Re: help please

2017-04-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 22 April 2017 at 10:32, CoreyL wrote: > this is my account and yet someone else is controlling it. I know for a > fact . > > coreylendo > ​What sort of account are you referring to (e.g. bank account?) Regards MF​

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-05 Thread lina
I have not went through all the replies. Regardless those questions, one basic question is that What is your wireless card. try $ lspci If your laptop is not so new, basically it has very well support. check the kernel support first. If none, then look for the further solutions. On Monday 04,

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:17:11AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > From the directory that the deb is in: > > > dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb > > > > > >

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > From the directory that the deb is in: > > dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb > > > > If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-05 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 03.03.2013 um 22:20 schrieb Joe: Network manager is not actually necessary to do anything, and until recently it had a rather poor reputation, usually being known as Notwork Manager. It's quite big and overbearing, and has many plug-ins, for OpenVPN, wi-fi, 3G dongles and other things.

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > I tried to install wicd. [...] > I see that there are uninstalled dependencies: > wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) > w

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:53:37PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > My objective: > Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet. To be more exact, the wifi driver is installed so the kernel can talk to the wireless hardware. IOW, the procedure is the same whether you hav

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > From the directory that the deb is in: > dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb > > If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had used > aptitude, and install them. Get the dependencies the same way you

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 04-03-2013 05:39, Roman V.Leon. escreveu: On 04.03.2013 03:04, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: -big snip- Why do you think you need a special driver? Please type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" in your terminal to check whether you have "wlan0" device or not in the list.

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Joe
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:14:32 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/3 8:16 PM, Mr G wrote: > -snip- > > $ id > -snip- > > $ sudo updatedb > -snip- > > $ mlocate firmware-iwlwfi.deb > -snip- > > $ pwd > > Look at the terminal session below > > = > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 04.03.2013 03:04, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: -big snip- Why do you think you need a special driver? Please type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" in your terminal to check whether you have "wlan0" device or not in the list. mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver [SOLVED]

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
Get the WiFi driver. - Go to http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi and look for a link related to your WiFi device. My WiFi device is an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 and the link is labeled 'ipw3945'. Yours will probably be different. - Taking the device-related link takes you to the Debian Wiki page for y

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mr G
root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/S etup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package firmware-iwlwifi. (Reading database ... 68697 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firmware-iwlwifi (from firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+s

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 8:16 PM, Mr G wrote: -snip- $ id -snip- $ sudo updatedb -snip- $ mlocate firmware-iwlwfi.deb -snip- $ pwd Look at the terminal session below = mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su Password: root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 7:22 PM, Mr G wrote: Good. You found the problem. < Package `firmware-iwlwifi' is not installed and no info is available. So now you need to get you and firmware-iwlwifi.deb in the same directory. = mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ dpkg -s firm

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mr G
Good. You found the problem. < Package `firmware-iwlwifi' is not installed and no info is available. So now you need to get you and firmware-iwlwifi.deb in the same directory. Really you don't -- but let's keep it simple ;) If you don't know how do: $ man cd Once you and the package are togeth

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mr G
No, dpkg -s just simply tells you if it is installed. If it's not then: $ cd wrote: > On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: > >> You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. >> >> # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi >> > > You mean this one: > > firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers >

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
I tried to install wicd. = mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su Password: root@MarkFilipak:/media/

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 6:48 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi You mean this one: firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers It's on my list. Do I really install it with this: dpkg -s firmwa

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi You mean this one: firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers It's on my list. Do I really install it with this: dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi or this: dpkg -s firmware-iwl

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi will tell you if the package is installed. It probably wont be on the install disk as it is the nonfree repository. You may have to adjust /etc/apt/sources.list depending on how you answered the q

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 March 2013 22:40:22 Mark Filipak wrote: > Comment: I submitted 'aptitude install wicd' because it was part of the > example I followed. Obviously, 'wicd' is not sufficient. Why is it obviously not sufficient? I would have said that it was. But you would need the right repositories

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mr G
You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi will tell you if the package is installed. It probably wont be on the install disk as it is the nonfree repository. You may have to adjust /etc/apt/sources.list depending on how you answered the questions when you installed. And l

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: -big snip- Why do you think you need a special driver? Please type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" in your terminal to check whether you have "wlan0" device or not in the list. mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ /sbin/ifconfig -a eth

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 4:20 PM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:53:37 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: -snip- BTW, before I go on, I already tried opening a file manager (in Debian+LXDE) and simply double-clicking one of the .deb files. Nothing happened. There are packages which will install .deb files in t

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 03.03.2013 23:53, Mark Filipak wrote: My objective: Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet. My problem: All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet. But I can't install packages over the Internet because I can't reach the Internet u

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Joe
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:53:37 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: > My objective: > Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the > Internet. > > My problem: > All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet. > But I can't install packages over the Internet because

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Kwaku Obeng on 2009-12-25 14:22:12: > I have been trying to download the DVD packs ... but always end up > with a corrupt copy which I am unable to boot from. I therefore wish > to make an appeal to any of you who can send me a copy of the Debian > 5.0 DVD Pack. Welcome to Debian, Kwaku. I

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 26 December 2009 08:04:47 Zhang Weiwu wrote: > However Africa is too far away from me. Do you know if you have a Linux > user group locally? http://linuxaccra.com/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread evenso
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:22:12PM +, Kwaku Obeng wrote: >Hi folks, > >My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few >months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so >I can practice the tutorials on the site but always end u

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Kwaku Obeng 写道: > I therefore wish to make an appeal to any of you who can send me a > copy of the Debian 5.0 DVD Pack. I can imagine somewhere went wrong during the burning process. However instead of fighting the burning problem it may be easier to skip the problem by just starting with a well-m

Burning install DVDs was: Re: Help Please !

2009-12-25 Thread Lisi
On Friday 25 December 2009 20:22:12 Kwaku Obeng wrote: > I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I > can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt > copy which I am unable to boot from Are you burning them correctly? Incorrect burning is the most usual reason fo

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-25 Thread s. keeling
Kwaku Obeng : > > My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few > months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I > can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt copy > which I am unable to boot from. I therefore

Re: Help Please

2007-10-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:09:25 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Florian Kulzer: > > > > (I can only confirm that the 2.6.22 version of sc92031.c has the text > > "Rsltek 8139D PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver" in the source code.) > ^^ > > Is that a typo, or is a wishlist bug in order? I co

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (I can only confirm that the 2.6.22 version of sc92031.c has the text > "Rsltek 8139D PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver" in the source code.) ^^ Is that a typo, or is a wishlist bug in order? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuff

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 16:13:59 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 30 September 2007 15:27, ankit . wrote: > > Sir > > > > Please help me to install intex RTL 8139d nic on debian 4.0. Debain is > > unable to detect the nic on it's own. What should I do to install the nic. > > > > The technical

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 15:27, ankit . wrote: > Sir > > Please help me to install intex RTL 8139d nic on debian 4.0. Debain is > unable to detect the nic on it's own. What should I do to install the nic. > > The technical specification of the nic I am using: > > http://www.intextechnologies.com

Re: help please! Error with apt-get, dpkg and aptitude

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:55:18AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >David Primero Segundo wrote: > > > >>Hello friends, i am very sad because my system debian is instable. When > >>i run: apt-get upgrade or when i run aptitude to install or remove or > >>upgrade a package, or

Re: help please! Error with apt-get, dpkg and aptitude

2007-03-13 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Joe Hart wrote: David Primero Segundo wrote: Hello friends, i am very sad because my system debian is instable. When i run: apt-get upgrade or when i run aptitude to install or remove or upgrade a package, or when i use dpkg, debia answer me the next: http://pastebin.ca/392151, please i don't

Re: help please! Error with apt-get, dpkg and aptitude

2007-03-12 Thread Joe Hart
David Primero Segundo wrote: > Hello friends, i am very sad because my system debian is instable. When > i run: apt-get upgrade or when i run aptitude to install or remove or > upgrade a package, or when i use dpkg, debia answer me the next: > http://pastebin.ca/392151, please i don't know to do i

Re: help please

2005-10-20 Thread j j
vlc is my media player of choice.  as far as wireless connection, it depends on your setup and your router.  google the name+model# of your router and linux, to see what comes up.  And report more detailed info here, as wellOn 10/19/05, Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i want to get debian

Re: help please

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Gregg
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:55 -0700, Ryan Thompson wrote: > i want to get debian but i need to know, > does it have a media player There are many media players. I prefer mplayer. Mplayer is not in the main tree for political reasons but if you google for mplayer on debian you can get instructions o

Re: help please

2005-10-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 19 2005 08:55 pm, Ryan Thompson wrote: > i want to get debian but i need to know, > does it have a media player There are many media players for linux, debian ships with most of them. I like amaroK. > and will my wireless internet cable connection work > off of it? It works with

Re: help please

2004-09-06 Thread Craig Jackson
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:40:59 +0200 "ENRICO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, my name is Enrico. > My problem is that a strange thing append when I reboot the system > using a new kernel I've configured. This new kernel, was it configured the debian way or from kernel.org? Craig Jackson --

Re: help please

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Dude, you're so close *holding up two fingers* to get on my blacklist forever if you're gonna send one more HTML mail to this list you're about to get ignored 'till the end of the universe. And please please please, we're not stupid. Writing one single message is enough, no need to send the sa

Re: help please

2003-09-29 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:49:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I sent out same e-mail before if you read it then don't bother > yourself with this one > > Hey, I'm about to buy VIA C3M266 Mainboard Or VIA P4MA Pro 533 > Mainboard for Linux Debian Woody.   Like you said all VIA > motherboards, we

Re: Help Please.....

2003-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * ***Hey, I'm about to buy *VIA C3M266 Mainboard *for Linux Debian Woody. Like you said all VIA motherboards, well almost all, should work fine. if you have any thing you wanna add to help me install debian on this motherboard please do, Little things can help too yo

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-27 Thread William Bradley
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 03:15 am, Johann Spies wrote: > Make sure that gpmconfig actually wrote the file /etc/gpm.conf . I > have found on more than one Debian machine that gpmconfig did not > write that file or wrote an empty file. So I created by > hand. Thank you Johann, I did check the

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Whoo-hoo! > > bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > > > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit > > /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfi

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-27 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Whoo-hoo! > > bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > > > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit > > /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfi

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:28 pm, Kent West wrote: > >>Whoo-hoo! WHOO-HOO > To see if gpm is running, do a "ps ax | grep [g]pm"; you should get back > a line similar to: > 371 ?S 1:11 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t imps2 -r 25 -Rraw On the above got: 199 ? S 0:00 gpm start

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:08 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..ah, you just need to start the gpm service on bootup, 'man update-rc.d > ' for the gory details. ;-) > > ..and with X reading /dev/gpmdata, you don't need to restart > X, only gpm. ;-) Thank you Amt, finally I am up and running. Change

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:51:15 -0400, William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Whoo-hoo! > > bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > > > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either ed

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: Whoo-hoo! bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfig). When I set up "gpmconfig" with "fuimps" the

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > Whoo-hoo! bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit > /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfig). When I set up "gpmconfig" with "fuimps" the mouse moves when I test it. When

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 11:09 pm, Kent West wrote: Mostly likely the protocol is wrong. I don't remember; is this a wheel mouse? If so, try "fuimps2". You can also type "help" when asked for the type during "gpmconfig" for a list of other protocols to try. Experiment and

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:08 am, you wrote: > 1) Be in console mode, with gpm stopped (I don't use gpm myself, but >I'd guess '/etc/init.d/gpm stop' as root should stop it) > 2) Do the 'cat /dev/psaux' trick to make sure the hardware's working > 3) Take the mouse ball out, so you can move t

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:09 pm, Kent West wrote: > Okay, so we know for sure the mouse is okay. And if either mouse works > on Windows on the "Debian box", we can assume the ps/2 port is okay. > Which leaves software. > > I see two basic possibilities: > 1) kernel issues > 2) gpm issues > > I

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:26:28PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: > > > Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for > > now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen > > (add "exit 0" as the

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: /et

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: > Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for > now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen > (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: > /etc/init.d/gdm or kdm

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 10:06 am, Kent West wrote: I'd recommend getting the mouse to work with gpm first, as it's simpler to diagnose. So, first "apt-get install gpm". As part of the install, that'll run "gpmconfig", and you'll need to specify the mouse location to be

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
On Monday 25 August 2003 10:06 am, Kent West wrote: > I'd recommend getting the mouse to work with gpm first, as it's simpler > to diagnose. So, first "apt-get install gpm". As part of the install, > that'll run "gpmconfig", and you'll need to specify the mouse location > to be "/dev/psaux", the t

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: >I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rl "Woody" Official i386. > >The mouse did not work. It is an off the >shelf Logitech PS/2 mouse with a wheel. There is nothing wrong with the >mouse, I tested it on the Windows, which will dual boot on the same machine. > >Followin

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:17 pm, you wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > > Option "Pr

Re: Help Please!! Mouse Dead.

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
> On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:09 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > Following is my XF86Config-4 set up for the mouse: > > > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > > Driver "mouse" > > > Option "CorePointer" > > >

Re: Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My thanks to all who responded (including Thomas Shemanske via private notes) to my messages (the first one appears to have arrived after the second, at least here) about the RPC services. The notes came from different accounts as I scrambled about trying to get outside my LAN. As mentioned by se

Re: Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Exim's panic logfile shows "TCP service "smtp" not found" ...that suggests that /etc/services is corrupt... > daddy:~# telnet localhost > telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for > ai_socktype ...as does this. You probably need to reinst

Re: Help please, apt-get update failing

2002-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:17:23PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm getting the following error sequence: > > Get:1 ftp://ftp.tux.org woody/non-free Release > Ign ftp://ftp.tux.org woody/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processin

Re: Help-please: sunffb

2002-12-03 Thread sean finney
i've gotten debian to run in X on ultrasparcs, but unfortunately the ones i have use a different graphics card. i have a couple questions for you though. - does your kernel support your graphics card / fb? - did you try installing with the appropriate debian package? if yes to both of those, try

Re: HELP, PLEASE!! Apt-Get update Errors

2002-12-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: > I think I read somewhere that there is a problem with one of the libraries > causing APT-GET UPDATE to fial. I keep getting the same error; UNABLE TO > PARSE PACKAGE FILE /VAR/LIB/DPKG/STATUS (1). I would really apprec

Re: Help please, getting lird working

2002-01-11 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.01.10 19:07, Stan Brown a écrit : > Can someone please tell me what it takes to get the IR remote working on > my > WinTV card. It plays TV fine, but even after installing the lird, and > lird > modules package, I can't get it to work in fbtv. > > I checked this url http://www.lirc.org/t

Re: HELP! please, the packaging system has a package stuck in it's craw!

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:20:26AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to upgrade a machine from progeny, to woody. | | At the moment my main problem is that the packaging system has the package | trafstats stuck in it's craw, and I cna't seem to get it out! | | dselect shows it as status "C",

Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-15 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Dec 15 11:58:04 2001 David Z Maze wrote... > >Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >SB> On Sat Dec 15 11:03:05 2001 David Z Maze wrote... > DZM> Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SB> I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have > SB> managed to get lm-sensors built,

Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-15 Thread David Z Maze
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> On Sat Dec 15 11:03:05 2001 David Z Maze wrote... DZM> Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have SB> managed to get lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However SB> sensor-detect does no

Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-15 Thread Stan Brown
On Sat Dec 15 11:03:05 2001 David Z Maze wrote... > >Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >SB> I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get >SB> lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give >SB> me enough info to get the rest set up. > >

Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-15 Thread David Z Maze
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get SB> lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give SB> me enough info to get the rest set up. SB> Next adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 (Non-I2C

Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:20:14PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Can't open /dev/i2c0 (No such file or directory) The module loads successfully (so the hardware is there), but you can't talk to it, which seems to say to me that the entry in /dev is missing. Check that first. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL

Re: Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 21:20, Stan Brown wrote: > I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get > lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give > me enough info to get the rest set up. > > The machine is a Epox EP-8KTA3PRO with a VIA KT133A

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The > I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. > > First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but > the results w

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread Stan Brown
On Thu Dec 13 01:59:04 2001 wrote... > >> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dman> | NO, joy there either. I assume you mean append="video=vesa vga=794", > dman> | right? > > dman> Yeah. I copy-n-pasted from above, but didn't look closely at that > dman> part. > > dman> Have

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread briand
> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dman> | NO, joy there either. I assume you mean append="video=vesa vga=794", dman> | right? dman> Yeah. I copy-n-pasted from above, but didn't look closely at that dman> part. dman> Have you tried a lower resolution? The whole table o

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, try changing your vga param (not in append, but it has it's own line in lilo.conf to 'vga=794' instead of 'vga=normal' Cameron Matheson On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 15:34, Stan Brown wrote: > On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... > > > >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:10:42PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... | >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | >| On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | >| > | >| >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read | >

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 22:39:50 2001 dman wrote... > >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >| On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... >| > >| >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an >| >| append statment, still no framebuffer. >| > >| >For lilo both vga=

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... | > | >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an | >| append statment, still no framebuffer. | > | >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read |

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-12 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... > >| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an >| append statment, still no framebuffer. > >For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read >for older versions of lilo that it didn't handle hex numbers correctly >

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:58:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote... | >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: ... | >| I enabled it in the kernel, and rebooted, but I did not get a frambuffer, | >| juts plain old console. | >| | >| I've read

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote... > >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >| I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The >| I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. >| >| First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The | I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. | | First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but | the results were not so goo

Re: Help Please! end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (flopp), sector 0

2001-12-04 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > adding a buynch of packages, which unfortunatley I don't remeber all of, it > started giving the error in the subject line every 5 minutes or so. > > This makes this machine almost unusable on the local console! > > Has anyone else seen this, can they tell

Re: help please

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 04:07:05PM -, Clive Leonard wrote: > I have now installed Debian, and it boots up from HHD and leaves me in > a text only mode. All I can seem to do is log in and out as root (or > user) and do nothing else! > > I don't know, but surely debian has some form of GUI? Of

Re: Help Please.

2001-11-16 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
Generic advice. 1. Get a set of small screw drivers, grounding strip and a set of small stickers, the kind you can write on. 2. Clear some large table space. 3. Put laptop on table space, ground yourself and start taking it apart. 4. Every part you take lable with a sticker and write a number on

Re: Help Please, reinstalling grub boot blocks

2001-10-21 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Oct 21 18:05:36 2001 "A.R. (Tom) Peters" wrote... > >There was a useful article on grub in the Linux Journal of May 2001. Mmm, I'll look that up thanks. > >When grub comes up, you can go to command mode with 'c'. > >I must admit that, since your /boot/ is on another partition than / , I >do

Re: Help Please, reinstalling grub boot blocks

2001-10-21 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm in the process of tyring to to recover from a failed root disk. > > I have managed to get all the files copied over to the new drive sucesfully > (I believe). The root disk consists of 2 filesystem partitons. > > / and /boot which are /dev/hde4 and /d

Re: Help PLEASE, Can't rlogin to myslef!

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 07:54]: > I'm trying to get a Debian stable box set up to be a Amanda tapehiots. > > It's _almost_ working. The only serious remaining problem is that it can't > see it self! This can be exhibited by atempteing to rlogi8n or rsh from > itself to itself. if

Re: help please - kppp connection wont work

2001-09-22 Thread John Hasler
Todd writes: > I can't get kppp to work - Forget kppp. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp, and then use pon to start ppp and poff to stop it. If you must have a GUI install gpppon, which is a GUI wrapper around pon and poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisco

Re: help please - kppp connection wont work

2001-09-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:38:29AM +, todd mansill wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an urgent problem and I need some help please: > > I can't get kppp to work - when I try to connect I get the following > error message in the log window: > > The remote server is required to authenticate itself

Re: Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

2001-07-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:23:49AM -0700, Harvey Werner wrote: > Did you ever solve this problem? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html > > Or, did you have to reinstall your Linux system? If only the symlink is nuked, just boot with a rescue floppy, get a shell, mount the

Re: Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

2001-07-18 Thread Harvey Werner
Hi Trev, In reference to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html and your problem with renaming the Linux loader shared library, I managed to find the fix to this problem. You see, I too used mv to move ld-linux.so.2 to ld-linux.so.2.old and from that point on, of course, no shell

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