Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > It appeared to have been installed with the above information but I > still cannot connect to the net.  I have tried to send my log file and > dmseg file but apparently it will not go through.  Thank you Charlie > though that did appear to work with no error messages. > M

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Mike McClain
Don't know if this will help but... I have a 2 box network, Wheezy and Win2K, cable connected and able to access directories on the Win2K box from Debian. Never needed to go the other way. The Linux box is named playground, the Win2K box South40. There is a router between them but it's not necessar

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 08/19/2016 07:15 PM, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:59:06 -0400 Maureen L Thomas sent: Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the old machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that firmware and the needed driver on a USB stick and on an i

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 August 2016 18:45:44 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2016 23:31:11 Brian wrote: > > On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 17:59:06 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit > > > the old machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 August 2016 18:38:05 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > On 08/19/2016 06:31 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 17:59:06 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >> Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit > >> the old machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fin

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:59:06 -0400 Maureen L Thomas sent: > Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the > old machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that > firmware and the needed driver on a USB stick and on an iso disk for > stretch. The USB is

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 08/19/2016 06:31 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 17:59:06 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >>> Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the >>> old >>> machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that >>> firmwa

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 August 2016 23:31:11 Brian wrote: > On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 17:59:06 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the old > > machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that firmware > > and the needed driver on a U

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 08/19/2016 06:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 17:59:06 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the old machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that firmware and the needed driver on a USB stick and on an

Re: Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 17:59:06 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the old > machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that firmware > and the needed driver on a USB stick and on an iso disk for stretch. The > USB is

Can't install new driver

2016-08-19 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Ok, so I got rid of the windows machine and found a card that fit the old machine. It needs the rtl_nic driver to work. Fine I have that firmware and the needed driver on a USB stick and on an iso disk for stretch. The USB is just the firmware for these type of cards. I must be losing my mi

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 12:32:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/19/2016 9:56 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Friday 19 August 2016 14:59:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 8/19/2016 8:51 AM, Brian wrote: > >>>On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 07:41:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/18/2016 9:04 AM, Brian

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/19/2016 10:46 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Richard, On 8/19/16 10:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: NO I physically have two other machines on my desk which could serve nicely to connect to the internet. Connecting either of ->them to<- missing words the T43 or R61 has NEVER been considered ;

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/19/2016 9:42 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] So one of Richard's two has to be connected., AT LEAST FOR SOME OF THE TIME. ;-) Lisi NO I physically have two other machines on my desk which I could serve nicely to connect to the internet. Connecting either of the T43 or R61 ha NEVER been c

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 08:42:51 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/19/2016 8:05 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:41:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >>As I had said in last paragraph of > >>https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/08/msg00609.html : >

Re: database to update ?

2016-08-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 02:11:05PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > At the end of upgrade of a testing, I get this message : > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-4) ... > dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: pulseaudio-module-udev:amd64 > dpkg: warning: found unknown packages; this m

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/19/2016 9:56 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 19 August 2016 14:59:12 Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/19/2016 8:51 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 07:41:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/18/2016 9:04 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 08:58:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/1

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Joe
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:53:22 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 6:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 22:14:24 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on > >> my desk and _neither_ will be connected to the internet wh

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
Richard, On 8/19/16 10:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: NO I physically have two other machines on my desk which I could serve nicely to connect to the internet. Connecting either of the T43 or R61 ha NEVER been considered ;) Perhaps a stupid question, but you describe "The Debian machine

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

2016-08-19 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/19/2016 02:11 PM, Fredrik Nilsson wrote: > The contents of initiatornam.iscsi is one line: > > GenerateName=yes Ok, there's the problem. The message from iscsistart is misleading, because not the target name is invalid, but the initiator name. (Probably because of the way the options are pa

Host freeze on QEMU/KVM guest shutdown

2016-08-19 Thread Ferdinand Pöll
Hey guys, I have a windows 10 vm with a passthrough VGA (NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970]) and a passthrough USB Controller (Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1). It uses the virtual Q35 chipsetand and is configured using virt-manager. On the host I

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 August 2016 14:59:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/19/2016 8:51 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 07:41:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 8/18/2016 9:04 AM, Brian wrote: > >>> On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 08:58:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David C

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/08/2016 à 11:43, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Any _decent_ BIOS should ignore the partition table. It is none of its business. Yep. But there seems to be the tendency to install MBR code which extents the BIOS by looking at the partition table and hop onto the x86 cod

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 August 2016 15:08:03 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/19/2016 8:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 19 August 2016 13:55:39 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 8/18/2016 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Thursday 18 August 2016 20:46:14 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED ME

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/19/2016 8:54 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 19 August 2016 13:55:39 Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/18/2016 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2016 20:46:14 Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:50:23 -0700 David Christen

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 August 2016 13:55:39 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/18/2016 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 18 August 2016 20:46:14 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:50:23 -0700 > >> > >> David Christensen wrote:

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/19/2016 8:51 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 07:41:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/18/2016 9:04 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 08:58:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 07:41:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/18/2016 9:04 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 08:58:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >>>On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to connect two lapt

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/19/2016 8:05 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:41:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] As I had said in last paragraph of https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/08/msg00609.html : "Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on my desk and _nei

How do I change applications which startup when cd inserted

2016-08-19 Thread Alan Chandler
I am running the gnome 3 desktop under Debian Testing I am trying to rip some of my cds to mp3 using k3b. After I have inserted a cd and ask k3b to start ripping it to disk it tells me that gvf-cdda has control of the device and do I want to stop it. I have to in order to continue. However

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:41:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > As I had said in last paragraph of > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/08/msg00609.html : > "Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on my > desk an

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/18/2016 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2016 20:46:14 Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:50:23 -0700 David Christensen wrote: On 08/18/2016 06:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christense

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/18/2016 9:04 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 08:58:23 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. [snip] It would help if you provided more information about

database to update ?

2016-08-19 Thread Erwan David
At the end of upgrade of a testing, I get this message : Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-4) ... dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: pulseaudio-module-udev:amd64 dpkg: warning: found unknown packages; this might mean the available database is outdated, and needs to be updated t

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

2016-08-19 Thread Fredrik Nilsson
Hi, Thanks for your reply. The contents of initiatornam.iscsi is one line: GenerateName=yes iscsi.initramfs has the following contents: ISCSI_TARGET_NAME="iqn.2004-04.com.qnap:ts-412:iscsi.littlesister.c83a5e" ISCSI_TARGET_IP="192.168.15.251" ISCSI_TARGET_PORT="3260" ISCSI_TARGET_GROUP="1" I

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/18/2016 5:33 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Richard, On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: The WinXP machine no longer reported a disconnected cable. The Jessie Mate machine now reported it was attempting to establish a connection. IOW both machines recognized a PHYSIC

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/17/2016 6:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 22:14:24 Richard Owlett wrote: Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on my desk and _neither_ will be connected to the internet when ethernet connection is live? You need to use something to move the fi

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 8/18/2016 9:46 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2016 13:04:39 Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 4:26 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 21:48:20 Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] The web hits I got for zeroconf indicated it's part of a support package for KDE, I'm usin

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

2016-08-19 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, (writing this from my phone, so please pardon my bottom quote) For reference: I co-maintain open-iscsi in Debian. Could you provide the contents of the initiatorname.iscsi and iscsi.initramfs files in the initramfs verbatim? (Anonymizing users/passwords is OK of course.) Also: did you spec

Re: Frequent Hash Sum mismatch on jessie-backports with apt-get update

2016-08-19 Thread Curt
On 2016-08-18, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > There is a phenomenon in one of the online communities that I engage with. > A sort of wink-nudge superstition, if you will: "If you want something > to happen, complain in chat about it not happening." Posting in IRC > didn't work in this case, but apparen

RE: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> Back in the "good ole days" there used to be a minimum segment / cable >> length for an Ethernet cable--I don't recall to what all it >> applied--i.e., I don't recall if it applied to thick Ethernet, thin [...] >> Does that apply for Gigabit Ethernet? > > Sort of, but not directly. >

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Any _decent_ BIOS should ignore the partition table. It is none of its > business. Yep. But there seems to be the tendency to install MBR code which extents the BIOS by looking at the partition table and hop onto the x86 code at the start of the partition marked by th

Re: *.debain.onion

2016-08-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 03:08:02 +, ob...@riseup.net wrote: > Is there an official .onion address for either bugs.debian.org or > wiki.debian.org? > > https://onion.debian.org > > Some of the *.debian.org subdomains don't see to be included in the above > onion list. A link to the DSA team is

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 21:45, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: i wrote: Let's hope the USB stick still boots via BIOS and EFI ... It boots via any decent BIOS. That would be the more likely candidate for failure, because the BIOS hops on the x86 code in the MBR of which the partit

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:23:35PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I'd recommend a residential router with WiFi, Gigabit ports, and full > support for purpose-built FOSS firewall distributions, such as: > > http://dd-wrt.com/site/index Whilst useful, that's a long way from "minimalist" in m