Debian

How to use USB modems/phones in Debian?
I have got a test model of Nokia 7210 phone which can also be used as a gsm modem and be used to surf the web(very slow speed) How to enable it under Debian Lenny? There are no Linux drivers provided with that. Please contact me if you have used such USB based phones for accessing web. -- Harshad Joshi ... 8 Feb 2010 12:14

Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions
On Sun February 7 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: I must confess I never even thought to check that.  The next time it happens, I'll give it a try.  Have either of you come up with a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure?  I'm not explicitly stopping and restarting the X server or the GDM da... 8 Feb 2010 06:41

knetworkmanager on debian testing broken
After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 ... 18 Feb 2010 12:49

Personal keylogger?
As my typing speed increases I find that I am sometimes hittin keyboad shortcuts that I don't mean to, and I have no idea what I have done or how to undo it. For instance, just now I accidentally closed Firefox, and I most certainly did not hit Alt-F4 nor close the last tab (actually 4 tabs are open). I use Vimpera... 11 Feb 2010 09:24

Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:11:02 -0500 (EST), Frank McCormick wrote: On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 +0000, Tom Furie <tom(a)furie.org.uk> wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my graphical console. The basic symptom i... 19 Feb 2010 16:37

Installing FreeBSD under Xen on Debian Lenny
Hi all -- I'm attempting to install a FreeBSD domU HVM under Xen using the stock Xen packages in Debian "lenny" (Xen version 3.2), and I'm running into a problem trying to boot the FreeBSD install CD on the VM. I'm getting a "BTX halted" error, which seems to indicate a misconfigured BIOS, but I'm getti... 7 Feb 2010 20:55

unionfs
Hi I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or how do you use the kernel version - can't seem to find any comparisons between the 2 thanks Alex -- "It's going to require numerous IRA agents." - George W. Bush 10/1... 8 Feb 2010 16:49

eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network
I am in the final throes of getting a new system running (Debian/squeeze). For the past 2 weeks it's had just eth0, and the network has worked fine. Now I want this system to have two network interfaces - the original eth0, and eth1 to a DSL modem, just like its precessor system. The strange thing is that wth th... 10 Feb 2010 12:15

Faire un dist-upgrade en protégeant un paquet...
Bonjour, Récemment, il y a eu quelques... errances dans Sid. Vu la définition de ce dernier, ce n'est pas illogique, mais ça peut poser quelques soucis. En effet, sur une machine, j'ai programmé des mises-à-jour automatiques pendant la nuit. Sur les 15 derniers jours, Gnome a été désinstallé deux fois p... 7 Feb 2010 05:25

Apache2 mime_magic not working on Upgrade.
Hello, We just upgraded a web server to Lenny. Anyway on the upgrade Apache2 mod_mime_magic is not working properly. We keeping getting Apache errors: "[error] mod_mime_magic: invalid type 0 in mconvert()". From what we can tell the problem lies in the /usr/share/file/magic.mime file. The file is there an... 7 Feb 2010 13:07