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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2008 : Issue 245

Today's Topics:

  Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan       [ Celejar  ]
  Help with FreeNX on Sparc             [ "Yi Shi"  ]
  Re: HELP! Boot stops at chkrootfs.sh  [ Ari Epstein  ]
  Re: Strange behaviour of K3B          [ Stephen Cormier  ]
  Re: Help with FreeNX on Sparc         [ "David Fox"  ]
  Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch)   [ "Jimmy Wu"  ]

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:20:29 -0500
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: wauhugo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

Message-Id: <20080131202029.3af3acc3.celejar@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:54:34 -0700
"wauhugo@yahoo.com" <wauhugo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Just in case, that this information could be helpful. Here is the PCI
> address of Broadcom WLAN interface:
>
> # lspci
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
> mini-PCI (rev 02)

The status of support for [9]4311 rev 02 cards is not entirely clear; Larry Finger (one of the devs) wrote on Sep. 24, 2007[0]:

Do you need help?

> Harry Wert wrote:
> > Don't know if this will help but it might. I am using a HP Pavillion
> > dv9210 with AMD dual processor 64bit and 2G memory. It contains a
> > Broadcom Corporation BCM94311 MCG wlan mini-pci card which states it is
> > rev 01. It worked well with feisty and works well on gutsy EXCEPT on my

[snip]

> The rev 01 cards work fine for most people. It is the rev02 ones that are a problem.

>From the b43 website [1]:

> bcm4311 rev 2 / bcm4312 (needs patches for 2.6.24)

Ask on the b43 list about the current status of support for your card.

[0]
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-September/005945.html [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported

> Hugo

Do you need more help?

Celejar

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:38:25 -0500 From: "Yi Shi" <shiyi1@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Help with FreeNX on Sparc Message-ID: <9669539e0801311738s378b1d9bl9e1e382bf6c16894@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_8868_26576086.1201829905779" ------=_Part_8868_26576086.1201829905779 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, I have a Debian Linux 4 running on Sun Ultra 60 machine. I want to install FreeNX on it so I can access the desktop remotely. I understand there is no binary available for Sparc machines. Could someone send detailed instructions on how to install it? Thanks in advance! Yi Shi ------=_Part_8868_26576086.1201829905779 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi All,<br><br>I have a Debian Linux 4 running on Sun Ultra 60 machine. I want to install FreeNX on it so I can access the desktop remotely. I understand there is no binary available for Sparc machines. Could someone send detailed instructions on how to install it?<br> <br>Thanks in advance!<br>Yi Shi<br> ------=_Part_8868_26576086.1201829905779--

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:38:13 -0500 From: Ari Epstein <ate2@cornell.edu> To: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HELP! Boot stops at chkrootfs.sh and can't fsck: /sbin/fsck: cannot execute binary file Message-Id: <AD5A61C4-AF17-4141-8623-9259AA20ACA4@cornell.edu> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-23-184394184 --Apple-Mail-23-184394184 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Thanks for the help. Not quite sure if I'm providing the right info, but... 1. I don't know any initrd files in the dom1, only the domU. The link to the initrd.gz is (from the xen ".cfg"): /boot/ initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 2. The rootdelay=30 did not resolve it. Here's the configuration for the dom1 (xen1). -A # # Configuration file for the Xen instance xen1, created on # Fri Oct 13 11:00:26 2006. # # # Kernel + memory size # kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64' ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64' extra = 'rootdelay=30' memory = '512' # # Disk device(s). # root = '/dev/sda1 ro' disk = [ 'phy:vg00/xen1-disk,sda1,w', 'phy:vg00/xen1-swap,sda2,w' ] # # Hostname # name = 'xen1' # # Networking # vif = [ 'ip=128.253.16.121' ] # # Behaviour # on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:47 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ari Epstein <ate2@cornell.edu> [2008.02.01.1056 +1100]:
>> Console output is as follows:
>
> Can you mount the filesystem and provide me with a link to the
> initrd.gz file for the kernel? The RAID does not start and it may be
> because the disk names have changed. Also, try adding rootdelay=30
> to the kernel command line and see if that fixes it.
>
> --
> .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user
> `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info
> `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
>
> one morning i shot an elephant in my pyjamas.
> how he got into my pyjamas i'll never know.
> -- groucho marx
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= border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Can you mount the filesystem and provide me with a = link to the</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">initrd.gz file for the kernel? = The RAID does not start and it may be</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">because = the disk names have changed. Also, try adding rootdelay=3D30</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">to the kernel command line and see if that fixes = it.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">--<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</span>.''`. <span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </span>martin f. krafft <<a = href=3D"mailto:madduck@debian.org">madduck@debian.org</a>></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">: :'<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 = </span>:<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </span>proud Debian = developer, author, administrator, and user</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">`. `'` = <span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </span><a = href=3D"http://people.debian.org/~madduck">http://people.debian.org/~maddu= ck</a> - <a = href=3D"http://debiansystem.info">http://debiansystem.info</a></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 = </span>`-<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </span>Debian - when = you have better things to do than fixing systems</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">one = morning i shot an elephant in my pyjamas.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">how he = got into my pyjamas i'll never know.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = </span>-- groucho marx</div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-23-184394184--

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:03:25 -0400 From: Stephen Cormier <s.cormier@gmx.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of K3B Message-Id: <200801312203.35673.s.cormier@gmx.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart54632992.P7uaM9rro3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart54632992.P7uaM9rro3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On January 31, 2008 03:54:43 am Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:36 +0000
> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> > I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason
> > the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held
>
> I've found that, if you insert a DVD/CD after starting K3b the reported
> size doesn't appear to get updated correctly. To get a correct size, I
> have to shut K3b down, and restart it. A bit of a pain, that.
No need to shutdown and restart just right click on the size of files total= =20 progress bar at the bottom then set it manually to the 4.4 option. Stephen =2D-=20 GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc --nextPart54632992.P7uaM9rro3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHon33jgQLPii62a8RAjmRAJwOcLz9ffY5NMX1Lka3ocldzVQtZwCg7GKz cYYGbv9Lm4XezXVNbnoYAQQ= =fVrv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart54632992.P7uaM9rro3--

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:08:32 -0800 From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> To: "Yi Shi" <shiyi1@gmail.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help with FreeNX on Sparc Message-ID: <359a3c580801311808n5280db9fvbaf04b89f7fc45f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 1/31/08, Yi Shi <shiyi1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Debian Linux 4 running on Sun Ultra 60 machine. I want to install
> FreeNX on it so I can access the desktop remotely. I understand there is no
> binary available for Sparc machines. Could someone send detailed
Have you thought about using other methods for remote desktop access that are already available in Debian, such as vncserver, vncclient and (of course) ssh, for remote tasks that don't require a graphical environment on the remote end? fox@m206-157:~$ sudo aptitude show vncserver [sudo] password for dfox: Package: vncserver State: not installed Version: 3.3.7-14 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> Uncompressed Size: 1204k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12), libx11-6, libxext6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), perl, xbase-clients, x11-common | xserver-common, vnc-common (>= 3.3.6-1) PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.6.8) Recommends: xfonts-base Suggests: vnc-java Conflicts: vnc, vnc-doc Replaces: vnc, vnc-doc Provides: vnc-server, xserver Description: Virtual network computing server software VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing `desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
>

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:11:43 -0500 From: "Jimmy Wu" <jimmywu013+debian@gmail.com> To: "Debian users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61] Message-ID: <7ffb3b2b0801311811x6e366036o195f35d6d2980515@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of.
>
> First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4?
> I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in
> /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run
> nvidia-settings -l &
> compiz --replace &
> gtk-window-decorator --replace &
>
> This doesn't work however. I've attached my .xsession-errors file.
>
> Secondly, is there some sort of compiz settings gui in debian etch? I
> couldn't find one, and the only thing I have available is
> gconf-editor, which is usable but difficult. For example, I wanted to
> turn off the wobbly plugin but I have yet to find the gconf entry that
> will let me do that.
>
I haven't gotten that many responses, but here's what I plan to do barring future suggestions. (1) About configuring compiz - I'll stick with gconf. It's not the easiest to use, but certainly easier than dealing with mixed systems. (BTW, I did find the gconf key that controls which plugins are loaded, eventually :-) ) (2) About having a gdm entry to start a compiz + xfce4 session on login. I haven't figured out how to do this yet (I think I will have to do more reading / looking around in my x startup scripts). In the meantime, I cheated and am getting about the same functionality with the xfce4-session manager. (3) A third thing I've noticed is a problem with autohidden panels. I have two - one on the left and one on the bottom. The bottom one works fine, but whenever I have compiz running, the one on the left ignores the mouse pointer and absolutely refuses to come out of hiding. -- Jimmy Wu Registered Linux User #454138

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:27:04 -0800 From: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> To: Angie =?UTF-8?B?TmVncsOzblJvbMOzbg==?= <qpe-g452@myamail.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: local copy of wikipedia Message-ID: <20080131182704.79975870@debian.csun.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:44:43 +0000 (UTC) Angie Negr=C3=B3nRol=C3=B3n <qpe-g452@myamail.com> wrote:
> Ivan Glushkov <glushkov <at> mail.desy.de> writes:
>=20
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I want to have wikipedia locally on my debian laptop.=20
> >=20
> > Which way of installing wikipedia would take the least disk space?
> > What software I need to install/configure/run to have a local copy with
> > the full search functionality?
>=20
>=20
>=20
> http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
>=20
>=20
You can use wget to create an offline mirror of the websites...there are ex= amples in the wget man page. You can set how deep you want wget to retrieve= the links.. amit

Date: 31 Jan 2008 21:04:34 -0500 From: Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: g++ missing Message-ID: <87k5lpjutp.fsf@aptiva.optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> writes:
> A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is
> missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points
> at
... My dumb mistake. aptitude search appears to be reg exp, so searching for g++ doesn't work! Search for g\+\+ finds it. sigh.

Can we help you?

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:30:37 -0800 From: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> To: Michel =?UTF-8?B?RMOkbnplcg==?= <daenzer@debian.org> Cc: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, debian-powerpc <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster? Message-ID: <20080131183037.6d963d74@debian.csun.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > Actually one more thing, any benefits to doing this? Besides the geek
> > satisfaction that all of us get from compiling a new kernel.
>
> I think self-compiling kernels is generally overrated. I'd suggest
> trying pre-packaged kernels from sid first.
>
Pre-packaged kernels from sid. Will they work under etch? And how would I do this? Thanks, Amit

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:58:32 -0700 From: "wauhugo@yahoo.com" <wauhugo@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan Message-ID: <47A298E8.30601@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Celejar wrote:
>
> The status of support for [9]4311 rev 02 cards is not entirely clear;
> Larry Finger (one of the devs) wrote on Sep. 24, 2007[0]:
>
>
>> Harry Wert wrote:
>>
>>> Don't know if this will help but it might. I am using a HP Pavillion
>>> dv9210 with AMD dual processor 64bit and 2G memory. It contains a
>>> Broadcom Corporation BCM94311 MCG wlan mini-pci card which states it is
>>> rev 01. It worked well with feisty and works well on gutsy EXCEPT on my
>>>
>
> [snip]
>
>
>> The rev 01 cards work fine for most people. It is the rev02 ones that are a problem.
>>
>
> >From the b43 website [1]:
>
>
>> bcm4311 rev 2 / bcm4312 (needs patches for 2.6.24)
>>
>
> Ask on the b43 list about the current status of support for your card.
>
> [0]
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-September/005945.html
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Thank you. According to this post https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-January/006622.html did I fetch the patch from http://linuxwireless.org/download/b43/patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2 and copied the file to /usr/src/ then followed these actions to build the kernel from debian 2.6.24 source with these patches: # ln -s linux-source-2.6.24 /usr/src/linux # cp /boot/config-2.6.24-1-amd64 /usr/src/linux/.config # cd /usr/src/linux # patch -p1 <patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2 # make clean # make xconfig # make-kpkg clean # fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-b43 kernel_image kernel_headers # cd .. # sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.24-b43_2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb # sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-b43_2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb (these lines are handwriting and may have typos) The installation runs finally into this error: [...] Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-b43 (2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:26 yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:26/LNXVIDEO:01 yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output (fatal) mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-b43 (--install): [...] What can I do, to bypass this error during installation on the debian sid system? Hugo

Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:51:28 -0200 From: Sergio Belkin <sebelk@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: OT:weird problem downloading big files Message-Id: <200802010051.28570.sebelk@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi,=20 I've stuck with a weird problem...=20 I can't download "big" files, I mean, I can't download well DVD iso files, = for=20 example, if I try download any file of=20 http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/geeklog/staticpages/index.php?page=3D200801231703= 24195 I get something so: wget=20 http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/espejo/Mandriva/2008.0/mandriva-linux-2008.0-free= =2Ddvd-i586.iso =2D-00:40:53-- =20 http://linux.cucea.udg.mx/espejo/Mandriva/2008.0/mandriva-linux-2008.0-free= =2Ddvd-i586.iso =3D> `mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-dvd-i586.iso' Resolviendo linux.cucea.udg.mx... 148.202.23.6 Connecting to linux.cucea.udg.mx|148.202.23.6|:80... conectado. Petici=F3n HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK Longitud: 269.768.704 (257M) [application/octet-stream] 0%=20 [ = ]=20 14.872 17.01K/s 257M??? Why other iso files has similar problem.... At first glance, I think that my wireless router was putting a limit, but t= hen=20 I connect directly to my ISP... I'm not behind a proxy (well, I don't if my= =20 ISP has one) but it's a recent=20 problem, please could say me what's wrong? Same problem using either Mandriva 2008 or Fedora 8 :( Thanks in advance, and I'm sorry for the OT =2D-=20 Sergio Belkin =2D--------------------------------------- End of debian-user-digest Digest V2008 Issue #245 ************************************************* Received on Thu Jan 31 22:21:58 2008

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