RE: Broken System After Update
From: carlo.bore...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 02:09:18 -0300 Subject: Re: Broken System After Update To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [...] Yes, I have /usr and /var on separate partitions and both were required to be mounted before the command worked. I tried your alternative solution as well but none fixed my problem. I am convinced that my problem is not a corrupt initrd. I am at a loss as to what to do next to get my computer to boot up. Any leads? Ogya Last time I broke my Wheezy, I used the the rescue function of installation netboot disk, and I found the boot partition completely empty. So, I did:grub-mkdevicemapgrub-install /dev/sda (obviously sda is my disk, duh!)update-grub and here I'd an error while automagically grub was rebuilding initrdThen I deleted from the root the old link to vmlinuz, did again update-grub, then boot directory was successfully populated, the root link to vmlinuz too and a reboot gave me back the system like nothing was happened... -- Registered Linux User #249354 Ad astra per aspera Hi Carlo, Thanks for your suggestion. I tried it but it still did not resolve the problem.
RE: Broken System After Update[Solved]
Hi There, I found a solution by Michael Tokarev which addressed BusyBox bug# 646284. It required updating BusyBox and running update-initramfs in a chroot environment. Thank you all for your suggestions. Regards, Ogya
Broken System After Update
Hi All, I am running Sid and a couple of months ago I updated my system including the kernel. After restarting my machine, I realised that my system was broken. Whenever I start the machine, I get a message lilke this: No init found. Try passing init= bootarg BusyBox v1.19.2 (Debian 1:1.19.2-1) built-in shell (ash) /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off (initramfs) I googled for solution and this is the solution I got. The solution talks about chrooting and running the following command: update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) -u but when I do that I get this error message: bash: update-initramfs: command not found. This is what I did: I booted up my computer using a debian live cd and ran the following commands: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev after which I typed chroot /mnt /bin/bash What am I doing wrong? Thanks Ogya
RE: Broken System After Update
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: hvw59...@care2.com Subject: Re: Broken System After Update Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:11:03 -0600 Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running Sid and a couple of months ago I updated my system including the kernel. After restarting my machine, I realised that my system was broken. Whenever I start the machine, I get a message lilke this: No init found. Try passing init= bootarg BusyBox v1.19.2 (Debian 1:1.19.2-1) built-in shell (ash) /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off (initramfs) I googled for solution and this is the solution I got. The solution talks about chrooting and running the following command: update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) -u but when I do that I get this error message: bash: update-initramfs: command not found. If you are not root then update-initramfs will not be found. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jgk6t7$p2q$1...@dough.gmane.org Hi Hugo, I become root when chroot is run as the prompt changes from $ to # but I still get the error message.
RE: Broken System After Update
# /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) -u It is also possible that a broken initrd is not the problem and that the problem is elsewhere on your system This is what I did: Thank you for the very nice and complete description of what you did! That was very good. I booted up my computer using a debian live cd and ran the following commands: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot Good. mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev I prefer to bind mount all of them instead of creating a second /proc. But okay either way. But I think this is a little cleaner. I don't think /sys is needed in the chroot for this operation. At least I never mount it and it all seems okay. mount -t bind /proc /mnt/proc after which I typed chroot /mnt /bin/bash And since that worked and gave you a prompt we know most of your system there must be okay. What am I doing wrong? Look in /usr/sbin just to make sure there are files there. If you have /usr on a separate filesystem then you would need to mount it too along with the others when you mounted it above. If it were missing it would also cause the same error. PATH may not be set nicely and may not include /usr/sbin:/sbin in the chroot. Fix that with: PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin export PATH As an alternative to calling update-initramfs I usually call dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r) That basically does the same thing. It calls the Debian package manager to run the kernel postinst script which calls update-initramfs and so has the same result. But it also has the opportunity to do other things in the postinst script too. Bob Thanks Bob for your help. Yes, I have /usr and /var on separate partitions and both were required to be mounted before the command worked. I tried your alternative solution as well but none fixed my problem. I am convinced that my problem is not a corrupt initrd. I am at a loss as to what to do next to get my computer to boot up. Any leads? Ogya
Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed
Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition? Kind regards, Ogya
RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:28:15 -0700 Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ogya Chief ogyach...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition? I would suggest using jkdefraggui to move all Windows 7 files to the front of the disk, before doing any partitioning work, to help reduce the risk of messing up the Windows 7 installation. Mark Thanks, Mark for the pointer. I will give it a try. Regards, Ogya
RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: noela...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:02:28 + On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:54:57 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition? I would make the partitions _before_ installing Debian. You can use Gparted (LiveCD) and play from there. It allows to resize the windows partition and create new ones. Just remember that before performing any action on the current NTFS partition (by instance, resize it) I would recommend to make a scandisk and defragmentation of the involved volume (and a backup of the data) to avoid any problem. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.10.12.22.02...@gmail.com Thanks, Camaleón, for the tip. At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. Regards, Ogya
RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed
If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, you should investigate them. With the Ultimate edition, Win 7 comes with a good backup program, you can use that. Otherwise, you can look to the various alternatives for backing up. But I urge you to use something. Most of the programs, free and non-free, work properly to shrink a partition, but it is easy to commit a user error and wipe things out completely. If it were me, I would shrink (resize) the partition first, before running the Debian installer. That is, take it in reversible stages. This is a matter of taste. It isn't strictly necessary. I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of action.
Basic Statistical Tool
Dear All, I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but it lacks some features for graphing that I need. For example, in Excel, linear regression produces graphs in addition to the table of data. I need this feature. OpenOffice.org Calc does not have data analysis feature at all. I have also looked at R but it has a steep learning curve. I need a tool to do an assignment this week. Are there any tools similar to the Excel Data Analysis tool? What happened to KOffice in Sid? apt-cache search koffice does not turn up anything. Any help will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: Basic Statistical Tool
From: ogyach...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Basic Statistical Tool Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:36 +0200 Dear All, I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but it lacks some features for graphing that I need. For example, in Excel, linear regression produces graphs in addition to the table of data. I need this feature. OpenOffice.org Calc does not have data analysis feature at all. I have also looked at R but it has a steep learning curve. I need a tool to do an assignment this week. Are there any tools similar to the Excel Data Analysis tool? What happened to KOffice in Sid? apt-cache search koffice does not turn up anything. Any help will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. Just to make a correction: I am referring to correlation and not regression plots. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: Basic Statistical Tool
Are there any tools similar to the Excel Data Analysis tool? What happened to KOffice in Sid? apt-cache search koffice does not turn up anything. Any help will be very much appreciated. I'm unfamiliar with the Excel Data Analysis tool, so I may be misunderstanding the requirement, but have you looked at Gnu Octave? It's very similar to MatLab in its interface, and has quite powerful analysis tools, although I don't know how good the statistical suite is. It certainly has a friendlier learning curve than R. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net Thanks, Andrew for the info. I do not know anything about Octave; I will have a look at it. Regards, Ogya _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: Basic Statistical Tool
I have KOffice on my install, but maybe it is from experimental? In any case, KOffice 2 is a bit iffy at the moment (like KDE 4.0 or 4.1 was). There is also Gnumeric, the Gnome Office spreadsheet. It has at least some data analysis tools, although I do not know how extensive. GnuPlot might do the job, but it is a command line program. Cheers, Kelly Clowers Thanks, Mathew and Kelly. I guess I have to use more than one tool for the time being and learn R later on. Regards, Ogya _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: Wireless networking stopped working
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:05:03 -0700 From: waterho...@ultrasw.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Wireless networking stopped working Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running sid on a laptop computer and I had wireless networking working. I run tasksel afterwards and a number of things went wrong including wireless networking. I managed to fix things like printing with cups but wireless networking still does not work. I keep getting wrong password error message even though the correct WPA2 password is supplied. I use wicd for managing networks. Wired networking still works. What could be the file to edit to get this fixed. Wicd is able to scan for networks in the vicinity but cannot connect to any, even unsecured ones. I am also running sid. I have the wrong password problem on some secured networks including a router that I set up. I can connect to most unsecured networks now. I suspect that any who can help us might want to see the relevant output from /var/log/wicd/wicd.log Paul Scott Thank you Paul. Herewith the output of /var/log/wicd/wicd.log when I attempted to connect to my wireless network. 2010/02/13 04:23:05 :: ifconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: Connecting to wireless network wireless54g 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: /sbin/dhclient -r wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: ifconfig wlan0 down 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: ifconfig wlan0 up 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: wpa_cli -i wlan0 terminate 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: /sbin/dhclient -r eth0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev eth0 2010/02/13 04:23:07 :: ifconfig eth0 down 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: ifconfig eth0 up 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: Putting interface down 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: ifconfig wlan0 down 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: Releasing DHCP leases... 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: /sbin/dhclient -r wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: Setting false IP... 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: wpa_cli -i wlan0 terminate 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: Flushing the routing table... 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: iwconfig wlan0 mode managed 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: Putting interface up... 2010/02/13 04:23:08 :: ifconfig wlan0 up 2010/02/13 04:23:09 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: enctype is wpa 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: Generating psk... 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: ['/usr/bin/wpa_passphrase', 'wireless54g', 'Password'] 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: Attempting to authenticate... 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: ['wpa_supplicant', '-B', '-i', 'wlan0', '-c', '/var/lib/wicd/configurations/008fdfd0dcfa', '-D', 'wext'] 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: ['iwconfig', 'wlan0', 'essid', 'wireless54g'] 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: iwconfig wlan0 channel 1 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:8F:DF:D0:DC:FA 2010/02/13 04:23:10 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS DISCONNECTED 2010/02/13 04:23:11 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:11 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:12 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:13 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS DISCONNECTED 2010/02/13 04:23:14 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:14 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS DISCONNECTED 2010/02/13 04:23:15 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS SCANNING 2010/02/13 04:23:16 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:16 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:17 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:18 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:18 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:19 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATED 2010/02/13 04:23:20 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS SCANNING 2010/02/13 04:23:20 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:21 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:22 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:22 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:23 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:24 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:24 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:25 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:26 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:27 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:27 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:28 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING 2010/02/13 04:23:29 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:29 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS DISCONNECTED 2010/02/13 04:23:30 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS SCANNING 2010/02/13 04:23:31 :: iwconfig wlan0 2010/02/13 04:23:31 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS SCANNING 2010/02/13 04:23:32
Wireless networking stopped working
Hi All, I am running sid on a laptop computer and I had wireless networking working. I run tasksel afterwards and a number of things went wrong including wireless networking. I managed to fix things like printing with cups but wireless networking still does not work. I keep getting wrong password error message even though the correct WPA2 password is supplied. I use wicd for managing networks. Wired networking still works. What could be the file to edit to get this fixed. Wicd is able to scan for networks in the vicinity but cannot connect to any, even unsecured ones. Any help will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: Sid Sound Problem
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:15 -0500 From: linux...@gmail.com To: ogyach...@hotmail.com CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sid Sound Problem Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When the computer is booting up, the following error message shows: Starting Open Sound System: Failed (No Modules detected). What kernel module needs to be installed to fix this problem. It depends on your laptop. We can't figure that out for you. You could do an lspci -v and find out though. You might also do a dmesg |less and search for audio and it might just tell you why id isn't working. Wayne -- Give an man to fish, feed him for a day Teach a man to fish, feed him for life Thanks Wayne, The audio device is ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) but dmesg does not report any error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
Sid Sound Problem
Hi All, I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When the computer is booting up, the following error message shows: Starting Open Sound System: Failed (No Modules detected). What kernel module needs to be installed to fix this problem. Kind regards, Ogya _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
RE: Any Linux CAD tools?
If you are looking for something similar to 3DS Max, or Maya, or Houdini, ie a full featured 3D modelling app, then hav a look at 'blender' http://www.blender.org/ Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Hi All, Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will have a look at all of them to determine their suitability for my needs. Regards, Ogya _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
Any Linux CAD tools?
Hi All, I am looking for a CAD tool to draw among other things contours. I have tried to use the spline feature of QCAD. The issue is that I don't seem to find any way of joining two splines together or extending an open spline. I have also looked at PythonCAD but it does not seem to have any option for drawing smooth curves. What other options are available on the Linux platform? Regards, Ogya _ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: Any Linux CAD tools?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:20:34 +0900 From: os...@debian.org To: ogyach...@hotmail.com CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Any Linux CAD tools? On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: I am looking for a CAD tool... What other options are available on the Linux platform? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch11.en.html#_graphic_data_tools Thanks. I will have a look at the page. _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
How to use Sun Java instead of gcj
I installed sun-java6 but java -version showed version 1.5. Upon further investigation I realised gcj is also installed on the machine and OpenOffice depends on it. I have two questions: 1. How can I make OpenOffice use Sun-java instead of gcj so that I can remove gcj? 2. If it is not possible to remove gcj and keep OpenOffice intact, how can I compile java 1.6 programs using sun-java6? Any help in this direction will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:03:15 +0800 From: haoniu...@gmail.com To: ogyach...@hotmail.com CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? Ogya Chief wrote: I installed sun-java6 but java -version showed version 1.5. Upon further investigation I realised gcj is also installed on the machine and OpenOffice depends on it. I have two questions: 1. How can I make OpenOffice use Sun-java instead of gcj so that I can remove gcj? 2. If it is not possible to remove gcj and keep OpenOffice intact, how can I compile java 1.6 programs using sun-java6? Any help in this direction will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya Thanks, Kun Niu. I will look into that option. _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj[Solved]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:03:15 +0800 From: haoniu...@gmail.com To: ogyach...@hotmail.com CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? Ogya Chief wrote: I installed sun-java6 but java -version showed version 1.5. Upon further investigation I realised gcj is also installed on the machine and OpenOffice depends on it. I have two questions: 1. How can I make OpenOffice use Sun-java instead of gcj so that I can remove gcj? 2. If it is not possible to remove gcj and keep OpenOffice intact, how can I compile java 1.6 programs using sun-java6? Any help in this direction will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya Update-alternatives did the trick. _ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: Showing only files on a virtual desktop
I am not sure what you mean by files associated with a virtual desktop. If you want to only see tasks for the active desktop in the task bar, you can do so by right-clicking on the task bar, Task Manager Settings, select Only show tasks from the current desktop in the Filters section of the General tab. Regards, Ansgar Hi Ansgar Thanks for the solution. That is what I meant and the problem is solved. Regards, Ogya _ Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
Showing only files on a virtual desktop
Hi All, I am running sid and kde desktop and I want to see only the files associated with a particular virtual desktop and not all open files on other virtual desktops in the panel. I have checked the online kde manual but I did not see anything on this issue. Is it possible to do that? I want to avoid clutter of the desktop as well as the panel. Any help in this direction will be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Ogya _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi
Da No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and configure apt to prefer one of them so that when you install/upgrade it automagically choses the distro you prefer but you'll see all the available packages in your synaptics/aptitude/apt-get-lists. This is achieved by: 1. add the relevant repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. add the stable or lenny repositories, also make sure you have the non-free branches included as that's where the madwifi-* packages reside), then change the file /etc/apt/preferences (create it if it doesn't exist yet) to something like this: a...@hexbrex:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 650 the above entries basically tell apt-get Co. to prefer the testing versions of any package over the stable ones (the higher Pin-Priorities are the preferred ones). But it'll be able to see all the packages from all the releases included in your sources.list. Then run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update' or whatever other way you use to update your package-cache. Now you should be able to install madwifi et al. There's also a bit of configuration to be done in /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi, uncomment the line: blacklist ath5k and comment out all the lines below ## madwifi (non-free) Hope that helps Hi Sebi, I have done as you indicated in your email but now the wireless card is not even detected after a restart. Could you show me how my interface configuration file should look like. Regards, Ogya _ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:42:24 + From: levi.vi...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi Hello again not sure what you mean by interface configuration file, my I meant the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces file. /etc/network/interfaces only contains the loopback entry (lo) as I use wicd to manage the network (works great for me!), but let's see if you have the right modules loaded first (I presume the installation went ok for you?), try running following command and include it's output in your answer, if you don't mind: I managed to get the modules installed without any errors and now I have eth0 and ath0 (ath0 being the wireless interface) but it still won't connect. a...@hexbrex:~$ lsmod | grep -E '(ath|wlan)' The output of the command is as follows: wlan_wep9984 1 wlan_scan_sta 17280 1 ath_rate_sample17152 1 ath_pci 245824 0 wlan 224032 5 wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci ath_hal 334480 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci All the best Sebi -- _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi[Solved]
Hello Sebi, This is to inform you that my wifi is working. The problem was that I supplied a wrong passphrase. Thank you very much for your help in the last three days. I do appreciate it so much. Kind regards, Ogya _ Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi
Hi All, I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the wireless card and a Hewlett-Parkard laserjet P1005 printer. I have search for solutions on the internet but so far I have not found any that addresses my problems. For example I went to Madwifi site but most of the links are broken; I tried to use NDISWraper but I could not find the .inf file for the driver. Any suggestion as to what to do to get this working? ifconfig does not list this interface at all. I installed Lenny first and it listed the interface but upgrading to Squeeze does not. With the printer, there appears to be a driver that is loaded by CUPS but the printer would not print. I understand that the printer needs a plug-in for it to work but I do not know what the name of the plug-in is or where to get it. Any ideas? Kind regards, Ogya _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:58:36 + From: levi.vi...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:42PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, Hi Ogya I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the wireless card ...snip... Thanks Sebi for you reply. Unfortunately, madwifi-(source|tools|modules) are not in the testing repositories. In the absence of them what are my options. Backports? I see that they are in etch and lenny. Do I have to downgrade my installation in order to get it working? Also I think there might be different AR5001-Chipsets, as: a...@hexbrex:~$ lspci |grep -i ath 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 04) ^^ The output of lspci |grep -i ath is the following: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Regards, Ogya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org _ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
Corrupt Reiserfs file system
One partition on my linux box with reiserfs is corrupt and I am trying to get it fixed. I ran the following command: reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/sdb2. The report I got indicates that either I have a corrupt journal or I have changed the start of the partition table editor. It prompted me to build the journal header and the report I got indicates that I have some corruptions and I was prompted to confirm whether the statistics were OK. When I entered n the program aborted with the message that Super block was not written. How can I go about fixing the corrupt partition. Regards, Ogya _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions) [Solved]
It appears that particular chipset is not supported by the b43 open-source driver. You have three alternatives: 1. Use the vendor-provided, non-open-source Linux driver. See http://wiki.debian.org/wl 2. Use ndiswrapper. This lets you use the Windows driver in Linux. See http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper 3. Buy a different wireless card. Hope this help! -- Kevin Kevin, Option 1 worked. That card (broadcom 4312) is not supported by the b43 driver. Thanks all for your patience and suggestions. _ Share your memories online with anyone you want. http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/windows/windowslive/products/photos-share.aspx?tab=1
RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)
I do not know why the messages of my last two posts were deleted. I wrote that after installing b43-fwcutter and extracting the firmware the wireless card still did not work. It was suggested that I configure it but I did not understand what the specific configuration the writer was referring to. _ What can you do with the new Windows Live? Find out http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx
RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx Is the firmware being loaded to the card correctly? Try something like $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog And look for messages that might indicate failure. -- Kevin grep wl_apsta /var/log/syslog did not give any output. However, dmesg gave the following error message: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15) b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1) b43: probe of ss60:0 failed with error -95 Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13] What is the solution? _ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx
RE: How do I setup wireless network
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RE: How do I setup wireless network
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RE: How do I setup wireless network
From: amalgam.s...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:42:26 +0800 Subject: Re: How do I setup wireless network To: ogyach...@hotmail.com lspci -nn and show the results Cheers swhe On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Ogya Chiefogyach...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have installed Debian 5.02 on my laptop with Broadcom wireless network card but I do not know how to get this card to work. The installation did not detect the card. Any leads will be appreciated. Regards, Ogya With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. The output of command related to networking is: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvel Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-EFast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 13) 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) _ What can you do with the new Windows Live? Find out http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx
How do I setup wireless network
Hi All, I have installed Debian 5.02 on my laptop with Broadcom wireless network card but I do not know how to get this card to work. The installation did not detect the card. Any leads will be appreciated. Regards,Ogya _ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx
Upgrade of Etch to Lenny Broke System
Hello All, In the process of upgrading my Etch system to Lenny, the system broke. I tried to rundpkg --configure -a and this is what I got: Setting up libuuid1 (1.41.3-1)...groupadd: invalid option --Kusage: groupadd [-g gid [-o] groupdpkg: error processing libuuid1 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2Errors were encountered while processing libuuid1 What do I have to do to fix this? Thanks. Ogya _ Join the all-new Windows Live Messenger family http://get.live.com
Partitioning Harddisk
Hi All, I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows Vista preinstalled. I am having endless problems with this OS and I decided to install Debian Linux 5 on it and dual boot. I started the installation and got to the disk partitioning stage. There were four partitions on the disk (#1 to #4), with free space on #2. Without thinking carefully about it, I resized partition #2 and now it is unusable, the new partition being between #2 and #3. In the first place I do not know whether MS Vista requires all four partitions. If it does not need all four partitions then I can delete them. What can I do about it? I could not undo the changes I made though I did not write them to disk. Thanks Ogya _ Join the all-new Windows Live Messenger family http://get.live.com
Installation problem: No partitionable media found
Hi All, I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message: No partitionable media found What could be the problem and what am I missing? Any pointers on how to resolve this problem will be very much appreciated. Kind regards Ogya _ Customise your home page with RSS feeds - visit MSN SA today! http://za.msn.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found
From: Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:37:04 -0500 On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message: No partitionable media found What could be the problem and what am I missing? Any pointers on how to resolve this problem will be very much appreciated. The problem is likely that Sarge is too old for your SATA. Try Etch. Doug. Thanks Doug, Marcus and the others who have responded to my mail. I will get Etch and try again. Kind regards, Ogya _ Customise your home page with RSS feeds - visit MSN SA today! http://za.msn.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cyradm: cannot connect to server
Hi All I am trying to setup a mail server with postfix and cyrus-imap server and I have followed the instructions in the document: http://wiki.ev-15.com/debian:mail_system to the letter but whenever I issue the command cyradm localhost, I get the above error message. I have googled using the error message but it returns only three results but they are in German. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? Regards Ogya _ Accurate weather reports, mobile downloads and more - visit MSN South Africa! http://www.msn.co.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network setup problems
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] I doubt it; have you tried pinging by address instead of by name? This feels like a problem with Windows; do you have a firewall on the W2K laptop? It might be blocking ping traffic. I'd pop a Knoppix CD into the W2K box and see if it works correctly on the network; that'll eliminate wiring/etc issues. -- Kent Kent, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I pinged by address with the same results. I don't have a firewall on the W2K laptop but I do on the debian box. This must be responsible for it. I forgot about the firewall completely. I will reconfigure it and see if it works. Regards Ogya _ Get picture messages that say it all at MSN Mobile Fun! http://ringtones.msn.co.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network setup problems
Hi All, I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip address anytime I log onto the work network. I have a small linux network at home and I wanted to setup samba to be able to use the laptop at home to share files on it. For this reason, I assigned a static ip address to it as follows: ip address: 192.168.0.5 subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 default gateway: 192.168.0.1 I have edited /etc/hosts and included the appropriate lines on the linux server and also I have the same entries in the hosts file on Win2K. On the linux box, if I try to ping the Win2K laptop, I get the following: PING laptop.network.home (192.168.0.5): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote laptop.network.home 64 chars, ret=-1 On the Win2K machine, the following is what I get: Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. I am not sure what I have done wrong, and this seems to be very basic stuff. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Regards Ogya _ Get picture messages that say it all at MSN Mobile Fun! http://ringtones.msn.co.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network setup problems
Hi All, I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip address anytime I log onto the work network. I have a small linux network at home and I wanted to setup samba to be able to use the laptop at home to share files on it. For this reason, I assigned a static ip address to it as follows: ip address: 192.168.0.5 subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 default gateway: 192.168.0.1 I have edited /etc/hosts and included the appropriate lines on the linux server and also I have the same entries in the hosts file on Win2K. On the linux box, if I try to ping the Win2K laptop, I get the following: PING laptop.network.home (192.168.0.5): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote laptop.network.home 64 chars, ret=-1 On the Win2K machine, the following is what I get: Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. I am not sure what I have done wrong, and this seems to be very basic stuff. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Regards Ogya _ Dress your phone in the latest colour wallpapers! http://ringtones.msn.co.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network setup problems
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network setup problems Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:47:45 -0500 So your Win2K laptop gets the 0.5 address when connected to your home LAN? And your Linux server has the address of 0.1? Correct Can you ping localhost? Do you have other machines on the network you can ping? What's the result of ifconfig? Yes, I can ping localhost without problems. I had another linux machine I could ping on the debian box without problems. It is currently not connected so I could not try to ping it on the Win2K machine. ipconfig on the Windows machine gives the following results: Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection: Connect-Specific DNS Suffix: IP Address : 192.168.0.5 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway : 192.168.0.1 ifconfig on the debian box gives the following results: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:9F:5D:42 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::204:75ff:fe9f:5d42/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:271 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:34392 (33.5 KiB) TX bytes:498 (498.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:23935 (23.3 KiB) TX bytes:23935 (23.3 KiB) I did not change the domain name on the laptop to be the same as that of the other machines on my lan because I would then require the domain administrators password to setup the laptop to work on my work network. Could this be the reason? Regards Ogya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Win mobile goodies at MSN Mobile Fun! http://ringtones.msn.co.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network setup problems
From: Nayyar Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Nayyar Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] what seems to me ,is that you have duplicate ip's on both linux and win2k machine . as you say also I have the same entries in the host file on win2k if my guess is wrong please supply full detail of your linux and win2k machines host file output. No, I have not. What I mean is that the contents of the hosts files on the two machines are identical Regards Ogya _ Get 35 custom filters to manage your e-mail - CLICK! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-xe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Capturing all bootup messages
Hi All, When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, neither does /var/log/messages. My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the system to read those message? Pressing control-C or shift-break does not pause the system. I am running debian Sarge if that is relevant. Your help in this regard will be very much appreciated. Thanks Ogya _ Highlight key phrases on any Web page - download MSN Toolbar! http://toolbar.msn.co.za?DI=1054XAPID=2083 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Capturing all bootup messages
We really need some standard way of capturing those messages. I think I've heard of some switch you can add or line you can uncomment in /etc/init.d/bootlog, but I'm not sure. One way that should work is to deactivate any auto-startup of X (kdm, etc) and then the next boot will stop at a console login. From there you can Shift-PgUp to scroll through the messages. (This ability gets lost if the system switches to a graphical display.) -- Kent Thanks very much, Kent. I will give your suggestion a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Post your best pics online - only on MSN Groups! http://groups.msn.com/people.msnw?pgmarket=en-za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Capturing all bootup messages
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Capturing all bootup messages Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:54:31 +0200 On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the system to read those message? Pressing control-C or shift-break does not pause the system. We really need some standard way of capturing those messages. I think I've heard of some switch you can add or line you can uncomment in /etc/init.d/bootlog, but I'm not sure. Hello, it's true; you really should take a look at bootlogd and its init scripts. andrej I will have a look at the files as suggested. Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion. Regards Ogya _ Get FREE Web space - click to learn more! http://groups.msn.com/people.msnw?pgmarket=en-za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dcopserver would not run
From: James Vahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dcopserver would not run Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:57:28 -0700 John Summerfield wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /home/username/.DCOPserver- debian_0. Please check that the dcopserver program is running. try these commands: apt-get -q update apt-get -fu install apt-get install konqueror Same trouble as Ogya here last night- rm ~/.ICEauthority ~/.Xauthority seems to have fixed it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I removed kde before I read John's mail. I thank you John and the others who made suggestions. _ Pop-up ads annoying you? Execute them with MSN Toolbar! http://toolbar.msn.co.za?DI=1054XAPID=2083 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dcopserver would not run
Hi All, Last night I wanted to install Konqueror on my Sarge box and I decided to use dselect for the installation. Dselect indicated that Konqueror was installed so I marked it for deletion and went ahead and deleted it but it deleted about 50 other KDE packages. I noted down all the packages that were being deleted. I had to press control-C several times to abort the operation. All the packages deleted were reinstalled but KDE would not start; I got the following error messages: There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /home/username/.DCOPserver- debian_0. Please check that the dcopserver program is running. The dcopserver program was not running and I attempted to run it manually as root user but I got the following error: dcopserver: relocation error: /usr/lib/dcopserver.so: undefined symbol: _KDE_IcePoMagicCookielProc. I cannot run any KDE application anymore. Man page on dcopserver is terse and Dwww does not work either so getting more information on my system is impossible. Does anybody what what is broken on my system? Thanks in advance for any leads/pointers. Ogya _ Find a friend, companion or lover at the world's largest dating service! http://match.msn.co.za/match/mt.cfm?pg=channeltcid=1826 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't play audio CD's
From: Mark Par [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't play audio CD's Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:02:18 +0800 On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:39:22 +0100, James Hosken wrote: I've just got my sound card working by installing the 2.6.6 kernel. I've been using xmms to play some mp3s. But I can't play and audio CD's. [...] I've got a DVD and a CD-RW setup as lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Nov 26 2003 cdrom1 - hdc lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Feb 12 21:34 cdrom2 - scd0 I'm a member of the following grups james cdrom audio www-data src [] On checking the drive I get the error Failed to open device /dev/cdrom1 Error: Permission denied Directory /mnt/dvd OK. Please could some one tell me what I need to do to get this working. Make sure /dev/hdc or /dev/scd0 is a member of the cdrom group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is another group called disk or something like that. You need to belong to that group as well to be able to place audio cds. I had a similar problem over the weekend and once I added my name to that group, everything worked. _ Life is WAY more fun with MSN Messenger! http://messenger.msn.co.za?DI=1054XAPID=2532 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't play audio CD's
From: Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't play audio CD's Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:10:34 -0400 On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:16:12 +0100 Brian Potkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and then wondered whether Chris Metzler was correct in saying: 'Group disk has write access to all the raw disk devices (/dev/hd* and /dev/sd*). Assigning users to group disk is both dangerous and a security risk.' as her/his contribution to the 'cd and floppy disk use' thread in debian-user on 2 May 2004. hahaha. I just saw this thread, just saw the suggestion to add oneself to group disk, was about to post this, and decided I'd read ahead first and see if someone had already said it. And I guess someone already had! In addition to the above, it should absolutely *not* be the case that one has to be assigned to group disk to play audio CDs. If ownerships and permissions are set properly, group disk shouldn't matter at all. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear attach3 How then should one go about it setting ownership and permissions properly? _ Meet new people instantly with MSN Messenger! http://messenger.msn.co.za?DI=1054XAPID=2532 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp setup problem-Solved
From: Iain Mac Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ppp setup problem Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:31:40 +0100 On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:00, Ogya Chief wrote: I will check the modem documentation to see what is required. As an example here is the pertinent line for one of my modems cat /etc/wvdial.conf | grep X3 Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 X3 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0 But check your modem manual your settings may be different. Also your country settings may be different from mine. I have found wvdial pretty good at establishing a connection and negotiating authentication. It has saved me a lot of bother in the past. Hope this helps, Iain. Regards, Iain. Hi Iain, The X3 option did the trick. Thank you to you and all the others that contributed to solving this problem. Ogya _ Store more e-mails, accept larger attachments with Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-xe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp setup problem
From: richard lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ppp setup problem Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:04:15 -0400 On Tuesday 18 May 2004 05:25, Ogya Chief wrote: Dear All: Whilst trying to set up ppp, I ended up with a system that does not connect to the net. Whatever option I use to connect, I get a message that says: /usr/sbin/pppd: unknown host: (none) Has anybody ever come across this? What do I have to do to fix this? If I have to setup networking again, what should be done? Thanks in advance for any clues. Someone is going to need a lot more information to help you. Read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. and, in particular, describe: - the environment (machine, modem, debian version etc.). - how you tried to set it up. - the research you have already done. - in detail the diagnostic steps you have tried. For example, list the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts... -- richard Hello Richard, Here is the information requested for: The pc in question is a p3 machine running Debian testing and Mandrake 10. The Mandrake system's ppp works flawlessly. On the Debian system, soon after the installation, I tried to use wvdial to configure ppp but my modem (an external one) would not dial out. It failed with the message NO DIALTONE. I also tried with pppconfig and I got the same message. Again, I tried with minicom and the result was the same.Here are the contents of some of the configuration files that are of interest here: /etc/resolv.conf search myisp domain myisp.com nameserver primary dns ip nameserver secondary dns ip /etc/hosts == 127.0.0.1 localhost /etc/host.conf == order hosts, bind multi, on /etc/hosts.allow leafnode:127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts.allow leafnode:ALL When wvdial and diald failed to dial out, I decided to remove them. I started getting the error message /usr/sbin/pppd: unknown host: (none) I also tried to remove all the installed packages under communication and networking that I had installed and reinstalled them but the problem would not go away. Typing pppd alone on the command line spits out the garbage as expected. The only error message that shows up in the /var/log/ppp.log file is the above error message and nothing else. I hope this has shed more light on the problem. Thanks _ Need more storage? Upgrade to suit your needs - from 10 MB to 100 MB! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-xe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp setup problem
That's a big clue. Try plugging a 'phone into your wall socket and try dialling out. Did you hear a dial tone? If that works try plugging in your modem again. If it still doesn't work are you using the correct cables? I did plug a phone into the phone socket of the modem and it worked. If your 'phone line doesn't give a proper dial tone try dialling out without the modem receiving a dial tone. You need to add an option to wvdial.conf which for my modem is X3 but for your modem may be different. Check the documents for your modem. I will check the modem documentation to see what is required. Currently, I do not even get that error message. _ Store more e-mails, accept larger attachments with Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-xe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp setup problem
Dear All: Whilst trying to set up ppp, I ended up with a system that does not connect to the net. Whatever option I use to connect, I get a message that says: /usr/sbin/pppd: unknown host: (none) Has anybody ever come across this? What do I have to do to fix this? If I have to setup networking again, what should be done? Thanks in advance for any clues. Ogya _ Get fast inbox relief with Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-xe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
