Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-24 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:54:17PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > > > I also got a second-hand Thinkpad last month, a T400, and I love it > > too. I think it's from 2009 or 2010. > > > > Mine has an Intel core 2 duo CPU (P8400 @ 2.26GHz) and 4GB ram

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 24 January 2015 02:17:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2015 15:41:06 Ric Moore did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On 01/23/2015 03:09 PM, Dom wrote: > > > On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote: > > >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 > > >> > > >> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >

Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. From: http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a pendrive with: $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync , but then can't boot from it even though the BIOS is - apparently - configured so to do th

Questions to live-build

2015-01-24 Thread Hans
Hello list, I am looking for some answers, the live-build I could not find in the live- build documentation. I hope, someone very experienced can help me. The situation: I created a live-build structure and with "lb config" and "lb build" I can build an ISO-image. That is working well. Question

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > From: > > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a > pendrive with: > > $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync That's an ok command.

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Siard
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > From: > > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it > onto a pendrive with: > > $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync > > , but then can't boot from it even though the BIOS is - ap

HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Thomas
Hi, after last debian update my printer is not printing anymore. scanner is OK. Anybody has an idea what to do? I tried #aptitude reinstall hplip hplip-data printer-driver-postscript-hp but didnt help. Version is 8.0 jessie Thanks Jan 24 14:50:52 kernel: [ 548.064032] usb 2-3: new high-speed

Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Ron
When I plug in my USB modem, it is recogniz"ed and mounted on /dev/ttyACM0 Sadly, it is not accessible to the user as: root@ron # ls -l /dev/ttyA* crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 24 11:23 /dev/ttyACM0 and I must chmod a+rw before users can use it. Is there a way to make it mount crw-rw-rw-T

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2015, 11:26:49 schrieb Renaud OLGIATI: > When I plug in my USB modem, it is recogniz"ed and mounted on /dev/ttyACM0 > > Sadly, it is not accessible to the user as: > root@ron # ls -l /dev/ttyA* > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 24 11:23 /dev/ttyACM0 > > and I must chmo

Re: Questions to live-build

2015-01-24 Thread mrr
On 24/01/2015 13:30, Hans wrote: Hello list, I am looking for some answers, the live-build I could not find in the live- build documentation. I hope, someone very experienced can help me. The situation: I created a live-build structure and with "lb config" and "lb build" I can build an ISO-imag

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread mrr
On 24/01/2015 13:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. From: http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a pendrive with: $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync If you create a /dev/sdc1 partition a launc

Re: squeeze lts

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 00:13:51 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > I'm getting messages like this: > > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > > Unable to connect to http.debian.net:http: [IP: 198.52.129.244 80] > > Is there trouble at Sq

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:26:19 +0100, mrr wrote: > On 24/01/2015 13:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >Hi all. > > > >From: > > > > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > > >I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a > >pendrive with: > > > > $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-n

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> From: >> >> http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ >> >> I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a >> pendrive with: >> >> $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sy

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:11:35 +0100, Thomas wrote: > after last debian update my printer is not printing anymore. scanner is OK. > Anybody has an idea what to do? > I tried #aptitude reinstall hplip hplip-data printer-driver-postscript-hp > but didnt help. > Version is 8.0 jessie You really wa

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:18:28 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> From: > >> > >> http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > >> > >> I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a > >> p

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Thomas
Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2015, 15:19:09 schrieb Brian: > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:11:35 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > after last debian update my printer is not printing anymore. scanner is > > OK. > > Anybody has an idea what to do? > > I tried #aptitude reinstall hplip hplip-data > > printer-driver-po

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:18:28 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> > >> >> From: >> >> >> >> http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ >> >> >> >> I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:41:05 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:18:28 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Brian writes: > >> > >> > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> > > >> >> From: > >> >> > >> >> http://www.us.debi

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread mrr
On 24/01/2015 16:10, Brian wrote: On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:26:19 +0100, mrr wrote: On 24/01/2015 13:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. From: http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a pendrive with: $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-

Re: video chat in gmail using iceweasel is not working

2015-01-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Alexis wrote: > > kamaraju kusumanchi writes: > >> FWIW, I get >> >> "A plugin is needed to display this content." >> >> error even when I go to https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ , >> https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/authorwareonly.html . Since >> thi

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:41:05 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:18:28 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> > >> >> Brian writes: >> >> >> >> > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> From: >> >> >>

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Ron
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:35:15 +0100 Hans wrote: > > When I plug in my USB modem, it is recognized and mounted on /dev/ttyACM0 > > Sadly, it is not accessible to the user as: > > root@ron # ls -l /dev/ttyA* > > crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 24 11:23 /dev/ttyACM0 > > and I must chmod a+rw bef

Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 16:12:52 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > No restoring is needed. > > > >dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M; sync > > > > will obliterate the drive's contents. > > > > Note it is /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdXN. Writing to partition number N

[solved] Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Brian writes: > >> On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:41:05 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Brian writes: >>> >>> > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:18:28 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> > >>> >> Brian writes: >>> >> >>> >> > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 12:26:02 +, Rodolfo Medina w

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:11:45 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Hello Renaud, >I have added the user to the dialout group, Did you log out, and back in again? Group changes aren't always recognised in the current session, but will be in a new one. -- Regards _ / ) "The bl

Re: [solved] Re: Can't boot from pendrive

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 16:51:20 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > But now, one more question: after using the pendrive for the installation, how > can I restore it as it was before, to use it to store files? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX count=1 Then partition and put filesystems on the partitions

Re: squeeze lts

2015-01-24 Thread Glenn English
On Jan 24, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Brian wrote: > http://http.debian.net describes what the redirector does. In your case > it appears to have chosen a mirror which is not in a very healthy state; > try http://198.52.129.244 and see what you think. > > When I've had this problem I've found that the r

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 16:33:26 +0100, Thomas wrote: > I stoped and started cups but nothink change, printing is still not working... [Snip] > D [24/Jan/2015:16:27:06 +0100] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: Kein > voreingestelltes Druckziel "No default print destination" You could try

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-24 Thread Pavlos K. Ponos
Hi folks, I had the same issue with Iceweasel and flash-player, not gnash. I then switched to Chromium and un-install the adobe's flash (obsolete..), problem solved. On 01/21/2015 02:56 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Fortunately, this works, b

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Thomas
Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2015, 17:44:13 schrieb Brian: > On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 16:33:26 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > I stoped and started cups but nothink change, printing is still not > > working... > [Snip] > > > D [24/Jan/2015:16:27:06 +0100] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: > > Kein voreinge

Re: squeeze lts

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 10:22:26 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Brian wrote: > > > http://http.debian.net describes what the redirector does. In your case > > it appears to have chosen a mirror which is not in a very healthy state; > > try http://198.52.129.244 and s

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:54:17PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > > > > > I also got a second-hand Thinkpad last month, a T400, and I love > > > it too. I think it's from 2009 or 2010. > > > > > > Min

Re: squeeze lts

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 18:26:31 +, Brian wrote: > I do think my experience is necessarily typical as the mirror is usually A "not" in there as the third word would allow sense to be made of what I wanted to say. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: upgrade kernel

2015-01-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
mrr a écrit : > > I saw somewhere during kernel compilation an option to load a kernel on > the fly but I haven't gone further (maybe it was targeted at kernel > developers). If you're talking about kexec, it just avoid the firmware POST and bootloader stage of a complete reboot, but not the sy

network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Tom Roche
summary: How to combine/synthesize OpenVPN and F5VPN routesets, so that the F5VPN can tunnel through the OpenVPN? 3 more specific questions @ end. details: my intent [1] >>> <-my control | agency control-> >>>| >>> (DHCP from ISP) (stat

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 24/01/15 16:11, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:35:15 +0100 Hans wrote: When I plug in my USB modem, it is recognized and mounted on /dev/ttyACM0 Sadly, it is not accessible to the user as: root@ron # ls -l /dev/ttyA* crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 24 11:23 /dev/tty

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Thomas
Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2015, 19:03:25 schrieb Thomas: > > http://localhost:631/admin > > let me admin cups and start the printer... > Every time i shutdown the PC CUPS forgot my printer so I have to admin with http://localhost:631/admin after startup the PC_ Again the problem happened after l

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Ron
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:45:09 + Philip Ashmore wrote: > just reboot the machine. Shades of MS Windows ;-3( Thanks to all for your help. Cheers, Ron. -- It is not too late to turn back from the Gates of Hell. Use Linux.

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Matt Ventura
On 1/24/2015 1:00 PM, Tom Roche wrote: Sven Hartge Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:53:35 +0100 [3] (tweaked) That would complete the VPN Trinity: * one route 0.0.0.0/1 * one route 128.0.0.0/1 * one host route to the other VPN endpoint (making it reachable regardless of other routes) I'm looking at the

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 23:10:19 +0100, Thomas wrote: > Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2015, 19:03:25 schrieb Thomas: > > > > http://localhost:631/admin > > > > let me admin cups and start the printer... > > > > Every time i shutdown the PC CUPS forgot my printer so I have to admin with > http://localh

Re: HP 3050A is not printing anymore after debian update on jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 25 Jan 2015 at 00:30:15 +, Brian wrote: > Are you using stable or testing? Forget this. I read the subject line. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Greg Madden
>> just reboot the machine. Use 'top' or 'ps' to kill a process that won't die gracefully. > >Shades of MS Windows ;-3( That is what systemd is for ;-) -- Peace Greg On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:45:09 + > Philip Ashmore wrote: > >>

Re: Unable to configure UPS options

2015-01-24 Thread Melvin Call
On 1/24/15, mrr wrote: > On 24/01/2015 03:50, Melvin Call wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have two computers, both running Wheezy and the >> XFCE4 Desktop. Both have attached UPS devices, and >> lsusb shows the UPS attached to each machine. Yet, >> on one I have options to configure actions to take >> wh

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:00:37 -0500 [1] (envvar names translated to `bash`ian) >> [The "original routeset" on the client/laptop:] > 1: default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static > 2: 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 > 3: 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope l

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Matt Ventura
On 1/24/2015 6:59 PM, Tom Roche wrote: Tom Roche Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:00:37 -0500 [1] (envvar names translated to `bash`ian) [The "original routeset" on the client/laptop:] 1: default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static 2: 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 3: 192.168.1.0/24

getting usb networking to hotplug

2015-01-24 Thread Rusi Mody
Lenovo laptop without an ethernet port. So Im using a USB to ethernet dongle. If I let the defaults of pppoeconf take over then the machine hangs at boot for 2-3 minutes waiting for (non-existent) eth0 to come up when dongle not plugged in. So now my etc/network/interfaces file is: auto lo iface

debian installer custom apt mirror

2015-01-24 Thread Dylan Bass
Hi, I recently used apt-mirror to create a local jessie mirror on my LAN. I have several computers and laptops that I need to keep updated daily and this serves my purpose fine. I was wondering if there is a way I can install Debian using a custom apt mirror instead of the default mirrors in the

Re: debian installer custom apt mirror

2015-01-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Dylan Bass wrote: > Hi, > > I recently used apt-mirror to create a local jessie mirror on my LAN. > I have several computers and laptops that I need to keep updated daily > and this serves my purpose fine. I was wondering if there is a way I > can install Debian u