Cannot apply network settings unless I reboot

2006-12-30 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hi there, I am fighting since the last couple of days with the network configuration on my iBook running Sid: I cannot apply new settings to my network configuration unless I reboot. I'll show you what I mean: a) Before rebooting I deactivated all interfaces. This is right after reboot:

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:51:01PM +, Mark Brown wrote: I'm not sure what the criteria are for listing on that page? I've no involvement with the buildds or anything - all the PowerPC stuff I've ever done has been to do with porting user space applications and testing. That is porting.

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:53:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:51:01PM +, Mark Brown wrote: I'm not sure what the criteria are for listing on that page? I've no involvement with the buildds or anything - all the PowerPC stuff I've ever done has been to do

Re: USB blocked under 2.6.18

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:35:49PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA wrote: Under 2.6.18, I can’t use USB at all. Be it print jobs, lsusb or any other command, it just blocks forever. What’s wrong, or what could I check? can you give more info about the problem ?

Re: Cannot apply network settings unless I reboot

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: vasquez:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 vasquez:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf # generated

Re: Cannot apply network settings unless I reboot

2006-12-30 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:10:06 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote: I *think* (could google it, but I'm lazy) the funny IP address, 169.254.0.0, is one of the reserved addresses that can be used if DHCP is otherwise unable to determine the network configuration. I've seen it before. Yeah I have

Re: connecting projector to titanium laptop

2006-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-12-29 11:39:08 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows when the official kernels will be patched? This is rather annoying, it was working in the past. It won't be. The current kernel behaviour is actually appropriate, and you must remember

Re: Installing Debian on a Beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)

2006-12-30 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:33:31AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: The second is miboot which works quite well on OldWorld, but it only boots from floppy disk. I'd just like to remind everyone that this is primarily for legal, not technical reasons. The Linux/ppc CDs that were handed out for free

Re: Scary IDE message and a hang in fresh Etch installation

2006-12-30 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [I cc-ed debian-powerpc; as a consequence personal part is reduced ;-)] César Gómez Martín wrote: Hi Eddy, how are you doing? Hello César :-) Is ok, on holiday, at home I have the same problem with my iBook [EMAIL PROTECTED] with etch and Ubuntu

Re:

2006-12-30 Thread Paul Mackerras
Rick Thomas writes: However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very slow (as if a process in continually crashing and restarting) and

Migrating from iMac/powerpc to iMac/intel

2006-12-30 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hi, I just wrote to debian-users because I need to move a whole debian box from a powerpc iMac to an intel pc. The problem is that there seems to be platform specific files in use and that means that simply reinstalling packages and copying /etc will not be enough. I write here because I

Re: ATI and Cinema 30 ... dual link seems not to work

2006-12-30 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi, I'll just answere myself ... for others to find this :) Am Freitag, den 29.12.2006, 05:50 +0100 schrieb Michael Flaig: Hi, does anyone got a 30 Cinema Display to work with an ATI Card? Well ... still doesn't work properly but getting closer. Option ForceMonitors tmds2i should enable

Re: Re:

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Rick Thomas writes: However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very slow (as if a process