| 00:00.07 | peterS | Klipper: odd, it should have worked. try 'MAKEDEV sda' |
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| 00:00.22 | soukihei | what is the name of the gnome email client? |
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| 00:00.24 | Klipper | that worked |
| 00:00.28 | guestish | peterS: so mtools do operations on floppies and usb drives w/o mounting them? |
| 00:00.39 | peterS | guestish: any FAT filesystem, really. yes. |
| 00:00.46 | xenwryly | I'm getting an error in sed's postinst script when running "apt-get upgrade". Has anyone run into this? Is there a workaround for now? |
| 00:00.50 | guestish | peterS: ok |
| 00:01.00 | peterS | guestish: mtools is a suite of programs that emulate the MS-DOS interface for a lot of common file operations |
| 00:01.08 | guestish | peterS: ok |
| 00:01.11 | Klipper | peterS: when i ls, i don't see any devs!! |
| 00:01.19 | Tarquin_ | soukihei: Evolution is the normal one, I think. |
| 00:01.21 | Klipper | err, any sd* devs, atleast |
| 00:01.22 | peterS | Klipper: did 'MAKEDEV sda' work? |
| 00:01.32 | kenboo | xenwryly, did you do apt-get update? |
| 00:01.34 | Klipper | peterS: it appeared to work |
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| 00:02.01 | peterS | Klipper: certainly appears to work for me |
| 00:02.05 | xenwryly | kenboo: yeah, but I'll try it again |
| 00:02.09 | guestish | peterS: heh, even has an activity light on it...these usb drives are handy |
| 00:02.17 | peterS | Klipper: note that MAKEDEV operates in the current directory, so you have to 'cd /dev' first |
| 00:02.27 | peterS | guestish: nod - mine does too |
| 00:02.45 | Klipper | peterS: my cwd is /dev |
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| 00:02.52 | Klipper | err...pwd |
| 00:03.09 | peterS | Klipper: if you are using devfs, MAKEDEV will refuse to run, I think. I'm not sure. |
| 00:03.25 | Klipper | peterS: it does run |
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| 00:03.41 | peterS | Klipper: so if you are using devfs, and you have your usb-storage and sd_mod modules loaded, you should have /dev/scsi/blah/blah/blah/part1 |
| 00:03.44 | Klipper | peterS: are there any dependancies? |
| 00:04.03 | peterS | Klipper: makedev has no particular dependencies, no. but it will recognise devfs and exit, if it sees it |
| 00:04.50 | guestish | usb key...me likey :) |
| 00:04.56 | Klipper | Jessica:/dev# ./MAKEDEV sd* |
| 00:04.56 | Klipper | ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "sda1" |
| 00:05.08 | peterS | Klipper: wtf? you already have a sda1! |
| 00:05.24 | kpanic | CADAfd: it was this \[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\] |
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| 00:05.37 | peterS | guestish: I prefer the term 'dongle' for these things, but I seem to be pretty much alone in that |
| 00:05.44 | Klipper | peterS: i know! should i re-install makedev if possible? |
| 00:05.50 | ciga | I'd like to set a pppd server on an adsl line, but pppd says "The remote system is required to authenticate itself". Anyone can help me with this? |
| 00:05.59 | guestish | peterS: well its on my key ring so key seems more approperate ;) |
| 00:05.59 | peterS | Klipper: no. you should wake up and realise that it succeeded the first time |
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| 00:06.21 | racquad | Good night everybody. Can anyone help me with a broken package in sid? |
| 00:06.24 | Klipper | peterS: alright, obviously, then what should i do? i don't understand this |
| 00:06.25 | TMM | peterS: I call them "those usb thingies" but I seem to be alone in that too |
| 00:06.52 | peterS | Klipper: what's the failure mode? what is your computer not doing that you want it to be doing? |
| 00:06.58 | TMM | peterS: I call them "Where's the fsck did I put that thing" a lot too, but so do most people I know |
| 00:06.59 | TMM | ;) |
| 00:07.10 | peterS | TMM: yeah, that name seems to be a lot more common |
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| 00:07.17 | Klipper | peterS: its not mounting my camera |
| 00:07.34 | peterS | Klipper: is your camera listed as being a USB storage device? not all cameras are |
| 00:07.40 | Klipper | peterS: i have a sony dsc-p50 |
| 00:07.59 | Klipper | peterS: where would i find out? |
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| 00:08.04 | peterS | TMM: several people I know call them "dork sticks" |
| 00:08.14 | TMM | peterS: hehehe, that's funny ;) |
| 00:08.18 | peterS | Klipper: google for your model name and "gphoto2" |
| 00:08.36 | dondelelcaro | peterS: obviuosly not very young... those be sliderules... |
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| 00:08.53 | peterS | dondelelcaro: heh, indeed. not that you're old enough to know what a slide rule is either |
| 00:09.08 | racquad | Good night everybody. Can anyone help me with a broken package in sid? |
| 00:09.12 | dondelelcaro | peterS: sure I am. I have a few of them around |
| 00:09.13 | peterS | racquad: is it 'sed'? |
| 00:09.15 | kurumin | algum brasileiro aki? |
| 00:09.30 | RichiH | oh, sliderulers |
| 00:09.34 | peterS | kurumin: no, you should try #debian-br |
| 00:09.43 | racquad | no sid == unstable |
| 00:09.45 | kurumin | vlw |
| 00:09.49 | kurumin | tks |
| 00:09.52 | peterS | racquad: I know. what package is broken? |
| 00:10.01 | RichiH | scary, really |
| 00:10.07 | peterS | RichiH: oooh, that does sound like fun |
| 00:10.22 | RichiH | peterS: it was |
| 00:10.22 | racquad | i dont remember exactly, but I tried to install kmail... it's some libs |
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| 00:10.24 | Klipper | peterS: it has been supported since june 2002 |
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| 00:10.42 | peterS | Klipper: the gphoto2 page should tell you whether it's a USB storage device, or some custom interface |
| 00:10.56 | robc | anyone have any idea why DCgui just freezes when i try to "recreate share"? |
| 00:11.47 | Klipper | "Sony DSC-P50 (PTP mode)" |
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| 00:12.08 | Klipper | peterS: thats the closest thing i can find to what your talking about |
| 00:12.14 | TNKS | So does anybody know if Red Hat's service command does anything special? |
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| 00:12.33 | peterS | Klipper: that doesn't sound like USB storage. you should install gphoto2 and see if it knows what to do with your camera |
| 00:12.38 | TNKS | Somebody suggested it might, but I've never messed with Red Hat. |
| 00:12.47 | TNKS | (just Debian, really). |
| 00:12.50 | JVaughn | hello |
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| 00:14.19 | Klipper | peterS: gnome-volume-manager tells me when i turn it on and asks if i want to download the images, and when i click yes, it takes me to a promp, and the image shows "no camera detected" |
| 00:14.30 | Klipper | but device manager reccognizes it |
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