Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-07 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi all, I read some good reviews about this network printer/scanner, and noticed that it can scan to email or FTP. So I made the flawed(?) assumption that the printer would work independently without a software suite / drivers from Brother. I tried to install it with the kde "Print Settings"

Fonts appearing with evince but not okular

2016-03-07 Thread Dylan Thurston
Hello, On my Debian unstable system, I have a document which evince displays correctly, but for which okular does not display much of the text. This strikes me as odd, since (as I understand it) both ultimately use the poppler back end, correct? 'gv' also displays the document correctly. Unfortu

Re: Cannot Load Changelogs!

2016-03-07 Thread Martin Read
On 07/03/16 03:13, maddonkeyk...@safe-mail.net wrote: In Synaptic, I can't load any Changelogs, it gives this message: This change is not coming from a source that supports changelogs. Failed to fetch the changelog for cpio URI was: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_

Re: wireless not working in strech

2016-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Would you be willing to install Kalilinux? I installed KaliLinux2.0 on a system and was shocked when it not only found my ralink wireless adapter but was able to configure it and go out on the network and install updates during installation. You may also have similar luck using that version w

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andy Smith a écrit : > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:39:26AM +, Andy Smith wrote: >> As per >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ >> I wrote an ISO of the current amd64 netinst including non-free >> firmware to a USB and booted from it. >> >> At no poin

wireless not working in strech

2016-03-07 Thread nice sw123
After an upgrade, wireless is no longer working in stretch. (I was using a wireless adapter and needed package: firmware-realtek). * network-manager does not show wireless * sudo iwconfig ... shows wlx008733553eaa instead of wlan0 * dmesg ...shows "renamed from wlan0" * issung the command

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Mar 2016 at 07:21:06 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 8/03/2016 6:30 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > >>> dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x > >> > >> You've tried using dpkg from a console in the installer at the install

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Mar 2016 at 20:58:13 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > > Over the years I've observed that statements based on some preconceived > > idea take precedence over trying a procedure and coming to a conclusion > > based on experience and what is

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 6:30 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : >>> dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x >> >> You've tried using dpkg from a console in the installer at the install >> stage we are considering? Feel free to report back on your experience. >

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > Over the years I've observed that statements based on some preconceived > idea take precedence over trying a procedure and coming to a conclusion > based on experience and what is documented. Given your criticism, I suppose you did try. Can you cop

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Mar 2016 at 20:30:19 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > > > dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x > > > > You've tried using dpkg from a console in the installer at the install > > stage we are considering? Feel free to report back o

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > > dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x > > You've tried using dpkg from a console in the installer at the install > stage we are considering? Feel free to report back on your experience. No, but I am ready to bet public humiliation that t

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 4:31 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. >> >> But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in >> the file names. >> >> How can I get exim4 to crea

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Mar 2016 at 16:19:37 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > > 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want: > > > > ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ > > > > 3. Uncompress data.tar.xz: > > > > unxz data.tar.xz > > > > 4.

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 4:31 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Probably the easiest way is to get dovecot to create the files. Look at > either http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim or > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LMTP/Exim for how to tell Exim to deliver

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

2016-03-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 07 March 2016 17:14:40 Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:54:22PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:43:56PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > > > Correct syntax is: > > > > > > > > -- > > > > de

Using a dedicated partition for VBox install

2016-03-07 Thread Levi Darrell
Has anybody had any luck using VBox to install a second system to a dedicated partition on the host system, rather than a dynamically allocated virtual hard disk? The reason I want to do this is that my computer has two drives, a 120 GB SSD to which I have my host Debian system installed, and a 1 T

Business proposition

2016-03-07 Thread Mike Jefferson
Hello, I am Mike Jefferson, and I am the digital marketing representative of several leading online sites and companies. These companies operate in various field that include: The gaming industry, Sports, Leisure industry and a Flower delivery brand. I was impressed by your site: https://www.de

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in the file names. How can I get exim4 to create all new emails using the maildir_tag format? Probably the ea

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

2016-03-07 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:54:22PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:43:56PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > > Correct syntax is: > > > > > > -- > > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main >

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-07 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 08:11:43 +0100 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2016 07:18:59 Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:03:01 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > > > > wrote: > > > On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > > >

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:19:37 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: >L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : >> 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want: >> >> ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ >> >> 3. Uncompress data.tar.xz: >> >> unxz data.tar.xz >> >> 4. Install the f

Re: How to install wine (Was: empty subject)

2016-03-07 Thread Linux-Fan
[Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:45:22 +0100] Milos Djeric wrote: > How to install wine on debian 8 Jessie 64bit?Why is so hard and hear > tearing to manage this?I searched on internet try ewerything > installed from synaptic from terminal either works and when i tupe in > terminall wine --version it show win

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2016-03-07 Thread Milos Djeric
How to install wine on debian 8 Jessie 64bit?Why is so hard and hear tearing to manage this?I searched on internet try ewerything installed from synaptic from terminal either works and when i tupe in terminall wine --version it show wine 1.6.2 but on start meny on cinamon lxde xfce etc nowhere to

Sane/XSane on Debian Jessie (Error during device I/O)

2016-03-07 Thread rmail
After many hours of troubleshooting/googling, looking for some help: I'm switching from Ubuntu to Debian Jessie, and am having problems scanning via Sane. Oddly, I had no trouble with scanning on Ubuntu/Xubuntu (14.04) with the same computer and same scanner/printer. Printing is fine on both OS's.

exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in the file names. How can I get exim4 to create all new emails using the maildir_tag format? I believe that I need to add this in to my config, but I've tried to do so and am no

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : > 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want: > > ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ > > 3. Uncompress data.tar.xz: > > unxz data.tar.xz > > 4. Install the firmware in /lib/firmware: > > tar xvf data.tar What is the poi

[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.69 Released

2016-03-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
[For a web announcement, see: http://www.researchut.com/blog/laptop-mod e-tools-1-69 ] I am very pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools version 1.69. This release adds on many bug fixes and some enhancements. There is a new module (disabled by default) for cpuhotplug. The release ta

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

2016-03-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:43:56PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > Correct syntax is: > > > > -- > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main > > -- > > > > On 6 March 2016 at 20:10, Haines Brown wrote: > > > >

Re: Bluetooth: hardware detected but no device

2016-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 06 Mar 2016 at 18:45:05 (+), Markos wrote: > I'm using Jessie with a Dell laptop Latitude D430. > > The system detect the hardware on boot: > > dmesg | grep -i blue > [9.685735] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19 > [9.685759] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized > [

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Brian, On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:46:47AM +, Brian wrote: > 1. Stop at the 'Detect network hardware' stage and switch to a console. > > 2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want: > > ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ Because I was using the non-free firmware installer

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Brian
On Mon 07 Mar 2016 at 03:39:26 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is there any way to force the debian-installer to realise it needs > to load firmware for this wifi device? I have a feeling that it is > seeing there is an eth0 and giving up at that point, assuming that > is good enough. > > All of my on