Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Matthew Moore wrote: > On Tuesday February 2 2010 3:21:33 pm Kent West wrote: > >> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96 >> Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96 >> Sending on Socket/fallback >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.2

suspend on my asus eeepc

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Can someone please advise me how to suspend from the command line? Also when my laptop lid is closed, the system suspends. I'm just on the command line, no gui is running. I see this in syslog, but am unsure what program is responsible...? Feb 3 18:16:58 debian-eeepc kernel: [ 3493.605992

Re: Postgres server does not start.

2010-02-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, debu...@acrasis.net: >On 2010-01-31 13:43, Sthu Deus wrote: >> 2010-01-31 13:31:03 GMT-7 LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already >> in use >> 2010-01-31 13:31:03 GMT-7 HINT: Is another postmaster already >> running on port 5432? If not, wait a few sec

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > > we...@evoljasen:~$ dmesg | grep wlan -- snip > [ 267.697118] wlan0: AP denied association (code=10) Well, there you have it. The access point does not want to talk to you. You said it works using the same card in a different machine? -Otherwise I would suspect the access points ha

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Celejar wrote: > This is the networking subsystem attempting to configure the wireless > interface. > > >> Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96 >> Sending on Socket/fallback >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 i

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:54:42PM EST, Mark wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > Did grub2 recognize your other OS's automatically? grub does not recognize other OS's. It invokes a utility called os-prober, which is a separate package, and does not IMHO do a ve

Re: Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-02 22:13:01, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:48:46 -0500 (EST), PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > > How does this sound? > > * Boot from the Lenny installer CD and go into rescue mode. > > * In the page entitled "Rescue operations" do "Execute a shell in > /dev/hda1". > > (The system

sarg does processes the logs in desired way.

2010-02-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have some problems w/ the squid reporting including sarg. First, I want squid to store its access info for at least a month - or else sarg will not be able to process the info, therefore it will be out of the requested reports (as it runs once a month). Second, as I have noticed,

looking for digital pen/tablet on Debian Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear Debian users, I will soon be doing online collaboration online and my department has offered to purchase a digital pen or tablet or (?) to allow me to hand-write equations and formulas with the device, such that the equations/formulae would be transferred electronically to, say, images, PDF,

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if > > > flashdrives/cameras etc are in fstab but not present- you > > > simply get the error logged > > > > Well, there is a definite problem in my case (Debian unstable on > > i386). > > > >

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Mark
>On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:00:07PM EST, Tom H wrote: > > > >Granted I'm not trying anything out of the way, just multi-booting half > >a dozen GNU/linux systems, but seriously, would grub2 be part of debian > >stable if it was as... unstable

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #196

2010-02-02 Thread briand
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:10:33 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > You're barking up the wrong tree Brian. That crystal isn't the > source of your problem. It's well within spec. I'm sure the system > design tolerance is much greater than 0.0006%. The crystal was STA

Glitch-y wicd-curses Install

2010-02-02 Thread evenso
Upgrading wicd-curses 1.7.0-2 to 1.7.0-3 with aptitude on squeeze. First I noticed that wicd was installed, which is supposed to conflict with wicd-curses and which I remember purposefully not installing. But the upgrade asked to remove wicd so I just took that. The install succeeded but threw

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #199

2010-02-02 Thread briand
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:47:37 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Aioanei Rares > wrote: > > A more practical approach : what should the average user > > do in order to get his/her Debian back after this GRUB > > bug? > > Sti

Cursos IMEJR - USP

2010-02-02 Thread imejr
Olá, Estão abertas as matrículas para os cursos da IMEJR-USP. O objetivo desses treinamentos é capacitar pessoas para o mercado de trabalho. Recentemente, nos foram disponibilizados computadores e partir de agora nossos cursos serão realizados em um laboratório com um aluno por máquina.

Re: 2.6.32-trunk + Hardware failure.

2010-02-02 Thread John Kapnogiannis
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 02:54:36 consul tores wrote: > The Story: > I did a new installation of Squeeze on a Compaq Presario V3019US using > kernel 2.6.30, then it came an upgrade to 2.6.32-trunk; after that my > wireless a PCI Express Minicard 802.11B/G HS - Broadcom 4311BG > suddenly died

Re: Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:48:46 -0500 (EST), PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > How does this sound? > * Boot from the Lenny installer CD and go into rescue mode. > * In the page entitled "Rescue operations" do "Execute a shell in /dev/hda1". > (The system on /dev/hda1 is Squeeze as described previously.) > * a

Re: apt-listbugs question

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:01:42 -0700 Paul E Condon wrote: ... > I can't figure out how to get apt-listbugs to work. > Can someone post an example of the use of apt-listbugs? I mean the actual text > of what one types to get something other than error messages from it. I believe that aptitude runs

Problem with Qualcomm + 2.6.32

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
hi I have a hp mini, with the HP un2400 mobile broadband card, (3g). This has been working for me with 2.6.31. I have recently installed 2.6.32 (trunk and -2) and it fails to load. the usb id 03f0 (hp) 0x1f1d Any one else seen this, know of any workarounds ? All i get back is error usb probe

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:40 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 06:16: > > > > To the OP: > > > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc > > are in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged > > > > > > Cheers > > - --

Re: garbages in man page output

2010-02-02 Thread s. keeling
Camaleón : > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:43 +, T o n g wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:55:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Or try by appending "-d" for debugging. > > > > Here's it. What's wrong? > > > > $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man -d xrandr I'm not sure I understand the problem, but in X, tr

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:59:19PM EST, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >> Unless there's some pre or post magic that goes on, these are the > >> same files which are currently owned by the pre-existing (debian > >> release 17) kernel package:

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:00:07PM EST, Tom H wrote: [..] > I have been using grub2 since September. I have not used Debian's > grub2 but Ubuntu's, Fedora's, and Arch's have been problem free. I > have installed it at friends' and even at a company where I was > moonlighting (at the insistence of

Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-02 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Stephen Powell Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:33:25 -0500 (EST) wrote, > ... install lilo ... How does this sound? * Boot from the Lenny installer CD and go into rescue mode. * In the page entitled "Rescue operations" do "Execute a shell in /dev/hda1". (The system on /dev/hda1 is Squeeze as described

Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-02 Thread Stuckey
Hello, I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported hardware list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many listed there and I know nothing about scanners. The list also doesn't list the last time it was updated. Perhaps someone here can recommend a model or

Re: Mplayer - can it play audio cd's.........

2010-02-02 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:43:46 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell shared this with us all: >But before you give up, >check a few more things. Thanks Stephen, I have done all that to get mplayer working - Florian directed me through that, and you might have seen my posts regarding that subject. Thanks aga

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:03:56 -0600 Kent West wrote: ... > Now I get no dhcp offers received. I don't understand how ifup/down and > /etc/modules and udev and /etc/network/interfaces and "wpa-conf > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and iwlist/spy/scan/whatever > and eth0 vs wlan0 vs sit0

LED Table signs

2010-02-02 Thread Aaron Liu
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Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-02 Thread Antonio Perez
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Sirs, Grandma says: "I have a 2-way camera installation on my computer, > It's called Logitech Video. (It only cost $28.00 on sale, and John > installed it for me) The software was down-loaded free." > > Apparently the software she installed was Logitech® Vid™. > > A

Re: apt-listbugs question

2010-02-02 Thread Wayne
Paul E Condon wrote: The recent flurry of discussion under "don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! ...", prompted me to install apt-listbugs, since I am running squeeze and pretty doing upgrades fairly frequently without any real protection against bugs getting into squeeze from sid. What is claimed for

Re: Grub boot loader?

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:15:12AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: The answer is easier to read and follow if you type it directly under the question. Also, removing old text helps as well. > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Chris Bannister < > mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: [snip] > - How ca

apt-listbugs question

2010-02-02 Thread Paul E Condon
The recent flurry of discussion under "don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! ...", prompted me to install apt-listbugs, since I am running squeeze and pretty doing upgrades fairly frequently without any real protection against bugs getting into squeeze from sid. What is claimed for apt-listbugs sounded g

Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:42:55 +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Sirs, Grandma says: "I have a 2-way camera installation on my computer, > It's called Logitech Video. (It only cost $28.00 on sale, and John > installed it for me) The software was down-loaded free." > > Apparently the software she i

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread s. keeling
Nima Azarbayjany : > > On a recent install of Squeeze I get a message that "setting sensor limits" > fails. I am wondering whether this can be a threat to the hardware and if Is lm-sensors installed? cpufreqd? powernow_k8 kernel module? > there are any workarounds for this issue. I am run

Re: Problem with Lenny

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:48:47 -0500 Roman Gelfand wrote: > A lot of spam attempts. 1) Do not top post 2) Trim your replies Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net -

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 10:01: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:40 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged Well, there is

Re: Problem with Lenny

2010-02-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roman Gelfand put forth on 2/2/2010 9:48 AM: > A lot of spam attempts. Post your process list. You're probably (unnecessarily) running out of memory due to too many processes. Try setting "default_process_limit = 30" in /etc/postfix/main.cf, reload postfix, and see if this helps the memory use p

2.6.32-trunk + Hardware failure.

2010-02-02 Thread consul tores
The Story: I did a new installation of Squeeze on a Compaq Presario V3019US using kernel 2.6.30, then it came an upgrade to 2.6.32-trunk; after that my wireless a PCI Express Minicard 802.11B/G HS - Broadcom 4311BG suddenly died. The OS gave me a message related to eec or ecc before it happen, and

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday February 2 2010 3:21:33 pm Kent West wrote: > Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96 > Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96 > Sending on Socket/fallback > DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 > DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 >

Re: link-up link-down ethernet switch tale of woe

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-02 03:23:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 2/2/2010 12:11 AM: > ... > > ...25.0006 MHz crystal. ... ... > ... I'm sure the system design tolerance is much greater than > 0.0006%. ... Me too, but (25.0006/25.0 - 1.0)*100.0 = .0024%. Googling shows that the I

Re: suid, www-data user, and gui program amarok, not working together.

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 17:14:31 Thomas Anderson wrote: > Why can't the binary execute "amarok -t" when it is confirmed that it > is indeed running as user "tommy"? X doesn't authenticate connections based on uid. (For one thing, connections need not be from the local machine. But uid is no

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:40 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: > > > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras > > etc are in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged > > Well, there is a definite problem in my cas

suid, www-data user, and gui program amarok, not working together.

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Anderson
I'm trying to make a web page that has buttons to control my running music player application "Amarok" (Amarok is a Debian package). I can control it from the command line by issuing this command: $ amarok -t That command toggles the music on and off. I run Apache2 on Debian Lenny and the comman

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 06:16: To the OP: The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged Cheers - -- Frank Well, there is a definite problem in my case (Debian unstable on i386). Error code

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 31/01/10 12:27, wrote: Florian Kulzer on 31/01/10 10:04, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:16:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fi

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 02:11: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:41 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:12 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non-existent devices that app

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kent West: > >> we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 >> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"ACUWireless" >> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated >> > > Did you wait a few seconds before running this command? Association does > not

Re: Mplayer - can it play audio cd's.........

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:19:50 -0500 (EST), Charlie wrote: > Sadly it doesn't work for me Stephen. Obviously my lappy doesn't have > the cable lead from CDROM to speaker. :-( sigh > But just reading the man page that little application is a treasure for > any lappy where they haven't decided to save a

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > > we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any && sudo iwconfig wlan0 > essid ACUWireless Thanks for fixing my errors. > we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"ACUWireless" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associ

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:08:57 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:59:13 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: >> Question is, do you really need "those" devices (flash drives and MC/SD >> memory cards) to be present in "fstab"? That is, do you need static >> mount points for that kind of

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kent West: > >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> /etc/network/interfaces contains the configuration of all your network >>> devices. >>> >> Well, that's what I thought, except a couple of people on this thread >> told me to remove my wireless from this file and use

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
> OK, maybe I misunderstood.  For some reason, I thought the OP was running > pure testing and a broken package migrated from sid to testing, causing > his boot loader to break.  Apparently he was running sid, and I somehow > missed that detail. No probs. Anyway your point about finding more than

Re: Mplayer - can it play audio cd's.........

2010-02-02 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell shared this with us all: >I have an Acer laptop that I use as a desktop [we only have solar >> power] so not certain there is a cable connection? Usually not >> included in laptops I think, but will give it a larrup. Sadly it doesn't work fo

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:00 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >> So, how do I associate an Access Point? >> > > Associate to a wireless network: > > sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid UMD-Wireless > > Associate to a AP, I wouldn't do this step: > > sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap mac-addre

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> /etc/network/interfaces contains the configuration of all your network >> devices. > > Well, that's what I thought, except a couple of people on this thread > told me to remove my wireless from this file and use wicd or > NetworkManager, so it's not always

Re: Mplayer - can it play audio cd's.........

2010-02-02 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell shared this with us all: >No, that is a different package and a different tool. The package >name is cdtool. It exists in both stable and testing. Thanks Stephen, Will give it a try the other didn't work so purged it again. Be well, Char

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > After a couple of reboots, and after running wicd-client from the actual > machine instead of over ssh, the machine did not lock up; it did see the > various ACUWireless networks, but when I tried clicking on the first > one, it thought for a minute or two, then reported "Connect

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:00 -0600, Kent West wrote: > So, how do I associate an Access Point? Associate to a wireless network: sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid UMD-Wireless Associate to a AP, I wouldn't do this step: sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap mac-address-of-ap-radio sudo ifup wlan0 -- Matt Zagrabelny

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:00 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"ACUWireless" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated > Tx-Power=27 dBm > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Mathew Moore suggested I use wicd-curses. >> >> So I did; found the ACUWireless node; tried pressing "c" to connect; >> nothing happened; then tried "C", and the machine froze up again. >> >> >> > > Wait, wait. The machine came back to life after

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kent West: > >> Now I get no dhcp offers received. I don't understand how ifup/down and >> /etc/modules and udev and /etc/network/interfaces and "wpa-conf >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and iwlist/spy/scan/whatever >> and eth0 vs wlan0 vs sit0 and auto eth1 vs

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > > Now I get no dhcp offers received. I don't understand how ifup/down and > /etc/modules and udev and /etc/network/interfaces and "wpa-conf > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and iwlist/spy/scan/whatever > and eth0 vs wlan0 vs sit0 and auto eth1 vs allow-hotplug eth1 and wep v

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:11:09 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > That's why I said "+1" to your previous email and said "in this case" > because it is possible to do so for grub given its dependencies. > Unstable and testing currently have just one version of grub2 each so > if someone wants to downgrade un

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Mathew Moore suggested I use wicd-curses. > > So I did; found the ACUWireless node; tried pressing "c" to connect; > nothing happened; then tried "C", and the machine froze up again. > > Wait, wait. The machine came back to life after a few minutes. But still, no indication

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
Chance Platt wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> Here's some relevant information, I believe: >> >> 01:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One >> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) >> Subsystem: Linksys WMP54GS version 1.1 [Wireless-G PCI Adapter] >> 802.11g w/Sp

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 14:03:56 -0600, Kent West wrote: [...] > Now I get no dhcp offers received. I don't understand how ifup/down and > /etc/modules and udev and /etc/network/interfaces and "wpa-conf > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and iwlist/spy/scan/whatever > and eth0 vs wlan0 vs

Re: Sound - none happening.......

2010-02-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:25:26 +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:45:05 +0100 Florian Kulzer shared this with us all: > > >It seems that you have muted all your playback channels ("[off]"), so I > >am not too surprised that you do not hear anything. You have to unmute > >at least "Mas

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
>> In this case, I would back up sources.list, create a new, one-line >> sources.list pointing at the main section of testing, purge unstable's >> grub-common and grub-pc, apt-get update, install testing's grub-common >> and grub-pc, delete the temporary sources.list, reinstate the original >> sour

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > If I understood all that, I bet I could figure out how to get my > wireless network working. However, I've been googling/studying off and > on for the past year, everytime I try to put Debian (or Ubuntu, or > whatever) on a laptop th

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
>> Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :) > I wouldn't call it a rant. I have nothing personal against grub-pc, > per se. I hope they are eventually successful in their project. > I just think it's too unstable for production use at this time. > You of course are entitled to disagree

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday February 2 2010 1:28:21 pm Chance Platt wrote: > Step Three - don't worry about the plumbing. Use either NetworkManager > or WICD. These take care of the plumbing, and they work. If they don't > work with your particular network, try connecting to an unsecured > network first to check

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Chance Platt
Kent West wrote: I have a Sid box with a wireless PCI card. Somehow or 'nuther I got it working last year. Last week the power supply died, and rather than scrounge up another, I just moved the hard drive and wireless card to another computer. I'm doing the work on the computer in a different lo

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running "sid", and > a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in > "testing" that still works. But if you are running "testing" and an > upload breaks, where

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:56:06 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > In this case, I would back up sources.list, create a new, one-line > sources.list pointing at the main section of testing, purge unstable's > grub-common and grub-pc, apt-get update, install testing's grub-common > and grub-pc, delete the temp

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:59:13 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:46:09 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > To the OP: > > > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras > > etc are in fstab but not present-

Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
I have a Sid box with a wireless PCI card. Somehow or 'nuther I got it working last year. Last week the power supply died, and rather than scrounge up another, I just moved the hard drive and wireless card to another computer. I'm doing the work on the computer in a different location, with a diff

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:46:09 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > To the OP: > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are > in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged Question is, do you really need "those" devices (flash drives and MC/SD memory card

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
> If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running "sid", and > a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in > "testing" that still works. But if you are running "testing" and an > upload breaks, where are you going to find a down-level version that > you can install?

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 13:09:42 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:59:31 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > In general I agree with you, but in this case it should be fairly > > trivial since very little depends on grub, and the dependencies between > > the versions haven't changed,

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:45:25 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:34:40 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > >> Uh? Didn't you say...? :-? > >> > >> *** > >> I found that

Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-02 Thread jidanni
Sirs, Grandma says: "I have a 2-way camera installation on my computer, It's called Logitech Video. (It only cost $28.00 on sale, and John installed it for me) The software was down-loaded free." Apparently the software she installed was Logitech® Vid™. Alas, on http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/

Re: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"? (SOLVED)

2010-02-02 Thread Tech Geek
James, >( 2015 / 1024 ) = 1.96GB, which is what you are expecting. > But Int( 2015 / 1024 ) = 1, which is what you are seeing. Thanks for the wonderful explanation.

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:59:31 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: >>> One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), >>> chroot into Debian and revert grub to

RE: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"?

2010-02-02 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Tech Geek [mailto:techgeek12...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 02 February, 2010 09:18 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"? > > So I know my system has 2 GB Memory. > ( snip ) > debian:~#

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hi Chris, On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >> Unless there's some pre or post magic that goes on, these are the same >> files which are currently owned by the pre-existing (debian release >> 17) kernel package: > > This is odd. > > I keep an up-to-date ubuntu partition on the

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:34:40 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: >> Uh? Didn't you say...? :-? >> >> *** >> I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non-existent >> devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck programs

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > > > Did you try running the xmodmap -e e stuff at the command line in an > > xterm? That might give you a clearer idea of what is wrong. > > Yes, I've done that. In fact, since this problem started, the first > thing I do after restarting X is to run the fol

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:56 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I.e., if your USB drive is listed there and you have somet

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 11:59:31 Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > > One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), > > > chroot into Debian and revert grub t

Re: Cron does not run.

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 11:51:35 Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > >Actually, yes. I missed this part in the original email. If a cronjob > >generates any output it will (normally) be mailed to the owner of the > > crontab. For jobs under /etc/cron.daily, this is

Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"?

2010-02-02 Thread Tech Geek
So I know my system has 2 GB Memory. debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 02:23:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux debian:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2063496 kB MemFree: 30268 kB Buffers:396792 kB Cached: 744344 kB SwapCached: 29612 kB Act

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:56 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> I.e., if your USB drive is listed there and you have something like: >> >> # # >> /dev/sdb1/data/backupext3 >> acl,user_xattr 1 2 ^ >> >>

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), > > chroot into Debian and revert grub to an earlier version. > > As has been addressed in other rece

Re: Cron does not run.

2010-02-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: >Actually, yes. I missed this part in the original email. If a cronjob >generates any output it will (normally) be mailed to the owner of the crontab. > >For jobs under /etc/cron.daily, this is root. Should cron not to store somewhere reports of the

Re: Setting bootable flag on partition non-interactively.

2010-02-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:14:55PM -0600, Tim Legg wrote: > Hello all, > > Any suggestions on how to set a bootable flag non-interactively? > > > > Reason: > > I am creating a kiosk that restores itself from a saved image every time > the machine is booted. A while ago I created a kiosk works

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:41:46 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:41 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automaticall

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-02 Thread Joey Morris
Anthony Campbell wrote on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 08:35:29AM +: > On 01 Feb 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at > > 09:13:41AM +: > > > On 31 Jan 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > > > I start my X session with startx, and lately I've noticed that some > >

No sound, speaker not muted, volume control in alsamixer non-functional

2010-02-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: On my testing system (ThinkPad T61p, amd64) sound is suddenly broken. In alsamixer, the controls for headphone and speaker both appear, and neither is muted, but the up arrow does nothing. In /var/lib/alsa/asound.state, where the current state of the sound card is stored, there are no entr

abcde and flac cue sheets

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
I've got a problem with abcde. I'm trying to rip a whole CD to a flac file with embedded cue sheet, and this is what happens: flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to red

Re: serial port

2010-02-02 Thread Oleg
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:16:31PM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote: > hello, > > Ok this question is about another linux distro, but I think is general for > all of them. How can I get this line when I make "dmesg | grep tty" : > > console [tty0] enabled > > I need to get enable the serial port...som

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