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(SOLVED?) Re: Wireless still not working
Well, as of today wicd is connecting properly from home, with WEP encryption. Maybe it just needed to learn to connect using baby steps :-) -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42(a)yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... 20 Mar 2010 15:28

Small snort/oinkmaster problem
Using snort & oinkmaster. How to restart snort when and only when the rules were changed? When googling I only found suggestions and the snort should not be restarted in vain, and I agree. But how to do that? oinkmaster does not return any special return codes, which would be useful. How do you do it? -- ... 20 Mar 2010 09:46

pivot_root. unmount old root
Hello, I'm running debian lenny with xen kernel 2.6.26, amd64. Inside a domU I need to make a pivot_root and unmount the old root afterwards. I've done the following: cd /newroot (newroot contains a minimal system from initrd, dev/console, dev/null and old-root are available unter newroot/) exec <dev/conso... 30 Mar 2010 07:13

freenas-like solution for aoe?
Does anybody know a FreeNAS-like solution, that supports AoE? - Ata over Ethernet? Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1269078529.32263.30.camel(a)ubuntu ... 20 Mar 2010 06:16

Fwd: Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rogerio Luz Coelho <rogluz.news(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/3/19 Subject: Re: Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686? To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> Easy work around way: # aptitude install module-assistant # m-a update # m-a prepare ;) Rogerio 20... 19 Mar 2010 20:08

Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686?
Hi, My name is Jen, and I'm new to the list. I've been playing with Linux on and off for about a year, but have only recently found a distro that meets my accessibility needs (Debian unstable). It's also a great learning tool :P I need to build some packages from source, and I need kernel headers to do it. I can'... 20 Mar 2010 12:04

How to reduce a debian system to a base system
Hello Debian users, I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal system installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a Debian system to a base system" but it seems like the topic of interest was to reduce the ... 22 Mar 2010 23:00

bash scripting question
I've written a function to print elapsed time similar to /usr/bin/time but can be called at the beginning and end of a script from within the script. Occasionally I get an error: '8-08: value too great for base' It's caused by the difference in these 2 command strings but I can't for the life of me see what's goin... 29 Mar 2010 22:31

(Partially SOLVED) Re: Wireless still not working
And do I feel silly! Because I was out of ideas of what to do, I decided to look through my BIOS settings. The wireless was turned OFF in the BIOS. Could this be why nothing was showing up in syslog, Andrei? I had not checked this, before, since it was working if I booted into Eeebuntu, or the OS that must not be... 19 Mar 2010 19:00

More Xorg (SOLVED)
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell <zlinuxman(a)wowway.com> wrote: Hello Stephen, But we are making forward progress; so I don't want to give up just yet. Thanks for you help Stephen. Today I performed a system update and noticed that XOrg's nv driver was one of the packages updated.... 19 Mar 2010 11:58