Intel wireless broken (after squeeze update?)

Hello, I updated squeeze yesterday with from my perspective unrelated packages: root@omjuta:~# grep upgrade /var/log/dpkg.log|grep 09-26 2011-09-26 20:54:29 upgrade flashplayer-mozilla 2:10.3.183.7-0.0 2:10.3.183.10-0.0 2011-09-26 20:54:31 upgrade flash-player-properties 2:10.3.183.7-0.0 2:10.3

Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'. (was: bug in ppp - grave)

Hi Scott, of course, this shall not change to my problem. As you suggest, I will change from umtsmon to kppp and see, if this will work with latest ppp. If it doesn't, I will be pleased to help as well as I can. And sorry for my statements, I just wanted to explain, why I stated ppp to be bug

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cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset to zero for each run. I then set the time using NTP once I have a network connection - wireless as it happens and therefore not entirely predictable in how quickly it will c

wine in testing

Hi, why is there wine in stable but not in testing ? Is there some debian way to install wine on testing ? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/13

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

Le 15244ième jour après Epoch, David Goodenough écrivait: [...] > I could use update-rc.d to disable cron, and only enable it > once wpa_supplicant has established the connection, but then > what if the wireless link goes down and back up while the > hardware is powered up, in which case it woul

Re: Question propmted by response to [Re: More USB install-images please!]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:33:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:08:58 +0200, Jan Olav Agle wrote: >> >>> I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and >>> friends. On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. >>> It failed hal

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

David Goodenough wrote: > I could use update-rc.d to disable cron, and only enable it > once wpa_supplicant has established the connection, but then > what if the wireless link goes down and back up while the > hardware is powered up, in which case it would get restarted > unnecessarily. I thin

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:08 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 26 Sep 2011 at 14:23:12 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:33:31 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > It is clear we have diametrically opposite views, so best leave it >> > there. >> >> How can be that? >> >> I mean, how can you

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:06:06 +0100, Lisi wrote: Gee... still with this? :-) > On Monday 26 September 2011 19:07:17 Camaleón wrote: >> Yes, you should have read the full thread > > I'm not the only one who has been known to transgress in that manner. > And I'm sure that I won't be the last. Don

Re: wine in testing

> > Forwarded Message > > From: Maros Zilka > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: wine in testing > > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:41:34 +0200 > > > > Hi, > > > > why is there wine in stable but not in testing ? Is there some debian > > way to install wine on testing

Re: wine in testing

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:41:34 +0200, Maros Zilka wrote: > why is there wine in stable but not in testing ? http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=wine > Is there some debian way to install wine on testing ? Compile from upstream sources? Wait until all of the above problems are

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - Installing gnash

Hi, After resolving sudo issue I want to install gnash but get these output: sudo aptitude install gnash The following NEW packages will be installed: gnash gnash-common{ab} The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 0

Re: wine in testing

Hi, > Compile from upstream sources? Wait until all of the above problems are > resolved? :-) There are debian packages available at http://dev.carbon- project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ however not as apt-repository. I am building wine from source, which in a 64bit system requires some 32bit- libr

Re: wine in testing

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 07:46:54 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > why is there wine in stable but not in testing ? Is there some debian > > > way to install wine on testing ? > > > > > > Thanks. > > Yes, install the version from the stable repository. FWIW, I have wine-unstable,

Re: Intel wireless broken (after squeeze update?)

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:23:30 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I updated squeeze yesterday with from my perspective unrelated packages: (...) Updated packages (mostly multimedia based packages) doesn't look related to the wireless driver :-? > and today I have trouble with wireless on my laptop.

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:11:33 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They have > clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset to zero for each > run. You mean that system always starts with no date set? :-o > I then set the time us

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

--- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden wrote: > From: Greg Madden > Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 > RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:22 PM > > > On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24

decryption of "rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXX"

Hi Linux lovers, I am wondering what type of encryption is used by the option : rootpw --iscrypted in the kickstart file ? And is there away to get back the password in clear text from that encrypted text ? Thanks

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:45:28 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 26/09/11 04:51, Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2011-09-25 17:56:32, Brian wrote: >>> The squeeze version of Iceweasel doesn't lose its usefulness because >>> there is a later version out. >> >> The environment changes relative to a frozen br

Re: decryption of "rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXX"

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:29:24 -0400, neo haux wrote: > Hi Linux lovers, echo "Hi Linux lovers" | sed -e "s/Linux/RedHat/g" :-P > I am wondering what type of encryption is used by the option : rootpw > --iscrypted > > in the kickstart file ? Google points to an MD5 hashed password, does it mak

Re: decryption of "rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXX"

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:12:57PM CEST, Camaleón said: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:29:24 -0400, neo haux wrote: > > > Hi Linux lovers, > > echo "Hi Linux lovers" | sed -e "s/Linux/RedHat/g" > > :-P > > > I am wondering what type of encryption is used by the option : rootpw > > --iscrypted > >

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: > Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole thread) > before making such statements on what you find "qualified" or not because > something can look unqualified only to unqualified eyes, so please, I > understand that som

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 15:11:39 Go Linux wrote: > --- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden wrote: > > From: Greg Madden > > Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB > > 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Monday, September 26,

Re: wine in testing

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 17:51 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:41:34 +0200, Maros Zilka wrote: > > > why is there wine in stable but not in testing ? > > http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package

Re: More USB install-images please!

jan.o...@agle.no wrote: >I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. >On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed >halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not >wasting time, I dd'ed the netinstall iso onto the stick and

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On Tue 27 Sep 2011 at 11:42:17 +, Camaleón wrote: > So, do you still think that Iceweasel does not fit for point 1)? There might be a demand to get it in on that basis - but it would only be for the birds. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: wine in testing

> wine is not yet built on amd64: 1.0.1-3.1 vs 1.0.1-3.3 (missing 18 > binaries) Wine for my testing is 1.0.1-3.1?! Seemingly there aren't any binaries missing. I'm really sure that any inconsistencies on my Debian are related to personal audio and video needs. My Debian is stable, I only have go

Re: wine in testing

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 20:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > wine is not yet built on amd64: 1.0.1-3.1 vs 1.0.1-3.3 (missing 18 > > binaries) > > Wine for my testing is 1.0.1-3.1?! Seemingly there aren't any binaries > missing. I'm really sure that any inconsistencies on my Debian are > related to p

Re: More USB install-images please!

On 27/09/2011 19:28, Steve McIntyre wrote: jan.o...@agle.no wrote: I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not wasting time,

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Rob Hurle wrote: > Dear Peter, > > On 25 September 2011 10:04, Peter Tenenbaum > wrote: > > I would like to migrate to firefox 6.0, but I'd like to do it using the > > debian iceweasel distribution. Can anyone tell me how to go about > setting > > that up? > > T

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Go Linux wrote: > --- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden wrote: > > > From: Greg Madden > > Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB > 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Monday, September 26

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 20:22:25 Steven Rosenberg wrote: > There's no substitute for good, frequent and > multiple backups. I doubt that you would find anyone here who would disagree with you! But failure is a nuisance even when it is not a disaster. It is worth something to me to lessen

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With other programs could change packages. Rpm. Deb?? I need to change these 2 packages. Deb 8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_4_3_0-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm-fglrx64_6_8_0 They have the 17 mb site says AMD / ATI With alien I could not alien-d-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_4_3_0 alien-d-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm

alien or another???

With other programs could change packages. Rpm. Deb?? I need to change these 2 packages. Deb 8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_4_3_0-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm-fglrx64_6_8_0 They have the 17 mb site says AMD / ATI With alien I could not alien-d-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_4_3_0 alien-d-8.28.8-1.x86_64.r

Re: More USB install-images please!

* Johan Scheepers [110927 14:12]: > On 27/09/2011 19:28, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> jan.o...@agle.no wrote: >> >>> I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. For repeated installations of the same Debian distributions, setting up an approx server on your laptop can

google & iceweasel does not function

Hi, I am having intermittent problems where the google search bar does not work in iceweasel. Works fine on opera and chromium. Tried removing the cookies but that does not help. Yahoo and ask works. Ask works to a point where it tries to connect to google. I can ping google as well as traceroute.

Re: partitioning inhibits boot on AF drive?

* Russell L. Harris [110926 18:15]: > I just installed on a Lenovo S205 (1) Ubuntu 10.10, (2) Debian testing > (Wheezy), and (3) Debian stable (Squeeze). The Debian systems > utilized netinst images, and the Ubuntu system downloaded updates > during the installation. The single hard drive has a

Re: partitioning inhibits boot on AF drive?

On Tue 27 Sep 2011 at 18:09:56 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I made two further attempts at installation, one with Ubuntu 10.10 and > the other with Debian testing (wheezy 20110908-15:43). In each > attempt, I allowed the system to utilize the entire disk, putting all > files (including the b

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - Installing gnash

Csanyi Pal wrote: > sudo aptitude install gnash > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > gnash gnash-common{ab} > ... > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > gnash-common: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) which is a virtual But Squeeze's gnash-common is version 0.8.

Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - Installing gnash

Bob Proulx wrote: > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > sudo aptitude install gnash > > > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > gnash gnash-common{ab} > > ... > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > gnash-common: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) which is a virtual > > But

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On 28/09/11 00:49, � wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:45:28 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 26/09/11 04:51, Allan Wind wrote: >>> On 2011-09-25 17:56:32, Brian wrote: The squeeze version of Iceweasel doesn't lose its usefulness because there is a later version out. >>> >>> The envir

autofs interest ?

Hello, A simple question: from a server point of view does autofs costs less (cpu, io, memory) than "traditionnal" nfs ? From a client point of view I think the fact to unmount directories frees ressources? But does a moint point consumes so much (memory ?) And concerning the network Thank

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

David Goodenough wrote: > I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. > They have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset > to zero for each run. And by reset to zero you mean the date loaded at boot time from the hardware clock is always "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +

Re : nfs problem

Strangely, putting a dns for the local zone (and forwarder for the rest) improves the situation. No cannot monitor in kern.log anymore ... De : Bob Proulx À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Mardi 20 Septembre 2011 21h46 Objet : Re: nfs problem Stepha

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

Camaleón wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I then set the time using NTP once I have a network connection - > > wireless as it happens and therefore not entirely predictable in how > > quickly it will connect. > > Mmm... I would be careful with this, NTP may refuse to sync if the offset > betw

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

On 09/25/11 22:07, David Christensen wrote: On 09/25/2011 07:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Other than fsck running faster, what are the advantages of ext4 over ext3? Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: alien or another???

co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > I use Debian squeeze > With other programs could change packages. Rpm. Deb?? Alien seems like it should be a reasonable thing to do. I personally really wanted it to work at one time. But in practice alien never seems like a good thing. It just isn't as successfu

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

On 09/26/11 00:43, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Yes, but not if you are still on Lenny I have a Lenny box that was quite happ

Re: autofs interest ?

Stephane Durieux wrote: > A simple question: > from a server point of view does autofs costs less (cpu, io, memory) > than "traditionnal" nfs ? AutoFS is simply a automated mount service for NFS. AutoFS doesn't replace NFS. The autofs simply gets nfs going by mounting remote nfs filesystems on

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

On 09/26/11 12:24, Nicolas wrote: I have a disk with the same space and i use lvm dividing it in several partitions and a 300 gb free space block if any of the partitions need more space. It's very practical and dependable. And the filesystem is ext4 for all of them. Are you recommending a sin

OT: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

> just like lots of people believe in > little green people in flying saucers Idiots, everybody knows that the aliens are grey and that they fly in cigar formed spaceships. Which reminds me to two songs. Jimi Hendrix - UFO (AUTHENTIC STUDIO RECORDINGS VOL 3) http://www.youtube.c

Re: OT: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On 28/09/11 13:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> just like lots of people believe in >> little green people in flying saucers > > Idiots, everybody knows that the aliens are grey and that they fly in > cigar formed spaceships. :-D They make the spaceships in cigars? I knew those toba

OT: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze - reloaded

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 05:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > just like lots of people believe in > > little green people in flying saucers > > Idiots, everybody knows that the aliens are grey and that they fly in > cigar formed spaceships. > > Which reminds me to two songs. > > Jim

Re: OT: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

On 28/09/11 13:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > MC 900 Ft Jesus - TRUTH IS OUT OF STYLE (1989) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtlpG0hb38 > > Cheers! > > Ralf > > 5! I meant 5 On a slightly more serious note - HTML *5* is not a standard, yet. I'll happily start coding for it when it is - unti

Re: OT: use bash instead of ksh as prime shell

T o n g wrote: > I want to know what's the best way to use bash as my prime shell instead > of ksh, given the fact that changing the shell as system level is out of > the problem. You can't change /etc/profile? No 'chsh' command? Okay. > The problem is, unlike bash which has its own .bash_p

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

Hi, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote: I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility. I found a large tar file which could be deleted without issue. It was in an oracle production directory area. Due to a bug in ncdu, ( http://sourcefo

Re: CD reader doesn't read audio CDs

You can read the file /usr/share/doc/cdfs-src/README.debian And after installing it you can enjoy your audio by # mount -t cdfs ppm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://