Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:43:13PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > email check. My 486 isn't used right now since it only has 32 MB ram > and an 850 MB hard drive. The backup set size right now is around 2 GB. I often used big modern IDE disks on 486 and pentiums. Sometimes I had to disable the

Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

2008-01-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:58:35AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64) After I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64, the commands: sudo m-a a-i madwifi-source

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

2008-01-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me! Sorry,.. I've already threw it away ;-P Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Signature based backup solution?

2008-01-30 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! > > Do you know any backup solution which store backup like mirror, but each > > file is > > compressed? And then can do incremental backups without an original file? > > (like > > rdiff http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff) I use BackupPC. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ It stores files by i

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am surprised no one mentione PPC hardware. There are old PowerMac towers that come with a huge room inside to install hard drives and etc. As I remember correctly, I am pretty sure there was a model with two processors in them (Motorola 604s or 603s). That would be a much better choice than a

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread David Palmer
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:31:34 +1000 Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Any suggestions for good old boxes like this that will run modern > > Debian or OpenBSD and be reasonably reliable? I generally hang around the rubbish bins of the local primary schools at budget time. Last t

Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I apologize for the fairly primitive question. But I have been fairly curious as to the advantages of compiling the most recent kernels. As I understand, the new kernel has a new scheduler (CFS). Haven't seen much benchmarks but the early ones I have seen showed some fairly decent per

Camtasia alternative for linux

2008-01-30 Thread sobriquet
Hi. Is there something equivalent to Camtasia (screen recording software) on the windows platform for linux? Preferably, it should yield movies of a level of quality that compares to Camtasia. For an example of a Camtasia tutorial movie (in Photoshop and unfortunately only available in Dutch): ht

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Depo Catcher
I use to run an older version of debian (and slackware) on a 486 (this was about 8 years ago). You could probably find a generic 486 somewhere cheap and/or for free! Try to find a 486DX4 (100Mz, 50Mhz Bus) [I think this was the fastest non-overdrive 486] Or, maybe look for an old Pentium Pr

Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

2008-01-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:46:52AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > After I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64, the commands: > > sudo m-a a-i madwifi-source failed > sudo m-a a-i alsa-sourcefailed > sudo m-a a-i m-a a-i fglrx-kernel-src failed > > what am I

Re: Manage users in a HTTPS interface.

2008-01-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:52:01AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I have a need to set up a server with an secure web interface to manage > >server users (add - remove - change passwords). > > > >What is available out there to do this? >

smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

2008-01-30 Thread Kent West
I have two Debian boxes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux westek 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which smbmount /usr/bin/smbmount [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -lh /usr/bin/smbmount lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-01-28 17:03 /usr/bin/smbmount ->

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Julian De Marchi
Any suggestions for good old boxes like this that will run modern Debian or OpenBSD and be reasonably reliable? An Old HP Proliant 800 or something would suit. They are readily available on ebay. I ran one with multiple 200mhz cpus for a year or so, and it never had a hiccup. Best thing i

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:31:14PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > One of the best approaches would be to enlist the assistance of a > local amateur radio operator, who likely would offer assistance free > of charge, and be happy for the opportunity to help. Write (or email) > the Amateur Radi

Re: Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:12:49 + > > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R > > > > > When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that pops up normally > > has a drop down box which says the type of media detecte

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/08 20:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:29:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 01/30/08 19:34, Walt L. Williams wrote: >>> I tried using wvdial as it seemed simple, and I want off the >>> Suse system as soon as I can.

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080130 20:49]: > Hello, > > I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping > away. The base technology predates my IT experience. > > My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. > She gets headaches and other

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mihira Fernando wrote: | Douglas A. Tutty wrote: |> Hello, |> |> I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping |> away. The base technology predates my IT experience. |> |> My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electroma

Re: Accessing a TV adapter via my network

2008-01-30 Thread Mihira Fernando
Barry Samuels wrote: [snip] I have setup my cardboard computer (it's in a cardboard box) using an old main board with a 750 MHz Athlon K7 and 768 MB of RAM. I fitted a PCI ethernet card and a PCI wireless card. There is a 6.5 GB hard drive [snip] it would a lot safer to get a proper casing fo

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Mihira Fernando
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello, I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping away. The base technology predates my IT experience. My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the higher

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Michael D. Norwick wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Thanks! Rick I don't know if you've been here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian, but, I too am trying to build a XEN enabled kernel using linux 2.6.23.9. This link looked straightforward

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:29:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/30/08 19:34, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > I tried using wvdial as it seemed simple, and I want off the > > Suse system as soon as I can. SuSE 10.3 is really rough > > and unpolished. I have been looking at the Debian system > >

Re: Signature based backup solution?

2008-01-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/30/2008 04:53 PM, Angie NegrónRolón wrote: > Do you know any backup solution which store backup like mirror, but each file > is > compressed? And then can do incremental backups without an original file? > (like > rdiff http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff) > > I found duplicity uses rdiff's s

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/08 19:34, Walt L. Williams wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008 06:45:48 am John Hasler wrote: >> Install pppconfig. Run it as root and answer the questions. You can add >> yourself as a ppp user in the "Advanced" menu. You will then be able

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 16:36:00 -0700, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: I think no output with "-v" means that the module was already loaded before the command was run. Maybe you could try to unload it ("modprobe -rv b43") and then reload it. If that does not lead to a

Re: Manage users in a HTTPS interface.

2008-01-30 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, I have a need to set up a server with an secure web interface to manage server users (add - remove - change passwords). What is available out there to do this? Did you try a google search? http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+administration+web+in

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

2008-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/08 15:58, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: [snip] > > The problem has nothing to do with bluray itself but depends on a > mixture of using a SATA ATAPI device with the sata_nv driver using ADMA > mode and having >= 4GB main memory. The only s

Re: [OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:46:03PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > Quoth Tzafrir Cohen: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/xmonad > > > > It shows that the package has not mingrated to Lenny yet as it depends > > on haskell-x11-extras. That, in turn, has an RC bug that the maintainer > > won

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-30 Thread Walt L. Williams
On Monday 28 January 2008 06:45:48 am John Hasler wrote: > Install pppconfig. Run it as root and answer the questions. You can add > yourself as a ppp user in the "Advanced" menu. You will then be able to > start ppp with "pon" and stop it with "poff". > -- > John Hasler I tried using wvdial as

low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello, I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping away. The base technology predates my IT experience. My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the higher the frequency, the worse

Re: problem with wireless encryption

2008-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
The problem with WPA is the vendors sometimes implement it in their own way. That is why there a lot incompatibility issues with it. Why not just use WEP? I am sure it offers a good enough level of encryption for your needs. Sorry I am not of much more help. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
I was unable to compile madwifi under 2.6.24 either - my best guess is a problem with the madwifi source that needs fixing under 2.6.24, but I wasn't wedded to it so I just reverted to 2.6.22. Sorry not to be more specific. Andy

Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-30 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2008 09:31 AM: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Greetings; >> >> I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and >> everything works fine up to a point. >> >> Everything is d

m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

2008-01-30 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, After I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64, the commands: sudo m-a a-i madwifi-source failed sudo m-a a-i alsa-sourcefailed sudo m-a a-i m-a a-i fglrx-kernel-src failed what am I missing ? tia -- Gérard

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 16:36:00 -0700, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> Try to load the module manually (as root) with verbose messages: >> >> modprobe -v b43 >> >> Hopefully that will give us a clue. >> >> > There is NO OUTPUT from the "-v" option. But the mod

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-30 Thread Andres Migliazzo
Alejandro, how was that? were you able to set up in the way you want? I have a similar question... I'm wondering if is doable to set up your debian system in English and read special characters (like á-ú,ñ) in the tty console. I'm a TeX user and use to do a spelling check using aspell (#aspell -t

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Did you try to follow these instructions? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware Celejar posted this link earlier; it looks like a good source of information to me. [...] Yes, I have tried several firmware versions. The "bcm43xx" driver had

Re: corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/available

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Bowling
dpkg --clear-avail apt-get update Should fix things right up. -- Alex Bowling AB Computer Solutions http://www.abcomputersolutions.biz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Barlow
Jimmy Wu wrote: I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run nvidia-settings -l

vuescan won't start

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Carter
Hi Folks, I'm running debian 4.0 (etch) on a PC with an amd64 processor. I downloaded vuesca84.tgz and expanded it to /home/robin/vuesca84 which now includes an executable file vuescan. When I enter "vuescan", as either robin or as su, I get: vuescan: error while loading shared libraries: libus

compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-30 Thread Jimmy Wu
I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run nvidia-settings -l & compiz --replac

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-30 Thread mouss
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:38 +0200, David Baron wrote: OK spamassassin folks: Rules which would say no puppies on software mailing lists, no software on dog-breeders mailing lists. A few false alarms, i.e. "that great new app is such a sweet-puppie" and that "breeder's man

Signature based backup solution?

2008-01-30 Thread Angie NegrónRolón
Do you know any backup solution which uses signature/delta/patch like rdiff (http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff) I found duplicity (http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity) does this but it stores the full backup as tar.gz, but I want Do you know any backup solution which store backup like mirror, but eac

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

2008-01-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 20:27 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Are you sure that Linux supports Blu-Ray? Being chock full of > proprietary DRM, I'd be shocked if it were. Well,... yes and no,.. Yes: First of all, the DRM works on file level,... (ok, there are things like HDCP), and the drive itself shou

grub on USB-Problems

2008-01-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hello. I've just tried to install grub1 on an USB-stick in order to boot from it, but it continues to fail: Following situation: -BIOS is definitely able to boot from USB -the system has one harddisk /dev/sda -USB-stick has one partition /dev/sdb1, type 0x83, filesystem ext3 -Debian sid => grub 0

Manage users in a HTTPS interface.

2008-01-30 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I have a need to set up a server with an secure web interface to manage server users (add - remove - change passwords). What is available out there to do this? Thanks, Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:59:49PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Martin Marcher wrote: >> Rick Thomas wrote: >> >>> I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary >>> thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release. Does anybody >>> know wh

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:25:46 -0700, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> The two bugzilla links above suggest that this chip will show up as two >> network interfaces when using the new driver, one is the interface that >> you will use normally and the other one is

Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:55:19PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > There are Hebrew keyboards that either place vowel signs in control/number > positions or swap them with numbers and put the numbers in control/number. > The Dagesh word processor used keyboards like this. Aside from charmap type > a

Re: Filing bugs about BTS/bugs.debian.org?

2008-01-30 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:23:12PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-01-30 14:58 +0100, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > > I'm wondering what to do when an update to a Debian bug report is not > > showing up on bugs.debian.org and not getting relayed to the bug > > subscribers. How do I file a bug report a

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Martin Marcher wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release. Does anybody know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, a

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian Kulzer wrote: Udev is responsible for managing the device nodes in /dev and the names of the network devices. More information is here: /usr/share/doc/udev/writing_udev_rules/index.html Thanks, I will have a look. The problem with the broadcom chip appears to be that the firmware is

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Well, that's too bad. Is this in any way related to the error messages I got when I tried to do aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade on my Xen/Etch test machine? I'm particularly concerned about "libc6-xen" being marked broken. For what it's worth, my other Etch machines navigated

XSP, MONO AND ASP.NET

2008-01-30 Thread Diego Antonio Lucena Pumar
Hi list: On first time, sorry for my english, is very poor. I can't run asp.net on my Debian Etch. I process to install the following packages; > apt-get install mono-xsp2 libapache2-mod-mono mono So, when y can look in my browser the page, the server return the page for download (the code). For

Re: Help with suspend/hibernate in Gnome Power Manager

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
René Seindal wrote: Hi, I have bought a Zepto Znote 3215W laptop and installed Debian testing. The report on that is here: http://linux.seindal.dk/2008/01/28/zepto-znote-3215w-with-debian-testinglenny/ The pm-hibernate script works out of the box from the command line as root. The system res

Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-01-30 Thread David Baron
There are Hebrew keyboards that either place vowel signs in control/number positions or swap them with numbers and put the numbers in control/number. The Dagesh word processor used keyboards like this. Aside from charmap type applets, there is no other way to get them into Openoffice, etc. (Of

how do I restrict access to Subversion/Apache repository?

2008-01-30 Thread michael
Friends, now I've got customlog working for Debian's Apache2 I've been struggling with how to get Apache to restrict (read) access to the Subversion repositories (they already require a htpasswd username-password combo) to particular IP addresses. I've tried my usual trick Orde

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-30 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:38 +0200, David Baron wrote: > OK spamassassin folks: Rules which would say no puppies on software mailing > lists, no software on dog-breeders mailing lists. A few false alarms, i.e. > "that great new app is such a sweet-puppie" and that "breeder's management > package

Re: opera browser problem?

2008-01-30 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Jim, On 1/29/08, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the opera browser has caches when I view the web pages? Yes, Opera caches web pages. You'll find them here: Tools/Preferences/Advanced/History. You can also empty the cache there. Have you tried to reload a page/frame. ... sometime I cou

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian Kulzer wrote: Udev is responsible for managing the device nodes in /dev and the names of the network devices. More information is here: /usr/share/doc/udev/writing_udev_rules/index.html Thank you. I'll have a look. The two bugzilla links above suggest that this chip will show up as t

Re: Filing bugs about BTS/bugs.debian.org?

2008-01-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-30 14:58 +0100, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > I'm wondering what to do when an update to a Debian bug report is not > showing up on bugs.debian.org and not getting relayed to the bug > subscribers. How do I file a bug report about BTS? With reportbug, as you would do for any other package; the

Re: Newby trying to install deb package

2008-01-30 Thread Robin
On 26/01/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > Am 2008-01-19 17:42:36, schrieb Phil Timbrell: > > I am trying to convert to most recent version of Debian but want to > > install additional .deb packages onto the pc. I am a newby - sorry. > > Synaptic downloads and inst

Re: System bogged down by email trouble?

2008-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/08 02:45, Dan H. wrote: > Hello, > > today when I started work I opened the Openoffice spreadsheet I had been > working on yesterday. It took about 15 seconds to open. No CPU activity. > Puzzling. I've seen that symptom before on Windows, bu

Why do I get /usr/lib64 on a 32bit machine?

2008-01-30 Thread Lesley Binks
Hi I have a Barton core running Debian etch (kernel version 2.6.18-6-486 ) and have noticed that I get this l /usr/lib64 total 572 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1822 2007-01-01 21:36 libfrtbegin.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 569740 2007-01-01 21:36 libg2c.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root728 2007-01-01 21:29 li

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: > I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary > thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release.  Does anybody > know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, afaik it's a HUGE patch to apply and the most recent

problem with wireless encryption

2008-01-30 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear debianners, I have a 3com OfficeConnect wireless router, which is running in 802.11g mode. I have a Sony Vaio notebook, with a Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG network controller, which appears in the system as "eth2". I have configured everything, with the help of this list, in order to have the wi

Re: Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:36:35PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > > NOTE WELL: The md(4) man pages says that raid6 can handle the failure of > > any 2 disks. You pulled 3. Good way to hose the array. > Is failure the same of disconnession of disk? As far as the raid system is, yes a missing disk is

Re: Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Pol Hallen
> NOTE WELL: The md(4) man pages says that raid6 can handle the failure of > any 2 disks. You pulled 3. Good way to hose the array. Is failure the same of disconnession of disk? I thinked there is it so. Because if the disk crash the all data are lost, but I if disconnect the disk there are dat

Re: Configuring Wireless Dlink

2008-01-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
debian:~# iwconfig sit0 essid Corporation Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device sit0 ; Invalid argument. ... debian:~# iwconfig sit0 key Corporation Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "chave" Make sure that sit0 really is the na

Re: [OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Tzafrir Cohen: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/xmonad > > It shows that the package has not mingrated to Lenny yet as it depends > on haskell-x11-extras. That, in turn, has an RC bug that the maintainer > won't bother fixing: > > http://bugs.debian.org/451903 Well, the bug's "resolution"

total pack of Linux+ ?

2008-01-30 Thread Katarzyna Kaczor
Good day to all, We have prepared a very special offer available exclusively to the members and visitors of debian-user list ! Only now you can get the TOTAL PACK of Linux+ issues in PDF for just 15 USD (The regular price is 24,99 USD) In each issue you can find information concerning typica

Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Greetings; > > I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and > everything works fine up to a point. > > Everything is downloaded and after it starts the > installs I get messages like th

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:01:47PM +0200, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good day,.. > > > since i can't send find a fast way to send many pictures to Gmail / > ISP mail (Quata limit for single mail). > > I thought it will

Re: Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:52:49PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > I've 8 sata disk on raid 6 software (debian stable). > > For purpose test I stopped 3 disks of the array. NOTE WELL: The md(4) man pages says that raid6 can handle the failure of any 2 disks. You pulled 3. Good way

Re: Disappearing packages

2008-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:25:16PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > The single greatest annoyance to me in tracking Testing is that > a couple of times a week a package disappears and I end up spinning > wheels for a couple of hours trying to figure out whether the > disappearance is permanent or temporar

Re: Driver ACX - Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

2008-01-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 1/30/08, Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pessoal, > > Estou tentando configurar um adaptador wireless Dlink > AirPlus G+ DWL-G520+ no Debian testing. > > Estou usando a doc > http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX. > > Primeiramente vou tentar recompilar o Kernel, e usar o > driver

Filing bugs about BTS/bugs.debian.org?

2008-01-30 Thread Mikko Rapeli
(please cc me in replies) Hello, I'm wondering what to do when an update to a Debian bug report is not showing up on bugs.debian.org and not getting relayed to the bug subscribers. How do I file a bug report about BTS? The bug in question is #399480 and I updated the patches to the newer version

Re: A GPG question

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 29 2008, s. keeling wrote: > >  when you find out, let me know. I screwed up my main key by adding > >  an email address ( the one for this list). It seems to have taken > >  over the main email address now, so I obviously did it wrong... > > I've no idea whether it's authoratative,

finding Project

2008-01-30 Thread farnaz farnaz1
HEllo This is Farnaz ansari, I am studing here in Sweden (Hassleholm) in computer sinece bachlour degree and now I am in third year that i have to provide the LastProject.. I want to ask u that is your company have a available project in Java or C# that i can provide for u in your branch i

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 30 2008, David Baron wrote: > OK spamassassin folks: Rules which would say no puppies on software mailing > lists, no software on dog-breeders mailing lists. A few false alarms, i.e. > "that great new app is such a sweet-puppie" and that "breeder's management > package is a killer ap

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:26:59 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:21:19 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [snip] > > > The problem with the broadcom chip appears to be that the firmware is > > not present at the first boot of a Debian system, so only the master > > device is detected

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
On 2008-01-30 09:26:12, Dan H. wrote: > My favorite way is to use find's -printf directive to construct the complete > commands and pipe the result to a shell. Has the advantage that you first > hack away at your complete find commend and give it a dry run, and if you're > happy with what it spits

Fwd: Newby trying to install deb package

2008-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Phil, Am 2008-01-19 17:42:36, schrieb Phil Timbrell: > I am trying to convert to most recent version of Debian but want to > install additional .deb packages onto the pc. I am a newby - sorry. > Synaptic downloads and installs a package such as mothomatic but once it > has completed the in

Re: Getting logrotate to rename to YYYY-MM-DD

2008-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-24 01:51:28, schrieb Debian Luser: > I'm trying to make a Debian system rotate its logfiles so that each > previous day's logs have -MM-DD appended to the name (just before > compression) and they then keep the same name until deleted. > As opposed to the standard Debian method, wher

Re: mscompress

2008-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-24 12:30:17, schrieb Angus Auld: > Anyone here familiar with this program (mscompress)? > It allows one to either expand (msexpand) or compress > (mscompress) from or to ms .exe. Yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/expand$ msexpand > Install_Messenger.exe > Install_Messenger.exe: Doesn't en

Re: telepítés

2008-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-23 00:06:22, schrieb Gerard Robin: > Hi C. A., I am going to ask Sarko (zy) to translate your mail for us :-) :-) Hmm, posible on peu DoS Nicko... Il m'enerve! Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Con

Driver ACX - Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

2008-01-30 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Pessoal, Estou tentando configurar um adaptador wireless Dlink AirPlus G+ DWL-G520+ no Debian testing. Estou usando a doc http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX. Primeiramente vou tentar recompilar o Kernel, e usar o driver nativo. A segunda opção é utilizar o comando ndiswrapper, que através d

Test with raid 6 software

2008-01-30 Thread Pol Hallen
Good day :-) I've 8 sata disk on raid 6 software (debian stable). For purpose test I stopped 3 disks of the array. Now I rebooted and I tring to re-assemble the array but without successful.. mdadm -A /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives and 3 spares - not enough to start the arra

Re: Help with suspend/hibernate in Gnome Power Manager

2008-01-30 Thread René Seindal
Hi Murphy strikes again, it seems. Just as I had posted the message below, I found another thing on google, which led me to the solution: I wasn't a member of the powerdev group. Gnome Power Manager shows the Suspend and Hibernate entries anyway, but doesn't do anything if the logged in user

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:21:19 +0100 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > The problem with the broadcom chip appears to be that the firmware is > not present at the first boot of a Debian system, so only the master > device is detected and added to z25_persistent-net.rules. This seem

Help with suspend/hibernate in Gnome Power Manager

2008-01-30 Thread René Seindal
Hi, I have bought a Zepto Znote 3215W laptop and installed Debian testing. The report on that is here: http://linux.seindal.dk/2008/01/28/zepto-znote-3215w-with-debian-testinglenny/ I have an issue with suspend and hibernate that I haven't been able to resolve alone. The pm-hibernate script wor

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-30 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:48:00PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > to be able to handle your daily work quicker. Aliases shouldn't be used in > shellscripts because: > > a) it makes them more difficult to understand (aliases often have very > unintuitive names) for other people Well, that

System bogged down by email trouble?

2008-01-30 Thread Dan H.
Hello, today when I started work I opened the Openoffice spreadsheet I had been working on yesterday. It took about 15 seconds to open. No CPU activity. Puzzling. The only other thing different from yesterday is that the company's mail server seems to be down. Could that have to do with OOs slugg

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-30 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:48:27PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > I find find very useful, and find's -exec command as well, but someone > always chimes in with how it's "wrong" to use it since it causes find to > create umpteen shell processes, one for each hit, and you really should be > piping find

[OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:24PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > > > I'm running XMonad and that's all this is pretty easy, just one line in the > > config. But as this is really very specific to your WM I'm afraid there's > > no way > > of handling all t

Re: cups works but dont print out!

2008-01-30 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 1/30/08, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that the printer enter in a pause or error status and when it > > plug to another machine it reset itself. How can I reset my printer > > without plug it to another PC? > > Seems like printer out of memory issue but that should get reso

Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 18:00:42 -0700, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> The two b43* modules depend on the mac80211 stack instead of the >> ieee80211 one; with a self-compiled kernel and an older "inherited" >> configuration file you might first have to activate the new s

Re: Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:12:49 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R > When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that pops up normally has a > drop down box which says the type of media detected. This remains > steadfastly saying no media loaded regar