Re: linux-wlan-ng/firmware loading
Matthias Leopold schrieb: hi this one is for those brave folks who know about the interiors of linux-wlan-ng setup and how it is handled the upstream way and in the available debian-packages. i'm trying to use a testing system with recent wireless software. so i use a selfcompiled 2.6.12.5 kernel, compiled the linux-wlan-ng modules for my kernel from the sources (ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.2.tar.bz2), copied only the *.ko files into /lib/modules/2.6.12.5/linux-wlan-ng and installed http://linux-wlan-ng.alioth.debian.org/deb/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.2-1_i386.deb, which contains the needed userland programs and configuration files. so far no problem. the problem now arises when i insert my card, pcmcia setup scripts call each other and finally /etc/wlan/shared complains it can't source "/etc/wlan/shared.*". from my attempts at installing linux-wlan-ng completely from upstream source i know that this is the point where firmware loading happens. an install from upstream source supplies /etc/wlan/shared.prism2, firmware files(?) and /sbin/prism2dl whereas the debian packages do not. nevertheless the script included in the debian package expects to find "/etc/wlan/shared.*", otherwise it bails out. so what's wrong here? i admit to having fiddled quite a bit with various debian packages and source installs of linux-wlan-ng on my system, but know i really want to know how this SHOULD work. thanks for reading so far and maybe helping me matthias in case anyone cares for the solution (which i doubt looking at the responses to my posting): the problem is mentioned here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327694 and solved in http://linux-wlan-ng.alioth.debian.org/deb/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.2-3_i386.deb matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux-wlan-ng/firmware loading
hi this one is for those brave folks who know about the interiors of linux-wlan-ng setup and how it is handled the upstream way and in the available debian-packages. i'm trying to use a testing system with recent wireless software. so i use a selfcompiled 2.6.12.5 kernel, compiled the linux-wlan-ng modules for my kernel from the sources (ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.2.tar.bz2), copied only the *.ko files into /lib/modules/2.6.12.5/linux-wlan-ng and installed http://linux-wlan-ng.alioth.debian.org/deb/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.2-1_i386.deb, which contains the needed userland programs and configuration files. so far no problem. the problem now arises when i insert my card, pcmcia setup scripts call each other and finally /etc/wlan/shared complains it can't source "/etc/wlan/shared.*". from my attempts at installing linux-wlan-ng completely from upstream source i know that this is the point where firmware loading happens. an install from upstream source supplies /etc/wlan/shared.prism2, firmware files(?) and /sbin/prism2dl whereas the debian packages do not. nevertheless the script included in the debian package expects to find "/etc/wlan/shared.*", otherwise it bails out. so what's wrong here? i admit to having fiddled quite a bit with various debian packages and source installs of linux-wlan-ng on my system, but know i really want to know how this SHOULD work. thanks for reading so far and maybe helping me matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6 and /dev/dsp
hi i compiled 2.6.1 on my testing system from the sources from kernel.org. seems to work so far (alsa sound module is loaded fine) but there are (not unexpectedly) some issues with devices. i compiled devfs support into the kernel and started devfsd (like in 2.4.x). result: no /dev/dsp. next try was rebooting without starting devfsd, result: ls /dev/dsp works, artsd and xmms can't find it anyway. i use debians module-init-tools, of course, so there is a /etc/modprobe.devfs. i tried it with the default version of /etc/modprobe.conf and with one generated by generate-modprobe.conf, no difference. anyone knows what went wrong? thanks matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wdm problem
hi i would like to use wdm instead of xdm, but on two out of three debian boxes it doesn't work. i can't login. i enter my credentials, wdm seems to log me in ...then the xserver restarts and there's wdm again. nothing about wrong password or anything. no logfiles (/var/log/wdm.log, /var/log/auth.log, etc) are giving me any hints. xdm, kdm, gdm all work. on a third box wdm miraculously works. version is testing. thanks for help matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
display manager problems
hi 1.) since xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-11 was introduced into testing i have the problem that after xdm (or wdm) starts, i have to wait some time (maybe 30-60 seconds) before the xserver responds to keyboard input while the mouse works fine. after that or when i start X via startx theres's no problem. the videocard i use is some ati card, xfree-driver is "r128". with the "old" testing xserver-xfree86 i didn't have this problem. 2.) while examining the above problem i noticed, that changing the preferred display manager via dpkg-reconfigure doesn't seem to work. when i try to change it the debconf frontend lets me do it, but the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager isn't changed. i've tried the frontends dialog,readline and editor, all the same. i've experienced this also on a second system, where i additionally get error-messages (see below) when i do "dpkg-reconfigure kdm" (from unstable, not present on the first system), with xdm,wdm just nothing happens. error message after "dpkg-reconfigure kdm": sh: line 5131: /usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/MarqueeMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun: No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/MarqueeMessage/Brilliant!/Help' to `/usr/share/doc/': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/MarqueeMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun': No such file or directory sh: line 5166: /usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/NoseMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun: No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/NoseMessage/Brilliant!/Help' to `/usr/share/doc/': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/NoseMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun': No such file or directory both systems are mostly testing with some parts from unstable. did anyone else encounter these problems? any advice? thanks matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
screenshot of mplayer-movie?
hi although this isn't debian-specific, i hope someone can help me (i AM using debian). how can i make screenshots of playing videos(maybe fullscreen)? i've tried to do this using the import program from ImageMagick, but it obviously doesn't work. somewhere i read that i should disable the xvideo extension to make screenshots of movies, but i don't know how to do this. im using the commercial nvidia driver and the mplayer debs from http://marillat.free.fr/ on a (mostly) testing system. everything works fine, except i can't make screenshots to brag with... thanks matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3
hi i tried to recompile my 2.4.20 kernel with make-kpkg (as i have successfully done before) incorporating the xfs and ck patches. this time the process stopped with the following error message: net/network.o(.text+0xe117): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb in google i found one reference to this problem (but no solution) which linked the problem to the newly introduced gcc-3.3. how do i avoid this? relevant parts of my system are from testing. thanks for advice matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
