Re: Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0500, Mark wrote: >I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac & Win user). I'm >having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. > >I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with WPA >pers

Re: Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0500, Mark wrote: >I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac & Win user). I'm >having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. > > >In trying to fix this (again, blindly) -- i.e. get wireless to work on >Gnom

multi pronged upgrade/migration

2009-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
This question touches on far more than Postfix, so I hope it doesn't offend anyone being slightly OT. A little background may help: I built my current Postfix host in late 2005 as a single purpose firewall/gateway to sit in front of an old Ms Exch server, on which I've archived email since 2000.

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-31 Thread green
Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2009-12-30 21:04 -0600: > Wayne put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: > > 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. > > Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is > unable to contact a DHCP server. Please read the RFC to better understand th

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 12/31/2009 10:18 PM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is >> properly >> communicating with the MiFi? >> ] > > No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is > running XP. Please show output of ifconf

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? ] No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is running XP. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 12/31/2009 7:57 PM: The following are the results of trying to connect to the MiFI Output id from the wicd.log 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 channel 11 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 ap 00:21:E8:B5:C4:B5 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: WPA_CLI RESUL

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 12/31/2009 7:57 PM: > The following are the results of trying to connect to the MiFI > Output id from the wicd.log > > 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 channel 11 > 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 ap 00:21:E8:B5:C4:B5 > 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS DISCONN

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2009-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Merciadri Luca put forth on 12/31/2009 2:50 AM: > Unfortunately, I am using a PS/2 KB. I tried unplugging *all* the USB > stuff (thus using a mere config), and the same problem still > happens. I am not using a very complexe hardware config. I do not > understand this problem. Can you give us a h

[Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Original Message Subject: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:09 -0500 From: Wayne To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: <4b3b7ecd.1080...@gmail.com> <20091230231525.ga9...@swansys> <4b3bfca8.9030...@gmail.com> <4b3c034f.4

[Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network] UPDATE

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Original Message Subject: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:29 -0500 From: Wayne To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: <4b3b7ecd.1080...@gmail.com> <20091230231525.ga9...@swansys> <4b3bfca8.9030...@gmail.com> <4b3c034f.4010...@gm

Re: Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Mark
Dear Paul, Rob, & Kevin, Editing the /etc/network/interfaces file, and then restarting the networking service did the trick! I now have wireless Internet. Let's hope I still have it tomorrow. Thanks! - Mark On 12/31/09 6:25 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu December 31 2009, Mark wrote:

Re: Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Mark
On 12/31/09 7:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote: Run 'lspci' and let us know what wireless card you have. If you've got a laptop, I bet it's a broadcom something-or-other and you need b43-fwcutter from the contrib or non-free repo (can't remember which). -Rob 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Cor

Re: exim4 vacation message issues

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Chris, Chris Davies wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: VACATION_CONDTION = ${if $h_Subject: contains "do not send vacation message" {no}{yes}} condition = VACATION_CONDITION These are not the same variable. Okay, thanks, it was late when I made that error -- but I've fixed the typo

Re: Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0500, Mark wrote: > I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac & Win user). I'm > having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. > > I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with > WPA personal and

Re: Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Kevin Ross
Mark wrote: I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac & Win user). I'm having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with WPA personal and mac address filtering (and I didn't know to plan a

Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Mark
I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac & Win user). I'm having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with WPA personal and mac address filtering (and I didn't know to plan ahead for this

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. A little IPv4 network education is in order: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is unable to contact a DHCP ser

Re: Command-line subtitle manipulation?

2009-12-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/12/31 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : > Yeah, in the libsubtitles-perl package. It's just a simple wrapper for > that Perl library, which could be used for more complex manipulations. > 2009/12/31 Teemu Likonen : > Yes, mplayer with -subfps and -subdelay options. To save new subtitle > file use one o

Re: Command-line subtitle manipulation?

2009-12-31 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-12-31 22:27 (+0200), Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there an app which I can run from the command line to change the > offset of subtitle files? Yes, mplayer with -subfps and -subdelay options. To save new subtitle file use one of -dumpsrtsub, -dumpmicrodvdsub etc. options. -- Feel free to Cc

Re: Command-line subtitle manipulation?

2009-12-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there an app which I can run from the command line to change the > offset of subtitle files? > Yeah, in the libsubtitles-perl package. It's just a simple wrapper for that Perl library, which could be used for more complex manipulations. -- Are we going to make an em

Command-line subtitle manipulation?

2009-12-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is there an app which I can run from the command line to change the offset of subtitle files? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: exim4 vacation message issues

2009-12-31 Thread Chris Davies
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > VACATION_CONDTION = ${if $h_Subject: contains "do not send vacation > message" {no}{yes}} > condition = VACATION_CONDITION These are not the same variable. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-31 at 14:43:44 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > That would be netinst, not netboot. Whatever. All I can say is that I downloaded dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso from a public Debian mirror, burned it to a CD-R, and booted from it. I then proceeded

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Stephen Powell wrote: > Hmm. I'm certain that I didn't set up a netboot server. I booted from > what is apparently the netboot CD and installed directly from a public > Debian mirror. I didn't set up any special server. That was back in > February, I think. I used it again a few months ago, ag

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-31 at 14:18:13 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > netboot is for actually booting from a network. It's just a helper for > machines that can't do that automatically. It requires you to have > another machine set up to provide the boot images. > > netinst (in both flavors) boots from CD

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2009-12-31 at 12:37:33 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Not all BIOSes have built-in network boot support, though. For those who > > don't, but can boot a CD-ROM, you can boot this CD and it will then > > continue to a network boot

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2009-12-31 at 12:37:33 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> Not all BIOSes have built-in network boot support, though. For those who >> don't, but can boot a CD-ROM, you can boot this CD and it will then >> continue to a network boot as would have been done in a com

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-31 at 12:37:33 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Not all BIOSes have built-in network boot support, though. For those who > don't, but can boot a CD-ROM, you can boot this CD and it will then > continue to a network boot as would have been done in a computer whose > BIOS can do that a

Re: new printer: USB or network? [SOLVED]

2009-12-31 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:36:32 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > So you really need NAT. What you can do is configure you NAT to forward > incoming requests to your computer. ... > Or you could simply connect the printer via USB. In this case (and if > you're the only one using it), I'd be inclin

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2009-12-31 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "James Wu" writes: > Google pointed me to these, I think it's worth a try. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462425#c80 > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=213585 Thanks. I just re-read these links (as I had already read th

Re: new printer: USB or network? [SOLVED]

2009-12-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Steve Kleene wrote: > and on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:43:12 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote >> It will help us suggest something if you explain a little better your >> setup: what is "your company"? The place you work, or your ISP? >> > > My company is the University of Cincinnati. They provide

Re: new printer: USB or network? [SOLVED]

2009-12-31 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:27:32 -0500, I wrote: > ... I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to make my now very local machine > accessible from the company network. Bob McGowan replied: > I use Shorewall to configure a firewall rules set that does NAT translation > of the 10.x.x.x address to my in

Re: new printer: USB or network?

2009-12-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Steve Kleene wrote: > In a recent thread ("can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN"), the > question arose whether I should connect to the Phaser via USB or network. > USB has two clear disadvantages: > > 1. It is slower. > 2. Talking to the Phaser on USB from my VMware XP client crashe

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Stephen Powell wrote: > Hmm. I see what you mean. The description of that file in the MANIFEST says, > "tiny CD image that boots the netboot installer" > > This is an oxymoron to my way of thinking. My definition of "netboot" > means "booting from the network directly from the BIOS with no physi

Re: new printer: USB or network?

2009-12-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:27:32 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > In a recent thread ("can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN"), > the question arose whether I should connect to the Phaser via USB or > network. USB has two clear disadvantages: > > 1. It is slower. > 2. Talking to the Phaser

exim4 vacation message issues

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I am wanting to NOT send vacation messages for some emails that have particular text in the subject header line, but I can't get it to work as desired. Here is my router configuration attempt, which doesn't work. VACATION_CONDTION = ${if $h_Subject: contains "do not send vacation messa

RE: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2009-12-31 Thread James Wu
Google pointed me to these, I think it's worth a try. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462425#c80 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=213585 James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2009-12-31 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "James Wu" writes: > I'm wondering if it's a hard lock or a keyboard lock. Does the mouse > work when you move it around? Yes, it works: clicking, moving, etc., but the keyboard won't work. > Is it only when X is running? What > graphics card/driver

Re: new printer: USB or network?

2009-12-31 Thread Bob McGowan
Steve Kleene wrote: > In a recent thread ("can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN"), the > question arose whether I should connect to the Phaser via USB or network. > USB has two clear disadvantages: > > 1. It is slower. > 2. Talking to the Phaser on USB from my VMware XP client crash

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-31 at 10:27:35 -0500, Andrei Popescu wrote: > If it worked good for you, but see the MANIFEST[1] file for the purpose > of that file. > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/MANIFEST > > It could be that the image works also for a regular ne

new printer: USB or network?

2009-12-31 Thread Steve Kleene
In a recent thread ("can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN"), the question arose whether I should connect to the Phaser via USB or network. USB has two clear disadvantages: 1. It is slower. 2. Talking to the Phaser on USB from my VMware XP client crashes the client. I now have

RE: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2009-12-31 Thread James Wu
>It sometimes fails, and my keyboard becomes unresponsive. It seems to be related to >something which is the output of my dmesg: >`exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen' I'm wondering if it's a hard lock or a keyboard lock. Does the mouse work when you move it around? Is it only

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,31.Dec.09, 09:10:40, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2009-12-30 at 18:59:22 -0500, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > You probably meant netinst here, netboot is for machines that can boot > > via network. > > First of all, I need to correct the path name to the mini.iso image. > The correct path nam

Tomcat failed to shutdown

2009-12-31 Thread Niu Kun
Dear all, Wish all on the list Happy New Year. I've just downloaded tomcat 6.0 and install it on my latest stable Debian system. I also download the latest sun jdk. Tomcat can startup successfully. But with shutdown.sh script bundled with tomcat, I can't shutdown tomcat. I have to kill it manually.

Re: hostname question

2009-12-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:41:03 +0100, www.givemefish.com wrote: > I have a home server setup running Lenny. I have a question about the > hostname and domain name. > > On my server, I would like to host multiple websites using Apache and > virtual hosts. (...) Let me first recommend you the read

Re: install

2009-12-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-30 at 18:59:22 -0500, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You probably meant netinst here, netboot is for machines that can boot > via network. First of all, I need to correct the path name to the mini.iso image. The correct path name is dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

hostname question

2009-12-31 Thread www.givemefish.com
Hi all, I have a home server setup running Lenny. I have a question about the hostname and domain name. On my server, I would like to host multiple websites using Apache and virtual hosts. I have a static IP address from my ISP over a DSL line. There is a router (wireless and wired) which rout

Re: how to put packages on hold -- permanently

2009-12-31 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Andrei Popescu put forth on 12/30/2009 3:41 AM: > >> I prefer to ask dpkg about installed packages, it should know best ;) > > I find the aptitude show results more useful.  I have no idea what the first > three lines of the dpkg -l out

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2009-12-31 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, Stan Hoeppner writes: > That's not really much data/evidence to analyze for a solution. If this > didn't > occur _before_, what has changed between _before_ and now? Always look for > the > simplest solution first, using process of elimi

Re: vsftpd runs then stop for remote access

2009-12-31 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for answer I know that , but I used debian list and the list is more read firstly, secondly ubuntu is based on debian so. thirdly I remmember I had this problem on debian a couple of years ago. by the way the problem is for vsftp and ssh too, so it is a security problem ( on openssl