Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Friday 11 June 2010 01:22:24 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > He says that he is now kill-filing those of us who suggest he do any > > looking. > > My suggestion would be to kill file him and be done with it. I have! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:22:24PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:33:10 David Kinyua wrote: > > > I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses > > > because most likely someone has had th

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:33:10 David Kinyua wrote: > > I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses > > because most likely someone has had the same query sometime in the past > > and someone on the list might have

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread steef
Robert Holtzman schreef: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:33:10 David Kinyua wrote: I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses because most likely someone has had the same query sometime in the past and someon

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:33:10 David Kinyua wrote: > > I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses > > because most likely someone has had the same query sometime in the past > > and someone on the list might have

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread David Kinyua
One email, I did not miss though claims having come from Ubuntu. Last time I checked Ubuntu isn't as removed from Debian as he seems to make it appear. On 6/10/2010 11:45 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:33:10 David Kinyua wrote: >> I would also suggest that you search this list for p

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 06/10/2010 10:45 AM, Lisi wrote: I think you may have missed some of his emails. A good few people have suggested he should search various places or Google things, but he takes no notice. He says that it is/was problematic to get online to search and is too much trouble (I think he has/had to

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:33:10 David Kinyua wrote: > I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses > because most likely someone has had the same query sometime in the past > and someone on the list might have tried to help. > http://lists.debian.org/users.html I think y

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-10 Thread David Kinyua
For a second there you made me think that my emails are being handled wrongly because you seem to start new threads alot. I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses because most likely someone has had the same query sometime in the past and someone on the list might have

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-09 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Tom H wrote: + This kill-file thing is great. Simple, easy & I don't have to waste my time or anyone else's with non-tech stuff. Thanks to all that have suggested it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-09 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so you > need to: <<>> Worked great, thank YOU so much! I'm online wireless in Debian typing this. (Now I've got some educational research in what I exactly did & how it worked) > WIRELESS LED: > > T

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:50 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > My very 1st kill file entry, ever > > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >> He seems to be following the same pattern he did on the >> ubuntu-users >> list. He wants to be spoon fed. >> Bob Holtzman Bob isn't the only one to point out t

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Neal Hogan wrote: > > <<< When adding packages, your system needs to know where to look. To find > out, it looks at the list in /etc/apt/sources.list. Take a look at that. > You'll probably see that the first item(s) in the li

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Neal Hogan wrote: <<< When adding packages, your system needs to know where to look. To find out, it looks at the list in /etc/apt/sources.list. Take a look at that. You'll probably see that the first item(s) in the list refer to the install disk.  So, until you get interne

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
My very 1st kill file entry, ever --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Robert Holtzman wrote: > He seems to be following the same pattern he did on the > ubuntu-users > list. He wants to be spoon fed. > > -- > Bob Holtzman > Key ID: 8D549279 > "If you think you're getting free lunch, > check the price of

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:15 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so you >> need to: >> >> Make sure that non-free and contrib are selected in the >> package list. >> >> Open a terminal and type the following: >> >> #

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so you > need to: > > Make sure that non-free and contrib are selected in the > package list. > > Open a terminal and type the following: > > #su > #(Your root password) > > # apt-get update > # apt-

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:14:25PM -0700, Mark wrote: > > type "su", enter your password > su requires password of root, not user's one > > P.S. I'm sure you know it and just made a little error, but as far as topic > starter is a novice

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:00:13AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 09:43:17 ABSDoug wrote: > > > > I'm already there, but not sure what I'm reading so far. > > Are you sure that you clicked on the link?? It's obvious what you are > reading > there. > > Search the list archives. T

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:14:25PM -0700, Mark wrote: > type "su", enter your password su requires password of root, not user's one P.S. I'm sure you know it and just made a little error, but as far as topic starter is a novice to terminal, I think such details should be pointed out. -- Regards,

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:51 AM, ABSDoug wrote: > > It seems like I'm in over my head. Sounds like I'd need to take a collage > course on Linux or have a LOT of time on my hands. I bought & read a book, > but a lot of this stuff is still Latin to me. > You're not alone feeling this way starting

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
>On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Alexander Batischev wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:36:18AM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: >> I do know I want to stick with "stable" Debian >> > In my opinion, there's no need to do so. Squeeze is close to freeze, soon it > will became stable. You better run it. Pe

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:36:18AM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > I do know I want to stick with "stable" Debian In my opinion, there's no need to do so. Squeeze is close to freeze, soon it will became stable. You better run it. Personally I run it on my EeePC and have (almost) no problems. Advantage of r

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Joe wrote: > The first question is whether it picks up anybody's router. > Is is a wireless problem, or a compatibility problem? > Actually, the first first question is whether wireless is > even turned on. I once got my Aspire One into a state where > the wireless could not b

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Lisi wrote: <<< Are you sure that you clicked on the link??  It's obvious what you are reading there. >>> I'm quiet sure. I was reading that page when I clicked on said link... same exact page opened in another tab. Quite a few options, none of which are clearly the right

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:09:17AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > ABSDoug wrote: >> I'm new to Debian, over from Ubuntu. Wireless on the AA1 does not pick >> up my router. Any advice? TIA > > I see in http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/104489/ > after googling for Acer+Aspire+

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ABSDoug wrote: I'm new to Debian, over from Ubuntu. Wireless on the AA1 does not pick up my router. Any advice? TIA I see in http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/104489/ after googling for Acer+Aspire+One+debian wireless ... Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 09:43:17 ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Javier Barroso wrote: > > From: Javier Barroso > > Please search in google, and read docs, before asking here, > > > See: > > http://tinyurl.com/39382pz > > +++ > > I'm alread

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Javier Barroso wrote: From: Javier Barroso Please search in google, and read docs, before asking here, See: http://tinyurl.com/39382pz +++ I'm already there, but not sure what I'm reading so far. -- To UNS

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 09:45:18 ABSDoug wrote: > Acer Aspire One A simple search "Acer Aspire One debian" should help you a lot Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
I'm new to Debian, over from Ubuntu. Wireless on the AA1 does not pick up my router. Any advice? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/638576