Re: How to enforce use of dhcpcd instead of dhclient in

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:27:33PM +0000, Liam O’Toole wrote:
> On 2010-02-18, wzab wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with wireless networking on my laptop (uses iwl3945
> > wireless).
> > When dhclient3 is used to obtain IP address via DHCP, the connection is
> > unstable. Especially when I move my laptop to another location and switch
> > to another network, the IP is not obtained at all or connection is
> > established only for a very short time.
> >
> > I was able to fix it by uninstalling the dhcp3-client package. In this case
> > the dhcpcd is used for obtaining IP, which works flawlessly.
> >
> > Unfortunately dhcp3-client is suggested by different packages, so when I
> > update my system it often gets reinstalled unless I explicitly deselect it.
> > That’s really tiring.
> >
> > Is there any way to assign dhcpcd higher priority than dhclient3 when my
> > system is going to obtain IP?
> >
>
> The wicd package (an alternative to network-manager) can help you here.
> It allows the user to specify which DHCP client to favour. It is
> available in backports, squeeze and sid.
>
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> Liam O’Toole
> Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:39:53AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:08:48AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >
> > Any recommendations or experience with this problem?
> >
> hello.
> You can try
> http://www.mythtv.org/download
> You can get MythTV from working debian-multimedia.org
> repositories.
>
> /Jeffrin.
>
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Re: Amarok 2.2.1 proxy issue

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:41:16PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:51:28PM -0700, Bjorn Meyer wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I am wondering if anyone else has run into this issue, and found a resolution.
> >
> > I am finding that Amarok 2.2.1 will not detect the global KDE settings for the
> > proxy server. So I am unable to stream music and it will not look up the
> > lyrics.
> You can try global proxy settings using konqueror.The global
> proxy setting may not be working because konqueror is in the offline
> mode.
>
> > However, if I run “export http_proxy=http://192.168.1.1:8080” in a console
> > session, then run /usr/bin/amarok, I am able to stream again. Lyrics, still
> > don’t show up, but I’m not too worried about that.
> you may do one thing.Edit ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc
> and try adding ..
>
> ProxyType=1
> http_proxy=http://192.168.1.1:8080
>
> Save and Restart Amarok.
>
> /Jeffrin.
>
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apt-get update

ahiliation:~$sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jeffrin:
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_IN
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid Release.gpg
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [2,540B]
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [871B]
Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Translation-en_IN
Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en_IN
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Fetched 3,600B in 5s (630B/s)
Reading package lists… Done
ahiliation:~$

update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/59408

HOWTO run badblocks command

Block I
$badblocks  /dev/hda1
^C
Interrupted at block 137600
$badblocks -b 1  -c 0 /dev/hda1
badblocks: File too large while trying to determine device size
$badblocks -b 1500 -c 0 /dev/hda1
^C
Interrupted at block 0
Block II
$badblocks -b 1500 -c 64 /dev/hda1
Weird value (96000) in do_read
Weird value (96000) in do_read
Weird value (96000) in do_read
.^C
interrupted at block 1792

TODO Fix Block II.
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net

badblocks

Block I
debianlabs:~# badblocks /dev/hda1
^C
Interrupted at block 137600
debianlabs:~# badblocks -b 1 -c 0 /dev/hda1
badblocks: File too large while trying to determine device size
debianlabs:~# badblocks -b 1500 -c 0 /dev/hda1
^C
Interrupted at block 0
Block II
debianlabs:~# badblocks -b 1500 -c 64 /dev/hda1
Weird value (96000) in do_read
Weird value (96000) in do_read
Weird value (96000) in do_read
.^C
interrupted at block 1792
TODO Fix Block II.
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net