Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: > It's not clear what you are trying to do. For a PPP link you want pppd > on both ends. I assume Peter is having ppp on one end login to the other end at the login: prompt as the ppp user which starts up the pppd as the login shell on the other end. That will result in two pp

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > PPP over a serial crossover cable between two machines. Fun retro! :-) What clues are found in the mgetty debug log file? > If mgetty is started interactively by root, PPP works, including PAP. > I haven't found any effect when the mgetty command is in /etc/inittab.

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread John Hasler
It's not clear what you are trying to do. For a PPP link you want pppd on both ends. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:49:35 +0300 > Are you trying to setup a dial-up old fashioned way? PPP over a serial crossover cable between two machines. If mgetty is started interactively by root, PPP works, including PAP. I haven't found any effect when the mgetty command is in

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:09:37 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Traditionally, mgetty was started with a line such as this in /etc/inittab. > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 In Debian it's customary to use getty for the serial console. That line got the job done since etch was testing: T0:2

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread Sven Hartge
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Traditionally, mgetty was started with a line such as this in /etc/inittab. > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 > Not working in wheezy and this seems relevant. > From: Don Armstrong > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:15:32 -0800 > Message-id: <20150222191532.gm6.

starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread peter
Traditionally, mgetty was started with a line such as this in /etc/inittab. T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 Not working in wheezy and this seems relevant. From: Don Armstrong Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:15:32 -0800 Message-id: <20150222191532.gm6...@teltox.donarmstrong.com> > 1. The C

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2015-03-25 Thread csanyipal
László Kohári writes: > Dear Pal, Dear Debian users, > > Did you able to find something with this problem? > I have an RTL8192CU, but I'm not able to m make it work. > > It's working as a client, but not as an Access point. > > If I try to start hostapd with minimal config I got the following: >

trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-25 Thread mizuki
Hi, Since Mar 10th, I seem to have trouble installing Debian testing on a virtual machine or a physical machine, always fails at step 'Partition disk' with partman, it complains: The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at / failed. You may resume part

Re: Controlling multiple displays with debian

2015-03-25 Thread Floris
Op Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:22:56 +0100 schreef venkat : HI I have installed DEBIAN 7.8 in N2600 board. "http://www.jetway.com.tw/ru/ipcboard_view.asp?productid=939&proname=NF9C-2600/2800"; . On the installed system, we were trying to connect multiple displays (Monitor 1 - HDMI port) (Monito

create /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

2015-03-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I want to boot a computer from network by PXE, with an NFS filesystem as root fs, install a basic system on the local disk and then boot the computer from the disk. After booting from disk, the names of the network interfaces should be the same as before with the NFS root. So, I thought tha

Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-25 Thread Michael Graham
On 25 March 2015 at 05:57, Sven Hartge wrote: > No, there is not chance of a collision. If DAD thinks there is another > device with the same address (and hence MAC) then there _is_ another > device with the same address or another anomaly (network loop, like you > already wrote). > > Using a snif

Re: Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2015-03-25 Thread László Kohári
Dear Pal, Dear Debian users, Did you able to find something with this problem? I have an RTL8192CU, but I'm not able to m make it work. It's working as a client, but not as an Access point. If I try to start hostapd with minimal config I got the following: *"Could not open file /sys/class/net/w

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 25 March 2015 13:23:02 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > All I know is that synaptic shows me the latest iceweasel as 31.5.3 while > firefox is at 36.0.4, or five major versions more recent... As I say, I have backported 36.0.1. So the same major version. > Another is that I am informed imme

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-25 Thread Ron
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:31:13 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > What doe 36 have that 33 doesn't? > > Security (and other) upgrades... > What other upgrades? > I'd be interested to know. > You do know that security fixes are backported, right? All I know is that synaptic shows me the lat

Re: iptables rules disappear

2015-03-25 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 03/25/2015 02:06 PM, Linux4Bene wrote: > Op Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:46:21 +0100, schreef Diogene Laerce: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a strange behavior of iptables lately : all rules are cleaned up >> after a few minutes. >> >> iptables-persistent is installed and if I reboot just after restoring >> all

Re: iptables rules disappear

2015-03-25 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:46:21 +0100, schreef Diogene Laerce: > Hi, > > I have a strange behavior of iptables lately : all rules are cleaned up > after a few minutes. > > iptables-persistent is installed and if I reboot just after restoring > all rules, > all rules are still loaded. But a few minu

Re: Debian wheezy on Dell 7535

2015-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:55:14PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > With so much still to learn, I didn't think I had ALSA installed. > Turned out what he did know'd was. I did so, too, have ALSA > installed on my system else pavucontrol would (apparently) not have > worked. No, pavucontrol is

Re: sound vanished with a reboot?

2015-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:19:54AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:01:23 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > > > What doe 36 have that 33 doesn't? > > Security (and other) upgrades... What other upgrades? I'd be interested to know. You do know that security fixes are backported,

iptables rules disappear

2015-03-25 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi, I have a strange behavior of iptables lately : all rules are cleaned up after a few minutes. iptables-persistent is installed and if I reboot just after restoring all rules, all rules are still loaded. But a few minutes later, they are all cleaned up. The same happens whenever I load them man

Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:57:46AM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:49:31AM +, Michael Graham wrote: > > >>I've been trying to understand what I should do about my current IPv6 > >>wows. > >> > >>I have an IPv6 enabled network but whe

Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:49:31AM +, Michael Graham wrote: >>I've been trying to understand what I should do about my current IPv6 >>wows. >> >>I have an IPv6 enabled network but when on a clean boot I don't get an >>IPv6 address (in Jessie BTW), I've t

Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:49:31AM +, Michael Graham wrote: >Hi all, > >I've been trying to understand what I should do about my current IPv6 >wows. > >I have an IPv6 enabled network but when on a clean boot I don't get an >IPv6 address (in Jessie BTW), I've tracked this d

Re: Controlling multiple displays with debian

2015-03-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hello venkat, sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but I wanted to point out that because you replied to someone else's question, it's quite possible that your message will be missed by some readers of the list (for example, if they have already decided to ignore the discussion to which y