Re: Starting up network interfaces conditionally

2006-09-11 Thread celejar
On 9/11/06, Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: > When I'm AC-plugged, I like my /etc/init.d/network script to start my wifi > card automatically. But when I'm on battery, I'd rather not start it > automatically (I can always start it manually if I really want it). > >

Re: Starting up network interfaces conditionally

2006-09-11 Thread Rick Reynolds
Stefan Monnier wrote: When I'm AC-plugged, I like my /etc/init.d/network script to start my wifi card automatically. But when I'm on battery, I'd rather not start it automatically (I can always start it manually if I really want it). Does anybody have an idea how to do that? Can the `auto' line

Re: starting up

2004-07-14 Thread Kent West
Stephen Cradock wrote: But that got me another step forward - I'm writing this in Mozilla with an upgraded XFree86 - 4.3.0, and everything else that goes with it EXCEPT - I lost kdm along the way - debconf just ripped it out, along with all the neat programs that go with it, like Konquero

Re: starting up

2004-07-14 Thread Stephen Cradock
Well, almost :) The line in 70debconf should be APT::Cache-Limit 16777216; That's with a space instead of 'equals', and terminated with a semicolon - otherwise apt-get complains of junk in it's configuration file. But that got me another step forward - I'm writing this in Mozilla with an upgrad

Re: starting up

2004-07-14 Thread Kent West
Stephen Cradock wrote: Thanks, Kent - good to have such specific instructions. Thanks. But, sorry, I don't remember the context of this message, so I can't really address much of it. However, the error E Dynamic MMap ran out of room is common when upgrading from stable to unstable

re: starting up

2004-07-14 Thread Stephen Cradock
Thanks, Kent - good to have such specific instructions. BUT item 1) works - can edit the sources.list; then 2) apt-get update gets a great list of package lists and settles down to parse them, but it fails with an E Dynamic MMap ran out of room It was apparently working on one

Re: starting up

2004-07-13 Thread Kent West
Stephen Cradock wrote: Hi all - I am trying to get Debian Linux working as an alternative to Windows XP. Uo to a point everything works fine - starting from floppy images and basedeb and drivers.tgz I can get linux 2.2.0 running. The problem is getting X11 going - my Intel 82845G video chipset i

Re: starting up

2004-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stephen Cradock (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi all - I am trying to get Debian Linux working as an alternative to > Windows XP. Uo to a point everything works fine - starting from floppy > images and basedeb and drivers.tgz I can get linux 2.2.0 running. > > The problem is getting X11 g

Re: Starting up nfs?

1996-10-24 Thread joost witteveen
> > Why are all the lines in /etc/netstd_nfs (for "start") commented out? because /etc/nfsd_nfs comes (from memory) with netstd.deb, and not all people who need netstd may want nfs exports. Anyway, personaly, I'd say: Include a good (i.e. empty except for some comments) /etc/exports file in netstd