Re: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:47:27 + Brian wrote: > On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 12:53:21 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > > If I boot the laptop with the Ethernet cable plugged in (eth0), that > > connection works fine. A good practice might be to down the unused interface. When using wired po

Menu editing on Gnome 3

Anyone any idea how to edit the applications menu in Gnome3. I have KDiff3 in the "Other" menu and I can't figure out how to move it. I've tried the "Menu Editor" sitting in System Tools, but it doesn't seem to all you to do anything other than add menu entries to which ever section it decide

Re: ethernet bonding with severak machines

On 10/31/2011 6:00 PM, Jesus arteche wrote: > Hey guys, > > Do you know if it is possible to make Ethernet bonding between several > machines? If I correctly understand what you're asking, no, it is not possible. > are there some way the create a high availability load balancer with > several ma

Re: wifi auto-detection not working any more

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:44:16 + Brian wrote: > On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 23:06:43 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > If it is so... then I really don't need ifplugd to manage wlan, it > > should handle eth0 when plug and it is fine for me. So how can I then > > combine both eth ( with ifplugd) and wla

USB Drives will not mount

Hi I can no longer mount my usb pen drive. When I run the mount vfat -t /dev/sdb /mnt/pen The commmand complains about there being a bad superblock on the usb drive. I run the dmesg command and get the message there is not a valid fat partition on /dev/sdb. However there is a valid file syste

Panning Desktop WITHOUT xorg.conf

not sure if this is relevant, but for noobs like me, this method enables a virtual panning desktop on Debian, from a terminal command-line, without need for a xorg.conf: xrandr --output VGA1 --rate 60 --mode 800x600 --fb 1280x1024 --panning 1280x1024 the "mode" is your viewport (ie, max res of

Bridged firewall, port flapping

We run a small set of web infrastructure with the following configuration: - Upstream routre - Cisco Catalyst 2960G switch segmented into two vlans. - Pair of Debian boxes with a transparent bridging firewall comprising eth1 and eth2. These implement the physdev kernel module and spann

Re: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 12:53:21 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > If I boot the laptop with the Ethernet cable plugged in (eth0), that > connection works fine. If I then unplug the Ethernet cable I can not > connect to the outside world via the wireless (eth1). Yet I can ping > machines inside

Re: Getting sound working

On 01/11/11 00:46, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >>> I'm getting pretty confused... you describe things that I just do not >>> see here. >> >> You may not have a System Tray - or you may have it in an unusual >> location (or obscured). > > No, I don't think so. See my desktop w

Re: info on squeeze issue

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:40:20 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:14:31 +, Richard wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:25:47 + > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> On 30 October 2011 17:27, Richard wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I'm about to get Fedora its marching orders o

ethernet bonding with severak machines

Hey guys, Do you know if it is possible to make Ethernet bonding between several machines? are there some way the create a high availability load balancer with several machines whit a bandwidth equal the sum of all the bandwidths ?? Thanks in advance

Re: Usenet news - server required

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:50:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:22:17 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > >> Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK. > > I just have replied to this one (read my last post). > >> Ubuntu has three newsreaders available, one for GNUste

Re: bootlogd

Calamine wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:46:55 +, Bob Brewer wrote: > >> Calamine wrote: >> >>> Yes, and that sounds even weirder, I mean, that can be launched on a >>> running system but fails when loading. I've also found another bug >>> report (which is older than the one you pointed befo

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

On Oct 31, 12:50 am, John Hasler wrote: > Sian writes: > > The drawback to a newsreader is that one has to PAY for the use of a > > Usenet server. > > Not true: > > > I have not registered with eternal-septe

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

Bob Proulx wrote: > poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > what NIC are you running? > > > > What is an NIC? > > Network Interface Card. You can find this by using 'lspci'. > > $ lspci > > On my machine: > > $ lspci | grep -i ethernet > 00:19.0 Ethernet controll

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > what NIC are you running? > > What is an NIC? Network Interface Card. You can find this by using 'lspci'. $ lspci On my machine: $ lspci | grep -i ethernet 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Networ

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

On Oct 30, 7:50 pm, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 05:12:56PM -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > > I have just discovered that lsmod for Ubuntu 11.10 gives iwl3945 with > > a size of 73329 whereas > > lsmod for Debian squeeze give a size of 46000. So my problem appears > > t

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

On Oct 31, 7:20 pm, "poenik...@operamail.com" wrote: > On Oct 31, 12:40 am, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Also, I recommend that you read > > >    http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm > > > for a fairly comprehensive tutorial on kernel building in Debian which > > documents many common "gotc

Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

Thanks to Brian, Raf, Camaleón, and J Bakshi for helping me out. I have gotten wpa_supplicant and ifplugd mostly working, with wpa_cli and wpa-roam.conf. My configuration seems to work in connecting me wirelessly to several routers in different locations that I use and to free wifi hotspots (I thi

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

On Oct 31, 12:40 am, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:24:28 -0400 (EDT), poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > > > I downloaded the source for kernel version 3.0.4 fromwww.kernel.org. > > ... > > I then ploughed through all the options, removing modules where I was > > sure I did not have

Re: wifi auto-detection not working any more

On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 23:06:43 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > If it is so... then I really don't need ifplugd to manage wlan, it > should handle eth0 when plug and it is fine for me. So how can I then > combine both eth ( with ifplugd) and wlan, so that, wlan take control > when no eth0 and release con

Kdesud locking up, JMicron card reader not working, USB 3 Controller stops working after resuming, horizontal tearing on fullscreen

Hello all, I'm facing some problems with Debian Unstable that are really annoying. I know how to report bugs, did that several times before, and that I should ask one question at a time. But in this case, I decided to first listen to the good folks in this list for input and feedback (and maybe ev

Re: is iy possible to call isolinux.cfg from GRUB2 ?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:45:02 +0530 "J. Bakshi" wrote: > Dear list, > > Can we call isolinux.cfg from grub2 ? There are many live iso images which > have this isolinux.cfg and we can use the .iso with the loopback feature of > grub2. > So it would be nice if we can just call the isolinux.cfg

is iy possible to call isolinux.cfg from GRUB2 ?

Dear list, Can we call isolinux.cfg from grub2 ? There are many live iso images which have this isolinux.cfg and we can use the .iso with the loopback feature of grub2. So it would be nice if we can just call the isolinux.cfg Possible ? Thnaks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Debian 64-bit an Dell Vostro 3750 - freezes sometimes with message [Firmware Bug] ACPI(PEGP) dedefines _DOD but not _DOS

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:32:15 +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: (...) > and then a lot of messages: > > Oct 30 20:27:48 WZLap kernel: [ 609.270026] xhci_hcd :03:00.0: WARN: > Stalled endpoint > Oct 30 20:27:48 WZLap kernel: [ 609.274685] xhci_hcd :03:00.0: WARN: > Stalled endpoint > Oc

Re: wifi auto-detection not working any more

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:42:07 + Brian wrote: > On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 21:54:54 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > Surely the auto will do the job. But as ifplugd is already there, the > > eth0 as well as wlan0 are excluded from auto. Before I had . . . , > > Unless you have some special requiremen

Re: wifi auto-detection not working any more

On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 21:54:54 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Surely the auto will do the job. But as ifplugd is already there, the > eth0 as well as wlan0 are excluded from auto. Before I had . . . , Unless you have some special requirement I fail to see why you have to have ifplugd managing wlan0. w

Re: info on squeeze issue

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:14:31 +, Richard wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:25:47 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On 30 October 2011 17:27, Richard wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm about to get Fedora its marching orders on the laptop, If I >> > download squeeze are any of the downloads that are ke

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:10:13 + Brian wrote: > On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 17:51:29 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > Thanks a lot. The installer is working perfect now. > > > > Though I wish, if I could use the .iso of debian as I > > can with ubuntu. > > The Debian Fairy has listened and granted yo

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 17:51:29 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Thanks a lot. The installer is working perfect now. > > Though I wish, if I could use the .iso of debian as I > can with ubuntu. The Debian Fairy has listened and granted your wish. :-) At the same place you got netboot.tar.gz from there

Re: wifi auto-detection not working any more

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:55:36 + Brian wrote: > On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 10:26:52 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > After doing some more debug I found the issue. > > > > I have no problem to manually up the wifi with ifup and it's > > working well. > > > > But now I don't have wpa_supplicant relat

Re: bootlogd

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:46:55 +, Bob Brewer wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> Yes, and that sounds even weirder, I mean, that can be launched on a >> running system but fails when loading. I've also found another bug >> report (which is older than the one you pointed before) that basically >> come

Re: Usenet news - server required

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:22:17 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK. I just have replied to this one (read my last post). > Ubuntu has three newsreaders available, one for GNUstep, one called pan > newsreader and another called xpn Newsreader

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:30:06 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: >> > There is something strange with your postings and is that they're >> > missing the "References:" and/or "In-Reply-To:" tags in the header so >> > your messages render unthreaded in my newsreader. While they can look >> > like

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:24:28 -0400 (EDT), poenik...@operamail.com wrote: I downloaded the source for kernel version 3.0.4 from www.kernel.org. ... I then ploughed through all the options, removing modules where I was sure I did not have the relevant hardware. ... I closed d

Re: Getting sound working

Scott Ferguson writes: >> I'm getting pretty confused... you describe things that I just do not >> see here. > > You may not have a System Tray - or you may have it in an unusual > location (or obscured). No, I don't think so. See my desktop with 2 instances of emacs, gvim, and several xterms r

Re: want to setup FAI on a running server

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 02:34:01AM -0400, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear All, Hi! > I have a running debain server which is doing many responsibilities, > started from gateway, then apache,mysql,vsftpd,samba,git etc.. server > and finally a DHCP too. I like to install the FAI ( Fully Automated > Instal

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:46:46 +0800 wolf python london wrote: > > > > menuentry "debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso" { > >  loopback loop /debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso > >  linux (loop)/install.amd/vmlinuz boot=live > > iso-scan/filename=/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso  noeject noprompt -- >

Re: Getting sound working

On 31/10/11 14:24, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> "System Tray" - to the left of "Notification", which is left of the clock. >> Check System Tray Settings (right-click in the System Tray) >> In the left-hand pane select "Auto-hide", in the right-hand pane select >> Kmix and set

Re: bootlogd

Camaleón wrote: > Yes, and that sounds even weirder, I mean, that can be launched on a > running system but fails when loading. I've also found another bug > report (which is older than the one you pointed before) that basically > comes to say the same as you: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On 31 October 2011 18:46, wolf python london wrote: > On 31 October 2011 17:57, J. Bakshi wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:08 + >> Raf Czlonka wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote: >>> > How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from >>> >

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On 31 October 2011 17:57, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:08 + > Raf Czlonka wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote: >> > How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from >> > grub2 ? >> >> You haven't even looked, have you? ;^) >> >> ht

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 15:27:15 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Yes read, but the things is not that smooth with debian. > > I have to configure it as > > menuentry "debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso" { > loopback loop /debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso > linux (loop)/install.amd/vmlinuz boot=live > iso-s

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:15AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:08 + > Raf Czlonka wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from > > > grub2 ? > > > > You haven't even looked, have

Re: wifi auto-detection not working any more

On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 10:26:52 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > After doing some more debug I found the issue. > > I have no problem to manually up the wifi with ifup and it's > working well. > > But now I don't have wpa_supplicant related configuration at /etc/rc.local > hence it is not started automa

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:08 + Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote: > > How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from > > grub2 ? > > You haven't even looked, have you? ;^) > > http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/25/boot-an-iso-via

Re: Usenet news - server required

poenik...@operamail.com: > > Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK. http://news.albasani.net/index.html.en > Ubuntu has three newsreaders available, one for GNUstep, one called > pan newsreader > and another called xpn Newsreader. Which one to use (maybe I should > try all three).

Re: Re: Debian 64-bit an Dell Vostro 3750 - freezes sometimes with message [Firmware Bug] ACPI(PEGP) dedefines _DOD but not _DOS

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: >>  You are very lucky. I could *never* get it to boot even once: >> >>  http://bugs.debian.org/644174 > > Well, I didn't try to use debian/stable. I switched to debian/testing in > 1999 (If I remember correctly). > So I started with kernel

Re: how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote: > How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from > grub2 ? You haven't even looked, have you? ;^) http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/25/boot-an-iso-via-grub2/ -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Usenet news - server required

"poenik...@operamail.com" writes: > Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK. http://news.individual.net/ Not free, but very cheap (10 euro / year), and very good. -Miles -- Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

how to boot debian installer iso directly from grub2 ?

Dear list, How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from grub2 ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111031130243.43494...@shiv