Re: DVD download

2009-07-05 Thread Mark Marcacci
>From one Mark to another: In case you haven't tried it, I use jigdo for downloading Debian after having similar browser related issues as you in the past. In my experience jigdo has been great, super fast and since it automatically checksums the downloads you have no work to do. http://www.debia

Re: Re: installing from usb

2009-07-05 Thread Mark Marcacci
I just tried installing via unetbootin today and it didn't work with the Lenny 5.0.2 CD iso image from the official Debian webpage. Looks like unetbootin hasn't had an update since 2008; has anyone had success using it, even with Lenny 5.0.1? Thanks, Mark On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:23 AM, lee wro

SOLVED: Lenny hangs on "Activating Swap"

2009-07-02 Thread Mark Marcacci
was on them. It's as if Drive C left a ghost somewhere in swap that Debian was trying to find during boot. Mark On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, David Goodenough < david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2009, Mark Marcacci wrote: > > The subject line says i

Lenny hangs on "Activating Swap"

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Marcacci
The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny 5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then tonight from a cold start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this happened, I had connected an NTFS drive (using NTFS-3g package) via USB and copied over 60 GB of data

SOLVED: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
; type thought that turned out to be true. I saw another thread about someone unable to connect to wireless and had the same symptoms as me - hopefully they read this and it works for them too. Thanks for all who offered ideas and advice! Mark -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Thanks, Mark On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,29.Jun.

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
Thanks to the advice given so far. A hard drive wipe and fresh install put all the menu items back in their place, including Network Manager. After installing the firmware for my wifi card (Broadcom BCM4306 rev 02) roaming mode doesn't work nor can I force it to connect to my home network. I had

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
t removed from 5.0.2 because of that? I'm still learning Debian so if I'm missing something, please let me know as I'm here to learn. Thanks! Mark On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:18:54 Mark Marcacci wrote: > > I've bee

Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Marcacci
I've been installing Debian 5.0.1 via a downloaded jigdo DVD image from the official site. This morning did a fresh laptop install and noticed it used 795 files total versus 809 last week when I did a few trial installations on the same machine with the same hardware. One of the packages missing