Re: Replacing bcmxx wifi cards with intel 2200 2915 in Lenny and Squeeze

2011-12-14 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Mark, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:24:55PM -0800, Mark wrote: is it necessary to remove/purge the b43-fwcutter/b43 firmware in order to install ipw2x00, or is it ok to leave it installed should I need to return to those wifi cards at some point in the future? Firmware installed by the

Re: how to examine the wireless

2011-12-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:37:44PM +, steef wrote: you could use the broadcom-sta (source-package) in combination with this webpage: http://wiki.debian.org/wl The proprietary driver has no support for the BCM4331 at this time. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Network Connection issue

2011-11-04 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi John, On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:55:51PM -0500, John Foster wrote: I recently installed a new D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapter card to connect to the internet. It was originally not recognized as there was not a driver available in debian. Support for the DGE-530T

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bruno, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 07:06:21PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: I bought an Acer (model 4750) and tried to install on it Squeeze image i386 CD-ROM. During the network hardware detection the Ethernet card Broadcom (model Netlink BCM57785) is not recognized (note : I identified this

Re: CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator

2011-09-15 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:28:09AM -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: i'm trying to get my sound card pci: 06:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) but is not possible the kernel dos not support i use Debian

Re: Kernel 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 and Virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Perry, On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:07:21PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 [...] ndiswrapper (1.56)...failed. [...] Any ideas how to fix Virtualbox and/or the other two

Re: Dlink DWA-525

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:25:17PM +0300, Алекс Скоропад wrote: I have this wireless network card, and it work just fine with drivers from dlink website until the last kernel update. In new kernel were included support for some dlink wireless cards, but there are no rt3562sta support.

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Mark, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:08:01AM +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: This case is solved with # mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/xorg.conf I am just interesting, what was introduced by the last update, if it broke my X configuration? From the xorg-server package changelog: xorg-server

Re: modem symlink in /dev

2011-03-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Martin, On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:16:43PM +0100, Martin wrote: I installed martian-modem and martian-modem-source that work fine but after each reboot I have to issue command: # ln -s /dev/ttySM0 /dev/modem The device symlink created by the martian-modem daemon (/dev/ttySM0 by default)

Re: installing rtl8187B on debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26 - need help on installing backport kernel to recognise chipset

2011-01-31 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Rico, On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:04:55PM +1100, Rico D wrote: i'm trying to follow this article: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x But i'm very new to linux and i'm having trouble in installing the back port kernel. [...] and I tried running this command - aptitude -t lenny-backports

Re: Re: WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-09 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Clemens, On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:03:00PM +0100, eltre...@web.de wrote: Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by means of wpa_supplicant. [...] For the WLAN connection I have a PCMCIA WLAN card from 3com. I will guess you are using either a 3CRSHPW_96 or

Re: how to make pdnsd listen on all interfaces?

2010-12-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Martin, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote: I'm trying to get pdnsd to listen on all interfaces. server_ip=any should work but it always listens only on 127.0.0.1 even with several other interfaces present. is this a bug or am I missing something? The pdnsd

Re: wireless adapters

2010-09-20 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bill, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:12:48PM -0500, William Kindler wrote: I have a USB device which is a D-Link DWA-130, and a PCI adapter which is a Netgear WN311T. [...] Does anyone know if either or both of these devices are supported with Debian? The D-Link DWA-130 has had a number of

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bruce, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:57:43PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: I get this message: FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. On Lenny, you would usually want to build this dependent kernel module using module-assistant, which automates installation of prerequisite packages, the process of

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Atu, On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:12AM +0200, Atu wrote: 00.19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) Support for the 82567LM-3 (PCI ID 8086:10de) was added to the e1000e driver in linux-2.6 2.6.26-25, which is part of the recent[1] Debian