Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 >> >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware >> ii vmware-workstation6.5.0-110069 >> VMware Workstation >> ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.2-1 >> X.Org X server -- VMware display driver >> > > Is workstation worth $189 when there are free alternatives? > > That's a good question. I downloaded the latest workstation update since I already have the 6.x release of VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation has the so-called Unity feature which lets guest windows run on the host system without seeing the entire guest OS desktop. Is that worth the price of admission? Secondly, there is a redone installation process if you download the tarball where it does the install within some kind of gui'ey window. But for me, and the reason I took it off; is that Unity really requires a heftier piece of hardware than what I have. I have Thinkpad T43s running Ubuntu and Debian TEsting with 1 and 1.5gb of memory. The performance hit after updating was pretty significant. You can run VMware Player that comes with Workstation 6.5 in "unity mode" as well. But everything slows way down. One other thing which I just noticed in any VM session which perhaps never did work is that I can never get RPC over HTTPs for Outlook 2007 to work on any VM session on Server, Workstation, etc. I'm still puzzling that one. With the same setup on a native Windows Vista system, I can connect to our EXchange 2007 server with no problems. Anybody know why this may be happening? The big answer is that Workstation is a nice free upgrade Imo. Its not really worth the price of admission if you have "lesser hardware" and want Unity. If you want to pay for a nice installer it may be a nice upgrade path :) What are the other things that people feel are reasonable features that they upgraded to 6.5 or bought 6.5 for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sunbird server?
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:40:08 +0200, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:40:43AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: >> >> I use the SunBirds (on Windows/Linux) and my girlfriend uses the gmail >> Calendars >> >> Is there any ways to sync the two together? I might be able to get her >> to switch to the SunBirds. > > Sunbird is a CalDAV client, and Google Calendar is a CalDAV server. > Google's CalDAV support is in beta, but so is most of Google's software, > and Sunbird is a 0.x release anyway. See heere for useful information: > > http://blog.heatery.com/2008/08/enabling-google-caldav-for-mozilla.html > > --Greg > > Use the provider mentioned above. Its easy to setup and it does 2 way sync from Sunbird/Lightning to Google Calendar. You install the addin/extension on linux or windows that's running sunbird and setup a new calendar on the net. You will see after installing and shutting down an option for google calendar. You need to copy and paste a value from the google calendar and then enter the password for the google calendar account. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need an Etch compatible eSATA PCI card
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:00:22 +0200, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a brand/model of eSATA card (PCI-Express, > or at least PCI) > that works with Etch? > > I'm having trouble finding documentation since almost everything focuses on > internal SATA and RAID. I don't need RAID - just an eSATA connector for > external drives. > > JW > > -- > > -- > System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software > http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com > > I'd probably take a look at http://www.satasite.com since most of the links for esata cards include operating systems that the cards work on. That being said, I bought an external PCI or PCI-x card there that worked really well and it was pretty cheap. I ended up getting an enclosure, disks, and card because once I started shopping I just could not stop :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blog clients and the new Blogger Atom API
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:40:07 +0200, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use various blog posting clients with a new Blogger blog. > I've tried BloGTK and Drivel, and they have ca't connect to Blogger. A > little (a lot) of Googling shows me that the new API has broken old > clients, but I'm unable to figure out if there's a workaround, or an > alternative solution. Is anyone using a linux client successfully with > the new Blogger? Is there another free blog hosting site you'd > recommend? (I may try Wordpress.com.) > > Celejar > > Hi- I've had my own wordpress.org blog until that system went south. Then I moved over to wordpress.com. I would strongly recommend wordpress.com for a few reasons. I had almost 2 years of blogposts and they placed them into my account cheerfully. I could not do it myself due to me only keeping mysql backups. But you asked about blog clients. I've tried a few: performancing - this is a firefox addon which works very nicely here with wordpress.com. drivel - drivel is nice but I cannot seem to make it post with more than one category selected. jblogeditor - you need java installed but it works very nicely on wordpress blogs bleezer - you need java for this one too; but I really like it a lot. Its being actively developed so you may find things which work and others which don't; but its a pretty nice blog client all in all. blogtk - this one seems frozen in time at the 1.1 release or so. I gave up on it after a year of no updates. You may find that performancing works with the new blogger. It gets updated quite often; but if I had my choices, I'd change over to wordpress. At a purely personal level, we need to have better offline blog clients that compare with some of the windows ones like blogjet or wbloggar or ecto. Take care. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mikesplace.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cli for iso files
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello. I'm looking for a command line iso cd-burner application to > use instead of nautilus-cd-burner. I tried the package burn, but it > does not work. I'm hoping to find one so that I can switch from using > Gnome, to using a desktop that is less demanding of resources (hence, > I'm also looking to use something other than gnome-baker or k3b). For > the most part I use Ion3, but I find that I still need to use Gnome > for the burning of CDs (specifically iso). > > Thanks, > > Mark > > You could just use cdrecord for burning ISO images. Here's a hint or two: http://www.sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ The link has a whole bunch of command line goodness for doing a variety of stuff. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acroread on amd64
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello All, > > I have just subscribe to the debian-amd64 list. > > I have at list tow motivations: > 1] indeed evince is very nice, but unfortunately some slides of mine > are not exhibited properly with evince, which appear to be slower > the acrread; > 2] I would like to install mime 32bit Maple on my new amd64 box: > if can install acroread then I hope to be able to install it. > > Jerome > > Douglas Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:23:59AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> does anyone succeeded to run properly acroread on Etch amd64 box ? >>> >>> I have follow the instruction in >>> >>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq >>> >>> but I get Pango critical messages: >>> in fact it seems that the wrong Pango library is called (the 64bit >>> instead of the 32bits). >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Jerome >> >> Hi Jerome, >> >> You may hit a more targeted audience if you submit and subscribe to >> the amd64 list. >> >> Also, what specifically is it you need actual acroread for? I'm on >> amd64 and find Etch's evince very nice. >> >> Doug. >> >> >> >> > Hi- Since the Debian AMD64 is "pure", you will need to either use a gnome based PDF reader or install a chroot environment for Debian that can run a variety of other applications. I've done this before and its not too difficult to get done. The AMD64 list can help you out quite a bit; but just to cut through things a bit; I've compiled and installed mplayer, acroread, 32bit firefox, and others. A good starting point is: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356 One addition that I found out with the mount points is you probably will want to include /dev so sound will actually work. If you follow the leads in the article, you can run the 32bit goodness with no real problems by adding the packages and doing the file edits it shows in the article. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mind Mapping Tool
On Sat, 13 May 2006 00:30:13 +0200, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I guess many people here might be using one or the other Mind Mapping tool. > > In Debian, we have freemind, vym and kdissert. > > Can somebody share their experiences about what is good in which software > and which they have found to be the best and most convenient to use ? > > > Thanks, > Ritesh > - -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com > "Necessity is the mother of invention." > "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is > research." > "The great are those who achieve the impossible, the petty are those who > cannot - rrs" > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEZQua4Rhi6gTxMLwRAlmuAJ4nM2V8Nigc8xtSao/7pO3nif4KTQCdHWXA > AEWusSIe4PawlKT+idHIxcw= > =mV4Z > -END PGP SIGNATURE- I've been using freemind for awhile because I needed a replacement for Mindjet's Mindmapping software for specific services projects I direct. Its a decent tool and I can share drawings with others running windows since there are versions for each. As an addendum to this, I've been doing the same with GanttProject instead of using MS Project for designing smaller projects. Freemind has worked very well for me and I actually like the interface since it seems to be very responsive and editing maps and levels of tasks seems pretty intuitive. I've not tried the others you named though. I have made an effort at finding a few different tools that correspond to project management and the combination of freemind, GanttProject, and a few others; have come in very handy to building and managing smaller projects that I tend to do. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome 2.14, unstable, pdf files in nautilus
Seems to be a rather strange issue with a variety of PDF files which misidentify themselves as text files for some reason but yet if I open them with acroread on the command line or choose Open With -> and choose Document Viewer or Acroread, it works fine. Seems somewhere that mime type for PDF is somewhat hosed because the files most definitely are PDF and if I do a file on them they show up that way. Not the case for all PDFs definitely and I cannot pin down if there are certain conditions that make it happen in Nautilus. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Inspiron 4000: Sarge 2.6 Compatibility ?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:10:11 +0100, cga wrote: > Paul Romero wrote: > >>Dear User Group: >> >>Is it possible to install Linux on a Dell Inspiron 4000 >> >> > I suppose you mean get 'X' to work? > >>using the vanilla stable Sarge 2.6 CD set without significant >>special procedures ? >> > I have what is probably the same card and I'm pretty sure it worked out > of the box - with the exception of dri. > > One difference is that I use a 2.4.27 kernel. > >>The real issue >>is compatibility with the ATI RAGE MOBILITY M3 AGP 2X LF >>graphics card: the one with 8 Meg of ram. Any references >>to relevant instructions would be highly appreciated. >> >> > I have been doing a bunch of debian installs lately because I need a > recent 2.6 kernel so I cannot be 100% certain but I *think* that with > sarge and the 2.4.27 kernel I was getting a blank screen in 'X' until I > booted to a framebuffer console. Bit of a long story but I originally > did a chroot install of debian off of my - then - RedHat system .. so I > could switch to debian w/o rebooting- just a Ctrl+Alt+F8... and since > the RH system had been patched to boot to an fb 1400x1050 console (with > the atyfb kernel module) I did not notice anything - until I got rid of > the RH system and started to boot directly into the debian install. That > .. I think .. is when I encountered this problem. > >>Best Regards, >> >>Paul Romero >> Hi Paul- I'm not sure of the differences between the 4000 and the 4100 but I have the 4100 with a 16mb ATI M6 LY card working flawlessly on Debian. Some potential differences are that I always do Etch installs initially and then setup xorg to use the ATI driver. Then I upgrade to Sid each time. If you want to see my xorg.conf file, I could provide it if that would help. Its highly likely that the Linux on Laptops website may also help if you find a match for your laptop there. Here's the direct link to the portion of the site that deals wth Dell laptops: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html Hope that helps a bit. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: What wireless cards are well supported in Linux?
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:00:14 +0100, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > >>Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Im using Asus WL-107G 54G cards here on Debian unstable with a >>2.6.15 >>kernel. The card uses the drivers from >>http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and it >>works very >>well. No need for firmware either and its been compiling clean on >>this >>kernel. I could not get the latest rt2x00 drivers to work for some >>reason so I'm using the rt2500 driver from there. >> >>BTW, the cards cost about 30.00 each from newegg. > > The Ralink based cards do have linux drivers, but the newer ones are > now based on the rt61 drivers. I did the same thing I searched for > the most open linux driver cards available and decided to use the > Ralink based cards. But I had problems with wep, and ESSID hiding. > I could never get my card to use wep with dhcp, or with a static ip > address. > > This is also a problem in window's I just put that card into a > windows pvr, and wep does work, but i have to have my essid showing > in order for windows to find it. It could be my Wireless AP, as > it's a few years old and only does 802.11b. And the router AP > firware is old, because the company does not update the firware > anymore. > > I have an old Orinoco silver 802.11b +5 volt card that is as stable > as stable can be. It never fails to see my AP, or has a problem > with wep. I must say that I have not seen any recent really good > cards with totally free drivers. I would like to see something that > supports everything like wep wap and does a good job. > > If you want more information on my trials with the rt61 card, just > do a google search. > > Gnu_Raiz > > Definitely good data points. The branded card I use will not use the newer beta drivers or get an IP address using dhcp off my WRT54G; but using the latest beta rt2500 drivers it all works pretty well. I don't have issues with WEP at all and I can launch a variety of wifi settings pretty easily using dhcp. I'm on a WRT54G that has a newer firmware flashed on it from about mid-year last year from hyperwrt.org I believe. But I've used the raylink drivers with firmware from a few places including sveasoft. The only real problem I have is that the rt2500 driver sometimes seems to block apm from bringing the system out of suspend and that's a problem that appears to be known and addressed in the rt2x00 driver betas. Since the asus cards don't seem to support that I'm still testing some fixes with the suspend.d and resume.d stuff in apm. The other cards I've used are the intel 2200abg minipci cards. I had this card in my dell for awhile; but it started having problems so I removed it and went with a pcmcia/cardbus card. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: What wireless cards are well supported in Linux?
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:20:21 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Magnus Therning (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> After cancelling a 7 month old order with one ISP I'm now fairly >> hopeful I'll have ADSL at the end of the week. :-) So it's time to >> start putting together a shopping list. The first item on it is a >> wireless card for my desktop. What I'm looking for is a card that is >> well supported in Linux. I refuse to use ndiswrapper, I simply don't >> want any unfree source in my kernel. I'm ignorant when it comes to >> wireless so any help/suggestions/comments are welcome. > > I use a Netgear WG311T and WG511T card (PCI and PCMCIA). Both are > supported by the madwifi driver (atheros chip) and work with hostapd > and wpa_supplicant. They support 802.11 a/b/g. Please note that the USB > stick from the same product line uses another chipset. > I'm using Asus WL-107G 54G cards here on Debian unstable with a 2.6.15 kernel. The card uses the drivers from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and it works very well. No need for firmware either and its been compiling clean on this kernel. I could not get the latest rt2x00 drivers to work for some reason so I'm using the rt2500 driver from there. BTW, the cards cost about 30.00 each from newegg. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:40:17 +0100, Rishi wrote: > On 1/30/06, david robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i would suggest go for dell i am running 15 debian servers with dell >> hardware simply fantastic reliability and nicely running > > Hi David, > > Thanks for the tip. Any specific models that you could recommend? I > called them and asked for a quote already. > > Rishi I have a bit of experience with a few different models using Sarge and Etch. I've deployed Etch/Testing on HP DL 140's and DL 380s and only had a single issue on the DL 140 line. On that particular line, you have to do an expert install and not insert the sata module right away or it masks the cdrom drive. On the DL 380s it was smooth sailing with the HP RAID controller with a RAID 5 setup. Neither of the systems were showstoppers and it took me about 15 minutes to find the problem with the SATA drive on the web. If you want to go with the so-called non-branded servers, I have had very good luck with any number of supermicro motherboard 1 and 2u setups and even have had smaller OEMs install debian for me on them to concretely demonstrate that Debian was supported on the hardware. As an example with one smaller OEM/hardware dealer here in SF, I deployed over 200 debian 1u and up to 50 2u rack mount servers running debian Sarge with no problems. I received the systems with Debian already running on them and completely functional. I've also deployed a variety of Dell servers and have had no issues there at all. Last real issue I had was several years ago with Proliant Servers and a certain RAID card that caused us grief. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:30:11 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the > "auto eth0" line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that > the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the generic > syntax for the other wireless ones? > > Thirdly, is there a program that tells which networks are in range > from which you can log onto one, supplying a password, if necessary? > An example is the Windows XP program. Is there a GNU/Linxu equivalent? > > -- > Leonid Hi- Sorry for not making my method completely clear. The eth0 line on my laptop is a 3com wired card which may or not be used; but most often is not used or wired up. I tend to be wireless 90% of the time these days. If I am not wireless, I just do a dhclient eth0 and get a IP address on the wired interface. My wifi card does not use ethx; but instead uses ra0 (common for the raylink cards) so the lines in the /etc/network/interfaces focus on different wifi networks I may want to use and I switch on by a simple command line syntax (ifup ra0=xxx). If I want to see some wifi networks which are in range that I may not know about it, I simply do a iwlist scanning and the wireless tools scan for local wifi networks and it will tell you whether its WEP/security controlled or what. If I am at a place I normally do not use, like a hotel, I just use the command line syntax to get online like: sudo iwconfig ra0 essid nameofessid key off dhclient ra0 This basically sets up wifi for me at a hotel which may have a redirect in place or requires some login on a webpage but gives me a IP initially and populates my /etc/resolv.conf with correct values. The other wireless cards use generic /etc/network/interface commands to bring up a variety of wifi interfaces with their associated essid information and/or keys. I give each one a name on the line that will help me remember what it is. My appraoch does not do WPA since none of the places I go use it. IF you need that, I'm not the person to ask. I have used the same thing with many cardbus cards and I did the same with the older orinoco classic 11b cards but in a slightly different place like the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file I believe. There are other ways of doing this with deb packages like ifplugd I believe or waproamd. I have not used those since my way is pretty much driven from a xterm and a few lines. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox Configuration
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:50:19 +0100, Winton Roseland wrote:
> I recently installed Debian after running Knoppix for over a year. I
> have installed Firefox as it was not added automatically. I am trying
> to get a correct action when using this mailing list. When using
> Windows, I can double click one of the reply to links and the email is
> configured to reply correctly (I thought that this worked from my
> Knoppix install also, I got into problems where Firefox would hang, so I
> started using Mozilla or Konqueor and the links no longer worked). I am
> using Thunderbird and when I select a link nothing happens. How can I
> configure it to work?
>
> Thanks.
> Winton
>
>
So I'm judging from your post, that you want thunderbird to open a
compose window when you click a mailto link in firefox? Is that a good
summation of what you want? If you want that, you need to tell firefox
whwere thunderbird lives. To do this, you need to be out of both
thunderbird and firefox and edit the prefs.js file in firefox. Include
something like this at the bottom:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto",
"/home/mperry/thunderbird/thunderbird");
Now you will have to adjust the second set of values after the comma to
where you have thunderbird installed. If you are using the debian
packaged thunderbird, you need only mozilla-thunderbird there. Now a
slight disclaimer since you don't really say what version of debian is
running. I do this with debian unstable's firefox but I use a nightly
build from mozilla for thunderbird and it all works for me.
Also watch out for how the line wraps in your editor. It wraps here but
it should be continuous when you enter it.
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Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:20:40 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 > PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a > bug which will soon be squashed). > > Anyways, as I am going to be using this laptop with Wi-Fi, I decided > to just buy a wireless card seperately. I have my eyes set on a Belkin > card. However, I want to know some things about wireless with Debian: > > First of all, does anybody have any experience with Belkin? Any > problems? I expect that I will have to use ndiswrapper and use Windows > drivers. Will this mean I have to hold on deleting Windows, install > the card and save the drivers to a CD or something similar? > > When the laptop can use both wired and wireless connections, how can I > tell it something like: check the wired connection and if that fails, > try wireless? How do I switch when it is on (I expect it is something > like ifdown && ifup )? > > Also, how do I configure the wireless card to go to a certain hot > spot? For example, if it needs a password. My school has a free Wi-Fi > service without a password, but at home, my router is secure. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Leonid Grinberg If you're planning on a belkin and ndiswrapper, perhaps you should also consider a open source driver that won't require windows executables at some level. I've been using a Asus 11G with the rt2500 drivers on debian unstable with a kernel compiled from the debian sources. There is no firmware that you have to find and the card works very well for me. There is probably any number of ways I've read about to do the switching around; but I go to the simplest most of the time. What I do is have a few stanzas in my /etc/network/interfaces file which will do a variety of wireless settings whether I need a wep key or there is a login or its all open. I tend to be at home a lot on wifi, at work with wifi, and at coffee shops or starbuck's where I want to use tmobile hotspot since my company buys me time there. To make a long story short, my /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback #the etho interface 3com auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp iface home inet dhcp wireless-essid x wireless-key yyy iface tmobile inet dhcp wireless-essid tmobile So, when I want to switch to another wifi network, I do an "ifdown ra0" and then an "ifup ra0=tmobile". I get a dhcp managed IP address, etc. I could just have easily have included my work static IP address assignment here in another stanza because it uses really basic sets of stanzas like any interface. To do it all manually, you could use a combination of iwconfig and dhcp or ifconfig commands depending on where you are coming from and going to on the net. Something like "iwconfig ra0 essid x key yy" will set up the card's essid and key and then a "dhclient ra0" will do the rest. There are probably more esoteric ways of doing this but since I am wireless about 90% of the time these days, I just spent some time setting up wifi stanzas. I've also used things like netenv, wifiswitch, and a few others. I just strive for the simplest way of doing things and this way seems pretty easy to me. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to net with Debian 3.0
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:30:06 +0100, Shane Clement wrote: > I have a Toshiba Satelliite A30 laptop with a 40 Gig drive, > half of which is given to Debian. I have used pppconfig to > set up for connecting to the net as via "provider". After > entering > >pon > > he plog listing says that the connect script failed but > does not say where. Is there a way I can find where the > script failed? > > Thanks for any help. > > Shane > > To reply, please remove NOSPAM from the Reply-To address (becomes the To > address when sending. > > > Wow! Its been awhile since I used ppp; but I thnk you can find sets of debug options in /etc/ppp/options or something like that. Seems that I remember being able to generate more log reporting by including some kind of debug command in the options file somewhere. May have to read about some of the commands that can go into a ppp options file and see. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote desktop and VPN
Bob Hynes wrote: > Hello, does anyone have a recommendation as far as a good VPN client > goes? My plan is to use a VPN to connect to work, then a Windows-like > remote desktop client to do a remote control. > > I do this with XP already, just curious if anyone has done this with > Debian. Not knowing a lot about your particular setup or vpn requirements... We did this with openvpn which is a debian package. We installed openvpn on the "other end point" lets say the work endpoint. That could be on a windows or linux or bsd box. Then on the roaming laptop we installed openvpn. We setup ssl certificates and then installed something like tightvnc on both and the vnc traversed the locked down/secure tunnel. This has a lot of other advantages that can take you to new places but for remote administration, we found nothing better yet for a whole group of small business clients we work with here and there. Once the vpn software is placed in both places, you can remotely administer things like printers, reach other systems, and also do a lot of routine administration. The dependency is to have openvpn installed and configured correctly on both ends. That being said, openvpn is probably the easiest to use vpn solution I have found yet. At its simplest, using pre-shared static keys is a breeze and there are clients/servers for all the platforms including on windows from 2000 on up. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to debug USB firmware loading?
michael wrote: > would some kind soul point me to documentation on how to debug > firmware that should be loaded when hotplug detects a new USB device? > this is for 2.6.11 kernel. thanks, If I have a usb storage device, the routine operation for me is to insert the usb drive and then be tailing /var/log/messages interactively to watch for a drive assignment. At the same time, I often take a peek at /proc/scsi/scsi and there should be a device assignment and type there. If I have something like my Treo 600, often I just take a look at /var/log/messages or dmesg looking for a ttyUSB1 to come up. Often with storage devices I have to re-insert the usb device more than once since it seems that the usb-storage module gets wonky at times and will not actually create the device although it appears to load in the running kernel. You could also check to make sure that usb-storage is loaded. There is also this little command line utility called lsusb which works very nicely and will list all the usb devices it finds. All my systems are self-compiled kernels running either 2.6.12 or later. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Imap
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:10:19 +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Roy, > > Am 2005-11-15 18:24:22, schrieb Roy: >> I've just installed courier imap and imap-ssl to use with postfix. The >> problem i'm having is when I try and retrieve mail from my Debian (Sarge) >> Server from Outlook Express the following message appears (Your Imap Server >> wishes to alet you to the following: Fatal error Maildir No such file or >> directory). The imap server is running and postfix is working fine. >> >> Good someone explain what this means? > > Your users need a ~/Maildir directory, > which contain at least three subdirs > > ~/Maildir/cur > new > tmp > > This is the minimum rquirements for courier-* > to work from scratch on Debian systems. > >> Roy > > Greetings > Michelle > You can also migrate existing mbox folders to maildir if need be by installing mb2md which will set everything up in the correct format and also parse and relocate existing mbox folders. I've done this before for dovecot with mbox folders with over a year of mail with no problems. It will also create the cur, new, tmp stuff for you. Dovecot does a nice job of scanning home directories and locating supported mailboxes and I've used it with fetchmail, spamassassin, postfix, procmail for quite awhile now. -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipw2200 issues
Daniel Nilsson wrote: > Hi, > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200 driver version > 1.0.3 but ever since upgrading the kernel to 2.6.12 (vanilla or debian > version doesn't matter) and driver version 1.0.6 or above I can't seem > to keep my connection up and running. > > I've [1]documented my issues in comments 2,3,4, so I wont get in to > all the details here. But I'm wondering though if I'm the only one > with these kinds of issues? I'm using sarge on an IBM T42 laptop with > a built-in "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)" card. 128 > bit WEP encryption is in use, and I'm the only user on the network > (it's my home setup). My access point is an Linksys WAP54G, with the > latest FW (3.0.3). > > Any thoughts or experiences welcome... > > Thanks > Daniel > > [1] http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=807#c2 Hi Daniel- Basically the same problems. I went to the latest firmware and a few different ipw2200 drivers for my dell inspiron 4100. I could not maintain a wireless connection whatsoever even if the laptop was only 3 feet away from the linksys WRT54G. The other thing that was kinda frustrating is I could not get wavemon to work at all with the later drivers. Just to ensure I had not fubar'ed the entire thing, I installed linuxant support for the WPC54G pcmcia card and it works pretty well. But after messing around with the later drivers it became very difficult to go back to the stable drivers and I could not get a clean compile of the older drivers. I did not research that problem too much since I got frustrated with the quality and went to the linuxant drivers instead. My WRT runs the latest beta code from one of the contributos at hyperwrt.org but things work very nicely on a variety of wireless systems including my daughters XP home box and my work XP laptop. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101
Robert D. Crawford wrote: > "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have any recommendations for the > >> simplest card to get working with Debian? > > > I think the easiest I have ever done is a orinoco pci adaptor with a > > gold 11b card in it. > > I am not sure if it is an issue with the gold card, or if it affects > the pci version of the cards, but the orinoco name was attached to > several cards. This seems not to be a problem until Proxim started > making them and came out with Rev.4. This one had an Agere chipset > that has no support from the in-kernel drivers. There is supposedly > one driver that can be downloaded from Agere for the 2.4.x kernels, > but I could not compile it. Stay the hell away from the proxim cards. > > rdc Definitely! I should mention as a followup that I purchased one of the proxim cards about 2 years ago thinking it would just work with the existing orinoco drivers. The card simply does not work with any drivers on recent kernels. The classic gold card is identified pretty well the last time I did an ebay search and mine look a bit different from the proxim card I still have that is kinda worthless to me except on XP. The PCI adaptor is also cheap and will take either a silver or gold classic card. If memory serves on a desktop, I got it working about the same way as I did a regular wireless card on a laptop. I installed the card in a cheapo IBM desktop and it worked without too many frustrations. Ebay is probably the best choice for the original orinoco gold classic cards and you shold be able to outfit a desktop for a pretty good price. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101
Steve Lamb wrote: > Ok, in the near future chances are I am going to dive into the > wacky world of wireless. Thing is my first poke at it was less than > successful. I bought a wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop and was > unable to get the card to run with Debian. Chances are I just bought > a difficult card to try to work with Linux; something about loading > the BIOS onto the card every time the card is inserted. o.O > > Be that as it may I want to throw a wireless card into my > router/server box. Does anyone have any recommendations for the > simplest card to get working with Debian? I mean the ideal would be > drop the card in, tell iprename(?) what the new card should be, > install a package or two and away I go. Hi Steve- I think the easiest I have ever done is a orinoco pci adaptor with a gold 11b card in it. I found these adaptors (still) on ebay awhile back for pretty cheap and the classic gold cards can be found as well. I also have used a linksys pci adaptor but I think it was either with ndiswrapper or linuxant. Memory does not serve well on that particular experiment. If I wanted a drop-in type of thing, I would probably go with the orinoco classic gold card and the pci adaptor. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP and Squirelmail.
On 10/11/2005 4:30:17 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: >On (11/10/05 02:42), Chuck Payne wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I need to know what IMAP program is the best and easiest to set up so I >> can Squirrel mail set up. I see Cyrus is a bit of pain. >> >> Payne >> >> PS. Anyway web pages that you have that can help me get Squirrel Mail, >> please send. > >Dovecot pretty much runs 'out of the box'. I put some notes up: >http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html > >I've not yet set up squirrelmail but it should be reasonably >straightforward. > >Regards > >Clive > >-- >www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... >...strategies for business > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've been using squirrelmail with dovecot imap on debian unstable here. Dovecot works for me pretty much out of the box but I've had a few issues with changing dovecot.conf files lately and I had to go back and read over the files for the locations of change in them. Squirrelmail here requires one to run a script that configures it. I tend to use squirrelmail every so often from public computers like at tradeshows. Works pretty nicely for me with a minimum of stuff. Dovecot has to be one of the easiest setups I've seen. I've done cyrus and uw-imapd. I first did uw-imapd because it was really easy. Farther on, I heard about dovecot at work and been there since. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup plan for home server
On 10/1/2005 2:20:06 AM, Chris Purves wrote: >On 01/10/05, Bogdan Calmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scenario 1: >> - configure the two drives for software RAID >> - weekly backup of unreproducible data (such as pictures) to the network >> (tar or rsync?) > >I don't have any experience with RAID, but I have been using backuppc >for managing backups for over the last year at my company and it works >great. Generally it is set up to use rsync for backing up a linux >machine and then compress the backup files. > >The main benefit for you of backuppc would be that it allows for >multiple snapshots of whatever you back up, hourly if you want. > >I'm sure other programs offer similar functionality. > >-- >Take care, eh. >Chris > After doing backups to tape for a long time using things lika Amanda, I finally settled on my own approach which actually works decently for me. I have a primary Linux server here at home which does samba, vpn, apache, nfs. I setup a second linux box on some older hardware with a 3ware 2 port SATA controller and 2 250g sata drives. I found a really good resource for doing rsync backups and followed some/most of it one way or the other. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Thats the overall place I went to read about rsync backups. What I do is simply do cron jobs that backup several directories to the second box including samba shares like documents, mp3s. I also save all my mail folders there. This approach works really well for me. The backup box is configured as a RAID1 array and I exported the ssh keys between them. So I have like 250g total for backups. When I want to go bigger, I'll probably just get a 4 port SATA controller and buy 2 more drives or something. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing window managers
On 9/4/2005 7:10:07 PM, Larry Fletcher wrote: >I have been using icewm for about 5 years, but I have been >having problems since I upgraded to sarge. So I decided >to try another window manager, but I can't figure out how >to get xwindows to use the new window manager. I have >searched google and debian user, tried 'update-alternatives >--config x-window-manager', editing symlinks, looking >though all of the config files in /etc/X11 and I just >can't figure out what is loading the window manager. > >I seems like I remember that years ago all you had to do >put the name of window manager at the top of some file, >but I can't find anything like that. > >Can someone please help me? > > Larry > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't know if its the debian way or not... But I usually just write an xinitrc in the users home directory which exec's the window manager that I want to run. Like exec wmaker If you are using GDM and not startx, I am not so sure. I don't use GDM or cousins at all. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VPN server recommendation
Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello List. > > At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in > order to interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux > routers. > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. > The only VPN I have heard about is Poptop. > > Is OpenVPN a good choice? Are there better alternatives? > > So far we played with gre tunnels (but no encryption). Will it be > enough to establish gre tunnels and try to force IPSEC through them? > > All hints will be aprreciated. > > Regards > > Chavdar Videff > > > I would have to heartily recommend openvpn. I've used it in a few production settings here and there for everything from realty offices to schools and used it with pre-shared static keys and full-on ssl encryption. Its very easy to push out to clients running Linux, the BSDs, Windows 2000 and above. There is a nice Windows client which will allow one to run it as a Windows service. We've deployed it mostly on Debian since its very easy to get it into the distribution, written ssl certs and pre-shared keys, etc. In my limited case of use personally, I use it to connect on the road with both my XP and debian linux laptop through a linksys router using pre-shared keys. I can reach my own private network. In a business setting we use the vpn tunntel to run a VNC client/server setup for secure remote administration of windows boxes across the net. -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?
On Mon, 02 May 2005 07:09:04 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2005-05-02, Michael Perry penned: >> >> I've used a few before. Most recently, the iogear two port works >> very well for me with X running and switching between a XP Pro box >> and a Linux system. I don't lose the mouse; dont have to switch to >> a console. The two port iogear PS/2 kvm's are very reasonable in >> price and they support a lot of different mouse controls. I'm using >> a cordless optical MS mouse which never gets lost. I've also used a >> MS trackball explorer and its worked flawlessly. There is an older >> 4 port iogear which will not support my mouse correctly. >> >> I've found the two port iogear at amazon for around 25.00 with >> shipping included. > > I don't see it at amazon =/ Also, given that you've had problems with > some iogears in the past, I don't want to buy one without knowing the > model ... HI Monique- Shoulda provided the complete story... Sorry about that. Here is the one I am using with great success, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B6IRR8/qid=1115063987/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-5805472-9820964?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846 Just to restate... This one works very well with two different MS mouse types I have tried including the MS Trackball Explorer and the MS Cordless Optical Mouse. I switch between two systems all the time and never lose the cursor or have any problems with X. I don't have to restart any services. I don't run GPM here at all on my debian box. -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?
On Sun, 1 May 2005 19:38:30 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I'm looking for an X-friendly PS/2-style KVM switch. Currently, I > have a Belkin 4-port Omniview E series, and whenever I switch back to > X from another system, the mouse goes all crazy and I have to > ctrl+alt+backspace. > > Anyone have a well-behaved KVM switch? > > 4-port would be great, but I can live with 2. As long as I'm asking, > it would be great if you could tell me if > > a) you can switch systems with keystrokes instead of having to touch > the switch > > b) if the switch beeps when you switch systems > > Thanks in advance! I've used a few before. Most recently, the iogear two port works very well for me with X running and switching between a XP Pro box and a Linux system. I don't lose the mouse; dont have to switch to a console. The two port iogear PS/2 kvm's are very reasonable in price and they support a lot of different mouse controls. I'm using a cordless optical MS mouse which never gets lost. I've also used a MS trackball explorer and its worked flawlessly. There is an older 4 port iogear which will not support my mouse correctly. I've found the two port iogear at amazon for around 25.00 with shipping included. -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user
Michelle Konzack wrote: Attention: Please Cc me if you answer from debian-user (curently I am == not subscribed, because the traffic and an ADSL Problem) Am 2003-12-01 10:40:40, schrieb Tim Folger: This is a very good idea. It might be easiest if the lists were named debian-stable, debian-testing, and debian-unstable, rather than debian-woody, etc, since the release names will be changing. Hello all, Curently my Server is Off-Line becaue a problem with my ADSL-Connection... But I have Websites for SLINK, POTATO, WOODY and SARGE and for each website a Mailinglist. I think, named mailinglists like debian-woody are better then debian-stable because there are some peple which are running older Hardware and can not install WOODY, SARGE,... Which mean, that even if someone like to install SLINK on a 486, the Mailinglist will still availlable. For peoples which are willing to Help it will no problenm, because the traffic are naturaly decreasing on older Versions... Greetings Michelle I think that this is a good idea overall. Since I also track a bit of freebsd stuff, I always liked their approach to having email lists for stable releases marked that way so one could join and see the issues for the current stable release. They also have freebsd-questions which provides a non-platform specific arena for questions. Perhaps there should be a discussion whether a debian-questions mailing list could be used in addition to the release specific mailing lists? One other minor point is that we have debian-user and debian-laptop which seems to focus on questions on all the versions for various platforms. debian-laptop focuses on mobile users it appears while debian-user is more generic. Will the debian-laptop mailing list also be divided up into different releases? I pose this question because we could make almost 6 or so mailing lists from the two we have now if we divide up both debian-user and debian-laptop into groups oriented toward releases. Would there be a move to bring together debian-user and debian-laptop into one list focusing on the releases or would we have debian-questions and debian-laptop-questions as an example? The traffic on debian user usually means I subscribe only to the digest version and then I use formail to rip apart the archives into single emails. I would definitely subscribe to various lists because I administer personal systems running unstable and servers running stable. I am interested in the wisdom of the lists regarding how debian-user and debian-laptop would be organized or re-arranged (if at all). -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer Stop working for now reason...
Quoting Chun Kit Edwin Lau on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:23:11PM -0400: > Hi > Don't know what's going on but realplayer suddenly stop working for now > good reason. It gives my this error... > > /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/cook.so.6.0: undefined symbol: atexit > > anyone have that? > > -- > Edwin ERTW Lau > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You must be tracking unstable. There is an issue with the current libc6 in unstable which seems to affect a number of things like vmware, win4lin, older versions of xv, and php4 module loading in apache. Its been reported in debian's bug tracking system. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption
Quoting John Toon on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:04:20AM +0100: > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > > * hdparm options: -m16 -d1 > > * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external > >access > > > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software > > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for > > hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated... > > Ouch. Sounds bad. > > In general, you should _not_ use hdparm, for the simple reason that if > you build a custom kernel with all the necessary options, it will > default to optimum performance anyway (you can set "Use DMA by default" > under the block device options). > > I'm running a 2.4.5 XFS patched custom kernel that I built, and DMA/32 > bit disc access etc. is fully operational by default since I selected > the appropriate kernel options. With modern kernels, hdparm is totally > unnecessary and potentially dangerous (except for performing performance > tests on your drive of course!). > > What chipset does your mainboard use? > > John. > Hi- I had a similar thing occur on a system running a VIA/southbridge chipset on 2.2.18. this a K7T style motherboard with a KT133 chipset. I had been using it with a Western Digital 6g drive and the system was so corrupt and unusable it could not find mounted file systems, the /etc/fstab file corrupt, and on... I was also using hdparm. I re-installed and went to a 2.4.5 kernel with the via/southbridge ide driver. The system now runs happily with twin maxtor 40g ide drives on the 2.4.7 kernel with the via ide driver compiled in. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
Re: Mutt questions
Quoting P Kirk on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:39:31PM +0100: > It all works. Many thanks dman. > > > What do people recommend as a console newsreader with a mutt like > interface? > > Patrick > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > One could choose slrn. I use mutt with clear aterm terminals, vim, and slrn. apt-gettable; but of course :) -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX
Quoting Theodore Knab on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0400: > Bendard, > > I don't think that the 2.2.16 kernel has dri support. > > To use the full potential of the Gforce you will need to compile the 2.4.x > kernel with DRI support. > > After compiling the new kernel for DRI support, you will also want to pull > down the latest GForce drivers from Nvidia's site. > > Someone will surely correct me if I am wrong here. > > -Ted > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:56:01AM +0200, Bernard Rei?berg wrote: > > > > BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 > > > > Hi folks! :-) > > > > A friend has a Linux-system with kernel 2.2.16 installed. He has an > > Hercules 3D Prophet 2 MX with a GEFORCE 2 MX chip and he tried many times > > to get a nice x-screen with a better resolution than 800x600 and more than > > 16 colors, but we both were not able to find the right driver for this > > video card. He has now SuSE 7.0 and wants to buy an update to 7.2, because > > there is the support for this card shipped with. But I want to take him to > > the community of Debian users, because I think, that Debian is much better > > than SuSE. So I need your help, please. Can somebody of you tell me how to > > get this damned video card running? > > > > Thank you very much for your help!!! :-) > > I am using a GeForce 2mx card with a 2.4.7 kernel, with pretty good results. The system I am using it on is a Athlon Thunderbird 1g with 512mb of memory. There are some options that the nvidia readme documents for the best results. I am very happy with the results on both a GeForce and Diamond Viper 770d. I would not run the card under a 2.2.x kernel because when I did I suffered on this system with a lot of bus errors and X dumping core on me. Soon as I moved to the 2.4 kernel it all went away. The later nvidia drivers help a lot too. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
Re: mp3 players?
Quoting Sunny Dubey on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:10:08AM -0400: > Hi, > > Which portable mp3 players work with Linux? I was looking a > > Sunny Dubeyround in the kernel, and I saw support for the Rio500, but I was > wondering if anyone was aware of other various protable mp3 players for > linux. Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a 6g player which works quite well. There is even software which will allow you to alter playlists that runs in Linux. Mine is a Personal JukeBox (www.pjb.com?). You can now get a 20g (!) version or get one you bought earlier upgraded. All it has in it is a laptop hard drive and a usb connection. I have connected it to a laptop running debian unstable with the 2.2 kernel and USB backport as well as a 2.4.x kernel. If you want a gnome/gtk manager, check out pjbmanager. There is also one for kde. I don't use kde here so cannot testify to its abilities. PJBmanager works pretty well though. -- Michael Perry | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lnxpowered.org - home pages, notes, stuff http://gnufacts.org (coming soon) - other stuff
Re: Can`t start Mozilla
Quoting Rafael Sasaki on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:43:26PM -0300: > Hi, > I have a problem with Mozilla. It started yesterday, and I cannot start > Mozilla > anymore. Every time I call it I receive this message: > > The program must close to allow a previous installation attempt to > complete. Please restart. > > and the application does not starts. I don`t know how to stop this message > and the 'previous installation' never completes. I have already rebooted my > computer, but it happened again. > Does anybody can help me please? > > thank you, > Rafael Sasaki > > I had this problem with something I was trying to do. What I did was start the mail component of mozilla by using mozilla -mail as the initial command and then I selected tools -> navigator or browser from the menu. Mozilla opened for me as a browser and when I closed the mail application, it started opening normally again. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim no longer works?
Quoting Edwin Lau on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:25:16PM -0400: > Hi everyone, > > I am using exim, and it seems like the outgoing > mail no longer works. I suppect is the header > rewriting part error. it used to work. exim bounced my > email back every time I send an outgoing message and > the error is sth like don't accept mail from this > domain. and I saw that local address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (my local machine) didn't really change to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] are there anyone having the > same problem Recently? > > Edwin Lau > > ___ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I just did an upgrade for unstable and got a new exim. This one seems to have some changes with regard to who exactly can run "mailq" and it states in the readme that only those fortunate souls that belong to the mail group can access and work on the queues. What kind of address rewriting rules were you using? I use a pretty simple one like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eh in the address rewriting area. This rewrites the headers and envelope as I want it. You could also rewrite the headers using the email-addresses file in /etc/exim I believe. Try making my change and dropping me an email as a test. See if it works then. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboards
Quoting Joost Kooij on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 05:43:06PM +0200: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the > > least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and > > for on-board sound. > > I've yet to hear any bad stories about motherboards for athlon > cpus with chipsets from amd. personally, I've not had any problems > with motherboards with via chipsets, but there are some rumors > out there about stability problems when running a kernel compiled > with athlon-specific bulk move instructions. > > Cheers, > > > Joost > > There is a lot of information about issues with VIA chipsets especially the KT133. If you peruse the kernel sources, there are drivers and patches which offset the problems with VIA and ide drives. Also check out kernel mailing list archives. That said, I run two systems roughly comparable with the Via/southbridge. Be sure to read over the via driver information in /usr/src/linux/driver/ide/via* also. I run these systems with no problems whatsoever now. Both running the 2.4.7 kernel with via patches enabled and compiled for the athlon chipset. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EDITOR
Quoting Henk Janssen on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:21:38PM +0200: > From: "Guy Geens" > > > > > It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :) > > I'm sorry if I appear to be a nitwit; but I'm rather fond of AE. Now I have > this itsipitsy problem (so do you now by the way). My Balsa broke. As a > result to that I've looked into MUTT as it goes around here on a regular > basis... But I have a HUGE problem with VI(M) as it is to much, just like > emacs. Is there an alternative? > > Because just for mailing with different mailboxes the learningcurve of Mutt, > Procmail (don't get it but I will) AND Vi(m) is as steep that it makes me > fall off (as you can probably notice). > > Also if you could set me up a sequence in how to tackle the mountain ahead > of me..muchos gracias > > Frans > > > > I like using joe for stuff. It also comes as jstar which is familiar to me because it has all the wordstar keybindings. It also works quite well with mutt and slrn. It is apt-gettable, BTW and it has some pretty nice configuration options which are held in a system jstarrc or joerc file or customizable within your home directory. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and wireless pcmcia
Quoting Nico De Ranter on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:58:08PM +0200: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to get my wireless pcmcia card (Lucent Technologies, > Orinico RangeWaveLAN Turbo 11MB Silver) to work on a desktop PC > with a Texas Instruments PCI1410 cardbus controller runnign kernel 2.4.6. > Unfortunately the system insists on seeing my card as "anonymous memory". > Any idea whether there is anything special needed to get > wireless pcmcia to work? There doesn't seem to be any information > regarding pcmcia in the the kernel source tree. > > Nico > > - > "It has been said that there are only two businesses that > refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and >the computer industry." > - > Nico De Ranter > Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) > 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I had pcmcia networking working with a desktop pc that I used as an access point of sorts. I used a orinoco silver 11mb card with a isa to pcmcia adaptor card but under the 2.2.x kernels. All I did under those kernels was download the wavelan 2.2.x driver, patch the pcmcia sources, and compile pcmcia support on the desktop. There are other drivers like wvlan and perhaps even another one in the pcmcia packages now. One can run pcmcia_cs if all references to pcmcia are removed from the 2.4.x kernels. If not, the pcmcia compiles will not complete successfully. As far as I know, the lucent/wavelan drivers were for 2.2.x only; but the other drivers should be for both. You may want to cruise the pcmcia_cs forums on wireless at sourceforge as well. Now I use a 11mb wavelan card in my ibm thinkpad and I purchased a residential gateway instead. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt Question
Quoting Noah Meyerhans on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:15:39PM -0400: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:17:11AM -0400, Todd V . Rovito wrote: > > I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list > > servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read > > the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to > > be able to perform a mass delete in that folder. What keys can I use > > in mutt to delete all the messages out of a folder? > > What I often find more useful is to delete all message older than a > certain number of days. In the case of debian-user, I will periodically > delete message older than 10 days old. I do this by tagging messages > matching "~d>10d". Then I can delete all tagged messages. > > noah > > -- > ___ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html You can have your .muttrc set up to automatically do this. I have my debian mailing list messages delete after a period of time by adding the following to my .muttrc file. I also have read debian list messages move after I read them... This only means I have to manually enter the old folder for mutt to manage the deletions for me. Here is a snippet of the relevant section: mbox-hook =spam /home/mperry/oldmail/spamread mbox-hook =debianstuff /home/mperry/oldmail/debianread The mbox-hook moves the read mail to another folder. folder-hook /home/mperry/mail/spam 'push D~r>10d!~F\n' folder-hook /home/mperry/oldmail/debianread 'push D~r>30d!~F\n' The folder-hook deletes messages older than 30 days. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato
Quoting Joel Mayes on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:04:27AM +1000: > "Linuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello: > > > > Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? > > What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? > > The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N > > > > Thanks > > > > Aah. printers and Linux :) > > You should read the printing howto for a start. > > There are several packages for printing avaliable in Debian > I prefer cupsys, cupsys-client and cupsys-driver-gimpprint > which give v. good print out on my el-cheepo HP-DeskJet, > > other packages include (lpr | lprng) with (magicfilter | apsfilter) > which I can't comment on but have also recieved praise from different > users > > Cheers > > Joel > Another good printing resource is www.linuxprinting.org. Gives a good rundown of all the different printing methods and what they do, how to set them up, etc. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folders in Mutt
Quoting Sam Varghese on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:37:57PM +1000: > I am a newbie to mutt - after flirting with a > dozen or more GUI mail programs. > > I have managed to configure most of what I want in > mutt but the setting up of folders just beats me. > > I'd like to have a few folders into which I can > move mail after reading but if the mail supposed to > go there does so automatically I wouldn't mind either. > > I'd appreciate feedback from any mutt user on this > list. > > Sam > -- > (Sam Varghese) > http://www.gnubies.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi- I do a few different things with mutt. One is to manage multiple POP email accounts inside one set of files. My main way of moving mail is to use procmail recipes to move mail into associated files. Then one can write mbox-hook commands in a .muttrc file to manage those files. One thing I do is use mbox-hooks to move read mail in mailing lists to an oldmail directory and then purge those old files after a set time goes by. One can do all of the above with a variable set of folder-hooks and mbox-hook files. A good resource for muttrc's and mutt in general is www.mutt.org and check out folks' different muttrc files. Another good one is www.dotfile.org I believe. It contains various and sundry dotfiles for preview or download. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status of debian user digest?
Around the time that the master server went down, I stopped getting digestified versions of this list. I searched the archives and have seen relatively few posts about the status of this list of late. I also emailed the listmaster to enquire about the status. Anyone know when the digest versions will start working again? Last time they went down, I was pretty busy getting all the digests that I had missed. Made for nice reading but I ended up getting perhaps 30 digests or so that I was owed. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
possible cause of StarOffice problems
Happened to be reading along on irc today and happened across a topic which seemed interesting. Supposedly if you have sharefont installed, it will mess with StarOffice 5.2. My context for this is that I have StarOffice 5.2 and no sharefont and it works quite well under unstable on two systems I use. Sharefont is a shareware font utility which you end up paying a registration fee for after use while freefont packages fonts which are free. If you are using StarOffice, you may want to check to see if you have sharefont installed. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
upgrading X to 4.0.2
Hi- I think that this has changed a bit so could someone let me know the easiest way to upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.0.2? I am now tracking stable and a bit of testing with a dash of unstable :). I see a few of the task xwindows core packages, etc. Last time I did this was when the packages had a post-installation problem. I am using a Diamond Viper 770d card with 32mb of memory. Now I am using Xi accelerated 5.03. They are quite good but only 2d. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Help!
Quoting will trillich on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:15:06PM -0600: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:59:17AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > > I have been trying to subscribe to debian-user or debian-user-digest and > > while I get a response from the list software, I get no email from the list > > either in digest or non-digest. I have confirmed my subscription when it > > requested. I use mutt 1.25 and exim from stable. I sent email to the list > > maintainer but have heard nothing back for a few weeks. > > > > Is there an issue with the debian-user list now? I really would like to get > > either digest or regular email from the list. > > you may consider yourself fortunate, once you see how horrendous > the list traffic is around here... > > you can check geocrawler.com for archives if you're > bound-and-determined to see what brilliant ideas we've > disseminated in the past... > > -- > It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often > interesting to do so just the same. > -- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code' > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://newbieDoc.sourceforge.net/ -- we need your brain! > http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us! > Thanks! I am now getting that horrendous user traffic :) I am not getting any digestified email from the list though. I have subscribed to both. I used to get about 4 digests each day. I have seen a lot of non-digest email but not one digest yet. Are there others getting the digest? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Help!
I have been trying to subscribe to debian-user or debian-user-digest and while I get a response from the list software, I get no email from the list either in digest or non-digest. I have confirmed my subscription when it requested. I use mutt 1.25 and exim from stable. I sent email to the list maintainer but have heard nothing back for a few weeks. Is there an issue with the debian-user list now? I really would like to get either digest or regular email from the list. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Xfree86 4.0.1 access rights
HI all- I recently upgraded a potato system to woody, then did the Xfree86 4.0.1 thing. This system runs win4lin for a few reasons and is a smallish dell latitude Ls laptop. I managed to get through reconfiguring X for my neomagic (ugh) video adaptor. When using Xfree86 3.3.6, I could launch win4lin using the "fwin" command which basically launches a second X server on an used VC. Now under X4, when I try I get a lot of access denied by server errors. I have tried using xhost + (not my personal favorite; but just for testing purposes) and this still does the same thing. Do I need to run xhost + on the new vc that win4lin wants to start in? I also get a bit of screen blanking when I have two concurrent X sessions running that never happened with Xfree 3.3.6. I have used the xset commands to stop this in Xfree86 3.3.6 but it seems to have no real affect in X4. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
help with some compile errors
Hi all- I recently did the glibc and glibc-dev upgrade to get a new sendmail on the system. This seemed to break a few things when I go to compile programs. I downloaded the source for balsa and it complains in the configure script that it cannot find glib but if I look glib is at /usr/lib. I decided to try gkrellm (I know there is a well-maintained deb package...) and I get this round of errors: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/lib/libgdk.so: undefined reference to `shmctl@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/lib/libglib.so: undefined reference to `getpwuid_r@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/lib/libgtk.so: undefined reference to `localeconv@@GLIBC_2.0' The error when compiling balsa says: checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved GLIB since it was installed. In the latter case, you *** may want to edit the glib-config script: /usr/bin/glib-config configure: error: You need GLib installed -- GNOME requires this as well. I have helixcode gnome installed. When I do a whereis glib, I get: glib: /usr/lib/glib /usr/include/glib.h Anybody shed any enlightenment on this? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
wmaker 0.62 deb package?
Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
success with helixcode on potato; thanks
Hi- Thanks for the great followups on how to get Potato (or slink plus), upgraded to Helixcode. The default method for apt-getting did not work for me whatsoever. A subscriber then told me to use "apt-get dist upgrade" after changing my /etc/apt/sources.list to the spidermonkey stuff. This worked but for some reason did not give me everything. I did not get the applets or games completely and gmc would not work due to a dependency on a deb called eject which acts to eject cd's. This deb is not located on spidermonkey and I got it from the regular old unstable site and then gmc began working. The final remaining issue was one over libguile which seemed to take me before into circular dependency issues; but now seems resolved. Thanks all! I found that my slink or slinkato or whatever desktop took this quite well. I have a full fledged potato dell latitude ls which I want to try next with. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
apt-get new helixcode gnome
Hi all- I made an attempt to apt-get the latest gnome stuff by alterting the /etc/sources.list file to reflect the spidermonkey site as contained off of www.helixcode.com. This system I want to upgrade started life as a slink system. I never did the apt-get dist upgrade on it but things have changed quite a bit since I initially built it. It now claims to be potato when it boots. So its kind of a mix of things. When I run the apt-get install task-helixcode-gnome, I get the following output: apt-get install task-helix-gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-helix-gnome: Depends: task-helix-core but it is not going to be installed Depends: grip but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Has anyone upgraded gnome using the manual information posted on the helixcode website? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Moving selected file systems to new hard disk
I had kept a copy of a really great article posted on another mailing list for this but now seem to have lost it. I would like to upgrade and move things like /home and /usr to a new scsi hard disk drive which has much more room. The old disk is /dev/sda and I am installing a new IBM 18 gig scsi drive to /dev/sdb. I would definitely like to get /home there since it seems to grow quite quickly. If /usr could move also, that would be cool. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
problems with gnome-card-games and libguile6
Hi all- I decided to grab the latest deb gnome stuff to play with a bit. I got the task stuff installed, got the regular games installed, but when I go to get the gnome-card-games deb installed, I get something like this: Unpacking libguile6 (from .../libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqthreads.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libguile4 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Selecting previously deselected package gnome-card-games. Unpacking gnome-card-games (from .../gnome-card-games_1.0.51-6_i386.deb) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) If I leave the process as it is, apt-get is broken trying to resolve this dependency. I am running this on a heavily modified slink system. The card games are not a necessity but they would be nice to have. I usually end up manually removing gnome-card-games using dpkg so that apt-get will work again. The card games install correctly but it leaves apt always failing trying to fix dependencies. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
slink to potato?
Hi all- I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that develops for Debian and to the mailing list for all the great advice! -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
palm pilot vs visor
Hi- I am kind of following along with this and am wondering if people are using jpilot to link their visors? If they are palm compliant, will jpilot see these and provide true desktop-palmtop integration? I am using now a Casio E100 which is quite nice (except for the OS) and it has some nice speed and program enhancements which I enjoy like playing MP3's and voice recording. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
eterm 0810 and backgrounds
I notice that there is a new eterm in the unstable tree but when I run apt-get install against it it wants to remove the eterm-backgrounds. I dont see a new eterm-backgrounds in the tree to upgrade to and the size of the replacement eterm does not seem large enough to hold the several mbs of image file I have grown to love. This would be eterm 0810 by definition, I think. Has anyone used this on a slinkato system and kept the backgrounds? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated
HI all- I recently decided to show someone that linux had a number of virtual console and had known for quite awhile that X ran on the 7th. Imagine my surprise when my Debian slink system shows up on VC 2 and there is nothing but a blinking cursor on the others besides 1. I know that somewhere there is a file which sets the VCs. But now I only get two with X showing up on the second. Clues or ideas greatly appreciated. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
mutt 1.0i
Here is a question that kind of perplexes me. I just installed mutt 1.0i from the debian package and now get colors which are not defined in the global Muttrc file or in my user's .muttrc files. When I used the prerelease versions, I got the colors I wanted. I know that mutt will use the system Muttrc at /etc/Muttrc but I cannot find where mutt stores these values when I have no global file. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
time and again
Well, there have been a lot of posting regarding resetting time. It must be... a sign of the times :). My own problems are with my potato laptop. It will not keep GMT time in the cmos and localtime on the system. It always gets reset. I have compiled apm in and out; changed the apm config option for RTC as UTC and changed the switch in /etc/default/rcS to no avail. My desktop runs this way no problems (slink system). I installed the deb ntptime package (I think) but it slows the boot process down when I am not connected to our network. I see something about a "burst" switch though that maybe I should try. I do travel about 50% with my laptop unconnected to a network. I gather overall that hardware clocks are not that terribly accurate and that people are more concerned with setting system clocks accurately. A colleague has a potato laptop; same brand. IT works fine with cmos set to UTC. Since I cannot seem to master the UTC in cmos issue, is there a way to make ntptime a little more forgiving when there is no network connection? I live in California so its nice to have the system manage PST/PDT changes. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
hwclock, date, and utc
Greetings- I have two debian systems; one is a desktop running slink which I changed to utc on the bios and set localtime on the system with no problems. I only run Linux so there are no problems with this. On my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, I can reset things using the hwclock commands and then set the system date but it does not stick through a reboot. I have changed the utc setting in /etc/default/rcS also as suggested in that file. The laptop is a potato system. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
problems with sendmail on new potato laptop
Hi all- I had a recurring problem getting the latest sendmail to work today on a new potato laptop. IT continually bombed trying to find a required file; namely the aliases file that lives on my desktop in /etc. I tried numerous reinstalls of the latest sendmail in the instable tree but it would not succeed until I copied another alias file and then reinstalled. IT still wanted three other optional databases which I have no idea what they are. Another thing, now when I write a fetchmailrc file, it wants a mda statement in the file. I dont recall this behavior before. I know that debian uses procmail as the local delivery agent. Without a mda line, mail is received but just disappears to some unknown location... The aliases file appears to be built by any number of mail agents like exim but none of these would build one when I attempted to install them. Pretty wierd. I built the potato laptop from hand after installing a base system from floppy diskettes and a nfs mount. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
duplicate call for net-pf-1
I recently updated the kernel sources using the 2.2.12 kernel deb package and all went well. I have noticed that I get a duplicate request for module net-pf-1 and if I alias it to off that x does not start up but finally critically stops without a connection. What exactly is module net-pf-1? I tried searching the debian mail archives but can find no mention of this module. Its not in /lib/modules/2.2.10/net either. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Network Printing PRoblems
I recently installed Debian potato and am having some recurring problems printing to a HP 8000n networked printer. I can print with no problems using netscape or staroffice but when I print from nedit or mutt, the printing exhibits the stairstepping effect. I am using magicfilters and the psonly600 driver. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
