Re: Destination Host Unreachable

Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > When trying to connect wirelessly to a Linksys router with IP address > 192.168.1.1, ifup brings up the interface, ifconfig reports its > configuration correctly, iwconfig reports the hardware (MAC) address of > the router correctly, but pinging the router retu

Re: Xorg Only Recognize 128 megs From ATI Radeon AIW PCIe 256 Megs

Orestes Leal wrote: > Dear friends, I have a Ati Radeon All In Wonder x800 XL with 256 Megs GDD= > R3 > PCIe interface, I have the latest closed drivers from ati.com (fglrx) > but Xorg 7.2 only recognize 128 megs, Any help? > > thanks, > > -olr Have you checked out the device section in /etc/X11

Re: Capture of video stream..

ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I want to capture streamed video from a youtube > link. I think that it can be done using mplayer > but can't find the exact invocation.. > > Can the same trick be used to capture streamed > audio too? > > Thanks in advance. > -ishwar If you are using iceweasel you can

Re: Problems in installing Windows in VMWare 5.5 on debian

Liao Xuefeng wrote: > Hi, > I have installed vmware workstation 5.5 in debian etch r0, but it has > problems in installing windows xp. some files cannot be found in CD-ROM or > ISO (both I have tried). Anybody who installed windows successfully in > vmware on Linux? > > Yours > sincerely. >

Re: ndiswrapper problem

Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. >> >> I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using >> ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11

Re: where does kmail keep its mail files?

andy wrote: >> The only other suggestion I had from the KDE list when I wanted to move >> mail, was to look in /home/user.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail . That's a bit >> hit and miss, but you might find it there. >> >> Nigel. >> >> >> > Thanks Nigel - you hit the nail on the head. > > Much

Re: question about dns server at home

Jordi wrote: > So I need that IP for my home server. > > If I need another IP for a dns server, and must have the dns server in > another place or pc, I think I should not do a dns server. For I need > my IP for my WEB server and can't have other pc in other home ( I just > have only ONE home lo

Re: dazuko and linux-image.2.6

Bill Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:40:20 +0100 > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bill Thompson wrote: >> >> > capabilities are built into the kernel >> >> I use with Avira and it compiles fine with debian. >>

Re: dazuko and linux-image.2.6

Bill Thompson wrote: > capabilities are built into the kernel I use with Avira and it compiles fine with debian. Check this out: http://www.dazuko.de/tgen.shtml regards Jan -- ** Do NOT use the reply-to address. You'll end up in the trash can ** Mail me at: jan A.T schledermann D0T org -- T

Re: VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > On 2/5/07, Shobhit Jindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2/5/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The only >> > catch ins't debian related: vmware seems to not like my >> > /usr/src/include/linux, and asks for a new linux/version.h. >> >> i have b

Re: Dell i600m - broadcom 4306 wifi problem in etch.

L.V.Gandhi wrote: > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > # auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > pre-up ifconfig eth0 up > pre-up grep -q ndiswrapper /proc/modules || modprobe ndiswrapper > wireless_essid "moh

Re: VMware?

Attila Horvath wrote: > All > > Have read some very good things about VMware - particularly it's ability > to support Linux distros. I notice Debian has VMware only as an > experimental package. > > Has anyone any opinions/experiences you can share re: VMware? > > Thx > Attila I run WMware wor

Re: Re: WEP encryption and ndiswrapper

Angelo wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: >> Angelo Bertolli wrote: >> >> > And if I turn off WEP, then I'm able to connect either way. > > I kind of figured someone else might be going through this because it's > happening on both my desktop and my la

Re: WEP encryption and ndiswrapper

Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone was having a similar problem: I > can connect to my wireless network using ndiswrapper, but only if I have > WEP encryption turned off. Otherwise, it never connects. I tried with > Ubuntu a while back, and it worked fine. Anyone

Re: Default boot from Windows

rocky wrote: > Hey, > > My Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop is a dual boot system. I think I'm using > grub not lilo. Right not the defaul boot Operating system is Debian > Sid. Recently I need to use flash quite often therefore I want to > configure my computer's defaut boot Operation System to become

Re: Debian Installation

Chris Lale wrote: > Danesh Daroui wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am an Ubuntu (Debian's kid) lover who has decided recently to port >> some of my work on Debian. I have downloaded minimal CD of Debian's >> latest version. Everything seems to go fine, but when the installation >> is done, the X-Server c

Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi all, > > Last year I purchased a new amd64 system: an AOpen XC cube EZ482, > where I have been trying to install Debian for a long time. Still no > luck with Debian testing amd64 net install, from April 13th 2006. So > rather than keep trying out daily images and wastin

RE: How to correct corrupted dependencies?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It won't let me install the package (even using -f) until "apt-get -f > install" (with no package name) is run, and when I run "apt-get -f > install" it crashes > out; presumably because the dependencies reference a non-existent file. > (See the error messages in my ori

Re: Wireless Network Cards

Magnus Therning wrote: > > Yes, that is a BIG problem. Especially since quite a few manufacturers > are in the habit of switching the chipset without disclosing that > anywhere on the boxes :-( When I was shoping around I ended up buying > from an online store that offered Linux compatible HW. I

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: >> Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite >> for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this >> posting) > > If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I h

Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Mr. Bird is right, but there is another thing you need to understand. > There are really no TOS that debian-user has, because people can send > to it without agreeing to anything. If you got an offensive email: > > (a) All of us did too > (b) They broke no TOS > (c) Just

Re: KVMs and the 2.6 Kernel

Oh yeah I forgot one other advice: Booting a system WITHOUT being switched to that system also can cause weird things to happen. Like: Wrong resolution in X and cause the mouse to run wild! Jan Jan Schledermann wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > >> If anyone is using KVMs t

Re: KVMs and the 2.6 Kernel

Hal Vaughan wrote: > If anyone is using KVMs that work well with the 2.6 kernel, I'd like to > hear what works, what kind of mouse and keyboard you're using and if > there are any problems. I've seen some good ones on New Egg, with > reviews that said they've used Linux, but the kernel version

Re: trying to improve my video quality with '855resolution'.

tom arnall wrote: > i am trying to improve my video quality with '855resolution'. i > do '855resolution 5c 1024 768' & restart the xserver (ctl-alt-backspace) > but see no improvement in my 'xine' picture. > > thanks, > > tom arnall > north spit, ca I always thought that the purpose of 855resol

Re: debian as a sever OS

Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am wondering that if it is safe to using the testing distro (now > Etch) as the server's OS. > Any comment is appreciated very much. > thx! > > Deepahy Why would you want to use testing instead of stable for a server? Servers are generally very simple crea

Re: QT Designer errors

Marc Shapiro wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: > >> >>Those headers should reside in /usr/include/qt3, in a standard debian >>install. > the program compiled without error, but... Can anyone tell me what I > need to set in Designer so that it will use libqt-mt aut

Re: QT Designer errors

Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am trying to go through the Quick Start tutorial for QT Designer, but > Am I missing something? I can not find a file named qmodules.h, nor one > named qconfig.h, anywhere on my system. I have tried uninstalling and > reinstalling QT Designer, to no avail. I have looked

Re: X broken after upgrade on unstable

WireSpot wrote: > I'm running unstable. I've done an apt-get update and an apt-get > dist-upgrade yesterday and didn't restart the computer until today. When I > was hit by this problem (I start with `startx` from console): > > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE)

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

Ian Kester-Haney wrote: > I fixed this by installing xfonts-base for 7.0 and it fixed it > no idea why they were not included with package > > > On 4/15/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again

Re: win-axe clones

ChadDavis wrote: > Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to > Win-axe? If you install cygwin with X11 you'll have something that works reasonably well. In my experience though Win-Axe is both reasonably priced, very fast and very stable. It is well worth the price

Re: Debian security.

Surachai Locharoen wrote: > Is there any body guarantee debian security. I want to install debian as > my server instead of redhat as3 server which just attack by Phishing. > > Kan Nope no guaranties! But you won't get such guaranties from ANY other os supplier either. Security of software is muc

Re: backup on DVD

Jon Miller wrote: > Does anyone know of any script that can backup to a DVD media? What I > want to do is run a nightly backup of certain samba shares data M-F and > rotate the disk either daily or weekly on the server. Furthermore, if > possible have the backup report the amount of space used

Re: copying a 12GB file

. wrote: > > Hi, > > how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet > connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server > or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP > server or the like on the mailserver? > > File size limit

Re: Sound problems

Rosina Bignall wrote: > > Hi - > > For some reason, the sound quit working. But after running alsoconf, it's > somewhat working again. Events in KDE work, and some apps, but other apps > don't, including some simple ones: > > > Thanks, > Rosina > > You don't mention what kind of sound se

Re: USB is fickle

ke6isf wrote: > Running Sarge with Linux 2.6.8-2-k7. It might be pertinent to know > that I'm using Gnome under XFree for my GUI. > In short, what should I look for to solve these problems? Nothing is > popping up in the syslog othe than an address failure occasionally, > but that doesn't seem

Re: (unknown)

El Virolo wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled Debian Sid on my Athlon XP machine, with KDE > 3.5. The problem is I can't launch KDE : it freezes and gets back to > KDM as soon as it starts displaying "initializing hardware" ... Is > there a log file I can have a look at ? Is it a KDE or u

Re: usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb with sarge

Jason Dunsmore wrote: > once in a while (can be every couple days or every couple weeks), my > usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, and i see this in > dmesg: > after that happens, i have to remount my usb hard drive under /dev/sdb. > after a reboot, it's at /dev/sda again. this cau

Re: openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.14, and now openoffice > freezes whenever I try to open a document, or to start a new > one. When I boot into the old 2.4 kernel, it works fine. > > Any suggestions? > > I tried looking through the list of openoffice bugs.

Re: msn + iptables NAT on Debian

Eriberto wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small network behind a iptables machine. The iptables is > configured with NAT (masquerade) and transparent proxy (squid). The > general traffic is ok. However, the MSN on Windows machine don't start > and show the message: "server is too busy". If I restart

Re: Bandwidth by port

Gawd Amighty wrote: > Hi Debian users, > > Can anyone suggest a method to track bandwidth usage by port number? > As far as I can tell, MRTG will only track bandwidth usage by > interface. Google isn't giving me any hints. > > -WG You may want to try ntop Jan -- ** Do not use the reply-to addr

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

Bruno Buys wrote: > I did remove the initrd mention in lilo.conf, and rerun it. About these > other block devices and msdos partition, I can´t tell right now, but as > soon as I get back home, I´ll check it (i´m eager to, actually). > Do you run a non-initrd kernel yourself? > > > bruno > >

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

Bruno Buys wrote: >>>Hi, Matt, >>>I'm booting of an ide disk. Nelson castillo remembered me to add support >>>to it as built-in. I checked my .config and yes, the drivers were >>>modules. So, I'm compiling again. >>>More news to come... >>>thanks Matt, William and Nelson. >>> >>> >> >>Which f

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin wrote: > What else should I be doing? I'm convinced that I have missed out a step; > or put in some too many. But what? > > I thank you kindly in advance. > > -- > ?A watched bread-crumb never boils. > ?My hover-craft is full of eels. > ?[...]and that's the he and the she of it

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

Bruno Buys wrote: >> > Hi, Matt, > I'm booting of an ide disk. Nelson castillo remembered me to add support > to it as built-in. I checked my .config and yes, the drivers were > modules. So, I'm compiling again. > More news to come... > thanks Matt, William and Nelson. Which filesystem do you us

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin wrote: > My routes? What are these and how can I go about checking them? > Resolv.confgives > > search no-domain-set.bellcanada > nameserver 192.168.2.1 Judging from your q&a you probably shouldn't be running your own dns server. Your resolv.conf though refer

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin wrote: >snip not wroking properly. > > When I go to a web site, (say google), it will say loading for a long > time, then will either come in at the normal DSL speed, or simply will > not work. Note that Gaim will often not connect (or it takes MANY > attempts) and that apt-get (

Re: [interesting] Re: Debian Dell Laptop Connectivity

Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: > >> Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > > Do you mean I would have to run Sid instead of Sarge to get > everything to work? > --- > S > > Thank you for reply Unfortunately I have missed your original posting so I am

Re: Debian Dell Laptop Connectivity

Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > Hi, All, > > (thanks to all who answered my last laptop post, this is a follow up) > > Been laboring over the laptop decision, and I am dedicated to doing this > with debian, so hear goes. > > A lot of guys in my Linux SIG have the solution to throw money at the > prob

Re: trouble with "apt-get install apache-ssl"

Will Trillich wrote: > after finally giving up (insert frustrated sigh here) trying to > configure ssl with apache, we tried "apache-ssl" and had more > trouble -- as if the install script did something screwy: > > # apt-get install apache-ssl > > Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key >

Re: Network card recommendation

Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Not to start a war, but . . . > > What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network > card - that has Linux kernel driver support of course. > > I'd like an answer for both the 100BaseT and 1000BaseT competitions. > I've tried various Google, searches

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

David R. Litwin wrote: > > I think I actually know what the problem is: Debian Sarge is telling > apt-get (or aptitude) to install these two packages: kdeedu-data and > konq-plugins. However, both of these packages have been replaced (by > kdebase-data and kdelibs-data respectively). So, what I r

Re: playing contained mp3-files

Florian Dorpmueller wrote: >>I dont know about you, but I am a KDE-man! >>Therefore I use Kaffeine. >>Install: >> kaffeine(I use 0.6-1) >> kaffeine-mozilla(I use 0.4.3.1-1) > > I have tried that with the packages provided by debian sarge. Kaffeine > only op

Re: playing contained mp3-files

Florian Dorpmueller wrote: >>I suggest you install the MediaPlayerConnectivity extension into >>Firefox. I don't know that it will solve your problem, but it might. > > I already have tried that without success so far. > > I also have tried with the plugins for kaffeine and mplayer with the same

Re: kernel 2.6 compile error

Andrew Nelson wrote: >> This is your problem, the new versions of GCC wont compile the current >> Kernel sources in Debian. You can >> That's new to me. I have compiled both 2.6.10, 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 successfully with GCC 4.X on my bleeding edge sid system. Actually just 2 hours ago I did a to

apt-get update problems

I am getting this sort of messages a lot the last month or two, while running apt-get update: Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages 99% [Packages bzip2 0] [Query] bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: > 16 July 2005 Lian Liming wrote: > >> I wonder if there are any GUI cd writing tool available under >> Debian. What I find so far is "cdrecord" which is a command line CD >> writing tool. > > If you have a full version of Nero Burning ROM for Windows, you can > down

Re: Web-based calendaring/project mgmt

Stephen R Laniel wrote: > A client is looking for a web-based calendaring and > project-management package. Someone suggested Microsoft > Project to her. I am ... opposed ... to that idea. I think > we should be able to do better with open source. > > Here's what I would like: > > 1) Shared cale