Re: Replacing bcmxx wifi cards with intel 2200 & 2915 in Lenny and Squeeze

2011-12-14 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Mark, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:24:55PM -0800, Mark wrote: > is it necessary to remove/purge the b43-fwcutter/b43 firmware in order to > install ipw2x00, or is it ok to leave it installed should I need to return > to those wifi cards at some point in the future? Firmware installed by the firm

Re: how to examine the wireless

2011-12-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:37:44PM +, steef wrote: > you could use the broadcom-sta (source-package) in combination with this > webpage: http://wiki.debian.org/wl The proprietary driver has no support for the BCM4331 at this time. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Network Connection issue

2011-11-04 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi John, On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:55:51PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I recently installed a new D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI > Adapter card to connect to the internet. It was originally not recognized > as there was not a driver available in debian. Support for the DGE-530T

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bruno, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 07:06:21PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > I bought an Acer (model 4750) and tried to install on it Squeeze > image i386 CD-ROM. > During the network hardware detection the Ethernet card Broadcom > (model Netlink BCM57785) is not recognized (note : I identified t

Re: CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator

2011-09-15 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:28:09AM -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > i'm trying to get my sound card pci: > > 06:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 > [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) > > but is not possible the kernel dos not support > > i use

Re: Kernel 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 and Virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Perry, On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:07:21PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d. > run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 [...] > ndiswrapper (1.56)...failed. [...] > Any ideas how to fix Virtualbox and/or the other two pa

Re: Dlink DWA-525

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:25:17PM +0300, Алекс Скоропад wrote: > I have this wireless network card, and it work just fine with drivers > from dlink website until the last kernel update. In new kernel were > included support for some dlink wireless cards, but there are no > rt3562sta support. Expe

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Mark, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:08:01AM +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > This case is solved with # mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > I am just interesting, what was introduced by the last update, if it > broke my X configuration? >From the xorg-server package changelog: xorg-se

Re: modem symlink in /dev

2011-03-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Martin, On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:16:43PM +0100, Martin wrote: > I installed martian-modem and martian-modem-source that work fine > but after each reboot I have to issue command: > # ln -s /dev/ttySM0 /dev/modem The device symlink created by the martian-modem daemon (/dev/ttySM0 by default)

Re: installing rtl8187B on debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26 - need help on installing backport kernel to recognise chipset

2011-01-31 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Rico, On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:04:55PM +1100, Rico D wrote: > i'm trying to follow this article: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x > > But i'm very new to linux and i'm having trouble in installing the > back port kernel. [...] > and I tried running this command - > > aptitude -t lenny-backports

Re: Re: WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-09 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Clemens, On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:03:00PM +0100, eltre...@web.de wrote: > Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by > means of wpa_supplicant. [...] > For the WLAN connection I have a PCMCIA WLAN card from 3com. I will guess you are using either a 3CRSHPW_96 or 3CR

Re: how to make pdnsd listen on all interfaces?

2010-12-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Martin, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote: > I'm trying to get pdnsd to listen on all interfaces. server_ip=any > should work but it always listens only on 127.0.0.1 even with several > other interfaces present. is this a bug or am I missing something? The pdnsd pack

Re: wireless adapters

2010-09-20 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bill, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:12:48PM -0500, William Kindler wrote: > I have a USB device which is a D-Link DWA-130, and a PCI adapter which > is a Netgear WN311T. [...] > Does anyone know if either or both of these devices are supported with > Debian? The D-Link DWA-130 has had a number of

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bruce, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:57:43PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > I get this message: > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. On Lenny, you would usually want to build this dependent kernel module using module-assistant, which automates installation of prerequisite packages, the process of c

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Atu, On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:12AM +0200, Atu wrote: > 00.19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network > Connection (rev 02) Support for the 82567LM-3 (PCI ID 8086:10de) was added to the e1000e driver in linux-2.6 2.6.26-25, which is part of the recent[1] Debian