Wireless Card for Sale
I have an Orinoco Gold 802.11b PC-Card (Manufacturer Part # 8420-WD) I found out the hard way that it is not linux compatible. I'd like to get $45 for it. Or trade for an linux-compatible one. :) -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Correction: Monadnock Linux User Group - August 11th
The next meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be this Thursday, August 11th, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind South Meadow School in Peterborough. AGENDA 1. Announcements. 2. Ted Roche will present WebMin, a web-based administration tool for maintaining many common Linux servers, systems and settings. WebMin is a Perl-based dedicated web server with a well-documented API for adding plug-ins to to nearly anything to a Linux system remotely. WebMin includes a well-thought-out security model and has an active development community. Ted will show off how he uses WebMin to maintain several web sites and servers and will explore the interface, entertaining question on "Will this do..." and "How can I..." * We're also looking for topics for future meetings. If you have a suggestion or would like to present a topic yourself, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this announcement to anyone you think may be interested in attending. Thank you, Guy Pardoe MonadLUG Coordinator ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: wireless question
Thomas M. Albright wrote: I have an IBM A21m ThinkPad running Fedora Core 2. I have a Proxim/Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless card It works just grand in windows, but I jucat can't seem to get Linux to see it. You might want to try the ndis wrapper approach and run it with the Windows driver under Limux. -Fred My wireless.opts file is: *,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:20:2D:*) INFO="" ESSID="" MODE="" KEY="" ;; conig.opts: module "orinoco_cs" opts "network_name=My\ Network" network.opts: *,*,*,*) BOOTP="no" IPADDR="192.168.0.130" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" ;; ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Anyone using Win4Lin Pro? (V5 I think)
hewitt_tech wrote: Because we have certain applications that will only run under Windows, I was thinking about picking up a copy of Win4Lin Pro. Is anyone using it and if so, what are your impressions? -Alex I am using Win4Lin pro, and it's *slow*, to put it bluntly. Don't even think of trying to play games with it. I use it basically to test sites on the crappernet explorer, or to run Dreamweaver. Also, there is no support for USB devices (other than the mouse and keyboard), which just kills me. If you need USB, you may be better off with VMWare, which at least supports one port, or so I'm told. I don't know why it's so slow on my system, but the slowness seems tied to the graphics rendering. It should be OK for anything not too graphics intensive. The slow graphics rendering may be a configuration issue on my part. Dunno. Don't think so. No time to bother tracking it down. I believe Win4Lin Pro has a fully functional demo mode which allows you to play with it for 2 weeks or so before you buy it. A nice thing about W4L is being able to keep a backup copy of its "hard drive" -- just a big 2 or 4G file on the Linux side. Get hit with a virus or something screws up your system? No problem! Just copy the hard drive backup file over the live one. I've installed Windows 2000 Pro on it, and it is supposed to work with XP too. You *will need* the Windows install CDs. Set up is a bit tricky, but comes with instructions. Just follow them and all should be well. Oh, it allows you seamless access to your Linux file system in your login account which is where you'll want to keep everything, since it is limited on the HD space on the virtual drive. Well, that about wraps it up. Feel free to ask me any other questions you may have. Since I have Windows installed on my new laptop as a dual boot system, I find myself using Win4Lin less -- basically if I forget to bring my laptop upstairs from the garage (out of my car, of course). -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Earthlink Cable
Anybody on the list use Earthlink's cable service? It's cheaper then Comcast. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: wireless question
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > I have an IBM A21m ThinkPad running Fedora Core 2. > I have a Proxim/Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless card > > It works just grand in windows, but I jucat can't seem to get Linux to > see it. > Found the problem. It's an 8420-WD, which is unsupported in Linux. So, nevermind. -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Anyone using Win4Lin Pro? (V5 I think)
Because we have certain applications that will only run under Windows, I was thinking about picking up a copy of Win4Lin Pro. Is anyone using it and if so, what are your impressions? -Alex
Re: BASH question: executing a cmd with a pipe that is in a variable
On Tuesday, Aug 9th 2005 at 15:13 -0400, quoth Larry Cook: =>I'm being stupid! Can someone please help? => =>I've got a BASH script with the following: => =>CMD="zcat myfile | tar xf -" =>$CMD => =>This puts zcat's output to stdout, rather than piping it to tar like I want. =>Now I'm sure this is how it *should* work. :-( Unfortunately, I can't figure =>out how to get it to work like I want. You've already gotten the solution to use the eval command. But I thought it would be instructional to 'splain it so you know why. Look at this example and it becomes more obvious. foo='echo hello | cat' if you say $foo you're expecting to see a hello. Instead you correctly see hello | cat i.e., what you're really getting is this echo 'hello | cat' which makes it perfectly obvious what's happening. If you really want the command to be executed you need an eval to prevent the "myfile | tar xf -" to all not be args 1 through 5 to zcat. Sounds logical to a Vulcan... -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
wireless question
I have an IBM A21m ThinkPad running Fedora Core 2. I have a Proxim/Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless card It works just grand in windows, but I jucat can't seem to get Linux to see it. My wireless.opts file is: *,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:20:2D:*) INFO="" ESSID="" MODE="" KEY="" ;; conig.opts: module "orinoco_cs" opts "network_name=My\ Network" network.opts: *,*,*,*) BOOTP="no" IPADDR="192.168.0.130" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" ;; -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Interesting site/book
Free Software for Busy People: http://freedomsoftware.info/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Fictional, but provides realistic "case studies" of those who have switched to FOSS in business/gov't/non-profit/educational environments. -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
