> And what if the system doesn't have an optical drive? Buying an external
> drive shouldn't be the easiest option.
I installed debian on headless server with no problem. No cd drive.
What should be a problem with usb stick in usb adapter?
> > nor does its owner have any friends with an optical d
> This is very helpful. But while you were responding, Netgear presented
> a new problem. The web interface on the router no longer works with
> iceweasel. It did work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a
> one line message (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a version
> 4 or highe
> I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like replacing
> my hardware too often.
>
> I don't mind using Sid/Experimental. I'm running Gnome 3 on
> an originally sarge computer by now and I'm very happy with it.
If it would be me, I'd take different approach. I'd find
hardwa
> I am in a hidden wireless network when I could connect in it set this
> commands in /etc/network/interfaces:
I'm pretty sure wpa_supplicant could be your friend.
Putting it down and taking another file as a configu-
ration...
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> Not quite. With this set-up, I wanted the home partition on the external
> drive.
Yep, freebsd is a bit different. It assumes operator is not a
newbee at all.
> That is a potential candidate, because allthe installs mentione were on a
> laptop - HP nx6120 - which is now almost six years old.
A
> But with the BSDs?
> Not a chance!
> With FreeBSD and PC-BSD it is dropped at the USB register stage of both the
> install and all consequent boots after O.S. install - so it's in the
> mothercode.
I assume the topic is on install to the hdd? Not using usb
hard drive as a storage?
It all depends
Howdy!
I already found good advice in one of the posts on your
question. Personally, I'd stick with pair of linksys
wrt54gl, putting dd-wrt on both or three of them and ma-
king it do the work. The site has tutorials for all of
situations one might experience.
For another approach, there is better
Howdy!
> All right. So it depends on the MB. What about OP's MB?
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16960/eng/D945GCLF2D_ProductGuide02_English.pdf
I'm a bit late with answer, but had to go to work.
The case is el cheapo and had slim fan without any control. I got
new, but that one was "fat" and I
Howdy!
I have a small atom based stream server with 5.0.3. Version depends on
stable version of squeezeserver, for which it was built. Mini-itx mobo
was put inside small case with no-control case fan. I removed that fan
and put another one with conector to mobo 3 pin adapter. As node works
pretty f
Just to report that I received kobo reader and immediately
upgraded firmware to newer version, using SD card. Without
a hiccup. Good prepare paid off.
Thaks all who helped to overcome fear and doubts.
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> Did they provide any instructions on how to proceed with the upgrade?
Kobo hides SD card upgrade, just as snake hides it's legs.
> As root, "fdisk -l /dev/sdx" ("sdx" ??? adjust it to point the SD device)
> and check what it says.
Since the card is new, it is labeled as fat. No surprise here.
> Do you have a link to the firmware upgrade instructions so we can review
> the full process and the required steps?
Mixing answers to save space.
Kobo ereader. They tend to upgrade using win desktop app
over usb adapter. Some canadian stores got SD card to un-
brick devices after failed upgrad
I have a question regarding SD card, which should be used to
upgrade firmware on ebook reader. I assume there will be just
one try before bricking the device.
The card should be formatted as ext3, followed with copying
untarred files to it. At first, I did not formatted it again,
since it was brand
> > It's really annoying if the console isn't in UTF-8 mode as every bit of
> > my system is in Unicode to prevent any compatibility problems.
I run freebsd as my everyday node. Pure ascii is what it has.
Unicode could be seen and written if you use uxterm in graphi-
cal mode. Setting language and
> Or just used Windows. I mean it works & it would seem there are a fair
> amount of people that really don't like requests for help on the Linux
> E-mail "help" lists.
He-he! Contrary.
I assume poster tries to solve the problem himself first.
Aside of being polite, it is a fun to learn new things
> Torrents are trouble. Avoid them, if practical. Your ISP may be
> throttling them, although I can't see what difference the version of
> Ubuntu would make.
> However, if a Windows client works, then ask yourself if you need Linux
> for other things, or whether Windows will suit your needs.
> Understood. But what I meant was that an awful lot of people could
> potentially be hit by this, even if they're installing recommends,
> which they'd probably assume should take care of this.
>
> Of course. I was just suggesting that a more precise and consistent
> definition of 'recommends'
> Sometimes I'll get "mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0" or it will mount, or
> it will give me the other error message I posted.
> I just put a disc in, tried to mount it three times, and got three different
> results. Now it is mounted and /dev looks like
> http://paste.debian.net/73572/
> Now I
> > *What I'm doing to mount the media: *
> > r...@debian:/home/stuckey# mount /dev/sr0
> > mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
> >missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >
> Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and
> consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How
> can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you
> have multiple downloads all the time, it might be an interesting thing
> to split them a
> Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new
> iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release..
> Currently still using lenny.
I found it the best was to know previously what was the purpose
of the node and what would you want it to do in the
> At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system.
> Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything
> and will now halt, goodby, I get:
> process running pstree (or something like that)
> shutdown aborted
> At this point, the system (or at
> Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla
> from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or
> whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is
> something I don't feel comfortable.
> Please comment.
If I understand
> > > Indeed. I was just trying to help, over the phone, a Windows user set
> > > up a new router, in the absence of a manual. I told her "go to
> > > 192.168.0.1", then "192.168.1.1". Nothing doing. Finally, I searched
> > > online for the manual, which gave the address as "routerlogin.net" or
> My card is listed at
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wireless_Network_Adapters#IBM_High_Rate_Wireless_LAN_PC_Card,
> at the very bottom of the page:
> IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card
> Chipset: Hermes I
> Drivers: orinoco_cs
> Supported wireless modes: 802.11b
> I pulled the thing out of the
> | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...',
> 'Validating authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out
> and says 'Connection failed: Unable to Get IP Address.'
>
> I have no clue what causes the problem, but I have found a clumsy
> workaround by
> >Your perms are missing the "x" flag for the owner so no access is
> >allowed. I recall a similar situation in another mailing list...
>
> I don't want to *execute* the files, I want to *read* them.
You already got the answer. Directories have to have "x"
flag to let user in. I assume your dvd
> To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound
> normal. How can I tweak this?
This sounds perfectly sane. Even better, it protects you from
yourself and from people around.
I suppose you are the only user of the node. Little tweaking
with permissions would let you go further,
Thanks all for responses!
(Douglas Allan Tutty)
> As I understand it, some enclosures are bootable and some aren't.
Hm! I'll get hdd for few days. And, I still have patient to get final
4.0 to make install.
(Hugo Vanwoerkom)
> I am having trouble using my USB disk with mkinitrd.yaird ...
I plan
> Is your BIOS able to boot from a portable USB driveand is the portable
> USB drive bootable?
Bios is ami and sees devices as I connect them to the interface. The other
part of question: in this moment I have only enclosure. Tomorrow gonna
buy 2.5 hdd. It _must_ be bootable.
Theoretically, there
Howdy!
I'd like to know is there any insite how coming 4.0 installs on usb
hard drive? My intention is to keep all data, including mbr and par-
tition table for internal drive intact. I want to install from cd to
usb hdd, put grub on first 512 of that external disk and finaly boot
from bios. Is it
> installation, was automatic. During boot everything would be
> connected and all the dhcp stuff with the router would be setup and I
> could see this come across the screen and then bang, I was online.
> The same is true here in Debian, except that nothing ever appears
> onscreen or in dmesg and
> Just to second Matthew Krauss's recommendation for fetchyahoo, it's been
> terrific for me. Far faster, more convenient, and flexible than yahoo's
> web interface, fetchyahoo just grabs the mail from yahoo and puts it
> into a local mail spool where I read email with thunderbird (or your
> favor
> I am not sure about /usr/share/doc but I did download and read the
> very fine handbook.
That's the one.
> However, a lot of stuff wasn't covered and so I
> had to turn to the community. Didn't do so on the mailing list,
> though BSDForums was a pretty good place to start. But, it really is
>
> > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor
> > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine.
I've googled for generic options in kernel configura-
tion. Then asked old friend for his suse conf file.
Both are the same. Have acpi enabled, acpi_processor
enab
> Ok. It seems that the internet is extremely fast when I use Mozilla
> and extremely slow when I use Konqueror. I am still unable to telnet
> www.google.com 80 get /.
What machine exactly you have?
If it is pentium I with 64 mb...
KDE is ready to modern box, just
as xp or vista.
Fire up fv
> > Want REAL attitude? Try OpenBSD. Now THAT's an attitude. (And we'll
> > leave it up to you to decide if it's good or bad... that's a judgement
> > call I'm not prepared to discuss on a Linux list! GRIN...)
Openbsd is not for newbies.
Faq is must_to_read for it.
> Don't think I would be u
> Forgive me for jumping in like this. I have no idea what the original
> querier's problem is, save the quotation above. Given that, I wish to state
> the following:
> I too had this problem. I got rid of dhcp, chucked the /etc/resolv.conf
> file's content and let pppoeconf do the rest. This may b
> I have a cable modem connected to a router that connects to a Windows
> XP machine and my Debian linux machine. Internet on the Windows XP
> machine is extremely fast and the Debian machine is slower than dial up
> (no joke! night and day difference!) What is wrong with the Debian
> machine?
I
> How can a kernel module unload itself? When things go wrong, you
> know...
> I tried to call release module but it didn't work. Isn't there any exit
> function?
Module unloads itself if things go
wright. This should be compiled into
kernel and module loaded when needed.
Dynamic load is cool an
> I would like to send system-mail (mail that otherwise is sent to [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) to my real mailadresse, which I read all the time. My outgoing
> smtp-server that I use is mail.lyse.no.
> I'm not going to recieve mail on this, only send mail out.
> Anybody have an url to some easy document
> I am currently running a Linksys WRT54G server with the factory
> firmware. I have set it up to use wireless. I have purposefully not
> encrypted or protected the WAP because i want others to be able to use
> it if they want to (doing my part for society and all that). I do,
> however, look at th
> As I've mentioned elsewhere I have a bouncing box and it's annoying. If
> it halted instead of rebooting that might help me see something useful
> on the screen. Is there a way of forcing the box to *not* reboot? Is
> there a way of modifying the system so it halts on a crash rather than
> re
> You can always send them PDFs as a revenge...
Don't be so althruistic! Send them
postscript file.
Zoran
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> >> However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking
> >> that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text
> >> but collumns, tables, images, the works.
MS word, I think. :-)
Going other way, you could find
catdoc a nice solution. Stand-
alone or in
> nforce4 sli chipset.
Would be nice to know the exact
chip for ethernet. There could
be part of problem.
> onboard my broadband modem but the install didn't manage to have the
> configuration detected. So at the next step, i configured it manually.
This could be the culprit.
> I noticed i coul
> from failsafe terminal, after login
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/
> bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied
Don't say!
Log in as root. Then:
# cd /home
# chmod 755 anthony
# exit
Log in again, now as anthony.
This was recommended few days ago
by Ron Johnson.
Zor
> Default Depth 24
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024X768" "800X600" "640X480"
If ctrl/alt +/- doesn't work, why
don't you just left 1024x768 and
restart x?
Man pages are installed?
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> No interest in further developing Wine
Don't get me wrong. I do not say pro or
contra.
Developers of wine are humans of flesh and
blood. Let me paraphraze the answer for
similar topic for 64 bit on another oss:
Oh, you need 64 bit wine?! What are you
waiting for? Send us a code!
When I like
> > > im runing debian unstable 64 .
> > > i tried to compile wine but i got some erors (it aint the issue here) .
> > > did anyone created a package for 64 bit ?
> > > or know where can i get it ?
> Isn't there a way to either chroot wine in a separate i386 minimal
> install or otherwise emulate i
> I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian
> for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
It is not a living thing. Has it's
own purpose and fulfils it. Anyway,
linux is user friendly this days.
> - as I installed etch around 50% of shutdowns never
> How many
>usb 3-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2's
> is normal per day for you card reader users, as seen in dmesg?
> I use udev and hal on sid.
> Resets are just normal and don't mean files are going to get
> corrupted, right? If files were going to get corrupted t
> > Should I wade into the Exim4 docs and try and figure that out, or is
> > there a simpler option for someone with minimal experience with such
> > matters?
Sorry for comming late into the thread.
Personaly, I would take that step. It is
for better usage of the box.
Despite MTA is one of best
> Just for interest, I want to understand how startx,
> via several stages of indirection, starts xfce. I
> appreciate the various suggestions but none have
> been completely consistent with the system here.
Does ".xinitrc" works?
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Hi (probably) Jeffrey!
I've used recently diap-up to isp, so
there is a chance to help you, if you
say what the problem is.
Some readings are necessary to understand
deus ex machine behind the whole stuff.
I would start at manual pages for pppd
and chat. Then you could find out what
to change in "p
Hi all!
The output od cdrecord says it cannot
get scsi device. Is there any chance
that kernel is recompiled without scsi
in it? If so, the problem is the very
sentence the program gave to the user.
Cdrecord is made with scsi gadgets in
mind. So, you must treat lite-on as
scsi and make scsi interfa
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