Re: wireless card

If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via module-assistant. for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wr

Re: wireless card

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi guys, > > i'm planning to buy wifi (b/g) card for my laptop, however i'm not about > the support. my colleague has asus with broadcom bcm4306 chipset in his > windoze notebook. i tried it, kernel recognized the card, but the i > cannot find th

Re: wireless card

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with > >>>support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to > >>>install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via > >>>module-assista

Re: howto check open ports ?

try command "nmap ip_address" On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 00:12 +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 > Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > > > My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those

Re: Can't open encrypted partitions

Adam Porter wrote: > Have you checked the actual output of GPG? I have checked the GPG output (it is 64 lines of random characters, as expected). I originally generated the keys for aes-loop multi-key setup, and then forgot to truncate it when I started using dm-crypt. Would the fact that there a

Re: wireless card

I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than MS Windows. ok. the card we have here (it's asus wl-100g deluxe) seems to work nice in windoze, but since it has bcm4306... I'm assuming that you're usin

Re: package error after debfoster [SOLVED]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I couldn't get any of the purge or force commands to clear that broken package. So i ended up with doing it the hard way, with dpkg - --listfiles http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg04497.html Thank you for your input... - -- /Lars -B

Re: wireless card

The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g. For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting for th

Re: wireless card

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 > > chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about > > these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the > > GPL'd rt2500 drivers. > it'

Re: wireless card

On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support > > 802.11g. > > For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects > > (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then > > the rt

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

John Halton wrote: > On 2/22/06, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, none of this is in its final state. > > What is? To get the right combination of kernel and udev and hal and dbus somwhat implicates this. Stable interfaces are something different HS -- Mein GPG-Key

Using bittorrent for large downloads (was: Re: DVD ISO files)

On Feb 22 2006, Peter Colton wrote: > http is not a very good way of downloading large file. You would be > better of using the torrent method. This is definitely a good suggestion. More people should use bittorrent, because: * you are always "giving back" to the community when you use torrent

Re: package error after debfoster

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogério Brito wrote: > I think that a simpler "touch /usr/bin/update-menus.real" as root would > work better than using --force-* for dpkg. This way, you can still use > higher level tools than dpkg. As you may have seen i've solved the problem. But i

Re: package error after debfoster

Hi, Luís, Lars & Co. On Feb 22 2006, Luis Finotti wrote: > Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: > >I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the > >package "menu" is stuck. (...) > > Removing menu ... > > chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/update-menus.real': No such file > >or dire

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Nic wrote: >> Here's the instructions again to provide some context: >> following in nsFilePicker.js which is located in the app's >> components >> directory. After making the change you have to re-register the >> components which is easily acc

Re: Testing upgrade breaks printing, mutt and xserver

On Wed 22 Feb 2006 22:24, Bram Mertens wrote: >> I just upgraded a testing machine and broke many items, including: >> CUPSYSgs grinds endlessly on a test page for my HP5550 printer. >> I'm using hpijs and hplip >> muttI receive send errors >> xserver.or

Re: etch vs sarge

Hugo Vanwoerkom írta: BAGI Akos wrote: Hi List! I run services on sarge in two major parts: - qmail,clamav,spop3, ssmtp,rblsmtp and - apache2,mysql 4.1,php4 I'm considering to dist-upgrade from sarge to etch(testing) I would like to use mysql5 and php5 if it's not a to big deal to change. M

Determine order of network interfaces

Hi,I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot.Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started using eth1 instead of eth2 yesterday. It hadn't done this before, and I had to chang

Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads (was: Re: DVD ISO files)

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:39:54AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: >On Feb 22 2006, Peter Colton wrote: >> http is not a very good way of downloading large file. You would be >> better of using the torrent method. > >This is definitely a good suggestion. More people should use >bittorrent, because: > >

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

Information on which version of Debian and which kernel you use would be useful in answering this question. Whether or not you use udev would also be relevant. Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:01, Ketil Froyn wrote: > Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started > using eth

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:01:14PM +0100, Ketil Froyn wrote: >Hi, > >I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to >determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during >boot. I've just recently run into the same problem. >Specifically, my problem is that the

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

On 2/23/06, Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Information on which version of Debian and which kernel you use would beuseful in answering this question. Whether or not you use udev wouldalso be relevant.Thanks for the quick reply! I use debian 3.1 with the 2.6.8-2 kernel. Thursday, 23 Febr

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

On 2/23/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My temporary solution was to change the pattern for one of the devices.My problematic device is a rt2500-based PCI wireless card. I put thefollowing in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d That renamed my wireless to wlan0,

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

El Jueves, 23 de Febrero de 2006 12:01, Ketil Froyn escribió: > Hi, > > I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to > determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot. > > Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started using >

Re: wireless card

Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the GPL'd rt2500 drivers. well, i found all cards that should have rt2500 'onboard' - it might be

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

Ketil Froyn wrote: On 2/23/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My temporary solution was to change the pattern for one of the devices. My problematic device is a rt2500-based PCI wireless card. I put the following in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d That r

Re: gnome broken ????

Ray Lanza wrote: I did an update from "testing" today which seems to have broken gnome. None of the panels start. All I have displayed is a couple of icons. ray It only happened on one user account with me, so I'm still figuring it out. That account was the only one that I had some mou

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:43:48PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:07:15PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:41, Mike McCarty wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Thanks, again, for your quick response. It's wo

amaroK under enlightenment - mounting ipod

I've been looking thru the various players out there recently - and have just tried amarok. It's probably the player I've felt most comfortable with so far - and I'd make the switch if I could get it to mount my ipod. This is under debian unstable - running the e17 desktop (from soulmachine.net re

Re: NFS Not Mounting at Boot

Thomas F. O'Connell a écrit : I've tried to set up NFS on two different networks, recently, and have had a hard time getting nfs shares to mount automatically at boot. In a recent example, both client and server are Debian systems that use official packages for NFS. For the client, I've go

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

On 2/23/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you do not want to switch to udev, maybe the package 'ifrename' canensure a deterministic naming of your network interfaces. I always hadproblems when using ethX (as Magnus has also pointed out in his mail) which I avoided by assigning new na

Re: c-cedilla problem

Hi, many thanks to all the answers! However, Luis tip almost work for me, see below On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 14:49 -0500, Luis Finotti wrote: > Hi, > > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This problem had appeared many times in the past, as I can see brownsing > > the archives (user and

Re: ls defaults...

Hello Digby, Am 2006-02-15 14:41:07, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > Nothing other than what was done by the normal install program. > Perhaps it is something that results from telling it that I am > located in the UK... > > What is you default locale? Systemwide: C My own: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian-user and mutt...

Am 2006-02-09 12:37:31, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:11:29AM -0200, Eduardo wrote: > > Please do not CC me! Get a proper mailer instead: www.mutt.org > > Ok, since someone has brought this up > > Why is it that on the other lists I subscribe to a 'reply' to > a posting b

Re: debian-user and mutt...

Am 2006-02-09 15:27:22, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > Hi > It seems you are right, in as much as there is an L command that appears > to be intended to deal with lists, but on your message it just gives me > > No mailing lists found! Put: subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org in your "

Re: debian-user and mutt...

Am 2006-02-09 18:50:15, schrieb Andrei Popescu: > That explains it. On a mailing list like this one, the Reply-To is > normally used if you happen to post from a different address then > the one subscribed (or you are not subscribed at all) and you want > a CC to that address. BTW setting a Reply-

Re: debian-user and mutt...

Am 2006-02-09 19:02:34, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > My remaining grip is that the 'subscribe' command also causes the > identification of the originator of the message to be replaced by > the list name in the display: >1183 L Feb 09 To debian-user@ ( 46) debian-user and mutt... >1184 r L Fe

Re: debian-user and mutt...

Am 2006-02-09 17:01:35, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > Hi - thanks for the link. > > A quick survey and it does indeed seem that 'Reply-To munging' is > what is used on nearly all of the other lists I am subscribed to. I do not know, on which lists you are, but I am on: +---[ '/home/michelle.konzack/.m

Re: source for downloadable music?

Am 2006-02-09 22:17:07, schrieb Ross Boylan: > I want to make a CD of songs for my daughter's birthday party. Is > there a site that has a good selection of songs that will work with > Linux? I'm willing to pay for the songs. > > Yahoo has a music site but it seems to require software that they

Re: Ftp Error 421 Service not available loggin in from LAN into the router

Am 2006-02-11 20:28:31, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > With the new kernel I can't login over FTP from the LAN into the router > but it's possible to login from the router into the LAN. > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection insmod ipt_contrack_ftp Greetings M

proxy for APT

Greetings all, I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as apt-get? thx! Deephay

Re: ghost MB of memory

Am 2006-02-15 01:06:26, schrieb roberto: > Hello > actually i use a desktop with 1GB of memory installed but my kernel > installed from debian sarge repositories takes into account 885MB > only. How can i rescue the remaining size of memory?? By serarching Goolge. Debian kernels are compiled to s

Re: linux add afghan (dari, pashto, usbek) keyboard layout

Salam Emal, Am 2006-02-15 09:58:42, schrieb M. Emal Alekozai: > Dear all, > The fonts should also be available in Debian 3.1 . The program "katoob" > (available in Debian 3.1) [3] for example uses Persian/ Arabic fonts. Katoob is one of the projects on . Maybe you as

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

Am 2006-02-15 10:53:15, schrieb Marc Shapiro: > Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X session is > running on? > > Using 'who' only tells me who is logged onto a VT, which would be fine, > except that it does not show VTs with X sessions. w -f $LOGNAME |grep startx |sed

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

Am 2006-02-15 13:27:10, schrieb David Berg: > I hadn't tried it outside of X and there it does work as a non-root > user. but in X I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fgconsole > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Weired, because I can use it in a XTerm without any problems. Wor

Re: Why do I bother?

Am 2006-02-15 23:12:18, schrieb S Clement: > I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a > psychiatric facility. Maybe you should? > When will Debian? Sorry, but Anne-Sophie, my adoptiv daughter, is now seven years old and had instaled last summer her first Sarge. ;-) I have

Re: NFS share problems

Am 2006-02-16 01:16:04, schrieb Stefan Srdic: > Hi, I've got one laptop running Debian Etch and a server running FreeBSD > 6.0. The server has NFS and ssh setup and configured. I use ssh for > administration and NFS to store and backup files onto my remote home > directory. > > I've recently tried

Re: Midnight Commander does not support UTF8 ?

Am 2006-02-17 09:57:59, schrieb Žá?ek Kryštof: > I have recently switched my SID to UTF8 locales. It was as easy as running > dpkg-reconfigure localeconf (great !). > > Everything works fine as before. The only problem I have is the Midnight > Commander displaying nonsense - the columns are not

Re: wireless card

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:43:01 +0800 "Paolo Alexis Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 > chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about > these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the > GP

Re: proxy for APT

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 man 5 apt.conf Deephay escreveu: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such > as apt-get? thx! > > Deephay - -- Felipe Neuwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=

Re: proxy for APT

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:24:53PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as > apt-get? > thx! > > Deephay You could try apt-cacher, which is basically a caching proxy. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Re: proxy for APT

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 man 5 apt.conf Deephay escreveu: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such > as apt-get? thx! > > Deephay - -- Felipe Neuwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=

How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. I think that I did not allocate all the space to used partitions. i mounted /boot at /dev/hda1 / at /dev/hda2 /home at /dev/hda3 swap at /dev/hda5. me:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use%

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

> Weired, because I can use it in a XTerm without any problems. > Works under Woody, Sarge and Etch. Then your permission bits on /dev/console and/or /dev/tty0 are not as strict: ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -eopen fgconsole ] [...] ] open("/dev/console", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 EACCES (Permis

Re: OT: xfig and maps

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:03:27AM +, debian wrote: > Please, > > I need to draw some simple maps. My initial idea is to use xfig. > > Canals/rivers are no problem, I can use thick lines. > > 1. how can I indicate roads using parallel curved lines ? I don't think you can draw _exactly_ pa

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

Ketil Froyn escribe: > Warning: Interface name is `eth0' at line 1, can't be mapped reliably. As far as I know this warning is not relevant, ifrename works for me without a flaw. Cordially, Ismael -- mí, myself et moi http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/pho

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Re: howto check open ports ?

nmap is all you need. The manpage will tell you everything about it you need to know. If you can't find an open port then you may want to consider running an ssh tunnel (man ssh and look for -R and -L options). Even worse running TCP/IP over your ssh connection with a pppd and Magosányi Árpád's pt

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

Debian's /etc/network/interfaces configuration file supports checking for charactaristics of an interface before bringing it up. /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz has the skinny on this. -Peter On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:01:14PM +0100, Ketil Froyn wrote: >Hi, > >I ha

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > If, however, you use udev, or if using udev is an option for you, it > would probably be easiest and most elegant to write a rule for the > naming of the different components based on their characteristics (such > as MAC address). Here is a good intro

synaptic starting in console not from menu

I have installed sarge r1 starting with base install and then using apt-get kdebase, x-window-system-core, synaptic etc. After correcting sudoers file for env, I could start synaptic from konsole. But when I click synaptic in menu nothing happens. How to get it work? Is it some program in kde which

wep decoding for dhcp, wifi in sarge

I have done base install and ndiswrapper tools and modules. I have installed broadcom windows inf file, ndiswrapper -l worked and did modprobe ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper -m. Everything is OK. I have put HEX wep code in /etc/network/interfaces # wireless interface auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Re: c-cedilla problem

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi, many thanks to all the answers! However, Luis tip almost work for me, see below (...) yes, if I call now the applications from the command line, I can write the c-cedilla. But if I call the application from a button in the panel, I get the problem again. Do you

TTY and structure request for further reading.

During the course of my work I have recently come across references to tty. In ps, /dev/ and others. I realised that although I see this all the time I don't actually know what it means. I searched the usual suspects and although I found that tty was/is a system used by the deaf to make tel

logrotate question

Hi, Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know what they mean by rotating files, could you tell me?

just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

For regular meetings of several Debian project groups, we are looking for a simple platform that allows a group of <20 people to easily coordinate a time for a meeting. The tool should be timezone-aware and ideally not require accounts for members. I am thinking a group calendar ID with a single pa

Re: Van Stable naar Testing

On Thu 23 Feb 2006 15:53, Paul De Baat wrote: > Hoe kan ik met debian van Stable naar Testing? In /etc/apt/sources.list overal het woord "stable" vervangen door "testing" en dan 'aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade' uitvoeren. Dit alles als root, vanzelfsprekend :) Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. Both have different single user. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:19, Laurent CARON wrote: > Mitchell Laks a יcrit : > > Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. > > > > I think that I did not allocate all the space to used partitions. > > > > i mounted /boot at /dev/hda1 > > / at /dev/hda2 > > w

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gandhi, there is a lot of options: - - SSH - - FTP - - NFS - - and more... Felipe Neuwald. L.V.Gandhi escreveu: > Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp > server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. >

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

Mitchell Laks a écrit : Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. I think that I did not allocate all the space to used partitions. i mounted /boot at /dev/hda1 / at /dev/hda2 what is the output of fdisk -l ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:35:51PM -0300, Felipe Neuwald wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Gandhi, > >there is a lot of options: > >- - SSH >- - FTP >- - NFS >- - and more... I'd like to add netcat to that list :-) /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4

Re: logrotate question

Andras Lorincz wrote: Hi, Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know what they mean by rotating files, could you tell me? It mean

Re: logrotate question

Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. On 2/23/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andras Lorincz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Not so far I h

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

L.V.Gandhi wrote: Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. Both have different single user. -- ssh gets installed by debian by default so no extra software installs would be needed to use scp Have a go w

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 07:33 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp > server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. Both > have different single user. > -- > L.V.Gandhi > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > linux user No.205042 If yo

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

Thank you for your response and any help you can give. You undoubtedly saw my later post with a different subject of "after upgrade backups cause machine crash" which had some additional information but no respondents. I am not altogether convinced it is a kernel problem entirely as I cannot

Replacement for Nessus

Hello, I used to run Nessus on a semi-regular basis to make sure that my firewall is still doing what it is supposed to do. With the latest version of Nessus not actually being all that free anymore, I find myself looking for alternatives: Something that looks for open ports on my system and also

Re: proxy for APT

"Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as > apt-get? > thx! > Deephay http_proxy=http://someproxyserver: apt-get install something or check apt conf like everyone else said. http_proxy is good becaus

Re: wep decoding for dhcp, wifi in sarge

L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have done base install and ndiswrapper tools and modules. I have installed broadcom windows inf file, ndiswrapper -l worked and did modprobe ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper -m. Everything is OK. I have put HEX wep code in /etc/network/interfaces # wireless interface auto wlan0 i

Re: proxy for APT

thx for all you guys! - Original Message - From: "Nic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 12:02 AM Subject: Re: proxy for APT > "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Greetings all, >> >> I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as

Re: logrotate question

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:27 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that > syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I > found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know > what they mean by

Re: TTY and structure request for further reading.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:18:54PM -, Demon News wrote: > > During the course of my work I have recently come across references to tty. > In ps, /dev/ and others. I realised that although I see this all the time > I don't actually know what it means. I searched the usual suspects and > al

Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:28:47PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > For regular meetings of several Debian project groups, we are > looking for a simple platform that allows a group of <20 people to > easily coordinate a time for a meeting. The tool should be > timezone-aware and ideally not require

Re: logrotate question

Chris Brandstetter wrote: Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. While this is common practice, I question its usefulness because most variable

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:15:55AM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > Thank you for your response and any help you can give. You undoubtedly > saw my later post with a different subject of "after upgrade backups > cause machine crash" which had some additional information but no > respondents. > >

Re: NFS Not Mounting at Boot

On Feb 23, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Laurent CARON wrote: Thomas F. O'Connell a écrit : I've tried to set up NFS on two different networks, recently, and have had a hard time getting nfs shares to mount automatically at boot. In a recent example, both client and server are Debian systems that

Re: NFS Not Mounting at Boot

On Feb 23, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Philippe De Ryck wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 19:37 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Feb 22, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Philippe De Ryck wrote: Thomas, I'm not sure about this, but you could try adding "auto" to the options. The line would become something like this:

Re: logrotate question

You are correct. I appologize for my error. :-) On 2/23/06, Michael Schurter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Brandstetter wrote: > > Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate > > partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your > > system, and it

Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

also sprach Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1808 +0100]: > Hi evil mallard, i prefer s/evil// in public, you know. > I'd love to mull over this some and to aid my and others effort > could you general some test data that may represent the input and > if possible an output for that data

Re: TTY and structure request for further reading.

Demon News wrote: During the course of my work I have recently come across references to tty. In ps, /dev/ and others. I realised that although I see this all the time I don't actually know what it means. I searched the usual suspects and TTY (sometimes pronounced "titty") is an abbreviatio

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

Or is there really a kernel bug? Replacing the network card won't solve the original problem however as there should be no networking involved, only USB file transfers. Karen Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:15:55AM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: Thank you for your response and a

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

L.V.Gandhi wrote: Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. Both have different single user. There are many options. Do you actually need the file physically transferred and two copies? Or just access to the

SVG and fonts

I'm on a Debian Sid system trying to open an SVG file. Epiphany, well I guess it's actually the Mozilla part of things, complains that Freetype2 fonts aren't available. I'm directed to steps 2-7 on[1]. This page[2] says that FreeType2 only should be enabled on non-xft Mozilla builds. I Mozilla in

cdparanoia hangs

Given the command to rip a track - e.g. cdparanoia 3 - the program starts to rip the track, then hangs with a message: ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: ATAPI reset complete This repeats until I use top to find paranoia's PID and kill the program. After this if I restart the program

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

On Monday 20 February 2006 03:10, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names > and tells which kernels will work on which ones? > > Thanks, > Adam I hope the list on http://www.debian.or

trouble using debian on tft (dvi or vga connector)

Dear Sir & Madam, after installing Debian on my machine I encountered a problem when trying to use my TFT-Screen via DVI-Connector, same counts for standard cable. Only when I use my CRT i can see the screen after the boot-up. Second thing is that my WLAN-Card is recognized but cannot find the a

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

Mitchell Laks wrote: Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. I think that I did not allocate all the space to used partitions. i mounted /boot at /dev/hda1 / at /dev/hda2 /home at /dev/hda3 swap at /dev/hda5. me:~# df -h Filesystem

Re: howto check open ports ?

Oliver Lupton wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those over 1023 (1024?) I assume you mean that your router *can*, not that it ne

install help with tosiba laptop

I am trying to install debian for the first time and after i install disk 1 (Stable release 3.1r1 - 'Sarge') and hit enter to boot my computer keeps getting hunging up on "detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives" screen at 2% complete and says "loading module 'yenta_socket' for 'Toshiba America In

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