Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

2016-02-27 Thread Jose Martinez
On 02/27/2016 08:22 AM, heqamilus wrote: Hi, I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian. I'm searching for some tutorials, I need to know the system's utility to configure Debian installation in this way. For example, manage network interfaces, NAT, vlan and optionally DNS I'm

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-13 Thread Jose Martinez
On 01/13/2016 06:10 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Jose Martinez: Lisi, where can you get the authentication signature for the the mozilla.debian.net repository?? I am not Lisi, but have you considered just going straight to http://mozilla.debian.net/? :) J. Hmmm...What a novel idea

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-13 Thread Jose Martinez
On 01/13/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 13 January 2016 23:22:30 David Christensen wrote: On 01/13/2016 10:31 AM, Amr Saber wrote: Hi there, While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked t

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

2016-01-13 Thread Jose Martinez
On 01/13/2016 02:38 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 Amr Saber wrote: Hi there, While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the spelling for each package) and it just said

Re: ngspice

2015-11-05 Thread Jose Martinez
On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 21:42 +0100, Siard wrote: > Jose Martinez writes: > > Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian > > distribution??? What would it take to get this package brought back > > to Debian?? > > Apparently it has moved to non-free, a

ngspice

2015-11-04 Thread Jose Martinez
I have used the ngspice package for quite some time. Version 20 of this package is found in the Squeeze repositories, and this is the version that I have been using until just last week. Since the Squeeze release, it appears that this package has been dropped in Wheezy and Jessie releases. Since

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-31 Thread Jose Martinez
On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 07:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:43:51 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote: > > > > I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does > > not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly &g

Re: [Solved] RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-31 Thread Jose Martinez
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:24:07 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote: > > > > I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU > > chip (ID 0bda:818b) in it. A CD came with the wifi adapter whic

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-29 Thread Jose Martinez
ack the solution seems to have its own issues!! On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:24:07 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote: > > > > I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU > > chip (ID 0bda:818b) in

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-29 Thread Jose Martinez
Yea, I had checked that site first, they don't have anything on the 8192EU. In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty. They don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of the same chip. I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing for

RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-27 Thread Jose Martinez
I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU chip (ID 0bda:818b) in it. A CD came with the wifi adapter which had drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux drivers as well. Of course the linux driver has to be compiled. Following their instru

Re: Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

2015-09-24 Thread Jose Martinez
On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 19:08 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward Lukacs wrote: > > > > Oh, yes ... I can't get the ... Broadcom 4311 internal card > > running under Jessie. ... Strange, but up to and including Ubuntu > > 10.04, it ran right out of the bo

Re: Gnome Audio Alerts

2015-09-24 Thread Jose Martinez
27;ve done some research, and this is a common problem with all linux distros with this laptop. As far as I can tell, no one has solved that particular problem. Thank you for responding to my post, Martin. I appreciate your help. On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 07:03 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: &

Re: Gnome Audio Alerts

2015-09-07 Thread Jose Martinez
On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/03/2015 10:44 PM, Jose Martinez wrote: > > Once again, the audio alerts on my gnome desktop have ceased to work. > > This problem occurred once before and was addressed here on the list. I > > have looked up t

Gnome Audio Alerts

2015-09-03 Thread Jose Martinez
Once again, the audio alerts on my gnome desktop have ceased to work. This problem occurred once before and was addressed here on the list. I have looked up that old thread on the debian.org site, and double checked everything that was mentioned there. I have checked that /org/gnome/desktop/

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-24 Thread Jose Martinez
that is) and that would prevent actual execution of the plugin. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of the tools to figure out what program is accessing my mic. On 6/22/2015 8:01 PM, Jose Martinez wrote: Say, maybe a tin-foil hat for the affected system could be designed to prevent this

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-22 Thread Jose Martinez
Say, maybe a tin-foil hat for the affected system could be designed to prevent this from happening?? :-D On 06/22/2015 05:25 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out wh

Re: Nova Desktop

2015-06-22 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/22/2015 05:52 AM, Curt wrote: On 2015-06-21, Jose Martinez wrote: Yeah, that was my understanding as well. However, with desktopnova-module-gnome installed, it doesn't change the desktop wallpaper. Everything indicates that it is working, I get no errors. When I start the daemo

Re: Nova Desktop

2015-06-22 Thread Jose Martinez
Thanks, Sven. I guess there isn't any point in scratching my head over it. Que te vaya bien. On 06/22/2015 06:23 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 16:27 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: Yeah, that was my understanding as well. However, with desktopnova-module-gnome installe

Re: Nova Desktop

2015-06-21 Thread Jose Martinez
Yeah, that was my understanding as well. However, with desktopnova-module-gnome installed, it doesn't change the desktop wallpaper. Everything indicates that it is working, I get no errors. When I start the daemon, it reports that it is started, and a ps command verifies that it is indeed ru

RE: Nova Desktop

2015-06-18 Thread Jose Martinez
2015 11:37:18 rob wrote: >>> On 18/06/15 10:43, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>>> On Thursday 18 June 2015 00:04:12 Jose Martinez wrote: >>>>> Anyone know anything about the Nova Desktop application. I have it >>>>> installed and set it up, but it does

Nova Desktop

2015-06-17 Thread Jose Martinez
Anyone know anything about the Nova Desktop application. I have it installed and set it up, but it doesn't seem to affect my desktop background. I have several .jpg images that I had wanted to cycle through the desktop background, and it seemed that Nova was just the ticket -- JM -- T

Re: Broadcom b43 drivers

2015-06-05 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/05/2015 03:25 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:41:27PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: OK, I probably have my system all messed up. Here's the sequence of events: Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 7130 ch

Re: Broadcom b43 Drivers

2015-06-05 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/05/2015 02:16 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:54:40PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: I forgot to mention in my last post, when I attempted to install the old driver from broadcom which I have used before, I get the

Broadcom b43 driver

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
Problem fixed... Rebooting is a wondrous thing!! I ended up re-installing the original jessie kernel to get rid of my bull in the china shop hacking, then re-installed the firmware-b43-installer. Then with things back the way they should be, I rebootedLife is good, wifi is on the air. I

Broadcom b43 Drivers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
I forgot to mention in my last post, when I attempted to install the old driver from broadcom which I have used before, I get the message: insmod: ERROR: could not insert module wl.ko: Invalid module format This has not happened in the past, it just installed and worked fine.] -- JM

Broadcom b43 drivers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
OK, I probably have my system all messed up. Here's the sequence of events: Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 7130 chipset) and did some research, nvidia-detect recommended the legacy 304xx driver, so I followed all the instructions on the wiki for i

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/03/2015 09:55 AM, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:04:13PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: And I will probably not use these system(s) on line much if any at all. So most of the security issues will fixed or not will not really be a problem in this situation. I see I&#x

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/03/2015 04:48 PM, John Hasler wrote: Renaud writes: Which certainly taught you the hard way to draw one (or several) diagonal pencil or ink lines across the top of your card deck... Or to number your cards so that you could simply run a scrambled deck through the card sorter. That's c

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-03 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/03/2015 05:30 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 19:04 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: I see I've sparked a pretty good discussion on the list. I sure appreciate all the advice/information it will come in very handy when I actually have the systems in hand. You could a

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-03 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/02/2015 11:45 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 06/02/2015 08:11 PM, Jose Martinez wrote: On 06/02/2015 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-02 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/02/2015 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:55:51 Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 21:14 -0500, Jose

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-02 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/02/2015 12:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 02/06/15 12:49 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2015 17:37:01 Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :) I thought of DSL. But it needs

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-01 Thread Jose Martinez
On 06/01/2015 09:10 PM, Martin Read wrote: On 02/06/15 01:56, Jose Martinez wrote: The question is, will jessie install and run on these old systems? If not, can I still get a debian distro that will? I expect that the processors on at least one of them will be at least i386 or better, so I

Old Computers

2015-06-01 Thread Jose Martinez
Hey guys, I'm about to be blessed with several old PC computers. By old I mean that some of them will not even have CDROM drives on them. I will probably tear them all down, mix-and-match parts and make the best system(s) I can from those parts. This is something I've done before, so the te

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-29 Thread Jose Martinez
p and Linux system. There is just s much to look at and learn. On 05/29/2015 03:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 14:35 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: The output from this command follows: Failed to play sound: File or data not found Hope this information helps. Does loggin

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-29 Thread Jose Martinez
losing my mind:-( It's a little early for that, I'm only 52!! On 05/29/2015 03:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 14:35 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: The output from this command follows: Failed to play sound: File or data not found Hope this information helps. Doe

Missing audio notifications

2015-05-28 Thread Jose Martinez
I am a relatively new Debian user. I had my system set up properly and everything seemed to be working well. I used the Pithos front-end for the pandora service (which I like fairly well, by the way) which caused all of my audio notifications from the gnome system to stop. I no longer get th