Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-05 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Bernard, 5.03.2012: > Tom H wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote: > >>Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > >>>Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > >Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > >other convenient tool t

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernard wrote: > Now that I wish to get rid of 'wicd', just in case it > would interfer with 'NetworkManager', I can't get rid of it ! > > #apt-get remove wicd > > did remove it, so it said... if I try to remove it again, it says > that it is no longer there... however, I can still see 'wicd netw

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Bernard
Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote: Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any other convenient tool that would operate on Sque

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Bernard wrote: > Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU,  3.03.2012: >>> On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to e

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Bernard, 4.03.2012: > Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > >Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > >>On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > >>>Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > >>>other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > >>>turn an Internet connexion

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Bernard
Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF Make sure you

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: >> >> Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any >> other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily >> turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF > > Make sure yo

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Andrei POPESCU, 3.03.2012: > On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > > > > Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > > other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > > turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF > > Make sure you have NO definition

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 mar 12, 20:59:30, Bernard wrote: > > Thanks in advance for your help with the 'NetworkManager' or any > other convenient tool that would operate on Squeeze so as to easily > turn an Internet connexion ON and OFF Make sure you have NO definition for eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces and t

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 20:59:30 +0100, Bernard wrote: > So, everything seems to work fine... except for the 'NetworkManager' ! > On that machine, I only have a wired ethernet connexion ; there is no > wlan chipset for now ; I will install one soon. So, the Internet > connexion happens automa

Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Bernard
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 feb 12, 19:35:00, Bernard wrote: stuff deleted.. /dev/hdc3, but now my only CDROM drive does work on /dev/hda (hda as is, not on hda1 or whatever, which I did find weird though). It does work, This is normal, since CD-ROMs don't have partitions.

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 feb 12, 19:35:00, Bernard wrote: > > What did I do since my last post ? As Richard suggested, I opened up > the box and checked cables around the cdrom hardware. I noticed > something that I thought weird at first: the CDROM blocks were connected > to a cable where one could read: "HD

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 28/02/12 16:31, Bernard wrote: What did I do since my last post ? As Richard suggested, I opened up the box and checked cables around the cdrom hardware. I noticed something that I thought weird at first: the CDROM blocks were connected to a cable where one could read: "HD cable", while

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Bernard
Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom. The debian installer disk has a rescue mode. That can be very useful to repair a system such as yours. If the above grub selection of a new

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Bernard
Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom. The debian installer disk has a rescue mode. That can be very useful to repair a system such as yours. If the above grub selection of a new

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-26 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bernard wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> Hopefully you would be able to boot a rescue cdrom.  The debian >> installer disk has a rescue mode.  That can be very useful to repair a >> system such as yours.  If the above grub selection of a newer kernel >> does not wo

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
Bob Proulx wrote: Bernard wrote: was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config for more than 2 years or so ; I had a mysql server on it, with mysql databases. Here you say Lenny.

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
John L. Cunningham wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > And /dev/sda would be right for Lenny. In Lenny's 2.6.26 kernel all > > device names work under the scsi naming. > > > > But then you say /dev/hda and the hda names are the old kernel names. > > This leads me to believe that you are booting an old

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bernard wrote: > > Here you say Lenny. But then... > > > just waited indefinitely without doing nothing. Error messages appeared > > after 4 or 5 long minutes of idling, they mostly said that /dev/sda3 did > > not (no longer) exist, a

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread richard
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:35:54 +0100 Bernard wrote: > It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical > Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time > of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to > have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny

Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernard wrote: > was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot > (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in > such config for more than 2 years or so ; I had a mysql server on it, > with mysql databases. Here you say Lenny. But then... > just wa

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 24/02/12 17:35, Bernard wrote: It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it

Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config fo