Re: security camera software/RPi

2014-09-26 Thread Paul Lewis
On 26/09/14 08:28:02, ken wrote: > From what I've read, some have set up such a system on a Raspberry > Pi > > running a version of Debian called "Raspbian". An RPi can be had in > the US for $30-40 and a camera which plugs into a dedicated port on > the > card for about $50 (though I haven'

Re: Automatic upgrades stalls on the last kernel release

2014-07-29 Thread Paul Lewis
On 28/07/14 15:48:56, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Thanks for your reply, Henrique. I don't really know if that was the problem. I thought I'd try the upgrades again, and noticed that it was slowly upgrading - reducing the upgrade queue. after a couple of repeated attempts running the up

Automatic upgrades stalls on the last kernel release

2014-07-28 Thread Paul Lewis
I seem to have a problem with automatic updates on my system. The AU system has been unable to function normally for some time and I now have something like 61 updates waiting in the queue. When I try to process the updates, it seems to choke on the Linux 3.2 for 64 bit PCs entry, which is l

Re: Confusion

2014-05-13 Thread Paul Lewis
On 13/05/14 06:42:10, Joshua Anthony wrote: > I don't know how I managed to start two threads but this whole > business well illustrates the confusion that I originally wrote > about. You are registered on the mailing list from two distinct email address. That takes some effort. > The 'techn

Re: Confusion

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Lewis
On 11/05/14 11:01:30, Brian wrote: > it would have allowed things to move on. Instead of which > we get a portion of your life story. :) > > We still do not know at what stage the install failed and what came > up on the screen at the time. The advice to boot from a USB stick > is also good. T

Re: Confusion

2014-05-08 Thread Paul Lewis
On 08/05/14 08:01:03, josh wrote: > Hi, > > > Look at my latest frustration: > > > My CD readers are obviously working just fine. > > Is there any way to find the answers to simple, basic problems > without becoming immersed in millions of abstruse technical queries > by people who ar

KONIG Smart card reader - Debian Squeeze

2014-01-19 Thread Paul Lewis
Smart card reader non responsive on Debian Squeeze? The device is recognised on the US bus, test1:/home/plewis# lsusb -s 005:003 -v Bus 005 Device 003: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDevice

Re: SANE - trying to get an LIDE 110 working in Debian Squeeze.

2013-07-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 03/07/13 02:47:36, Chen Wei wrote: > > > > Back in the day, I had to install SANE from backports for LiDE 110 > > to work. > > I have this scanner. I can confirm wheezy support this model out of > box, but backport is needed in squeeze. > Downloaded Sane 1.0.22 from backports and it has str

Re: SANE - trying to get an LIDE 110 working in Debian Squeeze.

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Lewis
On 02/07/13 19:19:34, st wrote: > > Back in the day, I had to install SANE from backports for LiDE 110 > to work. > > Serge Tiunov, I've looked at backports, but get errors on the UK repository. I'll give it another try tomorrow. Thanks

Re: SANE - trying to get an LIDE 110 working in Debian Squeeze.

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Lewis
On 02/07/13 20:20:37, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Sorry, Paul - I didn't mean to send off list. Here it is on the list > where it ought to have been in the first place. > > I ought to have said that I had previously had it working for a year > on Squeeze on my old computer. > > Lisi Don't worry about i

SANE - trying to get an LIDE 110 working in Debian Squeeze.

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Lewis
The scanner is recognised by lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0225 Hewlett-Packard Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110 However 'Scanimage -L' returns: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned

Re: Outrageous sexism

2012-11-21 Thread Paul Lewis
On 21/11/12 19:46:20, Siard wrote: > Wait, don't go! ;-) Seconded. > I'm surprised that so much fuss is made about this. Agreed. Surely something that could have been dealt with off list? ___ News is what somebody somewhere wants to

Re: Upgrading to an SSD

2012-04-20 Thread Paul Lewis
On 20/04/12 09:43:50, Darac Marjal wrote: > > Here is my concern. When I installed this system I elected to > > encrypt the drive and use lvm. > > > > 1. I'd like to avoid 'root' full errors in future. > > Is your root partition on the LVM? I think it is, running LVM and selecting logical view

Upgrading to an SSD

2012-04-20 Thread Paul Lewis
I like to try out one of the newish Solid State drives. What has prompted this is that my machine has started to complain about low disk space on /root. Using disk analyser I can see there is loads of free disk space. This is a 250GB drive but only 22GB is actually being used. Suggesting to me

Happauge Nove-T 500 no channel data

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Lewis
I get this in my logs, looks like the Nova-T card is being recognised and the firmware loaded. [ 100.915474] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in warm state. [ 100.915770] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 101.634712] dvb-usb:

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Lewis
On 12/04/12 10:22:41, Lisi wrote: > Why broadcast? > Which leads me to ask the question. Is putting stuff on an internet server and inviting people to view it, broadcasting? And if you do that in addition to broadcasting, are you entitled to charge a licence fee to those people who just use a

Re: Backup System

2012-02-04 Thread Paul Lewis
On 04/02/12 01:57:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> That I have backups of stuff for a couple weeks is worth the > >>> massively slow tapes (and tape drive $$), IMHO. > > Tape slow? Depends on your budget I guess and needs I guess. DLT is > dirt cheap nowadays (cost of shipping only in many cases,

Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 03/06/09 21:45:15, Paul Lewis wrote: Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I wonder if there is a password defined before you set t

Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 03/06/09 20:58:45, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I wonder if there is a password defined before you set the root password in

Lenny - window manager seems to have died.

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Lewis
I have a dual core AMD64 with a fairly fresh install of Lenny, just the last couple of days I have noticed my window controls have disappeared. I have tried to reload metacity, which I think is the default window manager for Debian Lenny, but nothing happens. However if I load another wm, #icew

Re: DSL issue

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2003.03.16 23:13 Craig Mead wrote: Trying to get iiNet DSL working on my Debian box Very confused as to whats happening. I've googled the error, a few others have posted about it, but there are 0 replies. Most sites just say, install Roaring Penguin, install, run adsl-setup and then adsl-start.

Re: wireless lan broken after booting windows

2003-03-16 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2003.03.16 10:28 Michael Zech wrote: Hi everyone! Till today my wireless lan worked fine. Yesterday I had to boot windows (what happens about 3 times a year ;) and now the wireless interface won't come up anymore. cardctl ident 0 product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL373

Re: RPC: program not registered

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2003.03.12 23:18 Alfredo J. Cole wrote: Check and make sure the RH server is in fact exporting the directory you are mounting. Regards. The RH server has the drive in its /etc/exports file, should it be anywhere else? RH server /etc/exports /dev/jaz 192.168.0 (rw) and in fstab on debian 192.

RPC: program not registered

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Lewis
Hi, I am trying to mount a remote partition on my debian box, the server is a rh box. As root whenever I enter mount /jaz I get the following error, mount: RPC: program not registered. having had a brief look at man mount there is something about des, the only thing I can think would need to

Re: usb-scanner detected, but nothing about usb in /dev

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Lewis
Have you got your scanner working yet? I have just managed to get my HP scanner working within the last hour. The only serious thing I needed to do was edit two files in /etc/sane.d The first was dll.conf where I rem'd out all the entries except net and hp the second was hp.conf where I made a

Re: Simple xawtv question ...

2003-01-06 Thread Paul Lewis
NTSC (Never the same colour twice :-o ) is the method of encoding the video signal. PAL, phase alternate line is (I think) a mainly UK standard, and SECAM is the French standard. Those countries which have been unfortunate to fall under the influence of one or other of the above countries woul

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-05 Thread Paul Lewis
Have you tried scroll lock? I seem to recall it worked for me when I had this type of issue On 2003.01.04 17:57 Dan Jacobson wrote: I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /

USB??

2003-01-03 Thread Paul Lewis
I have just added USB to my kernel, I would like to use usbnet to talk to my pda. I do not seem to have a device usb0 in /dev/usb so I wonder should I create one and if so how? mkdev? if so what switches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: No ip-masquerade after upgrade 2.2.19 to 2.4.20

2002-12-22 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2002.12.22 15:21 Russ Cook wrote: I have a home network of 5 machines running Linux (for me) and Windows (for wife and son). I have a masquerading gateway machine for internet access. I update this machine rarely, as problems encountered affect the whole family. I recently took the plunge an

Re: In a bind about named and network printing.

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2002.12.03 18:06 Gary Hennigan wrote: "Paul Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So far so good. How do your internal machines resolve external addresses? Does each of them have a resolve.conf that points to your ISP nameservers, as well as your internal nameserver, or

In a bind about named and network printing.

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Lewis
I have been playing with my local networks 'named' and finally got it working more or less the way I think it should. Evidence for this is that I can ping and it returns the fully qualified machine name plus the ping responces. This works on all machines except the server 'named' is actually r

Help with tape tar and backup over the network

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Lewis
I have a DAT tape drive which works on my RH6 server I would like to use it to backup my Debian machine. I cannot seem to make the tar syntax work for me. Does anyone use this type of setup and what rights need to be setup on the server (hosts.allow, etc) to permit this to work? tar -cvf /dev/

Re: Zapping's sound no longer works after a power outage

2002-11-02 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2002.11.02 05:07 Michael Waters wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. As it happens, I did not have gmix installed so I installed it. But the real problem turned out to be a little more fundamental than that. Like most folks I imagine the back of my PC is a rats nest of cables and jacks somehow

Zapping's sound no longer works after a power outage

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Lewis
Audio from Zapping has stopped working, all other desktop sounds seem to work fine. Mail arrives, windows open with a whooosh. So I have audio but not through Zapping. Anyone suggest where to look? Zapping sound configuration is set to /dev/audio but I have tried using /dev/dsp TIA -- To UNS

Re: cd writing on Debian

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2002.10.24 08:36 Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Paul Lewis wrote: > I would like to install cdtoaster / cdroast to burn CDs, but > whenever I > try to 'apt-get install cdroast' it reports no such package. Trying AFAIK, the package is called xcdroast. &g

cd writing on Debian

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Lewis
I would like to install cdtoaster / cdroast to burn CDs, but whenever I try to 'apt-get install cdroast' it reports no such package. Trying 'cdrecord' tells me there are unmet dependencies. liblircclient0, libunicode0, libzvbi-0.1 trying to retrieve these by themsleves takes me into a circular

Re: Woody modules parameters

2002-10-20 Thread Paul Lewis
Thanks that did it. On 2002.10.20 02:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure but I believe you should verify that /etc/modutils/sb has the correct entries and then run update-modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Woody modules parameters

2002-10-19 Thread Paul Lewis
Help, How in Woody do I persuade modules to load with particular parameters? For example the module for my Soundblaster card insists on trying to load with irq 7 when I know it is irq 5. In red hat it would have been an entry in modules.conf, (alias sb options ...) but the structure of modul

Re: tape scsi install prob on woody

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Lewis
1) Are you sure you do not have a tape already in the drive? 2) Look at the drive manual, flashing lights usually signal something. Possibly in this case, you need to run a tape cleaner through your tape drive On 2002.10.11 07:23 RICHARD Herve wrote: > hello to all > > i've got a probleme for

Re: Xfree86 Problem

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Lewis
You could try chedking the hardware compatibility list to see if your video card is listed as supported hardware. You might try /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config or xf86cfg and walk through the configuration selecting as a first step a bog standard vga configuration. On 2002.10.07 10:10 Cuno Sonneman

Re: disabling framebuffer device

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Lewis
I seem to have accidently cracked it, look in the /etc/X11 and edit XF86Config-4. Find the section that says "section 'device'", and in that section there is a field "Option useFBdevicetrue" change true to 'false' and that seems to have done it for me. People who know much more about Xfr

More stuff in dmesg - I would like to supress but am not sure how

2002-10-06 Thread Paul Lewis
In my start up logs I get a whole load of stuff for equipment I am pretty sure I do not have installed. The following extracts are an example. md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Don't know what md driver is? And I do not have a NCR53c406a nor a sym53c416 or a WD-7000 SCSI card scsi:

Re: disabling framebuffer device

2002-10-06 Thread Paul Lewis
Well, I can tell you what not to do. Do not just rem out the matrox frame buffer in the /etc/modules file. This caused me so much trouble that I ended up (with a wing and a prayer) putting it back in, in the hope that everything would work again. So far it does. I get the anoying little white

Woody and miscellaneous issues

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Lewis
Hi, I have just installed Woody, and I have a few issues I would like to resolve. The first is my first is my printer is on another machine, where/what is the utility on Debian that allows me to setup the print queues? Next, on my old machine I was able to access a remote driv