RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi[Solved]

2009-12-27 Thread Ogya Chief
Hello Sebi, This is to inform you that my wifi is working. The problem was that I supplied a wrong passphrase. Thank you very much for your help in the last three days. I do appreciate it so much. Kind regards, Ogya

Bug Perhaps: Debian Testing AMD64 2009-12-27 Daily Build NetInst

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Brandstetter
Debian Testing AMD64 2009-12-27 Daily Build Net Install CD Dual AMD Opteron system with Broadcom network cards Boot netbootCD Select Install Select Country Select Language Now the system asks to load the tigon/tg3_tso.bin firmware. (Broadcom Network Card firmware) I selected no and continued on

compiling 64 bit kernel on 32 bit system

2009-12-27 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I am trying to compile a 64 bit kernel on my system. After having created the .config from an old config file with: make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig and simply using the .config thus generated, when I do: fakeroot make-kpkg --arch amd64 --append-to-version custom-amd64 --initrd kernel_image

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-27 Thread Ogya Chief
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:42:24 + > From: levi.vi...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi > > Hello again > > > not sure what you mean by "interface configuration file", my I meant the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces file. >

Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-27 Thread Sebastian
Hello again ...snip... > > 1. add the relevant repositories to your > > /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. add the "stable" or "lenny" repositories, > > also make sure you have the non-free branches included as that's where > > the madwifi-* packages reside), then change the file > > /etc/apt/preferenc

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Steve Kemp put forth on 12/27/2009 10:15 PM: > On Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 20:37:49 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> P.S. If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for differences, >> here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package. > > Seriously there's no need to post such

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Jack Dodds
Hello Sun, Thank you for telling me about safe mode - I did not know about it. Sure enough, the problem seems to disappear in safe mode. I compared my profile with another user's profile. That user had not noticed the "hang" problem. The only difference in the profiles is that the other profil

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 20:37:49 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > P.S. If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for differences, > here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package. Seriously there's no need to post such a huge .config file to the list. Next time please co

Re: Bluetooth connection issue

2009-12-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Abhishek Amberkar wrote: Did you check your log files? /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/kernel.log How about installing gnome-bluetooth? Thanks for the reply Abhishek. I found nothing in the first three log files and don't have the fourth on

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Ross
Jack Dodds wrote: If anyone can identify this problem, or offer suggestions about how to further narrow it down, I would appreciate it. Jack Dodd How much memory is Iceweasel using when it starts acting up? Firefox on my Windows machine does the same, when I have about 20 tabs open and it's

Re: Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-28 at 00:24:48 +0100, Tom H wrote, > What I found interesting about this thread is that the OP found a > non-grub2 way of restoring his boot-up look in spite of using grub2... > I assume that he has set "GRUB_TERMINAL=console" in > "/etc/default/grub" (or "terminal console" in /boot/gru

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dave Witbrodt put forth on 12/27/2009 12:16 PM: > Paul Cartwright wrote: >> on my 4-year old Dell laptop, running Ubuntu, I now have a nice new >> 2.6.32.1 kernel running! at first it couldn't boot, then I noticed >> that there was no initrd.. I "forgot" that option... once I built it >> again, it

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-27 Thread Ogya Chief
> Da > No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for > apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the > package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and > configure apt to "prefer" one of them so that when you install/upgrade > it automagically c

Re: Help! where is this flash originates

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 05:20:27AM +, T o n g wrote: > > PS. The reason I'm doing this -- I found out that clive is broken for me > today (for http://space.tv.cctv.com/video/VIDE1247468077860061) and I am > trying to help fixing it... Did you look at the BTS. There is a patch for clive in

Re: query about history management in bash

2009-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:32:02AM +0530, Rajarshi Tiwari wrote: > To @Alex >> > > >couldn't you do > >unset HISTFILE > >vim > >exit > > I don't follow, but i believe you are trying to suggest that one should > temporary disable history, edit the file manually, to clean it, and then > restore.

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:33:13PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Samad writes: > > > I wonder why the reliance upon cp, I would have throught rsync was a > > much better choice ? > That is a question of point of view, isn't it? That is fo

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/27/2009 3:16 PM, Jack Dodds wrote: My system is a 1.8 GHz Pentium using Debian stable. I update frequently from debian.org. Several weeks ago, I started noticing that Iceweasel would sometimes stop responding to mouse or keyboard inputs for about five seconds. After each such "hang" it wo

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
I would suggest browsing in safe mode. If the problem persists, file a bug. If not, create a new profile and one at time add the same addons from your other profile until the problem shows up again. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-27 Thread Tom H
> |>  vga 1: even though it is deprecated, you can still use "vga=" in > |>  the "linux" line. > |> > |>  vga 2: if you would rather not use "vga=", you can set the > |>  resolution  with "set gfxmode=" > |> > |>  font: you need to use "pf2" fonts and set them with "loadfont > |>  (hd0,X)/boot/grub

Re: query about history management in bash

2009-12-27 Thread Rajarshi Tiwari
To @Alex >> >couldn't you do >unset HISTFILE >vim >exit I don't follow, but i believe you are trying to suggest that one should temporary disable history, edit the file manually, to clean it, and then restore. If this what you suggest, I am already doing it :-) , but looking for something that

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar writes: > You also need to distinguish between the list itself, which is an > official Debian-provided service, and any news gateways that mirror it, > which have no official connection to Debian, AFAIK. For sure, but as speeds were the same

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad writes: > I wonder why the reliance upon cp, I would have throught rsync was a > much better choice ? That is a question of point of view, isn't it? That is for me like preferring emacs to vi(m): a matter of taste. - -- Merciadri Luca Se

Re: problem with firefox not starting illegal instruction

2009-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:02:54PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:39:18 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > seem to have a problem with iceweasel this morning it will not start - > > for different users - upgraded to lastest version > > > > > > ii iceweasel

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:52:17AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > The root cause of problem is you used "cp --recursive --update * blh ...". > Since things may have messed up somewhere, it is better to do it over. I wonder why the reliance upon cp, I would have throught rsync was a m

Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Jack Dodds
My system is a 1.8 GHz Pentium using Debian stable. I update frequently from debian.org. Several weeks ago, I started noticing that Iceweasel would sometimes stop responding to mouse or keyboard inputs for about five seconds. After each such "hang" it would resume operating normally. For exampl

Re: query about history management in bash

2009-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 04:01:00PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Ram ram Rajarshi, > > Am 2009-12-27 11:39:28, schrieb Rajarshi Tiwari: > > Dear friends, > > Consider following situation - [snip] > > NOTE: The helperprogramm to do this has not to be > executed by the current shell

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:35:52 +0100 Merciadri Luca wrote: ... > way. However, everything that I can say is that my messages are > published in a really slower way on this list than on any other one I > could try (matlab, gnus, etc.). It is quite possible for my news > server to dislike the linux.

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Paul Cartwright wrote: so, the config file works over & over? even for different kernels? Not exactly, but almost. When a new kernel is released, you can reuse most of your old .config by copying it into your Linux source top-level directory and running 'make oldconfig'. This answers the lo

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > on my 4-year old Dell laptop, running Ubuntu, I now have a nice > > new 2.6.32.1 kernel running! at first it couldn't boot, then I > > noticed that there was no initrd.. I "forgot" that option... once > > I built it again, it n

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > I don't remember seeing an option for that.. > >   if you're doing a kernel config, search for the string IKCONFIG. > I didn't know there was a SEARCH function!! wow! general-kernel .config option.. that was easy, thanks! -- Paul Cartwright Re

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun December 27 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover > > your .config file for your running kernel from that file. > > I don't remember seeing an option for that.. if you're doin

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >   make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover > your .config file for your running kernel from that file. I don't remember seeing an option for that.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu U

Re: Exim4 redirect question

2009-12-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I receive emails from a-u...@msn.com. I would like to redirect these > (and only these) to a-differentu...@gmail.com. > > Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be > possible to do so using redirect but I cannot find an example of a > suitable

Exim4 redirect question

2009-12-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I receive emails from a-u...@msn.com. I would like to redirect these (and only these) to a-differentu...@gmail.com. Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be possible to do so using redirect but I cannot find an example of a suitable script. Can anyone provide such an

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Paul Cartwright wrote: on my 4-year old Dell laptop, running Ubuntu, I now have a nice new 2.6.32.1 kernel running! at first it couldn't boot, then I noticed that there was no initrd.. I "forgot" that option... once I built it again, it now boots. SO, I just have to go back through and make it

Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

2009-12-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Have you tried pressing "H" for Help, on each feature or feature class? >  Note what help tells you.  In many/most cases Help will assist you in > figuring out whether you need a given feature or not. on my 4-year old Dell laptop, running Ubuntu, I n

Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:54:09AM EST, T o n g wrote: [..] > $ apt-cache policy mozilla-ctxextensions > mozilla-ctxextensions: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: (none) > Version table: > > >From http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/ctxextensions.html: > This package is neither part of unstable

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-27 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. On Saturday 26 December 2009 21:30, pch0317 wrote: > Hi list > I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout. > I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure > console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''. > But still I can't type my symbol. > What I can do? > I use Debia

Re: Help! where is this flash originates

2009-12-27 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:07:14 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: >> PS. The reason I'm doing this -- I found out that clive is broken for >> me today (for http://space.tv.cctv.com/video/VIDE1247468077860061) and >> I am trying to help fixing it... >> >> > I beleive its playing this file : > http://v.c

Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-27 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:54:09 +, T o n g wrote: >> mozilla-ctxextensions > > Thanks, no wonder I can't find it. . . > >>From http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/ctxextensions.html: > This package is neither part of unstable nor experimental. This probably > means that the package has been remove

Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-27 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:44:18 +0100, Klistvud wrote: >> I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a >> list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What >> could it be? >> > mozilla-ctxextensions Thanks, no wonder I can't find it: $ apt-cache policy m

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-27 at 09:38:46 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Stephen, > > have fill a bug report ? > > Cheers, > Jerome If I were going to file a bug report against console-setup, it would be for missing or poor documentation, or for incomplete configuration options via dpkg-reconfigure. I jus

Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-27 Thread Sebastian
> > > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I > > > installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are > > > the > > > wireless card > > ...snip... > > > > Thanks Sebi for you reply. > > Unfortunately, madwifi-(source|tools|modules) are not in

Re: query about history management in bash

2009-12-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Ram ram Rajarshi, Am 2009-12-27 11:39:28, schrieb Rajarshi Tiwari: > Dear friends, > Consider following situation - > > We write a lot commands, and make many typing errors. (e.g typed s instead > of ls, eco instead of echo and so on). These miss-typed commands are also > saved in history and cre

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn English writes: > Well, it's *claimed* to be deterministic and repeatable. So you > almost certainly didn't repeat the same things, not exactly. It > might be productive in your CS studies to see if you could figure > out what went wrong. I've

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar writes: > Not sure exactly what you mean by 'moderated', but the Debian mailing > lists are not moderated in the typical sense of the word: > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/disclaimer Okay, I just read it, and it appears not to be moder

Re: Squeeze and wireless MightyMouse

2009-12-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:31:11 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am award of bluez-comp, but this solution is just a report of the issue: > comp is a short suffix for backward COMPatibility with Lenny. If you read > the doc, it sound really an ad hoc soltution: I want really migrate,

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:53:55 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... > Have you tried pressing "H" for Help, on each feature or feature class? Note > what help tells you. In many/most cases Help will assist you in figuring out > whether you need a given feature or not. Many - certainly. Most, perhaps

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:11:59PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? Yes, with the parameter 'break' . See http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug . That's what I was looking for. Thanks Tzafrir. Hugo -- T

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Reid wrote: On Saturday 26 December 2009 15:11:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? You can use the "break" options (detailed in another reply) to get at it "live" during the boot, but I have often found it useful to just unpack

Re: problem with firefox not starting illegal instruction

2009-12-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:39:18 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > seem to have a problem with iceweasel this morning it will not start - > for different users - upgraded to lastest version > > > ii iceweasel 3.5.6-1 > lightweight web browser based on Mozill

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I do have ecryptfs & a Private filesystem, but ecryptfs was under file > > systems ( I think..) I did find that. > > Have you tried pressing "H" for Help, on each feature or feature class? >  Note what help tells you.  In many/most cases Help will a

Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-27 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 27. 12. 2009 04:57:48 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What could it be? mozilla-ctxextensions -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http:

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-27 Thread pch0317
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:30:27 + pch0317 wrote: Hi list I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout. I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''. But still I can't type my symbol. What I can do?

Can't manage my iPod

2009-12-27 Thread Matteo Riva
I used to be able to manage my iPod fine, but now it's almost impossible. The device mounts and is browseable, although I get this output from fdisk Disk /dev/sdb: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes 241 heads, 62 sectors/track, 535 cylinders Units = cylinders of 14942 * 512 = 7650304 bytes Disk ide

chattr to a file after converting to ext4 gives scary trace in syslog

2009-12-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello all! I just converted a data partition from ext3 to ext4, and after that I tried to convert a file to use extents: mordor:/home/gpall# lsattr file --- file mordor:/home/gpall# chattr +e file mordor:/home/gpall# lsattr file -e- file I calculated the md5 of t

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-12-27 Thread stephen...@yahoo.com
--- On Thu, 12/24/09, Kevin Ross wrote: > Try adding "maxfail 0" to your config file. Thanks for this suggestion. I have added the 'maxfail 0' line to my provider file but it does not seem to have solved the problem. When I boot into Linux from cold, iceweasel cannot connect to the internet