Any debian packages for gnome's NetworkManager?

2005-11-04 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi all, just yesterday I stumbled upon a gnome project that would make using different (wireless) networks quite easy. The project's name is NetworkManager [1]. My further research for debian packages for it was not very effective though. The only things I found were an entry in the BTS [2] and a

Re: [VPNC] Keine Datenuebertragung im VPN trotz aufgebauter Verbindung

2004-12-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Shouldn't this be on debian-german? of course it should - sorry. I accidently sent the message to the wrong list. I hope you can forgive my mistake. For the German speaking amongst you: of course I would appreciate any hint if you have any - maybe in the answer shoul

[VPNC] Keine Datenuebertragung im VPN trotz aufgebauter Verbindung

2004-12-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Moin zusammen, seit einiger Zeit plage ich mich mit VPNC herum, das ich benutzen moechte, um mich damit - anstatt mit dem original cisco vpn client - ins VPN des HRZ an unserer UNI einzuloggen. Das eigentliche Problem ist nicht das Einloggen, sondern dass keine Daten gesendet oder empfangen werden

Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-26 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi David, I had a similar problem when I was switching to gnome 2.6. Before I had set up the keyboard to produce German Umlauts via xmodmap, but for some reason my /etc/X11/xmodmap has not been read any longer. So I adapted the xkb configuration do do the stuff: In /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc I crea

Re: bad sources.list

2004-08-03 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi Brian, On 03.08.2004 22:35, Brian Astill wrote: I have done something wrong. I am trying to get my system to contact my ISP's mirror, first, before going further outside. Here are the lines in sources.list: # Testing deb ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/debian/pool/ testing main contrib non-free I'

Re: parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-07-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi Hendrik, On 30.07.2004 15:04, Hendrik Fuß wrote: are there known problems with parport on asus mainboards or is it just my fault? /dev/lp0 behaves like /dev/null, everything I print just disappears, no error or log messages. Even echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0 doesn't do anything. Under 2.4 kerne

Dial on demand not working when ipmasq installed

2004-07-28 Thread Christian Riedel
Hello all, I am trying to set up dial on demand for dsl on a box that is meant to run as router for a masqueraded home-network. I am using debian/sid wich is up to date. I set up the dsl connection with pppoeconf, which worked fine. In /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider I uncommented "demand" and "idl

Re: Thunderbird URL Won't Work

2004-07-19 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi Ed, On 20.07.2004 04:13, Ed Sutherland wrote: [...] How do I renable URLs within Thunderbird and Gnome? (It is preventing me from using Linux.) Thanks. Just edit ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/[whatever is here]/user.js and enter the settings you want. You can speciy different settings for d

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, On 17.06.2004 15:40, Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL wrote: Ok, so I'm pretty new to Debian, and I have never created a .deb package (except for the kernel using the kernel tools), but isn't this the kind of thing that could be put into a package so that people who want it could install it? I mean,

XKB-Error Message on logon after upgrade to Gnome 2.6 in SID

2004-06-01 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, after having upgraded to gnome 2.6 on sid yesterday, I now get an error message when logging in: Fehler beim Aktivieren der XKB-Konfiguration. Vermutlich liegt ein internes Problem mit dem X-Server vor. Versionsdaten des X-Servers: The XFree86 Project, Inc 4031 Sie verwenden XFree 4.3.0.

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, On 19.04.2004 18:35, Sarunas wrote: [...] | Anyway if you would only like to update several packages thing about | backports(.org). Or make yourself familar with pinning. pinning?---any hints? I found this quite helpfull for the beginning: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html HTH

Re: Error about apm reported when switching from X to tty and back

2004-04-09 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi Zhaojun, On 10.04.2004 04:17, Zhaojun Wu wrote: I met this error message a few days ago when I updated my kernel to version 2.6.4 and replaced the APM with ACPI. Because I didn't have enough time to learn how to make ACPI running as expected, I installed the "sleepd" program on my Debian Sid.

Error about apm reported when switching from X to tty and back

2004-04-09 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi, ich have the problem that whenever I switch from console to X, there is an error message printed on tty1: FATAL: error inserting apm (/lib/modules/2.6.4-1-k7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko): No such device The weird thing is, that I don't use apm. ACPI is detected at boot time and used. I