Clean install of deb8 (jessie)on my Thinkpad T4220i laptop. went well
except for the fact that the network configuration
with DCP failed.
I was given 3 options.
1) try it again. This was hope over experience.
2) configure manually. Great if I had the first inkling how. I'm a
complete neophyte when
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:23:50AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:13:30 -0700
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> >
> >snip...
> > >
> > > What's "no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,"?!
> > >
> > > I'v
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> > Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/ xfce DE.
> >
> > With great embarrassment, after stoutly defending nm, eth0 no longer
> > connect
the laptop is hard wired directly to
the cable modem.
looking at dmesg
root@localhost:/home/holtzm# tail --lines=50 /var/log/dmesg | grep eth0
[ 18.864912] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Looking at messages
root@localhost:/var/log# less messages | grep eth0 | less
Sep 8 15:13:25
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:39:48PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:33:27PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Anyone know why I get this:
> >
> > $ dpkg-query --list vim-athena
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > |
> > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:35:30PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 25 Aug 2013 at 21:16:10 -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 07:38:55PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I believe you need th
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 07:38:55PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Sunday 25 August 2013 3:10:43 pm Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > Thanks for your prompt response.
> > The line you suggested commenting out happens to have been commented out by
> > default.
>
> I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 06:27:34PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> Howdy,
> Upon starting my PC, wireless networking was found to be working, but not
> the wired one.
> /var/log/daemon.log says DHCPv4 request timed out. Canceled DHCP
> transaction.
>
> What could be wrong here?
I had the same p
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 18:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > What baffles me, is why you are reading and posting on this list if
> > you disapprove of Debian's politics.
>
> Perhaps you killfiled me?! If not, here's my explanation. I'm an
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:07:00PM +0530, Kailash wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 August 2013 07:16 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> >Robert Holtzm, 19.08.2013:
> >>On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> >>>I have a wireless connection that disco
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> I have a wireless connection that disconnects sponaneously. NM claims
> I'm connected but I'm not. Can't ping the router (operation not
> permitted). Ethernet connection is no problem when wireless is down.
I have a wireless connection that disconnects sponaneously. NM claims
I'm connected but I'm not. Can't ping the router (operation not
permitted). Ethernet connection is no problem when wireless is down.
Tried installing wicd with no luck. Not only no luck but with wicd I
couldn't turn on the xciev
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:40:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
snip...
>
> And all of the while I kept hearing Pink Floyd in my head.
>
> We don't need no education.
> We don't need no thought control
>
> Interlaced with the Blazing Saddles' parody of the Bogart movie.
>
>
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:47:32PM -0700, holtzm wrote:
> > The problem was a bad cd. Another installed w/ no problem. "We don't
> > need no stickin' checksum." No sir. Not us. uh, uhright!
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 09:49:02PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:02:57AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > After installing Wheezy 7.0 twice on different machines w/ no problems I
> > can't get 7.1 to install in manual mode on my amd64 laptop.
>
> Um, OK
>
>
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 08:32:22PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
> On 07/28/2012 04:14 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
> >
> > .snip...
> >>Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia dri
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
.snip...
> >
>
> Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia driver has no support
> for KMS, this sort of feature never "natively" works in a desktop
> environments' own monitor settings. My recommendation is
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:19:53PM +, Camale�n wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:22:05 -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote:
>
> > I seem to remember a program that gave a lot of detail about the system
> > hardware ie video card name, manufacturer, gpu chipset, IIRC it even
>
I seem to remember a program that gave a lot of detail about the system
hardware ie video card name, manufacturer, gpu chipset, IIRC it even
had a gui front end. "Lshw" comes close but but the program I'm thinking
of produced more info.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
There's a chance I'm th
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 03:03:19PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > You'll be forced to upgrade to GNOME3.
>
> Yes, and and that forced upgrade comes from more than just Debian.
>
> > I see no gnome2/gnome3 packaging differentiation as it
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:17:39PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
...snip..
>
> Let me join in the discussion of what I intended by my badly
> worded request:
>
> 1. I need a way of learning the name of the package that might help
> with some problem, a place on the web where I can
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> >
> > Remember that you are enabling Backports with your own risk in case
> > you decide to enable them.
>
> I second that. Especially when trying to install newer kernels fr
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