> Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > > Hi folks > > > > I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped > > up in the easiest method possible > > > > 1. Flashcards / memory sticks > > - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives > > -- I have to become root -- its easy, but an annoyance - I have looked > > at automount and that is FAR more problems than im willing to go through > > (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like > > 3 pages), so if I could get it set up so that I can just do the mount > > commands as my user instead of having to su it would be nice > > Google for "gentoo dbus" or "gentoo hal". You want three programs. > Hal, D-Bus and ivman. Hal and gentoo are real easy, you basically > emerge and have them start at boot. ivman is the app that listens for > events and will carry out actions in a nice and easy xml file. There is > a system wide config and a per-user config. You can tell it to launch > totem/xine/mplayer if a DVD is inserted or mount your camera, usb key, > etc. > > > 2. Energy saver thingy > > - after about 10 minutes or so of inactivity, the screen shuts > > off under power saver -- I cant seem to find how to prevent this from > > happening, and could use some guidance > > Is it a BIOS thing? What kind of laptop? I have a new Toshiba laptop > and Toshiba did away with a real BIOS for some custom one with very few > settings. > > > 3. I need a good VPN Client with easy gui > > - right now our school has a VPN set up on the cisco pix that > > works beautifully with a Microsoft VPN connection on a windows box, I > > need to be able to access this with my gentoo laptop as well > > I can't help here. I have to use a Nortel VPN client. Their Linux > version just doesn't work. I paid $100 for it! My only option has been > to use VMWare and vpn into work that way. I needed VMWare anyway for MS > Dev stuff. I think I read somewhere that it is pretty easy to connect > to ciso VPN with Linux. A quick eix search shows these ebuilds: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ eix -Ss -c cisco > [N] dev-perl/Net-Telnet-Cisco (): Automate telnet sessions w/ > routers&switches > > [N] net-analyzer/ipcad (): IP Cisco Accounting Daemon > > [N] net-analyzer/ndsad (): Cisco netflow probe from libpcap, ULOG, > tee/divert sources. > > [N] net-misc/cisco-aironet-client-utils (): Cisco Aironet Client Utilities > > [N] net-misc/cisco-vpnclient-3des (): Cisco VPN Client (3DES) > > [N] net-misc/vpnc (): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software > > > 4. I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my > > switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the > > driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications > > program (equivalent to hyperterm ) to use with them to talk to my > > switches and to my UPS > > I never used one. However I just compiled my kernel and there seems to > be a whole bunch. Run make menuconfig and take a look at: > > Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial Converter support > > > Thanks folks - any pointers and/or suggestions are gladly welcomed
[Timothy A. Holmes] Hi Jim -- thanks for the response The card mounting stuff looks good, but is gonna require more time than I have right now to spend to set it up -- I will file it for future refrence. As far as the VPN Stuff - unfortunately, this is a cisco pix 501, and from what I can tell, it doesn't use the standard protocols (sadly) I tried the cisco client on another box and it just sat there and looked at me Thanks for the tip on the kernel stuff - I'll check into it when I do my next kernel build -- (something I avoid like the plague) -- TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
