Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-01, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote: > >>> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ >>> ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. >> >> Why not? > > Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time > The OP informed u

SOLVED (was: Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed)

2024-04-01 Thread DdB
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again. A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot image. This is already the third

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread David Christensen
On 4/1/24 03:10, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 07:44 schrieb David Christensen: Please post a console session that identifies the ISO you are using, verifies the checksum, burns the ISO to a USB flash drive, and compares the ISO against the flash drive. Ok, in the meantime, i came to similar con

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-04-01, DdB wrote: >> A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ >> ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. > > Why not? Perhaps because usb boot is available since a very long time > *should* is the correct word. The board being over 10 years old,

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-04-01 Thread DdB
Am 01.04.2024 um 07:44 schrieb David Christensen: > > > A computer with a 6-core processor, 64 GB memory, and 9 drive bays/ > ports that cannot boot USB?  That does not make sense. Why not? > > > Please post a console session that identifies the ISO you are using, > verifies the checksum, bur

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/24 02:18, DdB wrote: Hello list, i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core Intel with 64 GB RAM. Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, which got lvm partitio

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 11:18:30 (+0200), DdB wrote: > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, > which got lvm partitioning and is basically empty. As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 31 Mar 2024 11:18 +0200, from debianl...@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de (DdB): > As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using grub, i can manually boot from that ISO > and see the first installer screens. But after asking

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
DdB composed on 2024-03-31 11:18 (UTC+0200): > Suggestions are welcome :-) https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ All my installations use this NET method. What I usually do though is extract linux and initrd.gz from it or directly from the mirrors and load them with Grub rather than booting the NET

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 11:18:30AM +0200, DdB wrote: > Hello list, > > i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware. > Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core > Intel with 64 GB RAM. > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working fr

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, April 15, 2018 12:48:35 PM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 08:05:12AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, April 14, 2018 03:57:08 AM Reco wrote: > > > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > > > It was very straightforward

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 08:05:12AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, April 14, 2018 03:57:08 AM Reco wrote: > > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > > It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional > > configuration - two W

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 14, 2018 03:57:08 AM Reco wrote: > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional > configuration - two WiFi APs with the same SSID ('AP name' in layman > terms), each brigded to the same wired

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread Dan Purgert
Reco wrote: > Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage. > It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional > configuration - two WiFi APs with the same SSID ('AP name' in layman > terms), each brigded to the same wired VLAN. Worked better than I was > anticip

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-15 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Apr 2018 at 10:21:46 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> Well, nice that they're starting to do that ... it's still a Linksys, so >> (not having any experience with it either), I'd lean toward it not being >> that great of a device. > > That's a shame. I was moving toward

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 09:17:06AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Apr 2018 at 10:21:46 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > > Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:32:05 - (UTC) > > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > >> If you have a device repeating a WiFi signal, it *will* use the s

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 Apr 2018 at 10:21:46 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:32:05 - (UTC) > > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> If you have a device repeating a WiFi signal, it *will* use the same > >> channel as the upstream AP. It *cannot* use a different channel. > >> > >>

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-09 Thread Dan Purgert
Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:32:05 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert wrote: >> If you have a device repeating a WiFi signal, it *will* use the same >> channel as the upstream AP. It *cannot* use a different channel. >> >> In the event you have a dual-band AP, and the following conditions are >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-09 Thread Dan Purgert
Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:00:31 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Celejar wrote: >> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) >> > Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> Yep, you've got the terms right. >> >> >> >> Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other client

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:32:05 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 07 Apr 2018 at 20:17:56 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > >> David Wright wrote: > >> > On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 16:26:47 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > >> >> > >> >> It's a nuance in the semantics of what it mea

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:00:31 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) > > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> Yep, you've got the terms right. > >> > >> Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other clients close to it? > >> or is it

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-07 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Sat 07 Apr 2018 at 20:17:56 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> David Wright wrote: >> > On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 16:26:47 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> >> >> It's a nuance in the semantics of what it means to "repeat" wifi. >> >> Suffice to say, in order to "repeat" wifi, you

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Sat 07 Apr 2018 at 20:17:56 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 16:26:47 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > >> > >> It's a nuance in the semantics of what it means to "repeat" wifi. > >> Suffice to say, in order to "repeat" wifi, you have one radio splitting >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-07 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 16:26:47 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> It's a nuance in the semantics of what it means to "repeat" wifi. >> Suffice to say, in order to "repeat" wifi, you have one radio splitting >> its time between pretending to be an AP for a client device, and >>

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 16:26:47 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 10:00:31 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Celejar wrote: > >> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) > >> > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> >> [...] > >> >> > >> >> Yep, you've got the terms righ

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-06 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 10:00:31 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> Celejar wrote: >> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) >> > Dan Purgert wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> Yep, you've got the terms right. >> >> >> >> Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other client

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 10:00:31 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) > > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> Yep, you've got the terms right. > >> > >> Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other clients close to it? > >> or is it J

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-06 Thread Dan Purgert
Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert wrote: >> [...] >> >> Yep, you've got the terms right. >> >> Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other clients close to it? >> or is it JUST trying to pretend that it's a client device to the >> TP-Link? > > I'm no

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 - (UTC) > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> Joe wrote: > >> > [...] > >> > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices > >> > with multiple Ethernet ports are swi

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-03 Thread Dan Purgert
Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 - (UTC) > Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Joe wrote: >> > [...] >> > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices >> > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based. >> > Indeed, many routers can be configur

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-30 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Joe wrote: > > [...] > > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices > > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based. > > Indeed, many routers can be configured as VLANs. > > Hubs pr

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-19 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 13:09:00 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: >> David Wright wrote: >> > >> > --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> > Content-Disposition: inline >> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> > >> > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), D

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 12:49:16 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > The software might not support it, but if openwrt or ddwrt can run > > > on the hardware, they should support bridging. > >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > The software might not support it, but if openwrt or ddwrt can run > > on the hardware, they should support bridging. > > I can make sure the router I buy can run openwrt or ddwrt, but it >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't > > > support actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't > > support actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've yet to see > > such an example. > > I think the router I've been usi

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 08:48:50 (+), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:26:38 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 13:09:00 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On We

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 23:26:38 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that a

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Joe wrote: > [...] > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based. > Indeed, many routers can be configured as VLANs. Hubs pretty much are. Not entirely sure where you're thinking switches are "softwa

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > > --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: >> > When you reprogram routers with dd-w

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 16, 2018 08:53:00 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I haven't had the need to do that, and I'm not quite sure how I would go > about it, but (thinking on the fly now), I might try putting a switch > immediately after the modem, with two routers plugged into that, then a > router and o

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 16, 2018 04:48:50 AM Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:26:38 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: ... > > I haven't paid attention to this thread from the beginning, but > > looking at the sketch, I'm wondering what the purpose of the 2nd > > router is? Why not instead of a route

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:26:38 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that a

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > > > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's fo

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's formware doesn't allow > > for that? > > openwrt and dd-wrt both allo

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's formware doesn't allow > for that? openwrt and dd-wrt both allow wired bridging[1] (or pseudo-bridging by routing if your wireless hardw

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 March 2018 22:24:26 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 09 Mar 2018 at 12:31:35 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 09 March 2018 10:18:23 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > For many years I have used my desktp

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Mar 2018 at 12:31:35 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2018 10:18:23 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > For many years I have used my desktp as a network/firewall server > > > with two interfaces one facin

Re: Help needed with home network configuration:[SOLVED]

2018-03-10 Thread Joe
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:22:36 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks again for all the inputs. > > I have tried a third option: arno-iptables-firewall. > > Now I can reach the internet from the local network. I still don't > understand why I could not > get it working with Shorewall which I have use

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I see I have broken the thread by adding [SOLVED] to the subject. But only because gmail is a broken mail user agent: it seems to have dropped the In-Reply-To header. The change of subjec

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-10 Thread Johann Spies
I see I have broken the thread by adding [SOLVED] to the subject. Just to keep it in this thread: I have tried a third option: arno-iptables-firewall. Now I can reach the internet from the local network. I still don't understand why I could not get it working with Shorewall which I have used fo

Re: Help needed with home network configuration:[SOLVED]

2018-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks again for all the inputs. I have tried a third option: arno-iptables-firewall. Now I can reach the internet from the local network. I still don't understand why I could not get it working with Shorewall which I have used for many years. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loya

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-09 Thread john doe
On 3/9/2018 3:30 PM, Johann Spies wrote: For many years I have used my desktp as a network/firewall server with two interfaces one facing the internet (through ADSL) and the other the local network. Now I have a fibre connection and for a month both connections will be available in parallel. I

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 09 March 2018 10:18:23 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > For many years I have used my desktp as a network/firewall server > > with two interfaces one facing the internet (through ADSL) and the > > other the local network. > > >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-09 Thread Dan Purgert
Johann Spies wrote: > For many years I have used my desktp as a network/firewall server with > two interfaces one facing the internet (through ADSL) and the other the > local network. > > Now I have a fibre connection and for a month both connections will be > available in parallel. > > I have deci

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-09 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > For many years I have used my desktp as a network/firewall server with > two interfaces one facing the internet (through ADSL) and the other the > local network. > > Now I have a fibre connection and for a month both conn

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-06 Thread Alef Farah
Turns out it was a silly configuration issue. Both wicd and network-manager seem to use wlan0 as the default interface, and for some reason the wireless interface was eth1, switching to it solved the issue. On top of that the Fn+F5 key really isn't working, which just made things more confusing. T

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Alef Farah wrote: > However, no APs are found at my place ... Is there a hardware rf kill switch? My T60 has a slide switch in the lower left. There is also an "rfkill" package in Debian. It might help. Don't know. Try this. Does it show any access points? # iwlist wlan0 scan Are you awa

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-05 Thread Alef Farah
Everything regarding networking and wireless is enabled on the BIOS. That "built in user's guide" seems to be for Windows only. The PDFs available for the X40 on another section of the website were also for Windows. Nevertheless I did the analogue steps for Linux - basically verifying if things ar

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread AW
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 22:51:49 -0300 Alef Farah wrote: >Nothing is logged. Though Fn + other F keys (such as lowering screen brightness, >which works) also don't trigger any log entry. It's possible the key combo is being caught by the BIOS ... However, even in that case, if the wireless interface

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread Alef Farah
> Try: > tail -f -n 150 /var/log/syslog > > And then press the Fn+F5 keys... what shows in the log? Nothing is logged. Though Fn + other F keys (such as lowering screen brightness, which works) also don't trigger any log entry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread AW
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:47:45 -0400 Alef Farah wrote: >Thinkpad does a single blink every >~5s. Fn+F5, which should toggle the wi-fi, seems to have no effect >whatsoever. Try: tail -f -n 150 /var/log/syslog And then press the Fn+F5 keys... what shows in the log? --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:59:54AM -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old > Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an > arbitrary remote. > > I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both

Re: help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/03/12 14:59, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old > Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an > arbitrary remote. > > I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both. The man > pages and o

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-05 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Bernard, 5.03.2012: > Tom H wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote: > >>Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > >>>Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > >Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > >other convenient tool t

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernard wrote: > Now that I wish to get rid of 'wicd', just in case it > would interfer with 'NetworkManager', I can't get rid of it ! > > #apt-get remove wicd > > did remove it, so it said... if I try to remove it again, it says > that it is no longer there... however, I can still see 'wicd netw

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Bernard
Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote: Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any other convenient tool that would operate on Sque

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote: > Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU,  3.03.2012: >>> On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to e

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Bernard, 4.03.2012: > Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > >Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > >>On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > >>>Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > >>>other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > >>>turn an Internet connexion

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Bernard
Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF Make sure you

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: >> >> Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any >> other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily >> turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF > > Make sure yo

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > > > > Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > > other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > > turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF > > Make sure you have NO definition

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > > Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF Make sure you have NO definition for eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces and t

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 20:59:30 +0100, Bernard wrote: > So, everything seems to work fine... except for the 'NetworkManager' ! > On that machine, I only have a wired ethernet connexion ; there is no > wlan chipset for now ; I will install one soon. So, the Internet > connexion happens automa

Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Bernard
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 feb 12, 19:35:00, Bernard wrote: stuff deleted.. /dev/hdc3, but now my only CDROM drive does work on /dev/hda (hda as is, not on hda1 or whatever, which I did find weird though). It does work, This is normal, since CD-ROMs don't have partitions.

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 feb 12, 19:35:00, Bernard wrote: > > What did I do since my last post ? As Richard suggested, I opened up > the box and checked cables around the cdrom hardware. I noticed > something that I thought weird at first: the CDROM blocks were connected > to a cable where one could read: "HD

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 28/02/12 16:31, Bernard wrote: What did I do since my last post ? As Richard suggested, I opened up the box and checked cables around the cdrom hardware. I noticed something that I thought weird at first: the CDROM blocks were connected to a cable where one could read: "HD cable", while

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Bernard
Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom. The debian installer disk has a rescue mode. That can be very useful to repair a system such as yours. If the above grub selection of a new

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Bernard
Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom. The debian installer disk has a rescue mode. That can be very useful to repair a system such as yours. If the above grub selection of a new

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-26 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom.  The debian >> installer disk has a rescue mode.  That can be very useful to repair a >> system such as yours.  If the above grub selection of a newer kernel >> does not wo

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
Bob Proulx wrote: Bernard wrote: was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config for more than 2 years or so ; I had a mysql server on it, with mysql databases. Here you say Lenny.

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
John L. Cunningham wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > And /dev/sda would be right for Lenny. In Lenny's 2.6.26 kernel all > > device names work under the scsi naming. > > > > But then you say /dev/hda and the hda names are the old kernel names. > > This leads me to believe that you are booting an old

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bernard wrote: > > Here you say Lenny. But then... > > > just waited indefinitely without doing nothing. Error messages appeared > > after 4 or 5 long minutes of idling, they mostly said that /dev/sda3 did > > not (no longer) exist, a

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread richard
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:35:54 +0100 Bernard wrote: > It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical > Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time > of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to > have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernard wrote: > was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot > (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in > such config for more than 2 years or so ; I had a mysql server on it, > with mysql databases. Here you say Lenny. But then... > just wa

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 24/02/12 17:35, Bernard wrote: It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it

Re: Help needed fixing kernel errors

2011-04-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:14:46 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:37:24 +1000, Steven wrote in message > <1303792644.6192.14.camel@square>: > > > Hi folks, > > I have a problem that's now beyond my expertise to fault properly. I > > get random intermittent kernel errors. Usually w

Re: Help needed fixing kernel errors

2011-04-26 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:14:46 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:37:24 +1000, Steven wrote in message > <1303792644.6192.14.camel@square>: > > > Hi folks, > > I have a problem that's now beyond my expertise to fault properly. I > > g

Re: Help needed fixing kernel errors

2011-04-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:37:24 +1000, Steven wrote in message <1303792644.6192.14.camel@square>: > Hi folks, > I have a problem that's now beyond my expertise to fault properly. I > get random intermittent kernel errors. Usually when the system is > under stress. > > System specs; > AMD X4 840 (Ba

Re: Help needed

2011-03-17 Thread s. keeling
BALAJI :) : > > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. I am very > new to linux. Can you please let me know the steps for backing up > my linux PC (maybe to a CD) and later restoring from it when > required. Also let me know if I can install any Open source S/W > that can d

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rubbish. ;) There is no technical difference between a static IP and dynamic WRT SMTP, thus one can "properly" run a mail server for both sending and receiving directly. The problem one runs into here, which is probably what you meant to say, is merely receiver policy. The

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrew McGlashan put forth on 3/15/2011 8:35 PM: > Hi, > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> MX records are for second level domains, thus you can't us an MX record >> in this case as your system is a third level domain. The MX records in >> your case are for dyndns.org, your parent domain. > > Rubbish, y

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Stan Hoeppner wrote: MX records are for second level domains, thus you can't us an MX record in this case as your system is a third level domain. The MX records in your case are for dyndns.org, your parent domain. Rubbish, you can have an MX at any level you like. What is important is th

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/15/2011 1:13 AM: > This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't know > what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. This is bad because you're trying to do it with DynDNS. This prevents you from being able to setup a standard internet mail host wit

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Joe
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:13:57 -0500 Jason Hsu wrote: > This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't > know what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. > > All I'm trying to do right now is send and receive email messages > through my free DynDNS account. Let's say it's >

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-14 Thread Jo Galara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Do I need an MX hostname? There are so many unknowns that I don't know where > to begin. Yes, you need a MX hostname and reverse DNS. Set the reverse DNS hostname to the HELO hostname your SMTP server uses, as well as your MX hostname. About th

Re: Help needed

2011-03-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:02:32 +0530 "BALAJI :)" wrote: [Please use more informative subject lines.] > Hi, > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. > I am very new to linux. > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a > CD) and later restoring from

Re: Help needed

2011-03-14 Thread Mark
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:32 AM, BALAJI :) wrote: > Hi, > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. > I am very new to linux. > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a > CD) and later restoring from it when required. > Also let me know if I can ins

Re: Help needed

2011-03-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 15:02 +0530, BALAJI :) wrote: > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. > I am very new to linux. Welcome! You should be aware that there has been a new stable release of Debian named "Squeeze". I would recommend to upgrade your system to Squeeze by following

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