Re: mini pic express WLAN card which support AP mode

2011-05-30 Thread Werner Opriel
bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Hi all, > > Any recommendations for cards that are known to work with the current > stable distribution in master mode, i.e. as an access point ? > > Thank you, > > Brian > > Wistron CM9-GP 108 MBit/s a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini-PCI-Karte Chipset: Atheros AR5213A wor

Re: consolekit makes trouble

2011-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 29 mai 11, 12:33:46, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Andrej: Fancy, before my working sending, I got an e-mail from a strange site ^^^ Please don't, I'm Romanian, not Polish :) > with the exact subject title of my mail, which only contents 2 pgp-keys. > Sender was a russian site! I supp

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 30 mai 11, 19:14:58, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, Why do you think so? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: D

Re: mini pic express WLAN card which support AP mode

2011-05-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:18:16 -0700, writes: > Any recommendations for cards that are known to work with the current > stable distribution in master mode, i.e. as an access point ? I *highly* recommend Atheros WiFi cards. (Particularly, 5000 and 9000 series.) Master mode, ad-hoc mode, etc. all is s

mini pic express WLAN card which support AP mode

2011-05-30 Thread briand
Hi all, Any recommendations for cards that are known to work with the current stable distribution in master mode, i.e. as an access point ? Thank you, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: debian on NVIDIA(R) CUDA

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/31/11 at 10:18am, surreal wrote: > hi there.. > > has anyone tried using debian on NVIDIA® CUDA platform? Forgive my ignorance, but I thought CUDA was a distributed computing toolset? That is, 'using debian on' is sort've meaningless. You write programs for CUDA, but you load your OS no

debian on NVIDIA(R) CUDA

2011-05-30 Thread surreal
hi there.. has anyone tried using debian on NVIDIA® CUDA platform? -- Harshad Joshi

SSD partition alignment considerations

2011-05-30 Thread Cam Hutchison
I'm about to do a fresh install of Debian onto a new box with a Crucial M4 128GB SSD. I want to ensure that I get the best performance I can out of the SSD so I want to make sure I take care of any partition alignment issues. I have read tytso's blog post (http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry

Re: (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Mestnik
On 05/26/11 18:13, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/26/11 at 05:16pm, Mike Mestnik wrote: >> In-Reply-To: <20080412023656.gr14...@yi.org> >> >> Hello, >> This is an old thread, but I find myself in a similar situation. I'd >> like to edit a 4in6 tunnel endpoint and reconfigure the interface. >> W

Re: (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 09:24pm, Mike Mestnik wrote: > On 05/26/11 18:13, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 05/26/11 at 05:16pm, Mike Mestnik wrote: > >> In-Reply-To: <20080412023656.gr14...@yi.org> > >> > >> Hello, > >> This is an old thread, but I find myself in a similar situation. I'd > >> like to edit a

Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2011-05-30 Thread Dan
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:28 PM, prad wrote: > xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump > and restore on freebsd. > > the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. > > do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? > > my feel

Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 04:28pm, prad wrote: > xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump > and restore on freebsd. > > the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. > > do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? > > my feelings ar

xfs backup system vs rsynce

2011-05-30 Thread prad
xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump and restore on freebsd. the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? my feelings are slanted towards using xfs tools since i'm using xf

Re: Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-30 Thread Jasper Noë
Not sure if I can be of much further help to you. Reading your first post on this issue I see that you remove the option module in favor of usbserial. That advice is all over the net. Are you still doing that ? I think it is -basically- wrong: 'option' is the specialised driver for this and many

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:56:39 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Thank you very much :)! > > I flagged your email :)! You are welcome. > PS: Did you and/or should I report this to the GNOME team, Evolution > team or somewhere else? I did not since I think they are more then aware of it. AFAIK this p

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Why don't get miro? ;-)

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:30 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:14:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > But the only really annoying thing is, that I had to reboot Ubuntu > > Natty, because I wasn't able to adopt the Evolution files for Debian's > > Evolution. > > > > Perhaps s

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:19 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 18:14, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in > > good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled > > today. > > It's usua

Re: How to use the net install CD with PPPoE?

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 14:11 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/30/11 at 11:34am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Do I need to download and install pppoeconf + dependencies or is there > > > > another way to get a PPPoE connection? > > > > Debian packages are binaries, because Debian is a binary dis

Re: cgroup OOM killer loop causes system to lockup (possible fix included)

2011-05-30 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
FYI everyone, I found a bug within openssh-server which caused this problem. I've patched and submitted to the openssh list. You can find details of this by googling for: "port-linux.c bug with oom_adjust_restore() - causes real bad oom_adj - which can cause DoS conditions" It's extremely str

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 04:38pm, Doug wrote: > Using pclos; installed youtube-dl (which you refer to) and youtube-download. > Both are scripts. I searched the youtube-dl for "clive" and found nothing, > nor did I find usage, altho it might be there--this is a very large script. > The youtube-download (perh

Re: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address x in squeeze

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 08:18pm, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 02:11:34 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > If you can find the > > bugfix in Ubuntu it will help either fix it in Debian or discover why it > > hasn't yet applied to stable. > > BTW, I wanted to report a bug in Squeeze but wh

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread Doug
On 05/30/2011 03:21 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: ... Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit player, I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that the 64bit one seems to have (No need to have flash is evil

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-05-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Since you got debian installed, you may want to see if any unsupported hardware is on your computer udev doesn't support then black list all of that hardware in order to speed up your boot times. On Mon, 30 May 2011, maderios wrote: > Hi > I first sent this message in french language, sorry for

Re: How do I register a service?

2011-05-30 Thread lrhorer
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 12:57:14 -0500, lrhorer wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:40:02 -0500, lrhorer wrote: > > (...) > The networking script has # Provides: networking instead of # Provides: networ

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-05-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I couldn't install because of udev. I'm using an amd athelon k8 and several udev errors came up on the espeakup netinst disk just before grub got installed. I updated the image for espeakup and maybe that will fix the problem or maybe not, so next install I'm logging the install to a floppy a

Re: bug udev avec Wheezy

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 09:20pm, maderios wrote: > Bonsoir > Je ne sais pas si cela vous arrive mais j'ai tenté pour la énième > fois de revenir à Wheezy et pan, toujours ce problème avec udev qui > ralentit la machine. Dans le log de boot on voit qu'il y a un > problème. Suis je le seul concerné ? J'en do

Re: cgroup OOM killer loop causes system to lockup (possible fix included)

2011-05-30 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Thanks for the response. I have sent this across to the guys at openssh-server. Although, I did check the openssh source code myself, and from what I could tell, everything was being done correctly. I have a feeling there gonna be a lot of 'buck passing' on this one :( Cal On 30/05/2011 21:

Re: cgroup OOM killer loop causes system to lockup (possible fix included)

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 21:03 +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > More strangeness.. > > If I keep the kernel module loaded, but disable the entry > in /etc/network/interfaces for eth0, the oom_adj problem disappears. > But then ofc, I'm left with no network interface. I then tried >

Re: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address x in squeeze

2011-05-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 30 May 2011 02:11:34 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > If you can find the > bugfix in Ubuntu it will help either fix it in Debian or discover why it > hasn't yet applied to stable. BTW, I wanted to report a bug in Squeeze but which package do I report it against? I have not idea. I've tr

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread George Standish
Shouldn't the subject be "AMD64 and i386"? On 30/05/11 03:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:37 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit player, I've found that the 32bit on

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:37:14 +0200, maderios wrote: > I first sent this message in french language, sorry for my mistake I > tried for the umpteenth time to return to Wheezy but I still have this > problem with udev, which slows down the machine. The boot log shows that > there is a problem.

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:37 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 > Mihira Fernando wrote: > > ... > >> Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit >> player, I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that >> the 64bit one seems to have (

udev bug in Wheezy

2011-05-30 Thread maderios
Hi I first sent this message in french language, sorry for my mistake I tried for the umpteenth time to return to Wheezy but I still have this problem with udev, which slows down the machine. The boot log shows that there is a problem. Am I the only one concerned? I doubt it .. How are thin

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:14:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > But the only really annoying thing is, that I had to reboot Ubuntu > Natty, because I wasn't able to adopt the Evolution files for Debian's > Evolution. > > Perhaps somebody knows what to do: > > After copying > # cp > -pr /media/natty/ho

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: ... > Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit player, > I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that the 64bit > one seems to have (No need to have flash is evil debates here. Some of > us wants

bug udev avec Wheezy

2011-05-30 Thread maderios
Bonsoir Je ne sais pas si cela vous arrive mais j'ai tenté pour la énième fois de revenir à Wheezy et pan, toujours ce problème avec udev qui ralentit la machine. Dans le log de boot on voit qu'il y a un problème. Suis je le seul concerné ? J'en doute.. Comment cela se passe chez vous ? Existe

Re: How to rip double discs albums?

2011-05-30 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 May 2011 23:09:33 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: ... > I like grip. I've ripped several multi-disc albums and it has always > handled it correctly. Grip is dead and has been removed from testing and unstable; asunder is the recommended replacement. I use it and like it. http://bugs.debian.

Re: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address x in squeeze

2011-05-30 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Maybe a different kernel version makes the difference here, not Debian. > > Greetings, Hello, same pobem here. I managed to solve that problem for me, by installing an older kernel from backports.org. Use a kernel with version 2.6.32-2-amd64 or former. Every later kernel got this problem, a

Re: How do I register a service?

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 May 2011 12:57:14 -0500, lrhorer wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:40:02 -0500, lrhorer wrote: (...) >>> The networking script has >>> >>> # Provides: networking >>> >>> instead of >>> >>> # Provides: network >>> >>> which is what I would expe

Re: Testing new hardware support for Debian 6.0.2

2011-05-30 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:53:14 -0700 Ben Hutchings wrote: ... > 6. Can the interface send and receive TCP/IP across a LAN at the > same speed, before and after these changes? (Use e.g. netperf to > test this, but don't forget to remove the netperf package after > use.)

Suppress Line Wrap?

2011-05-30 Thread lrhorer
In bash, the default when outputting to stdout is to wrap any lines wider than the console display. Is there a way to suppress this? During script execution, I want certain lines to be overwritten. This can be accomplished with the /r escape sequence rather than /n, but if the line is longer

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 18:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in > good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled > today. It's usually automagically generated, unless it borks, in which case your best approa

Re: How do I register a service?

2011-05-30 Thread lrhorer
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:40:02 -0500, lrhorer wrote: > >> I have a couple of services I need to run from init.d for runlevel 2. >> One of them depends on networking, so of course I supply the lines >> >> # Provides: pyTivo >> # Required-Start:$syslog $network >> >>

Re: How to use the net install CD with PPPoE?

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 11:34am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Do I need to download and install pppoeconf + dependencies or is there > > > another way to get a PPPoE connection? > > Debian packages are binaries, because Debian is a binary distribution. > > So there is no 'make' component to installation. > >

Re: Building Debian packages

2011-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Wood wrote: > My question is, if i replace the source tree with an updated > version, say 4.0.2 when its released, I will loose the debian > directory, and withit, the changelog file. Install devscripts and look at the uupdate program. Or, copy and modify the debian directory. You will need

Building Debian packages

2011-05-30 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to learn how to build debs. Ive been reading the Debian GNU/Linux Bible published by Wiley in 2005 which gives a good run through of building debs using dh_make and its relted tools but Im a little confused about the best way to layout the directory structure. dh_make insists on ha

Re: which is approprite tikz or asymptote

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 May 2011 17:25:44 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to insert graphics into latex file, for logn time I used xfig to > create graphs, but it is limited, specially for math formulas, dia i > find not easy to use. > Finally I want to try asymptote or tikz which one is more

Re: How do I register a service?

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:40:02 -0500, lrhorer wrote: > I have a couple of services I need to run from init.d for runlevel 2. > One of them depends on networking, so of course I supply the lines > > # Provides: pyTivo > # Required-Start:$syslog $network > > at the top of the init scrip

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Reading your first post on this issue I see that you remove the option module > in > favor of usbserial. That advice is all over the net. Are you still doing that > ? > I think it is -basically- wrong: 'option' is the specialised driver for this > and > many other 3g modems. 'usbserial' is -on

Re: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address x in squeeze

2011-05-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 30 May 2011 14:36:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 02:09:04 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I have a NexStar multi interface to USB adapter which I wanted to use >> to connect my old IDE HDD to wipe it out before giving it away. While >> trying to use it I hit the probl

Re: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address x in squeeze

2011-05-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 30 May 2011 02:11:34 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/30/11 at 02:09am, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I have a NexStar multi interface to USB adapter which I wanted to use >> to connect my old IDE HDD to wipe it out before giving it away. While >> trying to use it I hit the problem in su

Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi all :) until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The GNOME2 performance of Debian stable is much better than of Ubuntu. Pulse Audio is not installed by default :). What repositories should I use to set up a stable DAW? Btw. my list is attached. Is there a repository including JACK2 f

How do I register a service?

2011-05-30 Thread lrhorer
I have a couple of services I need to run from init.d for runlevel 2. One of them depends on networking, so of course I supply the lines # Provides: pyTivo # Required-Start:$syslog $network at the top of the init script. The second service, however relies on the first one, so I n

SLAPd upgrade woes

2011-05-30 Thread ray klassen
I recently upgraded to squeeze and found that the slapd configuration had been completely revamped. I was authenticating against a locally replicated copy of my directory behind a firewall. I was using anonymous binding for my own purposes and I want to continue using it that way. I don't really

which is approprite tikz or asymptote

2011-05-30 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, everybody I want to insert graphics into latex file, for logn time I used xfig to create graphs, but it is limited, specially for math formulas, dia i find not easy to use. Finally I want to try asymptote or tikz which one is more appropriate ?? thanks for help regards

Re: [SOLVED] Lost network after lenny-to-squeeze upgrade

2011-05-30 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Itay wrote: > > On Sat, 14 May 2011, Itay wrote: > >> I am experiencing major network problems after the upgrade. >> Rebooting solves the problem for a short while - after 5 >> minutes, or so, network will be lost. >> >> Based on searches in the internet I pasted b

nvidia-glx-alternatives

2011-05-30 Thread David Baron
From Sid, version 270., is always coming up unconfigured. Otherwise, the Sid nvidia driver installation (using dkms) works 100% Alternatives are set up for the libGl.so.1 but NOT for libglx.so (referring to /usr/share/doc/libgl1-nvidia-glx/README.alternatives). I manually set that up, thoug

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-30 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Christian , Dan William's blog at http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/ . He is a NM developer . Good info there . Pablo Sánchez . Another update in my quest to get that UMTS modem work properly: Bell technical support told me that I should run a firmware upgrade on the stick (and gave me a link t

Re: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address x in squeeze

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 May 2011 02:09:04 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I have a NexStar multi interface to USB adapter which I wanted to use to > connect my old IDE HDD to wipe it out before giving it away. While > trying to use it I hit the problem in subject line. That is:"Reset high > speed USB > device

Re: Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-30 Thread Jasper Noë
Christian Jaeger gmail.com> writes: > > Another update in my quest to get that UMTS modem work properly: > > Bell technical support told me that I should run a firmware upgrade on > the stick (and gave me a link to the exact file). Of course that's a > windows .exe. I tried to run it in a second

Re: java plugin for iceweasel

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 May 2011 16:09:49 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > What's the Debian way to get Java to work from iceweasel? Debian wiki has a good guide: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Sun Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-30 Thread Jasper Noe
Christian Jaeger gmail.com> writes: > > Another update in my quest to get that UMTS modem work properly: > > Bell technical support told me that I should run a firmware upgrade on > the stick (and gave me a link to the exact file). Of course that's a > windows .exe. I tried to run it in a secon

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that > the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word > format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for > something that s

Re: [LAU] [solved] A new issue installing Debian stable - Was: Adding PPPoE to a net install

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 14:19 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > 2011/5/30 Ralf Mardorf > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:48 +0200, Raffaele wrote: > > > > it's enough to download just the first cd/dvd, then be sure > to > > uncomment the lines in /etc/apt

Re: [LAU] [solved] A new issue installing Debian stable - Was: Adding PPPoE to a net install

2011-05-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/5/30 Ralf Mardorf > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:48 +0200, Raffaele wrote: > > > > it's enough to download just the first cd/dvd, then be sure to > > uncomment the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > > > deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > > deb http://debian.

[solved] A new issue installing Debian stable - Was: Adding PPPoE to a net install

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:48 +0200, Raffaele wrote: > it's enough to download just the first cd/dvd, then be sure to > uncomment the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list > > > deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main contrib

Re: LVM + USB drive

2011-05-30 Thread Itay
On Mon, 30 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] # (Question: vgexport/import is needed if volume groups are identified # by UUID?) That's correct. You don't need vgexport/vgimport. I had (since moved to a larger eSATA enclosure) a 2-bay USB enclosure and bonded the disks in a "RAID 0" set

A new issue installing Debian stable - Was: Adding PPPoE to a net install (on Debian users mailing list only)

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 +0200, I wrote: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pppoeconf/pppoeconf_1.19_all.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.8-3_amd64.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-4_amd64.deb http://ftp.d

Adding PPPoE to a net install

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I booted Ubuntu Natty run # cd /media/debian/root # wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pppoeconf/pppoeconf_1.19_all.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.8-3_amd64.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-4_amd64.deb then booted Debi

Re: Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi Network Setup

2011-05-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 30 May 2011 03:13:16 -0400, William Hopkins writes: > On 05/27/11 at 08:03pm, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> On Fri, 27 May 2011 16:56:39 + (UTC), Camaleón writes: >> > "ifdown/ifup" and maybe "/etc/init.d/networking restart" just to be >> > sure :-) >> >> My /etc/network/interfaces is empty

Re: How to use the net install CD with PPPoE?

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 02:17 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/30/11 at 01:03am, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 5/29/2011 6:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > Do I need to download and install pppoeconf + dependencies or is there > > > another way to get a PPPoE connection? > > > > You buy a ch

Re: How to use the net install CD with PPPoE?

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 00:56 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Sounds like you solved your issue.. Is there something you need? Hi William :) regarding to GRUB2 I don't need help. > If you used the CD as you said and installed, you already have Debian stable. > Perhaps I am misunderstanding your q

Re: How to use the net install CD with PPPoE?

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 01:03 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/29/2011 6:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Do I need to download and install pppoeconf + dependencies or is there > > another way to get a PPPoE connection? > > You buy a cheap consumer router, like everyone else does who isn't > prov

Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

2011-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2011 03:36 AM, François TOURDE wrote: Le 15124ième jour après Epoch, William Hopkins écrivait: I don't want to discourage you from posting to debian-user, as someone there may have a solution for you (although I regrettably do not). But may I recommend the mplayer-user ML? Hi. I pr

Re: LVM + USB drive

2011-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2011 02:56 AM, Itay wrote: [snip] # ) # Before unplugging $ umount /mnt/point/of/lvm $ lvchange -an /dev/myVG $ vgexport -a # After plugging-in $ vgimport -a $ lvchange -ay /dev/myVG $ mount [options] /mnt/point/of/lvm # (Question: vgexport/import is needed if volume groups are iden

Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

2011-05-30 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15124ième jour après Epoch, William Hopkins écrivait: > I don't want to discourage you from posting to debian-user, as someone there > may have a solution for you (although I regrettably do not). > But may I recommend the mplayer-user ML? Hi. I prefer post here because I think it's debian &

LVM + USB drive

2011-05-30 Thread Itay
I'd like to set up a USB drive using LVM. Could someone knowledgable confirm that the following recipe should allow me to hot-plug the USB drive without rendering the LVM file-systems inaccessible? Many thanks. Itay Recipe follows: Set up: # (Actual number of partitions, etc., is not impo

[SOLVED] Lost network after lenny-to-squeeze upgrade

2011-05-30 Thread Itay
On Sat, 14 May 2011, Itay wrote: I am experiencing major network problems after the upgrade. Rebooting solves the problem for a short while - after 5 minutes, or so, network will be lost. Based on searches in the internet I pasted below some info that I understand might help to resolve the pro

Re: Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi Network Setup

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/27/11 at 08:03pm, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2011 16:56:39 + (UTC), Camaleón writes: > > "ifdown/ifup" and maybe "/etc/init.d/networking restart" just to be > > sure :-) > > My /etc/network/interfaces is empty, but loopback device. I'm just > issuing plain old ifconfig, and I

Re: su without a password (not root)

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/27/11 at 05:28pm, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2011-05-26 22:11, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 05/26/11 at 07:31pm, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > >> pam_wheel lets you su to root without typing a password if you are a > >> member of a specific group. > >> > >> I need a PAM module with more