Re: where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)

2014-06-06 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
ost them for you.. > > It seems like you should be able to at least figure out where the wifi > is connected, i.e. usb or pci buss, I bet on the pci buss as it's faster > I believe... > > Jack > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Stanisław Findeisen > <

Re: where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)

2014-06-06 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2014-06-05 23:08, Jack Wilborn wrote: > Might be that the wireless is 'wlan0' instead. Might want to look at > your config files to see it it's being used. The items you are using > (like 'lsusb', I assume you used 'lspci -vv' or something like that) are > tools that read all ports, and usuall

Re: where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)

2014-06-05 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2014-06-05 13:42, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2014-06-05 13:08, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> Is my integrated wireless card broken?! Or not present at all?! >> >> I don't know that laptop, but it probably can't hurt to also check the >> output of 'ls

Re: where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)

2014-06-05 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2014-06-05 13:08, Darac Marjal wrote: >> Is my integrated wireless card broken?! Or not present at all?! > > I don't know that laptop, but it probably can't hurt to also check the > output of 'lsusb' and 'iw list'. lsusb yields nothing interesting, but iw list: # iw list nl80211 not found. H

where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)

2014-06-04 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am trying to configure WiFi on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop. I installed NetworkManager and in /var/log/syslog I can see: Jun 5 07:41:42 t61whe NetworkManager[2490]: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jun 5 07:41:42 t61whe NetworkManager[2490]: WWAN enabled by radio

Re: kernel: [drm] nouveau: fail ttm_validate

2013-07-10 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2013-07-05 08:18, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > This is the latest stable Debian GNU/Linux (Wheezy 7.1) on a lenovo T61 > laptop. I am using KDE. > > $ uname -a > Linux t61whe 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux This time I was able to take a s

kernel: [drm] nouveau: fail ttm_validate

2013-07-04 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi >From time to time I am getting things like this in my syslog: Jul 4 22:22:28 t61whe kernel: [177451.290364] [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: fail ttm_validate Jul 4 22:22:28 t61whe kernel: [177451.290370] [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: validate vram_list Jul 4 22:22:28 t61whe kernel: [177451.29041

Re: wacky question

2013-06-23 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2013-06-20 04:44, Greg wrote: > Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like > PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a > backdoor or something that could collect private info in the binary > packages distributed by debian? It all boils down to te

modem-manager: re-checking support... (Huawei E1820)

2012-09-30 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am having Huawei E1820 HSPA+ USB modem plugged into my IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop and a lot of messages in syslog like these: Sep 30 15:34:57 t42deb modem-manager: (ttyUSB3): re-checking support... Sep 30 15:34:57 t42deb modem-manager: (Huawei): (ttyUSB3) deferring support check Sep 30 15:34:57

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2012-06-28 16:45, Camaleón wrote: >> 1. encryption: that's the file system's job > > True. Hm? You mean partition encryption? It won't help much if the malware is running with file owner's uid... or even if the system is booted at all (if you e.g. encrypt just /home). -- http://people.eise

server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? : * kernel + process images in memory * shape of the process tree * binary integrity of files + permissions * network connections * users, groups * user sessions * log files * ... I think this calls for a customizable so

ps2pdf: font problem

2011-10-12 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am having a PostScript (.ps) document that I am trying to convert to PDF. I am using ps2pdf for that, but the result looks bad: some glyphs are smaller than others, etc. How to fix this? -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ http://www.eisenbits.com/ OpenPGP: E3D9 C030 88F5 D254 434C 6683

Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-25 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-26 07:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I could actually hear this happening to the hard disk - but thought it was my > imagination. > > Linux windy 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > [1289040.878979] ata2: irq_stat 0x0040, connec

Re: Whitespace problem with bash script for Icedove

2011-07-25 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-25 20:07, Bill M wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm piecing together a small script to remove duplicate messages from > various directories in Icedove. By default the files are stored in a > directory called 'Local Folders' - with the space - and this seems to be > creating a problem for bash.

Re: Using USB Printer on Router USB

2011-07-25 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-25 13:04, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 23 Tamuz 5771 13:34:34 Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> On 2011-07-25 12:06, David Baron wrote: >>> How do I set up a USB printer plugged into a wireless router's USB so it >>> can be used through the router? >>

Re: Using USB Printer on Router USB

2011-07-25 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-25 12:06, David Baron wrote: > How do I set up a USB printer plugged into a wireless router's USB so it can > be used through the router? > > Instructions through CUPs so not show me the way. What OS do you have in your router? What model is it? -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-21 11:47, yudi v wrote: > I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting it. Interesting. Why do you need this? -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ http://www.eisenbits.com/ OpenPGP: E3D9 C030 88F5 D254 434C 6683 17DD 22A0 8A3B 5CC0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: How do you save passwords for Git/GitHub?

2011-07-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-21 18:09, Jason Hsu wrote: > I have a script that uses "git clone" multiple times to download all of the > repositories I need for my project Swift Linux. (Each major task has its own > repository.) The code is at > https://github.com/swiftlinux/1-build/blob/master/get_reps_diet.sh .

Re: "Friends" relation diagram

2011-07-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-21 22:29, T o n g wrote: > What the most appropriate tool to document/describe/diagram the inter- > relations between a group of friends, of which the relations can be > anything, even like, neighbour, car-pool, play-hokey, etc, etc. > > The graphviz comes first to my mind, but get ru

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-20 17:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:29:50 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update >> # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're >> # interested in. All local changes will b

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-19 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-19 16:54, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:52:17 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, Pictures... >>> and

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-19 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-19 09:52, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > (...) > >> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, Pictures... >> and Desktop. When I rebooted (or so) I found all my $HOME subdirs (well, >> at least

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-18 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-04-26 16:36, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:14:52 +0200, Jasper Noe wrote: > >>> Maybe you are searching for another key: >>> >>> /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop [ ] >>> >>> If you toogle this "off" all your icons will vanish. >> >> I think it is still another key: >> >>

Re: su without a password (not root)

2011-05-27 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-05-26 22:11, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/26/11 at 07:31pm, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> pam_wheel lets you su to root without typing a password if you are a >> member of a specific group. >> >> I need a PAM module with more flexible applicant user / target us

su without a password (not root)

2011-05-26 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
pam_wheel lets you su to root without typing a password if you are a member of a specific group. I need a PAM module with more flexible applicant user / target user pairs management. For instance I'd like to be able to su with no password from user A to users B and C, but not to root. What is the

SWF (Adobe Flash) support

2011-05-18 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi! Is it possible to play Adobe Flash files from, for example, YouTube.com without non-free software? This is what I have: $ dpkg-query --list | grep -i -E 'flash|gnash|swf' ii gnash0.8.4-3~lenny1 free SWF movie player ii gnash-common

Re: strange Icedove typo (Enigmail?)

2011-05-06 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-05-06 20:02, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2011-05-06 19:46, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 06 May 2011 19:08:11 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> >>> Today I sent an e-mail from my Icedove 2.0.0.24 and I am pretty sure it >>> looks different in my Sen

Re: strange Icedove typo (Enigmail?)

2011-05-06 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-05-06 19:46, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 06 May 2011 19:08:11 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > >> Today I sent an e-mail from my Icedove 2.0.0.24 and I am pretty sure it >> looks different in my Sent folder (and in Sent folder file) than it was >> when I was sendi

strange Icedove typo (Enigmail?)

2011-05-06 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Today I sent an e-mail from my Icedove 2.0.0.24 and I am pretty sure it looks different in my Sent folder (and in Sent folder file) than it was when I was sending it. There is an additional '>' char at the beginning of the 3rd line of the body (nothing was quoted in this e-mail, it was a "new mail

Re: FAT: Filesystem panic

2011-04-05 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-04-05 09:46, George Chelidze wrote: > On 04/03/2011 12:23 AM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> On 2011-04-01 13:06, George Chelidze wrote: >>> I'v got 2 boxes running squeeze and lenny, both up to date. On a box >>> with squeeze, I copied 1.8G images to a

Re: FAT: Filesystem panic

2011-04-02 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-04-01 13:06, George Chelidze wrote: > I'v got 2 boxes running squeeze and lenny, both up to date. On a box > with squeeze, I copied 1.8G images to a 2G flash drive and tried to move > them to my lenny box. After mounting a drive (hal) on a lenny box cpu > jumped to 100%, and after about 30

mailbox file permissions and timestamps

2011-03-30 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi What are the correct mailbox file mode bitmasks in /var/mail? This is what I have: :/var/mail$ ls -al total 20 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2011-03-30 10:00 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2010-01-14 20:21 .. -rw--- 1 root mail 582 2010-04-13 21:31 root -rw--- 1 u1 mail 528 2011-0

Re: TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-12-13 10:58, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > On 13/12/10 17:25, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: >> >>> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined >>> (Font)

TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: > LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined > (Font) using `OT4/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 100. > > ! Corrupted NFSS tables. > wr...@fontshape ...message {Corrupted NFSS tables} >

usb-modeswitch

2010-11-10 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/usb-modeswitch Please, someone adds this thing to lenny would be great. :-) -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ OpenPGP: DFD9 0146 3794 9CF6 17EA D63F DBF5 8AA8 3B31 FE8A Like hardship, risk & challenge? --- Follow Jesus!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: procmail and Unicode header lines (RFC 2047)

2010-10-30 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-10-29 10:39, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:19:30 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > >> Is there any support in Debian for Unicode e-mail header lines >> processing, e.g. with procmail? >> >> Those header lines look like this:

Re: procmail and Unicode header lines (RFC 2047)

2010-10-30 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-10-29 21:35, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> Is there any support in Debian for Unicode e-mail header lines >> processing, e.g. with procmail? >> Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNEE7eiROJTUlViU4JSclLyVIGyhC?= >> >> so they need to be decoded

procmail and Unicode header lines (RFC 2047)

2010-10-28 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi Is there any support in Debian for Unicode e-mail header lines processing, e.g. with procmail? Those header lines look like this: Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNEE7eiROJTUlViU4JSclLyVIGyhC?= so they need to be decoded before doing anything useful with them. (See: http://www.debian.org/doc/man

Re: mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-10-21 09:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/21/2010 02:35 AM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + >> passwd only? >> >> Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? >> &g

mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + passwd only? Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? Thanks! -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ OpenPGP: DFD9 0146 3794 9CF6 17EA D63F DBF5 8AA8 3B31 FE8A Like hardship, risk & challenge? -

WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Here in campus we have 2 networks: eduroam-open, which is open and very restricted eduroam, which requires authentication and is less restricted. I have 3 questions. 1. How to actually select the network to use? I was trying nm-applet but NetworkManager seems to fallback to eduroam-open simply b

802.11 WPA network key prompt despite GNOME keyring

2010-08-14 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am trying to use a 802.11 wireless network that frequently disconnects me (low signal). The network is protected with WPA pre-shared key. The problem is I am being prompted for this key every time. Well, almost every. When I log in, I do not have to type the key. It is stored in the GNOME ke

[newbie] Logwatch + Postfix + Mailman

2010-07-22 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I have several simple questions regarding Logwatch reporting on Postfix logs with Mailman involved, too. (1) How does Logwatch work? Suppose an attacker manages to break into the machine and deletes/changes parts of the logs. Will Logwatch get tricked by this or not? I guess Logwatch is just r