Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Larry writes: > I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to > fix it. Try "sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf". > I can't find `route`. /sbin/route -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Mike Bird writes: > Without 'route' your system may be unable to setup your default route to > the internet. I don't understand what happened to 'route' on your system He has it. It is at "/sbin/route". He does not have "/sbin" in his path so when he types "route" as a user it doesn't work. "/

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you guys think? I think you should add RAM until you don't swap. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: laptop adapter on a desktop

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I have a few laptop ide laptop HDs lying around. I can use an adaptor to run it from my IDE controller on the MB. My question is this: Is there any draw back to doing this? Laptop drives are usually slower and lower in capacity than

trying to get the prism2_cs driver to work

2008-01-19 Thread tom arnall
> i'm trying to get the prism2_cs driver to work for a prism2.5 chipset card. so > far i'm stumped at the following output: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe prism2_cs > WARNING: Error inserting p80211 > (/lib/modules/2.6.16.4/linux-wlan-ng/p80211.ko): Invalid module format > FATAL: Err

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Sat January 19 2008 18:55:27 Larry Fletcher wrote: > > I can't find `route`. > Without 'route' your system may be unable to setup > your default route to the internet. I don't understand > what happened to 'route' on your system, as it is part > of t

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: (4) ReiserFS can be flaky on a system crash. I haven't found it to be flaky on system crashes. I have found it to be extremely unforgiving of disk corruption and IDE bus problems. I was able to recover the data with reiserfsck, but it took a ve

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 4:27 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xfs sure does copy and delete really large files faster - I do use it for video at home. How big do files have to be before one starts to notice the advantages of XFS? In my exp

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But all of that still gives me no reason to change all of my ext2 partitions to something else. I decided to change the first time I had a server down for an hour because it was waiting for the on-boot fsck to finish... :) -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-19 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, David Brodbeck shared this with us all: >--} >--} On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--} > What do you guys think? >--} >--} I think you should add RAM until you don't swap. :) >--} >--} Interesting. It's like people lucky enough to have broadband, thought

/etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found

2008-01-19 Thread tom arnall
i interrupted 'apt-get install linux-wlan-ng' and when i did the command again i got at the end of the installation messages: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, p

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat January 19 2008 21:25:25 Larry Fletcher wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > On Sat January 19 2008 18:55:27 Larry Fletcher wrote: > lotek:~# route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway GenmaskFlags Metric Ref Use Iface > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255

problems after latest etch3 xserver upgrade

2008-01-19 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I had no apparent problems with the xserver-xorg-core/xnest upgrade from 2:1.1.1-21etch1 > 2:1.1.1-21etch2, but with the latest upgrade to 2:1.1.1-21etch3 I have noted that I am no longer able to use vlc media player. I got "BadAlloc" error. I forced a downgrade to the 2:1.1.1-21etch1 (w

Re: problems after latest etch3 xserver upgrade (*fixed*)

2008-01-19 Thread Angus Auld
--- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, I had no apparent problems with the > xserver-xorg-core/xnest upgrade from 2:1.1.1-21etch1 > > > 2:1.1.1-21etch2, but with the latest upgrade to > 2:1.1.1-21etch3 I have noted that I am no longer > able > to use vlc media player. I got "BadAl

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Larry writes: > > I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to > > fix it. > Try "sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf". It's not installed. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat January 19 2008 22:36:20 Larry Fletcher wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Larry writes: > > > I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to > > > fix it. > > > > Try "sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf". > > It's not installed. I looked at yo

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 19, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Charlie wrote: There would be people who can't afford more RAM, or have machines for which RAM is no longer available I suppose. Well, OK, fair enough. My answer was intentionally a bit flip. Still, with 512 MB of RAM going for $30, someone who can't afford e

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