Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Hood
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Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Hood
I have just looked at the bug reports open against etherconf and the package looks undermaintained. I would not recommend using it. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't open default sound device!

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Hood
alsa. You don't have a card driver installed. When you run alsaconf, does it tell you that you need a certain driver? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound Configuration

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Hood
why... there is anything else?? Install the latest alsa-base and linux-sound-base packages and make sure that 'ALSA' is selected in the debconf menu. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ scripts are not executed

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Hood
. I noticed that /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ didn't exist, so I created it and placed a script named 'fetchmail' there. The directory you want is /etc/network/if-up.d/. up and post-up are synonymous. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Tony Godshall wrote: I would think a collaboration of people around the world is more likely to survive than a corporation. Ubuntu is not Canonical. Canonical is the originator and sponsor of Ubuntu, but Ubuntu itself is, like Debian, free software. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sound Configuration

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:25:15 -0500, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: should I add just snd_intel8x0 or I'm wrong... Yes, just add snd-intel8x0. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:51:57 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: My point was simple: If you are going to get a derivative of Debian or Red Hat or whatever, you will never have the perfect compatibility that is often promised but cannot be delivered. You will have it only with the original distro.

Re: sound problems

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:20:27 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: What should I check now? Do I need to restart/reboot? Rebooting might cure the problem. Also, try aplay with a .wav file. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Sound Configuration

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
again. Do I have to change something else. This is the first time that I install Debian, well thanks, bye Sound driver modules should be loaded by hotplug or discover. If they aren't, add their names to /etc/modules. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-16 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:50:03 -0500, Brad Sims wrote: That kind of BS is why I stopped using $commercial_linux_distro. It's unstable I can accept broken packages due to ABI transitions but making a critical part depend on sudo-vaporware smacks of the Beast of Redmond. Why did you think

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
on childish squabbles. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
maintainer has been asked this several times. His view is that people running unstable should expect some instability. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:06:34 -0500, Jon Roed wrote: I just tried to run apt-upgrade on my Debian system and i got the following error: This is a feature. You can't install the new udev package unless you have a kernel of version 2.6.12 or later. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:10:16 -0400, Brendan wrote: Well, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy then, isn't it? If he thinks it should be unstable, he doesn't do anything to change it, and it *becomes* unstable. He certainly contributed to its instability, yes. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: resolv gets wacked after reboots

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Hood
on package removal. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Hood
that are available. These are known shortcomings and filing another bug report about it will not help at all. Debian does not have the developer resources to fix this problem. I expect that Ubuntu Breezy will show progress on this issue. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:09:30 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:50:01PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: I expect that Ubuntu Breezy will show progress on this issue. Will that be backported into Etch? I don't expect so. The people supporting networking tools in Debian have proved

Re: resolv gets wacked after reboots

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:59:37 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: What is going on? You have the resolvconf package installed and haven't set it up. Either remove the package or read /usr/share/doc/resolvconf/README.gz. (You probably need dns-nameservers options in /etc/network/interfaces.) -- Thomas

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
= yes -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
that I have myhostname = teufel in order to match the return from $ hostname -- my simple local host name. I believe this is OK. It may be that you have to use 'teufel.hartford-hwp.com'. I am not sure. // Thomas Hood Header block from your message ~~ Approved

Re: unstable update today

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
Merijn Schering (Intermesh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new udev package removed a lot of /dev/* links. My mouse and sound card stopped working because all the dev symlinks were gone. Downgrade udev to the testing version. The new udev only works with kernels 2.6.12 or higher. -- Thomas

Re: [Fwd: alsa_problem under kernel 2.6.8-2-686/etch]

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
of this. Put 'snd-ens1370' in /etc/modules, perhaps? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about sis7012+snd_intel8x0 sound card problem

2005-07-10 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:01:15 +0800, Trace Green wrote: This seems an old problem, i tried to find the answer in google, fail Search for the relevant report in the ALSA bug tracking system. https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-09 Thread Thomas Hood
-hwp.com? No, it should be a domain name such as 'teufel.hartford-hwp.com'. Set up /etc/hosts like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel Put 'teufel' in /etc/hostname and reboot. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: alsa and kernel 2.4.27-2-686

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Hood
For information about the Unresolved symbols error message, read Debian bug report #302188 at http://bugs.debian.org/302188 . In order to eliminate the alsactl restore error message, run alsactl store once as root. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: sound problems with 2.6

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hood
: alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-intel8x0 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 options snd-ens1371 index=1 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA sound card driver problem

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Hood
a file after reboot. To store the sound levels in the file, run alsactl store. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alsa not working after reboot

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Hood
See the loading modules section of /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian.gz. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to change hostname

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 20 May 2005 10:00:19 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: What is the debain way to change to hostname of a system. Run hostname NEWHOSTNAME and put NEWHOSTNAME into /etc/hostname. If occurrences of OLDHOSTNAME appear in /etc/hosts, change them to NEWHOSTNAME. The mailname serves a different

Re: esd hanging

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
/dsp. To configure esd to output to ALSA rather than OSS, simply install libesd-alsa0 instead of libesd0. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Setup Help

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 16 May 2005 21:50:18 +0200, Donald Perkovich wrote: I installed Debian 3.0r4 onto a machine yesterday and things seemed to go alright. When I started the machine up today, I found I have no networking. OK, let's try to figure out what's wrong. There are two NICs but no device

Anyone using libasound2-plugins?

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Hood
Does anyone use the libasound2-plugins package? If so then please send me a note. If not then the package will be omitted from the 1.0.9 release of the Debian ALSA packages. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas Hood
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Re: problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 07 May 2005 03:00:12 +0200, germ germ wrote: I configured /etc/network/interfaces as: iface eth0 inet dhcp iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 lo Make it: auto lo eth0 so that the loopback interface is configured first. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How To install ALSA (and uninstall OSS??)

2005-01-05 Thread Thomas Hood
in place of libesd0. Applications such as xmms that run in a GNOME environment are normally configured to send their output to esd and won't have to be reconfigured. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 2.4.27-6

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
during boot-up. Building your own alsa-modules package may fix the problem. This may be bug #284356. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS produces tons of errors with ALSA output

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
problem? (I got these numbers from the xmms changelog which indicates that they are about ALSA and pausing.) If so then reopen them and add your information. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
choose #2 then there are more people here who can help you. If you choose #2 then I would recommend you get a copy of Ubuntu Linux which is a newbie-friendly free Debian derivative: www.ubuntu.com. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: ifupdown locking up when bringing down bridge devices

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:50:07 +0100, Justin Searle at 015 wrote: unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1 This is a kernel bug. Search the linux-kernel archives and if you don't find the bug reported there already, submit a bug report to the list. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Installing alsa-modules will remove discover1

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
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Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
once it becomes available. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA broken after upgrade

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:40:09 +0100, Hank Marquardt wrote: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in Known kernel bug #284356 / #287483. Short-term solution: Build your own alsa-modules package from alsa-source using make-kpkg. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-27 Thread Thomas Hood
(?). Are the required sound device files all there? If you use devfs or udev then the devices will be created automatically. If not then you may need to run /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-26 Thread Thomas Hood
contains ALSA version 1.0.4. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsa mismatch with new kernel-image

2004-12-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:50:11 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi Debianers, I recently did an upgrade of the sarge kernel image from 2.4.27-2 to 2.4.27-6. All went well except for my alsa which is now out of sink. This is known kernel bug #284356. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: resolvconf + pdnsd on a laptop

2004-12-25 Thread Thomas Hood
this doesn't happen.) I.e., resolv.conf does not have to be static when pdnsd is in use. The important thing is that 127.0.0.1 be the first nameserver address listed. Resolvconf updates pdnsd's list of nameservers via a pdnsd-ctl command in /etc/resolvconf/update.d/pdnsd. -- Thomas Hood

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:10:15 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and press M to unmute the main volume. Why doesn't this get remembered across reboots ? Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel. udev or not? -- Thomas Hood

Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

2004-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:30:12 +0100, William Ballard wrote: My bad. I should have said what other files in /etc need to be writeable. See http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html, and especially the README files linked from it, for answers. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
(= 2.0.6-1) versions of discover refrain from loading OSS modules if alsa-base (= 1.0.7-1) has been installed. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
read an incorrect alsa file in /etc/modutils. Which file are you referring to? What are the incorrect lines and how are they incorrect? Please cc: me in your reply. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Betting Pool

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:10:11 +0100, William Ballard wrote: I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers? March 18. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
with the following contents alias snd-card-0 snd-opl3sa2 alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA sound gone since kernel update

2004-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
suffixes. In the meantime you can build your own alsa-modules package from the sources shipped in the alsa-source package using the make-kpkg utility (provided in the kernel-package package). -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: usb audio card not listed in alsaconf

2004-12-13 Thread Thomas Hood
driver in place of 'snd-cs46xx'. These aliases are used by /etc/apm/event.d/alsa if you have force_stop_modules_before_suspend set to true and possibly serve some other purposes unknown to me. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: sound/alsa: missing dependencies

2004-12-06 Thread Thomas Hood
.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-2.4.27 apt-get install kernel-package make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot modules-image -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound/alsa: missing dependencies

2004-12-05 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:10:10 +0100, michael wrote: I've run `alsaconf` but it gives errors (below) There is a problem with the alsa-modules package in the archive. You need to build your own alsa-modules package from alsa-source using make-kpkg. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Missing ALSA driver?

2004-12-03 Thread Thomas Hood
-emu10k1x'. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG-free replacement of DJBDNS ?

2004-11-27 Thread Thomas Hood
, but it will go to the root servers quite often ... The resolvconf package will update BIND's forwarders statement automagically. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Save/restore ALSA mixer settings

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Hood
(Beware: the last line may be wrapped by my mail composer.) alsaconf should set up /etc/modprobe.d/sound for you correctly. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Hood
this information to the BTS under issue #187730. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:50:07 +0200, H. S. wrote: I could do that. But how does that relate to Alsa? If I install esound, can I just uninstall Alsa altogether? If you use ALSA and esound then you should install libesd-alsa0 instead of libesd0. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Failed PPP hangs system

2004-09-20 Thread Thomas Hood
be the root of the problem and how to fight with it? Only a buggy driver (or other kernel component) can make the whole system hang. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: waproamd usb interface: hotplug versus coldplug

2004-09-18 Thread Thomas Hood
. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA -- Problem solved by rm /etc/modprobe.conf

2004-09-17 Thread Thomas Hood
files in /etc/modprobe.d/ . See http://bugs.debian.org/271763 The current alsaconf creates an empty /etc/modprobe.conf file. This bug is fixed in CVS. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with DHCP and Date Question

2004-09-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 03:50:03 +0200, Craig Jackson wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:29:42 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions: 1. How do I install DHCP Client? apt-get install dhcp-client This will get you the now-obsolete dhcp-client package. I suggest that

Re: where is rc.local ?

2004-09-06 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:00:18 +0200, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, i want to add ip_forwarding to my rc.local file ,but in debian i am unable to find it. http://www.desktop-linux.net/debian-rclocal.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Bug#101728: ifupdown: Using logical mappings only

2004-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
automatically, but in this form: ifup george=hotplug In order to allow this to to have the effect of bring up interface george as logical interface george you need to add the following stanza to /etc/network/interfaces: mapping hotplug script echo -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Alsa in Debian Sarge? How to?

2004-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
and hotplug are the usual culprits. A quick hack is to move the OSS drivers out of /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/sound to some location where the module loader won't find them. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: pcmcia-cs or hotplug?

2004-08-27 Thread Thomas Hood
Stephen Patterson wrote: I'm just wondering which of these is considere the 'official' way to sort out pcmcia? Read the relevant section of the Networking chapter in the Debian Reference. http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-trigger-pcmcia -- Thomas Hood

Re: ppp problems

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
file for your modem /etc/ppp/options.tty*, and in the options file for your provider /etc/ppp/peers/provider to see whether that option is already set. You might want to read the Networking chapter of the Debian Reference for background information. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: configuration of nsswitch.conf ignored by system

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
a pain in the ass on one of our production systems. It won't be fixed. There is a workaround, though, involving the addition of IPv6 lines to /etc/hosts. Read through all the reports carefully to get a full picture. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
of the resolver affects the way it looks up names and thus can affect what it returns as a canonical hostname. He continued: NIS domain name may be in ... We are talking about the DNS domain name, not the NIS domain name, I presume. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: configuration of nsswitch.conf ignored by system

2004-08-23 Thread Thomas Hood
I've the problem that on all debian systems (Woody, Sid) it seems that some configuration changes of the nsswitch.conf are ignored by the system. See #160596 and those merged with it. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: a problem about rcconf and other things

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Hood
Don't use rcconf. Use sysv-rc-conf. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Hood
editor. Good runlevel editors are sysv-rc-conf and ksysv. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network install fails on reboot

2004-06-14 Thread Thomas Hood
Start by reading the Network Configuration chapter of the Debian Reference. It is available online here: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: /etc/hosts ignored

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Hood
dnsdomainname: Unknown host See also bug #109931 and those linked with it. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usage of ifup ppp0 as opposed to pon

2004-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
problem afflicts the post-down commands. Until this bug is fixed you have to put up commands into a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and post-down commands into a script in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ . -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: 2.6 on_ac_power anacron APM fix

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
in testing and unstable. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prioritizing deb locations

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas Hood
suddenly I'm pulling this non-official package into my system, rather than the one from the official debian repository. If you list only Debian sources in /etc/apt/sources.list then you will get only Debian packages. -- Thomas Hood jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Mapping stanzas in interfaces file not working

2004-02-03 Thread Thomas Hood
mapping eth0 script /etc/network/show-role.sh -q -l Here is one of the problems. You are not allowed to provide arguments (-q, -l) to the mapping script. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-01 Thread Thomas Hood
the runlevel editing tool; commands coming from update-rc.d would determine what the tool considered to be the default setting. Other init systems would implement this tool differently, of course. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
. It allows maintainer scripts to work independently of which init system is in use, whether it is the System V init system, file-rc or some other. The local administrator need not use update-rc.d to change sysv symlinks. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: /etc/ioctl.save

2004-01-14 Thread Thomas Hood
with a serial console and no way to set reset the linespeed at boot. With Linux we have console=tty0,speed as bootparameter anyway. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:34, Michael D. Harnois wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:47, Thomas Hood wrote: If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. How very odd. Yes, that does make hostname -f work. :) The strange

Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Hood
work reliably would take more work. I would like to know if anyone has already done this work for me. TIA for any tips you can provide. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS for small network with internet connection

2003-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
/resolv.conf, it is overwritten the next time the lease is renewed. Telling dhclient.conf to _not_ write to /etc/resolv.conf will not update my nameservers for the internet, so there must be another way, I think. Dag -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
uploaded. Some of the formatting may be out of whack, but here goes. // Thomas Hood APT_PREFERENCES(5) APT_PREFERENCES(5) NAME apt_preferences

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-25 Thread Thomas Hood
; and likewise libc6. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: laptop environment detection

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
192.168.0.254 Other network configuration can be done in pre-up and (post-)up scripts. This could include things like backing up files onto a docking station. Thus, one could add the lines up bind-forwarders 192.168.1.1 and such. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: BTTV on Debian and Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
-kernel? Experienced any problems? Are there any changes to 2.2? By the way, do you recommend this TV card? Or what card would you recommend? I'm looking for one. Please cc: jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk (with '_AT_' - '@') -- Thomas Hood

Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

2001-04-28 Thread Thomas Hood
If xmms is hanging under GNOME, make sure you have xmms's esd output plugin selected, otherwise xmms and esd may contend for the audio device. For those of you moving from ALSA 0.5 to ALSA 0.9, you may have to delete your /etc/asound.conf file. If you are using gamix, you may need to get version

Setting configure options when using make-kpkg

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Hood
ran Configure. Unfortunately it doesn't answer them the way I want. How should I set things up so that make-kpkg will give the answers I want? Thomas Hood Please reply to jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk (with '_AT_' replaced by '@').

Re: Setting configure options when using make-kpkg

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Hood
that make-kpkg will give the answers I want? Thomas Hood Please reply to jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk (with '_AT_' replaced by '@').

Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Hi. I just want to let you know that I have run into exactly the same behavior as you did. Originally I compiled my kernel with the PCMCIA driver as a module. I recompiled to make the PCMCIA driver integral (i.e., I selected y instead of m for PCMCIA in make xconfig) and since then I have not

Re-enabling Debian menus in Helix GNOME foot menu

2000-10-12 Thread Thomas Hood
Here's something it took me a while to figure out. To enable the Debian menu hierarchy in Helix GNOME, you have to go into the GNOME Control Center (under Programs|Settings) and on the Menu tab in the Global Menu box enable Distribution either in the menu or in a submenu. Thomas Hood

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Hood
I suggest that you check out the noflushd daemon in the woody archive. Thomas Hood

Re: Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Hood
If this is the best solution then I'll submit it as a wishlist item for the bind package. I have submitted it as a wishlist item for the ppp package. Thomas

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