Linux kernel 5.10 (or 5.4) with Debian Buster

2021-05-18 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
I'm currently using Debian Buster on an embedded system (ARM) and am currently using an older 4.4 kernel. I need to upgrade to later version to support a new Ethernet Phy device (KSZ9131). Kernel 4.19 is the default for Buster, but it doesn't seem to have the KSZ9131 support.  I have cherry-

Re: Mismatch of wxglade and wxwidgets

2017-09-12 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 12/9/17 5:27 pm, Michael Lange wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:02:35 +1000 > "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" wrote: > >> I'm running Debian 8 Jessie. >> >> There seems to be a mismatch between wxglade (`python-wxglade`) and >> wxwidgets (`python-wxg

Mismatch of wxglade and wxwidgets

2017-09-11 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
I'm running Debian 8 Jessie. There seems to be a mismatch between wxglade (`python-wxglade`) and wxwidgets (`python-wxgtk3.0`) If I install wxglade and run it, I can choose to generate code for wx 2.6 or 2.8 compatibility.  However the wx widgets that are installed use wx 3.0. It seems to me tha

Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro

2016-02-14 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 14/02/2016 12:49 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 02/13/2016 12:12 PM, Brendan Simon wrote: >> Is there a way to restrict apt to a **specific release** of Jessie. >> e.g. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, ... ?? >> >> I build root filesystems for embedded systems. The sources.list i

Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro

2016-02-14 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 14/02/2016 12:07 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:12:15PM +1100, Brendan Simon wrote: >> Is there a way to restrict apt to a **specific release** of Jessie. >> e.g. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, ... ?? >> >> I build root filesystems for embedded system

Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro

2016-02-13 Thread Brendan Simon
Hi, Is there a way to restrict apt to a **specific release** of Jessie. e.g. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, ... ?? I build root filesystems for embedded systems. The sources.list is set to Jessie, but the contents of the generated rootfs can change from one day to the next if there have been updates. I want t

Re: can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook with SSD)

2015-11-04 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 5/11/2015 10:09 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:59:19 +1100 > "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" wrote: > >> I was/am running Jessie 8.2 in a VirtualBox on my MacBook. The MacBook >> shutdown without warning while my Jessie VB was running, and now the V

can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook with SSD)

2015-11-04 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
I was/am running Jessie 8.2 in a VirtualBox on my MacBook. The MacBook shutdown without warning while my Jessie VB was running, and now the VM wont boot properly. I get stuck in emergency mode. Ctrl-D does nothing - just cycle back to same message. I googled a bit and found that if I comment ou

Re: booting Lenny on Intel MacMini with grub-efi WITHOUT OS X partition

2008-09-17 Thread Brendan Simon
nyone know if the Mac firmware will read ext3 partitions ??? Thanks, Brendan. Brendan Simon wrote: I have installed Lenny on an Intel Mac Mini, but can't get it to boot from the hard disk :( I blew away the OS X partition (intentionally). I just want Linux on it and nothing else. I

booting Lenny on Intel MacMini with grub-efi WITHOUT OS X partition

2008-09-17 Thread Brendan Simon
I have installed Lenny on an Intel Mac Mini, but can't get it to boot from the hard disk :( I blew away the OS X partition (intentionally). I just want Linux on it and nothing else. I chose the single partition option with LVM during installation. My net-inst CD is a little old (08-MAR-200

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-22 Thread Brendan Simon
Solved the mount problem with Etch :) I had to disable device-mapper. I followed the instructions in the following posting and commented out all references to dm-mod and dm-mirror. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=494987 Cheers, Brendan. Brendan Simon wrote: I&#

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
rade from Sarge to Etch, not a fresh installation of Etch. Brendan. Brendan Simon wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: mdadm is not installed. My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need mdadm. I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so I presume

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: mdadm is not installed. My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need mdadm. I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so I presume that shouldn't need it for Etch/2.6.18. My mistake. Were you using an in-tree driver f

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it now fails to boot. Have you checked that "AUTOSTART=true" is set in /etc/default/mdadm? Did you read and

Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it now fails to boot. It is getting stuck because it fails an fsck.ext3 on /dev/sda1. /dev/sda1 is an ADAPTEC RAID card with a number of hard disks. The module dpt_i2o is loaded. None of the i2o_* modules are loaded. I can

BackupPC 2.1.2-6 on Debian Etch(stable)

2007-04-17 Thread Brendan Simon
I am currently running BackupPC 2.1.1-2sarge2 on Debian Sarge (oldstable). I want to upgrade the backup server to Etch (stable) which has BackupPC 2.1.2-6. Are there any known gotchas in upgrading from from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 ??? I also see that BackupPC has released 2.1.3 and also 3.0.0. 2.1.3

ldap mailing list

2006-06-20 Thread Brendan Simon
Is there a more specific mailing list for ldap questions on Debian? I don't see any, so maybe something like these may be handy? debian-ldap ??? debian-sysadmin ??? Brendan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Python error causes reboot

2004-12-16 Thread Brendan Simon
ng is user space so why does the whole machine die Regards, Brendan Simon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sony AIT-1 tape backup

2004-11-09 Thread Brendan Simon
): ONLINE IM_REP_EN Any ideas why I get I/O errors??? TIA, Brendan Simon. Brendan Simon wrote: Hi, I have a Sony AIT-1 tape backup unit (IDE) installed in a PowerMac running debian/testing with a 2.6.8 kernel. I have not had much success getting it to work :( I have made a symlink from /dev

Sony AIT-1 tape backup

2004-11-09 Thread Brendan Simon
causing this? Has anyone successfully used a Sony AIT-1 IDE on a Linux machine (PowerPC or otherwise). Many thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Brendan Simon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple versions of gcc installed

2004-10-06 Thread Brendan Simon
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Brendan Simon wrote: I have 2 debian powerpc machines with testing and stable installed. gcc-2.95.4 is installed on stable and gcc-3.3.4 on testing. I want to compile with the same compiler on both so I

Multiple versions of gcc installed

2004-10-06 Thread Brendan Simon
can't execute the older 2.95 compiler using the appropriate gcc switches. -V or -B. See below. Looks like there are a few installation problems for multiple versions of gcc. Regards, Brendan Simon. $ ls -l /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 1 16:48 2

Re: [hpoj-devel] Can only print one document

2004-09-28 Thread Brendan Simon
.4.26-1-k7 again, rebooted and bamm!!!, the jobs in the print queue started to print :) :) :) So, does anyone know what has changed between 2.4.26 and 2.4.27 to cause the hpoj/ptal stuff to not work as previously??? Is there something new I have to configure?? Cheers, Brendan Simon. Scott wrote:

Can only print one document

2004-09-27 Thread Brendan Simon
quot; it prints fine and the queues are empty. If I run "lpr file.ps" again the printer says "Printing Document" but nothing happens. Any ideas? I've racked my brain and searched the internet but nothing has worked so far. I'm at my wits end. Please help. K

Can't get java working with Airport Configurator

2001-11-13 Thread Brendan Simon
I successfully install a Java 1.2 Runtime Environment ? (using apt preferably). I can't find any 1.2 JRE's using "apt-cache search" and "apt-cache show". Please help. I appreciate any comments, suggestions and pointers. Brendan Simon.

debian: Can't get X-4.0.2 working with a 2.2.18 or 2.4.x kernel.

2001-03-02 Thread Brendan Simon
cycle to create the /dev/hdaX links. This will solve the boot problem but still the X problem remains. If anyone can shed some light on the situation, or better still give me a solution, then I would be very appreciative. Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Mailing lists.

2000-06-27 Thread Brendan Simon
entries were dated June 4.  I don't mind a latency of a day or two but anymore than that becomes unusable for my purposes. Is there a way to read the mailing lists on line with recent messages ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Synchronising many machines.

2000-06-26 Thread Brendan Simon
ary distributions for each architecture ? Please advise on this import system admin task.  Are there any docs I can read on this matter for Debian systems ? Is there a more appropriate Debian mailing list that the debian-user list ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
o `GtkWindowType' Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkPizza' to `GtkWindowType' Segmentation fault Is this an error with the wxgtk libs or the gtk/gdk libs ? Any ideas how to fix this ? Thanks, Brendan Simon. Brendan Simon wrote: > I managed to get the program to

Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
I managed to get the program to link by adding "-lgtkmm -lgdkmm" after the `wx-config --libs` argument. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the wxgtk-2.1 package or C librariy dependencies. What needs to be done to get this to work out of the box ? Brendan. Brendan Simon wro

[Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken]

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
Brendan Simon wrote: > There was a bug in my makefile. The object files weren't being included > during the link. However the same errors still occur. > Brendan. > > > I have installed wxgtk-2.1 and tried to compile a program I had working > > with wxWindowsGtk 2.0.

debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
application that I compiled with wxWindows 2.0 on a RedHat5.2 system. (see below). Thanks, Brendan Simon. I have installed wxgtk-2.1 and tried to compile a program I had working with wxWindowsGtk 2.0. After some changes to my makefiles, I finally got it to compile but it failed during the link. This is