NetworkManager Cannot Connect to Wireless Network

Hi, I just installed NetworkManager and started to use it with wired/wireless connections. Things work fine with the wired connection, but although NetworkManager displays several available wireless networks, it will not connect. The problem is that when I select the available network to join,

Re: chroot problem

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:10, Bob Proulx wrote: > Zachary Uram wrote: > > in order to get it working i tried to mount the root partition : > > # mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt > > > > that is fine, but when i run chroot i get weird error: > > # chroot /tmp/mnt > > # chroot: cannot execute command '/bi

Re: installing a second hard disk?

Just plug it in and format it. If it's not supposed to be bootable and you only plan to format one block device on it (a filesystem, a physical volume, an encrypted volume, ...), you don't have to partition it (I usually don't) although some software *might* get confused by disks without "label

Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 (was:Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO ...)

On 02/07/10 12:45 PM, H.S. wrote: > I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus > and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, > etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. > > Anybody with this mobo can confirm there are no

Re: installing a second hard disk?

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:06, Zachary Uram wrote: > I just got a 500gb Hitachi hard drive (this is my second drive, my > first drive is /dev/sda). > What is the best way to install this in Linux? Is it better to run ext3 or > ext4? > > Zach > > <>< http://www.fidei.org ><> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCR

Re: linux twitter client that does search?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:49:14PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:45:36PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > Is there a twitter client that will give me recent tweets containing a > > certain hashtag? The twitter site itself has become unusable because of > > that scrolling m

RE: Debian Network install disk doesn't find NIC

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:14:07 -0400 wrote: > > Try the kmuto[1] installers. They have up-to-date kernels that are more > likely to support new hardware. If that is the case, just install the > lenny-backports kernel after installation is complete. > > > [1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ > I w

Re: Debian Network install disk doesn't find NIC

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 16:42 -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > "No eaternet card" To get that working, it needs to be plugged in to the omnomnomnibus. Sorry. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: linux twitter client that does search?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:45:36PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Is there a twitter client that will give me recent tweets containing a > certain hashtag? The twitter site itself has become unusable because of > that scrolling marquee. I maintain choqok for debian. It's a good, featureful client f

Slow signal delivery to server process with heavy I/O

Hi All, I've noticed that asynchronous signals such as SIGINT, SIGTERM etc are delivered to my process long after the signal is sent if the receiving process is handling lots of I/O. My process is a multi-threaded web server. It's got one thread waiting on 'select' to accept incoming connections

Re: Debian Network install disk doesn't find NIC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/2010 07:42 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Hello everone; > I just got my new i5 based DP55kg system up and running. I inserted a > newly minted installation disk and selected the gui installation. > Everything worked fine till the program declar

Debian Network install disk doesn't find NIC

Hello everone; I just got my new i5 based DP55kg system up and running. I inserted a newly minted installation disk and selected the gui installation. Everything worked fine till the program declared: No ethernet card detected but a firewire interface is present. Do you want to used the fire

installing a second hard disk?

I just got a 500gb Hitachi hard drive (this is my second drive, my first drive is /dev/sda). What is the best way to install this in Linux? Is it better to run ext3 or ext4? Zach <>< http://www.fidei.org ><> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: chroot problem

Zachary Uram wrote: > in order to get it working i tried to mount the root partition : > # mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt > > that is fine, but when i run chroot i get weird error: > # chroot /tmp/mnt > # chroot: cannot execute command '/bin/bash' : Exec format error Is it possible that your live cd mo

No sound in Debian GNU/Linux Lenny 5.0.5

Hi all! Since yesterday I've noticed I've been without sound on Debian GNU/Linux Lenny 5.0.5. I was using a 2.6.32-bpo.2-686 kernel. While I am not sure if the problem was after an update, I tried connecting to pci audio card both speakers and headset, and in any case I have no sound. I did the sa

Re: [info] grub2

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:27:03 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> But it have been desiderable to name it "GRUB2" or something like that >> to prevent old GRUB users to be more confused than they are now with 2 >> GRUBs in play :-) > > This is the same url as

Re: SUCCESS! Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 17:27 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I got the two packages compiled, added them to the local packages > repository and installed them using kpackage, the KDE package manager. > I then successfully opened gnucash, selected in pre

Re: local specification of init script dependencies

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:54:33 +1200, Ian Goodacre wrote: > I have recently installed squeeze and need to adjust init script > dependencies so my database starts before my web server. I could edit > the headers in the init scripts, but I would rather leave them managed > by the packages. Is there a

chroot problem

i upgraded from vista to win7 on my pc which dual boots debian squeeze so it wiped away the grub2 boot loader from MBR so i burn copy of Debian Live (also tried Ubuntu 9.04) boot disc: in order to get it working i tried to mount the root partition : # mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt that is fine, but wh

SUCCESS! Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got the two packages compiled, added them to the local packages repository and installed them using kpackage, the KDE package manager. I then successfully opened gnucash, selected in preferences to run any past due scheduled transactions when the dat

Re: [info] grub2

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:53:30 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> There is now an official grub2 manual: >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html >> >> Great news! > > Sure... > > But it ha

Re: [info] grub2

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:53:30 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Tom H wrote: >> There is now an official grub2 manual: >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > > Great news! Sure... But it have been desiderable to name it "GRUB2" or something like that

Re: [info] grub2

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Tom H wrote: > There is now an official grub2 manual: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html Great news! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: IPtables localhost redirect

On Friday 09 July 2010 10:06:23 Daniele Orlando wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 08:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: > > What have you tried? It seems like you'd need to change this in a > > PREROUTING chain, probably in the mangle table. > > I have tried any configuration of PREROUTING, POSTR

Re: slow down dd - how?

On Friday 09 July 2010 05:10:48 Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/pmr/ > > is there a pmr-like solution under debian, from the repositories? That page lists 3 "Other tools". 2 of those are packaged for Debian. Pipe Viwer is in the pv p

Re: IPtables localhost redirect

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 19:09, Toan Pham wrote: > Here's the trick, > > # Trick the kernel to route localhost ip (127.0.0.1) in prerouting > rule, and continue routing out through the valid network interface > (not the loopback interface). > ifconfig eth0:0 127.0.0.1 > > # Setup NAT Table to redire

Re: RAID Questions

Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: shell> grub-install hd0 shell> grub-install hd1 With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to boot in degraded mode. You have to set both sda and sdb to hd0 but you cannot do that in device.map. Yo

[info] grub2

There is now an official grub2 manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin5lburwod_d67srunaoekt

Re: RAID Questions

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > shell> grub-install hd0 > shell> grub-install hd1 With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to boot in degraded mode. You have to set both sda and sdb to hd0 but you cannot do that in device.map. You have to use the grub sh

Re: IPtables localhost redirect

>Any idea? My idea would be for you to install a package called 'arno-iptables-firewall' Then join their list discussions, much good information proffered there to assist with this problem. firewall-requ...@rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl?subject=subscribe -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

Merciadri Luca wrote: > Because if I can know it by theory, it avoids me `practice.' :) > > Lisi wrote: >> On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB >>> ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev

linux twitter client that does search?

Is there a twitter client that will give me recent tweets containing a certain hashtag? The twitter site itself has become unusable because of that scrolling marquee. -- "Imagine a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no Indian partition, no Israeli/

Re: Evolution Crashes

Debian TR wrote: > Hi, > > Evolution crashes after specific things, such as marking multiple emails > as read, clicking "send" button, etc. (After I've checked my Evolution > version from "About" and clicked "OK" to close the box, it again > crashed) > > When I ran Evolution from terminal, it gi

Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 10:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 23:02 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Edit the control file and edit the two Replaces lines so they read: > Replaces: gnucash-common

Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G

Wed, 6/30/10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > From: Andrei Popescu > Subject: Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:42 AM > On Mi, 30 iun 10, 09:27:52, Hugo > Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had to dismantle t

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

On Friday 09 July 2010 11:11:39 Sthu Deus wrote: > Sometimes after some bad output in console, terminal does not echoes > the typed letters at command line and does not move cursor to another > line on Enter key press. > > How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? As Camaleón has said,

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

Tom writes: > Hey, > > > >>> How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? >> >> "Ctrl+C" and sometimes "Ctrl+Z". > > Or "reset"? Sometimes it won't recognize CR either, but I have found that ^J (Control-J) always works in those cases. In that case "^Jreset^J" should work. -- Carl John

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

Sthu Deus wrote: > Sometimes after some bad output in console, terminal does not echoes > the typed letters at command line and does not move cursor to another > line on Enter key press. > > How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? There are terminal specific ways to reset. If you ar

Re: Lenny Suspend to Ram tip sharing

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > Currently I am running two models, a D420 and a D820, both with > integrated Intel video cards. I am very happy with them in terms of > suspend-to-RAM. Ditto with an Asus eee PC. A couple of years ago I ran a > Thinkpad T42 with an ATI card a

Re: su and environment.

Sthu Deus wrote: > $ su -c 'abc' -l anotheruser > -su: abc: command not found > > The abc is in the anotheruser's path, but it seems option '-l' does not > work here. A very confusing topic and one often discussed is the process bash uses to start up and what environment files are processed and a

Re: RAID Questions

Kent West wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> I recommend that you ignore the hardware raid and instead use software >>> raid. The Debian installer can set up software raid for you at system >>> installation time. It is easy. But it is also a little confusing. > ... > It still wasn't easy, but it wo

Re: A "magical" HDD formatting question.

Hi, Your objective is: > I have to do so because it is impossible for now to boot from CD/USB. > And I want to move from ext3 to ext4. Although pivot_root etc. may be used but that is too fancy... If I were you, I do the following: 1. boot from internal HDD 2. mount externel HDD and copy your

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

On 7/9/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/09/2010 08:40 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? >

Re: IPtables localhost redirect

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 08:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > What have you tried?  It seems like you'd need to change this in a PREROUTING > chain, probably in the mangle table. > > Also, depending on the application it my be using the "unix socket" instead of > TCP/IP to connect to PostgreSQL.  

Re: A "magical" HDD formatting question.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2010 00:53:55 Sthu Deus wrote: >> Is there a way to: >> >> . boot from internal HDD then >> >> . chroot or whatever to externel HDD (with the same Debian clone >> copy) >> >> . format the internal HDD, > > pivot_root

Re: Restarting network

Hi, On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:55:43AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:26:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hint: In the old days interfaces were quite static on systems. But > > with the coming of removable and hotplug devices such as PCMCIA or USB > > network interface c

How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

Hello I'm trying to get a UMTS/HSPA/HSAP+ usb stick from Bell Canada working with their network. I'm on Lenny, with a 2.6.33.6 kernel compiled from kernel.org. At first I'm "activating" the stick through that usual "mount then eject the flash volume" handling, and reloading the usbserial kernel m

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

On 07/09/2010 08:40 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution

Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 23:02 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > With your amended instructions I got as far as here, but the following > command confuses me. > cd gnucash-2.2.9 > As this director

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely sure, but

Re: Help with Research

On Friday 09 July 2010 12:19:42 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 09/07/10 03:32, Iffat Jabeen wrote: > > Dear users of Gnu/Linux, [snip] > > Please share your experiences via the following link: > > http://survey.education.txstate.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=LPP > > > > Your assistance in distributing

Re: [Maxima] Bug in 'for', Maxima, Debian ?

On 07/07/2010 01:58 PM, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: [snip] This code not work in Debian Lenny, because this loop shouldn't execute! In Debian it go forever. It is a bug in a stable system and stable Maxima (I know in Debian every thing is very old but should be stable and very well tested). Th

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely sure, but here's what I've got: sandbox:~# cat /et

Re: Help with Research

On 09/07/10 03:32, Iffat Jabeen wrote: Dear users of Gnu/Linux, Do you use Gnu/Linux? Do you consider yourself part of a larger Gnu/Linux free and open source software community? Whether you've just starting clicking around in Ubuntu or you've been tweaking your kernel for years, we are interest

Re: [Maxima] Bug in 'for', Maxima, Debian ?

On Thursday 08 of July 2010 23:09:55 you wrote: > Greetings! > > I know that is very old, but I try compile in Debian (Lenny) Maxima from > > source, but without success. First, the GCL in Debian is not compiled > > with ANSI standard, so, I download the latest GCL from > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gn

Re: lenny iso signed with key 64E6EA7D

Rob Owens wrote: >On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:27:46PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Which keyservers did you use? >> >I used the ones that Seahorse defaults to: > >hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 >ldap://keyserver.pgp.com >hkp://subkeys.pgp.net > >> $ gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 64E6E

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely sure, but here's what I've got: sandbox:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

Hey, How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? "Ctrl+C" and sometimes "Ctrl+Z". Or "reset"? Tschüss, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:11:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Sometimes after some bad output in console, terminal does not echoes the > typed letters at command line and does not move cursor to another line > on Enter key press. > > How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? "Ctrl+C" and som

console: turning to the primary state.

Good day. Sometimes after some bad output in console, terminal does not echoes the typed letters at command line and does not move cursor to another line on Enter key press. How I can turn such a terminal to its primary state? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: slow down dd - how?

http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/pmr/ is there a pmr-like solution under debian, from the repositories? > How can I slow down dd? > > I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40 > GByte]. > > Does ionice work properly? > > Thank you for any help! :\ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Lenny Suspend to Ram tip sharing

On 2010-07-09, Mark wrote: > --e0cb4e88735f832359048aeef02e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> >> I have found support for Dells to be very good with regard to >> suspend-to-RAM. >> > > What video cards you have used suspend

Re: Some help regarding courier imap server

On 09/07/10 06:48, surreal wrote: I need a guide and howto on setting up a courier imap server on the system..a basic guide of how to add users, set up their mailboxes and get it running with postfix smtp server will be good. Please point me any tutorial having lenny as the server example(not et

Re: seamonkey

On 2010-07-08, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I just upgraded to seamonkey 2.0.5 from 1.1.17. Now when I > ctl-middle-click on a url (in mutt) I get my start page instead of the > requested site in the new browser window. > > Is this a bug in seamonkey? Maybe. What happens when you invoke seamonkey like