Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 6/21/2010 11:13 PM: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors >> and >> perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with >> others. >> >> It's all about the packet loa

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Thus, with the same router, I could take a few different *nix OS flavors > and > perl versions, blowing up the router with some, and not denting it with > others. > > It's all about the packet load you push through the router. It's > absol

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 6/21/2010 1:20 PM: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> >> I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. >> >> Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? >> >> If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router.

Re: Debian as an SSL VPN server or gateway?

2010-06-21 Thread H.S.
On 06/21/10 19:50, vr wrote: > Hi, > > Assuming there is even such a server software available today... Is > anyone running Debian as an SSL VPN gateway for Windows 7 64-bit clients > and if so, can you discuss your configuration or pitfalls to beware of > when just getting started? > > I am ru

Re: NetworkManager and if-up.d

2010-06-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:18:49AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I need to run a script every time my wireless connection comes up, but > putting one in /etc/network/if-up.d does not work. NetworkManager has > provisions for scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d, but it looks > like the script t

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aaron Toponce put forth on 6/21/2010 10:09 AM: > A 32-bit system, is a system that can address at most 2^32 bits of > memory for any given process. Most 32-bit kernels these days, however, > can address much more thanks to the physical address extensions (PAE), > typically 64 GB. But that still me

Re: Ralink 2500 connects at 1M

2010-06-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:15:29AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > My Lenny laptop with a Ralink 2500 wireless card always connects at a > speed of 1M, which is unbearably slow. I can issue this command which > fixes it, but I have to do it every time: > > iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M > > Anybody know a be

Re: Ralink 2500 connects at 1M

2010-06-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:21:40PM +0800, xuyuanwei wrote: > 在 2010-06-21一的 06:15 -0400,Rob Owens写道: > > My Lenny laptop with a Ralink 2500 wireless card always connects at a > > speed of 1M, which is unbearably slow. I can issue this command which > > fixes it, but I have to do it every time: > >

[nnOT] Learning in the Linux community

2010-06-21 Thread Don Davis
Dear Debian users, Do you consider yourself part of a larger Gnu/Linux free and open source software community? Whether you've just starting clicking around in Etch or you've been tweaking your kernel for years, we are interested in learning about if, and how, you've learned (and possibly taug

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:26:17AM +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > [snip] > > I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is > > included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but > > that isn't gunna happen. The

Debian as an SSL VPN server or gateway?

2010-06-21 Thread vr
Hi, Assuming there is even such a server software available today... Is anyone running Debian as an SSL VPN gateway for Windows 7 64-bit clients and if so, can you discuss your configuration or pitfalls to beware of when just getting started? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:11:50 +0100 "Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:47:21PM -0400, Celejar wrote: ... > > Same thing with xscreensaver. I think that a lot of software that asks > > for a password behaves like this, perhaps to prevent brute-forcing? > > I'm not s

Re: Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 21 June 2010 13:41:12 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to install and manage wview (see > http://www.wviewweather.com/, not commercial) on an university computer > for some project. I know that this is a really nice tool, but, as there > are many chances that I will be going to

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Davies
Disc Magnet wrote: > I have installed QEMU on my Debian Testing box. I have GNOME running > on my host Debian [...] > 1. The IP address of the QEMU system appears to be in 10.30.*.* range. > However, the IP address of my host system is in 192.168.2.*. I can't > ping QEMU from host or vice versa.

Re: Simple dual boot - grub issue

2010-06-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 iun 10, 00:56:53, Jason Filippou wrote: > > I had a look at my grub.cfg and didn't see a "menuentry" corresponding > to the windows partition, even after running update-grub. What are the > steps that I need to follow in order to dual boot my system? The only > OS I have currently access

Re: Simple dual boot - grub issue

2010-06-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:56:53 Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello list, > > I have had a laptop wearing Linux solely over the last few years and > today I decided I'd install a Windows partition on it, with aim to > dual boot. After preparing an NTFS partition by using the gparted live > CD, I install

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Lisi
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:38:21 Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > > As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. > > Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line > > very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subs

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. > Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line > very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subsystems and so do > not send multiple connection req

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:43:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > snip. > From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over > the wireless connection works fine with XP and with UNR. It's just some > form of straight Debian where torrent do

Simple dual boot - grub issue

2010-06-21 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I have had a laptop wearing Linux solely over the last few years and today I decided I'd install a Windows partition on it, with aim to dual boot. After preparing an NTFS partition by using the gparted live CD, I installed Windows 7 on the newly created partition. Thus, so far I have t

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:47:21PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:37 +0200 > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > I use GNOME. > > > > I have noticed that if I type some erroneous password to leave the > > screensaver mode, GNOME takes ~3 or 4 secs. to tell me that it is > > erron

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 04:47 PM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:37 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I use GNOME. I have noticed that if I type some erroneous password to leave the screensaver mode, GNOME takes ~3 or 4 secs. to tell me that it is erroneous. If I type the correct password, I a

Re: Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 04:41 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am going to install and manage wview (see http://www.wviewweather.com/, not commercial) on an university computer for some project. I know that this is a really nice tool, but, as there are many chances that I will be going to install the whole

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:37 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I use GNOME. > > I have noticed that if I type some erroneous password to leave the > screensaver mode, GNOME takes ~3 or 4 secs. to tell me that it is > erroneous. If I type the correct password, I am directly sent in my > sess

Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I am going to install and manage wview (see http://www.wviewweather.com/, not commercial) on an university computer for some project. I know that this is a really nice tool, but, as there are many chances that I will be going to install the whole from scratch (Debian, etc.) on a dedicated comp

Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I use GNOME. I have noticed that if I type some erroneous password to leave the screensaver mode, GNOME takes ~3 or 4 secs. to tell me that it is erroneous. If I type the correct password, I am directly sent in my session. Why does it take so much time to tell me that a password is erroneous?

Re: Grrrrrub2 again!!

2010-06-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 20 June 2010 13:18:38 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > I did a new squeeze install on a desktop with dual boot, and install grub > > 2. System boot fine in debian, but $W was not present. No problem, I had > > this problem before and a simple

Re: Lilo and Squeeze

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:56:01 -0400 (EDT), Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > > At fist: I don't read list 'debian-user'. I am the new developer of lilo. > See: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/lilo/ > and: http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ > > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> There has been a lot of talk about lilo and

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 21/06/10 14:20, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 21 iun 10, 13:27:47, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying >> recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of >> "apt-cache show"? > > apt-cache depends > > also shows t

Re: Lilo and Squeeze

2010-06-21 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, At fist: I don't read list 'debian-user'. I am the new developer of lilo. See: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/lilo/ and: http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ > There has been a lot of talk about lilo and squeeze on the list lately, > but I don't really want to get into that argument. I have

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > As to why this happens at all. Not all operating systems are equal. > Some systems can send bucket loads of new connections down the line > very quickly, some (read windoze) have slow IO subsystems and so do > not send multiple connection requests anywhe

Re: Can't restart certain crashed applications without rebooting (in this case Noatun)

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
OK, I think I solved my problem. I use a script I wrote some years ago (named kpid) to kill tasks by name (at the time, I didn't know that killall could do that)--anyway, I thought my script was using kill -9, but instead it uses kill -15. So now I: * kill -9 any remaining processes named

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow > wrote: > >> >> I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. >> >> Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? >> >> If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. >> > > How can this be true when th

Unidentified subject!

2010-06-21 Thread Zachary Rizer
http://jpiw.allew.com -- 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/330366.72754...@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 iun 10, 13:27:47, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying > recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of > "apt-cache show"? apt-cache depends also shows the recommended packages. > Basically, I'd just like t

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > > I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. > > Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? > > If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. > How can this be true when the same machine,

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote: >> >> > Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since >> that >> would >> > point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means >> the >> problemo >> > is with the to

Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of "apt-cache show"? Basically, I'd just like to get a list of recommended packages from a list of installed or prospective packages without having to use the aptit

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:30:56AM -0400, ABS Doug wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: > > > so the torrents render you wireless disconnected. > > > > if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything > > should be solved. but i have no idea on how to get

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 06. 2010 15:44:47 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): The why does it succeed when XP is the client, and for me when the torrent is "non-pirate"? Well, for one, XP is a castrated OS (the notorious limit on concurrent 'half-open' connections being just one of its many self-imposed limit

Re: Configuring the Huawei E620 dongle to work using wvdial

2010-06-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Further to my original post in this thread, these lines in it seem to be the crucial ones: > --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. > --> Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best. Wvdial appears to be waiting for a response b

Re: How to change the console into UTF-8 mode for FreeBSD kernels?

2010-06-21 Thread Zoran Kolic
> > It's really annoying if the console isn't in UTF-8 mode as every bit of > > my system is in Unicode to prevent any compatibility problems. I run freebsd as my everyday node. Pure ascii is what it has. Unicode could be seen and written if you use uxterm in graphi- cal mode. Setting language and

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 10:09 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 6/20/2010 10:32 AM, T o n g wrote: Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one, or something superficial imposed by M$? I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as well? I'm not familiar with "M$", but if you're re

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote: > > > Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that > would > > point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means the > problemo > > is with the torrent software. >

Re: ATI video issue on Lenny

2010-06-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:49:13PM +1000, Open Source.Lives wrote: > Hi there, > > Is anyone having any issues with ATI latest drivers rending the screen > (blank) useless to use at random times, this doesn't allow me to use the > ctl+alt+(F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6) to restart Xorg? But instead requires m

Re: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Installing Squeeze)

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have spent the last couple of days (intermittently) failing get a usb > bootable installation for squeeze that will work with my hardware and AMD-64 > (I have inadvertently built an i386 system [twice] - because I have an old > squeeze inst

Re: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Installing Squeeze)

2010-06-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 21/06/10 14:10, Alan Chandler wrote: ... b) Try and dynamically change the libblkid1.so.1 file once the installer has booted. Touch wood! After a couple of abortive attempts due to finger trouble and some strange loop the partitioner got into wanting to change partition tables but not for

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/21 deloptes : > Eero Volotinen wrote: > >>> $ grep -i pae /boot/config* || echo no found >>> no found >> >> I think it is included in bigmem kernel ? >> >> try apt-cache search linux-image | grep bigmem ? > > thanks for pointing out this, because I was curious and grepped the config > files

Re: KVM with non-standard floppy image size

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Tong, Do you actually have a floppy drive (and media) that can handle 8 megabytes? That seems rather unlikely, as the standard 3 1/2" (iirc) floppy is 1.44 MB. Randy Kramer On Monday 21 June 2010 11:01:33 am T o n g wrote: > Does anyone has positive experience with KVM using non-standard > fl

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:38:27PM +, T o n g wrote: > Thanks everyone who replied, > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as > >> well? > > > > No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/us

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread deloptes
Eero Volotinen wrote: >> $ grep -i pae /boot/config* || echo no found >> no found > > I think it is included in bigmem kernel ? > > try apt-cache search linux-image | grep bigmem ? thanks for pointing out this, because I was curious and grepped the config files on my 32bit system. grep -i pae

Re: Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 6/21/2010 5:18 AM, Cliff Ayling wrote: > I have a CnMbook netbook and from what I can find it has a Debian Linux > system (distribution, I think it is called). > > How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. dpkg -l base-files -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O .

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/21 T o n g : > Thanks everyone who replied, > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as >>> well? >> >> No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/use/address as much >> as 64 GiB of RAM. >> >>

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 6/20/2010 10:32 AM, T o n g wrote: > Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one, or something > superficial imposed by M$? I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 > architecture) has such 3G limit as well? I'm not familiar with "M$", but if you're referring to "MS", short for "Microsoft",

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:38:27 +, T o n g wrote: > Thanks everyone who replied, You're welcome. > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as >>> well? >> >> No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-21 Thread T o n g
Thanks everyone who replied, On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +, Camaleón wrote: >> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as >> well? > > No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/use/address as much > as 64 GiB of RAM. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P

Re: Ralink 2500 connects at 1M

2010-06-21 Thread xuyuanwei
在 2010-06-21一的 06:15 -0400,Rob Owens写道: > My Lenny laptop with a Ralink 2500 wireless card always connects at a > speed of 1M, which is unbearably slow. I can issue this command which > fixes it, but I have to do it every time: > > iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M Try: In /etc/network/interfaces, in the

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 23:10, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: >> >> you have no control at all on how the wifi hotspots were configured, >> which is also the case of ABS Doug. >> port-forwarding (or upnp) is needed for good torrents performance. >> if the number of conne

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 17:30, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, H.S. wrote: > >> If torrents were acting all weird in my case, I would do the following, >> in the given order. >> >> 1. Try a "safe" torrent, e.g. of a Linux distribution (Ubuntu is a good >> example). The idea is to exclude

Re: Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 06:50 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Cliff Ayling wrote: How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. cat /etc/issue /proc/version And /etc/debian_version. -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Can't restart certain crashed applications without rebooting (in this case Noatun)

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Hmm, as is too often the case, after sending an email seeking, I start to get some other clues--I found a suggestion to restart arts--I tried that, still no luck so I'm still looking for help (but maybe I have some kind of clue now). Randy Kramer On Monday 21 June 2010 09:38:55 am Randy Kramer

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 07:22 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/6/21 ABS Doug: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading the torrent he supplied. Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. However, two other torrents I've

Can't restart certain crashed applications without rebooting (in this case Noatun)

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Sorry this is so long--maybe I can summarize the problem here, then you can go on and read the background and a more detailed explanation of the problem: Sometimes after a program hangs (in this case noatun), I have trouble restarting it without rebooting my entire system. I do look for all t

SOLVED: From UTF-8 to octal and back

2010-06-21 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:57:24AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:36:49 +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: > > (...) > > > The problem is: I don't know how to convert from usual string > > ("Введение") to octal (represented above) and back. I mean, I understand > > algorithm, but

Re: Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18:31PM +0100, Cliff Ayling wrote: > Hallo, > > I have a CnMbook netbook and from what I can find it has a Debian > Linux system (distribution, I think it is called). > > How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. $ lsb_release -a -- Regard

Re: UUID in fstab? - Gave Up

2010-06-21 Thread Christopher Judd
On Saturday 19 June 2010 12:57:22 Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > ... > > I deleted the vfat partition and created a new ext2 partition in its > place. Ran e2fsck on all of my partitions. The result was clean in > every case. Trie

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Installing Squeeze)

2010-06-21 Thread Alan Chandler
I have spent the last couple of days (intermittently) failing get a usb bootable installation for squeeze that will work with my hardware and AMD-64 (I have inadvertently built an i386 system [twice] - because I have an old squeeze installation on an SD card that I failed to add the architectur

Re: mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 21 June 2010 03:55:57 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:44:14AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the > > 686-bigmem kernel. > > > > The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing > > the ve

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/21 ABS Doug : > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading >> the torrent he supplied.  Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. >> >> However, two other torrents I've downloaded (both "legally" on torr

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Lets not forget that my *wired* system crapped out at 86% while downloading > the torrent he supplied.  Bouncing my WRT56GL solved the problem. > > However, two other torrents I've downloaded (both "legally" on torrent) > downloaded just fine.

Re: mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:44:14AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the 686-bigmem > kernel. > > The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing the > version.h file. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/linu

Re: Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Cliff Ayling wrote: > How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. cat /etc/issue /proc/version Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

ATI video issue on Lenny

2010-06-21 Thread Open Source.Lives
Hi there, Is anyone having any issues with ATI latest drivers rending the screen (blank) useless to use at random times, this doesn't allow me to use the ctl+alt+(F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6) to restart Xorg? But instead requires me to press the recycle button. This happen often. I wanted to see if it was

Re: Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:18:31 +0100, Cliff Ayling wrote: > I have a CnMbook netbook and from what I can find it has a Debian Linux > system (distribution, I think it is called). > > How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. As it seems to run a "modified" version of Debi

Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Cliff Ayling
Hallo, I have a CnMbook netbook and from what I can find it has a Debian Linux system (distribution, I think it is called). How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. Thanks, Cliff Ayling === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Gua

Re: How do I back up a running system?

2010-06-21 Thread Robert S
I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out before it completes the backup. And what does mondoarchive.log say? Calli

NetworkManager and if-up.d

2010-06-21 Thread Rob Owens
I need to run a script every time my wireless connection comes up, but putting one in /etc/network/if-up.d does not work. NetworkManager has provisions for scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d, but it looks like the script that is already there (01ifupdown) is designed to run everything in

Ralink 2500 connects at 1M

2010-06-21 Thread Rob Owens
My Lenny laptop with a Ralink 2500 wireless card always connects at a speed of 1M, which is unbearably slow. I can issue this command which fixes it, but I have to do it every time: iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M Anybody know a better way? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 21 June 2010 01:47:42 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2010-06-21, Greg Madden wrote: > > I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the > > 686-bigmem kernel. > > > > The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing > > the version.h file. > > > > Searc

Re: mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-06-21, Greg Madden wrote: > I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the 686-bigmem > kernel. > > The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing the > version.h file. > > Searching I found the solution was to install the kernel source and d

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 03:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Huang, Tao put forth on 6/21/2010 2:36 AM: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) was the reaso

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 06. 2010 04:10:28 je H.S. napisal(a): I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I understand where he is coming from. I have discovered that a buggy driver, or buggy firmware on the wireless card, or both, can cause wireless connectivity problems over time. It do

Re: status of Snd soundfile-editor in squeeze???

2010-06-21 Thread Alessio Treglia
Hi Jim, On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Jim McCloskey wrote: > After installation of the basic infrastructure (the snd package itself) you > need > to install one of the user interface packages---snd-gtk-jack, snd-gtk-pulse, > or > snd-gtk. The first builds in Jack support, the second builds i

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> It sounds like the most effective thing you could do would be to pick up >> a comprehensive Linux book and spend some quality time with it. I do have a book. It is quite handy & I do read it often. The CLI stuff... I'd have to take a really

mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the 686-bigmem kernel. The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing the version.h file. Searching I found the solution was to install the kernel source and do a 'make oldconfig' with the .config file fro

Re: How to change the console into UTF-8 mode for FreeBSD kernels?

2010-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:51:51 +0800, Michael Tsang wrote: > It's really annoying if the console isn't in UTF-8 mode as every bit of > my system is in Unicode to prevent any compatibility problems. Dunno if you alredy did it, but maybe you get more lucky by asking your question here: http://lists

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: > so the torrents render you wireless disconnected. > > if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything > should be solved. but i have no idea on how to get there. > > correct me if i get it wrong. My visual indicator somethi

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > "When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon > copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be > copied." That's what I thought... well we're all going to have to live with a mistake every now & ag

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over the > wireless connection works fine with XP and with UNR.  It's just some form of > straight Debian where torrent downloads fail. XP & UNR 9.10 work, Debian & UNE 10.04

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark wrote: > Exactly.  I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would > point directly to a driver issue.  If it succeeds, that means the problemo > is with the torrent software. Iceweasel, jigdo both worked. Also I've tried I think 5 differen

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Huang, Tao put forth on 6/21/2010 2:36 AM: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and >>> resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) >>> was the reason. >>> >> >> From what I can reme

Re: From UTF-8 to octal and back

2010-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:36:49 +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: (...) > The problem is: I don't know how to convert from usual string > ("Введение") to octal (represented above) and back. I mean, I understand > algorithm, but I don't know how to do it in a simple way. I thought > about writing sm

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and >> resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) >> was the reason. >> > > From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a torrent) over t