Re: Looking for bleeding edge distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:37:29PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > Are there any Debian based distros that use KDE 3.2rc1, kernel 2.6.x, > XFree4.3.0 all of that bleeding edge type stuff. I am willing to give > anything a try as long as it is deb based (do

shell script question

I would like to download all files from an ftp site. probably 250 files some between 25-50 Megs.I am wondering about using wget with shell ( bash) script to login, download all files, if one is found on harddrive ignore and goto next one. one file at a time to prevent using too much of their bandwi

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:46:13AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thank you Collin. Beautiful reading. Scary. To think that so many of the > statements made in science fiction have come through, to know how dark > life can be made to be on the surface of this ball, or on the surface of > the oth

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:44:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > We may be facing a future where evidence of thinking thoughts that > > have been patented by others will be a crime. Can you imaging what the > > world would be if

Re: Segfault in apt-spy in sid

Edward J. Shornock wrote: Can anyone think of some potential causes for this problem? I'm waiting to file a bug report until I can hopefully get more information about this Or...is there any additional information that I could supply that'd be useful when submitting a bug report? --

Segfault in apt-spy in sid

Has anyone else noticed a problem with apt-spy on unstable? I used the following command line: apt-spy -d unstable -o unstable.apt After testing the 7th and final server, I received the following: SERVER: ftp.wa.au.debian.org Benchmarking FTP... Downloaded 1049600 bytes in 19.71

Re: kernel update

> is apt-get update kernel-2.6 enough to upgrade the kernel ? No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie workgroup question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:18:19PM +0100, knoppix wrote: > I tried the password I use to log on each machin but they are refused XP breaks samba. I managed to work around it once, but it only worked sometimes and everybody had to be set up just right

Re: Erm, is this spam?

Nathan Stanley wrote: Is this a spammer, because I got another one from the same addresses saying I was added to the list and I now had access to many hot hot sites. It most certainly is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: kpilot and palm TT

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 07:33, Chris Searle wrote: > > Hit the hotsync button, wait 3 and then run > > pilot-xfer -p /dev/usb/tts/0 -L > > lists all the files on the palm. > > However - I can't get kpilot to run the sync. > The newer Palm OS devices uses /dev/ttyUSB1 for HotSync. Try that. --

kernel update

Hi is apt-get update kernel-2.6 enough to upgrade the kernel ? thx Arkel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libxstl problem

Hi I got that problem if anyone could help I am trying to install a software on my debian When I run the ./configure it says : configure: error: Could not find libxslt anywhere, please check ftp:/ xmlsoft.org/ for libxslt >= 1.0.7. so I downloaded it and when I make dpkg -i libxslt_1.1.2-2_i3

Erm, is this spam?

I just recieved this from address [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mail was addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this a spammer, because I got another one from the same addresses saying I was added to the list and I now had access to many hot hot sites. Ladies and Gentlemen, Downloading of Movies, MP3s a

Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

Hello, I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep getting DMA timeouts and retries from /dev/hda. The kernel image is 2.4.23-1-386 (2.4.23-1). This is probably because I do not know how it should be done in the

Re: The threat to our national security

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:38:24AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2004 06:36, ABrady wrote: > > > > > Except for my 5-year-old's dual-boot (Mandrake 9.1/WIN98), the household > > is now Windoze-free. The kid hates WinDOS, too. But mom makes him play > > with some of his learning games

Problem with X cursor theme in KDE

Hello, I'm running Debian sid and recently did a dist-upgrade to KDE 3.1.5. It went well except my X cursor theme does not load anymore. I googled the problem and came across this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226545 Which about halfway down refrences this discussion http:

Re: How can I learn what packages are "new"?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Nano Nano wrote: > How can I learn what packages are new in the repository after a certain > date? Sometimes I comment out my http:// sources and just use my local > file:/ source, but then when I uncomment them all of Sid is new. If I > forget to "forget new" before my next

Re: [OT] Googling...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Question I have: who would think of searching for "miserable failure", > or perhaps does Google leak its hidden motives? Or are they? Not a hidden motive, but Google, by nature of it'

Re: Could not find any loop device

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:02:49AM -0600, Chris Wallace wrote: > # mount -o loop,ro myiso.iso /iso > mount: Could not find any loop device, and, according to /proc/devices, >this kernel does not know about the loop device. >(If so, then

Re: Second X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=netiquette#offlist On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:50:07PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2004 09:54 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:42:20PM -0800, Dennis Kapla

Re: Second X

Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:18:40PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Kaplan wrote: Hello, How can I log in to a second X session on my debian machine? Right now I have X on F7 I like to log in as a different user on F8 Even a better idea: buy another video card, mo

Re: rescue floppies

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:04:20 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I want to make a rescue floppy set for my woody system. Where should I > look for information? The Rescue Floppy section of the Installing > manual doesn't help... > man mkrescue -- paul It is i

Preliminary investigation were started

Ladies and Gentlemen, Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law. We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP 62.164.46.46 . The contents of your computer were confiscated as an evidence, and you will be indicated. You get the charge in writing,

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > We may be facing a future where evidence of thinking thoughts that > have been patented by others will be a crime. Can you imaging what the > world would be if Pythagoras (or some group) had patented his theorem? > If these forces

Re: Where'd the fonts go?

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:51, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Robert" == Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my > Robert> fonts. ... > > Bug 223352? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223352 I don't think

Re: scp: a way to disable password authentication?

On 2004-01-23 20:00:54 +, Pigeon wrote: > IIUC you need to set "PasswordAuthentication no" in > /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the client. Thanks, this is the best one. It seems that I initially forgot to grep the ssh_config man page. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Compiling 2.6.1 problems

Hello to all: As the subject sais I'm having a little bit of trouble when compiling the kernel 2.6.1. I already configured it, this is a copy of the exact error message: --beginning of error message-- athena:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=686:MyKernel2.6.1 kernel_image test -f stamp-config

Re: Cannot Open Root Device - Was: Unidentified subject!

JAMES MERRITT wrote: I am having a little problem with my Debian Woody. The other day when I tried to boot into Woody, it started the normal text bootup screen before it goes into to KDE graphical login screen. But, during the text portion of the boot up process, it stopped and gave this messa

Re: Cannot Open Root Device - Was: Unidentified subject!

Hi, Hi Kent, sorry for not using a meaningful subject, often time I overlook those emails without a useful subject myself, never know what you will get with all these crazy viruses, etc. going around...smile. I hit SEND before checking my email more carefully. Also to Andreas, I am sorry I re

auto-loading of modules

Hello, I seem to have messed up something while compiling my last kernel; apparently modules are no longer automatically loaded on demand. But I cannot understand why -- I didn't even go near those options. May Kernel config says: > # Loadable module support > # > CONFIG_MODULES=y > CONFIG_MODVE

Re: USB and IDE-SCSI devices not showing up (migration from Mandrake to Debian testing).

Hello Adam (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I recently did a clean installation of Debian testing on my > workstation, but I can't find my USB devices and CD-RW. > > /sbin/lsmod includes the following: > > sg 28412 0 (autoclean) (unused) > usb-uhci 19696 0 (u

Re: Catches in upgrading to backports.org kernel?

Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm considering adding a 2.4.24 kernel from backports.org to my pure > Woody system to get support for my multitude of peripherals and such. > > Are there any catches that I should look out for before I go for it? > > I noticed that this will also u

Re: Compiling Kernel Problems xconfig

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:36:23PM +, James Hosken wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ make xconfig > make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date. > * > * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the > * QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR > * env

Re: verifying kernel version

Hello brfg3 at yahoo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > One of the authors in this thread seems to suggest that Debian 3 > already comes with 2.4.20 kernel. It is 2.4.18. > Is it possible the the uname -r command is returning the same version > for the kernel image? If so, wouldn't that mean that

Re: Fwd: xfs_force_shutdown(md(9,0),0x8) called from line 1070 of file xfs_trans.c.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >we're having nasty problems an our new raid on a linux box: >When performing hevy i/o (in present case was scp -r), the disks >get disconnected with this kernel message: > >- >Dec 3 15:55:34 machine sshd(pam_unix)[1791]: s

sarge

HI Where can I find a sarge iso please thx Arkel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Versions

Monique Y. Herman bounceswoosh.org> writes: > Why not just call it "bleeding-edge"? That would be pulling stuff from Experimental :) I still think Unstable is quite stable, with only a small amount of diligence. --M. Kirchhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

USB and IDE-SCSI devices not showing up (migration from Mandrake to Debian testing).

I recently did a clean installation of Debian testing on my workstation, but I can't find my USB devices and CD-RW. /sbin/lsmod includes the following: sg 28412 0 (autoclean) (unused) usb-uhci 19696 0 (unused) usb-ohci 16136 0 (unused) usbcore

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

Hello brfg3 at yahoo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r > shows a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables > support. I made two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two > different tutorials and both t

rescue floppies

Hello, I want to make a rescue floppy set for my woody system. Where should I look for information? The Rescue Floppy section of the Installing manual doesn't help... Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

brfg3 at yahoo yahoo.com> writes: >Is there someway to install a 2.4.18 kernel while installing from the cd, and >maybe avoidthis hassle?TIA ! Boot from the install CD and read the Help; you'll see how to install a 2.4.18 kernel from the get-go. --M. Kirchhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

Whoops. Didnt send this to the list... On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:01, brfg3 at yahoo wrote: > I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r shows > a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables support. I > made two attemps to install a debian kernel image f

Re: scp: a way to disable password authentication?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:03:52AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I would like to know how I can disable password authentication for scp > (on the client side), i.e. I want to connect by RSA authentication only, > and if this is not possible, I want scp to fail. > > The reason is that scp is call

Re: Benefit of source packages?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:30:13PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm curious: what's the benefit of source packages? Do they allow you to > optimize the package for your system like Gentoo does? Are there any > other reasons why they're "better" than regular packages? I assume you mean Debi

Bruce Perens talks to BBC

Quote from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3422853.stm You have to consider engineers today spend their entire careers combining other people's intellectual property. And every small and medium sized enterprise is at risk regarding software patenting. That is a problem in Europe, because rep

verifying kernel version

One of the authors in this thread seems to suggest that Debian 3 already comes with 2.4.20 kernel. Is it possible the the uname -r command is returning the same version for the kernel image? If so, wouldn't that mean that I already have a 2.4.x kernel? It just seems hard to believe that Debian woul

Re: Catches in upgrading to backports.org kernel?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:04:14AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm considering adding a 2.4.24 kernel from backports.org to my pure > Woody system to get support for my multitude of peripherals and such. > > Are there any catches that I should look out for before I go for it? You can down

Re: scp: a way to disable password authentication?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:03:52AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I would like to know how I can disable password authentication for scp > (on the client side), i.e. I want to connect by RSA authentication only, > and if this is not possible, I want scp to fail. IIUC you need to set "PasswordAuth

Re: Tuning X

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:40:37AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > both modprobe'd without a hitch. [agpgart, r128] > > > > Sounds hopeful, then. > > > > Does it make any difference? What sort of framerate do you get from > > glxgears

Re: zero swap free

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:23:10PM +, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Alvin Oga ns.Linux-Consulting.com> writes: > > > you should avoid using swap ... > > - if you have 64MB of swapp used, you should add a stick of 64MB > > - if you have 128MB of swap used, you should add a stick of 128MB > >

Benefit of source packages?

I'm curious: what's the benefit of source packages? Do they allow you to optimize the package for your system like Gentoo does? Are there any other reasons why they're "better" than regular packages? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:13, Kent West wrote: > You may need to configure your system to use the correct module. > "modconf" is your friend, then search down the lists for net/tulip. > After installing this module (I think this is the correct module for the > NetGear 311), you should be able to

Re: Formatting Floppy

use kfloppy to format s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Barry Skidmore: >> I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: >> >> # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 >> >> However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: >> >> # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt > > "-f" (according to t

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

On Friday 23 January 2004 02:01 pm, brfg3 at yahoo wrote: > I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r > shows a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables > support. I made two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two > different tutorials and

Mozilla 1.6 released

Hi, Mozilla 1.6 was released. I'm compiling it with Xft2 for Woody. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

brfg3 at yahoo wrote: I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r shows a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables support. I made two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two different tutorials and both times kernel did not find the standar

How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r showsa 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables support. Imade two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two differenttutorials and both times kernel did not find the standard netgear 311 niccard. It

Re: Formatting Floppy

Hello Barry Skidmore (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: > > # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 > > However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: > > # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt > > I receive an error message that it is not an msdos

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hello JAMES MERRITT (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am having a little problem with my Debian Woody. The other day when > I tried to boot into Woody, it started the normal text bootup screen > before it goes into to KDE graphical login screen. But, during the > text portion of the boot up proce

Re: Formatting Floppy

The command "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0" worked fine. I will also try your suggestion of including the "-m 1" option, although I have not done so yet. Thanks for the help. Barry > Try "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0h1440". You might also wish the "-m 1" to > minimize the amount of space lost to the lost+fou

Re: ALSA can't find modules

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:24, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Soumyadip Modak (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm trying to setup ALSA on my unstable system. I have an nforce 2 igp > > with onboard i810 compatible sound. I installed the alsa-base, > > alsa-utils and alsaconf packages. But al

Re: Upgrade to new versions(woody - > sarge)

Roelof Wobben wrote: Hello, I refrase my question: What i meant was : how can i update woody to sarge I know that the answer is somewhere in internet but i can't find it. Assuming you're pulling your packages from the Internet, edit "/etc/apt/sources.list" so that all the instances of "

Re: mutt and Return-path

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:09:11PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:29:01PM +0100, M. Mueller wrote: > > > > Indeed. Currently I am setting From and Return-path to the same values > > in the default values and the folder-hook values > > > > Is Return-path necessary? It se

Re: Mozilla 1.5 from testing and Java

Martin Weinberg wrote: > Hi, I tried both: j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin j2re-1.4.2-rc1-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin from the Blackdown ftp site. I unpacked them, copied the plugin to /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla and made the link to /etc/alternatives. The "about plugins" showed tha

Cannot Open Root Device - Was: Unidentified subject!

JAMES MERRITT wrote: Hi everyone, I am having a little problem with my Debian Woody. The other day when I tried to boot into Woody, it started the normal text bootup screen before it goes into to KDE graphical login screen. But, during the text portion of the boot up process, it stopped and g

[dpkg] configuration issues?

Hi, I was hoping someone could answer my question but as of yet I have not seen any responses, and am content to try dealing with just this one issue, as I believe I can handle any other related issues after squashing this. The problem is when issuing dpkg --configure, I get the following erro

Re: [newbie] WLAN and Graphic

Piotr Skrzypek wrote: Hello, i cam imagine, that this topic is very popular, but i cant find anywhere some newbie`s information. I`ve just install Debin 30r2 because i didn`t want to hold illegal windows. My problem is that i can`t acces internet (WLAN Planet WL8305) and to run some graphic in

Re: Formatting Floppy

Incoming from Barry Skidmore: > I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: > > # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 > > However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: > > # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt "-f" (according to the man page) "fakes" the operation; ie., it does everyth

Re: Formatting Floppy

Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:13:51PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: > > # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 > > However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: > > # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt > > I receive an error message

Re: Re: Upgrade to new versions(woody - > sarge)

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:26:21PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote: > What i meant was : how can i update woody to sarge > I know that the answer is somewhere in internet but i can't find it. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgrade Always check the documentation

Re: Re: Upgrade to new versions(woody - > sarge)

Hello, I refrase my question: What i meant was : how can i update woody to sarge I know that the answer is somewhere in internet but i can't find it. Regards, Roelof -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Formatting Floppy

I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt I receive an error message that it is not an msdos disk. However, if I try to mount it with this command, I receive the

Zuerich MO/TU next week

I'll will travel to Zuerich next week to attend [EMAIL PROTECTED] So if anyone is interested in meeting and signing keys on Monday evening ot Tuesday afternoon, please drop me a note. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [

Re: zero swap free

Incoming from Alvin Oga: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, David G. Schlecht wrote: > > > I'm running Linux v2.2.16 from a Debian distro. The "free" command shows > > zero bytes of swap free out of 129 Mb (same size as physical mem). > > > > The culprit was qpopper when I received a 200Mb e-mail. > > > >

Unidentified subject!

Hi everyone, I am having a little problem with my Debian Woody.  The other day when I tried to boot into Woody, it started the normal text bootup screen before it goes into to KDE graphical login screen.  But, during the text portion of the boot up process, it stopped and gave this message: V

Re: Promise Ultra 100 TX2 (PDC20268)

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:40:05 +0100, Rthoreau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:39:16PM +0100, Micha wrote: ... >> i just want to aks if the Ultra 100 TX2 is supported by debian and if >> yes can you tell me which kernel (kernel-patch) or driver i need ? ... > > Debian Sarge does support your ca

Re: apt/sources.list error

> In general, I think you need to read the APT-HOWTO. It's easily findable > on the Debian web site or via Google. Just downloaded it, and will follow your suggestion. Thanks. Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] WLAN and Graphic

On 2004-01-23, Piotr Skrzypek penned: > > Hello, i cam imagine, that this topic is very popular, but i cant find > anywhere some newbie`s information. I`ve just install Debin 30r2 > because i didn`t want to hold illegal windows. My problem is that i > can`t acces internet (WLAN Planet WL8305) an

Re: ALSA can't find modules

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:50:22 +0100, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > I'm trying to setup ALSA on my unstable system. I have an nforce 2 igp > with onboard i810 compatible sound. I installed the alsa-base, alsa-utils > and alsaconf packages. But alsaconf can't detect my onboard sound, and cat > /var/log/bo

Re: [newbie] WLAN and Graphic

Hello Piotr Skrzypek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hello, i cam imagine, that this topic is very popular, but i cant find > anywhere some newbie`s information. I`ve just install Debin 30r2 > because i didn`t want to hold illegal windows. My problem is that i > can`t acces internet (WLAN Planet W

一台电脑变多台

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Re: Unselecting dselect selections problem

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 17:29, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Nick! > > If what Leandro said doesn't work for you you can just place the > curser above the category "Up to date installed packages" in "Select" > and hit '+' as well as place it above "Available packages (not > currently installed)" and

Re: Unable to find Ncurses libararies/Compile Kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forest Fisher) writes: > I'm trying to upgrade from the 2.4.18 kernel that installs with the > bf24 flavor to hopefully a 2.6.1 kernel but at the very least, a > 2.4.24 kernel. I put the zipped source code (i.e. > linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2) into the /usr/src directory, checked to mak

Re: VA box network install challenge

Thanks for your helpful response. Here's some output from the different troubleshooting attempts. - /etc/init.d/networking stop -- resulted in this: "SIOCDELRT: No such device" - running "mii-tool" as root resulted in this: "No MII interfaces found" - bringing up interface manually with ifup

Re: apt/sources.list error

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Colin, sorry to be so dense about all this. I write now because I > succeeded by _not_ following your advice :-(, and so naturally would > like to understand why. You did follow my advice; you just didn't realize it. :) > The actual

Re: [newbie] WLAN and Graphic

Hello, instead of googling for a specific hard ware, try to find something about your computer itself: someone has certainly put something about it on the internet. It would be very surpprising that you are the first one to try to install Linux (or Debian) on it. hth, Jerome Piotr Skrzypek wrote

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Re: Where'd the fonts go?

> "Robert" == Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my Robert> fonts. ... Bug 223352? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223352 -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 10

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Hello Nick! On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:01:51PM +, Nick Cunnah wrote: I have deselected a number of already installed packages by mistake. How can I get dselect back into its currently installed & uninstalled state, ie cancel any changes I have requested to be made but have not yet run the ins

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Ryan Mackay said: > Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Is there any way to use the 'standard' ftp in this sort of way? >> >> ncftpget -c [options] remote-host remote-file > stdout >> >> I want to be able to pipe a download thru dd, but I do

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Hello, i cam imagine, that this topic is very popular, but i cant find anywhere some newbie`s information. I`ve just install Debin 30r2 because i didn`t want to hold illegal windows. My problem is that i can`t acces internet (WLAN Planet WL8305) and to run some graphic interface (kde or somt

Re: VA box network install challenge

Danny O'Brien wrote: Kernel ver. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1. There goes that idea. A friend replied that he also had trouble with getting Linux to recognize the built-in Ethernet in his VA FullOn box, and his solution was to install a separate NIC. I wonder if that's why VA originally insisted on the

Re: apt/sources.list error

Colin, sorry to be so dense about all this. I write now because I succeeded by _not_ following your advice :-(, and so naturally would like to understand why. The actual path to the backported wood postfix file is: http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/hmh/ postfix/p

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

Sorry Soumyadip, didn't mean to send that directly to you. I hit the wrong reply button again. > Starting gdmand running metacity --replace says the same. > Am i missing something ? I don't know if this is the "correct" way but I used the alternatives facility to change my default WM and gnome s

Re: unsubscribe

Jim Frohoff wrote: unsubscribe Look at the bottom of ANY of the messages on the debian -user list.. Read it carefully. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA can't find modules

Hello Soumyadip Modak (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying to setup ALSA on my unstable system. I have an nforce 2 igp > with onboard i810 compatible sound. I installed the alsa-base, > alsa-utils and alsaconf packages. But alsaconf can't detect my onboard > sound, and cat /var/log/boot | gr

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Hi guys, I need to configure a ppp server with cell phone as my modem. I got one Nokia 6120 and a serial data cable and connected it on my Linux box runing mgetty with autoppp(I tested it with serial external modem and its running ok). I tested the serial conection between my cell phone and my linu

Re: What is 'cat: alsa: No such file or directory' all about?

--- duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:00:21 +0100, Simon Tod wrote: > > > I'm getting an error message trying to upgrade a number of packages > that > > looks like > > > > Setting up modutils (2.4.26-1) ... > > cat: alsa: No such file or directory > > dpkg: error processin

Red Buttom Pointer/Mouse on IBM Thinkpad not working when booting from LTSP server

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