On Ma, 04 oct 11, 12:32:29, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
>
> I would also like to know how I can configure a console laptop (one with
> no gui- CLI only) to access wireless in the same manner- automatic
> detection of available wireless networks and a way to enter a key when
> necessary. Can some
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:32:29 -0700, keitho wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:02:37 -0700, keitho wrote:
(...)
>> BTW, the package which contains the applet is "network-manager-gnome"
>> which you seem to have installed so you should be able to launch it by
>> running "nm-applet --sm-disable".
>
On Tue 04 Oct 2011 at 12:32:29 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
> I would also like to know how I can configure a console laptop (one with
> no gui- CLI only) to access wireless in the same manner- automatic
> detection of available wireless networks and a way to enter a key when
> necessary.
Thank you for replying.
It turns out that I did have the applet, but still could not connect. I
finally figured out that the problem was due to my misunderstanding the
difference between "managed" and "not managed"... I had inadvertently left
some configuration info in my /etc/network/interfaces f
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:02:37 -0700, keitho wrote:
> I hate to say this, but I am confused about how to configure wireless on
> my Wheezy laptop system.
(...)
> But I can't seem to figure out which software packages I need to do
> this. I am downloading the deb packages on a different computer th
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled
> without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages
> (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to
> put them in the dir structure so that all
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled
> > without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages
> > (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz file
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Gilles Mocellin wrote:
Le jeudi 05 avril 2007 23:15, Randy Patterson a ?crit?:
I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without
really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse
for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:15:31PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without
> really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse
> for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Randy Patterson wrote:
I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without
really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse
for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir
structure so that all users
Le jeudi 05 avril 2007 23:15, Randy Patterson a écrit :
> I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without
> really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse
> for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir
> structure
On (21/01/06 17:22), Koos van der Merwe wrote:
> I recently aquired a new motherboard (Jetway ATi Radeon Xpress 200)
> with onboard sound), new CPU (AMD64) and new graphics card (nVidia
> geForce). I previously preferred Knoppix because of its good hardware
> detection, but this time it let me down
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:58:39AM +0530, Anand Raman wrote:
| Shouldnt the socket connections be closed the moment rsh completes
| the command execution
No.
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# netstat
| Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
| Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Addre
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:17:01 -0600
Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> an excellent tip. mind if i append this to my collection? (see
> below...)
>
Umm, thanks. Go right ahead!
Kevin
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:02:24PM -0500,
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> > 'more' can't go back when reading from standard input. Try
> > installing 'less' instead; it's a better pager in other ways
> > anyway.
>
> Even better, use "most"; it supports color. I would have
> turned my nose up at that, u
* John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 10. 2003 09:48]:
> Anyone tell me how to make the default editor of most to nano? Most is
> using vi at the moment. & I'm not sure where to change it. my default
> editor is:
..snip..
> I also tried:
> # MOST_EDITOR='nano %s'
> and
> # SLANG_EDITOR="nano %s" #
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:33:15 -0500
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Amen! most is more than less! Cool.
>
> It's more or less the most you can get out of a pager.
>
At least until somebody unleashes "least" on an unsuspecting world.
You know this is coming :)
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:04:33PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> I personally use the arrow-up key. Not entirely sure what that maps out
> as, but it works for me...
More only understands going down. 8:o)
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:12:03PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> I'm nominating Kevin and Brian jointly to share an award for "Debian's
> hot tip of the month." I unstalled "most," then used
> "update-alternatives" to config my pager, and my man pages now look
> spectacular. Now if only Debian had
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 10. 2003 00:44]:
> Amen! most is more than less! Cool.
It's more or less the most you can get out of a pager.
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Robert Storey wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:02:24 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even better, use "most"; it supports color. I would have turned my
nose up at that, until read a few man pages.
Kevin
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:45:02 -0500
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now would be a
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:02:24 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Even better, use "most"; it supports color. I would have turned my
> nose up at that, until read a few man pages.
>
> Kevin
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:45:02 -0500
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now would be a great to mention
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> 1 - I keep getting console messages about
> 'eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1' and
> 'eth0: link down'. These two messages alternate regularly.
> When the link is down, of course I cannot connect
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:26:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In order to force the NIC to use a particular mode, you need to pass an option to
> the pcnet32 module when it loads. I looked a while for the syntax but didn't find
> it. Perhaps someone else here knows.
instead of passing it
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:43:24 +0100
Inge Thorin Eidsaether <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I'm a newcomer to Debian from FreeBSD, and have a couple of questions
> some of you guys may know the answer to:
>
> 1 - I keep getting console messages about
> 'eth0: link up, 100Mbps, ful
> 'more' can't go back when reading from standard input. Try installing
> 'less' instead; it's a better pager in other ways anyway.
Even better, use "most"; it supports color. I would have turned my nose up at that,
until read a few man pages.
Kevin
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> 1 - I keep getting console messages about
> 'eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1' and
> 'eth0: link down'. These two messages alternate regularly.
> When the link is down, of course I cannot connect
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 09. 2003 15:40]:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> > 3 - How do I go backwards in a man page reading? Looks like 'more'
> > is used to page the ouput to screen, but 'b' or ^B does not work
> > here. Silly question,
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> 2 - Doing a 'man-k ' (or man -f ) does not work.
> Is there a misconfiguration somewhere?
You probably need to run '/etc/cron.daily/man-db' as root. If your
system is on full-time then cron should do this for you; other
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> 3 - How do I go backwards in a man page reading? Looks like 'more' is used to
> page the ouput to screen, but 'b' or ^B does not work here.
> Silly question, maybe...
I personally use the arrow-up key. Not entirely
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:31:51AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:11:14PM -0700, C. Brewer wrote:
> > through the halt process and stopping with the message : Power Down,
> > without actually killing the power. Looking in my /etc/init.d/ I see
> > the halt and reboot scripts, b
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:11:14PM -0700, C. Brewer wrote:
> Anti-aliasing fonts and icons (through KDE), do I need it? What is the
> purpose? And if it's a good thing,where to find simple info? The technical
> advice on many subjects often leaves me bewildered:(
Fonts are (ideally) made up of
Hi Chuck,
--- "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I found the a few site on setting up te true-type
> windows fonts, but this
> covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon
> fonts?
>
> Anti-aliasing fonts and icons (through KDE), do I
> need it? What is the
> purpose? And if it's
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 02:19, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> 26/10/2002 07:11:14, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this
> >covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts?
> i thought .fon werent true type? could be wrong
26/10/2002 07:11:14, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this
>covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts?
i thought .fon werent true type? could be wrong,
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--- "James A. Hilsenteger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell
> Inspiron 3000 into a Debian
> box.
Welcome aboard, remember Google is your freind and
this site is great for harvesting answers from.
> After a few false starts I have a working Debian
> c
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:30:32PM -0700, James A. Hilsenteger wrote:
| I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a Debian
| box. I installed using the CD's (that is installed multiple times).
Welcome to a software world of stability, configurability, and
operability :-).
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, James A. Hilsenteger wrote:
> I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a Debian
> box.
Good idea. I presume you are running Debian 2.2
>
> After a few false starts I have a working Debian computer using the
> Enlightened desktop. I'm unfortunate
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a
> Debian box. I installed using the CD's (that is installed multiple
> times).
>
> After a few false starts I have a working Debian computer using the
> Enlightened desktop. I'm unfortunat
Hi James. I can answer some of your questions...
It sounds like Netscape isn't installed yet. To find out, get to a
command line by starting up an Eterm (or something similar, like xterm
or rxvt - these can probably be found in the menus when you click on
the desktop.) Type 'netscape' in th
The best thing you for you to do it
to go to
http://www.linux-laptop.net
and look for your computer model.
It should give you a lot of help
G
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, James A. Hilsenteger wrote:
>Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:30:32 -0700
>From: James A. Hilsenteger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:53:32PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I'm running potato with Apache and MySQL and have noticed some memory
> problems that I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. Basically, available memory
> keeps getting used up and not reclaimed. Swap space doesn't seem to get
> used much,
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:53:32PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I'm running potato with Apache and MySQL and have noticed some memory
> problems that I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. Basically, available memory
> keeps getting used up and not reclaimed. Swap space doesn't seem to get
> used much,
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:10:57PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote:
> If I dont want to run for example crond at boot time
> how can I disable it? it is not the way to delete the
> symlink in /etc/rc.2/ or chmod -x /etc/init.d/crond I
> think.
update-rc.d crond remove
or to have it enabled only
You could delete the symlink... or better yet...rename it .
ex.../etc/rc2.d/S89cron
rename to
/etc/rc2.d/goofy.S89cron
just in case you ever want it back
Mike
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Kieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian"
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:10 PM
Subject: Newbie q
> "Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> Yeah, but I don't want an ftp user possibly finding a
Mark> security hole and playing around with my mouse.
Don't run 'wu-ftpd'. :-)
Seriously, if there is a security hole in your FTP server, chances are
that they allow remot
ux on, screamed a bit when i realised that!!!
-Original Message-
From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2000 19:46
To: Lowell Voelker
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:21:05AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote:
>
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:21:05AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote:
>
> There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not be
> Fat16. Is this true?
Not sure about that, but i've seen WinDOS 98 have troubles with two
FAT32 primary partitions -- it read C: (hdb1) ok, but D: was
Quoting Lowell Voelker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32
> from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first
> 20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian?
Yes, just so long as you can boot the kernel from somewhere
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:20:31PM -0500, Irish, Jon D wrote:
Paragraphs are good, Jon.
> I have never used any version of Unix in the past, let alone Linux. I
> have been playing with Slink on a PC at work, and I would now like to
> install it at home.
Hooray!
> The problem is that my machine
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and
> > kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top.
> > Any suggestions about what to do now?
> This indicates, that the parent process of netscape is ha
> Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and
> kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top.
> Any suggestions about what to do now?
This indicates, that the parent process of netscape is hanging or
something. Don't care much about it: zombies tak
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The
system is going to update about every package on your machine.
I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around
upgrading.
What error is apt giving you?
For sound, I would check the How-tos or the a
--- Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--snip--
> > .xinitrc is used if you start X with 'startx' and
> .xession if you run
> > xdm.
>
> This can't be right, as I use startx and
> ".xsession".
Right, I use startx and I don't even have an .xinitrc.
I did do a custom .xsession though.
Regar
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 07:55:06PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > .xinitrc is used if you start X with 'startx' and .xession if you run
> > xdm.
>
> This can't be right, as I use startx and ".xsession".
it is right if you're talking about X on other *NIX systems, but not with
debian. debian (f
> > > Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only.
> >
> > Have you been able to work out the difference between .xinitrc and
> > .xsession? From what I've been able to gather, ".xinitrc" is not used
> > by Debian --- is this right?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark.
>
Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only.
>
> Have you been able to work out the difference between .xinitrc and
> .xsession? From what I've been able to gather, ".xinitrc" is not used
> by Debian --- is this right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
> Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only.
Have you been able to work out the difference between .xinitrc and
.xsession? From what I've been able to gather, ".xinitrc" is not used
by Debian --- is this right?
Cheers,
Mark.
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Chris Mayes wrote:
[... other questions I have skipped ...]
>Oh, that reminds me: where do I set the default windowmanager?
/etc/X11/window-managers
The one at the top of the list is the default.
Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only.
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At 04:59 PM 10/7/1998 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>>More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out.
>>
>>1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error
>>"mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and
>>reconfigure. But how? How c
At 01:01 AM 10/8/1998 +1000, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote:
>> 2. How can I configure LILO to give me the option to boot using my DOS
>> partition (/dev/hda1)? It would be nice for it to give me a menu...
>To the best of my knowledge LILO does not do menus, if you put an
Yes, you can kludge toge
you can use xbase-configure, xf86config, or XF86Setup to reconfig your X.
As far as lilo goes you need to add a lilo paragraph for your msdos
partition...mine looks something like this.
other = /dev/hda1
label = win98
table = /dev/hda
then rerun lilo to install the new label.
When this is d
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote:
> More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out.
>
> 1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error
> "mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and
> reconfigure. But how? How can I run
>More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out.
>
>1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error
>"mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and
>reconfigure. But how? How can I run the X configure program again? (You
>know, th
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:39:58PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have one more question. If I reply to the mail from my system, the mail
> get returned. I know this is what they discussed in the thread..but what is
> MUA ,how to set it... How do I set Reply-TO filed and where...
>
Well,
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:35:15PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. What do I need to do POP messages off the ISP mail server?
I use Mutt to read from both my local mail spool file and to get
non-local mail from my ISP using POP. Alternatively, you can
set up Fetchmail to move mail from you
> One warning, Running Linux is a *little* RedHat-centric. Shouldn't cause
> too much trouble tho...
There is a new version in the LDP, about 2 months old. It attempts to cover
all the popular Linux distributions.
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G'day Rick,
>If you could choose one book to help you learn Linux, what would it
>be? I'm looking for something that covers installation, use, and
>administration. Oh yeah, and also how to format a floppy disk : )
I haven't read a lot of Linux books, but I found Running Linux (2nd ed.) by
Wel
> If you could choose one book to help you learn Linux, what would it
> be? I'm looking for something that covers installation, use, and
> administration. Oh yeah, and also how to format a floppy disk : )
The LDP (Linux Documantation Project) is a very good source. It has a link from
Debian h
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 01:46:07PM +0100, Rick McKenzie wrote:
> If you could choose one book to help you learn Linux, what would it
> be? I'm looking for something that covers installation, use, and
> administration. Oh yeah, and also how to format a floppy disk : )
I used and can reccommend
Hi,
Harry Palmer wrote:
>
> I'm new to Linux/Unix - still trying to decide which distribution to
> go for in fact.
>
> I've downloaded and installed the Debian base system (boot, drivers
> and five base disks) to a laptop with no problems. I'd think that
> installing the MAN pages would be a log
Trivial questions at this early stage, but I'd greatly appreciate any
help. I should also say that this is probably the most helpful mailing
list I've ever read (which could be down to Debian's reluctance to
provide 'absolute beginner' help).
Dont i know it!, some hopless newbie tutorials would b
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition)
> everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next?
>
> I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
> recognise it, how do i find th
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
> I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
> recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out?
Take a look at the settings for the drive under Win95.
> what packages should i get to start me off, how (after downloading th
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition)
> everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next?
>
> I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
> recognise it, how do i find th
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 09:39:03 PST "Gary Gifford" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Also, following Zenon Fortuna's detailed posting regarding the Info Magic
> LDR (thank you Zenon!!) I can get to the point of trying to create a new
> kernel but the "make config" says command not found. I suspect this
I am sure this is dead simple and explained in several places but I'm
getting nowhere fast.
I am using a Micron pentium 100 and have Win95 operating on a partitioned 2
gig HD. I choose win95 or debian through OS2 boot manager and debian
boots from its partition with LILO. I also have a debian s
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