Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
[]s rodrigo On 11/2/06, George Borisov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Goodenough wrote: Unfortunately post-up does not help, it is still marked as HD after an ifup. Hmm, that's pretty weird. I only have one box where I have to force the media type option (to 10baseT-FD

What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-01 Thread David Goodenough
I have a system which is connected to a CISCO switch which is set not to auto-negotiate, and at the server end I have an ethernet port which needs the tg3 driver. I need to set the media to 100baseTx-FD but it seems to default to 100baseTx-HD. The CISCO switch is set to FD. As far as I can tell

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-10-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:33, George Adamides wrote: hi how do i delete directories in linux? i used rmdir but when a directory has other subdirectories its a mess. is there an easy way around? if you are currently in the parent directory and you wish to delete a directory called

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 25 September 2006 14:50, Adam Porter wrote: David Goodenough wrote: I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5 drive I had which had linux on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am trying

Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5 drive I had which had linux on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am trying to upgrade it to work on this new machine. I got rid of the old XFree86 code (I think I

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 25 September 2006 14:50, Adam Porter wrote: David Goodenough wrote: I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5 drive I had which had linux on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am trying

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-09-21 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:26, Frank Hart wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:13:08AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: Alternatively you can use some of the small comms boards that are around these days. There are the WRAP boards from pcengines.ch and the Routerboard boards from Microtik

Re: Hardware dependant Static DHCP

2006-09-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:32, Laurent CARON wrote: Hi, I'm basically trying to set-up the following thing. A DHCP server serving my computers on one range (say: 192.168.0.10 - 192.168.0.100), and i'd like to give IP addresses in the range (192.168.0.110 - 192.168.0.200) to my IP phones

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-08-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 06 August 2006 03:20, Frank Hart wrote: A couple of months ago, I switched from a normal PC router to a Linksys WRT54G with OpenWRT. It's a good image but the problem is space. There is barely room for an OpenVPN server and shorewall. Also, I'm somewhat worried about timely updates.

Re: (SOLVED)seg fault in apt-get after disk filled up

2006-08-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:13, David Goodenough wrote: On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 05:03:28PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: I have a small machine that I keep completely up to date. It ran out of disk space in the middle

seg fault in apt-get after disk filled up

2006-08-05 Thread David Goodenough
I have a small machine that I keep completely up to date. It ran out of disk space in the middle of an update and now every time it tries to build its dependancy tree it gets to about 50% and then seg faults. It is running package apt 0.6.45. I have copied the old available and status files in

Re: seg fault in apt-get after disk filled up

2006-08-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 05:03:28PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: I have a small machine that I keep completely up to date. It ran out of disk space in the middle of an update and now every time it tries to you mean completely

New packages RSS feed currency

2006-07-28 Thread David Goodenough
I recently came across the new packages RSS feed, and I have noticed a small problem with it. Frequently when a package appears on the feed and I click on the link to get the the packages.debian.org page for the package, it is not there. Would it not be possible to put the entries on the RSS

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an Introduction to Computing class, back in

Re: Odp: Re: Hugin on debian sarge

2006-07-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 13 July 2006 15:39, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hi, It's not a problem of desktop and GUI. I could really live with blackscreen and ./configure/make/make install instead of setup.exe. If only ./configure... was more-less equally reliable as setup.exe. I know it is Technically. If

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-06 Thread David Goodenough
or file systems? Thanx, Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:47 AM Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. This system happens to

Re: Help with gz files

2006-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 23 June 2006 08:47, Chuck Payne wrote: Lothar Braun wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 02:10 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: hi all, I need to pull out one file out of gzip file. Can someone explain to me how. Use gunzip to do that: $ gunzip filename.gz -- Lothar Sorry, what

Looking for a bootp server which does not need a hardware-address

2006-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
As far as I can make out when you set up dhcp3 to act as a bootp server you need to put in the hardware address of the box that you are going to provide the info to, and this gets echoed back to the requesting device (see below). If I am initialising a whole bunch of embedded systems (and I only

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 28 May 2006 02:53, Glenn Meehan wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 20:55 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: The version of libgphoto2-2 that appeared in unstable today is supposed to have a fix to support the A530, I have just submitted a bug to add in the USB ID of the A540. The A540

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 27 May 2006 05:33, Glenn Meehan wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 22:49 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 19:35, Ron Johnson wrote: David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? or the A540? David -- Glenn Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:35, Ron Johnson wrote: David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? or the A540? Have you looked thru http://www.gphoto.org ? Yes, it is not mentioned

Re: What happened to glxgears?

2006-04-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:03, Toshiro wrote: According to apt-file glxgears is in xbse-clients, but according to dpkg -c it is not in the latest version. Has it moved to another package or has it been dropped. If it has gone away, what is the new recommended test vehicle for dri and

What happened to glxgears?

2006-04-17 Thread David Goodenough
According to apt-file glxgears is in xbse-clients, but according to dpkg -c it is not in the latest version. Has it moved to another package or has it been dropped. If it has gone away, what is the new recommended test vehicle for dri and glx? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Xorg driver for old S3 cards in unstable

2006-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
I realise that there are some problems with the new modular xorg in unstable at the moment, but I have a small dilema which seems to be different from the ones already discussed on this forum. I have a sacrificial machine which I upgrade each morning to the latest level on unstable. It is a

Re: Xorg driver for old S3 cards in unstable

2006-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:23, David Goodenough wrote: I realise that there are some problems with the new modular xorg in unstable at the moment, but I have a small dilema which seems to be different from the ones already discussed on this forum. I have a sacrificial machine which I

Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread David Goodenough
Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf. The HOWTOs for serial console all suggest that this is the right place to put the

Re: Grub serial console question

2006-03-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 17 March 2006 11:56, David Goodenough wrote: Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf. The HOWTOs for serial

If I install busybox, what pacakges can I remove?

2006-03-17 Thread David Goodenough
I want as small and stripped down a system as possible, and I am quite happy with the versions of commands provided by busybox. It replaces a whole bunch of commands from a variety of packages, but I can not find a list of those packages. Presumably also some of those are part of the base

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:44, martin f krafft wrote: Hi, We are in need of a bunch of gateways with the following requirements: - must be absolutely silent - must be capable of running Debian - must allow for 3 network interfaces, one of which could be a builtin 802.1x-ready

xkbcomp - bad length in Geometry

2006-01-18 Thread David Goodenough
I have a sacrificial machine which I update to the latest sid every morning. This morning is pulled in bunch of X updates, and after the upgrade startx complains that xkbcomp found an error as above. Any idea what to do to fix this problem? Which file has geometry for xkbcomp defined in it? I

Re: xkbcomp - bad length in Geometry

2006-01-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:23, David Goodenough wrote: I have a sacrificial machine which I update to the latest sid every morning. This morning is pulled in bunch of X updates, and after the upgrade startx complains that xkbcomp found an error as above. Any idea what to do to fix

Re: Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting

2006-01-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 21:51, Almut Behrens wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:07:10PM +, David Goodenough wrote: I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine if I start

Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting

2006-01-10 Thread David Goodenough
I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine if I start it with startx. BUT kdm will not start, and in the file /var/log/kdm.log there is an error saying the on the X command, the -br

Re: can`t start eclipse

2006-01-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 09 January 2006 01:19, Roman Makurin wrote: Hi All! I can`t start eclipse. It gives me error everytime I trying to launch it: A suitable Java Virtual Machine for running the Eclipse Platform could not be located. here is console output: $ eclipse searching for compatible vm...

Re: (u)mounting of USB devices

2005-12-22 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:08, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-12-20 15:50:29, schrieb David Goodenough: This looks like a job for udev, which can assign meaningful names to USB storage devices. We have droped udev because it produced to many errors. Well if you do not wish to use

Re: (u)mounting of USB devices

2005-12-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:19, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello *, because I have not found a suitable answer on other mailing lists I try it here. :-) I have: A desktop which MUST run WITHOUT GNOME and KDE. There is only fvwm and some programs, because it is used in Enterprises and

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 13 November 2005 20:28, Mario Frasca wrote: it seems quite stupid, I'm using to linux since 1993 more or less, but all these modern graphic or automatic fluffs don't help me much... well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and the only cause I can think of

Re: keyboard quit working after kde upgrade, testing

2005-11-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 05:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian testing, after a dist-upgrade a few days ago which included lots of kde upgrades, the keyboard no longer works in X. It will work in a console. It seems to be not working with KDM. I have googled and found no solution. Ideas

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). I made a fresh install of debian on a spare partition. Everything worked in the beginning, via netinst.

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current config from the driver. The first question is there, what changed - apart from it not working. Had you upgraded anything, had you changed any settings on the

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current config from the driver. The first question

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 28 October 2005 13:44, Anthony Campbell wrote: Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively a script

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 24 October 2005 11:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:32:18AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2005-10-23 13:36:20 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It will not work in Sarge as the new OpenOffice packages depend on newer versions of kaffe and on gcc-4.0,

Re: P4 HT doesn't work

2005-10-19 Thread David Goodenough
I asked a question like this a while ago, and was told that this flag does mean that the chip has functioning HT, what it means is that the means by which you can ask the question as to whether it has HT exists. You will then get the answer no. Quite why they bother I do not know, but I am told

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 22:28, Jim Lynch wrote: I was looking for something more elegant. Most of the files of interest are gzip'ed files and none of the filemanagers/browsers I tried would unzip and display the contents. Besides, a search facility and/or index would be quite nice.

Re: not All the SNMP manager

2005-10-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 00:50, Cristhian Hidalgo wrote: Hi, I've seen you are in touch with NMS, I'm developing one on my own as engeneering degree proyect. Actually I've the porpose to assingning the work of NMS in the logic tier, I'm develevoping this application bsen on J2EE, my

Re: Use Debian system as a RIP

2005-09-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 29 September 2005 15:34, Peter King wrote: Is there a way of using a Debian system as a RIP. I have a client that has just been quoted by Xerox £11500 for a Fiery EX12 Raster Image Processor the system is only a PIII-500 with 256MB RAM and a 9GB HDD so I am thinking of putting

Problem moving to 2.6.12

2005-09-28 Thread David Goodenough
I have an elderly machine which I use as a sacrificial machine and update every morning to the latest unstable. That way I know when it is sensible to update other machines. But I have a problem updating it to 2.6.12. It has been running 2.6.11 for a while, quite happily. But I wanted to move

Re: Cannot access the computer

2005-09-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:04, Mitja Podreka wrote: Hello I have a big problem. I have six new computers running Mandrake. I would like to migrate them to Debian, but everything is password protected and the people who installed the original OS forgot all the passwords. I tried today

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 26 September 2005 10:37, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every twenty-four hours. Marc, how

Re: WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

2005-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 25 September 2005 03:52, David R. Litwin wrote: Isn't make-kpkg used to make a kernel? Or, does it simply happen to co-incide.? As a bit of a follow-up, I read the marlow.dk http://marlow.dk site: I do need to compile my own kernel with that. Don't I? Now, I'd be willing to go

Re: WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

2005-09-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 24 September 2005 20:48, David R. Litwin wrote: On 24/09/05, Louis Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NdisWrapper emulates a windows-driver. Maybe you want to consider using madwifi which would be a native dirver. If you are interested have a look at the following sites:

Re: Exchange replacement

2005-09-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 09 September 2005 11:27, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi, I've given up on trying to get a decent free OSS replacement for Exchange - it's simply not worth the time and effort for the avarage SME. What I am looking for is something that can do shared calendering and contacts, that Outlook

Re: Help!

2005-09-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:14, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:48:53AM -0400, George Boyce wrote: I'm not sure what to do from here! I typed in ENTER - no good. I tried LOGONstill no good! Keeps bringing me to username@Debian1: ~$ Good news: it's doing

Re: What is the point of sudo?

2005-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:06, Ian wrote: I know it provides a fake root environment for work, but why would you want that? You have misunderstood sudo, the root environment is real, not fake. Sudo allows certain users to issue root commands without having to know the root password (they need

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:37, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is no; so what is the best solution (well-debugged, simple to use, relatively long-lived) one can find short of

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 August 2005 18:27, Jeff Stevens wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:37 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is no; so I've been unable to find any. I've used

Re: ethtool and mii-tool cannot read eth0 NIC

2005-08-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 20 August 2005 05:18, H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Henrique de Moraes Holschuh_, on 19/08/05 23:18,typed: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, H. S. wrote: How do I making these commands work, if at all possible? You write the relevant kernel code to support them for the dmfe driver :-( And

Re: Hardware issues

2005-08-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 18 August 2005 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use Debian as my OS and be able to get my soundcard [Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer-24bit] and TV-Tuner card [ATI TV Wonder-Pro] to work. Have tried simplyMepis and now Mandrake 10 and

Re: base-config broken

2005-08-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 19 August 2005 12:20, Mark Crean wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:07 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I'm using Sid, and i did an upgrade this morning. I got this. root-h1-59# apt-get -f install Reading

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

2005-08-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 04:37, M Carlock wrote: I recently upgraded from woody to sarge per the instructions (aptitude etc), which was successful. However, after then upgrading the kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.8-2-386, I found I could boot OK, but I'd lost eth0 and the ATI

Re: udev and kernel 2.6.12

2005-08-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 16:33, Jason 'Sputnik' Paku wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 07:00 +0200, Manu wrote: Thanks, I am going to try that right now! The cool thing is that dselect helped me to fixed the other package being not completely installed due to that errors. So now I have

Re: error with libcrypto.so.9.7

2005-08-10 Thread David Goodenough
There have already been several questions about this, and I have answered at least one of them. Please use google to find the answer. David On Wednesday 10 August 2005 15:44, Aiman wrote: To Whom It May Consern, Yesterday I did a apt-get update and dist-upgrade, after that i reboot my

Re: Problems with openssl (libcrypto.so.0.9.7)

2005-08-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:28, David Heumer wrote: After updating my System Openssl has the following problem: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.7: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14 I checked if the library is there and correctly linked

Re: cups in debian??

2005-08-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 01 August 2005 13:00, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; New 3.1 install, got x working, sorta. I still do not know howto switch from the gnome desktop to the kde desktop, hints please. Also, since I've got cups working here, I thought I'd point a browser at http://localhost:631 on

Re: Using the latest Eclipse on Debian

2005-07-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 29 July 2005 18:49, Redefined Horizons wrote: This if for the few people using Java on Debian. I would like to run the latest stable version of Eclipse (3.0.1) on my Debian system. I have installed the latest JDK from Sun, using the java-package utlity. However, when I install

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 June 2005 17:43, M N wrote: I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would like to know how I may be able to run .exe files as Windows does. Thank you for any help. What you need is Wine. This will run many Windows programs as binaries. Sometimes there are programs that

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 20 June 2005 11:21, Siju George wrote: On 6/20/05, Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:36 +0300, kalasala wrote: http://www.amanda.org/ Well, Amanda is really for backing up multiple servers to a single archiving device isn't it? As the original

Re: decyphering spam

2005-06-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 03 June 2005 10:19, michael wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:05 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: michael wrote: It seems this spam leads to trafficpro.us which is registered by somebody in UK (see below) - do you think it's worth reporting or taking legal action? I guess we could

Re: Please add support for Broadcom 440x NIC to sarge release

2005-05-27 Thread David Goodenough
I think it may just be a problem of adding the right PCI ID to sarge. I had this problem with a broadcom chip in a laptop, and raised a bug against debian-installer and they added the ID. b44 is certainly available as a module, it just need to be recognised as the right module for this ID. So

Re: project accounting application in Debian?

2005-05-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:12, Nacho wrote: Hi, I am looking for a program (probably a frontend to a database) for store and analize data related to a little business; something like SAP/R3 but smaller and simpler. What I want is to insert into a database data such as the time an employee

Re: rediscovering hardware

2005-05-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:33, Tom Allison wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: According to Tom Allison, Tony Godshall wrote: According to Kent West, Tom Allison wrote: Hello, I replaced my motherboard after an accident. Everything mostly works, but a lot of the on board hardware (sound

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 04 December 2004 12:33, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: David Purton wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-stick

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 04 December 2004 16:53, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: Hi, I have a server without a monitor that I need to run X on. I will need to run X programs on the machine and I want to be able to log on to the server from my desktop mashine. When I log in I want to be able to start X programs

Updating ACPI DSDT tables the Debian way?

2004-12-04 Thread David Goodenough
I have a laptop (a Samsung P28) which suffers from a bad ACPI DSDT and so fails to do such simple things as telling me the battery state. I have found a variety of documents through Google which tell me how to fix this, but they are all aimed at non-Debian systems. There is reference to a

Re: Enable acpi in 2.4.x? It seems to be on the kernel!

2004-11-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 November 2004 08:19, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 25 November 2004 06:50 pm, Joao Clemente wrote: I just installed my Asus L3C laptop from sarge rc2 business-cd installer. I was going to check for apm/acpi support and by looking at /boot/config-2.4.27-1-686 file it seems

Re: linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

2004-11-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 15 November 2004 22:14, Friedemann Schorer wrote: HI :-) Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed linux-wlan-ng-doc. Alas,

Re: I need help.

2004-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 13:13, Mole lord wrote: Hello all, My name is Cameron Ball, and i've recently had an interest in linux. I've downloaded the Debian distro image. And i've made a clean partition on my main hard drive. So, i then burnt the image onto a disk, and attempted to boot

Re: overiding KDE graphical login

2004-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 08 October 2004 12:22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Setting up woody on my system, wondering if you all could point me to a faq or howto to try the following things. Make KDE graphical login allow logins to root Control Centre, System Administration, Login Manager Come up on normal run

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:05, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2004 12:26 AM, David Goodenough wrote: I found one place you might get the userid of the user currently logged using either xdm or kdm, and that is the current owner

Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

2004-10-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 02 October 2004 12:27, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya palolo On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: what is the output of lspci ?? :02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 :02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 that is probably your wireless

Re: flphoto and usb permissions

2004-10-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 02 October 2004 09:42, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2004 12:05 PM, John Kerr Anderson wrote: I have the hotplug package and even installed usb-perms, but I still have the same problem. If anyone can give me some pointers on

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

2004-09-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 24 September 2004 05:13, Siju George wrote: Thanks a lot Clifton for the reply! I haven't heard of Octave! i'll try to find out from net meanwhile if you have helpful links please post them. I heard of a CAD software called BRL-CAD http://www.brlcad.com/ I also heard it is

Re: USB network

2004-09-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 10:18, Lauri Tischler wrote: Not really debian question, does any kernel support USB network devices, ethernet or wlan ? lots (almost all) and some respectively. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread David Goodenough
Try opening a Konsole and starting it manually, i.e. issue the java -jar ... command by hand. That way you get to see the error messages and if they do not point you at the problem they might help us help you. David On Monday 06 September 2004 09:42, Mike Chandler wrote: Well, I tried the

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 06 September 2004 14:09, Mike Chandler wrote: On Monday 06 September 2004 02:34 am, David Goodenough wrote: Try opening a Konsole and starting it manually, i.e. issue the java -jar ... command by hand. That way you get to see the error messages and if they do not point you

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 06 September 2004 16:56, Mike Chandler wrote: On Monday 06 September 2004 06:32 am, David Goodenough wrote: This is not the problem and is entirely unnecessary. You only need it on the command line because the current directory is not on the PATH by default. I suggest you

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 19 July 2004 02:30, Randy W. Sims wrote: Silvan wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 08:48 pm, Randy W. Sims wrote: How do I turn off or customize the time out for the screen saver that blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management features, but couldn't find any

Re: 'white-rain' effect with SiS5597/5598

2004-07-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 19 July 2004 09:41, Csaba Sarai wrote: Hello everybody! I have installed Debian Woddy 3.01r1 (stable) on my computer which has integrated video card SiS5597/5598. Unfortunately it has side effect-'white rain'. Could somebody has any idea to fix this problem? Go to Thomas

Re: wifi kernel 2.6.* kernel

2004-07-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 17 July 2004 03:31, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:12:48 +0800 John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: I've been searching for my wifi modules, and they all seem to be geared towards the 2.4.* series of kernel's. doing an apt-cache

Re: How do I browse the local network?

2004-07-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 15:52, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: How do I browse the local network with my Debian testing desktop? The network is all Windows, and I know the name of the workgroup. Is there a way to see other computers in the workgroup? Thanks, Jacob try komba2 David -- To

Re: number of processors detected

2004-07-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 10 July 2004 21:12, Joakim Franzen wrote: Hi, Just installed the latest debian-sarge and have the 2.6.6-smp kernel package added. What is really strange is that debian detects 4 processors but the server only has 2. The system is a Dell PowerEdge 1600 with dual 2.4GHz Xeon.

Python problem with Fonts

2004-07-01 Thread David Goodenough
I am trying to run a Python program which uses ReportLab, and it is having some problems with fonts. I am not a Python programmer, so this may be a very basic problem. I am running Python 2.3 on Unstable. The end of the traceback I get is:- File

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.4

2004-06-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:40, David Baron wrote: This was just upgraded from Sid. How come the about box still says 1.1.1? Actually what came from sid was 1.1.1-4. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem in cycling widows with alt+TAB

2004-06-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 15:35, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:28:06PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am using Debian/unstable with kernel 2.4.26. After a recent upgrade I have observed that when I want to cycle through the windows with alt+TAB, the release of keys is not

Re: weird pb

2004-06-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a really weird problem on one of my box (woody): [(14:15:00) Linux Wifix ~]$ ls Segmentation fault [(14:15:02) Linux Wifix ~]$ any idea? Aurel -- Aurelien Ricard aurel.ric_at_free.fr Are you using ReiserFS? I hit

Re: ACPI and VIA C3

2004-06-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 26 June 2004 18:37, Ludwig Meyerhoff wrote: Hallo! I have a VIA C3 (Ezra) processor. It is very nice for normal applications, as it takes only a few watt. I have a problem with the ACPI support of the kernel ... While 2.4.20 recognizes the processor to support C1 and C2 states,

Re: make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

2004-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 13:38, Anthony Campbell wrote: The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for make xconfig. Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many qt libraries listed in Sid are needed here? I have libqt3c102 and libqt3c102-mt, which are supposed to be the Trolltech libraries

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