I've installed Xandros 4, a Debian derivative, on an
external USB hard disk drive, and I'm trying to boot it from
there. My laptop is able to boot USB storage devices, and
I've succeeded in doing that with several other Linux
distros (including the Debian-based Ubuntu and MEPIS),
booting
Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an
installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then
marketed it for pay. Did they ever return their coding
efforts to the open source community, e.g. by making
available the source code of their add-ons or giving back
to the FOSS in any
Mark Fletcher wrote:
I had exactly the same problem -- with different hardware.
The cause was that PCMCIA services are started in the boot
/ startup sequence AFTER networking is set up, so at the
time the startup procedure is trying to connect to your
network PCMCIA services are not running.
Adam Porter wrote:
Hmm, you might be the same guy I talked to in #debian (I
think my nick then was tired).
I'm not an expert, and I have no experience with
ndiswrapper, but I'll try
to help. Please post your /etc/network/interfaces file.
Actually, to be honest, I was posting this for
I have a problem getting my PCMCIA wireless adapter (Buffalo
WLI-CB-G54HP-US with Broadcom BCM4318 chipset, pciid
14e4:4318 rev.02) working properly in a Toshiba laptop,
running Xandros v.3.0.2 (a variant of Debian).
I'm using a Windows driver (bcmwl5.inf/bcmwl5.sys,
downloaded from Dell) with
I've been listening to some of the weekly Security Now
podcasts by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte in which they
discuss a wide array of security topics pertaining to
desktop PC's running Windows. Much of this applies to
Linux boxes as well. These programs are entertaining and
informative but
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Bryan G wrote:
i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to
replace realplayer without the problems of realplayer
taking over your PC
http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm
I find that mplayer is a far better substitute for what I
used to use
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2005-12-30 15:14:29 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote:
You can get w32codecs from
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat sid main
This does not work:
Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/sid/Release
Unable to find expected entry
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I'm being schizo and replying to myself, again. Xine
seems to actually
be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed.
(I will try it
w/o the codec tomorrow.) So far it is the only player
that is playing a
.mov file. How does it do on other file types
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov
format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a
standard
TV set. The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17.
It's able to play commercial movie DVD's
I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
TV set. The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17. It's
able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's, finalized
DVD+R's and DVD+RW's, and VCD's but it doesn't support
R Ransbottom wrote:
In debian 3.0 there was a nice compact CPU/Mem Usage
Applet 1.4.0.5
that took very little screen space. Is it, or something
much like, available in Sarge?
You seem to be talking about KDE's KSysGuard (also called
performance monitor or system monitor). Open KSysGuard
Jim Hall wrote:
I need to install a Java Runtime Environment (now, for
Firefox) on my churchs computer lab systems (all Sarge). I
installed Flash by using the flashplugin-nonfree pkg.
I've found something similar for installing a JRE:
java-package. It works with the Standard Edition of the
I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8
GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM
modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better
speed and performance.
However, the memory module maker Kingston says that most
operating systems are optimized for a set
[KS] wrote:
Hi all,
This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get
some good recommendations from subscribers to this list.
[...]
I've spent a lot of money - too much - on a tall stack of
beginner's/intermediate guides to Linux. If I were to have
to do it all over again, I would
Correction:
Paul Sheer's RUTE book is now at
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
Robert
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:00:54 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote:
Hi,
I'm using KDE as window manager.
Where can I define the default colors for a xterm session which
is started by clicking on the xterm icon in the KDE bar?
Thank you.
Chris
Open a console Settings Schema, and save
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Hi
We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
as follows
1) man pagename
2) In konqueror, man:pagename
3) In vim, Man pagename
What about others?
thanks
raju
Or
Curt Howland wrote:
Due to this and other interesting problems, yesterday I spent
reinstalling Sid cleanly. Mplayer still is crashing, so I don't
think it's just me.
Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When mplayer crashes for me, it's usually that a recent upgrade
has reset the video
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