2 questions

[eraker]

These are for an ibook with debian on it.

1. The wireless ethernet card keeps notifying me on the command line of wireless signals that come in and out of range. No matter what I'm doing, it pops up wherever the cursor is with "eth0: bla bla bla" (sorry, I don't have the exact message available at the moment). This is obnoxious because I could be editing a file or issuing any bash command and everything to the right of the cursor will be taken up with this little message. In fact, I was just writing a little bash script and every few seconds I would get these ethernet card messages that made it so that I had to close the file and open it again to see it clean. Does anyone know where I can edit the automatic printing of these messages to standard output (I could easily send them to a file with a time stamp or something so they don't have to interrupt what I'm doing, or even to f11 or something?)?

2. I want to know where the script that calls my default window manager on startup is probably located, or an easy way to change the default window manager. I searched through /etc and I couldn't find anything that pointed me in the right direction.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[AndrewB]

These are for an ibook with debian on it.

1. The wireless ethernet card keeps notifying me on the command line of wireless signals that come in and out of range. No matter what I'm doing, it pops up wherever the cursor is with "eth0: bla bla bla" (sorry, I don't have the exact message available at the moment). This is obnoxious because I could be editing a file or issuing any bash command and everything to the right of the cursor will be taken up with this little message. In fact, I was just writing a little bash script and every few seconds I would get these ethernet card messages that made it so that I had to close the file and open it again to see it clean. Does anyone know where I can edit the automatic printing of these messages to standard output (I could easily send them to a file with a time stamp or something so they don't have to interrupt what I'm doing, or even to f11 or something?)?

I also have this issue.

[eraker]

I figured out the answer to the second one. I needed to change the symbolic links for "x-window-manager" and "x-window-manager.1.gz" in /etc/alternatives/ from one window manager to the other.

[eraker]

I'm still getting these obnoxious ethernet notifications that are really making it hard to use the command line or text editors effectively. I'm having trouble figuring out which script in debian is sending these notifications to the command line. I think if I can find the script, I can re-reroute it, but I can't find the script. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[eraker]

I'm sorry to bump my own thread, but I'm still having trouble with this. I can't seem to find the script that is responsible via googling or reading init scripts or other stuff in /etc. Here's the problem, as I wrote it above:

1. The wireless ethernet card keeps notifying me on the command line of wireless signals that come in and out of range. No matter what I'm doing, it pops up wherever the cursor is with "eth0: bla bla bla" (sorry, I don't have the exact message available at the moment). Does anyone know where I can edit the automatic printing of these messages to standard output (I could easily send them to a file with a time stamp or something so they don't have to interrupt what I'm doing, or even to f11 or something?)?

Thanks for any help. If no one has any idea how to fix this, I'll just keep looking.