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"SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address"
Hi, This seems like an easy problem but I've searched all over without explicit solution. I'm fiddling with a computer which I've not turn on for a while. My ethernet interface which comes with the motherboard did not appear (not with ifconfig -a), so I plugged in another ethernet card and now it shows on ifco... 14 Mar 2010 04:23

WLAN and Bluetooth
Hi I have problem with my wireless embedded device. I use Debian testing and Compaq 615 notebook with Broadcom 802.11 b/g. Only if I enable in BIOS "embedded WLAN" and "embedded bluetooth" my Debian can't boot up. When this option are "disable" linux boot up, but I can't play with wireless and bluetooth dev... 17 Mar 2010 12:29

Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords
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question about fstab in squeeze and uuid
I'm working on a computer that I am trying to make dual-boot into both Lenny and Squeeze. As some are already aware, squeeze rewrites /etc/fstab to replace devices like /dev/hda2 with a UUID for the device that is a long computer generated string. I know very little about UUIDs but I suppose they are intended to b... 18 Mar 2010 01:35

pen drive without format and can not find it
Hi!! I have a pen drive and recently my debian can not find it because suddenly lose its format, so debian does not recognize it, don't even mount it. With dmesg it says the pen drive is in sda but #ls /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 does not exist in /dev ¿? How can i find my pen drive ???? so i can format it. Tha... 13 Mar 2010 20:53

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need help with xorg.conf
I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when I switch to Squeeze. In particular: The screen is 1366x768 according to the user manual that came with it. Under Lenny, X chooses to run it at 1280x768 which is OK, but Unde... 14 Mar 2010 13:08

liblua5.1-gtk-0 problem
I have installed Gtk binding for Lua liblua5.1-gtk-dev liblua5.1-gtk-0 from Lenny DVDs. I also have Lua interpreter and dev libraries lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev When I try to run example program this is the error: $ /usr/share/doc/liblua5.1-gtk-dev/examples/window.lua [gtk] Can't load dynamic libra... 13 Mar 2010 01:03

If you use DRDB ... dont update / upgrade your kernel
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573490#17 Im sitting with this problem. dmesg shows: 89.876847] drbd: disagrees about version of symbol cn_add_callback [ 89.876847] drbd: Unknown symbol cn_add_callback HTH Brent Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.... 11 Mar 2010 17:59

How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?
I am trying to get a USB device working. In lsusb the ID shows up, but the name of the device does not. Is this an indication that the driver is not properly installed? For instance, this is how functioning devices look in lsusb: Bus 005 Device 003: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 355 Bluetooth Howev... 13 Mar 2010 20:53