Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 04.03.2013 03:04, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: -big snip- Why do you think you need a special driver? Please type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" in your terminal to check whether you have "wlan0" device or not in the list. mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.

Re: Wheezy RC1 - Installing python:i386 on amd64 machine

2013-03-04 Thread nir izraeli
Wow, thanks! I'll give it a try. one question though, will it be possible to run a command in the chrooted environment without having root in the original machine? the thing is, i need to execute the i386 software using a piece of software i wrote for the amd64 machine and would prefer no running

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2013-03-04 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Hello Sharon On 03/03/2013 11:04 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm trying to get a bash script working from a cron job that will empty trash of all files and directories that are older than $N [7 days in this case]. May be it is not what you need, but I look at package tmpreaper. -- Best regards,

Re: Windows XP option not showing up after fresh install.

2013-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:13:15AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: >First, just curious why are you saying Debian 6 as "new"? It has been >released several years ago. I assumed the "new Debian 6" mean Debian 6.0.7 which was released on the 23rd of February. http://www.debian.org/releases/s

future of dbmail in Debian

2013-03-04 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Hi Debian I am using dbmail package [1] at home and at work for many years already. I just noticed that dbmail is not in Wheezy and is also kicked out from Sid (for i386). I found bug [2] telling that maintainer is not responding. 1. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dbmail 2. http://bugs.d

OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:47:55PM -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > > There is a tale in my country about an arrogant man that considered absurd > that a pumpkin, being a large fruit, comes from a short plant, and the > blackberry [1] comes from a tall tree although it is a tiny fruit. He

Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
I ought not to quote from Mark without his permission, so I have firmly pre-rapped my knuckles. If there were a moderator I would be contacting her/him. As there is not, I want the list's opinion, and it cannot give an opinion without the data. As I see it Mark has no right to dictate what li

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: I ought not to quote from Mark without his permission, so I have firmly pre-rapped my knuckles. If there were a moderator I would be contacting her/him. As there is not, I want the list's opinion, and it cannot give an opinion without the data. As I see it Mark has no right t

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 23:34:23 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > fdisk leaves space at the beginning of the drive because GRUB requires > > it to embed part of itself there. But GRUB will not go there because it > > thinks it is overwriting data on the disk when it dete

Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread albcares
that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass. (sorry for my basic language) 2013/3/4, Darac M

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Dear Lisi, On 3/4/13, Lisi Reisz wrote: ... > If there were a moderator I would be contacting her/him. As there is not, I > want the list's opinion, and it cannot give an opinion without the data. > > As I see it Mark has no right to dictate what list members may or may not do > on-list, nor to

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 March 2013 12:52:54 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Mark has a right of free speech, as do you. This is a public mailing list. > > As such, he has a right to say what he likes. As do you. Yes, of course! And we each can kill-file each other. :-) I hadn't thought of it in those terms. I wa

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread nir izraeli
Hi, if you don't mind me asking - how old are you too? - nir On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 March 2013 12:52:54 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Mark has a right of free speech, as do you. This is a public mailing > list. > > > > As such, he has a right to say what

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lisi Reisz wrote: For those persons getting tired of these non-technical posts, check out debian user spanish. High quality posts and replies and Camaleón is still there. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 March 2013 14:01:57 nir izraeli wrote: > if you don't mind me asking - how old are you too? I don't mind you asking, but what is the relevance? Since I have just criticised someone else for telling us all his age, on the grounds that it wasn't relevant, don't you think it would be

Re: Windows XP option not showing up after fresh install.

2013-03-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael wrote: On 03/03/2013 08:13 PM, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: First, just curious why are you saying Debian 6 as "new"? It has been released several years ago. For your question, you may want to drop to root and run "grub-update" and "grub-install /dev/sdX" where sdX might be /dev/sda in your

Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Steven Grunza
Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be unusable. I realize this system is _NOT_ going to be a performance machine. I plan on us

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Soare Catalin
On Mar 4, 2013 4:49 PM, "Steven Grunza" wrote: > > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. > Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are > problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be > unusable. > > I realize this sy

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Steven, Steven Grunza wrote: > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. > Is this possible? Installing the system shouldn’t be a problem. > I realize this system is _NOT_ going to be a performance machine. I > plan on using it for text editing (in laptop mo

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 04.03.2013 18:49, Steven Grunza wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be unusable. I realize this system is _NOT_ goin

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Lars Noodén
On 03/04/2013 05:29 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > ...If I were you i would choose Openbox WM, you can try XFCE also, > but I'm in doubt... A plain window manager like OpenBox would be the way to go. FVWM still has a lot of good use, especially with the FVWM-crystal theme. XFCE is a desktop environm

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:49:12AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote: > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. > Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are > problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be > unusable. Before

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/03/13 09:49 AM, Steven Grunza wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be unusable. I realize this system is _NOT_ goin

Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Filipak
Thank you all. I've learned a lot here. I did manage to get Debian installed, though it was through a side door that was opened by Debian Live. I'm grateful for that. I will continue to look for a Linux with which I can live. In private messages with some list members I advocated for focus test

RE: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Steven Grunza
> -Original Message- > From: Claudius Hubig [mailto:debian_1...@chubig.net] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 9:59 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC > > Dear Steven, > > Steven Grunza wrote: > > > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a

Missing Packages.gz file in debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-8.iso image

2013-03-04 Thread Franco Martelli
Hi, In debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-8.iso image the file Packages.gz exist but in debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-8.iso it doesn't! This cause an "apt-get update" error. I don't know which package affect this bug... root@mitas:~# mount -o ro,loop /media/sdb1/sqeeze/debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-8.iso /mnt/ root@

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread doug
On 03/04/2013 05:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I ought not to quote from Mark without his permission, so I have firmly pre-rapped my knuckles. If there were a moderator I would be contacting her/him. As there is not, I want the list's opinion, and it cannot give an opinion without the data. As I se

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/04/2013 09:59 AM, Mark Filipak wrote: Thank you all. I've learned a lot here. I did manage to get Debian installed, though it was through a side door that was opened by Debian Live. I'm grateful for that. I will continue to look for a Linux with which I can live. In private messages wi

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas D. Dean wrote: > The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline > > export TERM=ansi80x25 > > printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" > produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. Please can you try this (before you do an "export TERM"): tput smul; echo

Graduate Education Programs - A Business Resource

2013-03-04 Thread Victoria Baker
Hi there, I am a researcher for an online project that, in conjunction with the National Center for Education Statistics, created a National Education Index for students interested in pursuing a business degree across the US. I was wondering if you're responsible for maintaining debian.com/New

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Doug
On 03/04/2013 11:59 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. Please can you try this (before you do an

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread steef
Yaro Kasear schreef: On 03/04/2013 09:59 AM, Mark Filipak wrote: Thank you all. I've learned a lot here. I did manage to get Debian installed, though it was through a side door that was opened by Debian Live. I'm grateful for that. I will continue to look for a Linux with which I can live. In

Re: Wheezy RC1 - Installing python:i386 on amd64 machine

2013-03-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-04 09:43 +0100, nir izraeli wrote: > one question though, will it be possible to run a command in the chrooted > environment without having root in the original machine? Yes, with schroot this is possible. > the thing is, i need to execute the i386 software using a piece of software >

Re: future of dbmail in Debian

2013-03-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-04 11:04 +0100, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: > I am using dbmail package [1] at home and at work for many years > already. I just noticed that dbmail is not in Wheezy and is also > kicked out from Sid (for i386). I found bug [2] telling that > maintainer is not responding. > > 1. http://pac

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 08:32, Brian escreveu: On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 23:34:23 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Brian wrote: fdisk leaves space at the beginning of the drive because GRUB requires it to embed part of itself there. But GRUB will not go there because it thinks it is overwriting data

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2013-03-04 Thread Slavko
Dňa 03.03.2013 23:04 Sharon Kimble wrote / napísal(a): > I'm trying to get a bash script working from a cron job that will empty > trash of all files and directories that are older than $N [7 days in > this case]. This partly works but is very inefficient in that it > doesn't delete everything tha

Re: OT: Fruit (was Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised)

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 09:48, albcares escreveu: that's right or almost right. The story told of a pumpkin and an acorn. And when the man lied under the oak to have a sleep, he was actually awaken by a falling acorn that made his nose bleeding. This is why the big pumpkins grow from a shaggy grass. (sorry

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
So you cannot reproduce the bug, right? Em 04-03-2013 12:59, Mark Filipak escreveu: Thank you all. I've learned a lot here. I did manage to get Debian installed, though it was through a side door that was opened by Debian Live. I'm grateful for that. I will continue to look for a Linux with wh

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Joe
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:14:32 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/3 8:16 PM, Mr G wrote: > -snip- > > $ id > -snip- > > $ sudo updatedb > -snip- > > $ mlocate firmware-iwlwfi.deb > -snip- > > $ pwd > > Look at the terminal session below > > = > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 17:09, Mark Filipak escreveu: On 2013/3/4 2:35 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So you cannot reproduce the bug, right? I didn't try, João Luis. For you, I will. No, not for me. This list is archived and new Debian users may read your postings and conclude that the GUI in

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 03/04/13 10:12, Doug wrote: On 03/04/2013 11:59 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. Please ca

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/04/2013 02:44 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Em 04-03-2013 17:09, Mark Filipak escreveu: On 2013/3/4 2:35 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So you cannot reproduce the bug, right? I didn't try, João Luis. For you, I will. No, not for me. This list is archived and new Debian

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:49:12AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote: > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. > Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are > problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be > unusable. > I in

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/4 3:44 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Em 04-03-2013 17:09, Mark Filipak escreveu: On 2013/3/4 2:35 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So you cannot reproduce the bug, right? I didn't try, João Luis. For you, I will. No, not for me. This list is archived and new Debian use

Cierre de Inscripciones - Responsabilidad Social

2013-03-04 Thread Lic. Carolina Moo Aldana
Responsabilidad Ambiental y Social Corporativa Lunes 11 Marzo 2013 / 6 Horas de Capacitación / La más alta calidad sin importar dónde se encuentre... Le presentamos hoy la oportunidad de conocer e incorporar a su empresa modelos de responsabilidad social que le permitan aumentar su contr

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Joe
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600 Yaro Kasear wrote: > > You can still run a very successful desktop system on Linux without > installing Xorg server at any point. The only command line that > hasn't modernized even a little bit is DOS. > I hate to be the one to break this to you, but DOS i

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:03 PM, steef wrote: > > i agree completely with your remarks. i did not mix up in this *discussion* > (except only one short remark) when i came back from the gambia because i > considered it as completely useless to *talk* to a guy who did not take the > trouble to read t

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 4 mars 2013 22:26, Joe a écrit : > On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600 > Yaro Kasear wrote: > Mark is wrong, Windows is also a command-line OS. Hum... for windows 9x (and Me, and 3.x) ok, since they are based on MSDOS, but for NT family, there is no way to run it without graphical layer. In

OT: Windows, a command-line OS (Was: Re: Not for me.)

2013-03-04 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 22:59:33 +0100 ""Morel Bérenger"" wrote: > Le Lun 4 mars 2013 22:26, Joe a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600 > > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > Mark is wrong, Windows is also a command-line OS. > > Hum... for windows 9x (and Me, and 3.x) ok, since they are > based on MSD

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/03/13 09:53, Mark Filipak wrote: > You snake. I replied to you privately and you published my reply in public. Agreed on this. Replying to a private email on a public list is bad form. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Startup-Manager (squeeze)

2013-03-04 Thread mess-mate
Hi, any idea why the startup-manager wont continue his task ? I've installed all what his needed grb2, grub-pc, etc.. The manager start and do a pre-configuration and stops. thanks

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I tried so many things, the terminal is tired! > tput... does the same as ESC[4m... OK. The tput looked up your declared terminal type ($TERM) in the terminfo database and returned you the appropriate code assigned to "start underline". So if it doesn't work then either

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-04 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Mustafa Aldemir, 4.03.2013: > Hello, > > I just tried upgrading my Debian server. During the update, I got a message > about a missing driver. Since it's a remote server, it will be a disaster if > it has a problem with ethernet driver. What should I do before restarting to > avoid problems? >

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Joe
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 22:59:33 +0100 "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Lun 4 mars 2013 22:26, Joe a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600 > > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > Mark is wrong, Windows is also a command-line OS. > > Hum... for windows 9x (and Me, and 3.x) ok, since they are based on > MSDOS

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Joe
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:07:30 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > On 05/03/13 09:53, Mark Filipak wrote: > > > You snake. I replied to you privately and you published my reply in > > public. > > Agreed on this. Replying to a private email on a public list is bad > form. > > Yes, although this partic

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-04 Thread Mustafa Aldemir
Hi, I read that proprietary drivers were removed from Debian kernel 2.6.29 onwards, and this may be one of them. Do you think Wheezy version will work on it? I must be 100% sure before rebooting. bye, Mustafa http://mustafa.aldemir.net From: Selim T. Erdog

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:59:18AM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: snip > I'd like to leave you with one reflection that may cause pause. If tomorrow > Debian were to suddenly become twice as popular as it currently is, this list > would be flooded by people exactly like

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Harvey Kelly
On 5 March 2013 00:53, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:59:18AM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > > snip > >> I'd like to leave you with one reflection that may cause pause. If tomorrow >> Debian were to suddenly become twice as popular as it currently is

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/04/2013 03:26 PM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:50 -0600 Yaro Kasear wrote: You can still run a very successful desktop system on Linux without installing Xorg server at any point. The only command line that hasn't modernized even a little bit is DOS. I hate to be the one to br

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread William Ivanski
On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote: When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people afraid of kernels or enterprises that refuse to upgrade some of their infrastructure. It's also used by people who, many year

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/04/2013 08:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote: On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote: When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people afraid of kernels or enterprises that refuse to upgrade some of their infrastr

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Doug
On 03/04/2013 09:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote: On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote: When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people afraid of kernels or enterprises that refuse to upgrade some of their infrastr

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 03/04/2013 08:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/04/2013 09:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote: On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote: When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people afraid of kernels or enterprises that refu

[OT] Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Doug wrote: If you think that the modern graphical approach is so great, try taking pictures outdoors with one of those nice 2" x 3" LCD displays. Give me an eye-level viewfinder any day!) Oh yes! Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there i

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Yaro Kasear wrote: On 03/04/2013 08:48 PM, Doug wrote: Another program, which I used until I retired in 2002 was EEsof's Touchstone. An extremely expensive RF cad program, it worked with netlist inputs. I'm trying to understand what you're meaning on the Touchstone software... what featu

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Doug
On 03/04/2013 09:56 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 03/04/2013 08:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/04/2013 09:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote: On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote: When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used by people

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-04 Thread sp113438
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 16:00:31 -0800 (PST) Mustafa Aldemir wrote: Hello, Do you need the isci driver? Maybe not ... > Hi, > > I read that proprietary drivers were removed from Debian kernel > 2.6.29 onwards, and this may be one of them. > > Do you think Wheezy version will work on it? I must be 1

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-04 Thread sposkpat
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 16:00:31 -0800 (PST) Mustafa Aldemir wrote: > Hi, > > I read that proprietary drivers were removed from Debian kernel > 2.6.29 onwards, and this may be one of them. > > Do you think Wheezy version will work on it? I must be 100% sure > before rebooting. > > bye, > Mustafa >

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 05/03/13 12:02, Chris Davies wrote: > Ah. So your X Windows based emulator understands ESC [4m but your console > window (without X Windows) doesn't. It appears that my console > (TERM=linux) represents underline with cyan text. Yep, likewise. I think it's because it has to be compatible with

Re: Startup-Manager (squeeze)

2013-03-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/03/13 06:07 PM, mess-mate wrote: Hi, any idea why the startup-manager wont continue his task ? I've installed all what his needed grb2, grub-pc, etc.. The manager start and do a pre-configuration and stops. thanks Can you provide further information? I don't use it myself but is ther

inquire report bug

2013-03-04 Thread sting wing
at this address: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting there is this line: If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should be filed against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing list asking for advice. The following is found in top panel menu Applications/Log File Vie

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 17:53, Mark Filipak escreveu: On 2013/3/4 3:44 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Em 04-03-2013 17:09, Mark Filipak escreveu: On 2013/3/4 2:35 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So you cannot reproduce the bug, right? I didn't try, João Luis. For you, I will. No, not for

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 05:39, Roman V.Leon. escreveu: On 04.03.2013 03:04, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: -big snip- Why do you think you need a special driver? Please type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" in your terminal to check whether you have "wlan0" device or not in the list.

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/03/2013 20:35, Thomas D. Dean a écrit : The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline > export TERM=ansi80x25 > printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. If I put the same in c code, it works #include int main()

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > From the directory that the deb is in: > dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb > > If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had used > aptitude, and install them. Get the dependencies the same way you

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:53:37PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > My objective: > Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet. To be more exact, the wifi driver is installed so the kernel can talk to the wireless hardware. IOW, the procedure is the same whether you hav

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > I tried to install wicd. [...] > I see that there are uninstalled dependencies: > wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > w

Re: Windows XP option not showing up after fresh install.

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:16:07AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2013-03-04 03:08, Michael skrev: > >I installed and during installation it found > >both the Win XP and the Linux Mint installations. > >After booting, the Mint shows up but not the XP. How do > >get the XP option do show up upon bo

Re: future of dbmail in Debian

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:04:03AM +0100, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: > Hi Debian > > I am using dbmail package [1] at home and at work for many years > already. I just noticed that dbmail is not in Wheezy and is also > kicked out from Sid (for i386). I found bug [2] telling that > maintainer is not

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-03-04 Thread arne
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:18:20 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: Hello, Debian is the Linux distribution with the most packages, no Linux firm can compete. Linux runs well without any sort of a firm backing it. > > * /From/: Lisi Reisz > > * /Date/: Wed, 27 Feb

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-04 Thread arne
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 04:54:10 +0100 sposkpat wrote: Do NOT REBOOT. Linux is known to run for years. Until you are sure. -- 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