Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?
My 2 cents :) I have a bcm4312, cousin of your wireless. b43 gave me a terribly bad performance, and ndiswrapper works fine for me, however, you need to blacklist ssb and b43 modules at boot (not neccessary anymore?) I think your chip is also covered by wl.ko (official linux module, non-free), it's under the packages names broadcom-sta *. You need to build this one from the repos. I recall getting ndis and b43 to work on lenny, can't remember if I also tried wl.ko on lenny (the one I use now on squeeze and Archlinux). The latter offers the best performance with my chipset (not pain-free, though). -- 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/4bc588d7.10...@gmail.com
Re: Debian pdf files
First off, read the Debian Installation Manual. Also the Debian Reference Manual. These are awesome guides, and Debian is easy to install, so you can also learn following your specific needs after installation. If you want some general guide that can apply to all distros, yet suit Debian just fine, I recommend the famous Oreilly's book Linux Cookbook. It taught me a lot at the time I used Ubuntu (my first distro), and the recipes apply to all distros (with distro-specific differences). -- Omar Campagne Polaino -- 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/20100328150418.ga3...@gmail.com
Re: Wireless support
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:43:59PM -0400, Jacob Tennant wrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc... Oops! :) The b43 module depends on the ssb module, that's why I mention them together. These are installed by default. You only need the firmware to activate it. I don't know now, but they were automatically loaded on boot. Packages broadcom-sta* provide the module wl. The desktop environment doesn't matter. http://wiki.debian.org/wl http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 Regards -- Omar Campagne Polaino vim-doc-es: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/vim-doc-es -- 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/20100315102626.gc4...@gmail.com
Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: Martin wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure. Martin Nothing will break, but note that aptitude keeps a more severe tracking of what is installed, meaning that, over time, you will get more orphaned packages than what you'll get by using only aptitude. OTOH, use deborphan (orphanar - curses interface or gtkorphan) to keep an eye on those packages. Omar Campagne Polaino vim-doc-es: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/vim-doc-es -- 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/20100315000651.ga13...@gmail.com
Re: Wireless support
Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312). Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common and broadcom-sta-source. You have to build the packages with the second option. Plus, it's less open, as it has some binary pieces. It's the same driver than the one offerred officialy. I have to add that I have far better performance with the wl module. -- Omar Campagne Polaino -- 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/20100315004931.gb13...@gmail.com
Clamav mail scan with Mutt
Hello: I've been fighting to get clamav to scan my email. I currently use offlineimap + msmtp and I can't really get clamsmtp to work. Usually the logs say little (if error) or nothing (even with success). For some reason logs are (even) a bit less verbose as initially. clamsmtp -d 4 shows it work, but it doesn't inform activity beyond that. clamsmtp works as clamav user, the clamsmtp.pid file has the correct permissions, etc. It seems well configured. Any advice?.. or what works easiest for you for mail scan? mail-transport agent, general settings, etc Just leave mutt and clamav in the chain :) -- Omar Campagne Polaino -- 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/20100305233812.gc3...@gmail.com
Re: wireless from the command line
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start X I would prefer to manage wifi connections through the cli. wicd has a curses interface that you may find helpful. On the other hand, I connect via shell with ifconfig, iwconfig (to set the interface) and dhcpcd. Briefly... ifconfig (interface) down iwconfig (interface) essid (X) key (key) ifconfig (interface) up dhcpcd (interface). with differences regarding the type of connection. You can create a root script, one per profile/connection, running this commands. Read the man pages, it's easy. It's a pity Archlinux's wireless tools are not available in Debian, as they are great cli-tools. I believe I have to use wpasupplicant. Can someone point me to a howto that gives me a few examples of the wpasupplicant config and interfacing it with /etc/network/interfaces. Never touched it (only on buggy hardy heron). I think wpasupplicant is activated through dhcpcd (not sure). And I never really liked the interfaces file. My problem. I would like my setup to automatically connect to open networks. It should connect to the one with the strongest signal. If that fails then it should connect to any wpa networks if they are in range. I would like some examples, so I can learn how to tweak the config quickly. Dunno. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm using the asus eeepc 1008ha and debian squeeze if that matters. Cheers, Dan -- Omar Campagne Polaino vim-doc-es: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/vim-doc-es -- 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/20100226141316.ga10...@gmail.com
Re: repo key expired?
At least on my system, apt forgets about these keys every now and then. I do know it happened to all of us not so long ago due to changes in the ftp. aptitude reinstall debian-archive-keyring works when the first case occurs. Omar On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:01:40PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: How can I fix this? I tried running 'apt-get update' again but got the same error: W: GPG error: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1246455239 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Zach -- Why stop now just when I'm hating it? -- Marvin The Paranoid Android -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problem with gettext files and Mutt.
I think you are overdoing it. I don't have a .mime.types file, nor any encoding settings in my .muttrc, I'm just using a terminal with proper UTF-8 support (rxvt-unicode). How are you testing the encodings of the files you send/receive? Thanks for the response. I'm using gnome-terminal. I started trying to do this thing because I was getting a lot of messages in plain us-ascii, and, I was getting mail in Spanish in iso..-1 badly rendered, therefore the charset-hoo for iso...-15, in order to see the accents. Now, Po files I send are always in utf-8, same as I receive. However, I was getting garbled iso...1 instead of the right thing when it came to receive it before. Then, mutt would also save the attachment with a garbled enconding. Now, with the fixes, when I send it, I get utf8 quoted, or plain/text with the right encoding but wrong mime, yet viewable (what po's are, just text). My problem is that the po is sometimes not viewable as app/gettext, quoted, attachement. This is available in /usr/share/doc/mutt. l10n support If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no use fiddling with the variable charset, as described in the manual page muttrc(5). Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package locales installed on your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable. e.g. US users will want to add export LC_CTYPE=en_US to their ~/.bashrc. That's way I tried everything. You say you just use that terminal and it works? Regards, Omar -- Why stop now just when I'm hating it? -- Marvin The Paranoid Android -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Problem with gettext files and Mutt.
Hello to everybody: I'm still learning Mutt (this is my first installation), and I've worked out encoding issues and the likes, particullarly when somebody sends me a gettext po file, enabling me to *see* it with the regular pager. Although it sometimes detects utf-8 as iso. However, now, when I try to *attach* such a file to send it to whatever list, I get application/x-gettext, and Mutt doesn't autoshow the contents (says it can't), unless I view it in the attachment menu. Other times I get text/plain, and it shouldn't. My locale is en_US.utf8. I have in my .mime.types application/x-gettext po text/x-gettext-translation po Commenting the first and leaving the second works better, as Mutt was detecting the same po format under different names, randomly (as far as I know). Some po files are in iso-5..-15, most in utf8. However, I need mutt to guess correctly the encoding of the file, as I may end up sending some garbled file to the translation lists. When Mutt detects iso...-1 in a received, I get garbled accents in Spanish, therefore, which are visible with iso..-15. I had to put charset-hook iso-8859-1 iso-8859-15 in .muttrc to view those right. I also have set file_charset=utf-8:iso-8859-15:us-ascii set send_charset=utf-8:iso-8859-15:us-ascii set assumed_charset=utf-8 set locale=en_US.utf8 in my .muttrc. May this force a conversion on sent attachments? They need to be recognized by their mimetype as po to ensure a correct send, and also when I save it. The thing is, I either get plain/text utf8 on recieved, same with wrong encoding (fixed with the charset-hook), and applicattion/x-gettext, quoted, on sending. Let me know if I can provide more information. Thanks in advance! Omar -- Why stop now just when I'm hating it? -- Marvin The Paranoid Android -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Should I go ahead with the full-upgrade
I like a constant upgrade, but still enjoy a stable system. On testing you may have to wait for the new stuff, but eventually, you'll get it, and with some serious bugs already fixed. It's not like waiting in stable for a new release to happen, so if I were you, I'll stick with testing, and keep with it when it gets stable. I use testing, and I'm just on a laptop. Tried once to upgrade to sid and it ended up in a unbootable system. And if you want a new program/feature so bad, why not build it? On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:28:07PM -0500, H.S. wrote: Raven wrote: Hi all. This is a production server running debian testing. It's been a while and I wanted to update the system. Unfortunately it seems that some packages are BROKEN: What happens if you just do safe-upgrade instead of full-upgrade? -- Why stop now just when I'm hating it? -- Marvin The Paranoid Android -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Reportbug not reporting bugs
Hello: I'm running Debian testing/sid (very little sid, OO and the likes, no core packages) and my problem is that whenever I fill a report, reportbug will take me through the steps with no problems (well, the gui crashed a couple of times :), and at the end, it informs me that the report was delivered, yet this does not happen. I also tried reportbug ---ui text, searching for more output, with no success, displaying the same behaviour. It says it's all fine, yet doesn't deliver the report. When closing reportbug after the process on the terminal, it doesn't show any error messages, as well as dmesg. There doesn't seem to be a logfile for reportbug, neither a way to increase verbosity. I tried several times to report a bug, yet it never worked (bug didn't show up at BTS), neither got the reply from BTS. I see reportbug has a suggests relationship with python-vte. My python version is 2.5.4.2. I used to have the sid python package (ccsm didn't work with the older), but now it catched up in squeeze. I don't know if this is related, just in case. I don't know if it's just some missing configuration on my behalf, yet I find no more than what is already explained at the debian website. I googled, yet found nothing useful for my particular issue. man reportbug doesn't show me anything for checking up connection with BTS. Thanks, Omar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
