Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Joe jretrading.com> writes: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 > Mark Fletcher gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was > > originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as it means I > > can't rely on backups dumped on that devi

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/29/2012 8:27 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most On (exceedingly) rare occasions, it does happen that the t

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can > be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most That depends. Are you using any dictionary words or easy character permutations thereof to make a pass-phrase? If

Re: Autofs and NFS, user mapping

2012-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this: > > drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/ > > I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong. > > I have identical user ids and groups between my NFS sharing stations, so > previously, prior to u

Re: Re: serial connexion between 2 machines failed

2012-07-29 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:44:24AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > While on the machine where they didn't , > nothing is displayed , I mean > # dmesg |grep ttyS > # > > So How to activate the ports !!! thanks a lot I would start by checking the BIOS setup to be sure they are not disab

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 07/29/2012 03:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: /media/mount_point switched to /run/media/user_name/mount_point It's not an Arch change. It's an u

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > > /media/mount_point > > > > switched to > > > > /run/media/user_name/mount_point > > It's not an Arch change. It's an upstream change; I

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> "conservatives" who don't want to transition to anything > > If I would be conservative I wouldn't use Linux for pro-audio. But > here's another nice example of insane changes Arch already

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > The last one is my wireless adaptor. An Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi > > Adaptor. > > > > So maybe my wired adaptor will work? > > Probably. It does :) > > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. > > It's not supporte

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you >>> provide a user case for someone using block lists and another c

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > The last one is my wireless adaptor. An Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi > Adaptor. > > So maybe my wired adaptor will work? Probably. > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. It's not supported by the 2.6.32 kernel. Installing a 3.2 kernel and fi

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Wayne Topa
On 07/29/2012 03:38 PM, Gary wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-29 11:25 +0200, Gary wrote: While I was installing I got an error message about some missing firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I had to skip the setup of the network because of this. So the fi

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Kent West wrote: > > westk@westek:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > Changing the order of the hosts: line to: > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 > as you suggested above, s

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:45:02 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >> Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name of >> a box? >> >> westk@westek:~$ ping k1000 >> PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes f

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/12 03:21 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 29/07/12 02:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: Interesting. You'd think NVidia would keep their proprietary drivers current with their hardware. ATI certainly does. I wouldn't worry about support though. You can always fall back to VESA modes until the dr

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-29 11:25 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I > > had to skip the setup of the network because of this. > > > > So the first step is getti

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-29 Thread Joe
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was > originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as it means I > can't rely on backups dumped on that device. Is there something wrong > with the way I am mounting

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 15:00:04 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Well, it is the one account that will accept remote logins (in Debian) that > exists everywhere. True. But the security of an account doesn't depend on whether the username is known or unknown. If it does, you have problem

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > "conservatives" who don't want to transition to anything If I would be conservative I wouldn't use Linux for pro-audio. But here's another nice example of insane changes Arch already made and other distros of course will follow: /media/mount_point

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 18:52:35 +0100, Gary wrote: > root@jadetree:/home/gary# lspci > [...] > 07:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 5390 Have a search with "Debian wiki RaLink 5390". We could have a problem here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/07/12 02:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > Interesting. You'd think NVidia would keep their proprietary drivers > current with their hardware. ATI certainly does. > > I wouldn't worry about support though. You can always fall back to VESA > modes until the drivers catch up. Unless NVidia suddenly de

screensaver and power management preferences

2012-07-29 Thread Curt
Running Gnome in Squeeze. >From the very beginning of the life of this machine (born December, 2011), in Screensaver preferences, I've checked 'Activate screensaver when computer is idle' and placed the slider 'Regard the computer as idle after' at 10 minutes. In Power managment preferences, I hav

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Tom H wrote: > > Although you're using "acu.local" as a domain, I suspect that it has > the same problem as ".local" and clashes with avahi. Do you have any > "mdns" entries on the "hosts" line of "/etc/resolv.conf"? "/etc/nsswitch.conf" not "/etc/resolv.conf", so

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kent West wrote: > > Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name of a > box? > > westk@westek:~$ ping k1000 > PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=62 time=0.128 ms > ^C64

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-29 11:25 +0200, Gary wrote: > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I > had to skip the setup of the network because of this. > > So the first step is getting the firmware for the WLAN card.

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> Believing what I read at Arch-general mailing list, configuring systemd >> will be in some kind of irrational secret language. > > An example: > > Forwarded Message > From: [snip] > Reply-to: General Discussion about Arch

Autofs and NFS, user mapping

2012-07-29 Thread T o n g
Hi, My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this: drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/ I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong. I have identical user ids and groups between my NFS sharing stations, so previously, prior to using Autofs I just use the

Re: mail server

2012-07-29 Thread Joe
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:21:53 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > ok our 20 users fetching their emails from our hosted server. which is > maintained by our service provider. and we are keeping 3 months of > emails on our mail server and in case of email lost we can not recover > it since we ha

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/12 01:42 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 29/07/12 11:15 AM, Gary Dale wrote: Any card you buy will likely work, either with the open source drivers or the proprietary ones. With Wheezy on the verge of becoming the current stable release, you shouldn't run into problems with proprietary

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine that systemd anyway could have > some advantages, even if it's from a man (boy) who often takes photos > from himself in front of a mirror and then publish this snapshots in the > Internet. Is there a

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
I wrote: Brian wrote: > > Have you > > got a /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file? Is wlan* mentioned?  > > Delete the file anyway; it will be regenerated. Reboot. > > root@jadetree:/home/gary# find /etc/udev/rules.d -name 70-persistent-net.rules > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.

Re: systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:38:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd? > > There's more info about Systemd and its status in Debian here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/systemd > > > > I hope sy

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 13:12:31 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Brian wrote: > > > No default configuration file will ever suit everyone or fit their > > > needs, but the Debian sshd_config doesn't seem to me to be have any > > > insecur

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > Doesn't work :( > > > > [Very useful output log snipped] > > > Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... > > ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device > > Now, why isn't the device seen? > > Check that rtl8105e-1.fw is in /lib/firmware/

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 19:38:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-29 19:22 +0200, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > >> Doesn't work :( > >> > > > > [Very useful output log snipped] > > > >> Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... > >> ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: N

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/07/12 11:15 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > Any card you buy will likely work, either with the open source drivers > or the proprietary ones. With Wheezy on the verge of becoming the > current stable release, you shouldn't run into problems with proprietary > drivers not working with the latest X serv

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-29 19:22 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: > >> Doesn't work :( >> > > [Very useful output log snipped] > >> Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... >> ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device > > Now, why isn't the device seen? Maybe because the firmware is

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister > wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister >>> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I kno

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 13:12:31 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Brian wrote: > > > > No default configuration file will ever suit everyone or fit their > > needs, but the Debian sshd_config doesn't seem to me to be have any > > insecure aspects to it. > > Some might say th

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/12 12:50 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Ahoy the list! I use a Buffalo 4TB NAS using RAID which I mount from my Debian Wheezy AMD64 running on a self-built Intel Core i7 920-based machine. I want to be able to read and write the NAS from the Linux machine with minimum fuss. I also run a virt

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: > Doesn't work :( > [Very useful output log snipped] > Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... > ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device Now, why isn't the device seen? Check that rtl8105e-1.fw is in /lib/firmware/ and please post the line in the output

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister >> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read >> > because of the xterm settings. >> >> Resources

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Brian wrote: > > No default configuration file will ever suit everyone or fit their > needs, but the Debian sshd_config doesn't seem to me to be have any > insecure aspects to it. Some might say that "PermitRootLogin yes" default is insecure... -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:25 AM, lina wrote: > > strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open. > > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > Do I need specify > > -A INPUT

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 15:09:01 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > > Install with > > > > > >    dpkg -i > > > > Okay. Done. Thanks. What do I have to do after this? It seemed to go > > okay, but there's no signof life from the WLAN adaptor :( Just to be clear. There

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm currently using an older AMD system with Debian Squeeze, using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. This work well on Squeeze with the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package and nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms, and I'm able to pla

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 15:09:01 +0100, Gary wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > Download either package. Put it on a USB stick. Transfer to the Debian > > OS. Install with > > > >   dpkg -i > > Okay. Done. Thanks. What do I have to do after this? It seemed to go > okay, but there's no signof life from

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 14:11:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:29:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 15:45:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I managed do > >> not, just PCL6 and PostScript. > > > > No, it

Re: mail server

2012-07-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:52:48 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >>> actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer d

Re: black screen but have audio playing

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-07-29 a las 02:07 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis escribió: (resending to the list) > 2012/7/28 Camaleón : > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:57:16 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > > Have you checked if it happens with all kind of video files? From ogg to > > mpeg, comercial DVD's, avi... also, have

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/12 10:41 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm currently using an older AMD system with Debian Squeeze, using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. This work well on Squeeze with the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package and nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms, and I'm able to play Flightgear. I'm looking to bu

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I'm currently using an older AMD system with Debian Squeeze, using an > Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. This work well on Squeeze with the > nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package and nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms, and > I'm able to play Flightgea

Re: System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

2012-07-29 Thread Bernado Da Vinci
(Apologies for the lack of an original message ID, I'm subscribed to the digest.) > Sometimes it helps, to reinstall the kernel again. Also reinstalling grub > might help, too. Hans: thank you for the tip. Sadly I don't know what happened, but the following commands successfully elided the noisy

what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I'm currently using an older AMD system with Debian Squeeze, using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. This work well on Squeeze with the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package and nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms, and I'm able to play Flightgear. I'm looking to buy a new system and I'd like to be able to run the

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you >> provide a user case for someone using block lists and another case when >> they're not in use? > > I've explained twic

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:29:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 15:45:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:17:22 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > Anyway: a PostScript printer has a PostScript interpreter; a PCL >> > printer has a PCL interpreter; a PDF printer has a PDF inte

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 10:25:56 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I > > had to skip the setup of the network because of this. > > > > So the first step is

Re: [INTERIM Solution] Re: wifi connect _FAILS_ - was [Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?]

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Thu 26 Jul 2012 at 09:27:44 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: A possible failure to associate with the wireless access point. What does lspci (or lsusb) say the card is? 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:25:56 +0100, Gary wrote: > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I had > to skip the setup of the network because of this. Don't you have a wired card? Using the ethernet interfa

Re: mail server

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:52:48 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when >>> ever some one say a name "mail ser

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:24:30 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > I installed all the nvidia driver kernel xserver packages, but now it > seems that gnome doesn't know what size the monitor is anymore (all > fonts way too large etc.) > > System->Preferences->Monitors looks like the attached screenshot T

Re: internet probably broken

2012-07-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 06:53:42PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:28:27PM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages > > > 47% [Waiting for hea

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:06:59 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. > > Using Wheezy and a couple of months ago (guessing) I did a dist-upgrade > and all of a sudden my links would only open a new iceweasel window and > only to my home page. Is

Re: Synaptic problem

2012-07-29 Thread Robert Pommrich
Hi, Am 26.07.2012 22:32, schrieb ricccardo: > Hi, I recently updated from squeeze to wheezy and I notice some problem > with synaptic. In particular: > > ric@ricmbp:~$ sudo synaptic > synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.4.10: > cannot open shared object file: No such fil

Re: System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

2012-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Bernado Da Vinci wrote: > A related problem is horrifically noisy messages from kernel at boot time. You might post a sample of those messages. > At a bit of loss here as to what to try next! Post the relevant parts of, say, syslog? -- Carl Fink

Re: System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

2012-07-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Bernado Da Vinci: > I'm running kernel `3.2.0-3-amd64`on Wheezy. I use a ThinkPad T420. > > My first problem is that when I request my laptop to shutdown or reboot, it > gets to the final [info] Will now halt. but then just hangs. I sometimes > get messages from o

System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

2012-07-29 Thread Bernado Da Vinci
I'm running kernel `3.2.0-3-amd64`on Wheezy. I use a ThinkPad T420. My first problem is that when I request my laptop to shutdown or reboot, it gets to the final [info] Will now halt. but then just hangs. I sometimes get messages from other kernel modules such as echi_hcd, sd, hda_intel and thinkp

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 15:45:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:17:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > Anyway: a PostScript printer has a PostScript interpreter; a PCL printer > > has a PCL interpreter; a PDF printer has a PDF interpreter. They accept > > print jobs sent directly to them

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:14:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Which, generally speaking, it translates into...? I mean, what are >>> those "block lists" and how are they effectively affecting the boo

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 10:25:56 +0100, Gary wrote: > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I > had to skip the setup of the network because of this. > > So the first step is getting the firmware for the

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Yasin SULUHAN
You can download the firmware from here: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-realtek copy it in a flash disc and use it during the installation process... the installation process should give you an option to do so On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Gary wrote: > While I was install

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >> >> Thanks for the info and the links. You've misunderstood me. I didn't >> say that Linux could boot without a bootloader. I said that I didn't >> understand the purpose of the "Gene

Re: Alternatives for Statgraphics

2012-07-29 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 24.07.2012 20:51, schrieb John W. Foster: > On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 08:43 +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> A friend ask me whether I do know an (FLOSS) alternative to >> Statgraphics. Unfortunately I don't know this program neither available >> FLOSS possibilities out there. Anyone o

Re: Re: serial connexion between 2 machines failed

2012-07-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks a lot for the hint, the difference is there : on the machine where the programs ran i got the ouput: # dmesg |grep ttyS [0.331367] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [0.640601] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [0.720856] 00:0d: ttyS0 at I

Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
While I was installing I got an error message about some missing firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I had to skip the setup of the network because of this. So the first step is getting the firmware for the WLAN card. I've seen a couple of suggestions for this. Eithe

Re: internet probably broken

2012-07-29 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.07.2012 04:28, Stephen Allen wrote: > You're using debian.net OR debian.org? AFAK *net is the official > address for repositories. I think that he/she is using both. http://http.debian.net/ is just mirror redirector, which attempts to choose t

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

2012-07-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 29 July 2012 08:11:05 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:31:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just read it from "debian-devel-announce"¹: > > > > *** > > Surprise! > > - > > > > It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through