Solution for Gnome 3 screen blanking

2012-07-01 Thread Andrew Wood
After much experimenting and hair pulling I thought Id share my solution for disabling the screen blanking on Gnome 3. There are various solutions on the web but this is the only one Ive found which always works every boot and keeps working after upgrades. Basically it consists of a Python

Gnome 3 fallback not working with Silicon Motion GPU

2012-07-03 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to get Wheezy with Gnome 3 in fallback mode to work on an old machine which has a Silicon Motion SM712 LynxEM+ GPU. It starts up in fallback mode OK but the display isnt right. The theme for buttons scrollbars is just the generic GTK look i.e no theme at all, (but the window border

Re: Gnome 3 fallback not working with Silicon Motion GPU

2012-07-04 Thread Andrew Wood
On 03/07/12 18:02, Camaleón wrote: Is the same when you login with a fresh-new created user? In principle I don't see it as a VGA driver problem :-? Anyway, you can check the driver in use from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and also when running lspci -vv (scroll down for the VGA card and look

Re: Video WiFi problem with Wheezy on Lenovo E535

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Wood
Just tried installing 7 firmware-b43-installer again and noticed it says this: Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:472 On 14/11/12 10:39, Andrew Wood wrote: Im trying to setup Wheezy with Gnome 3 on a Lenovo E535 which has an AMD Radeon video chip and a Broadcom WiFi chip. Despite

Video WiFi problem with Wheezy on Lenovo E535

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to setup Wheezy with Gnome 3 on a Lenovo E535 which has an AMD Radeon video chip and a Broadcom WiFi chip. Despite installing the b43 firmware packages dmesg | grep 'firmware# still shows: 3400.531552] ieee80211 phy1: brcmsmac: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw [

Re: Video WiFi problem with Wheezy on Lenovo E535

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Wood
Ok so Ive now discovered that I need to install firmware-brcm80211 which has cleared the error about missing firmware but it still cant see any networks despite modprobing brcmsmac and rebooting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Wood
My only complaint about Gnome 3 is that it only seems to work with Intel graphics chips and no one seems to know (or want to tell me) how to make it work with anything else On 14/11/12 22:23, Worrier Poet wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:04 PM, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: I have been looking forward to the

Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Wood
Im not famailair with Atheros cards but a lot of WiFi cards dont have the binary firmware on them, it has to be loaded by the driver each time. Because the firmware is closed source Debian doesnt include it by default anymore. You will need to download the relevant .deb package from

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Wood
There should be an orange or red star shaped icon on the Gnome panel (bottom right of screen). click it then enter the root password when prompted. Sent from iPhone On 3 Nov 2011, at 17:07, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com wrote: From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew Wood
loving it :) -- 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/4eba6df3.3050...@me.com

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew Wood
Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash is a very poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image rather than enhances it. Its buggy, a lot of content it cant display, or displays

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.

2011-11-13 Thread Andrew Wood
Am I the only one who actually finds Gnome 3 to be a far more efficent way of working, particularly with regard to switching between windows? I always have been a bit odd ;) How am I supposed to be efficient with this thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Error upgrading squeeze to wheezy

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Wood
Im encountering the same error on several machines when doing apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get sist-upgrade from a clean install of squeeze to wheezy. The error is E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgstreamer0.10-0'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under

Re: Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Wood
Yes, I actually think Gnome Shell is more intuitive pretty than both Mac OS X Windows 7. In fact after years of my main machine being a Mac Im now using Debian with Gnome 3 as my main machine and its a dream, (and no not a nightmare before anyone makes a sarcastic comment;) On 23/11/11

Bug with network printer setup in Gnome 3?

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Wood
Is there a bug with adding a new network printer (IPP) in Gnome 3 because I am unable to do it in both Fedora 15 (Gnome 3.0) Fedora 16 (Gnome 3.2) and Wheezy (Gnome 3.0). There seems to always have been a bug that prevented you from adding a printer using its DNS hostname, Ive alwyas had to put

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Sam I would whole heartedly recommend Debian. The problem with the other distros like Ubuntu, Fedora etc that try to be on the bleeding edge is that they tend to be buggy (and often slower) and each time a new release come out upgrading tends to break everything, and becasue they work on

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/11/11 12:30, Sam Vagni wrote: Debian - yeas I heard of its rock solid stability! But I have not heard of newbies using it, seems typical for them, so as a newbie would it not be that difficult...? I am after all not a geek user! Probably because its not as well publicised as other

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/11/11 14:57, Sam Vagni wrote: Yeah sure, but it could really be silly but I don't know which graphics card/chips I am using...? Can you please tell me about it...But my speakers give sound whenever I play any song in Windows XP, however, I remember it used Real tek audio drivers when I

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Wood
Adobes version of Flash was (when I downloaded it a month or so ago) 32 bit which will run on a 64 bit OS BUT only with a 32 bit web browser so you need to make sure you have the 32 bit version of Firefox. I made that mistake:) There was a time when several things (like Flash!!) would not

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/11/11 18:45, Weaver wrote: It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. If you want to learn, there's no Linux distro better for the purpose, but an easier introduction could be by downloading and installing LMDE here: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1818 which many are

Disabling Keyboard shortcuts in Wheezy (Gnome 3)

2011-12-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Im having a problem disabling keyboard shortcuts in Wheezy with Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell. Ive gone through all the ones in the list in System Settings and set them to disabled, yet pressing the Windows key still switches to activities, and Alt-` still switches between open windows. How

eGalax touchscreen driver

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew Wood
Is there a Debian package which provides a driver for eGalax touchscreen controllers? The driver is available from the manufactuer here http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eGalaxTouchDriver/linuxDriver.htm but Im concerned that if I install that I will have problems with future kernel updates. Is

Power notifications broken in Wheezy

2011-12-28 Thread Andrew Wood
Is anyone else having problems with no low power notifications and battery status icon not updating in Wheezy (Gnome 3, kernel 3.1) or should I report it as a bug? Im using an HP Pavilion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Sorry. should also have added the graphics chipset is an intel gma 950 integrated onto an atom itx motherboard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Proulx wrote: Andrew Wood wrote: Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? This is probably an issue of your graphics card rather than

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Proulx wrote: Andrew Wood wrote: Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? This is probably an issue of your graphics card rather than

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Proulx wrote: Andrew Wood wrote: Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? This is probably an issue of your graphics card rather than

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Proulx wrote: Andrew Wood wrote: Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? This is probably an issue of your graphics card rather than

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Kevin yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD?

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
You can tell by looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If after looking at the log file, the problem isn't readily apparent, post the contents here, and someone should be able to figure out what's wrong. -- Kevin The pertinent contents of the log seem to be as follows. Im not sure how it

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
:59:45 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? What's the output of xrandr? You can try to manually add

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
On 06/01/12 18:21, Camaleón wrote: Yup, you have to add the unexistant mode before you can use it :-) Steps are detailed at Adding undetected resolutions section. Greetings, OK, in an ideal world though shouldnt the board 'announce' that it supports that mode when probed? -- To

Re: Am i playing with fire?

2011-09-25 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive had the same problems and unfortunatly Ive never found the ones I need in backports. For example there isnt even a newer version of Shotwell in backports so Im stuck on 0.6. Currently having problems with not being able to use a modern version of WebKitGTK because of the age of libsoup

Re: daft newbie questions

2011-10-01 Thread Andrew Wood
I thought Wheezey was still on Gnome 2.30, not even 2.32? Im hoping Gnome 3.4 or 3.6 will be polished enough to make it into Wheezey when it goes stable. Ive been trying 3.0 out on Fedora and think its great ( Gnome 3 that is not Fedora ;) A few rough edges on the new System Prefs app but

Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Andrew Wood
Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-17 Thread Andrew Wood
Because Im interested and I dont want to remove it if it does something important. On 17/10/11 00:15, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-17 Thread Andrew Wood
I see. thanks for the replies. if I was to install postfix in the future as a 'proper' mail server would it conflict? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Building Apache 2 from source so that it can be moved

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Wood
im trying to build Apache 2 from source in such a way that the install location (as specified by ./configure --prefix=) can be changed at a later date. The problem Im having is that despite changing the absolute paths which have been hard coded into umpteen shell scripts (e.g apachectl), the

Re: Lenny security support dropped

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Wood
Well, I love Debian Lenny, the first release that I use regularly, it's very sad news It was the first version of Debian I used too but I wouldnt call it a sad day. On the contrary Im excited for the future of Debian - Wheezy and Gnome 3 look great. Using Wheezy as my main desktop OS now.

eGalax SAW touchscreen in Wheezy

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to use an EETI/eGalax SAW touch controller which I think it model TITAN 6001 ( http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/TITAN6001.html) It works eratically with the 3.1 kernel in Wheezy (pointer jumps around constantly) and not at all with the new 3.2 kernel. Ive done some Googling and

Re: Option to disable touchpad when mouse is connected or when keyboard is used has disappeared :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Wood
I suspect its something to do with the update from the 3.1 to 3.2 kernel. I've found under 3.2 my touchpad now simulates a click when tapped (which it used to under 2.6 but never did under 3.1 and to be honest I prefer it disabled). I've also found touch screens which worked under 3.1 no

Building Debian packages

2011-05-30 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to learn how to build debs. Ive been reading the Debian GNU/Linux Bible published by Wiley in 2005 which gives a good run through of building debs using dh_make and its relted tools but Im a little confused about the best way to layout the directory structure. dh_make insists on

dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-27 Thread Andrew Wood
Why does dhcpd (installed from isc-dhcp-server package in WHeezy) run as root not a less privileged user? The only reference to this subject I can find is this bug report first filed in 2005 and seemingly still not fixed... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308832 Surely

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Andrew Wood
On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Reading through the bug report, it looks like upstream didn't accept it. Debian stays as close as possible to upstream, for good reason. I agree its good to keep things as close as possible to upstream, but unless upstream can present some compelling

DHCP Option 252 (Web proxy) not working

2013-09-03 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to use DHCP option 252 to push out a PAC file to clients giving the details of a Squid web proxy. I know this doesnt work on all platforms but at the very least it should work with IE Chrome on Windows and I cant even get it to work with that. If I manually enter the address of the

Strange problem with DNS resolving on Squeeze

2010-12-03 Thread Andrew Wood
Im experiencing strange DNS resolution problems with a Squeeze desktop system on our simple LAN which has an internal DNS server for local hosts, and which also proxies DNS requests for public IP addresses needed by internal clients. The other clients on our network can resolve names fine.

ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew Wood
Why does Debian (Squeeze) not work well with ATI /AMD Radeon HD cards? I had to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf in order to prevent the fideo output being turned off during bootup but even then the graphics performance is unusable. Im not sure what driver is being used as I dont know

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 20 Mar 2011, at 14:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: If you grep /var/log/syslog for 'firmware' you should see what firmware is requested and what is missing, if any. Absolutely nothing. Would I be better switching to AMDs proprietory driver? Whats with having to edit the

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-11 Thread Andrew Wood
On 26/03/11 08:52, Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you mean no output or no problems? You should see at least the messages stating the firmware has been loaded. Hint pass -i to grep ;) Regards, Andrei No output from the grep command: root@debian:/home/andrew# grep -i 'firmware' /var/log/syslog

Upgrading from Squeeze testing to Squeeze stable

2011-04-11 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive got a PC (this one) running Squeeze which was installed when sqeeeze was still 'testing' Ive just run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade which I thought would bring into line with the current squeeze stable yet there are still differences between this system and another new which Ive

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Wood
Thats got it. root@andrew-debian-pc:/home/andrew# dmesg | grep firmware [ 15.017339] rt61pci :02:05.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin [ 20.434307] platform r600_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV730_pfp.bin [ 20.442403] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware radeon/RV730_pfp.bin [

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew Wood
OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen video is still too choppy to watch. How do I install the closed source ATI driver? On 11/04/11 15:59, Paul van der Vlis wrote: The firmware for the radeon HD is in the package firmware-linux-nonfree. -- To

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-05-02 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks. Presumably that aticonfig --initial command makes an alteration to the xorg.conf file to tell it to use the new driver? On 30/04/11 19:25, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 30 apr 11, 17:43:12, Andrew Wood wrote: OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen

Customising Debian install

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Whats the best way to go about making a custom installation of Debian which I can then install onto multiple machines without having to go through and manually add extra packages and remove certain default packges from each machine? For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it

Re: Customising Debian install

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Whats the logic here? Surely it should be the other way round? The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on empathy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Customising Debian install

2011-05-09 Thread Andrew Wood
dependencies here are screwed? Removing an IM client or a web browser shouldnt cause the whole desktop environment to be removed too. On 08/05/2011 21:12, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 08 mai 11, 20:36:48, Andrew Wood wrote: Whats the logic here? Surely it should be the other way round

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew Wood
After many years of using Linux on servers and my primary desktop I would only recommend Debian. Its solid and reliable, other distros ive found to be very buggy their installers often refuse to install on machines that arent reasonably high spec whereas Debian will pretty much run on anything.

Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-27 Thread Andrew Wood
Im not experienced with Perl so I dont know much about CPAN but on Jessie I have been able to install DBI and the DBD::mysqlPP modules using cpan DBI cpan DBD::mysqlPP however on Wheezy I just get the following... snipped Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good I see you're using

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-27 Thread Andrew Wood
Sorry just worked this out, the system I was on hadnt had make or g++ install. Whoops On 27/06/2014 15:59, Andrew Wood wrote: Im not experienced with Perl so I dont know much about CPAN but on Jessie I have been able to install DBI and the DBD::mysqlPP modules using cpan DBI cpan DBD::mysqlPP

Re: Debian CPU heating up no apparent cpu activity

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Wood
I had a similar problem with certain hardware configs causing a kworker to hog the CPU due to ACPI problems I found the tips here helpful in solving that one https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184913 Sent from iPhone On 5 Feb 2015, at 22:18, Bhasker C V bhas...@unixindia.com

fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to get Wheezy with lightdm and Xfce to work on an old kiosk machine with a Silicon Motion SM712 chip. Currently X just turns the screen off as soon as it starts and from the Googling Ive done it seems this is a common problem with both the silicon motion driver and the generic vesa

Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Wood
On 15/03/15 20:07, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2015-03-15 18:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: Im trying to get Wheezy with lightdm and Xfce to work on an old kiosk machine with a Silicon Motion SM712 chip. Currently X just turns the screen off as soon as it starts and from the Googling Ive done

Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-17 Thread Andrew Wood
On 17/03/15 13:50, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk [2015-03-17 12:18 +]: [...] It just lists one 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller Silicon Motion SM712 I suspect what may be happening is its defaulting to video out on the LVDS and turning the VGA

Anyone with experience of Intel S3000AH server boards

2015-03-17 Thread Andrew Wood
Any one here with experience of machines with Intel S3000AH server boards these are the Socket 775 boards from 2007 era. Ive found them to be unreliable, they keep failing for no apparent reason just refuse to boot up with 4 angry looking red LEDs. I started using them to replace the old

Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-17 Thread Andrew Wood
On 16/03/15 00:09, David Wright wrote: You've got two cards on one PCI address. lspci might tell you what the correct values are. Cheers, David. It just lists one 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller Silicon Motion SM712 I suspect what may be happening is its defaulting to video out on the

Scanning bug in Jessie

2015-04-01 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive used my old Hp ScanJet 5300 with Simple Scan without problems for years and it was working fine on Jessie but a recent update seems to have broken something and several updates later its still not working. It switches the lamp on and waits for it to warm up but then at the point where

Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

2015-05-18 Thread Andrew Wood
Ive got 2 disks in a RAID1 mirror and am trying to setup Grub 2 so that I can boot from either disk if one fails. Ive tried using dd to copy the MBR over but when booting from one of the disks I just get the word GRUB which I guess is because its looking for the stage 2 loader on the other

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

2015-05-19 Thread Andrew Wood
On 19/05/15 18:38, Andrew Wood wrote: On 18/05/15 23:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: It works, but the right way is to reconfigure the grub-pc package with # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and choose to install the bootloader on both disks. This way the bootloader will be automatically reinstalled

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

2015-05-19 Thread Andrew Wood
On 18/05/15 23:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: It works, but the right way is to reconfigure the grub-pc package with # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and choose to install the bootloader on both disks. This way the bootloader will be automatically reinstalled properly when the package is upgraded. If

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-11 Thread Andrew Wood
On 11/08/15 21:09, Mart van de Wege wrote: cat /proc/net/vlan/config gives no such file That would mean that the 8021q module is not loaded. So your interfaces don't have VLANs at all, as the VLAN driver isn't even loaded. So somehow there is some configuration left that refers to

VLAN config on Jessie

2015-07-30 Thread Andrew Wood
Can I please clarify the correct way to configure VLANS on Jessie as Im having problems with DHCPD giving out IP addresses for the wrong VLAN subnet but only for certain clients - Windows 7, Apple iOS whereas Debian clients and Windows XP clients are working fine. Ive got a Jessie machine

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-07-31 Thread Andrew Wood
On 30/07/15 22:34, Matt Ventura wrote: Could you post the DHCPD config? default-lease-time 7200; #2 hours max-lease-time 7200; option web-proxy code 252 = text; #Subnet 192.168.10.d our private network #As a convention we're using d values 1 to 199 for DHCP (192.168.10.1 etc), 200 and

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-01 Thread Andrew Wood
On 30/07/15 23:14, Arno Schuring wrote: This configures an untagged connection, which is not the same as vlan 1. Also, there's no need to set that broadcast address manually, it's inferred from the netmask. auto eth1.2 iface eth1.2 inet static address 192.168.100.254 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-03 Thread Andrew Wood
On 03/08/15 14:44, Bonno Bloksma wrote: I have a similar setup but the untagged network is the management network for the APs. All traffic on the WiFi network is done in VLANS. That is how I have it setup. So in that case you should have 3 definitions on eth1 (assuming traffic for the

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-11 Thread Andrew Wood
On 08/08/15 21:25, Mart van de Wege wrote: That's just avahi trying to work with an interface it thinks still exists. what does the output of cat /proc/net/vlan/config show? It seems that the old settings are persisted somewhere and I suspect either avahi or systemd. I don't know if it

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-06 Thread Andrew Wood
On 04/08/15 07:11, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hello Andrew, When you use VLANS essentialy what you are doing is creating different networks. So all should have their own ip address range. If not you get problems when you want to connect them via a router which would then see the same ip range on

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Andrew Wood
On 04/08/15 07:11, Bonno Bloksma wrote: If you have the option, as in this case, it might make sense to use the same number for the VLAN and for the address range. It does not NEED to be so, and most cases it will not be so. But if it is a simple situation like this, one can take

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Andrew Wood
On 07/08/15 19:49, Brian wrote: apt-get purge avahi-daemon That wants to remove all of Gnone too. Im starting to think this is related to systemd and that Id be better going back to Wheezy. Things are not behaving as expected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-08 Thread Andrew Wood
On 07/08/15 21:03, Mart van de Wege wrote: Why do you think that? Avahi does multicast DNS, which, as far as I know, has nothing to do with VLANs. So what makes you think Avahi is the culprit? That said, if you want to disable it completely: systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service systemctl

Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-13 Thread Andrew Wood
I had a Lenovo ThinkPad i could not get its broadcom wifi to work with debian i think because it had a tranistor based power switch which was off by default and needed windows only drivers to turn it on and then the screen failed when it wasnt very old. Would never consider another lenovo

QEMU

2015-10-24 Thread Andrew Wood
Can someone please help me configure QEMU on Jessie as the instructions on the Wiki seem to not apply. The qemu command does not exist in /usr/bin there are dozens of platform specific ones like /usr/bin/qemu-i386 but these dont seem to accept the same args. Also why has qemu-launcher been

Re: QEMU

2015-10-24 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/10/15 17:19, Reco wrote: I assume you meant https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU. So, for example: qemu -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso -boot d -m 256 translated to the language of current stable, means: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian.img -cdrom \

Re: QEMU

2015-10-29 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/10/15 22:56, Reco wrote: Currently you have three ways of doing it (all do not require X): 1) Universal one, but slow. Adding something like "-vnc 0.0.0.0:0" to qemu commandline will force qemu to provide a VNC server on customary tcp:5900, and guest OS will draw to VNC server only.

Re: QEMU

2015-12-29 Thread Andrew Wood
On 30/10/15 09:36, Reco wrote: Specifing $SOME_IP instead of 0.0.0.0 should be possible, although I have to admit that I've never tried it (127.0.0.1 does not count). But 'refused to start' lacks some specific details: 1) What vnc stanza have you use? 2) What's the list of IPs on the host

View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

2016-02-19 Thread Andrew Wood
Is there any mail program for Debian which has the option to show the inboxes of multiple mail accounts as one consolidated view a bit like the 'All Inboxes' option on the iPhone/iPad/Mac Mail? Thanks Andrew

Re: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks for all the suggestions, its for someone else so I will pass them on

RE: Migrating Windows on a physical server to KVM with Debian Jessie

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Wood
-Original Message- From: Daniel Bareiro [mailto:daniel-lis...@gmx.net] I was thinking of making an image of the current disk using "dd" (I could even convert the raw disk to qcow if on this way the access is more efficient), to start the KVM virtual machine with this disk image, but I

QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-10 Thread Andrew Wood
I've got a host with some QEMU virtual machines on it, the host did have just one IP address (untagged VLAN) on eth0, Ive now added a second IP on VLAN 2 (eth0.2). The host machine is working fine but a QEMU VM is not able to access anything on VLAN2. Im using the default setup whereby QEMU

Re: QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-11 Thread Andrew Wood
On 11/08/16 13:47, Igor Cicimov wrote: > What type of network card did you create the vm with? You need to use the virtio virtual network interface in your vm configuration. Thanks for your reply. I wondered about that but the QEMU wiki doesnt seem to detail how to configure it to to

Defining TAP interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-09-12 Thread Andrew Wood
Im (slowly) trying to setup bridging and TAP interfaces to use with QEMU so each VM can have a 'real' IP on the network rather than NAT. I now have a bridge setup (br1) using eth1 which Ive done in /etc/network/interfaces with: auto eth1 auto br1 iface br1 inet dhcp bridge_ports

Re: Defining TAP interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-09-16 Thread Andrew Wood
On 12/09/16 23:23, Neal P. Murphy wrote: You might find something in here useful. On 12/09/16 21:43, Charlie Kravetz wrote: Change the bridge_ports to: bridge_ports eth1 tap0 then add the tap lines: auto tap0 iface tap0 inet static address

Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to use a 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C to provide network access for some virtual machines running under QEMU. The machine has a Realtek Gigabit Ethernet controller on the motherboard which I use solely for the hosts network interface. I've added a 3Com PCI card to act as the interface

BIND DNS problem after upgrading from Wheezy to Squeeze

2017-12-26 Thread Andrew Wood
I have a server which acts as a DNS server for our LAN. All our internal servers have A records on it using a .local domain and it forwards all other requests out to the root servers using the in built list provided with BIND. All clients on the LAN have this machine set as their only DNS

renaming network devices with udev & systemd

2018-04-06 Thread Andrew Wood
How does one go about renaming an ethernet device from say enps1 to eth0 under Stretch, the old udev rules I used to use pre systemd under /etc/udev/rules.d no longer seem to have any effect. Thanks Andrew

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Andrew Wood
Ok this is not Linux its Haiku based but I wrote an open source mailing list system called MailMistress which is on Github for situations where you need to run a list on a machine without a public IP or where you want to interface the database of subscribers to an existing system. In our case

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Andrew Wood
On 27/10/2018 09:19, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I wanted to install chrome on my intel desktop, but the only version I found is amd64. Is it possible to get the i386 version? best regards, Google no longer produce a 32 bit version but you could try vivaldi which is based on Chrome and has

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/10/2018 19:26, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I tried looking up Haiku, and I got a little mixed up Haiku is an open source reimplementation of the BeOS, its Unix like, it has a bash command line but also its own built in GUI (not X based). You can find out more at www.haiku-os.org and

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-25 Thread Andrew Wood
Sorry forgot link https://github.com/bluedalmatian/mailmistress On 25/10/2018 21:19, Andrew Wood wrote: On 24/10/2018 19:26, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: � I tried looking up Haiku, and I got a little mixed up � Haiku is an open source reimplementation of the BeOS, its Unix like

Character set & BLOBS on MySQL

2018-11-07 Thread Andrew Wood
I am in the process of moving some tables from MySQL 5.1 on Squeeze to MariaDB 10.1 on Buster. One of the tables stores binary data (either a PDF or JPEG) as a LONGBLOB. The code that reads & writes to the table is PHP and hasnt changed other than having the url of the database server altered.

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