Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
No luck with new install. Hangs at the same spot. Here's the output: debian:/home/cavan# dpkg --configure --pending debian:/home/cavan# dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64 perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
If the installation had a problem then you could try this: dpkg --configure --pending dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64 (The first line is just for safety, probably won't do anything.) Save the transcript and send it if you still can't boot that kernel.

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
I got to download the kernel image (18MB) but maybe it got corrupted during the download or there was an error during the installation. Grub shows 2 kernel editions and I chose the newer one, but the boot process halts after detecting the hard drive(Hitachi) or the dvd drive(TSST Corp).

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> i assume removing anything would cause a crash right? Can config be > edited? You are correct: it would be a bad idea to remove the 2.6.18 kernel without first installing a different one, and it does no harm to have multiple old kernels available. So don't try to do that. Editing the kernel co

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Geert Nijpels
On 7/8/07, PÁSZTOR György <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! "Neil Gunton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta 2007-07-06 22:24-kor: > Unfortunately, the RAID card I have doesn't seem to have been a type > that really took off in any significant way. I don't know of anyone else > who has one. If anyone does ha

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:39:54PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > On 07/07/07 04:45:57PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > The stock Debian kernels are configured like this: > > > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > > > > So, if you have a machine

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread PÁSZTOR György
Hi! "Neil Gunton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta 2007-07-06 22:24-kor: > Unfortunately, the RAID card I have doesn't seem to have been a type > that really took off in any significant way. I don't know of anyone else > who has one. If anyone does happen to have a spare Adaptec Smart RAID > 2015S lyin

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
hey, when i repeat the operation now i get the following: debian:~# apt-get upgrade linux-image-amd64/etch-backports Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. debian:~# apt-get install linux-image-amd64/

squares in a 32bits gtk application

2007-07-07 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Hi list, I want to try google desktop but I want to try this outside the chroot, inside the chroot that shows correctly outside all the characters are replaced by squares. Any hint? Thanks -- Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involve

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Jim Crilly
On 07/07/07 04:45:57PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:40:00PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > > > > For 32-bit systems only if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G > > enabled so you need one of the "bigmem" kernels. And the BIOS on the machine > > has to support

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:40:00PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > > For 32-bit systems only if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G > enabled so you need one of the "bigmem" kernels. And the BIOS on the machine > has to support remapping the lost memory above the 4G mark, if it won't do > tha

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Jim Crilly
On 07/06/07 10:40:11PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > Adam Stiles wrote: > >You won't be able to use all of your 4GB RAM with a 32-bit kernel. A > >32-bit processor only has 4GB of addressing space, and that has to be > >shared between memory and peripherals. > > Really? I thought that the only li

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
Ok im using Grub. Ill give it a try. Cavan On 7/7/07, Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Barak, should uname -r after reboot show: 2.6.18-4-amd64? thats No. You should be running 2.6.21, although 2.6.18 should still be available. Check in the director

Re: System freezes

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 12:23:08 am Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Anyway, at the moment I had to switch to nvidia-glx 100.14.09, which seemk > to work o.k., as with 100.14.11 the system fereezes almost every five > minutes, and this is really no fun to work with. Nope, that's no fun at all. I use 100.14.11

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> Dear Barak, should uname -r after reboot show: 2.6.18-4-amd64? thats No. You should be running 2.6.21, although 2.6.18 should still be available. Check in the directory /boot to be sure the 2.6.21 kernel is installed. (a) If not, try again using the command line: apt-get install linux

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
Dear Barak, should uname -r after reboot show: 2.6.18-4-amd64? thats what i get. Also iwconfig gives: localhost:~# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. Also lspci gives: 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI C

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
I have a shiny new Dell Inspiron 1501 running Debian amd64 stable. The easy way to make the Broadcom WiFi stuff work is: (a) You need a newer kernel than the 2.6.18 in stable, so echo "deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Neil Gunton
Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: If I understand right you need to rebuild all the system because you need to repartition, Right If you need the software in sarge why not have sarge and use your already patched kernel? ??? I never said I "need" software in Sarge. I would much rather use Etch, be

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
Thanks ill try this! Cavan On 7/7/07, Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a shiny new Dell Inspiron 1501 running Debian amd64 stable. The easy way to make the Broadcom WiFi stuff work is: (a) You need a newer kernel than the 2.6.18 in stable, so echo "deb http://www.

Re: Broadcom

2007-07-07 Thread Cavan Mejias
hey can you tell me what the function is of wpa supplicant? No luck with 1390 card yet. Thanks On 7/5/07, Hans-J. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Donnerstag 05 Juli 2007 schrieben Sie: > Couple more questions :-) What would be the correct entry in > /etc/network/interfaces? Also I've see

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:24:14PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > >Fairly early in the install, there's a menu item "continue install from > >ssh". Is there no way to get remote access to the console so that the > >datacenter people only have to put CD-bin1 into the drive? > > I have never seen th

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Hi, If I understand right you need to rebuild all the system because you need to repartition, If you need the software in sarge why not have sarge and use your already patched kernel? Try to patch the etch kernel before you go and even you could spend a quickly down time on the server previous t

Re: System freezes

2007-07-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag 06 Juli 2007 schrieb Alan Ianson: > On Thu July 5 2007 09:02:02 am Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi dear maintainers, > > > > after the last upgrade my system randomly freezes when running in X. > > > > The main things I upgraded, was the kernel from 2.6.21-1-amd64 to > > 2.6.21-2-amd64 and