Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Hadi Motamedi wrote: From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: cele...@gmail.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Upgrade to Lenny? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:23:32 + Thank you very much you kind guys . At now , I have the tshark installed on my Lenny . But I want to analyze my

Re: OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the undocked window it provides when you click on the more option quite a lot. Styles formatting in what, fluxbox or OO? However, no

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Francesco Pietra wrote: What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more expensive

Re: Debian-Multimedia

2010-02-23 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stuckey wrote: Quoting Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:15:38PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: Is it still necessary for me to set a target release? How do I do this? Please!. Don't top post on this list. SNIP Thanks. I'll remember not to top post.

Re: an old problem is back.

2010-02-18 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My syslog is filling up with these messages again. It seems to have happened before. Can anyone help? Feb 18 18:26:06 squeeze dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Feb 18 18:26:16 squeeze dhclient:

Re: Read command field seperators in Bash

2010-02-14 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
John Salmon wrote: Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command (Debian Lenny)? I could use gawk to do what I need but, since gawk isn't installed in the Lenny distribution, I'de rather use something that is. John Salmon salmo...@comcast.net Sure is. It's in the

Re: Read command field seperators in Bash

2010-02-14 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
John Salmon wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 11:23 -0500, Wayne wrote: John Salmon wrote: Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command (Debian Lenny)? I could use gawk to do what I need but, since gawk isn't installed in the Lenny distribution, I'de rather use something

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Klaus Jantzen wrote: Steve Kleene wrote: I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from poppler-utils). For example, this one: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's

Re: Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-09 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Ian Zimmerman wrote: I'd like to build an index of the documentation in /usr/share/doc, but I am quite unhappy with the options I have tried so far: 1. dwww has a built in cgi for searching an index built by swish++. Unfortunately swish++ indexing seems to take forever (it's described as

Re: Glitch-y wicd-curses Install

2010-02-03 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
eve...@worldwidehtml.com wrote: Upgrading wicd-curses 1.7.0-2 to 1.7.0-3 with aptitude on squeeze. First I noticed that wicd was installed, which is supposed to conflict with wicd-curses and which I remember purposefully not installing. apt-cache show wicd shows you that version 1.7.0-3

Re: e2defrag

2010-02-03 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag. Please advise. Stan It looks like there 'was' such a package but I have not heard that phrase in a few years. http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2004/05/msg00299.html Sorry Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-listbugs question

2010-02-02 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Paul E Condon wrote: The recent flurry of discussion under don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! ..., prompted me to install apt-listbugs, since I am running squeeze and pretty doing upgrades fairly frequently without any real protection against bugs getting into squeeze from sid. What is claimed for

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade **Correction**

2010-02-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian Glad you got it going!!! I just finished setting up another testing box with wireless, an old Netgear WPN311 pci card. Using the madwifi ath5k modules. I installed wicd 1.7.0-2 and, after fixing some of my usual typo's, it is running as good

Re: Sid Sound Problem

2010-01-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Ogya Chief wrote: Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:15 -0500 From: linux...@gmail.com To: ogyach...@hotmail.com CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sid Sound Problem Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When the computer is

Re: Solution to Connecting to Verizon MiFi

2010-01-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/22/2010 12:15 PM: Note: If not able to connect to the internet, disable your firewall. If you can then connect, fix your firewall. I use firehol. Thanks Again Stan for all of your help. That's so kind of you Wayne. I didn't do

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Sebastian wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:36PM -0500, Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian wrote: After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following error: Traceback (most recent call last

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-01-29 20:46:48 -0500, Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: Your right. I didn't check all of the various depend's. I just pointed it out to Sabastian. If your running wicd in Sid maybe you have an idea 'why' it isn't running then. Sorry, I have no idea. Check

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-30 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Sebastian wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:36PM -0500, Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian wrote: After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following error: ---Snip--- [...snip...] I

Re: Sid Sound Problem

2010-01-30 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When the computer is booting up, the following error message shows: Starting Open Sound System: Failed (No Modules detected). What kernel module needs to be installed to fix this problem. It

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-29 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Sebastian wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:27PM -0500, Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian wrote: After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following error: Traceback (most recent call last

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-29 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-01-29 14:36:03 -0500, Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: Strange, I see that there is a python-wicd 1.7.0-2 package in unstable but it is not shown as Depends in wicd 1.7.0-2 package. Wonder what that is about??? wicd 1.7.0-2 depends on wicd-daemon 1.7.0-2, which

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-28 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Sebastian wrote: Hi all! After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py, line 61, in module from

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Roman Gelfand wrote: Is there a tool, background process, in linux to monitor memory utilization over a period of time? I would suggest that you install the debian-reference package. Most of you questions are answered in that document and, if not, will help you in learning more about your

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Anthony Campbell wrote: I get an error when running crontab as user: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied Googling shows a few people with a similar problem but either no solution or one that doesn't work here (crontab not having setguid or not in the crontab group). The permissions

Re: string occurrences

2010-01-23 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
roberto wrote: hello is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string occur in a text file ? ps: sorry for the italian post Yes. man wc Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Solution to Connecting to Verizon MiFi

2010-01-22 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
In an effort to give back to the Debian Community, here is a rundown on How I get wireless working with Verizon's MiFi hub. -- D-link DWA-556 pciE Card with 3 antennas Working on DJ, an AMD64 system, running Debian Testing, and connecting to a Verizon

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010-01-22 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote: i had enabled lenny-backports but aptitude -t lenny-backports install iceweasel installs Iceweasel 3.0.6 my /etc/apt/sources.list as below deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010-01-22 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote: i had enabled lenny-backports but aptitude -t lenny-backports install iceweasel installs Iceweasel 3.0.6 my /etc/apt/sources.list as below deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb

Re: error opening mutt

2010-01-20 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2010/1/20 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:47:27 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: By following this tutorial http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html, I encountered these messages. What should i put in mutt_aliases and mutt_colors? Error in

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Xianwen Chen wrote: I think it's supported. It's a Realtek 8187B adapter. This is what lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0204:6025 Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
: All replies should go this the list not to those you expect to help you. Wayne On 1/18/10, Wayne linux...@gmail.com linux...@gmail.com wrote: Xianwen Chen wrote: I think it's supported. It's a Realtek 8187B adapter. This is what lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux

Re: umask for init?

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Scott Gifford wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Laurent Guignard lguignard.deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:45:09 +0100, Peter Jordan wrote: Hi, under debian lenny during the boot process all created run files are 0644, but I want 0640. Does anyone know how to configure

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
s. keeling wrote: I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE] {SOLVED}

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/2/2010 6:28 PM: Yes and I can connect to the internet with and without the firewall up. I have more to do on the firewall though. I can't connect to the MiFi admin page at 192.168.1.1 with the firewall on. So, you are right on all

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-02 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 5:31 PM: Hope this helps!! Best I can tell all the subnet masks are correct. I was just thinking... (smoke rises). dmesg shows a small amount of packet traffic to/from the MiFi WLAN interface, basically the DHCP setup

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE] {SOLVED}

2010-01-02 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/2/2010 1:53 PM: As soon as you said firewall, I remembered having this problem before. I had meant to disable the firewall last night when testing the MiFi connection, but forgot. First rule of thumb: Network problem? Disable all

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
green wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2009-12-30 21:04 -0600: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is unable to contact a DHCP server. Please read the RFC

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 12/31/2009 10:18 PM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? ] No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is running XP

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 1:43 PM: This is a good sign: /var/log/wicd# ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:5a:bb:e8:c5 inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 1/1/2010 2:57 PM: I think I am missing something but don't know what other then a missing route statement. It's not a route issue because the PCs are all on the same class C subnet (or should be). I looked at a previous route table

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. A little IPv4 network education is in order: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is unable

[Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network] UPDATE

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Original Message Subject: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:29 -0500 From: Wayne linux...@gmail.com linux...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: 4b3b7ecd.1080...@gmail.com 20091230231525.ga9...@swansys 4b3bfca8.9030

[Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Original Message Subject: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:09 -0500 From: Wayne linux...@gmail.com linux...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: 4b3b7ecd.1080...@gmail.com 20091230231525.ga9...@swansys

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com put forth on 12/31/2009 7:57 PM: The following are the results of trying to connect to the MiFI Output id from the wicd.log 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 channel 11 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 ap 00:21:E8:B5:C4:B5 2009/12/31 18:38

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? ] No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is running XP. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-30 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Hi guys I an still working on getting connected to the 3G network. Actually I am connected but I can't connect to the net. Brief history. I am now using a D-Link DWA-556 PciE card. It has an Atheros AR5008 chip and I am using the mad-wifi ath5k driver code. I can connect to the

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-30 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote: green wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote at 2009-12-30 10:24 -0600: Brief history. I am now using a D-Link DWA-556 PciE card. It has an Atheros AR5008 chip and I am using the mad-wifi ath5k driver code. I can connect to the Verizon MiFi , using wicd

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Jean-François Pirlet wrote: I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily builds. Choose your arch. Iso-cd contains

Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
green wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote at 2009-12-20 09:29 -0700: green wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700: I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu 9.1

Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-20 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
green wrote: Wayne linux...@gmail.com wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700: I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any Debian success posts. This is a 3G

Safe-upgrade problems

2009-12-20 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Hey all An upgrade on sid on 12/18 as me stumped. The bootup of that partition hangs at USBHID 2.6 . Have tried on 2 different kernels and both just stop. A testing upgrade on 12/17 and another on 12/19 boot but have a number of programs failing to start. Clanv, Dovecot, atd, and

Looking for a USB Wireless Adapter that supports wpa-supplicant

2009-12-16 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
As the subject says I need a USB adapter that works on Debian and supports wpa-supplicant. We are finally able to get a fate network connect here in the mountains, using a Verizon MiFi2200 connection. The only problem is that all of my USB Wireless adapters are to old and don't work with

Re: Looking for a USB Wireless Adapter that supports wpa-supplicant

2009-12-16 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:41:54 -0500 Wayne linux...@gmail.com linux...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says I need a USB adapter that works on Debian and supports wpa-supplicant. We are finally able to get a fate network connect here in the mountains, using a Verizon

Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-14 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any Debian success posts. This is a 3G modem and, in my remote location, gets much faster downloads, on winbloz,

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-10 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Dale wrote: 2009/12/11 Wayne linux...@gmail.com: Dale wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know how to lock a GPS down to use ttyUSB0 all the time, whether it get plugged in and out of the USB port? Basically I want it to reclaim ttyUSB0 after it have been removed from the USB port and then plugged