Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul E Condon: > > […] I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never > understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other > under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP > assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is > that what n

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110502_095924, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 02 mai 11, 00:29:24, Paul E Condon wrote: > > A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die > > such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I > > remembered about how the old router was set up was insuffi

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 10:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In<4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Independent Linux filesystem tests performed by an IBM engineer to track BTRFS performance during development. XFS trounces the others in most tests: These results are interesting

Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze

2011-05-02 Thread Roger Morgan
> From: Camaleón > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Sun, May 1, 2011 8:15:10 PM > Subject: Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze > > On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:58:01 -0700, Roger Morgan wrote: > > >> From: Camaleón > > > >> It looks something related to authentication. > >> > >> Is there a

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 12:10 PM, prad wrote: neither is this an argumentum ad antiquitatem. again all that is being shown is that xfs has a long history of use again with a reputable organization. again, it is merely supporting evidence and it is not being argued that because the organization has used this

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Joe
On 02/05/11 09:35, Paul E Condon wrote: Anyway, I can't have a router that can have its administrative interface shutdown without warning in the middle of the night. I'll have to solve that before I can respond to your suggestions. Is this just a matter of JavaScript? I don't think any box of

Re: Wireless via dhcp needs repeated ifdown/ifup -SOLVED (partially)

2011-05-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Apr 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 27 apr 11, 15:36:42, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Nothing in the logs apart from an entry saying the router doesn't do > > IPV6. > > Maybe you need to turn verbose/debugging or whatever mode on in some > config file ;) > > Regards, > Andrei > --

Re: Canonical place to configure power management

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 May 2011 23:53:40 +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > * Camaleón: > >> I think powertop is just giving you some hints on what you can tweak to >> save your battery. You can ignore them or apply them, that's up to you. > > Thanks for the info but you missed my point. > > I am aware of the meani

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 May 2011 02:35:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > The web interface on the router no longer works with iceweasel. It did > work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a one line message > (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a version 4 or higher > browser so that you can use

Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 May 2011 02:32:16 -0700, Roger Morgan wrote: >> From: Camaleón >> Sadly those are pretty generic errors and don't tell much about the >> cause of the failure. Try by increasing samba log level¹ ("log level = >> 3"), restart samba daemons, run smbclient again and review again the >>

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Monday 02 May 2011 09:05:51 Jochen Schulz wrote: > I know someone who absolutely despises of the > idea that the hosts in his local network have hostnames. He likes IP > addresses better. :) +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to remember my computers' names wit

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Zoran Kolic
> This is very helpful. But while you were responding, Netgear presented > a new problem. The web interface on the router no longer works with > iceweasel. It did work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a > one line message (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a version > 4 or highe

VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I went and upgraded my Lenny to Squeeze and now VMware server does not compile. Is it possible, and if it is, how? Preparing to reinstall lenny now...dammit. -- A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Lost input devices on eeepc900.

2011-05-02 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! The microphones stopped working on my eeePC 900 about a week ago. I noticed that the input devices section is empty in the sound preferences and I'm unable to determine what could had messed up the settings. For instance skype is set to use pulsea

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 May 2011 14:29:21 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2011 09:05:51 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> I know someone who absolutely despises of the >> idea that the hosts in his local network have hostnames. He likes IP >> addresses better. :) > > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me sev

Re: VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-02 Thread Burhan
Hi Jari, What is it complaining about? -B 2011/5/2 Jari Fredriksson > > I went and upgraded my Lenny to Squeeze and now VMware server does not > compile. > > Is it possible, and if it is, how? > > Preparing to reinstall lenny now...dammit. > > -- > > A visit to a strange place will bring fresh

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Monday 02 May 2011 14:51:18 Camaleón wrote: > He likes IP > > >> addresses better. :) > > > > +1.  Much easier to remember!  It took me several years to be able to > > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. > > Let's see if you still think the same when IPv6 comes into play

Re: VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
pallas:~# CC=gcc-4.3 vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped. Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines: Virtual machines failed Stopping VMware management services: VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access VM

Re: VMware server 2.0 and Debian Squeeze?

2011-05-02 Thread Dogan Hanoglu
Hi Jari, Check this forum thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1141306 Apparently there is a patch. Cheers. -D 2011/5/2 Jari Fredriksson > pallas:~# CC=gcc-4.3 vmware-config.pl > > Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped. > > Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines: >

Re: wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY wireless card with Network Manager

2011-05-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 05. 2011 01:11:23 je eigenroot napisal(a): Hi all, I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition which was based on Debian Testing on my laptop. One problem I found was that my wireless connection was frequently dropped off after some idling. And it was not predictable: sometimes I left it o

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. Why didn't you just give them numerical names? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 05/02/2011 08:21 PM, John Hasler wrote: Lisi writes: +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to remember my computers' names without having to look them up. Why didn't you just give them numerical names? Like the IP address ? :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: buon giorno

2011-05-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 05. 2011 19:18:20 je marian1...@libero.it napisal(a): salve,ho apena instalato il programa Debian,il mio problema e chenon posso instalare la mia webcam-microsoft vx500,modelul 1357,.se po instalare questa webcam su Debian?,questa e la mia domanda,o qualle sono le web cam compa

Re: librpm-4.4.so cannot be found

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 May 2011 15:20:01 +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > My debian version is Squeeze. > When I was to install the Hangeul Viewer Program, What kind of file did you download? And from what source? > I found a error > message as follows : > > root@debian:/home/frog/Download/temp# ./haansoft-off

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-05-02 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:26:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Why don't you accept the lateral black bars? Because it seems to get a bigger view of the Video. -- software engineer. department of computer science rajagiri school of engineering and technology. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-05-02 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:25:30PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:26:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Why don't you accept the lateral black bars? > > Because it seems to get a bigger view of the Video. I mean bigger view without blackbars. -- software engineer. depart

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. I wrote: > Why didn't you just give them numerical names? Mihira Fernando writes: > Like the IP address ? :D Sure. OneNinetyTwoDotOneSixtyEightDotO

Re: wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY wireless card with Network Manager

2011-05-02 Thread Adrian Rocha
I had the same problem on my laptop (wireless Broadcom BCM4322) on Ubuntu10.10. In fedora14 works perfectly Dne, 01. 05. 2011 01:11:23 je eigenroot napisal(a): > Hi all, > > I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition which was based on Debian Testing on > my laptop. One problem I found was that my wi

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-05-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/02/2011 10:58 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:25:30PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:26:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Why don't you accept the lateral black bars? Because it seems to get a bigger view of the Video. I mean bigger view without

Re: No ethX or lo on interface after reboot on Squeeze as VMWare guest.

2011-05-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > > Any help, or tips will be greatly appreciated. > post your /etc/network/interfaces if this is after a vmotion or what not, a dmesg might also be appropriate. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Cannot output to external monitor

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:17 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > I'm having trouble getting anything to output from my X40 ThinkPad to an > external VGA monitor. Under X, `xrandr -q` outputs the following > regardless of whether or not the external monitor is plugged in: > >% xrandr -q > Screen 0

Re: buon giorno

2011-05-02 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Se la webcam non funziona ancora. 1. Scollegare webcam del computer 2. Eseguire dmesg -c come root 3. Collegare la webcam al computer 4. Esecuzione dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt 5. Allegare il file /tmp/dmesg.txt alla risposta Ciao. 2011/5/2 Klistvud > Dne, 01. 05. 2011 19:18:20 je mar

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-05-02 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 Jeffrin Jose > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the video > > to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the aspect ratio in the > > process. > I do not want the black bars. I need the picture

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-05-02 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks. Presumably that aticonfig --initial command makes an alteration to the xorg.conf file to tell it to use the new driver? On 30/04/11 19:25, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 30 apr 11, 17:43:12, Andrew Wood wrote: OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen vide

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110502_111609, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2011 02:35:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > The web interface on the router no longer works with iceweasel. It did > > work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a one line message > > (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a vers

Re (2): Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread peasthope
From: Paul E Condon Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:55:37 -0600 > It is crazy to write such misleading error messages. I did, in fact, > have JavaScript disabled ... Ouch! A friend returned a new router to the vendor after encountering such a bad proprietary interface. An elegant solution is to

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid (SOLVED)

2011-05-02 Thread David Baron
Problems were caused by combination of old conf file and the new conf.d files which were not removed on downgrade. I re-upgraded to the Sid packages, taking the new maintainer's conf files when asked. Then had to configure from scratch. Finally have it working. 1. New and old config files canno

Re: Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?

2011-05-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 mai 11, 14:05:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If you have os-prober installed (it's recommended by grub-common, it > should be installed unless you declined or disabled recommends) a simple > 'update-grub' should do the trick and would

Re: Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?

2011-05-02 Thread Siard
Paul Johnson wrote: > $ dpkg -l | grep prober > ii os-prober1.42 > utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives > > However, it does not find the Ubuntu partitions > > $ sudo update-grub > Generating grub.cfg ... Is Ubuntu found

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf for a LAN server; was Re^4: inconsistent reports from lpstat

2011-05-02 Thread peasthope
* From: Wayne Topa * Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:17:18 -0400 > If cups-bsd is not shown then remove the lpr package and install > the cups-bsd package. Thanks. Yes, with cups-bsd installed, lpq and lpr work for localhost and for other Debian systems on the LAN. Doesn't work for the ET

Unidentified subject!

2011-05-02 Thread peasthope
The subject line on the previous message wasn't sensible. This message is just a duplicate with a better subject. * From: Wayne Topa * Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:17:18 -0400 > If cups-bsd is not shown then remove the lpr package and install > the cups-bsd package. Thanks. Yes, with c

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4dbe75dd.80...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 5/1/2011 10:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In<4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Independent Linux filesystem tests performed by an IBM engineer to track >>> BTRFS performance during development. XF

Re: Re (2): Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 02 May 2011 16:24:36 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Paul E Condon > Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:55:37 -0600 > > > It is crazy to write such misleading error messages. I did, in fact, > > have JavaScript disabled ... > > Ouch! A friend returned a new router to the vendor after > encoun

mdraid auto-read-only, mdmon segfaults

2011-05-02 Thread Steven
Hi list, A while back I added a third raid array to my machine (mdraid) and migrated that array, along with the 2 existing ones to a single LVM volume(ext3, mounted on /media/data, not required at boot time). Now I noticed that the 2 older arrays are active, but have a read-only status. # cat /pr

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105011040.19169@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_L >>a rge_file_creates_num_threads=1.html >>http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/rai

Postfix backport?

2011-05-02 Thread vr
Hello, In Squeeze I'm seeing Postfix 2.7.1-1 is the latest stable version. On the Postfix website 2.8.2 is listed as stable so it seems like a big gap. I've heard about the concept of "backport" but searching returns results for Ubuntu. Can anyone recommend one for Debian, assuming it exists?

Re: Re (2): Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Bob McConnell
Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Monday 02 May 2011 16:24:36 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Paul E Condon Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:55:37 -0600 It is crazy to write such misleading error messages. I did, in fact, have JavaScript disabled ... Ouch! A friend returned a new router to the vendor aft

Re: Postfix backport?

2011-05-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 02 May 2011, vr wrote: > In Squeeze I'm seeing Postfix 2.7.1-1 is the latest stable version. > On the Postfix website 2.8.2 is listed as stable so it seems like a > big gap. Are there any reasons why you'd need postfix 2.8? Are there any features you require that are not available in 2.7?

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105021602.50060@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >They are also essential for any journaled filesystem to have correct >behavior in the face of sudden pwoer loss. Barriers ensure, (e.g.) that >the journal entry creating a file is flushed to the backing store before >t

Unidentified subject!

2011-05-02 Thread peasthope
The subject line on my previous two messages weren't sensible. This one might work. * From: Wayne Topa * Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:17:18 -0400 > If cups-bsd is not shown then remove the lpr package and install > the cups-bsd package. Thanks. Yes, with cups-bsd installed, lpq and lpr

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105021649.01038@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >I've used OpenSTV, and treated each graph as a preferential vote. > >This is only one way to aggregate the data on the graphs, and it is >certainly flawed, but it can be reasonably be used for ranking the file >systems.

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'd love to see data for 2.6.32 (Squeeze) and 2.6.38 (Wheezy/Sid). I have Squeeze running XFS ontop of LVM2, if I can do something to contribute to this, let me know -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses

Re: mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:30:25PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:42:21 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to > > subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? > > And were there any special tr

Re: Postfix backport?

2011-05-02 Thread vr
Are there any reasons why you'd need postfix 2.8? Are there any features you require that are not available in 2.7? Would like to utilize Zombie blocker which became available in 2.8. http://backports.debian.org Thank you for this. Unfortunately no results returned so it must not be av

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:29:21 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2011 09:05:51 Jochen Schulz wrote: > > I know someone who absolutely despises of the > > idea that the hosts in his local network have hostnames. He likes IP > > addresses better. :) > > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me s

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:35 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > Isn't it great to get to know your Debian community members, & things > about them, like what kind of stuff they use?  Maybe that would be good > stuff for _you_ to get at some point.  :) > > > = > So, today's poll is: > > What Smartphone do yo

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1304393739.10721.1447549...@webmail.messagingengine.com>, giovanni_re wrote: >What Smartphone do you use? HTC, Hero, Android + HTC Sense, Sprint, USA -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDadd

In Debian GNU(Linux), you own phone. - Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread giovanni_re
On Tue, 3 May 2011 00:05:03 -0400, "shawn wilson" said: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:35 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > > So, today's poll is: > > > > What Smartphone do you use? > > > > Please reply to this message with: > > > > Manufacturer name   Model name, OS name, Cell Carrier name, Country you > >

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 3 May 2011 14:05, shawn wilson wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:35 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > > Isn't it great to get to know your Debian community members, & things > > about them, like what kind of stuff they use? Maybe that would be good > > stuff for _you_ to get at some point. :) > > >

Re: In Debian GNU(Linux), you own phone. - Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:29 AM, giovanni_re wrote: I'm guessing you're probably not running Debian GNU(Linux) on your > phone. ;) > > If you were, it would be _you_ who is in control of your phone. ;) > > That's why I'm working to get Smartphone Debian (SD) going. :) I'm guessing you like to

Re: Cannot output to external monitor

2011-05-02 Thread John Magolske
Hi, * Camaleón [110502 10:14]: > On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:17 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting anything to output from my X40 ThinkPad to > > an external VGA monitor. Under X, `xrandr -q` outputs the following > > regardless of whether or not the external monitor is plu

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:35:39AM CEST, giovanni_re said: > Isn't it great to get to know your Debian community members, & things > about them, like what kind of stuff they use? Maybe that would be good > stuff for _you_ to get at some point. :) > > > = > So, today's poll is: > > What Smartp

Re: No ethX or lo on interface after reboot on Squeeze as VMWare guest.

2011-05-02 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Hello, thanks for reply. > post your /etc/network/interfaces > if this is after a vmotion or what not, a dmesg might also be appropriate. > interfaces file looks ok: ### # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet stat