Re: Server Report

2005-09-15 Thread brian
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Microsoft Intellimouse

1998-02-28 Thread Brian
, but if I pick PS/2 from the list, my mouse works fine. Unfortunately, that means I don't get the use of the roller/third button. Anyone know how I can get my intellimouse working? In case this helps, I use /dev/psaux as the mouse device. That works with both X and gpm. Brian

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 17:09:54 +0100, Dom wrote: On 16/07/12 15:41, Camaleón wrote: I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you provide a user case for someone using block lists and another case when they're not in use? As I understand it, when GRUB is

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console. I changed /etc/default/console-setup from: FONTFACE=VGA FONTSIZE=32x16 to: FONTFACE=Fixed FONTSIZE=18 and reran setupcon but still have a 42x128 screen. Fixed

Re: [solved] Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jul 2012 at 10:13:10 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:31:20 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: It was not clear to me that a Debian installation via businesscard requires an internet connection _during_ the installation: in fact, I downloaded

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jul 2012 at 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:07:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, whether you are in doubt you can always tag the subject accordingly to avoid complains from the rest of the mailing list participants. Oh, right! like if you

Re: [solved] Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jul 2012 at 16:28:34 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:13:10 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: But now, please have some even more patience with this doubt of mine: to connect to internet I normally need `ppp', and to install ppp I need at least a base system ready: so,

Re: Can't boot into MS Windows partition

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jul 2012 at 15:21:42 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: The first partition of my second hard disk (/dev/sdb1) is occupied by Windows XP. It is and old install and I haven't booted into it for a couple of years. A Lenny install? Older? (I seem to remember that, when I installed Debian

Re: (Debugging help) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jul 2012 at 14:25:49 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:03:58 +, Camaleón wrote: I'm running an updated wheezy and since weeks ago, when shutting down (or restarting) the system I can see this message: [FAIL] Killing all remaining processes... failed. (...)

Re: is there a problem with flashplugin-nonfree on squeeze amd64?

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 17:59:51 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: # aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree The following packages will be REINSTALLED: flashplugin-nonfree 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/17.9 kB of

Re: (Debugging help) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 14:55:56 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:26:21 +0100, Brian wrote: I think neither rsyslogd nor rpcbind is the problem here. Well, they seem to fail to be stopped when I shutdown or restart the system :-? They are casualties, not causes. rsyslogd

Re: Error while try to get tcp socket options with lsof

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 19:03:48 +0200, Meike Stone wrote: ~# lsof -a -p 3450 -i -Tf Ambiguity. Please see the man page. lsof -a -p 3450 -i -T -f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: (Almost done!) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 18:01:54 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:19:10 +0100, Brian wrote: You mean that a single (unknown) process avoids the rest from stopping? No. That would be even worst... Or maybe is that the printed FAILED message is misleading? :-? Not this, either

Re: Cannot connect to debian repo servers after install

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 12:04:16 -0700, macondo wrote: I did a wheezy minimal install and cannot connect to servers to do an update/dist-upgrade, gives me: W: failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/In Release Could not resolve 'ftp.debian.org' You have a dns or

Re: Cannot connect to debian repo servers after install

2012-07-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 12:37:24 -0700, macondo wrote: Pinging is fine: PING debian.org (82.195.75.97) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from kokkonen.debian.org (82.195.75.97): icmp_req=1 ttl=50 time=209 ms 64 bytes from kokkonen.debian.org (82.195.75.97): icmp_req=2 ttl=50 time=214 ms 64

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 16:59:05 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: a little background and what i did to have come to this situation: - cannot get resolution more than 1024x768 with my integrated intel vga - upgraded to kernel 3.0 from squeeze-backports - my intel wireless 1000 N wireless

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:37:26 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 Non-free firmware is needed. I suppose you have installed it? http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: (Almost done!) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 14:26:38 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:45:37 +0100, Brian wrote: What you are being shown is a list of processes which are still being run. It does not imply sendsigs was unable to kill all of them. If you look at the screen output you will see

Re: (Solved) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:07:41 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:33:26 +0100, Brian wrote: On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 14:26:38 +, Camaleón wrote: Well, I have found a cron task that runs this thingy every 10 minutes (?), I wonder if that's the expected but for sure

Re: modifying template xorg.conf file to change monitor resolution

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:41:59 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: I have two dumb questions: 1. Where do I enter the 1440 x900 resolution into the xorg.conf file? By and large there should be no need for an xorg.conf file as the card should autodetected and everything configured from what is

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 21 Jul 2012 at 00:25:34 +0400, Darren Baginski wrote: 20.07.2012, 12:11, Alberto Luaces alua...@udc.es: You can also try the http://http.debian.net/ redirector for not having to select manually the best mirror.  See the webpage for instructions. Don't try that

Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?

2012-07-21 Thread Brian
On Sat 21 Jul 2012 at 07:36:34 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been told that my problems with using netinst.iso at a WiFi hotspot have been solved in wheezy. Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release [1] seems to confirm. I read the announcement that Wheezy was frozen as of June 30th [2]. I

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 18:08:25 +0800, lina wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 7/22/2012 3:37 AM, lina wrote: P.S I also found tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 11:09:26 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: The ssh and webserver daemons are available on the network. Presumably this is what you want. Their security will depend on how you have configured them. Debian sshd can be run safely

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 22:01:50 +0800, lina wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Heaven above knows why you need a firewall. These services are quite capable of getting on with life without iptables being involved. So are you. Just today one website

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:39:23 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 22.07.2012 20:49, Bret Busby wrote: However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that system apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is, without having been updated for about a year or so, which is

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 14:11:57 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: A fair number of printers that do postscript are actually ghostscript printers. Technically, ghostscript is nonfree, but when I investigated a while ago, each version of ghostscript remanins proprietary for about two years, and is

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 08:29:49 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 07/23/2012 07:47 AM, Registros Web wrote: Hi all, Im about to buy a printer and want to make sure I get one that uses 100% free software, no blobs or proprietary drivers, so I can get on using it even if the manufacturer

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:14:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:45 +0100, Brian wrote: Neither will work as none of the mirrors used by http.debian.net has the Lenny achive on it. Mmm... sure? ;-) debian.net ! debian.org As sure as I can be without moving round

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 17:37:50 +, Camaleón wrote: *** Using the redirector Replace your currently configured Debian mirror in sources.list with the following address: (...) Archived releases (archive.debian.org): http://http.debian.net/debian-archive *** The host

Re: wifi connect _FAILS_ - was [Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?]

2012-07-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jul 2012 at 17:08:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Has anyone actually used netinst (any generation) to install Debian (any generation) to a virgin laptop when the *ONLY* available internet was using a WiFi hotspot? ??? Yes. All my attempts have failed at DHCP negotiation. A

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 18:02:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 iul 12, 18:05:45, Brian wrote: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output in PDF format when printing. PDF is kind of a subset of PostScript ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 23:23:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 25 iul 12, 21:18:19, Brian wrote: On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 18:02:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 iul 12, 18:05:45, Brian wrote: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-26 Thread Brian
On Thu 26 Jul 2012 at 13:03:32 +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le mercredi 25 juillet 2012 à 21:34 +0100, Brian a écrit : On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 23:23:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I was trying to point out that a PS printer is also a PDF printer. Are you using the word 'printer

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-26 Thread Brian
On Thu 26 Jul 2012 at 17:10:12 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:27:26 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: No, while PDF does perhaps allow such things, it's far far better than PostScript. (...) PostScript is a languge for machines not for human beings. It does not have to be

Re: wifi connect _FAILS_ - was [Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?]

2012-07-27 Thread Brian
On Thu 26 Jul 2012 at 09:27:44 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: A possible failure to associate with the wireless access point. What does lspci (or lsusb) say the card is? 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Encouraging

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Jul 2012 at 12:00:34 +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 23:14 +0100, Brian a écrit : I'll take the 'whatever'. lp -d print_queue -o raw test.ps goes to the printer (the machine) without any filtering and gives a nice printout if the machine

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Jul 2012 at 14:15:56 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:26:37 +0100, Brian wrote: Roger Leigh gave a good explanation of the role played by PDF in the CUPS printing process on Debian. You snipped most of it, including this: A native PDF workflow is far, far

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Jul 2012 at 16:21:42 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:43:24 +0100, Brian wrote: Its a balance. Pros and cons. With a PDF printer: Define a PDF printer. What's that? 1/ A physical device (printer) with physical PDF interpreter on it (PDF add-on card)? 2

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-28 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 10:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:05 +0100, Brian wrote: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/1956699/review-hp-laserjet-cp4525-colour-printer Uh, what is this link for? :-? You didn't read all of the content? It matches your 1/. Here is another

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-28 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 13:37:22 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:49:53 +0100, Brian wrote: It matches your 1/. Here is another one: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/18972-18972-3328060-15077-236268-3965798-3965802-3965808.html?dnr=1 Ah, you must

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 10:25:56 +0100, Gary wrote: While I was installing I got an error message about some missing firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I had to skip the setup of the network because of this. So the first step is getting the firmware for the

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 15:45:44 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:17:22 +0100, Brian wrote: Anyway: a PostScript printer has a PostScript interpreter; a PCL printer has a PCL interpreter; a PDF printer has a PDF interpreter. They accept print jobs sent directly to them

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 14:11:22 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:29:22 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 15:45:44 +, Camaleón wrote: Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I managed do not, just PCL6 and PostScript. No, it does not. Does

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 15:09:01 +0100, Gary wrote: Brian wrote: Download either package. Put it on a USB stick. Transfer to the Debian OS. Install with   dpkg -i complete_package_name Okay. Done. Thanks. What do I have to do after this? It seemed to go okay, but there's no signof

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: Doesn't work :( [Very useful output log snipped] Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device Now, why isn't the device seen? Check that rtl8105e-1.fw is in /lib/firmware/ and please post the line in the output of

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 13:12:31 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: No default configuration file will ever suit everyone or fit their needs, but the Debian sshd_config doesn't seem to me to be have any insecure aspects to it. Some

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 19:38:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-29 19:22 +0200, Brian wrote: On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: Doesn't work :( [Very useful output log snipped] Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device Now

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 18:52:35 +0100, Gary wrote: root@jadetree:/home/gary# lspci [...] 07:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 5390 Have a search with Debian wiki RaLink 5390. We could have a problem here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 15:00:04 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Well, it is the one account that will accept remote logins (in Debian) that exists everywhere. True. But the security of an account doesn't depend on whether the username is known or unknown. If it does, you have

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-30 Thread Brian
On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 15:03:26 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:39:40 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 14:11:22 +, Camaleón wrote: Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I managed do not, just PCL6 and PostScript. No, it does

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 22:27:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most That depends. Are you using any

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-31 Thread Brian
On Tue 31 Jul 2012 at 10:56:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I don't recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you were going to install GRUB into a partition

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-31 Thread Brian
On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 19:43:25 +0100, Gary wrote: Sven Joachim wrote:  On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote:   Sven Joachim wrote:   On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote:     Still confused why the wireless doesn't work.     It's not supported by the 2.6.32 kernel.  Installing a 3.2

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-08-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Aug 2012 at 20:17:27 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juli 2012 schrieb Brian: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output in PDF format when printing. Haven´t there been plans to switch CUPS to use PDF internally as well? May I

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-08-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 02 Aug 2012 at 20:28:32 +0100, Dom wrote: On 02/08/12 19:54, Brian wrote: On Thu 02 Aug 2012 at 20:17:27 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juli 2012 schrieb Brian: All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to output in PDF format when printing

Re: Display Resolution

2012-08-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Aug 2012 at 01:09:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 02 aug 12, 16:54:41, Nelson Green wrote: Thanks for the reply. I can't believe I didn't think to look for a log file related to this. And no, there is no xorg.conf, just the Xorg.0.log file. It is quite large, but here

Re: Display Resolution

2012-08-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Aug 2012 at 07:05:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 02 aug 12, 23:48:52, Brian wrote: Before he gets into that, it could be worth checking with dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-video that the nouveau package is installed. Unless I'm mistaken, his Xorg.0.log

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 16:23:28 +, Camaleón wrote: Subject says it all. How can this be [OT]? It's about Debian. It concerns Wheezy. And the installer is involved, too. I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other magazine is written in Spanish), so is this

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 17:45:40 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:35:44 +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 16:23:28 +, Camaleón wrote: Subject says it all. How can this be [OT]? It's about Debian. It concerns Wheezy. And the installer is involved, too. I

Re: debian 6.0.5 ISO installation issue. GRUB .. file not found

2012-08-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Aug 2012 at 16:55:23 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i just installed debian from 6.0.5 amd64 net CD. with basic options. installation went fine but in first boot. shows me this Welcome to GRUB error : file not found grub rescue You installed GRUB to the MBR of the first

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Aug 2012 at 13:59:20 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:21:25 +0100, Brian wrote: The tasksel maintainer has made it so. Without asking to their user base nor a single survey to get some feedback before a final move like this... nothing? :-? The Debian GNOME

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Aug 2012 at 16:33:39 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:43:38 +0100, Brian wrote: You've already provided a major reference for the discussion which has taken place on debian-devel. It included controversy (altering the status quo always does) but it really does come

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Brian
On Fri 10 Aug 2012 at 14:23:38 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:41:37 +0100, Brian wrote: But the process of how the decisions are made and who makes them is the same. Yes, but that does not change the fact a decision (being a big change or a small one) is wrong or badly

Re: ot: file sharing other than yousendit, or sendspace?

2012-08-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Aug 2012 at 23:40:46 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi all, I am sort of in a hurry, need to send two small files. While the y might normally go via email, google will not let them through because they are program files. Google's smtp server (smtp.gmail.com) has no problem

Re: 8086:008a wifi vostro v131

2012-08-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Aug 2012 at 19:24:12 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: lspci -nn gives: 09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:008a] (rev 34) The device is listed at http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi but under Supported Devices for Wheezy. Could be you need a newer kernel. The

Re: 8086:008a wifi vostro v131

2012-08-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Aug 2012 at 22:34:36 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: I will move to Wheezy instead of using Backports. I hope I can get this right. I tried to install kernel 3.2 but synaptic gave me some dependency errors. As Wheezy is already in beta-1, maybe its usable. You'll likely hit a bug involving

Re: BUG on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed -- inconsistent links

2012-08-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 10:09:40 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 aug 12, 15:06:48, Richard Owlett wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed has inconsistent links. It's a wiki, feel free to correct it ;) In the sentence The Installation Guide includes an extensive

Re: QSS button (Quick Security Setup)

2012-08-17 Thread Brian
On Fri 17 Aug 2012 at 00:21:23 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: According to: http://www.tp-link.com/lk/article/?id=171 There are routers (coincidentally, I have one of them) that accept a new device to establish a wireless connection without having to use password. The method is simple: 1- Push

Re: QSS button (Quick Security Setup)

2012-08-17 Thread Brian
On Fri 17 Aug 2012 at 10:52:30 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:21:23AM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Dear usernixes, According to: http://www.tp-link.com/lk/article/?id=171 There are routers (coincidentally, I have one of them) that accept a new device to

Re: QSS button (Quick Security Setup)

2012-08-18 Thread Brian
On Fri 17 Aug 2012 at 18:58:17 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Brian wrote: You install and set up wpasupplicant to do it. After googling and researching I'm still in the dark. It looks like this is the way to go. But I never used it before. Is it like a PAM module that you set up in some config

Re: How to install SchoolTool 2.0 on Debian?

2012-08-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Aug 2012 at 09:31:52 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I wish to install on my Debian GNU/Linux testing/sid system the SchoolTool 2.0: http://book.schooltool.org/install-2_0.html I realise that that I can't follow steps: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:schooltool-owners/dev $ sudo

Re: Thanks for your bug work

2012-08-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Aug 2012 at 12:35:09 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: [email snipped] Many apologies for this mail finding its way to the List. My fault entirely. I thought I had fixed my mutt configuration. Apparently not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

2012-08-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Aug 2012 at 15:18:31 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware? I don't usually bother, but a reboot and a glance at dmesg can be enough. My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to overheating (in a random and

etc/cups directory should be owned by group lpadmin, not group lp

2012-08-22 Thread Brian
severity 613142 wishlist thanks -- 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/20120822203648.GG5764@desktop

Re: Wheezy installer problems

2012-08-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Aug 2012 at 17:21:38 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: I downloaded today an AMD64 wheezy CD1, a couple of problems: It locks up on detect network hardware, and if I try an expert install and avoid the network bit it gets as far as starting up the partitioner 40% and stops again. It is

Re: Wheezy installer problems

2012-08-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Aug 2012 at 19:01:52 +0100, Martin Smith wrote: Thanks for that info! Depending on the newness of the hardware you may be as well off with an image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/ It doesn't have the problem of the beta. Love the ceramics. -- To

Re: bug report

2012-08-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Aug 2012 at 22:40:22 +0200, Anael wrote: Hello, From some days, appears some errors on the launch of Debian : Aug 23 20:45:05 anael-debian kernel: [0.868174] ssb: ERROR: PLL init unknown for device 4322 Aug 23 20:45:05 anael-debian kernel: [0.868224] ssb: ERROR: PMU

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrote: I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap space in my preseed configuration

Re: How to Mount USB Stick

2012-08-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 19:30:18 -0700, r...@aarden.us wrote: I am learning on Wheezy Beta1, command line only. I am trying to access the USB stick which was the installation media. The box has 2 SSDs. Their device names are likely to be /dev/sda and /dev/sdb . . . . When I look for devices

Re: Is redeclipse really non-free?

2012-08-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Aug 2012 at 14:22:06 -0700, Miga wrote: Basically what I'm asking is, can somebody help me confirm that redeclipse-data is actually non-free? If so, what's making it non-free? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651752 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: wheezy update

2012-08-26 Thread Brian
. brian@desktop:~$ ping http.debian.net PING http.debian.net (174.142.22.90) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=1 ttl=49 time=107 ms 64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com (174.142.22.90): icmp_req=2 ttl=49 time=108 ms 64 bytes from ghost.puffinhost.com

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Aug 2012 at 17:53:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I've got a .ccd image that I want to mount, e.g. in /mnt. Associated with the .ccd file, there is a .img too. I tried mounting the .img using various CLI combinations, but to no avail: Convert to an ISO file with ccd2iso. Mount the

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Aug 2012 at 10:23:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks for the two messages. $ ccd2iso fv.ccd fv.iso Error at sector 0. The sector does not contain complete data. Sector size must be 2352, while actual data read is 772 What's happening? The image file should not be corrupted!

Re: sshd_config match keyword syntax

2012-08-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Aug 2012 at 14:37:34 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: I want to force everyone except members of a particular group to run sftp when they ssh into a server. So at the end of /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have: Match Group !sshers ForceCommand /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server However I can't get

Re: qt embedded on Debian

2012-08-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Aug 2012 at 13:37:42 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: The package used to be Qtopia for that, but that is gone... apt-cache search qtopia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

2012-08-31 Thread Brian
On Fri 31 Aug 2012 at 14:51:52 +0700, Morning Star wrote: Is there any application in Debian like google translate client? If there is, would you tell me what is it? Decide for yourself. Here's a start: apt-cache search translate | less -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Epson Perfection V100 scanner

2012-09-01 Thread brian
two and five pages, when it locks solid, and I have to exit the program and reboot the scanner to get it to work again. I've tested the scanner on a Windows XP box and it works just fine on there, so it's not the scanner itself which is the problem. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brian

Re: Preseeding from USB

2012-09-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Sep 2012 at 21:26:44 +, T o n g wrote: If I want to do automated install on Debian (http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ notebook/autoinstall.php) using preseeding configuration file from USB key, how should I tell the Debian boot loader to look there? If normally booted, my USB key

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

2012-09-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Sep 2012 at 14:47:41 +0700, Morning Star wrote: you're right about sdcv, but still i can't translate a paragraph. only a word. :( do you know what the dictionaries that suit with that? StarDict is dictionary software, It translates words only. Full-text translation (what you refer

Re: Custom SSH Authentication

2012-09-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Sep 2012 at 16:04:51 -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: I am also hoping to take it a step further and say that the restricted key (the one that only works at certain times) also requires that a pass phrase be provided that changes based on an arbitrary algorithm, perhaps involving the time

Re: Custom SSH Authentication

2012-09-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Sep 2012 at 16:04:51 -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: I am looking to set up a custom SSH authentication system. I have a several RSA key pairs for my user, and I want to restrict ssh access based on which key pair is being used (not based on user name). On top of that, I want to

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Sep 2012 at 19:44:17 +, T o n g wrote: It's been generations since I last play with X and defoma. You may need to get a move on if it is still your intention. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651494 Even now it may be too late. But snapshot.debian.org is

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd have to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a glibc less than 18 months old. Really? Developers: really? I gauess the only way to get an answer to the above rhetorical

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:23:16 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: Maybe first read the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00466.html A thread in which someone says the only way to proceed is to file a bug

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-10 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:06:02 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [Snip] I'm wondering if pulseaudio has something to do with this. Any help would be appreciated. I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable is connected

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 22:13:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I can confirm that my userid is in the cdrom and audio groups. I haven't checked the cable connections yet, but I plan to do that tomorrow. But the problem seems to be more systemic. I can't seem to get aplay to work on a .wav

Re: lenovo t430s wifi not working

2012-09-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Sep 2012 at 09:24:14 -0400, Len Berman wrote: I've just got a lenovo t430s and can't get the wifi working. I installed firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb firmware-linux-free_2.6.32-45_all.deb firmware-linux-nonfree_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb but still no luck. Has anyone got

Re: Re: lenovo t430s wifi not working

2012-09-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Sep 2012 at 12:59:28 -0400, Len Berman wrote: The output of lspci is at the bottom of the post. Looks like 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) is the piece that deals with wifi. After seeing this, I

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