Re: [expert] wireless cards
On Monday 20 January 2003 06:21 am, KevinO wrote: I just want to be able to get a connection without having to pay $20 a day for an ethernet connection. I will be traveling through London, Paris and Amsterdam. how does that work? you still need to get the internet feed from somewhere. if you're not paying for the ethernet connection (presumably at hotels), whose wireless network are you going to connect to? or are you going to be sniffing for open networks and leech off them? :). Will Mandrake 8.0 be current enough or should I upgrade ? i had lots of trouble getting my d-link WPC11 working on 8.2. basically, i had to build my own kernel and it was a major pain (because i have a bunch of other patches that i need, mainly win4lin, and it took weeks to get everything straightened out because of conflicts in the patches that i had to clean up myself despite not being a kernel geek at all) to get everything working. i think i had to download the latest wireless-tools too. at the time though, the d-link WPC11 wasn't well supported. it's now supported by stock MDK 9.0. if you're going with some of the more common cards though, you might be able to get them working in 8.0. if it were my box i'd upgrade. it was just too painful getting things to work right in 8.2 and if it works out of the box, that's where i want to be :). and 8.0 is old enough, that i don't think a lot of cards will work (well, maybe the Orinoco Bronze, but that's not worth using anymore, since it doesn't support WEP). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger*quimpo*org gquimpo*sni-inc.com tiger*sni*ph Public Key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78 This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Losing smooth scrolling after apm wakeup and hwclock --hctosys
On Sunday 12 January 2003 03:11 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: It definitely sounds like something is eating up your cpu though. no, that's not what it is. top -d 1 right after waking up from an apm -s does not show anything interesting. i get back to around 93% idle after a few seconds. in any case, i get exactly the same problem when, instead of apm -s, i just do: hwclock --hctosys or ntpdate tick.usno.navy.mil tock.usno.navy.mil tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger*quimpo*org gquimpo*sni-inc.com tiger*sni*ph Public Key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78 Veritas liberabit vos. Doveryai no proveryai. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?
On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:56 pm, Jim C wrote: I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk. you don't specify the format of the integers. are they space separated and all on one line? or are they line separated (each integer on its own line)? are there blank spaces (if the first) or blank lines (if the second) before the first integer? or are they in some other format? you say they're arbitrary size, so does that mean they aren't in some fixed column format? if they're one integer to a line, then head (for the first), tail (for the last), or some combination of head and tail (for anything in between) will get you the integer you want. if they're delimited by something (spaces, commas, colons, whatever), then cut -f fldnumber -d delimiter might help. otherwise, well, sed, awk, or some custom program in your favorite language. if there are blank lines or blank fields before the first number, then some sort of bash while loop would be needed to ignore the blank lines or blank fields, print the first non-blank field, and then exit the loop. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger*quimpo*org gquimpo*sni-inc.com tiger*sni*ph Public Key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78 Veritas liberabit vos. Doveryai no proveryai. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
