Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Lawson
. 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?

2005-11-01 Thread Ed Lawson
$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

2004-08-12 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-04-19 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-04-13 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: memoty stick problem

2004-04-13 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-04-06 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-04-02 Thread Ed Lawson
. 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.

2004-03-25 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-03-10 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-01-19 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-01-19 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-01-07 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-01-03 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2004-01-03 Thread Ed Lawson
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

USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-02 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-02 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-02 Thread Ed Lawson
. 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

2004-01-02 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Sony Micro Vault Question

2003-12-31 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird

2003-08-21 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2003-08-14 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2003-07-25 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2003-03-28 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-27 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2003-02-02 Thread Ed Lawson
. 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

Re: Secure Relaying -- a start

2003-02-01 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2003-01-31 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: Secure Relaying -- a start

2003-01-31 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2003-01-25 Thread Ed Lawson
=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

2002-04-23 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread Ed Lawson
and it seemed much less polished and capable compared to MoneyDance at the time. Ed Lawson

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Ed Lawson
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...

2002-02-20 Thread Ed Lawson
and the ones in the laptop remain active? Ed Lawson

Upgrade to 2.4.17 Problem

2002-02-01 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2002-02-01 Thread Ed Lawson
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?

2002-01-31 Thread Ed Lawson
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?

2002-01-01 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2001-06-15 Thread Ed Lawson
. Anyone encountered this problem? TIA Ed Lawson

IP Masq. problem solved

2001-06-15 Thread Ed Lawson
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

2001-06-14 Thread Ed Lawson
, but this is a showstopper. TIA Ed Lawson

IDE tape drive question

2001-06-03 Thread Ed Lawson
. How does one go about accessing an IDE tape drive under Debian? Or, where is the documentation for the process? TIA Ed Lawson