi, no "physical" switch, but a combination of > keys FN+F2 that would supposedly turn it on or off. This combination never > worked since day one of all o

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread Beco
On 6 August 2015 at 01:04, wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:23:35 -0300 > Beco wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. > > (notebook DELL vostro v131) > > > > Simply, no wlan0 at all. > > > > there is often a hardware switch which disables WLA

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread briand
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:23:35 -0300 Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. > (notebook DELL vostro v131) > > Simply, no wlan0 at all. > there is often a hardware switch which disables WLAN. Is it possible that it's been turned off ? lspci s

wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread Beco
Hi guys, Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. (notebook DELL vostro v131) Simply, no wlan0 at all. $ ifconfig -a #shows only eth0 and lo. $ lspci #shows no wifi at all (should be a Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 BGN Rev=0xB0) $ lshw -C Network #shows only eth0 $ rfkil

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-05 Thread martin McCormick
David Wright writes: > I think there's a fourth field missing there. Correct! Please read on. > > Anyway, what I just did is: install pptp-linux (which pulls in ppp) > and typed: > # pptpsetup --create work --server ukvpn.ufreevpn.com --username > ufreevpn.com --password free --encrypt --start

Re: Prevent package from removal

2015-08-05 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:15:04 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey sent: > My Plan B now is to go ahead and upgrade everything else then try > again to reinstall libreoffice and see what, if anything, happens. > Yeah, I know... *pipe dream* Did that about two, maybe three weeks ago. apt-get dist-upgrade removed

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-08-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 04/08/15 17:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Stuart Longland wrote: >> Silly question, but why does re-loading a disc take more than 197 seconds? > > It comes out (intentionally) after a backup run is complete > and went well. (See man xorriso example "Incremental backup > of a few director

Re: up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

2015-08-05 Thread Curt Howland
Nevermind, I found that I had renamed the init.d script but systemd doesn't use it, so it was not sending the correctly named command to systemd to shut it off. # systemctl# listed running services # systemctl stop openvpn.service # service stopped. If I start it by hand with th

up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

2015-08-05 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the upgrade to Jessie, with systemd, I cannot stop it from starting on boot, and once running I cannot stop it. The only way to turn the tunnel off is to uninstall OpenVPN, and then reinstall it the next time I want to use it. S

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting martin McCormick (marti...@suddenlink.net): > > If I'm reading this correctly, you've stated that the connection must > > use MPPE (because of the 'require-mppe-128' command in > > /etc/ppp/peers/ufreevpn), but the remote end has replied that MPPE is > > not available. Because of this, pppd

Re: Prevent package from removal

2015-08-05 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/5/15, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:45:49 +0200 > Floris wrote: > >> now the libstdc++6 transition is going on $ sudo apt-get >> dselect-upgrade is happy when I remove gdm3, gnome-shell and a lot of >> other packages. Is there a setting to prevent packages from >> un-installing? Like t

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z "$drive"="$image" > Burning the same image with growisofs in this way worked without a hitch - > successfully. The resulting DVD-R is readable in any DVD player I got. So either it was a coincidence that system upgrade and poor relation between

plasma 5 on Debian testing missing window decorations?

2015-08-05 Thread Gorosito Gonzalo
Hi everybody, I've just upgraded my system and since I did that I'm struggling to get the desktop environment back on track. So far, with sddm installed and all plasma-* packages as well I can get past through log in but when I open dolphin or konsole I have no window decorations, the alt+tab doe

Re: Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Aug 2015 at 19:51:58 +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > No, it doesn't. I get a number to choose from, but not the one I want. 2.6 What doesn't? What are you referring to? Yoy have broken a thread and given no context for your reply. You may think you know what you mean. We do not. -- T

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-05 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Thank you for your answer, Thomas! On Wednesday 05 August 2015 16:31:07 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i cannot say much about cdw. It may or may not be using my > command line software xorriso or cdrskin. Rather not libburn > directly, if i get http://cdw.sourceforge.net/ right. > > K3B on DVD

Re: Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Paul Lavender
No, it doesn't. I get a number to choose from, but not the one I want. 2.6 is there - I'm not sure why, 3.2 - was that the last Wheezy, and 3.16 which is the most recent Jessie, I think. Unfortunately 3.16 doesn't work for me, there are problems in the SATA drivers on my ITX atom board. I'm afra

Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 19:24:19 Brian wrote: > On Wed 05 Aug 2015 at 18:05:01 +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > > I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a pre-release > > Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world has moved on and > > the linux-headers-amd64 no longe

Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 06:05:01PM +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a > pre-release Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world > has moved on and the linux-headers-amd64 no longer has them. > Does `apt-cache search linux-headers`

Re: Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Aug 2015 at 18:05:01 +0100, Paul Lavender wrote: > I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a pre-release > Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world has moved on and the > linux-headers-amd64 no longer has them. http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSC

Obsolete Packages

2015-08-05 Thread Paul Lavender
I'm using kernel 3.13.5-1-amd64, which was released on a a pre-release Jessie. How can I find the headers? Obviously the world has moved on and the linux-headers-amd64 no longer has them. Thanks Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: pptp-based vpn I am trying to setup pptpd to initiate a connection to Darac Marjal wrote:

2015-08-05 Thread martin McCormick
> If I'm reading this correctly, you've stated that the connection must > use MPPE (because of the 'require-mppe-128' command in > /etc/ppp/peers/ufreevpn), but the remote end has replied that MPPE is > not available. Because of this, pppd terminated the connection. > > I would suggest confirming

Re: Prevent package from removal

2015-08-05 Thread Joe
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:45:49 +0200 Floris wrote: > now the libstdc++6 transition is going on $ sudo apt-get > dselect-upgrade is happy when I remove gdm3, gnome-shell and a lot of > other packages. Is there a setting to prevent packages from > un-installing? Like the big warning when you try to d

Prevent package from removal

2015-08-05 Thread Floris
now the libstdc++6 transition is going on $ sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade is happy when I remove gdm3, gnome-shell and a lot of other packages. Is there a setting to prevent packages from un-installing? Like the big warning when you try to delete the base-files package. Thanks, floris --

Ric, was Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-08-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 April 2015 07:24:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: Lisi, your gmail account is bouncing msgs from me. My server may be on a blacklist gmail watches I guess. Anyway, PM relayed to another list that cares, thanks for the heads up. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in def

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i cannot say much about cdw. It may or may not be using my command line software xorriso or cdrskin. Rather not libburn directly, if i get http://cdw.sourceforge.net/ right. K3B on DVD usually uses growisofs as backend. It might be possible to lure it into using cdrskin as alternative to cdre

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Edwards
On 06/08/15 01:21, Chris Edwards wrote: So Jessie's standard libc-2.19 is about half as fast as 2.17 on the same hardware and otherwise same OS. I don't know if this accounts entirely for the poor performance I'm seeing, but it probably doesn't help. Might this be worth taking up with the GNU l

Re: Slow Xorg performance on dual Opteron + Radeon, Jessie 64-bit

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Edwards
Thanks for the ongoing suggestions. Some more testing and results: `grep render /var/log/Xorg.0.log`: [ 8898.907] (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled `glxinfo | grep render` gives: direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI R420 I've tested with an xorg.conf and wit

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Re: Hibernation in Jessie with Thinkpad T420

2015-08-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.08.2015 um 13:14 schrieb Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso: > On Monday 03 August 2015 07:37:23 d...@661.org wrote: >> >> Can someone help me understand why hibernation won't work in Jessie on my >> Thinkpad T420? If I try, the machine reboots instead. Looking at >> https://wiki.debian.org/Instal

Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-05 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Hi: I'd like to file a bug report but can't figure out against which package it ought to be. SInce I upgraded a Jessie installation to testing I have a problem with burning DVD iso-images. The burn finishes without error but the verify stops with error: cannot read track 0. It does *not matter

Re: Hibernation in Jessie with Thinkpad T420

2015-08-05 Thread Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso
On Monday 03 August 2015 07:37:23 d...@661.org wrote: > > Can someone help me understand why hibernation won't work in Jessie on my > Thinkpad T420? If I try, the machine reboots instead. Looking at > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T420/jessie, I see a > question mark by