Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > The real bonkers bit for me is that wpa_supplicant throws an error > > message > > at boot, every time, yet I still get dhcp working and here I am .. > > with wlan0 > > working just fine. No clue what black magic voodoo goes on there. > > Linux is connected by PPPoE, ad hoc using a WiFi US

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi :) > > I've got much more than four installs on my machine. One FreeBSD and > tons of Linux installs. The reason for having tons of Linux installs is, > that I don't have the perfect hardware, but I use Linux as an audio > production environment. very cool. I'm guessing burmester amps, AKG

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > I should note that when I tried to use a sun disk lable or a BSD disk > > label to get 8 partitions ( which is wrong, sun has 16 partitions but > > Debian or fdisk/parted can't do it .. weird ) I ended up with a > > unbootable system everytime. Set a partition bootable got me no > > where. >

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:07 pm Subject: Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On Lu, 21 ian 13, 14:24:10, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I think, and this is a WAG

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> [snip] > > > For a normal usage, testing is better, even if the project claims it > > is not for production environment. More recent kernels and drivers > > which means more supported hardware, and updated web browsers are > > some obvious interesting points here. They are simply the most > > o

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> I don't have much to say. It sounds interesting for me, to test SID by > doing a minimal "expert" install. Funny. It took me a full day and three attempts to install Wheezy onto a Lenovo G575 laptop. Ultimately I resorted to creating a live bootable USB image and then doing obscene things li

Re: Strange USB issue on 6.0.4 : kernel:[1202001.893158] Oops: 0010 [#5] SMP

2012-03-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:00:10 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> I have a HP external USB attached disk plugged into a USB port on my >> system. >> >> Periodically, every eight or twelve hours or so, and without any real >> pattern or trigger cause, I see the

Strange USB issue on 6.0.4 : kernel:[1202001.893158] Oops: 0010 [#5] SMP

2012-03-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
? Thank you in advance for any insights. Dennis -- -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1D936C72FA35B44B +-+---+ | Dennis Clarke | Solaris and Linux and Open Source | | dcla...@blastwave.org | Respect