RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
> > https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages >--> > https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages/tree/master/mate-file- > archiver These are irrelevant. mate-file-archiver does not exist anymore, and engrampa is optional. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
> https://github.com/mate-desktop/archlinux-packages >From the linked page: mate-file-archiver: Removed any packages from the >'depends' that are pulled in via gtk2. 24 days ago Looks to me like they fixed the conflict in Arch. You have no leg to stand on with this one. Also, that's Arch.

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
> >> Not really, you at least need to manually add a link, regarding to the > >> different program names. > > > > I never did, and never had to. It works fine. > > Just because you're using software that doesn't use this software as a > dependency. I don't know what you are talking about. > >>

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:34 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > The dialogs from Gnome 3 (zenity) serves, so mate-dialogs-gnome isn't > > needed if zenity is installed (and mate-dialogs-gnome can serve in > > place for zenity as well). > > Not really, you at l

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
mate-dialogs-gnome can serve in place for zenity as well). mate-desktop-gnome conflicts with gnome-desktop-data. They did a rename trick with this, and another package, mate-desktop, serves the same purpose, I believe, and it doesn't conflict. I think. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:24 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > As far as gvfs goes, it's harmless. Why be upset over it > > installation? > > External hard disc drives that fulfill the EU Regulation, that they have > to sleep after a while, will be waked up by GVFS agai

RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Audio, I understand. It isn't greatly to be desired, but it has never actually screwed anything up for me. It is just extraneous, taking up space and generally being a minor nuisance. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

FW: Building computer - power supplies

2013-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
inear regulators could not even be considered for this task. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Better MBs these days use solid caps. There *is* a price premium, however. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

2013-09-24 Thread Mark Neyhart
Does /var/log/daemon.log have any entries at the time when "rpcinfo -p localhost" is run? Mark -- 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/5242311d.8010...@akleg.gov

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

2013-09-24 Thread Mark Neyhart
et on the loopback interface. The > relevant portion of the strace output is below: > Maybe rpcbind is not listening on the loopback interface. What are the contents of /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Problems Installing ia32-libs

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Phillips
to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. # aptitude install ia32-libs Aptitude still wants to replace gnome etc with i386 packages. What am I missing? Mark On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have a Debian testing amd64 laptop. Only testing, no unsta

Problems Installing ia32-libs

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Phillips
machine root@orca:/home/mark# aptitude install ia32-libs The following NEW packages will be installed: esound-common{a} freeglut3:i386 gcc-4.8-base:i386{a} ia32-libs ia32-libs-i386:i386 krb5-locales{a} lesstif2:i386 libacl1:i386 libaio1:i386 libasound2:i386{a} libasyncns0:i386 libattr1:i386{a

RE: Driver installation [ANSWER] {SOLVED]

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
> > On 09/17/2013 10:42 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > > My mistake. No, this is the same driver that won't install. I saw > > > the 15th, and thought Sept., but it was August. > > > > > > Thanks, though. Any other suggestions welcome. > &g

RE: swapper tainted

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
> Subject: Re: swapper tainted > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:10:26PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > If you are using the proprietary Nvidia driver, that's it. > > I do I am using 304.88 from wheezy repository.. How could I fix it? I mean, that's the cause of

RE: swapper tainted

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
From: Jim Green [mailto:student.northwest...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:35 PM To: emmanuel segura Cc: Rares Aioanei; Debian Users Subject: Re: swapper tainted On 17 September 2013 18:58, emmanuel segura wrote: Read this link http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=358

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
My mistake. No, this is the same driver that won't install. I saw the 15th, and thought Sept., but it was August. Thanks, though. Any other suggestions welcome. Mark > From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:31 PM > To: 'Rares Ai

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
> On 09/17/2013 10:42 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > My mistake. No, this is the same driver that won't install. I saw > > the 15th, and thought Sept., but it was August. > > > > Thanks, though. Any other suggestions welcome. > > > > Mark > > >

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:28 PM > To: 'Rares Aioanei' > Subject: RE: Driver installation > > > >>> The Debian aacraid driver didn't support a 7805 card the last

RE: Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Rares Aioanei [mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com] > On 09/17/2013 07:57 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > Does anyone but me have experience using Adaptec RAID cards? > > > > The Debian aacraid driver didn't support a 7805 card the last time > > I checked. I in

Driver installation

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
the official Debian kernel, and if so, how do I go about switching to it? I can continue using the older driver for now, as dkms did its job building it for kernel 3.10, but newer is better as a rule. Any advice? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

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Re: unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-24 Thread Mark Copper
restarting networking (using old style interfaces) solved the problem. Unfortunately, I'm not in the position to try to replicate the problem. But a word of caution to anyone else who might come across this may be in order. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Copper
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:17:11 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Tom H wrote: >> >> Mark Copper wrote: >> >>> Tom H wrote: >> >>>> You have "allow-hotplug eth0:0&

Re: unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Copper
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:28:04 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > > >> With resolvconf package installed and configured for dynamic >> generation of /etc/resolv.conf, I was *unable* to get any non-local >> nameservers written in

Re: unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mark Copper wrote: >> With resolvconf package installed and configured for dynamic >> generation of /etc/resolv.conf, I was *unable* to get any non-local >> nameservers written into /etc/resolv.conf. > > Works for

unable to get /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces configured properly in wheezy

2013-08-18 Thread Mark Copper
l if they would share it. Mark -- 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/CAM-_Jt=pj-m_on+4uyzor+hbxdj67dcepvwsmj36dwfbk4x...@mail.gmail.com

Re: power on the numlock key automatically during the boot process.

2013-08-06 Thread Mark Einon
ngs. I suggest you have a look and see if you can enable it there. cheers, Mark > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.orgwith a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/op.w1

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-04 Thread Mark Phillips
s now in testing? Thanks, Mark On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:10:33PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several yea

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Phillips
Steven, Thanks Installing gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common from unstable worked Mark On Jul 2, 2013 8:14 AM, "Steven Post" wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several years

Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Phillips
et to find solutions, and I am not getting anywhere. I cannot find any error messages to work with in aptitude, apt, gdm, Xorg, and dmesg. I can ssh into the box from my tablet with no problem. Please let me know how to fix this issue.I need my laptop back!! Thanks, Mark

RE: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-16 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net] > > This is essentially what the consensus of the discussions I have seen boils > down to. Some distributions, such as Fedora, are "switching." It's an > either/or. Debian appears to prefer to let the marketplace decide > ("marketplace"

RE: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-16 Thread Mark Allums
seen boils down to. Some distributions, such as Fedora, are "switching." It's an either/or. Debian appears to prefer to let the marketplace decide ("marketplace" here used to mean "users"). They will offer a choice as long as it is feasible. Mark --

RE: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-14 Thread Mark Allums
Kumar Appaiah: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > Slashdot and others have reported that RedHat, like Fedora and > OpenSuSE, is switching from MySQL to MariaDB. I expect Debian will follow > suit, since they have set precedents many times for

RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-14 Thread Mark Allums
oes anyone have a time frame for this? I would like to see this happen in time for Jessie. Mark -- 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/000701ce

Re: VIA system freezing since upgrade to wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Mark Carroll
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013, 18:21:51 schrieb Mark Carroll: (snip) >> longhaul: APIC detected. Longhaul is currently broken in this >> configuration. (snip) > Yes, be careful: Blacklist longhoul. > > See posting by Ben Hutchings on P

VIA system freezing since upgrade to wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Mark Carroll
currently broken in this configuration. I had wondered if it is possible that this Longhaul issue is making the system run rather hotter than necessary, but running a for(;;) loop in C makes the "sensors" output temperature increase without freezing the system. -- Mark -- To UNS

RE: recommend a laser printer

2013-05-16 Thread Mark Allums
> I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member > running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased > recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost > $100US or less? HP printers may or may not be high quality (that is subjective),

RE: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
have you tried adding the rootdelay=6 to your kernel command line? It works with rootdelay. I need it in my desktop while in the laptop there's no need of rootdelay. I will try this forthwith. Thanks for the tip. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

RE: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-14 Thread Mark Allums
On a Dell Precision M4600 laptop, I installed a clean Wheezy release, installed nvidia drivers along with the dkms packages that go with. Because of network driver trouble, I took the kernel from sid. After that, everything works fine. I mean, video is fine. Networking still a problem. Here is

RE: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Richard Owlett > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > >> All things considered, everything went quite smoothly. > > > > Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent "goodbye-android.com" for my > > tablet ... > > > > AGREED. I bought an A

RE: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
> > My old laptop (the one I'm writing this on) has squeeze with gnome 2.30.2. > Is there anyway to get an actual gnome *desktop* on wheezy sans all this > metro-esque crap? MATE. Tell all your friends: http://mate-desktop.org http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

RE: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
I upgraded yesterday, and also installed 3.8. I was wondering, has anyone else run into issues with the nvidia drivers with this kernel? I realize I have a kind of franken-driver situation: ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.3.0 amd64allows the sele

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:03:42PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > > Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow > > download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the > Debian > > version of the Kobo software runs fine on 32-

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > >> DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course), > >> and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on > >> DRM > > > > Anyone who runs Wine can instal

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Allums
> DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course), > and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on > DRM Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the Debian

RE: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
gt; don't clean the cache too often, either. I have decided that the X issue must have been partially a disk corruption problem. I am using an overcomplicated file system scheme, and I am always asking for trouble with that. My LVM volumes went out of sync as well, so I am hoping it was j

RE: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
Re: Strange things going on in Sid > > On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:20 -0400 > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update > > my Sid system. > > > > > > > > I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, > > including things l

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
and my Kobo Touch eReader absolutely > refuses to interface with Linux or even Windows XP running in > VirtualBox. Kind of hypocritcal of Kobo since the OS that drives > the reader is Linux. > > B There is a .deb available unofficially for Kobo from Kobo. They will send you a dropbox link for

RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
> Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the > login menu. My comments relate to that. > > Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess > is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the > relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: > > # enable color support of ls a

RE: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
> What's missing? AFAIU, anything that is in main doesn't require anything > from contrib or non-free -- if it did then it wouldn't be in main. Mainly, non-free firmware binaries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

RE: Debian in the sunshine?

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
> I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader. > It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen > would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the > summer and programming -- a situation where the normal luminous screens

RE: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Hello. I did a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy), using the debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso. In the past , during the install process, it would ask if the user wanted to include the contrib and non-free repositiories. Not this time. The install went okay, but only included packa

RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
> -Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this > machine. Make sure Gnome's "Classic" mode (AKA, fallback mode) is installed. There is a package for that. Consider installing MATE instead (Google for it.) They recently released a new version which runs very smoothly. MATE is a

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread Mark Weyer
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12:44PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: > The title is imprecise. Actually, the question is: How do I list installed > packages except those automatically installed to satisfy dependencies. In > aptitude that would be packages marked as "i " but not as &qu

How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Weyer
or whereever) is the information hidden? Please CC me, I am not subscribed. Thanks in advance, Mark Weyer -- 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/20130423211244.GA1911@debian

Re: Finding a working udev rule for a device

2013-04-11 Thread Mark Neyhart
by the next rule in line. Try making the name of your rule begin with z61_ or higher because the last rule in your directory appears to be z60_usbprog.rules. You mentioned trying a name earlier in the order, but not later. > > /etc/udev/rules.d/90-wgm.rules > --

RE: release of Wheezy, rise of Jessie?

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Darac Marjal [mailto:mailingl...@darac.org.uk] > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:49:38AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > A release is imminent, is it not? In the next two-to-three weeks? > > Imminent? Yes. In the next two-to-three weeks? Maybe. > > Wheezy will be re

release of Wheezy, rise of Jessie?

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Allums
A release is imminent, is it not? In the next two-to-three weeks? Mark -- 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/01ce3122$1bdcb020$53961060$@allums.com

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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 17 March 2013 3:13:58 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: <<>> > > PS Please define "Good Questions (TM)" I'm new at this, and do not want > to step on anyone's toes. Please read the following web page. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Follow the guidelines there and you'v

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Neidorff
> Dear list - > > When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." > How do I fix it? > > Thanks. > > Ethan > > Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it > passedthe MD5SUM or other test? > > > I bought this lap

Re: SSDT

2013-03-14 Thread mark
> Dear list - > > When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." > How do I fix it? > > Thanks. > > Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passed the MD5SUM or other test? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

RE: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Johan Grönqvist [mailto:johan.gronqv...@gmail.com] > 2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: > > [...] sid is still sporting > > the 3.2.x kernel. > > [...] I would like to play with some of the > > newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] > > I was wondering if an

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 10:00:06 am Andrea Neroni wrote: > > I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it > > still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the > > graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. > > Hi and thanks f

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread mark
> On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: >> Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In >> particular, compare the values of "design capacity" and "last full >> capacity". If "last full capacity" is significan

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/4 3:44 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Em 04-03-2013 17:09, Mark Filipak escreveu: On 2013/3/4 2:35 PM, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So you cannot reproduce the bug, right? I didn't try, João Luis. For you, I will. No, not for me. This list is archived and new D

Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Filipak
se. If tomorrow Debian were to suddenly become twice as popular as it currently is, this list would be flooded by people exactly like me. Regards, Ciao, and Good Luck - Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver [SOLVED]

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
Get the WiFi driver. - Go to http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi and look for a link related to your WiFi device. My WiFi device is an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 and the link is labeled 'ipw3945'. Yours will probably be different. - Taking the device-related link takes you to the Debian Wiki page for y

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 8:16 PM, Mr G wrote: -snip- $ id -snip- $ sudo updatedb -snip- $ mlocate firmware-iwlwfi.deb -snip- $ pwd Look at the terminal session below = mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su Password: root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 7:22 PM, Mr G wrote: Good. You found the problem. < Package `firmware-iwlwifi' is not installed and no info is available. So now you need to get you and firmware-iwlwifi.deb in the same directory. ===== mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
I tried to install wicd. = mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su Password: root@MarkFilipak:/media

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 6:48 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi You mean this one: firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers It's on my list. Do I really install it with this: dp

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote: You need the firmware-iwlwifi package. # dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi You mean this one: firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers It's on my list. Do I really install it with this: dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi or this: dpkg -s firmware-iwl

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
n: What is /etc/apt/sources.list? Ciao - Mark. -- 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/5133e0fe.4030...@gmail.com

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: -big snip- Why do you think you need a special driver? Please type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" in your terminal to check whether you have "wlan0" device or not in the list. mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 4:20 PM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:53:37 -0500 Mark Filipak wrote: -snip- BTW, before I go on, I already tried opening a file manager (in Debian+LXDE) and simply double-clicking one of the .deb files. Nothing happened. There are packages which will install .deb files in

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 3:33 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 12:29:44 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: Ok. You are using USB flash/USB flash drive/USB hard disc/USB drive interchangeably to refer to the same device? Its good to have that clarified. [Snip] Prior to

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 2:28 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 19:56:43 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: The reason I switched the target from an 8-GB USB flash drive to a USB hard drive is that someone said I couldn't insta

Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
My objective: Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet. My problem: All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet. But I can't install packages over the Internet because I can't reach the Internet until I've installed the driver (not part

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 2:07 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: I've thrown the thread away, Oh no... -big snip- Ohmygod! João Luis, of course I'll reproduce it. That should be easy. After all, I've put 2 overtime days into it at this point. Kindly stand by.

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 19:56:43 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/2 3:36 PM, Brian wrote: Your success was not a result of running the text-based Debian Installer. Forget about it. Try a bit of lateral, or even vertical, thinking. You may not realise it

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 3:36 PM, Brian wrote:> On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 13:24:06 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/2 12:37 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Exactly. Either it was a pertitioning problem, as pointed first by Lisi, and he does not want to admit; or some other random problem, and in t

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 3:03 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:09:51PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: Miles, I'm running the Debian installer from a Debian Live USB. I don't try to install GRUB. The Debian installer does it. I don't provide command-line switches. The Debian ins

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 1:58 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: It was not a partitioning problem or some other random problem. There's a bug in the GUI Debian Installer packaged with LXDE desktop, ver 6.0.6. I succeeded simply by running the text-based Debian Installer. No one suggested that. If this is

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
m still getting Cc:s in my inbox from Mark Filipak while the legitimate Debian mail is going to its own folder as it should. Cybe R. Wizard Cybe, I belong to many lists. Some have been other Linux lists and some have been Mozilla lists and some have been Windows lists. This list apparently

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 12:37 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +, Brian wrote: > The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation > successfully, use the text-based installer. I'd not see this as being the problem, Both a text and a GUI install shou

Re: Install failed - USB flash to USB drive [SOLVED]

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/2 8:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Wait a minute Mark Filipak wrote: I successfully installed this: debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso to a USB flash in Windows with this: dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso od=e: dd, in Windows? which version of dd for

Re: [OT] re: trolls and operating systems [was: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.]

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
remorses. Here X is for example Lisi, who solved the problem ages ago (partitioning problem). João Luis. It was not a partitioning problem. It is a bug in the GUI installer. The text-based installer works and I was successful. Ciao - Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Install failed - USB flash to USB drive [SOLVED]

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
nted in command-line help.) Then I booted from the USB flash and installed Debian + LXDE desktop to a USB drive. (The GRUB bootloader install failed toward the end of the installation.) The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation successfully, use the text-based installer.

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 11:54 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 02/03/13 17:33, Mark Filipak wrote: I'm back. When the GRUB install failed I pressed Alt+F4. The Debian Installer disappeared and I was immediately back to the LWDE desktop. I tried Alt+F4 there and nothing happened. Linux has the conce

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: There was once a fellow on a list I belong to whose postings were one tale of woe after another which is not that unusual for those of us who tinker and work in technology. The trouble with him was that it was all one b

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 10:51 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 10:39 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 10:39 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive), when it goes to install GRUB, it fails. To

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 10:03 PM, green wrote: Shane Johnson wrote at 2013-03-01 20:53 -0600: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mark Filipak wrote: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive), when it goes to install GRUB, it fails. To help further with this, we will need

Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
multiple-domain Apache servers. My problem: During the Debian installation (to USB thumb drive or USB hard drive), when it goes to install GRUB, it fails. What can you suggest I do? I will try anything. Thanks - Mark. -- 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/51316145.70...@gmail.com

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 8:47 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 7:47 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject. What I did: [...] What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It is

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 8:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 19:25:30 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to install GRUB - the installer is either: a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconne

Re: Installation failed

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 7:03 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Filipak wrote: GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work with a hard drive. You (prob

Re: Installation failed - and failed again...

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Filipak
On 2013/3/1 6:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 18:44:55 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: Regarding installing onto the USB hard drive... I booted from USB thumb drive, then tried to install from that (using its built-in Debian Installer) onto a USB hard drive. That also failed, same

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