apt/dpkg

2015-11-07 Thread rajiv chavan
Sat Nov 7 10:05:00 UTC 2015 A message at apt-upgrade: __ The following package disappeared from your system as all files have been overwritten by other packages: libaudit0 Note: This is done automatically and on purpose by dpkg. __ Has libaudit0 been obsoleted? Regards.

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > In order to provide Internet access to a LAN consisting of several > computers in a location in which DSL is not available, I am in search of a > reliable and inexpensive way to use the USB port of a G4 Wi-Fi "hotspot" > to feed the WAN port of a router. > > In part

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
AFAIK there are small cables in market for this purpose. Like we have OTG to connect USB and smartphone, similarly there are USB to Ethernet cables. Their necessity comes in tablets, Ultrabooks where Ethernet is unavailable. You could find it on an ordinary hardware store. It's really cheap. Good

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 November 2015 10:43:38 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > AFAIK there are small cables in market for this purpose. Like we have OTG > to connect USB and smartphone, similarly there are USB to Ethernet cables. > Their necessity comes in tablets, Ultrabooks where Ethernet is unavailable. > You

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : > AFAIK there are small cables in market for this purpose. Like we have OTG > to connect USB and smartphone, similarly there are USB to Ethernet cables. > Their necessity comes in tablets, Ultrabooks where Ethernet is unavailable. These devices provide ethernet connectiv

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > These devices provide ethernet connectivity to a USB host port. > IIUC, the OP wants it the other way around : connect a USB device port > and an ethernet host port. > Well, a vice-versa search solves this. Google "usb modem to ethernet

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Ron
On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:26:18 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? It does, and I have used them on my IPCop box for years; better burn out an USBToRJ45 adapter than the motherboard when there is a storm strike on the ISP coax. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Ron
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > !!! In which country do ordinary hardware stores stock _slightly_ arcane IT > products?? Or, come to that, any IT products to speak of? Living in Darkest Paraguay, I have had no problem getting Trendnet USBToRJ45 adapters sent from Amazon

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 + > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > !!! In which country do ordinary hardware stores stock _slightly_ arcane > > IT products?? Or, come to that, any IT products to speak of? > > Living in Darkest Paraguay, I h

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-07 Thread ray
On Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 12:40:05 AM UTC-6, Felix Miata wrote: > > If a change from 1960 to 1920 does not help, try putting that xrandr command > in /etc/X11/ somewhere. > > If still no joy, share an Xorg.0.log here. Felix, Thank you for the post. You are correct, the 1960 was just a

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-07 Thread Felix Miata
ray composed on 2015-11-07 07:32 (UTC-0800): > Felix Miata wrote: >> If a change from 1960 to 1920 does not help, try putting that xrandr >> command in /etc/X11/ somewhere. >> If still no joy, share an Xorg.0.log here. > Thank you for the post. You are correct, the 1960 was just an email typo.

Re: apt/dpkg

2015-11-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:56:14 + rajiv chavan wrote: > Sat Nov 7 10:05:00 UTC 2015 > > A message at apt-upgrade: > __ > The following package disappeared from your system as > all files have been overwritten by other packages: > libaudit0 > Note: This is done automatically and

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sat, November 7, 2015 4:26 am, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Doesn't your i386 machine have an available USB port ? > Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? It has a USB-2 port; and I suppose I can purchase a PCI card with a USB-3 port at the computer store. In the IPCop manual, the only men

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
> On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Living in Darkest Paraguay, I have had no problem getting Trendnet > USBToRJ45 adapters sent from Amazon. The local Apple Store has an adapter for US$30.

Random freeze

2015-11-07 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, I'm on sid, and since a couple of weeks I'm experiencing random freezes; pretty bad, I have to hard reset the machine. I suspect it is the ugly wifi proprietary driver: === 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter # aptitude show

Install fail on a Macbook

2015-11-07 Thread Ed Jabbour
Tried - and failed - to install Wheezy on an old - late 2008 - Macbook. It's an Intel machine running Mavericks. First, I used OSX's diskutil to create a 120 GB partition formatted fat32. Ran the netinst installer. created 3 partitions, root, home and swap. So the disk had 6 partitions -

Re: Install fail on a Macbook

2015-11-07 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/07/2015 06:30 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: > Tried - and failed - to install Wheezy on an old - late 2008 - > Macbook. Why not Jessie ? > Any pointers, hints, solutions, etc. appreciated. > Just in case you didn't see this link: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > On Sat, November 7, 2015 4:26 am, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Doesn't your i386 machine have an available USB port ? >> Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? > > It has a USB-2 port; and I suppose I can purchase a PCI card with a USB-3 > port at the computer s

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 November 2015 08:59:35 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:26:18 +0100 > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? > > It does, and I have used them on my IPCop box for years; better burn > out an USBToRJ45 adapter than the motherboard w

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sat, November 7, 2015 12:13 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Why would you need a USB 3 port ? Doesn't a USB 2 port provide enough > throughput ? I do not know. If USB2 provides reasonable performance, then I am satisfied. ... > These are serial ports, not network interfaces. With the proper dri

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/7/2015 10:56 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: Living in Darkest Paraguay, I have had no problem getting Trendnet USBToRJ45 adapters sent from Amazon. The local Apple Store has an adapter for US$30. And in context that could rea

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 November 2015 09:44:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 + > > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > !!! In which country do ordinary hardware stores stock _slightly_ > > > arcane IT products?? Or, come to t

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 November 2015 18:48:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 07 November 2015 09:44:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 + > > > > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > !!! In which country do ordinary hardw

Re: apt/dpkg

2015-11-07 Thread rajiv chavan
Thank you, Reco. On 11/7/15, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:56:14 + > rajiv chavan wrote: > >> Sat Nov 7 10:05:00 UTC 2015 >> >> A message at apt-upgrade: >> __ >> The following package disappeared from your system as >> all files have been overwritten by other packages:

dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-07 Thread Alan Chandler
I run a small raspberry pi as my home mail server. Over the last couple of days, my wife has reported to me that she hasn't seen any mail for a while. After a bit of investigation I found that if I did service dspam status It would show its status as active(exited). In order to start it aga

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > On Sat, November 7, 2015 12:13 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> These are serial ports, not network interfaces. With the proper driver, >> an ethernet over USB device > > Such as the Apple usb-to-ethernet adapter? Maybe, if the chip inside is supported. But why do

Re: dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 19:21 +, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] > How can I find out why dpam is falling over If it's the same dspam that was previously in Debian, it has been removed and is apparently no longer developed, so maybe looking for alternatives would be a better option? -- Cheers, Sven

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sat, November 7, 2015 1:46 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > The USB device I'm talking about is the Netgear > AirCard 791L hotspot in "tethered" mode. So all you may need to buy is a > USB cable with the proper connectors at each end if you don't already > have one, to connect the USB port on the ho

How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, they are all in the basement, which is a t

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > > I have on my desk a 791L with the USB cable. And I have a spare > desktop machine here -- in good running order -- with which to > experiment. Finally, I have an IPCop 2.1.8 installation CD. (...) > and then I stall, at the dialog asking configuration type for R

Re: How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-07 Thread Glenn English
On Nov 7, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, > fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass > ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of > 800x600 at best. Als

Re: How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Dennis Wicks writes: > I want to force these systems to support hi-res 1680x1050 or better so > I can VNC to them from my main machine and be able to use graphic > software to operate and maintain these machines. Use ssh -X to forward the X connection. Then you can just run your applications on

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 November 2015 14:24:41 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 07 November 2015 18:48:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 07 November 2015 09:44:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 + > > > > > > >

Re: dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-07 Thread Jochen Spieker
Sven Arvidsson: > On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 19:21 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > [...] >> How can I find out why dpam is falling over > > If it's the same dspam that was previously in Debian, it has been > removed and is apparently no longer developed, so maybe looking for > alternatives would be a bet

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sat, November 7, 2015 3:02 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : >> and then I stall, at the dialog asking configuration type for RED >> interface. The options are: >> >> - analog modem >> - GSM/3G modem >> - ISDN >> - PPPoE >> - PPTP >> - static >> - DHCP >> >> What now? >

Re: dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-07 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 08/11/2015 00:27, Jochen Spieker a écrit : Sven Arvidsson: On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 19:21 +, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] How can I find out why dpam is falling over If it's the same dspam that was previously in Debian, it has been removed and is apparently no longer developed, so maybe look

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : > > But is the Verizon-Netgear AirCard 791L a "GSM/3G modem"? IIUC, according to the user guide it should be seen as a network interface. Can you identify the device with lsusb ?

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sat, November 7, 2015 7:50 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > IIUC, according to the user guide it should be seen as a network > interface. Can you identify the device with lsusb ? Yes: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:68e1 Netgear, Inc.

Re: system crash

2015-11-07 Thread Dev Guy
Is this mailing list active? On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Dev Guy wrote: > Hello while using my system with the KDE desktop manager, my system > became unresponsive for about 30 seconds, after I was able to only > move the mouse around but nothing else was accessible. I could still > see all

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sat, November 7, 2015 8:26 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, November 7, 2015 7:50 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> IIUC, according to the user guide it should be seen as a network >> interface. Can you identify the device with lsusb ? > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:68e1 Netgear, Inc. So

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-07 Thread ray
On Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 10:30:05 AM UTC-6, Felix > That "somewhere" looks to be e.g. > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/my1920x1080toOverride3840x2160Xsetup in Wheezy or Betsy. > > Before you try that, I fail to notice evidence you tried my 2015-11-01 22:11 > -0500 thread suggestion to append the vi

Re: How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 11/7/15 3:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, th

Re: LXDE Display Coordination

2015-11-07 Thread Felix Miata
ray composed on 2015-11-07 19:29 (UTC-0800): > Felix composed... >> That "somewhere" looks to be e.g. >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/my1920x1080toOverride3840x2160Xsetup in Wheezy or Betsy. >> Before you try that, I fail to notice evidence you tried my 2015-11-01 22:11 >> -0500 thread suggestion to appe

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread Stuart Longland
On 07/11/15 23:59, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >> Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? > It does, and I have used them on my IPCop box for years; better burn out an > USBToRJ45 adapter than the motherboard when there is a storm strike on the > ISP coax. Hang on, this is a wireless hotsp

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

2015-11-07 Thread rlharris
On Sun, November 8, 2015 12:32 am, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 07/11/15 23:59, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >>> Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? >>> >> It does, and I have used them on my IPCop box for years; better burn >> out an USBToRJ45 adapter than the motherboard when there is a