Re: Tip for WLAN application

2005-12-14 Thread Sébastien Pierrel
tjas ni wrote: > Hi there Hi, > Do anyone of you got a tip for a WLAN application for Debian? what is "a WLAN application" ? > I could need one which can search for wlans and connect to them. > Am not using X. iwlist iwconfig > And how do I configure my PCMCIA card? I can't get it to work. Per

create a virtual terminal?

2005-12-14 Thread tjas ni
I've just installed Debian 3.1 on my old laptop here. I do not intend to use X, so I will experience a lot of terminal work. So I thought I should do something special with my console. After some search on the web I found this image: http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v298/a

Tip for WLAN application

2005-12-14 Thread tjas ni
Hi there Do anyone of you got a tip for a WLAN application for Debian? I could need one which can search for wlans and connect to them. Am not using X. And how do I configure my PCMCIA card? I can't get it to work. Perhaps I should start a new thread for that question... :) Thanks for any input!

Re: LimeWire/Zip

2005-12-14 Thread steef
cc wrote: i; I am pretty new to linux and brand new to Debian. I have fooled around with Ubuntu so I know how apt-get works. I am trying to install LimeWire. The LimeWire home page has it in the form of a .zip file which I cant manage to open. I also tired: wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubunt

Re: Cron-get security update

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 14.12.2005 at 15:56 +1100, Jin (Xin Wang) wrote: > I am using apt to update generally. But I want cron-apt only update > security stuff. What line shall I add in /etc/cron-apt/config to let > cron-apt to update from security only instead of > /etc/apt/sources.list? You don't indicat

Re: sane access for non-root user

2005-12-14 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 12/14/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 20:53:09 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > > > > > > > udev isn't setting permis

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/13/05, Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on a good quality laptop. I > bought a Dell desktop for my mom almost a year ago and it wasn't such a > good deal. So any place that takes trade-ins is a plus. I'm not really > worried about compatib

Re: apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/14/05, Viliam Kocinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > i have upgraded my instalation of debian stable to testing. My > repository list looks like this: > > t# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main > de

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Re: LimeWire/Zip

2005-12-14 Thread Denes PAL
cc wrote: > I am pretty new to linux and brand new to Debian. I have fooled around > with Ubuntu so I know how apt-get works. man apt-get http://www.google.com/search?hs=Te&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Ahu-HU%3Aunofficial&q=apt-get+howto&btnG=Search > I am trying to install LimeWire

Upgrading and removing in "Testing" release

2005-12-14 Thread Rafi Gabzu
Hi, 1. I have installed the "testing" release , should I remove packages by myself as listed in the "testing removal summary " - Debian watch , or this is done automatically after I upgrade packages through "syapt"? 2. Every new release like the new Mozilla or kde is automatically upgraded throu

Re: LimeWire/Zip

2005-12-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Peter Nuttall wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:12:51AM -0500, cc wrote: i; I am pretty new to linux and brand new to Debian. I have fooled around with Ubuntu so I know how apt-get works. I am trying to install LimeWire. The LimeWire home page has it in the form of a .zip file which I cant man

Re: LimeWire/Zip

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:12:51AM -0500, cc wrote: > i; > > I am pretty new to linux and brand new to Debian. I have fooled around > with Ubuntu so I know how apt-get works. > I am trying to install LimeWire. The LimeWire home page has it in the > form of a .zip file which I cant manage to open.

LimeWire/Zip

2005-12-14 Thread cc
i; I am pretty new to linux and brand new to Debian. I have fooled around with Ubuntu so I know how apt-get works. I am trying to install LimeWire. The LimeWire home page has it in the form of a .zip file which I cant manage to open. I also tired: wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide/LimeW

Re: [Solved] Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down

2005-12-14 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:44:27PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip: trouble after upgrading yaird] > > > I've just recovered from the same problem. The culprit seems to be yaird > (Bug#343042). I tried removing yaird, which gor me 'initramfs-tools' > installed, but the initrd would still not

Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd (Solved)

2005-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:53:36AM +0200, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is unstable ... indeed it is :) This seems to be |Bug#343042 |Just to summarize: i just did an '#aptitude upgrade' and my kernel 2.6.14 got upgraded (and probably yaird allong

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

2005-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: For the past week or more, testing/unstable, I've had unusable print output from Galeon and Firefox browsers. I've collected some hints on how to use xprint on http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu#T9.4.3 (your problem is not the one in the box "

Re: Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down

2005-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: Hi, I've recently upgraded the linux-image-2.6-686 package to 2.6.14-5[1]. The installation went as normal when new kernel images are installed, but the ensuing reboot didn't work out as expected. Immediately after the first IDE disk was detected, output like this w

apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Viliam Kocinsky
Hi, i have upgraded my instalation of debian stable to testing. My repository list looks like this: t# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb ftp://ftp.sk.debi

apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Dexter
Hi, i have upgraded my instalation of debian stable to testing. My repository list looks like this: t# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb ftp://ftp.sk.debi

Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down

2005-12-14 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, I've recently upgraded the linux-image-2.6-686 package to 2.6.14-5[1]. The installation went as normal when new kernel images are installed, but the ensuing reboot didn't work out as expected. Immediately after the first IDE disk was detected, output like this was generated on the console: /

Re: sane access for non-root user

2005-12-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 20:53:09 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > > > > > udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine. > > > > > > I for

Re: sane access for non-root user

2005-12-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 18:42:38 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > There's the 'newgrp' command if you want to avoid losing your X session > and can stand winning just one shell at a time. 'sg' is somewhat > analagous to 'su', though at atomic number 106. I think that was Rf when I was a

radeon + X300 = garbled screen on switching video mode

2005-12-14 Thread Andre Majorel
Running xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 i386, driver "radeon" with an Asus card based on an ATI X300 (RV370). Works fine in 1024 x 768 but if I try to switch to another mode (800 x 600, 640 x 480, 320 x 200), the screen looks garbled, "sheared" as if the scanline length was off by a small amount. Swit

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