Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:20:13 + James Caldow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem started after a reboot. When the laptop rebooted the Wireless card powered on but wouldn't connect. Once logged in I had to manually do ifup eth1 as root to get connected. Not a huge deal, but annoying enough if you have to do it after every reboot! There is a thread about this from a couple of days ago. Basically you need to edit two lines in the file /etc/pcmica/network.opts Go to end of the file to the lines which start with : start_fn and stop_fn replace the word return with ifup $1; and ifdown $1; as appropriate and then the networking with the wireless card will be brought up automatically. I went through the same issues with SID and you need to take care to watch what an upgrade will do. Generally it manages to be a useful desktop system with up to date stuff. right now I am trying to sort out why my laptop will no longer powers down automatically at shutdown and the battery monitor no longer works after a recent upgrade. so you are not alone. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:18:08 + James Caldow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for your issues, I don't want to risk asking the obvious but have you made sure that ACPI and/or APM packages are installed on your system? Yes, they are installed and I finally got some time to look at things. Adding apm to the /etc/modules file did the trick and now all is fine. thanks in any event. ed lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: After updating testing, must now 'ifup eth0' manually - why?
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 05:59:52 -0200
Paulo M C Aragão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I browsed /etc/pcmcia/network and found out these suspicious
lines in
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts:
start_fn () { return; }
stop_fn () { return; }
changed them to:
start_fn () { ifup $1; }
stop_fn () { ifdown $1; }
and now cardmgr behaves as it used to do (not sure when it
changed).
I am running SID and the 2.6 kernel and have the same problem
after a recent upgrade. these changes did not solve the problem
in SID so there must be something else there.
Ed Lawson
Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer
I can't find the driver Foomatic + hpijs (recommended) when choosing a driver (previously I can). Have you installed the foomatic-db-hpijs package? Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New sarge installer casues problems on laptops
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:59:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed sarge using the new installer last week. There is a problem: for some reason the startup scripts are in the wrong sequence, so that the system attempts to configure the network before the PCMCIA card manager, so that eth0 isn't found. You should use the report form that is on the installer page to report this. I had same problem and thought they had fixed it in the most recent version. I think it has an auto for eth0 which it cannot find and then bails permanently of setting up the networking even though it finds the card later. I find the auto hardware detect is nice, but has rough edges and if a modprobe fails, it tends to lock the installer in my experience. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memoty stick problem
Aurel wrote: argh! I have no scsi_mod module avalaible What about sg module. That provides basic SCSI support and was all I needed to get my USB stick to work on the SCSI side. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memoty stick problem
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:19:17 +0200 Aurel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried loading the sg module but no :( mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Check the file /etc/messages and see what device is being assigned to the stick when first recognized. It may not be sda, it maybe sdb or sdc, etc. Also, you may not need to use a partition number. Try sda as opposed to sda1. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla-thunderbird
alex wrote: Has anybody been able to get Thunderbird (deb) working? FWIW I run an unstable box on my laptop as well as desktop box and Thunderbird works fine on them as installed from the deb packages in the unstable tree. I simply did a dist-upgrade, install Mozilla-Thunder bird and everything worked. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade loses network card
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 12:18:50 -0300 Philip Pinkerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can install Sarge just fine network and all. When I change to unstable(sid) and apt-update/dist-upgrade and re-boot the system can no longer fine the network hardware. I have encountered the same problem. I suggest you submit a bug report using the forms on the Sarge installer web pages. They are responsive about these issues and they need the input regarding how many people are having problems with the installer. I think you might have the same problem even if you do not upgrade to unstable. It is beta software after all. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latest Sarge CD's and loopback prob.
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I am jigdoing the latest Sarge CD's, the first few anyway. Went uneventful but for one funny problem: It turns out the loopback interface was not setup. I have used the Beta 3 installer without incident on two desktops machines, but did have an issue on an older Compaq laptop. I had difficulty getting it to use the PCMCIA network card even though it appeared to be recognized properly. I think the automatic installer was not properly setting up PCMCIA support, but I need to try the expert mode to know for sure. Basically the Sarge installer is very nice in terms of making the install process more automatic. Not sure that is good, but at least you can select expert mode. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome Menu Inconsistency
I have installed unstable on several machines used for desktop units and for some reason on some machines the menu options vary under applications on the top tool bar. Most notable is that on some machines the Debian menu selection at the bottom is empty. the basic install process was essentially the same on every machine. Is this an anomaly that can be corrected by rescanning installed applications in some manner to add them to the menu? TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnucash não funiona mais
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:31:19 -0200 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot read the message as I only speak english, but this seems confirm that today's dist-upgrade broke gnucash. the upgrade did not upgrade Gnucash so some other package did it. Gnucash now fails with an error that it cannot find libgw-wct.so. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnucash in Sid OK/libgwrapguile1 upgraded
There is now a new version of libgwrapguile1 which fixes the problem Gnucash was having with lack of libgw-wct.so in Sid. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sony Micro Vault Success
Upon upgrading to the 2.4.23-1 kernel image in SID my Sony Microvault immediately started to work using the same fstab entries that had not worked before. I can only assume from this that the prior kernel modules did not work well with the Microvault and it had nothing whatsoever to do with configuring fstab or passing options using the mount command. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems
On 02 Jan 2004 23:57:08 -0700 Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure that you have the vfat module loaded? lsmod should tell you. Yes, I can use another pen drive without a problem using vfat as well as the zip drive. It remains a puzzlement to me and I really think it is how the disk is set up by Sony. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:56:55 -0600 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you shake the chicken bone and sprinkle the blood when you ran cfdisk? Oh, how foolish of me. I forgot. I will try it and see what happens. g At some point seems as good as anything else to solve problems. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems
Nothing heard before, I will try again. I have a USB 2 Sony Microvault 256Meg pen drive. I am running SID. The pen drive is recognized as a hub and mass storage device and listed as sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4. The devices are listed properly in usbview. But, I cannot mount it. I have gone through mount -t vfat /dev/sdax /usbstcik for all four and get error of wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdax or too many mounted file systems Trying fdisk results in an error unable to read /dev/sdax Anyone using this particular pen drive successfully? Any suggestions? I am using a Memorex pen drive without difficulty on same machine. What is frustrating is the device is recognized so there must be a way to make it work and, of course, it works under Windows so the device is OK. TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:49:30 -0600 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand all this, it is close to magic. I am starting to be of like mind. Changes to fstab made no difference to me. While the sony pen drive is recognized and registered as before, still cannot mount it. I have now noticed that in the messages file I get the following lines concerning the pen drive. Device 08:01 not ready I/O error: devo8:01, sector 0 FAT: unable to read boot sector So perhaps there is something yucky going on with the way Sony has the files system set up. Thanks. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:18:41 -0600 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In either case, salvage the data, and cfdisk the device. Seems like a final solution, it will work, or it will not. Thanks for this advice. Unfortuantely, when I run cfdisk I get fatal error cannot read disk. Guess that is that. Bummer. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems
On 02 Jan 2004 18:19:53 -0500 Kenneth Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using woody and a 256MB Microvault. Is it the USB2 model as in USM256U2? Here's what is in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/uv vfatnoauto,user 0 0 Does not work here. I have tried every option possible in the fstb file and using the mount command to no effect. I am beginning to think there is something about the way it is formatted that is breaking things, but no way to format it under Linux as the tools to do so barf saying they cannot read device. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sony Micro Vault Question
I received a Sony Micro Vault USB pen disk for Chrismas. It works fine on a windows machine, but not under Linux. I have been using a Memorex USB pen disk without problems. However, the Sony device seems to be determined not to work. It is recognized according to the entries in the messages file and listed as sda with four partitions. However, all attempts to mount it have failed. Running fdisk on /dev/sda as well as sda1through 4 results in a unable to read message. Has anyone gotten one of these Sony drives to work on Debian and, if so, how? TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird
Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: Thunderbird is for E-Mail, It is a great E-Mail client. However, no packages for it in unstable. At least not under mail and web packages. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
locales upgrade/install fails
I am having a problem with locales upgrade on an unstable box. The same error does did not arise on two other unstable boxes and i see no mention of it in the bug list. The upgrade process ends with an error indicating the locale definition file cannot be opened because there is no such file or directory. Is there a fix for this type of dpkg error as in creating a file for it to find? TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blackdown Java Install Issue
Just went to install the 1.4 Java debs from Blackdown for my unstable box. When doing so I get a message requiring that I accpt the Sun license, but there seems to be no way to do this and certainly cannot click on any options as sugested. This hangs the install. Anyone else encountered this problem? Solutions? TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian
Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 07:33, Leo Spalteholz wrote: yes. However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. S Well, KNOPPIX is a bloody mixture of srage/sid/potato/woody. My experience in shifting the apt sources to Debian was that Knoppix became a real pain and all the HW detection and automatic configuring of the system which Knoppix does very well indeed was lost. I have not installed Morphix on a hard drive, but it might be cleaner while using the great Knoppix HW detection and config features. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable
Greg Madden wrote: One search for a pcmcia card hcl: http://www.sot.com/en/linux/server/hcl/pcmcia.shtml I use a Xircom RealPort card. I just noticed that Intel has bought Xircom. I have used one of the combo cards from Xircom in a laptop running Woody. I really like the card since cable and phone line plug in directly and it works well. I don't remember having to do anything to get it to work both as a modem and NIC under Woody. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Relaying -- a start
will trillich wrote: yep. try uncommenting one of them (if it happens to refer to /etc/exim/passwd then you need to set that up properly to match) One more question...or two or three. Can the /etc/exim/passwd file be created with htpassd? That would seem the easiest way and whst I used. What permissions are required on the passwd file? I now have Exim looking to authenticate before relaying and I have a passwd file created by htpassed which is readable only by root...but still not go. Permission problem? Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Relaying -- a start
will trillich wrote: yep. try uncommenting one of them (if it happens to refer to /etc/exim/passwd then you need to set that up properly to match) OK. I now get the right responses from the EHLO command to show authentication. Must have uncommented the client set before. Duh. Now to set up the process of authenticating properly. Thanks. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
Pardon me for coming into the middle of this thread, but I now need to set up secure relaying on my stable box running Exim. If I read the messages back from the EHLO command correctly, the regular Exim package is not compiled with authentication options enabled. This means, does it not, that no authentications methods are available for Exim using the regualr package? which in turn means one must install Exim-tsl to have any form of authentication absent compiling your own? TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Relaying -- a start
will trillich wrote: auth_always_advertise Type: boolean Default: true This option is available only when Exim is compiled with authentication support. Well, the stock Exim.conf file does not contain this option on my woody box. Therefore the question is whether the standard exim package was compiled with authentication enabled. I don't know, but it seems the answer is no. I am speaking of the plain Exim package here. so before exim advertises that it's able to do the authentication dialog, the compiled exim must have had certain flags set, which the standard debian/woody exim does; then if the compile flags have been set properly This is the question. I have not gone an added the advertize option manually and I guess I need to try it, but the fact it is not in the conf file suggests support was not compiled in and therefore it doesn't matter what you put in the conf file, it will not authenticate. # exim -bh 192.168.1.2 snip 220 server ESMTP Exim 3.35 #1 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:24:32 -0600 ehlo somewhere.there 250-server Hello duo [192.168.1.2] 250-SIZE 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH BASIC LOGIN 250 HELP quit 221 server closing connection All I get is SIZE, PIPELINING, and HELP. In what section does the advertize authen option go...in the last section with the authn options I assume? Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailman problems
I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and subscriptions via it all seem to work. However subscriptions by email do not and the lists do not work in that mail is never sent out. An attempt to subscribe by email resulted in this error message: A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: pipe to |var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd qrp generated by qrp-request@domain removed var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper command not found for address_pipe transport I am also getting this in cron notice: 2003-01-25 21:53:01 18cYtT-00087S-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd qrp uncommented the use=list line in the Exim .conf file as mentioned in the readme. What else is needed or is something broken here? TIA Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4
Michael D. Crawford wrote: I looked into my XF86Config-4 file, and the protocol had been changed to PS/2. But the update didn't take me through any manual config process, it just silently changed it! H. I believe it asks if you want to redo the config file and isn't the default to not change the file? I always watch that message like a hawk during updates and make sure it does not change anything. During my upgrades it has always stopped at that point expecting user input. YMMV. Ed Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:46:31 -0600 hanasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could people share the thoughts and experiences? Thanks. MoneyDance is a multi platform Java app and commercial. It has many nice features, good support. I have used it for about a year and like it very much. I tried GnuCash and it seemed much less polished and capable compared to MoneyDance at the time. Ed Lawson
Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade Perl, then upgrade apt, dpkg, etc, and then do a dist-upgrade? Seems I have read that a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as seamless as you suggest, but it has been awhile since I looked at this issue. Ed Lawson
Re: Port replicators...
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I've asked in the past and never got an answer that worked. I'm at a point again where I want to get my Gateway port replicator to work with my laptop. I can use everything on it but the PCMCIA slots. How do I tell linux to use the two slots that are in the replicator as well as those in my laptop? I cannot answer your question directly, but I suggest it is a hardware issue specific to the Gateway port replicator. I use an HP Omnibook 4150 with a docking station/replicator and I have never had a problem using the PCMCIA slots in the replicator. I simply plug the laptop in and the cards in the replicator are automatically recognized. Nothing was configed, etc. to do this. I believe it sees the slots in the replicator as opposed to those in the laptop when plugged in. From your message it seems the Gateway replicator slots are additional slots and the ones in the laptop remain active? Ed Lawson
Upgrade to 2.4.17 Problem
I just upgrade the kerenl on my woody box from 2.2.19 to 2.4.17-k6. Everything went smoothly and it rebooted into the 2.4 kernel without problems. However, I've lost network connectivity. The NIC is recognized, it is there under ifconfig, I can ping the assigned address, but I canot ping any other machine of the network nor access the Internet (obviously). Perhaps I need to reconfigure something? What might be the cause and where should I look? TIA Ed Lawson
Re: Upgrade to 2.4.17 Problem
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 10:09:51 +1100 Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of NIC? Digital card 2114 I believe. It uses the tulip driver. Card is recognized and no error messages on boot. Running half duplex Ed Lawson
Re: Any comercial apps made it back to the community?
Colin Watson wrote: The Progeny developers have always been actively working on Debian proper, and quite a number of their enhancements have made it back to us. I haven't seen as much from the others. I have never used Libranet, but Stormix was my intro to Debian and I still think well of the product. Its installer was way ahead of Progeny and had many other features which were better as well. Storm Package is in Woody and it is a nice bit of work from Stormix back to the community. Ed Lawson
cerecord for testing compliled with 2.4 kernel?
Recently updated my testing box and got a message it was compiled with 2.4 kerenl and would not work under 2.2 kernel. Indeed I now get an error message related to /dev/zero. Why would a package for testing be compiled under 2.4 when that is not the base kernel for testing? I do not think tellinng people to install a 2.4 kernel or forego cdrecord makes much sense. Or am I missing sommething? Ed Lawson
IP Masqing question II
I installed the ipmasq package rather than using home rolled scripts and the issue remains: the desktop machines cannot access ceertain websites (linuxtoday) nor certain web based update services. The browser just hangs. On the server this is not a problem so I assume it is caused by masqing. Anyone encountered this problem? TIA Ed Lawson
IP Masq. problem solved
Turned out ppp was set with an MTU and MRU of 576. Apparently that causes the problem I encountered. It is documented in the IP Masq. HOWTO. Setting them to 1500 solved the problem. It was the last gotcha to solve. Ed Lawson
Masq Question
I just installed Debian for a server which provides interent access to several machines via a dial up account. Running 2.2r3. I am using the same rules i used running RH for setting up IP Masqing. For some reason certain websites such as LinuxToday will load on the server's browswer, but not on the desktop machines. Other services such as automatic updates to for QuickBooks do not work. This was not a problem when I used RH. Does Debian have some settings in this area that are tighter and block certain traffic under these conditions? Not anxious to go back to RH, but this is a showstopper. TIA Ed Lawson
IDE tape drive question
I am trying to use an IDE tape drive with Debian. The drive is identified during boot, but I am lost on how to access it. Under SuSE and RH and as much of the documentation on tape drives mentions, there is a /dev/ht0 device for such drives. I see nothing similar in /dev/ on my Debian box. How does one go about accessing an IDE tape drive under Debian? Or, where is the documentation for the process? TIA Ed Lawson
