checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. I've got a laptop (yes, I'm on this list, duh). I take it to a jobsite with me, I take it home, I take it to the office. Some places I can connect to the mailserver directly, but at other places I have to ssh through a leased line back to the office. I've got ssh set up with tunnels

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Hallo, I use an ATI Mobility M7 and had nearly the same problem. After the upgrade to XF4.2.1 I also had to disable the Option UseFBDev true in the device section. After that everything worked fine. Greetings Marcel On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 06:02, Tony Godshall wrote: Hi, all. I've got a

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Sorry, I replyed to the wrong topic. MfG Marcel On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 06:32, Marcel Gschwandl wrote: Hallo, I use an ATI Mobility M7 and had nearly the same problem. After the upgrade to XF4.2.1 I also had to disable the Option UseFBDev true in the device section. After that everything

Re: XF86 on Gateway 450 w/ ATI Mobility M6

2003-05-22 Thread Marcel Gschwandl
Hallo, I use an ATI Mobility M7 and had nearly the same problem. After the upgrade to XF4.2.1 I also had to disable the Option UseFBDev true in the device section. After that everything worked fine. Greetings Marcel On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 23:20, Harry Barnes wrote: Hi, I finally decided to

Re: Toshiba laptops Debian

2003-05-22 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Niels Heinemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... 2) It s an X program, so there is still the console it did not know that this problem appear when using the console?? i never heard of it. Well, i didn't have it on the two first ones I had I think? Was rather long ago. (On them you had

Re: Xfree 4.2.1-6 with ATI Rage Mobility...

2003-05-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Nicolas Delestre wrote: Hi, Since i updated my debian sarge on my Dell laptitude CPxJ 650 (with an ATI Rage Mobility video card), that installed a new version of xfree (to the 4.2.1.6 version), i can not use the crt port to display X on a monitor (it continue to works

Re: Xfree 4.2.1-6 with ATI Rage Mobility...

2003-05-22 Thread Nicolas Delestre
Tim Connors wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2003, Nicolas Delestre wrote: Hi, Since i updated my debian sarge on my Dell laptitude CPxJ 650 (with an ATI Rage Mobility video card), that installed a new version of xfree (to the 4.2.1.6 version), i can not use the crt port to display X on a monitor (it

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Vivek
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Tony Godshall wrote: The problem is that sometimes these programs don't work right and hassle ensues if I start them up without starting up my ssh session first, or if the ssh session has dropped [snip] Perhaps an inetd based solution would be simpler?

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread xavier renaut
|The problem is that sometimes these programs don't work |right and hassle ensues if I start them up without starting |up my ssh session first, or if the ssh session has dropped |someplace along the way. A lot of the time I'm working |locally, so I might not notice that the tunnel went away,

Re: Toshiba laptops Debian

2003-05-22 Thread Niels Heinemann
howdy tobbe Torbjorn Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But both the Portege 7020 and the Tecra T9000 had the keyboard problem on the console also. wow. that's ugly. Linux for the masses, if one supports that concept, is not going to happen until the hardware vendors release

Re: Pcmcia network card startup

2003-05-22 Thread tony godshall
Hi, all. When I was using pcmcia networking, I recall putting network config into /etc/pcmcia/network.opts instead of /etc/network/interfaces . Is this the debian way or does it subvert it? It did work. When my card was inserted, it configured, and when it was ejected, it deconfigured. So my

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Thanks, Xavier, Vivek: On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:48:33AM -0400, xavier renaut wrote: |The problem is that sometimes these programs don't work |right and hassle ensues if I start them up without starting |up my ssh session first, or if the ssh session has dropped |someplace along the way. A

Re: XF86 on Gateway 450 w/ ATI Mobility M6

2003-05-22 Thread Georg Nikodym
On 22 May 2003 06:36:04 +0200 Marcel Gschwandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I use an ATI Mobility M7 and had nearly the same problem. After the upgrade to XF4.2.1 I also had to disable the Option UseFBDev true in the device section. After that everything worked fine. Me too for an M4 on

Re: Pcmcia network card startup

2003-05-22 Thread Derek Broughton
From: tony godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I was using pcmcia networking, I recall putting network config into /etc/pcmcia/network.opts instead of /etc/network/interfaces . Is this the debian way or does it subvert it? It did work. When my card was inserted, it configured, and when it was

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Vivek
On Thu, 22 May 2003, Tony Godshall wrote: For that to work the script I hook into inetd would have to be smart enough to figure out where it is (home, office, If autodetection doesn't work, you could always have a clue file ( eg /etc/where or similar ). A downside with using inetd is that

Toshiba Satellite 2450

2003-05-22 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, I've recently bought a Toshiba Satellite 2450 laptop. Now I have my own kernel 2.4.20 and I have also installed the source code for additional i2c and lm-sensor modules. My problem: Which modules do I need? And which configuration do I need in the kernel to use this modules later?

RE: Toshiba Satellite 2450

2003-05-22 Thread Jayson Garrell
Well you could do a 'lspci' note the values. Then look at the supported devices list for lm_sensors to see. http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/supported.html Hope this helps. Jayson Garrell -Original Message- From: Andreas Tscharner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003

spilt orange juice on thinkpad

2003-05-22 Thread philipp friedrich
hi, i lately spilt some oramge juice onto my r32 keyboard, i thought that nothing would happen since i already spilt other stuff on the keyboard but the orange juice seems to be much more viscous than the rest. now the keys dont work well, has anyone an idea on how to fix this? (i am running

Re: spilt orange juice on thinkpad

2003-05-22 Thread philipp friedrich
on Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:05:49PM +0200, philipp friedrich wrote: maybe some guide how to clean it or something ok just found the ibm maintainance guide pdf with a guide on how to remove the keyboard. i will now try to remove and clean it -- pgp: 0848C4FD ; 0553 A4D4 E954 8819 3967 009A

Re: spilt orange juice on thinkpad

2003-05-22 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:05:49PM +0200, philipp friedrich wrote: i lately spilt some oramge juice onto my r32 keyboard, i thought that nothing would happen since i already spilt other stuff on the keyboard but the orange juice seems to be much more viscous than the rest. now the keys dont

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Dan Christensen
xavier renaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you could start ssh automatically with a wrapper to restart it each time the connexion is dropped. (and start all of this inside of a screen) : I'd look into autossh for this kind of this. In my experience, it does a good job of keeping an ssh