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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2695

Today's Topics: 

  When will libswt-gtk (libswt-gtk-3.2  [ Jabka Atu  ]
  Re: CUPS: Shared printers not shown   [ Claudius Hubig  ]
  Re: Fresh Etch netinstall problems..  [ "Douglas A. Tutty"  ]
  Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles -  [ Sjoerd Hiemstra 

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:04:16 +0200


From: Jabka Atu <mashrom.head@gmail.com>
To: ML Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: When will libswt-gtk (libswt-gtk-3.2) will get a new version in testing
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Hello,.



Since there is a bug with libswt-gtk-3.2 (448021 it is azureus bug but
it is couse of this package).


Do you need help?X

i got an answer from one Debian Developer that i should wait for wait
for 3.2.2-2 to transition to testing, or for 3.3.1-1 to be accepted
from the NEW queue.




The question is there a way to make it faster or How can i help in it
if i can ?



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Date:  Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:08:52 +0100


From: Claudius Hubig <nfs_2007@chubig.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject:  Re: CUPS: Shared printers not shown

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Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 15:42:32 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've got the following systems, all connected to the local network:
>> 
>> A: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
>> B: Running Debian Etch, Epson Stylus C86 connected & published
>> C: Running Debian Sid, Canon IP 4200 connected & published
>> D: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
>> 
>> A sees all the printers in the network and is able to print on them,
>> the same goes for B. C only sees the IP 4200 (and can print on it),
>> while D seems to have absolutely no clue where to print.
>> 
>> I just set this up using the webinterface from CUPS, published those
>> printers and asked it to show published printers from other systems -
>> this worked for A and B.
>> 
>> Now my question: How can I make the two printers be visible on D and
>> the Epson Stylus be shown on C?
>> 
>> There seems to be absolutely no information about this in the net,
>> thus I'd really welcome any hints available.
>
>Can each machine see the shares on the other hosts if you use the tools
>from the "smbclient" package? The printers should be listed if you run
>
>smbclient -U USERNAME -L //HOSTNAME
>
>(Change "USERNAME" and "HOSTNAME" as is appropriate for your network;
> you will be prompted for the SMB password if necessary.)

Sorry if I did not write that there's no Samba server running on my
entire network, just plain CUPS. Like this, the above command results
in an error connecting to <ip> (Connection refused).



Greetings,



Claudius

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:56:04 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 23:24:37 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hadn't played a movie on any of my computers for 2 or 3 months, and tried 
> to play one today as I had enough time to watch one.  What I found is that 
> movies that used to play very well on my laptop and my workstations will 
> not play at all anymore.  They drop frames so badly that the players, vlc, 
> totem, and mplayer, all crash.  The audio plays at varying speeds and drops 
> frames/skips too. 
> The other thing I found was that dvd's that I had copied to disk no longer 
> play.  Totem used to read .iso files and play them just as if it was 
> reading off a dvd disk.  Now Totem says it is missing a plugin and can't 
> read them.  VLC and Mplayer used to read those same .iso files and play 
> back the movies very smoothly.  Now they crash trying to play them. 
> I used to play movies with 2-3% cpu usage at full screen, and the picture 
> was crystal clear and the sound great.   Now cpu usage is at 30-40%, and as 
> I said, nothing plays worth a damn. 
> What has happened to the ability to play movies in the last couple of 
> months?  If it was only one of my computers I'd be thinking it had a 
> problem, but it's not.  It's all of my computers.  I haven't done anything 
> to them other than just keep on updating them as I run Sid on all them. 
> Is anyone else experiencing this same thing?  It looks to me as if 
> something has undergone a major change, but what? 


The missing plugins/codecs might be due to a package being uninstalled
because of a (temporary?) dependency problem. (That can happen with
Sid.) Check your dpkg/apitude logs for suspicious activity. Try to get
totem to give you a more accurate error message (which plugin is it?)
and search apt's cache for packages that have related terms in their
package description.

The high CPU load and dropped frames during playback may indicate a
regression in your video driver or a problem with DMA for hard disk and
DVD access. My guess would be that it is the video driver. We need more
information about your graphics card and your Xorg configuration to be
sure, though. For a start, please post the output of the following
commands:

lspci | egrep -i 'graphic|display|vga|video'

awk '/Section "(Module|Device|DRI|Extensions)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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          Florian   |



Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:17:10 -0700
From: Rogelio <scubacuda@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: perl-xml-sax package question
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I'm looking for the Debian equivalent to CentOS's "perl-XML-SAX" package.

Is it one of these?

apt-cache search perl | grep xml | grep sax

libxml-filter-saxt-perl - Perl module for replicating events to
several event handlers
libxml-sax-expat-incremental-perl - XML::SAX::Expat subclass for
non-blocking (incremental) parsing
libxml-sax-expat-perl - Perl module for a SAX2 driver for Expat (XML::Parser)
libxml-sax-machines-perl - Perl modules for managing collections of
SAX processors
libxml-sax-perl - Perl module for using and building Perl SAX2 XML processors
libxml-sax-writer-perl - Perl module for a SAX2 XML writer

I'm guessing that it's libxml-sax-perl ?



Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:36:08 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Fresh Etch netinstall problems...
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:

> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:40:27PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:30:49PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > > > > I hope there are some experts out there that can offer some suggestions
> > > > > regarding a problem I am having installing Debian Etch (40r1-386-netinst
> > > > > downloaded on 23/10/07) on a Dell Precision 410 MT...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Everything goes fine through the initial install, up to the point
> > > > > where I have to reboot using the freshly installed kernel on the
> > > > > hard drive.
> > 
> > > > > Either the package transfer fails after a few minutes with messages like
> > > > > 	E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
> > > > > 	segmentation fault
> > > > > or dpkg falls over during the installation of the package, eg
> > > > > 	/bin/sh: line 1: 2284 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/dpkg_preconfigure...
> >  
> > > > > It seems that the kernel used during the initial install was stable,
> > > > > but the kernel it installed on the hard disk is not.
> >  
> > > > > 	Model: Dell Precision Workstation 410 MT
> > > > > 	BIOS revision A08
> > > > > 	CPU: 2xPIII 450MHz
> > > > > 	Video card: 3DLabs Oxygen GVX1
> > > > > 	Ram: 1024MB
> > > > > 	Adaptec AIC-7890 BIOS DELL-V2.01.05
> > > > > 		SCSI ID 0	COMPAQ  DDRS-34560W ULTRA2-SE
> > > > > 		SCSI ID 1	SEAGATE ST173404LW  ULTRA2-SE
> > > > > 	Adaptec AIC-7880 BIOS DELL-V2.01.05
> > > > > 		SCSI ID 1   MATSHITA DVD-RAM LF-200
> > > > > 	Primary IDE1    ZIP drive
> > > > 

> > > > 
> > > > You could use the install CD as a rescue system, choose "run a command

> Ok, that seemed to work ok. Here is what uname -a produces:
> 
> Linux precision 2.6.18-5-486 #1 Fri Jun 1 00:07:22 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> vs the kernel on the hard drive, which is:
> 
> Linux precision 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 00:47:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> The only difference I see is the SMP - which as mentioned, I have tried
> disabling with a 'nosmp' argument.


The big difference is the -486 vs -686.  Of course, there are no boxes
with more than one 486 so it doesn't need SMP either.


> > > The initial install seems to require the 'aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_probe' to
> > > complete properly. If I omit that then I get no error but the install
> > > completes much sooner and I assume was truncated by an unreported error,
> > > as much less software ends up being installed.
> > 

> > If its happing in the regular filesystem boot (after initrd) then you
> > can add in /etc/modprobe.conf a line:
> > 
> > options aic7xxx aic7xxx=no_probe
> 
> Tried that, but it didn't seem to have any effect. There was no
> /etc/modprobe.conf to start with, so I created one with the line
> you suggested. But I'm not sure how to tell if the system is
> paying any attention to it at all...


Try the first command after you boot with your kernel (not the installer
CD) (you could even boot with init=/bin/sh to avoid the init.d scripts)
$ lsmod |grep aic

See if the aic module is even being loaded.


> 
> > if its happening in the initrd, then you have to get the module

> > presumabley the aic7xxx, try adding the module to 
> > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules with the parameter
> > 
> > aic7xxx no_probe
> > 
> > Then you'll need to re-run update-initramfs (possibly from a rescue CD).
> 
> I expected this to be the more likely solution, as the hard disk drivers
> will obviously need to be loaded before any modules can be loaded from
> hard disk...
> 
> Havn't tried it yet - it will be next on my agenda...

> > > After rebooting the system comes up with initd.rc aborting at some
> > > random place with a 'segmentation fault'. But I usually end up with
> > > a login prompt and can log in and execute commands. Errors are sporadic
> > > and unpredictable, and usually involve a command failing with a
> > > segmentation fault. But eventually I get a system lockup that requires
> > > a hard reset to recover from (CTL-ALT-DEL ignored, no key echo etc).

> > > I have also tried adding the aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_probe kernel option
> > > to /boot/grub/menu.lst as follows:
> > >  title       Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-686
> > >  root        (hd1,0)
> > >  kernel      /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_probe
> > >  initrd      /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686
> > >  savedefault
> > > 
> > > But that produced no appreciable change. Is there anything wrong with the
> > > way I am doing it?
> > 
> > kernel options would only work if the module was actually built into the
> > kernel.  Its not, its a separate module inserted by the initrd.
>  
> That explains why my neive approach didn't work. Which is good, because it
> means there is still hope that the no_probe parameter will fix things once
> I get it installed...
> 
> One thing that puzzles me at the moment though, is that I didn't pass
> the 'aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_probe' option to the rescue system, which seems
> to be working ok.


I don't understand either, but then again, the install CD and its boot
loader are quite complex.  I haven't looked at what different kernel
command lines are between 'install' and 'rescue'.  Perhaps check on the
CD.  I don't know on a CD; on a floppy it was syslinux.cfg.


> 
> That suggests to me that the problem may be a kernel difference and not
> necessarily the scsi driver. I suppose I need to find a way to boot
> properly onto the installed kernel with the scsi disabled to be sure...
> 
> > > 
> > > I should also add that the Windows 2000 which was already installed when I
> > > got he system seems to run reliably, as does the obsolete Ubuntu 5.04.
> > > Newer versions of Ubuntu wont install - some giving me a blank screen
> > > after trying to boot the install media, others (including the latest 7.10
> > > release) freeze if the adaptec AIC-7890 is not disabled in the BIOS (which
> > > prevents the install getting very far.
> > 
> > 
> > In case its not obvious, I had loadable kernel modules for the reasons

			s/had/hate/g

> > you're experiencing.  If you ever give up on Etch, try OpenBSD.
> 
> Thanks. I do run BSD on my main server, so it is an option ;)

 
Good luck.  You're at the limit of my knowledge and beyond the limit of
my experience.  Keep at it.  Hopefully someone else will jump in with
"the magic answer".

Doug.



Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:41:03 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Fresh Etch netinstall problems...
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:44:04PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:

> Some progress...
> 
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > > > > > It seems that the kernel used during the initial install was stable,
> > > > > > but the kernel it installed on the hard disk is not.
> > >  
> > > > > > 	Model: Dell Precision Workstation 410 MT
> > > > > > 	BIOS revision A08
> > > > > > 	CPU: 2xPIII 450MHz
> > > > > > 	Video card: 3DLabs Oxygen GVX1
> > > > > > 	Ram: 1024MB
> > > > > > 	Adaptec AIC-7890 BIOS DELL-V2.01.05
> > > > > > 		SCSI ID 0	COMPAQ  DDRS-34560W ULTRA2-SE
> > > > > > 		SCSI ID 1	SEAGATE ST173404LW  ULTRA2-SE
> > > > > > 	Adaptec AIC-7880 BIOS DELL-V2.01.05
> > > > > > 		SCSI ID 1   MATSHITA DVD-RAM LF-200
> > > > > > 	Primary IDE1    ZIP drive
> 

> Oops - overlooked the 486/686 difference initially..
> 
> When I spotted that, I tried installing the 486 kernel from the
> chrooted rescue media...
> 
> Bingo - It booted all the way and I now seem to have a working (though
> at reduced functionality) system...


HURRAY!


> 
> X comes up fully and everything seems to work, except that I only
> have a uni-processor system now, which is a bit of a bummer...
> 
> But this is progress, and hopefully a clue as to the problem...
> 
> So now I wonder what kernel difference could be causing a problem on this
> particular system. Could it be a SMP problem, even though running the 686
> kernel with 'nosmp' option still exibits the instability? Or does that
> mean it is some other difference between 686/486 kernel??
> 
> Any idea where I can go from here? I really would hate to have to settle for
> 50% of my processing power...
> 


diff the kernel config for both and see.  After all, they come from the
same kernel sources.


> I suppose I could try to lay my hands on an IDE drive and do a test install
> on that with the 7890 disabled. That would determine if the SCSI controller
> really is complicit in my problem.

 
--

OT:

I've never had a SMP box.  Do you find for normal desktop use that top
shows the second processor actually doing anything?  (I know you can't
answer this for Etch until this problem is solved, but what about
previous versions or other OSs (e.g. BSD).

Doug.



Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:17:12 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:21:41PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> Douglas,
> 
> Let me first say that my problem has been resolved. Seems to have been
> a combination of not opening the port in my hardware firewall (which I
> should have knwon), and a broken smtp server address. I'm able to
> send mail out now.
> 
> > Read /usr/share/doc/exim4-doc-html/html/spec_html/ch14.html 
> 
> Nice, if I had it ;-(. I installed exim4 under debian Etch, and no
> such exim4-doc-html direcory created. I've got some documentation, but
> not of this scale. 


package exim4-doc or some such.  Most packages that have extensive docs
have the docs split off; also they may come in different languages;
also, they may be of a non-free nature (no licence to change them) which
puts them in the non-free repository.


> 
> I have Hazel's book on Exim, and it seems to suggest I could use
> a line like this to specify the remote port (but that's apparently not
> what I want to do):
> 
>         port = 587
> 
> in perhaps /exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp. 


That's for split config which you aren't using so it won't help.  You'd
have to find the same spot in the single config file.


> 
> Perhaps If I had the time I could extract a clearer picture from the
> book.
> 
> Thanks for the help. 


You're welcome.  I'm glad it works.

Doug.



Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:53:33 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CUPS: Shared printers not shown
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 21:08:52 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:

> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 15:42:32 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I've got the following systems, all connected to the local network:
> >> 
> >> A: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
> >> B: Running Debian Etch, Epson Stylus C86 connected & published
> >> C: Running Debian Sid, Canon IP 4200 connected & published
> >> D: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
> >> 
> >> A sees all the printers in the network and is able to print on them,
> >> the same goes for B. C only sees the IP 4200 (and can print on it),
> >> while D seems to have absolutely no clue where to print.
> >> 
> >> I just set this up using the webinterface from CUPS, published those
> >> printers and asked it to show published printers from other systems -
> >> this worked for A and B.
> >> 
> >> Now my question: How can I make the two printers be visible on D and
> >> the Epson Stylus be shown on C?
> >> 
> >> There seems to be absolutely no information about this in the net,
> >> thus I'd really welcome any hints available.
> >
> >Can each machine see the shares on the other hosts if you use the tools
> >from the "smbclient" package?


[...]
 

> Sorry if I did not write that there's no Samba server running on my
> entire network, just plain CUPS. Like this, the above command results
> in an error connecting to <ip> (Connection refused).


I seem to have this knee-jerk reaction that I automatically think of
Windows if network printing problems are mentioned. I somehow missed the
fact that only Debian machines are involved this time...

Let's see, can you connect to the CUPS frontend of machines B and C if
you use a browser on D? What happens if you add a printer on D and put
in the appropriate ipp://hostname[:port]/resource device URI for the
printers on B and C? Do you have any access restrictions (firewall,
portmapping) on B and C? If you run nmap on D, what is reported for port
631 on B and C?

-- 
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          Florian   |



Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:20:32 +0000
From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re(OT): Fresh Etch netinstall problems...
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> OT:
> 
> I've never had a SMP box.  Do you find for normal desktop use that top
> shows the second processor actually doing anything?  (I know you can't
> answer this for Etch until this problem is solved, but what about
> previous versions or other OSs (e.g. BSD).
> 
> Doug.


I have BSDI running on a dual processor Tyan motherboard, and xosview
does show them both being quite well utilised. It isn't so important
if you are only running a single processor intensive application
(although even then it means that app can run at full speed while
your interactive work remains nice and responsive) but with two
processor intensive tasks (like an xserver processing screen updates
for xosview whilst I'm compressing a movie) it is very worthwhile.

This box is intended to be a server (SMB, HTTP, SMTP etc) as well as
being usable as a workstation, so I think it would be worthwhile.

Regards,
DigbyT
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http://www.digbyt.com

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:43:18 +0100
From: Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited
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Wayne Topa wrote:

> Sjoerd Hiemstra(shiems146@kpnplanet.nl) is reported to have said:
> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 Chris Brotherton wrote:
> > > I just recent got an old T20 and I am attempting to use Debian on
> > > it. I am using a PCMCIA orinoco wireless card.  Here is the crazy
> > > part. The card is recognized by the installer.  The installer
> > > asks me for my essid and my WEP key.  After I input the
> > > information, the wireless card get its ip address over dhcp and
> > > then works flawlessly.  The trouble comes when I finish the
> > > install and boot the machine.  Once the machine comes up, I
> > > cannot get the wireless card to work. iwconfig shows that it has
> > > all of the correct information, but it cannot get an ip address.
> > > I have tried both 4.0r1 and a testing snapshot. Both have the
> > > exact same problem.  
> > >
> > > Can anyone help?
> > 
> > I just recent got a Thinkpad T30, and now I'm having the same
> > problem, after installing Lenny on it, using a netinstall cd.
> > During bootup I noticed these messages, and there are comparatively
> > long pauses between them:
> > 
> >     DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> >     DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> >     DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> >     DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> >     DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> >     DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> > 
> >     No DHCPOFFERS received.
> >     No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> >     Done.
> > 
> > During other bootups, those interval numbers vary.
> > Personally I have no idea what to make out of this, but could it
> > shed some light on it for others?
> 
> You don't give enough information to really help troubleshooting these
> problems. ie  Gome or KDE or standard wireless setup.  Any useful
> answer depends, at least, on knowing which you are using to connect to
> your AP.


When I purchased the T30, it came with Windows XP pre-installed. Before
I wiped that, I took a look at the way its wireless connections work.
My router is set to WPA-PSK encryption by default, and after entering
the WPA-PSK key the connection was OK. Then again, the laptop had a
label saying 'Designed for Windows XP'. I wonder if the manufacturer
violated standards while adapting to XP.

The Lenny installer only knows WEP encryption, as far as I could see.
So I configured the router to WEP, the installer detected the
connection automatically, and installation from the internet went well.

The installer saw three connection systems in the laptop:
  - wireless connection with interface wifi0
  - wireless connection with interface eth0
  - ethernet connection with interface eth1.
Odd enough, only eth0 worked, not wifi0 as one would expect.

After booting the first time, the connection was lost.
Wireless is new to me, and I understand from your words that I'd better
make a study of standard wireless setup, and possibly try to get the
wired connection working in order to do an 'aptitude install kde' and
explore the possibilities that KDE offers.
Until now, I've only used Gnome's tools to try to re-establish the
connection.


> As I only use /etc/network/interfaces and dhclient to connect to an
> AP, all I can offer is, let us see what that file look like.


Contents of /etc/network/interfaces:

|  # The loopback network interface
|  auto lo
|  iface lo inet loopback
|
|  # The primary network interface
|  allow-hotplug wifi0
|  iface wifi0 inet dhcp
|          network 81.207.239.0
|          broadcast 81.207.239.255
|          # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
|          wireless-mode managed
|          wireless-essid SX551559148
|          wireless-key1 s:1234567890abccba0987654321
|          # dns-* options are mplemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
|          dns-nameservers 195.121.1.34 195.121.1.66
|          dns-search sh
|          wireless-key s:1234567890abccba0987654321
|
|  iface eth0 inet dhcp
|  wireless-essid SX551559148
|  wireless-key dde1fefdtc007b83e6ada40098
|
|  auto wifi0


s:12345... etc. is the WEP key.
dde1... etc. is the WPA-PSK key.


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Date:  Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:56:02 +0100
From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Contacts printing
Message-ID:  <87d4uyg871.fsf@gmail.com>
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I managed to sync my mobile phone to the PC with opensync, so I copied the
Contacts into the file system.

Then I fetched them with Evolution, but I don't like the way it prints them
out, and it doesn't seem to be customizable.

If anyone out there has experience with the matter, I wish a way to print the
Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file.
Thunderbird does not seem to work: it can't import them.

Suggestions welcome
thanks
Rodolfo

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