Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver
root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/S etup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package firmware-iwlwifi. (Reading database ... 68697 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firmware-iwlwifi (from firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ... Setting up firmware-iwlwifi (0.28+squeeze1) ... = That means it is installed and this thread is solved. You should now be able to use the network software that can with the install. If you other problems, start a new thread. That way other users with your problem will be able to search the archives. On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/3 9:21 PM, Mr G wrote: > >> If I didn't think it was necessary I wouldn't have asked you to run the >> commands. >> > > Quite right. My error. For convenience, I've added blank lines between > commands and I added one command. > > = > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ id > uid=1000(mark) gid=1000(mark) groups=1000(mark),24(cdrom),** > 25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),**44(video),46(plugdev),108(** > netdev),115(powerdev),116(**scanner),119(bluetooth) > > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ sudo > updatedb > [sudo] password for mark: > mark is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. > > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ > mlocate firmware-iwlwifi.deb > > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ > mlocate firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all.deb > > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ pwd > /media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages > = > > Is this what you expected? > > Ciao - Mark. > > -- B G
Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver
Good. You found the problem. < Package `firmware-iwlwifi' is not installed and no info is available. So now you need to get you and firmware-iwlwifi.deb in the same directory. Really you don't -- but let's keep it simple ;) If you don't know how do: $ man cd Once you and the package are together then do the $ sudo dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi.deb as a regular user or: # dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi.deb as root. Again I don't know how you answered the questions when you installed. You can type $ id and it will tell you what groups you are in. To execute the command as normal user using sudo you will need to be in the group named sudo. On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: > No, dpkg -s just simply tells you if it is installed. If it's not then: > > $ cd > is then: > > $ sudo dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi.deb > > or > > # dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi.deb > > There should have been one installed by default. If it is installed then > you can move onto the next step which would be configuring your network. > That works exactly the same as any other desktop. Find the icon and click > or right click and pick your network or adjust settings. I can't remember, > it's been several years since I used a network manager. > > Also for future reference, you may want to install the gdebi package or > check your menu to see if it is installed. It will do the same thing as > dpkg -i except it is a graphical program like you are used to and you will > be able to install .deb packages from your file manager by clicking on them > like you are used to using. I find such things to just simply get in my way > but to each their own. > > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mark Filipak > wrote: > >> On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: >> >>> You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. >>> >>> # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi >>> >> >> You mean this one: >> >> firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers >> >> It's on my list. >> >> Do I really install it with this: >> >> dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi >> >> or this: >> >> dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all >> >> or this: >> >> dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all.deb >> >> ? >> >> Oh, never mind. I'll try all 3. >> >> > > > -- > B G > -- B G
Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver
No, dpkg -s just simply tells you if it is installed. If it's not then: $ cd wrote: > On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: > >> You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. >> >> # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi >> > > You mean this one: > > firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers > > It's on my list. > > Do I really install it with this: > > dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi > > or this: > > dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all > > or this: > > dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+**squeeze1_all.deb > > ? > > Oh, never mind. I'll try all 3. > > -- B G
Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver
You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi will tell you if the package is installed. It probably wont be on the install disk as it is the nonfree repository. You may have to adjust /etc/apt/sources.list depending on how you answered the questions when you installed. And lastly I apologize to everyone on the list on behalf of my phone. Now I have gotten on the computer and find that google has changed their entire interface for replies and am not sure how this is going to turn out either. On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/3 4:20 PM, Joe wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:53:37 -0500 >> Mark Filipak wrote: >> > -snip- > >> BTW, before I go on, I already tried opening a file manager (in >>> Debian+LXDE) and simply double-clicking one of the .deb files. >>> Nothing happened. >>> >>> There are packages which will install .deb files in this way, having >> set up the right file association, but they are not installed by default >> in LXDE. Anyway, the missing link here is that you use dpkg: >> >> dpkg -i >> > > May I make a few comments here? > First, Thanks Joe! > Second, I just returned from Debian-land. I discovered Aptitude *was* > installed. The reason I didn't think it was installed was because it wasn't > listed in LXDE's "System Tools" menu. But when I opened a terminal session > and typed in "aptitude", there it was. > Third, the rest of your very good information is getting snipped, but I > promise that I will use it. > > For now, I need help interpreting what I found in Debian-land. > > = > mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su > Password: > root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# > aptitude update > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20121214-16:56] squeeze Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20121214-16:56]/ squeeze/main Translation-en > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20121214-16:56]/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20121214-16:56] squeeze Release > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20121214-16:56] squeeze/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex > > root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# > aptitude install wicd > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "wicd" > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "wicd" > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > > root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# > aptitude install wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.**deb > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched > "wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_**all.deb" > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched > "wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_**all.deb" > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > > root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/**Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# > = > > What I did: > The packages resided in a FAT-32 partition that I prepared in Windows. > I opened the FAT-32 (./media/usb8) in a file browser. > I browsed to the folder that contained the packages (./Setup/Debian 6.0.6 > 64-bit/Packages). > From the file browser's menu, I opened a terminal window in the current > folder. > My session dialog is above. > I copied the session dialog to a text file and saved it in the FAT-32 > partition. > I booted Windows and copied the session dialog into this message. > > Questions/comments (in no particular order): > Comment: I submitted 'aptitude update' because it was part of the example > I followed. > Comment: I submitted 'aptitude install wicd' because it was part of the > example I followed. Obviously, 'wicd' is not sufficient. > Question: Why didn't 'aptitude install wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.**deb' > work? > Question (your response is optional): Why is there a redundant failure > line for each failure? > Question (your response is optional): Why, following the redundant failure > line, are 3 additional lines written? This is the sort of behavior that > confuses people and makes them think that Linux is unfriendly. > > Oh, one last thing: 'wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_**all.deb' is correct and > is in the correct folder. Why 'aptitude' couldn't find it is a mystery to > me. > > Thanks & Ciao - Mark. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.orgwith > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.
Re: moving /var
Why can't you just #mount --rebind /var /newvar B G On Mar 1, 2013 4:00 PM, "Bob Proulx" wrote: > Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > >> A simple live CD is sufficient: > > >> Debian netinst minimal CD in rescue mode is sufficient to do so. > > >> Do not forget to update the /etc/fstab configuration file with respect > > >> to the change; to clean up the /var (and let an empty one) in the `/' > > >> (root) partition. > > > > > > It is simpler to move the partition in single user mode. Just issue > the command (as root) > > +1 for single user mode. No need to boot other media. The system is > designed to be self-sufficient. > > > > # shutdown now > > > > Hmm, I have always used the init command to change runlevels. So I would > have gone for: > > # init 1 > > The documented interface is 'telinit' to tell init to change > runlevels. But in practice telinit is linked to init. Therefore it > works both ways. > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 7 2012 /sbin/telinit -> init > > > And indeed single user lever is the way to go for lots of stuff like > this. > > Agreed. > > Bob >
