Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Dom
On 29/03/13 23:31, sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote: despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to test

HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Eric Gamess
Hello all, I am planning to install a HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in our Debian 6.0.6 computer. I have no idea if Debian has support for this card. I understand that in some Linux versions, this is done with the bce drivers. Any one has experience with this card?

HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in Debian

2013-03-29 Thread egamess
Hello all, I am planning to install a HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in our Debian 6.0.6 computer. I have no idea if Debian has support for this card. I understand that in some Linux versions, this is done with the bce drivers. Any one has experience with this car

Re: console mode

2013-03-29 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
james gray writes: > hello > > Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 consoles. > > i do understand that f7 is gui. > > i have found  > > http://wiki.debian.org/Console > > and at that address there is not a writ on f1 through f7 default assignments. > > i would assume f

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
>> despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be >> (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only >> trouble with Debian squeeze. > > Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. > > How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread SQ
> despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be > (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only > trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re-install

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread green
sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote at 2013-03-29 16:23 -0500: > Apologies. Guess I'll just have to find a more appropriate OS. As already mentioned, squeeze-backports might help, though neither netatalk nor privoxy currently have more recent versions backported. Consider building your own backports. O

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread John Hasler
sirquijote writes: > I just got a reply on another list, and it drew my attention to the fact > that Debian is an LTS OS. Debian Stable is. For bleeding edge you want Unstable. > I hadn't realised that would affect package availability too, so the > mistake is mine. You may also want to look at

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
> Hi, > > I've new to Debian, but already I've found two important packages that > haven't been updated for this OS in a while: Netatalk is almost three > years out of date, and Privoxy seems just as bad (I'm on 3.0.16, and > 3.0.18 stable was released at the end of 2011). > > I was looking for a s

Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
Hi, I've new to Debian, but already I've found two important packages that haven't been updated for this OS in a while: Netatalk is almost three years out of date, and Privoxy seems just as bad (I'm on 3.0.16, and 3.0.18 stable was released at the end of 2011). I was looking for a stable, well-es

Re: Question about output from 'df'.

2013-03-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Christian, Christian Dysthe wrote: > UUID=fbcdccf4-f329-4656-8ac2-7cff4c158404 /boot ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > UUID=37de7813-0f65-41dd-b4ae-55912e454d0f / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > UUID=4f2719cd-5e8b-4440-85d9-80db2a7e528a /home ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > /dev/disk/by-uu

Re: tar command and -X -T options.

2013-03-29 Thread Franco Martelli
Hi, I'm on Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 amd64, I always used tar command for my backups using a couple of file to include and exclude directories. Now something strange it happens: (username) means the name which it's used to login to the system. root@mitas:~# tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.23 root@mitas:

Question about output from 'df'.

2013-03-29 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, In fstab on a Debian Testing machine I have the following: # /dev/sda5 UUID=fbcdccf4-f329-4656-8ac2-7cff4c158404 /boot ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 # /dev/sda6 UUID=37de7813-0f65-41dd-b4ae-55912e454d0f / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda7 UUID=4f2719cd-5e8b-4440-85d9-80db2a7e528a /hom

Kredyty Firmowe i Indywidualne

2013-03-29 Thread Marcin Kaczorowski
Proszę o zgodę na przesłanie oferty kredytów firmowych również bez ZUS i US , kredytów indywidualnych oraz kredytów dla rolników Marcin Kaczorowski marcin.kaczorow...@firmowykredyt.com.pl tel. 881 495 773 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Broken wheezy update with my graphics card

2013-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: > > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw > > for module r8169 ... about 8 of them all saying more or less the > > same. I've been told that I should > ... > The r8169 module drives an ethernet adaptor. This card was working > before th

Re: console mode

2013-03-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
james gray wrote: hello Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 consoles. i do understand that f7 is gui. i have found http://wiki.debian.org/Console and at that address there is not a writ on f1 through f7 default assignments. i would assume f1 could be for

wiki page vlan_raw_device or vlan-raw-device

2013-03-29 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, Looking at page http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration I see 2 different syntaxes for vlan raw device. One uses dashes, vlan-raw-device, the other underscores, vlan_raw_device. I had underscores in my /etc/network/interfaces config and it did not work. I changed it to dashes and it did

Re: console mode

2013-03-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 March 2013 13:15:13 Linux-Fan wrote: > > Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 > > consoles. > > > > i do understand that f7 is gui. Sometimes also F8. > > i have found > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Console > > > > and at that address there is not a writ o

Re: console mode

2013-03-29 Thread Linux-Fan
On 03/29/2013 02:10 PM, james gray wrote: > hello > > Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 consoles. > > i do understand that f7 is gui. > > i have found > > http://wiki.debian.org/Console > > and at that address there is not a writ on f1 through f7 default > assign

console mode

2013-03-29 Thread james gray
hello Question: what are the default use assigned to the f1 through f7 consoles. i do understand that f7 is gui. i have found http://wiki.debian.org/Console and at that address there is not a writ on f1 through f7 default assignments. i would assume f1 could be for admin purposes ?. i wo