Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade
Hi all, Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading xfree86 from version 4.1.0 to 4.2.1 using the deb package or installation of mplayer 0.9 from the source tarball. I'm not pretty sure which of the two packages/applications is the culprit as I installed both of them more or less on the same day but somehow I'm convinced it must be xfree86 since mplayer too does not show any pictures (only a blue window screen) with the Xv video driver. Have no dependancy issues though. After trying all other available video drivers in xine, I finally settled on XShm as the work around. So, I'm just wondering if somebody else has experienced similar problems with Xv video driver and xserver-xfree86 4.2.0 or probably this may just happen to be a bug. Regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya Debian 3.0r1 woody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't open yahoo mail in konqueror
On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:10, Dan Anderson wrote: FWIW I just checked my mail @ mail.yahoo.com using konqueror. -Dan On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:35, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have no permissions. Anybody experience this strange behaviour? Now, not even root can open yahoo mail despite enabling cookies, accepting all cookies by default and sending out browser information. Previoulsy I could open yahoo mail as root but not as an ordinary user. Just get the following error over and over. The browser you're using refuses to sign in (cookies rejected) Anybody else experiencing this *very* strange behaviour? Please try out and revert. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't open yahoo mail in konqueror [solved]
On Monday 06 October 2003 13:06, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:10, Dan Anderson wrote: FWIW I just checked my mail @ mail.yahoo.com using konqueror. -Dan On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:35, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have no permissions. Anybody experience this strange behaviour? Now, not even root can open yahoo mail despite enabling cookies, accepting all cookies by default and sending out browser information. Previoulsy I could open yahoo mail as root but not as an ordinary user. Just get the following error over and over. The browser you're using refuses to sign in (cookies rejected) Anybody else experiencing this *very* strange behaviour? Please try out and revert. Changed log in mode on yahoo's site from standard to secure to get it. Thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:21, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading xfree86 from version 4.1.0 to 4.2.1 using the deb package or installation of mplayer 0.9 from the source tarball. I'm not pretty sure which of the two packages/applications is the culprit as I installed both of them more or less on the same day but somehow I'm convinced it must be xfree86 since mplayer too does not show any pictures (only a blue window screen) with the Xv video driver. That's a problem with X itself. Most likely, the currently used graphics driver has a limited or broken implementation of the Xv extensions. What graphics driver are you using (what video card)? Ist the XVideo extension listed in xdpyinfo? onboard Intel 810e graphics adaptor. xdpyinfo lists XVideo amongst 27 other extensions -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java executable for konqueror
What package provides the java executable for konqueror or KDE3 in general? I enabled java globally in konqueror's settings but when trying to access a web site that requires java (eg yahoo chat), I get the Java executable not found error. Regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade
On Monday 06 October 2003 18:18, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Is it a laptop? I had a problem with my laptop where if the X server was started while I had video output going to an external monitor Xv playback would bluescreen. If I started the X server with video to the builtin LCD it worked fine (even if I later plugged in the external monitor and redirected the video output). Not a laptop. PIII Dell Optiplex GX10 desktop with normal 15 CRT monitor. I get bluescreen in the video output window only (not the whole screen) irrespective of whether I use mplayer or xine. Thanks and regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade
On Monday 06 October 2003 16:08, Ogulla, Alphonse wrote: -Original Message- From: Nicos Gollan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 October 2003 13:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade On Monday 06 October 2003 11:21, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Up to very recently, I could watch vcd movies on my box using xine video player with Xv as the video driver. However, I came to discover yesterday that Xv video driver had become inoperative after either upgrading xfree86 from version 4.1.0 to 4.2.1 using the deb package or installation of mplayer 0.9 from the source tarball. I'm not pretty sure which of the two packages/applications is the culprit as I installed both of them more or less on the same day but somehow I'm convinced it must be xfree86 since mplayer too does not show any pictures (only a blue window screen) with the Xv video driver. That's a problem with X itself. Most likely, the currently used graphics driver has a limited or broken implementation of the Xv extensions. What graphics driver are you using (what video card)? Ist the XVideo extension listed in xdpyinfo? I've attached at the end of this message output from xvinfo, xdpyinfo and xine. I hope this will be of assistance. -xvinfo.output--- X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: I810 Video Overlay number of ports: 1 port base: 55 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x23 depth 24, visualID 0x24 number of attributes: 3 XV_COLORKEY (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 66046) XV_BRIGHTNESS (range -128 to 127) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) XV_CONTRAST (range 0 to 255) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 64) maximum XvImage size: 1440 x 1080 Number of image formats: 4 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932--0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132--0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230--0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659--0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) ---xdpyinfo.output-- name of display::0.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The XFree86 Project, Inc vendor release number:40201000 XFree86 version: 4.2.1 maximum request size: 4194300 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap unit, bit order, padding:32, LSBFirst, 32 image byte order:LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats:7 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 keycode range:minimum 8, maximum 255 focus: window 0x18e, revert to Parent number of extensions:27 BIG-REQUESTS DOUBLE-BUFFER DPMS Extended-Visual-Information FontCache GLX LBX MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD RECORD RENDER SECURITY SGI-GLX SHAPE SYNC TOG-CUP XC-APPGROUP XC-MISC XFree86-Bigfont XFree86-DGA XFree86-Misc XFree86-VidModeExtension XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST XVideo default screen number:0 number of screens:1 screen #0: dimensions:1024x768 pixels (260x195 millimeters) resolution:100x100 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id:0x3a depth of root window:24 planes number of colormaps:minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap:0x20 default number of colormap cells:256 preallocated pixels:black 0, white 16777215 options:backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor:64x64 current input event mask:0x5a20bd KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask PointerMotionHintMask ButtonMotionMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask number of visuals:4 default visual id: 0x23 visual: visual id:0x23 class
Re: un-suscribe
-Original Message- From: Moroni Montoya Ceballos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2004 07:58 To: Sean Furey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: un-suscribe I want out!!! please get me out of this list! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi error - sr0: CDROM not ready - SOLVED
On Monday 19 January 2004 19:15, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi, I recently got a BenQ 48X48x24x16 ATAPI CD-R/RW/DVD combo drive and managed to get it working with Debian GNU/Linux and custom kernel 2.4.24 using the generic scsi library. I think its working because at least it created an audio cd out of a blank cd-rw which apparently can't be read by my hifi music system even after fixating twice. However I get this very annoying scsi error on all 12 virtual consoles telling me CDROM is not ready when I have not even made an attempt to access the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disk in the drive. The above error message is repeated over and over in all virtual consoles I swich to thus giving me no space to type any command or do any useful work. Grateful if someone can save the situation and show me how to stop sr0 from taking over my PC. Ah! Just realised that the error bombardment is set off immediately after starting X (kde 3.15). I have no X applications trying to access /dev/cdrom which now points to /dev/scd0. Still can't figure out the connection between X and ide-scsi. Any ideas? kscd was the culprit. a session crashed sometime back but resumed in the background whenever I started X. ps aux | grep kscd confirmed a running process which was subsequently killed by passing a SIGHUP signal. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
authenticating windoze clients
Hi all, Other than using Samba, what are the other preferred modern methods of authenticating windoze clients on linux servers. I'm working on migrating Netware 3.2 users and services to linux and need basic authentication (user, group, password etc) and controlled access to shared network resources from windoze clients. What I have in mind is using NIS or LDAP for authentication and NFS for network shares but the problem is obtaining free/cheap client software. Please enlighten based on your experiences. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sr1: CDROM not ready ???
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:06, Michael D Schleif wrote: OK, it can be nice to have devices _know_ when they are ready to be used ; However, enough is enough: Jan 27 10:02:09 bragi kernel: sr1: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jan 27 10:02:40 bragi last message repeated 31 times Jan 27 10:03:41 bragi last message repeated 61 times Jan 27 10:04:42 bragi last message repeated 61 times I know what /dev/sr1 is, and I often play audio CD's in that drive. Sometimes, that drive is empty, and that is the way it should be. How can I figure out what process is pummeling syslog with this useless information? What do you think? Install the lsof package if you don't have it. Try: lsof /dev/sr1 Tt should give you a clue as to what is opening the device, you may have to run it as lsof -r /dev/sr1 over a minute or more if the process only opens /dev/sr1 every now and then. It looks to be something checking once a minute (61 log messages over 61 minutes) Are you running something like nautilus? I resolved an identical problem recently. Check out this post from the archives.http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg05812.html I hope this helps -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic tcp ip command (route) acts weirdly!!
On 27 January 2004, Sony Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is strange -
I just type:
route add -host 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 and it gives me
error Usager: inet_route [-vF ] add {host|-net} target [gw GW] [metric
M] [netmask N] [mss MSS] ..etc
But if I do inet_route add -host 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
eth0 I get bash:inet_route command not found
This is weird, since route is on my system (I have /sbin/route and
/proc/net/route) and
even if I use the complete path for the route command (/sbin/route
add -host 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0), I still get the
error Usager: inet_route [-vF ] add {host|-net} target [gw GW] [metric
M] [netmask N] [mss MSS] ..etc
wow...I could not believe that after 10 years in tcp ip networking!
Debian Linux 1.3.1
tried your CL on woody 3.0r1 and route 1.98 echoed the following error:-
route: netmask 255.255.255.0 doesn't make sense with host route.
try:-
route add -host 192.168.1.2 dev eth0
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debian-user: not receiving all list mail
It appears that I'm only getting a small percentage of all the mail traffic on this list. I sent 3 posts yesterday but got nothing back from debian-user. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Please CC me in your replies. -- Alphonse Ogulla [University of Nairobi, Kenya] The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed Debian Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user: not receiving all list mail
On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:54, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:21:04PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: It appears that I'm only getting a small percentage of all the mail traffic on this list. I sent 3 posts yesterday but got nothing back from debian-user. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Please CC me in your replies. It's working fine for me, normal volume of traffic. You sure the problem's not on your end? Not absolutely sure but don't think so. I received this post directly from Paul Johnson and not debian-user. As a matter of fact, this post has not even shown up in debian-user. -- Alphonse Ogulla | The box said 'Designed for Windows NT or University of Nairobi, Kenya| better,' so I installed Debian GNU/Linux +- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about Flyvideo 98 card
j smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have 2 TV cards: 1) Flyvideo 98 card, bt878 chip 2) Ati TV-wonder VE the 2nd card works under Debian 3.0, but the 1st does not. can you help me? I have a similar card (with FM) and have no issues with it. You provided very little info describing the actual problem but my bet is that you do not have appropriate module configuration settings. Try out the following settings. in /etc/modutils/bttv (create the file if not existing) put; options bttv card=56 radio=1 options tuner type=5 alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv alias char-major-89 i2c-dev alias char-major-145 r128 alias char-major-175 agpgart options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 then run 'update-modules' to regenerate /etc/modules.conf then to load neccessary modules at boot time, do; echo tuner /etc/modules echo bttv /etc/modules -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya The box said, 'Designed for Windows NT or better,' so I installed Debian GNU/Linux - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is LVM pvcreate command distructive?
Hi, Is the LVM command pvcreate destructive? I want to add my entire slave drive (hdb) with one partition to the exiting volume group. Will initializing the drive with pvcreate destroy all data on that drive? Rgds, Alphonse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: circuit semantic diagram editor with PIC support?
Try gEDA, the electronics design automation set of tools. The project's home page is http://www.geda.seul.org. Alphonse Ogulla Sent using Nokia N73 On 3/23/08, jeffry s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need a software to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro controller PIC16F877A. any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with GNOME.. thanks.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp connection speed
Just configured ppp and established a connection using pon. ifconfig ppp0 shows device ppp0 is up and running but with no indication of the negotiated bandwidth. How can I establish the speed in Kbps at which I'm connected? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
listing directory contents with color
How do I get ls to list directory contents with color without passing the --color option everytime? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp connection speed
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:47, Shaul Karl wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:54:24PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Just configured ppp and established a connection using pon. ifconfig ppp0 shows device ppp0 is up and running but with no indication of the negotiated bandwidth. How can I establish the speed in Kbps at which I'm connected? It *might* be a matter of the modem initializing string. Maybe it is already reported in the log file? Have you tried some graphical dialing program? -- Shaul Karl,shaulk @ actcom . net . il Not tried Kppd or any other GUI ppp app. More comfortable on CLI. However, /dev/ttyS1, UART 16550A is set to a baud_base of 115200, the fastest attainable speed between the modem and the serial port. On the other hand, I used minicom to configure my 3Com US Robotics external modem to connect at the highest attainable data rate (ATN0) whilst at the same time enabling auto data compression (ATK1). /var/log/syslog has in it several lines pertaining to the activity of pppd but cannot deduce the connection speed. Thanks anyway. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: listing directory contents with color
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 14:34, Johann Koenig wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:49:01 +0300 Alphonse Ogulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get ls to list directory contents with color without passing the --color option everytime? Edit your ~/.bashrc (/etc/skel/.bashrc for all new users) and your ~/.bash_profile (/etc/skel/.bash_profile for all users) There is an option in .bashrc to turn it on, just uncomment it. There is an option in .bash_profile to source .bashrc on logon, just uncomment it. Thanks mate. Worked out perfectly. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: keramik widget style missing in kde control centre (solved)
This one troubled me quite a alot - possible bug. Inclusion of the line DefaultDepth 24 in XF86Config-4 under Section Screen solved the problem. Can now experience the total beauty of KDE 3.1 -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/mtab /etc/modules.conf warning messages on startup
I get the following two warning messages on startup. 1) warning: cannot open /etc/mtab. no such file or directory and 2) warning: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/modules.dep... AFAIC, /etc/mtab is created on startup. Then why the warning in first place? In the second case, probably it is as a result of running update-modules script after I installed a BT878 tv/fm card. Any solutions to my worries? p.s. running woody. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
Hi all, Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it despite creating the initrd image and respective links in / to files in /boot. The last 5 lines printed on screen before hang-up are printed below. RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 2664k freed VFS: Cannot open root device 301 or 03:01 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Passing root=/dev/hda1 to lilo at boot time did not bear fruit. Created initrd as follows: # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21 /lib/modules/2.4.21 Added the following lines in lilo.conf before running lilo. . image=/vmlinuz-2.4.21 initrd=/initrd.img-2.4.21 label=2.4.21 root=/dev/hda1 read-only Grateful for any assistance in resolving this difficulty. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg compiled kernel is too big
Compiled kernel 2.4.21 using make-kpkg but got the following error on running lilo:- Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 Added 2.4.18 * Added 2.4.21 Added 2.2.20 Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux is too big compiled kernel as follows:- atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --initrd clean kernel_image and also tried atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean binary Where could I be going wrong? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs (Solved)
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 14:56, Joris Huizer wrote: --- Alphonse Ogulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it despite creating the initrd image and respective links in / to files in /boot. The last 5 lines printed on screen before hang-up are printed below. RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 2664k freed VFS: Cannot open root device 301 or 03:01 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Passing root=/dev/hda1 to lilo at boot time did not bear fruit. Created initrd as follows: # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21 /lib/modules/2.4.21 Added the following lines in lilo.conf before running lilo. . image=/vmlinuz-2.4.21 initrd=/initrd.img-2.4.21 label=2.4.21 root=/dev/hda1 read-only Grateful for any assistance in resolving this difficulty. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya Check that: - under File systems, Second extended fs support has y - under Block devices, Normal PC floppy disk support has y - under ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support, IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices has y - under submenu IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block Devices, Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support and Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support have y clicked. This helped me to solve similar problems - I hope it'll help you too Yes it did. Coming to think of it, make exited with an error during the final step of kernel compilation - make modules_install because of dependancy issues with some *pmcia* and *mtd* modules. Therefore the resulting initrd.img created from /lib/modules/2.4.21 directory must have been lacking in some aspect. Building disk filesystem drivers directly into the kernel as per above instructions and forgetting about initrd.img did the trick. atlas:~# uname -a Linux atlas 2.4.21 #3 Tue Aug 26 20:01:03 EAT 2003 i686 unknown Thanks and regards -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ircII behind proxy/firewall - how?
My connection to the net is via a proxy server. It also appears port 6667 on the same machine is blocked. Just wondering, is it possible to use ircii chat client from behind a squid proxy? Is there such a thing as irc over http? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ircII behind proxy/firewall - how?
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: My connection to the net is via a proxy server. It also appears port 6667 on the same machine is blocked. Just wondering, is it possible to use ircii chat client from behind a squid proxy? Is there such a thing as irc over http? running nmap against the proxy server produced these results. atlas:~# nmap -sS -p1-15000 -oN nmap.txt 192.168.1.22 Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on (192.168.1.22): (The 14990 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 23/tcp opentelnet 53/tcp opendomain 80/tcp openhttp 111/tcpopensunrpc 199/tcpopensmux 943/tcpopenunknown 1024/tcp openkdm 1026/tcp opennterm 6000/tcp openX11 8080/tcp openhttp-proxy Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 195 seconds atlast:~# Do you see any hope in getting ircII to work? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: pppd and Debian...
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:05, Piotr Malecki wrote: By kppp I also cannot connect, message show me that pppd has suddenly finished its operation or something like that Don't know why but I too couldn't establish a dial-up connection using kppp Maybe someone can help me ? I want to connect to Internet on Debian - on Red Hat were not any problems ... I successfully set up dial-up capabilities on my machine using pppconfig and use pon and poff commands to bring the link up and down respectively. pppconfig worked out perfectly such that there was absolutely no need to make any changes to the files /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppd/peers/provider. The only additional configuration setting that was required was to add a route to the remote network in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. $ man pppconfig Thanks for any help. Wish you luck. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:16, you wrote: There is no such language which performs in all situations well. C is fast, but you have to code really careful and double-check your source. Erlang was designed for telephony tasks (message passing, ...). Prolog is superior in expert systems. Perl is real good for quick string hacks. Python scales better than Perl for larger projects and is good for rapid prototyping. C++ scales well in large-scale software designs which needs to be fast... C, Erlang, Prolog, Perl, Python and C++ are all refered to in the above paragraph. Java is conspicuouly not mentioned. I construe that to mean Java is so much lacking in useful qualities to serve any practical purpose. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Remote Data Acquisition Programming
Hi all, A client has installed a number of site controllers linked to fuel dispensers in distant retail sites to provide automated fuelling services. Communication between the site controllers and a central front end processor (FEP) is via telephone links with modems attached to RS232 interfaces at both ends. I have a strong desire to implement a new, open and robust front end processor using Debian GNU/Linux primarily for automated remote data acquisition or data download/transfer from the controller to the FEP. So far, I've managed to get hold of the non-standard protocol specifications for communication between the FEP and site controller. The communication scheme is basically the exchange of well formatted message blocks eg. STX - Start of text, , EOT, ACK - Acknowledgment, NAK, ENQ etc. with both binary and ASCII values. My dilemma is on how to send these messages from within a C program and over a telephone link. For example, what interface should I look at in this case - the modem or serial port? I have read Serial port and Modem HOWTOs and also Serial programming for POSIX operating systems but still can't deduce the best way to apprroach the problem. Are there any APIs in Linux for programming the modem/serial port or is making low level i/o system calls the only way out? Grateful for any guidance on the best way to proceed. Thanks and regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xserver crashes on switching to vitual console
Hi all, First problem; X runs on my machine pretty well but crashes moments later (as a result of a fatal server lockup) on switching to a virtual console with the Ctrl+Alt+Fn keystroke. My system specs are as follows:- Machine: Dell Optiplex GX10 Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 woody Kernel 2.4.21 X -version: XFree86 version 4.1.0.1 (protocol version 11, revision 0) Video card: Onboard intel 810E The full server log is appended to the end of this message for your perusal. A similar installation on an equivalent machine but with an ATI Mach64 GB graphics card does not suffer from this problem. A little bit of tweaking XF86Config-4 like negating the UseFBDev option did not help much. Any solutions? Second problem, issuing the command startx, fires up KDE 3.1.3 by default. How do I set some other light weight window manager like fvwm to run by default without using a desktop manager like gdm? Actually, I love KDE but arts has issues with my sound card - Aureal Vortex au8220 and therefore want to kick start some other wm. Thanks and regards -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya X server output- hostname 2.08 warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Sat Sep 6 16:32:15 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor Dell M570 (**) | |--Device Intel 810 Graphics Adaptor (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) XKB: layout: uk (**) |--Input Device Configured Mouse (**) |--Input Device Generic Mouse (WW) The directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI:*(0:1:0) Intel i810e rev 3, Mem @ 0xf800/26, 0xff00/19 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.1.9 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0.1, module
Re: xserver crashes on switching to vitual console [Solved]
Upgrading xserver to version 4.2.1 did the trick. Thanx. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
establishing ppp connection as non-root
Hi all, I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and make use of pon/poff commands to bring up and bring down the link respectively. However, pon only works when ran as root and refuses otherwise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pon please configure /etc/ppp/peers/provider or use a command line argument to use another file in /etc/ppp/peers directory. Is it possible to run pon as non root? Tried changing some parameters in /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/provider with little or no success. Anyway, if it is possible then how does one go about it. Thanks and regards, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: establishing ppp connection as non-root [solved]
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:36, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi all, I configured ppp successfully using pppconfig and make use of pon/poff commands to bring up and bring down the link respectively. However, pon only works when ran as root and refuses otherwise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pon please configure /etc/ppp/peers/provider or use a command line argument to use another file in /etc/ppp/peers directory. This indicates that files in /etc/ppp/peers directory are unaccessible Is it possible to run pon as non root? Tried changing some parameters in /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/provider with little or no success. Yes. In fact, one need not to change anything in /etc/ppp/peers directory Anyway, if it is possible then how does one go about it? As root, include the user id to run the command pon in group 'dip'. If it so happens that that uid is already logged on, then exit the shell and login again before running pon (so as for /etc/group changes to take effect). That is all. /etc/pppusers and /etc/dialout files weren't necessary. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/group changes don't take effect immediately
Hi all, In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not* access files owned by user root and available to users in group dip whilst using my normal uid. Just as I was about to give up, I decided to exit the shell and log in once again and to my amazement, I now could read files in /etc/ppp/peers directory whose permission is as follows:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ppp$ ls -ld peers drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 4096 Oct2 12:06 peers How does one explain this? Is the file /etc/group cached somewhere and updated only so often? How can the changes be forced to take effect immediately without exiting and logging in again? Regards, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yahoo wants to save cookies at /
Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have no permissions. Anybody experience this strange behaviour? Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure
On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:57, you wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission denied appears. I did a chown 777 on the whole string of files but still the same error message. Yes I am discouraged. Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas. what are the permissions of /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net? Issue ls -l against the file and post the output. In addition, post the output of the following command sequence $ whoami ; grep dip /etc/group Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure
On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:57, you wrote: I never dreamed that this would be such a difficult problem.I added myself to the dip group (perhaps I was already there because the number beside my user name (in /etc/group)was 1000. Anyway I added myself to pppusers and dialout too. And the very same message: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission denied appears. I did a chown 777 on the whole string of files but still the same error message. Yes I am discouraged. Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas. what are the permissions of /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net? Issue ls -l against the file and post the output. Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package manager tar.gz apps
Just wondering, what happens to the system when you remove an installed package or component of a package and replace/update with a tar.gz compiled from source application? Can this break the system -- leading to dependancy issues? I'm asking because I had to install module-init-tools, e2fsprogs and procps (requisite for kernel 2.6.0) from source simply because I couldn't find the respective deb package or probably the deb package failed on my system. At the moment, the command 'apt-get check' does not report any conflicts. Thanks regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: US Robotics Modem drivers ?
On 07 January 2004 15:57, Marc Hultquist wrote: Hey All I just got hold of a us robotics 56k message modem and am busy trying to install it under linux however, I hit a huge snag, I cant find a driver for it, and I dont have a origional cd from it :\ I tried probing for it but as of yet I have not been able to find anything, I also had a look at http://www.usr-emea.com/support/s-prod-template.asp?loc=emeaprod=5668b which is the direct link to the modem in specific but I cant seem to find anything in regard to their modems being compatiable under linux ? Has anyone installed one of these before, and if so would they be willing to give me some pointers ? Or maybe show me where I could look for a driver ? From the URL, it is clear you have an external serial modem. In most cases, these work with Linux out-of-box and modem drivers are not requisite. Connect the modem to the serial port, say /dev/ttyS1 and use a program such as minicom to configure the modem and get going. $ man minicom for usage and extra detail Got a similar modem, (3com US Robotics 56K Faxmodem) and used 'pppconfig to set up dialup connections without much hassle. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intermittent reboots between kernel versions
Bill Goudie wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:13:28PM +0300, Ogulla, Alphonse wrote: I'm using Woody and kernel versions 2.4.18-686, 2.4.21 2.6.0. The system boots up and functions well when powering up from either of the 2.4 kernels but ocassionally fails to boot when changing from 2.6.0 to 2.4.21. In this case, the system fails to mount the root file system, culminating in a kernel panic. start of error message EXT2-fs: ide0(3,1): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4). cramfs: wrong magic Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 end of error message I however experience no problem when changing from 2.6.0 to 2.4.18-686 and in fact take advantage of restarting with 2.4.18-686 as a makeshift solution. In an attempt to find a lasting solution, I compiled kernel 2.6.0 again and this time enabled Ext2/3 extended attributes. Its been just a day since putting the new 2.6.0 version into service and have so far not experienced the difficulty described above but on the other hand I'm not so sure if indeed I've come across the solution for the root cause of the problem. Any ideas? Note that in getting kernel 2.6.0 to work, I had to install a newer version of e2fsprogs and replace modutils with module-init-tools. Could e2fsprogs be causing the problem? Hmm, could this be the same problem as: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg00608.html -- Looks like it. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adding extra network routes
After I got tired of adding a network route everytime I started my machine, I added the ensuing line to a file 'route00' and saved it in /etc/network/if-up.d route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 This works, but what I don't understand is why run-parts attempts to run the script five times, or is it because I have five virtual interfaces on eth0? run-parts echoes the following error on startup. Configuring network interfaces: SIOCADDRT: No such device run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/00route exited with return code 7 SIOCADDRT: File exists done. The last three lines are repeated five times. This brings me to my question. Where should I put my one line script 'route00' in order to add an extra route to a network without seeing the above errors on startup? Thanks regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
switching from woody to unstable/testing
Someone on this list (I think David Z Maze) commented that If I was brave enough to run a Linux kernel so young (2.6.0) then I'm probably brave enough to run unstable too. Well, I've given it a thought and decided to migrate two of my three debian woody installations to unstable and testing respectively. I would apreciate any assistance on how to go about it through upgrading/downgrading etc and not via a fresh install. Thanks regards, -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing
Goran Christiansson wrote: Dear All, I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than LI of LILO. After googleing a bit I found that this was a well known problem, and that it can be solved using a boot disk. Could someone explain to me, step by step, what I shall do when I have booted with the boot-disk? I suspect the root cause is incorrect hard disk setup in the system BIOS. Try changing BIOS settings for disk access, more specifically enabling LBA then probably trying out variations of PIO modes. When done, boot using a rescue disk and re-run lilo. A Knoppix cd will come in handy here. If you used debian cd images to install, then you can also boot using one of the first 4 disks and type rescue at the prompt. NB: Changing BIOS settings described above can affect how some other existing OS functions. And another small thing, please do not reply to a mail when posting a afresh. Compose a new mail and use a subject that briefly explains the problem you're facing. Have a nice day. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Is OP Original Post?
Just for the record, does the acronym OP stand for Original Post? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is swen back?
Got 200 plus mail bombs in my pop3 account this morning. Luckily I used Kmail and filtered (deleted) every incoming message of size greater than 40Kb. Just wondering, is swen back from holiday? How you people managing? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ide-scsi error - sr0: CDROM not ready?
Hi, I recently got a BenQ 48X48x24x16 ATAPI CD-R/RW/DVD combo drive and managed to get it working with Debian GNU/Linux and custom kernel 2.4.24 using the generic scsi library. I think its working because at least it created an audio cd out of a blank cd-rw which apparently can't be read by my hifi music system even after fixating twice. However I get this very annoying scsi error on all 12 virtual consoles telling me CDROM is not ready when I have not even made an attempt to access the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disk in the drive. The above error message is repeated over and over in all virtual consoles I swich to thus giving me no space to type any command or do any useful work. Grateful if someone can save the situation and show me how to stop sr0 from taking over my PC. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi error - sr0: CDROM not ready?
On Monday 19 January 2004 18:13, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi, I recently got a BenQ 48X48x24x16 ATAPI CD-R/RW/DVD combo drive and managed to get it working with Debian GNU/Linux and custom kernel 2.4.24 using the generic scsi library. I think its working because at least it created an audio cd out of a blank cd-rw which apparently can't be read by my hifi music system even after fixating twice. However I get this very annoying scsi error on all 12 virtual consoles telling me CDROM is not ready when I have not even made an attempt to access the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disk in the drive. The above error message is repeated over and over in all virtual consoles I swich to thus giving me no space to type any command or do any useful work. Grateful if someone can save the situation and show me how to stop sr0 from taking over my PC. Ah! Just realised that the error bombardment is set off immediately after starting X (kde 3.15). I have no X applications trying to access /dev/cdrom which now points to /dev/scd0. Still can't figure out the connection between X and ide-scsi. Any ideas? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital signing of printed documents
Hi good people, I wish to get your views on how I can implement a system that will capture text of a financial document that is to be printed, run a hash algorithm (SHA-1) over the document text, store an electronic copy of the document and its digital signature to disk and lastly print the document with the electronic signature at the last line of the document. The financial document can be a ticket/receipt produced by a POS application or an invoice/delivery note generated by an accounting software. The objective is to set up a robust electronic document validation system that can authenticate electronically produced documents using Debian GNU/Linux and other open-source tools. My search for an existing open-source solution did not yield any fruit. In brief, working of the system shall be as follows using an invoice for exemplification. 1) an invoice generated by an accounting system is sent for printing on a Samba-CUPS shared network printer 2) the text of the invoice is captured and passed through SHA-1 algorithm to obtain its digital signature. 3) the invoice text is saved in a file named TIMESTAMP_a.txt, the digital signature is saved in a file named TIMESTAMP_b.txt 4) the invoice text is then sent to the network printer with the digital signature printed on the last line of the invoice. 5) at the end of day, another SHA-1 algorithm is performed over all the _b.txt signatures and saved as _c.txt on a programmable read only memory (PROM) which can be a CD-R in its very basic form. So, for every working day the system will have a number of _a.txt and _b.txt files which correspond to the invoices issued on that day and one _c.txt file that contains the signature of all _b.txt signatures of that day. 6) lastly the _c.txt signatures for any given day is read from the CD-R and used to verify all the _b.txt signatures kept on disk, which in turn will verify the _a.txt document which is the copy of the original issued invoice. At a high level, my thinking is that such a system can be devised using Samba and CUPS to capture invoice details on the print queue then use a myriad of scripts for hashing the invoice text and appending the signature to the invoice before sending it to the printer. Scripts can also be used to save the _a.txt and _b.txt in an auto-generated directory file tree structure. Finally I can use Cron to automatically run scripts at the end of day to create the _c.txt signatures and write them to cd using cdrecord. Do you think this is a reasonable way of going about this project? Is Samba-CUPS and bash/perl scripting the best tools to use or are there others? What is your recommendation and advise? Your comments, remarks or criticism are welcome. -- Thanks in advance. Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya
Re: Digital signing of printed documents
On 7/4/05, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be worried about why you need to validate an invoice or receipt in the first place. Local regulations stipulate so. I really don't know why but ill make an effort to find out why this is the case. -- Rgds, Alphonse, Nairobi-Kenya
Re: Digital signing of printed documents
On 7/4/05, Dave Howorth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi good people, I wish to get your views on how I can implement a system that will capture text of a financial document that is to be printed, run a hash algorithm (SHA-1) over the document text, store an electronic copy of the document and its digital signature to disk and lastly print the document with the electronic signature at the last line of the document. The financial document can be a ticket/receipt produced by a POS application or an invoice/delivery note generated by an accounting software. ... Do you think this is a reasonable way of going about this project? Is Samba-CUPS and bash/perl scripting the best tools to use or are there others? What is your recommendation and advise? Your comments, remarks or criticism are welcome. As others have mentioned, perhaps you need to tell us more about the project's purpose - what risks is it designed to protect against? For example, the existence of the _c.txt leads me to suspect that you're worried the _b.txt files may be changed. But it's not clear why you wouldn't just store everything on the CD if that's the case? And I'm not sure of the purpose of printing the hash on the paper ticket, since it may or may not correspond to the text that's actually printed on a specific piece of paper that's presented later. When does the printed hash get used? The primary purpose of the project is to assure auditors and tax authorities that printed documents are true if the electronic signatures match. It also provides a means of the authorities to check in a reliable way what taxes a certain business is to pay. The accounting system will continue to produce reports based on document authenticataion. Only signatures that are used to authenticate _b.txt files are stored on CD-R so that once a record has been saved on CD-R, it can no longer be altered. Its is important in order to keep permanent records of electronic endorsments. The digital signature at the last line of the invoice is basically a unique identifier derived from the text of the invoice. This requirement is again a local reglulation concerning electronic invoice validatiion for operation under fical requirements.
Re: Commercial-grade application software
jack kinnon said: In hardware design, I'm looking for E-CAD for analog and digital circuit design and simulation. Try electric, from http://www.staticfreesoft.com Electric is a free, GPLed (available with source) VLSI Design System that runs on Unix/Linux/Mac OS and Windoze. It is a complete Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including:* Custom IC layout * Schematic Capture (digital and analog) * Textual Languages such as VHDL and Verilog * Electro-mechanical hybrid layout * Programmable logic (FPGAs) ...and much more. -- Alphonse Ogulla | The box said 'Designed for Windows NT or University of Nairobi, Kenya| better,' so I installed Debian GNU/Linux +- - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disk cloning with dd
Hi all, Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another (hdb) of the same size as follows: # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost have over dd or vice versa? Thanks, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya.
CVS checkout behind firewall proxy
Hi All, I'm trying to do a cvs checkout from a debian beast on the company network but get the error. cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.digium.com(66.250.69.240):2401 failed: No route to host I'm connected to the internet via a proxy firewall. Does this imply specific ports required by cvs are closed? Can cvs use the http port number? How else can I get to use cvs from behind a firewall? I've read about cvs-proxy but it seems to do a totally different thing. Shall appreciate your assitance. -- Thanks and regards, Alphonse, Nairobi, Kenya.
Scary hda ext3 messages
Hi all, I got this rather scary message when I booted up my Debian PC last evening. First I noticed my hdd was making relatively more noise than usual. I had removed it quite recently for use in backing-up data of a windoze machine that was showing symptoms of imminent disk failure. (discovered later that it wasn't actually the disk, but the IDE cable). I connected this device as the master, booted Linux and transfered all data on the ntfs partition to a newly created vfat partition and returned the disk to where it belonged. So, upon restarting Linux successfully, running fsck at boot, logging in and using the machine for a while whilst listening to grinding noises coming from the hdd, I heard this clicking sound just before the light of the hdd went off. I then issued ls command to list directory contents but what I got was a sequence of lost interrupt messages; hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt and so on.. Soon after, the following spate of messages flooded my screen. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 5511824 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 15504728 ... Bus error end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 8 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 24 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 18350248 ... EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted. After this, things stoped working as normal. Not knowing what to do, I logged into another VT as root and issued init 0 to bring down the system but it didn't shutdown. So I just depressed the power off button and decided to seek an explanation help on what is really happening. The only significant change on my debian PC is of course creation of a large vfat partition and reduced RAM because of using a 256MB/133Mhz DIMM on a 100Mhz motherboard so only 133MB is seen. Don't know if this is the root cause to my problem. Otherwise my partition layout is as follows: hda1 NTFS (Not in fstab) 8GB hda2 Ext3 (Mounted root) 25GB hda3 Swap 1GB hda5 Ext3 (Mounted home) 10GB hda6 Vfat (Not in fstab) 16GB hdb1 Ext3 (Not in fstab) 8GB Shall greatly appreciate any help on what the problem might be and how to revert to a state of tranquility. Already have a backup of the most important data configuration files so even if it means formatting hda then I'll take that route. One more bit of information. I think S.M.A.R.T, Super DMA, APM Suspend etc are all enabled for my drives in the BIOS settings i.e on Loading Optimal Configuration Settings. Could these be having incompatibility issues with Linux? Thanks regards -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi,Kenya I choose to use Debian/GNU Linux, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: s3 virge
-Original Message- From: Ted Parks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 20:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: s3 virge I am using an s3virge card on a machine I am trying to configure with Debian Woody. I have tried to set up the card several ways, including X -configure. No luck. I wonder if there is a problem with the s3virge driver--could it be incompatible with the Woody kernel? How do I get an s3virge driver that is compatible, if I need one? Anybody have experience configuring an s3virge card? try the X server for your video card; xserver-s3v apt-get install xserver-s3v then use XF86Config as the configuration file and not XF86Config-4 -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya I choose to use Debian GNU/Linux not because it is easy, but because it is hard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down
Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya, I recently swapped a failing 160GB hard drive on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with a 1TB disk then installed Debian Wheezy on the entire GPT disk with LVM over LUKS. However, whenever I tried copying a 130GB gzip backup from an external fuseblk USB drive to my new home, the laptop overheated and shutdown somewhere around the 20-30% mark. The relevant lines from /var/log/syslog were as follows: Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40 46 56 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.435288] Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down. Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity shutdown[4494]: shutting down for system halt After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating. Next I decided to decompress the gzip archive but once again I found myself back to square one with overheating issues after an hour or so of decompressing. The relevant lines from /var/log/syslog.1 are as follows: Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity kernel: [15927.185123] Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down. Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity kernel: [15927.258218] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity shutdown[6882]: shutting down for system halt Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity kernel: [15927.261302] thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius): 88 47 38 62 50 N/A 33 N/A 44 51 58 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Aug 12 23:59:16 curiosity init: Switching to runlevel: 0 It is worth noting that this is the very first time I've encountered such a problem, coming immediately after upgrading the hard disk from 160GB (MBR, LVM over LUKS) to 1TB (GPT, LVM over LUKS) and Debian distribution from Squeeze to Wheezy. I also tried setting the fan speed to maximum level disengaged or level 7 but I got the following error: root@curiosity:~# echo level disengaged /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument root@curiosity:~# echo level 7 /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument The output of /proc/acpi/ibm/fan, /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal and acpi -V, a few minutes just before the laptop shutdown was as follows: root@curiosity:~# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan status: enabled speed: 3068 level: auto root@curiosity:~# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal temperatures: 90 46 38 63 50 -128 33 -128 44 51 59 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128 root@curiosity:~# acpi -V Battery 0: Full, 100% Battery 0: design capacity 4492 mAh, last full capacity 3798 mAh = 84% Adapter 0: on-line Thermal 0: ok, 94.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 100.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 95.5 degrees C Thermal 1: ok, 90.0 degrees C Thermal 1: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 127.0 degrees C Cooling 0: LCD 8 of 15 Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10 Other outputs that might be of interest are: root@curiosity:~# uname -a Linux curiosity 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@curiosity:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz Please give me hints on how to get this old laptop back to full functionality without the overheating problem. -- Thanks Regards, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAjnQCZkwok=NvUsPWZV0f66qrtaO43pAc0Ruut--TO3==x...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Grace lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk wrote: On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating. You might want to try some canned air on the heatsync attached to the CPU fan, or making sure the laptop is near some aircon etc. root@curiosity:~# echo level disengaged /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument root@curiosity:~# echo level 7 /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Did you first load the ibm acpi module with the fan_control argument ? rmmod thinkpad_acpi modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1 I had the same issue with my thinkpad, and wrote this [1] to work around it, though in the end canned air was the proper solution. [1] https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5209f91e.3010...@deathbycomputers.co.uk I hadn't loaded the thinkpad_acpi module with the fan_control argument. Done that and I'm now able to set the fan speed. Many thanks for that. I've followed the instructions at https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon and no sooner had I began testing in a another terminal, the laptop shutdown but strangely without any heavy lifting tasks running in the background. Message from syslogd@curiosity at Aug 13 14:42:12 ... kernel:[23090.974571] Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down. Broadcast message from root@curiosity (Tue Aug 13 14:42:12 2013): The system is going down for system halt NOW! Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air directly over the heat sink? -- Many thanks, Alphonse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAjnQCaSSkif4ju0X=ejd5z0hnddcr71j99vgedofeuu7sm...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [SOLVED] Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Alphonse Ogulla aogu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Grace lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk wrote: On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating. You might want to try some canned air on the heatsync attached to the CPU fan, or making sure the laptop is near some aircon etc. root@curiosity:~# echo level disengaged /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument root@curiosity:~# echo level 7 /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Did you first load the ibm acpi module with the fan_control argument ? rmmod thinkpad_acpi modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1 I had the same issue with my thinkpad, and wrote this [1] to work around it, though in the end canned air was the proper solution. [1] https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5209f91e.3010...@deathbycomputers.co.uk I hadn't loaded the thinkpad_acpi module with the fan_control argument. Done that and I'm now able to set the fan speed. Many thanks for that. I've followed the instructions at https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon and no sooner had I began testing in a another terminal, the laptop shutdown but strangely without any heavy lifting tasks running in the background. Message from syslogd@curiosity at Aug 13 14:42:12 ... kernel:[23090.974571] Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down. Broadcast message from root@curiosity (Tue Aug 13 14:42:12 2013): The system is going down for system halt NOW! Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air directly over the heat sink? -- Many thanks, Alphonse Tom's solution of monitoring the Thinkpad temperature and adjusting the fan speed at [1] worked perfectly for me, albeit after tweaking temp_mon cron file to run temp_mon.sh script every 2 minutes instead of 5. [1] https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon I failed initially because I used wget with the direct link and ended up downloading the html page instead of the actual file(s). Should have used Download ZIP option in github or at least opened the files before testing. My bad. I'm still curious to know how the canned air solution is applied; one-off or continuously? Anyway, my issue is solved for now. Many thanks Tom. -- Rgds, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caajnqcbgcrckxwzarcuaoknwfads_5uzbz9tt9vyqj7v4ax...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Tom Grace lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk wrote: On 13/08/13 13:19, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: The system is going down for system halt NOW! Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air directly over the heat sink? It's for a one off, it gets the dust out from the fins of the heat sync and should improve cooling (until it gets dusty again). Noted. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caajnqcbxsbzpsghwbfvdf97o9eequgplc2hez2zbvm2ofup...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40 46 56 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.435288] Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down. Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity shutdown[4494]: shutting down for system halt Hm, why does the list of temperatures not include the cited 103 degC? I think the temperature was rising faster than the logging rate After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating. Assuming that the processor is actually overheating, perhaps it would help to remove the heatsink and replace the thermal compound (Arctic Silver seems to be the recommended replacement). Thanks. The CPU is currently at 60 C with minimal load so shall do that as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caajnqcz20-nuvpbjyfxtfpgk9cuy951c0ppg5tqmqqpscko...@mail.gmail.com
Package netpbm not found during debian wheezy 7.6.0 net install
debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst fails at Select and install software when retrieving file 1204 of 1315 (26%). Further investigation on the 3rd expert install attempt shows that the installer cannot progress past downloading package netpbm amd64 2:10.0-15+b1 messages in Ctrl+Alt+F4 console window are as follows: Aug 11 16:18:08 in-target: Get:1452 http://debian.mirror.ac.ke/debian/ wheezy/main netpbm amd64 2:10.0-15+b1 [1,349 kB] Aug 11 16:18:15 in-target: Get:1453 http://debian.mirror.ac.ke/debian/ wheezy/main netpbm amd64 2:10.0-15+b1 [1,349 kB] Aug 11 16:18:22 in-target: Get:1454 http://debian.mirror.ac.ke/debian/ wheezy/main netpbm amd64 2:10.0-15+b1 [1,349 kB] I get the same results with different mirrors i.e. http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ and http://debian.mirror.ac.ke/debian I'm trying to install debian wheezy 7.6.0 using the net install image debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso which I downloaded using Google Chrome and burned onto a USB flash drive using dd package for Windows 7. Rgds, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caajnqcze6lf8tsvuana2w5m7kfunf0bta6vwz_2tltptwze...@mail.gmail.com
Wireless Disconnects, Requires Reboot
Greetings. I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not available then disappearing from Network Manager. This can happen anytime between 10 minutes and 1 week of working with the only way of recovering being a reboot. Both the open-source and proprietary drivers produce the same results. I have since purchased a USB WiFi adaptor (Realtek RT8188eu) as a fall back measure but would prefer to have the main PCI WiFi adaptor working again. Any help will be greatly appreciated. My System. a) Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) b) Driver Modules: brcmsmac, mac80211, cfg80211, bcma, brcmutil, cordic c) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux What I have Tried a) Restart Network Manager b) Unloading and reloading the drivers c) Trying the proprietary wl driver d) Setting REGDOMAIN in /etc/default/crda e) Installing rfkill and ensuring Wireless is NOT soft or hard blocked. f) Googling and trying instructions at http://askubuntu.com/questions/503936/wireless-randomly-becoming-phantom-hardblocked-only-fixed-by-reboot Dmesg Snippet > > [75536.589575] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > false (implement) > [75536.589588] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: > false (implement) > [75536.590676] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > [75539.587022] wlan0: authenticate with e0:69:95:xx.xx.xx > [75539.587103] wlan0: send auth to e0:69:95:xx.xx.xx (try 1/3) > [75539.589717] wlan0: authenticated > [75539.589961] wlan0: associate with e0:69:95:38:38:d3 (try 1/3) > [75539.592452] wlan0: RX AssocResp from e0:69:95:38:38:d3 (capab=0x411 > status=0 aid=4) > [75539.593092] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: > associated > [75539.593097] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > true (implement) > [75539.593108] wlan0: associated > [75539.593121] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > [75539.596486] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: \xffd8sۚ > txop exceeded phylen 159/256 dur 1778/1504 > [75539.602524] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: \xffd8sۚ > txop exceeded phylen 137/256 dur 1602/1504 > [75563.605657] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 > addresses (implement) > [81755.330981] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_watchdog: dead chip > [81755.462986] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81755.988124] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: > disassociated > [81755.988136] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 > addresses (implement) > [81755.988140] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > false (implement) > [81755.988145] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.988148] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.988151] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.988153] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.995598] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > [81756.115171] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81756.115183] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > ... > ... > [81756.283287] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81756.330413] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: > [81756.330419] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset > [81756.330421] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), > (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time) > [81756.330426] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330429] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330433] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 2 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330437] cfg80211: (517 KHz - 525 KHz @ 8 KHz, 16 KHz > AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330441] cfg80211: (525 KHz - 533 KHz @ 8 KHz, 16 KHz > AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s) > [81756.330444] cfg80211: (549 KHz - 573 KHz @ 16 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (0 s) > [81756.330447] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 8 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330451] cfg80211: (5724 KHz - 6372 KHz @ 216 KHz), (N/A, > 0 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.339190] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81756.339202] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > ... > ... > [81756.395272] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down -- Thanks & Regards Alphonse Ogulla
Broadcom BCM43225 Wireless Shows Not Connected then Hardware Disabled
Greetings. I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not connected, hardware disabled then disappearing from Network Manager. The laptop only has FN+F3 WiFi on/off toggling. This can happen anytime form 10 minutes to 1 week of working with the only way of recovering being a reboot. Both the open-source "bcma" and proprietary "wl" kernel driver modules produce the same results. I have since purchased a USB WiFi adaptor (Realtek RT8188eu) as a fall back measure but would prefer to have the inbuilt PCI WiFi adaptor working again. Any help will be greatly appreciated. My System. a) Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) b) Driver Modules: brcmsmac, mac80211, cfg80211, bcma, brcmutil, cordic c) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux What I have Tried a) Restart Network Manager b) Unloading and reloading the drivers c) Trying the proprietary wl driver d) Setting REGDOMAIN in /etc/default/crda to KE, IN, US etc. e) Installing rfkill and ensuring Wireless is NOT soft or hard blocked. f) Googling and trying instructions at http://askubuntu.com/questions/503936/wireless-randomly-becoming-phantom-hardblocked-only-fixed-by-reboot Dmesg Snippet > > [75536.589575] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > false (implement) > [75536.589588] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: > false (implement) > [75536.590676] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > [75539.587022] wlan0: authenticate with e0:69:95:xx.xx.xx > [75539.587103] wlan0: send auth to e0:69:95:xx.xx.xx (try 1/3) > [75539.589717] wlan0: authenticated > [75539.589961] wlan0: associate with e0:69:95:38:38:d3 (try 1/3) > [75539.592452] wlan0: RX AssocResp from e0:69:95:38:38:d3 (capab=0x411 > status=0 aid=4) > [75539.593092] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: > associated > [75539.593097] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > true (implement) > [75539.593108] wlan0: associated > [75539.593121] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > [75539.596486] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: \xffd8sۚ > txop exceeded phylen 159/256 dur 1778/1504 > [75539.602524] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: \xffd8sۚ > txop exceeded phylen 137/256 dur 1602/1504 > [75563.605657] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 > addresses (implement) > [81755.330981] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_watchdog: dead chip > [81755.462986] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81755.988124] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: > disassociated > [81755.988136] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 > addresses (implement) > [81755.988140] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > false (implement) > [81755.988145] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.988148] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.988151] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.988153] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > [81755.995598] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > [81756.115171] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81756.115183] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > ... > ... > [81756.283287] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81756.330413] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: > [81756.330419] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset > [81756.330421] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), > (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time) > [81756.330426] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330429] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330433] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 2 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330437] cfg80211: (517 KHz - 525 KHz @ 8 KHz, 16 KHz > AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330441] cfg80211: (525 KHz - 533 KHz @ 8 KHz, 16 KHz > AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s) > [81756.330444] cfg80211: (549 KHz - 573 KHz @ 16 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (0 s) > [81756.330447] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 8 KHz), (N/A, > 2000 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.330451] cfg80211: (5724 KHz - 6372 KHz @ 216 KHz), (N/A, > 0 mBm), (N/A) > [81756.339190] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > [81756.339202] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > ... > ... > [81756.395272] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down -- Thanks & Regards
Re: Broadcom BCM43225 Wireless Shows Not Connected then Hardware Disabled
wait for probe response
before disconnecting (reason 4). (int)
parm: ieee80211_default_rc_algo:Default rate control algorithm
for mac80211 to use (charp)
[cfg80211]
filename: /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
description:wireless configuration support
license:GPL
author: Johannes Berg
depends:rfkill
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.16.0-4-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: ieee80211_regdom:IEEE 802.11 regulatory domain code (charp)
parm: cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz:Disable 40MHz support in the
2.4GHz band (bool)
[bcma]
filename: /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/bcma/bcma.ko
license:GPL
description:Broadcom's specific AMBA driver
depends:
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.16.0-4-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
# module parameters #
[mac80211]
beacon_loss_count: 7
ieee80211_default_rc_algo: minstrel_ht
max_nullfunc_tries: 2
max_probe_tries: 5
probe_wait_ms: 500
[cfg80211]
cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz: N
ieee80211_regdom: 00
# /etc/modules ##
# modprobe options ##
[/etc/modprobe.d/b43-blacklist.conf]
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb
[/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf]
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist b44
blacklist ssb
blacklist wl
[/etc/modprobe.d/modesetting.conf]
options cirrus modeset=1
options mgag200 modeset=1
# rc.local ##
exit 0
# pm-utils ##
find: `/etc/pm/*.d': No such file or directory
# udev rules
[/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules]
# PCI device 0x1969:0x1073 (atl1c)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4357 (brcmsmac)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*",
NAME="wlan0"
# USB device 0x:0x (dm9601)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
# USB device 0x:0x (r8152)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2"
# USB device 0x:0x (r8152)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth3"
# USB device 0x:0x (r8188eu)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*",
NAME="wlan1"
# USB device 0x:0x (asix)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth4"
# dmesg #
[ 942.768101] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down (repeated 99
times)
[ 1375.269881] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_start: brcms_up() returned -132
## wireless info END
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Alphonse Ogulla <aogu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom
> BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly
> until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not
> connected, hardware disabled then disappearing from Network Manager.
> The laptop only has FN+F3 WiFi on/off toggling.
>
> This can happen anytime form 10 minutes to 1 week of working with the
> only way of recovering being a reboot. Both the open-source "bcma" and
> proprietary "wl" kernel driver modules produce the same results.
>
> I have since purchased a USB WiFi adaptor (Realtek RT8188eu) as a fall
> back measure but would prefer to have the inbuilt PCI WiFi adaptor
> working again. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> My System.
> a) Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
> b) Driver Modules: brcmsmac, mac80211, cfg80211, bcma, brcmutil, cordic
> c) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4
> (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> What I have Tried
> a) Restart Network Manager
> b) Unloading and reloading the drivers
> c) Trying the proprietary wl driver
> d) Setting REGDOMAIN i
SOLVED: Wireless Disconnects, Requires Reboot
It was more of a hardware maintenance issue than a kernel driver issue. Opening the back laptop cover, removing the mini PCI-E WLAN WiFi board and firmly re-seating it solved the problem. Also took the opportunity to blow dry (without the heater element) all the dust inside the laptop. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:19 PM Alphonse Ogulla <aogu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom > BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly > until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not > available then disappearing from Network Manager. This can happen > anytime between 10 minutes and 1 week of working with the only way of > recovering being a reboot. Both the open-source and proprietary > drivers produce the same results. > > I have since purchased a USB WiFi adaptor (Realtek RT8188eu) as a fall > back measure but would prefer to have the main PCI WiFi adaptor > working again. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > My System. > a) Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) > b) Driver Modules: brcmsmac, mac80211, cfg80211, bcma, brcmutil, cordic > c) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 > (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > What I have Tried > a) Restart Network Manager > b) Unloading and reloading the drivers > c) Trying the proprietary wl driver > d) Setting REGDOMAIN in /etc/default/crda > e) Installing rfkill and ensuring Wireless is NOT soft or hard blocked. > f) Googling and trying instructions at > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/503936/wireless-randomly-becoming-phantom-hardblocked-only-fixed-by-reboot > > Dmesg Snippet > > > > [75536.589575] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos > enabled: false (implement) > > [75536.589588] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_config: change power-save > mode: false (implement) > > [75536.590676] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > > [75539.587022] wlan0: authenticate with e0:69:95:xx.xx.xx > > [75539.587103] wlan0: send auth to e0:69:95:xx.xx.xx (try 1/3) > > [75539.589717] wlan0: authenticated > > [75539.589961] wlan0: associate with e0:69:95:38:38:d3 (try 1/3) > > [75539.592452] wlan0: RX AssocResp from e0:69:95:38:38:d3 (capab=0x411 > status=0 aid=4) > > [75539.593092] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: > associated > > [75539.593097] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos > enabled: true (implement) > > [75539.593108] wlan0: associated > > [75539.593121] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > > [75539.596486] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: > \xffd8sۚ txop exceeded phylen 159/256 dur 1778/1504 > > [75539.602524] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: > \xffd8sۚ txop exceeded phylen 137/256 dur 1602/1504 > > [75563.605657] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp > filtering: 1 addresses (implement) > > [81755.330981] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_watchdog: dead chip > > [81755.462986] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > > [81755.988124] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: > disassociated > > [81755.988136] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp > filtering: 1 addresses (implement) > > [81755.988140] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos > enabled: false (implement) > > [81755.988145] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > > [81755.988148] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > > [81755.988151] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > > [81755.988153] brcmsmac bcma0:0: wl0: brcms_c_wme_setparams : no-clock > > [81755.995598] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain > > [81756.115171] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > > [81756.115183] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > > ... > > ... > > [81756.283287] brcmsmac bcma0:0: ops->tx called while down > > [81756.330413] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: > > [81756.330419] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset > > [81756.330421] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), > (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time) > > [81756.330426] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 4 KHz), > (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) > > [81756.330429] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 4 KHz), > (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) > > [81756.330433] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 2 KHz), > (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A) > > [81756.330437] cfg80211: (517 KHz - 525 KHz @ 8 KHz, > 16 KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (
SOLVED: Broadcom BCM43225 Wireless Shows Not Connected then Hardware Disabled
It was more of a hardware maintenance issue than a kernel driver issue. Opening the back laptop cover, removing the mini PCI-E WLAN WiFi board and firmly re-seating it solved the problem. Also took the opportunity to blow dry (without the heater element) all the dust inside the laptop. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:22 PM Alphonse Ogulla <aogu...@gmail.com> wrote: > The output of the "wireless-info" script when wireless disconnects then > becomes "hardware disabled" is pasted below. > > > ## wireless info START ## > > Report from: 08 Apr 2016 14:21 EAT +0300 > > Booted last: 08 Apr 2016 13:58 EAT +0300 > > Script from: 27 Sep 2015 00:34 UTC + > > # release ### > > Distributor ID: Debian > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 (jessie) > Release: 8.4 > Codename: jessie > > # kernel > > Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-1 (2016-03-06) x86_64 > unknown unknown GNU/Linux > > Parameters: ro, quiet > > # desktop ### > > sed: can't read /root/.dmrc: No such file or directory > > Could not be determined. > > # lspci # > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit > Ethernet [1969:1073] (rev c0) > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0463] > Kernel driver in use: atl1c > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 > 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01) > Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. T77H103.00 Wireless Half-size Mini > PCIe Card [105b:e021] > Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge > > # lsusb # > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0489:e011 Foxconn / Hon Hai > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0955:7002 NVidia Corp. > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0461:4d20 Primax Electronics, Ltd HP Optical Mouse > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:9665 ALi Corp. Gateway Webcam > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > > # PCMCIA card info ## > > 'pccardctl' is not installed (package "pcmciautils"). > > # rfkill > > 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > 2: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: yes > 3: hci0: Bluetooth > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > > # lsmod # > > brcmsmac 515930 0 > cordic 12352 1 brcmsmac > brcmutil 13093 1 brcmsmac > acer_wmi 30174 0 > mac80211 474216 1 brcmsmac > sparse_keymap 12818 1 acer_wmi > cfg80211 405538 2 brcmsmac,mac80211 > rfkill 18867 5 cfg80211,acer_wmi,bluetooth > mxm_wmi12515 1 nouveau > bcma 37206 1 brcmsmac > wmi17339 3 acer_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau > video 18096 2 acer_wmi,nouveau > > # interfaces > > source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # ifconfig ## > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) > > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:8224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:7239 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:355 (6.3 MiB) TX bytes:1346735 (1.2 MiB) > > # iwconfig ## > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > lono wireless extensions. > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any > Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off > Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:off > Power Management:off > > > # route # > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > > # resolv.
