Re: [Hampshire] is it time to get rid of my advansys scsi controller?
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:46:05 +0100 Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: You could of course just copy the firmware off another machine. snippd I've put the ones off my machine (running kernel 2.6.30 - but I doubt that matters). Try them. Thanks Alan, I have copied them to the location Debian expects to find them and will try booting later. John -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Missing pounds
On Monday 29 June 2009 12:42:31 Jacqui Caren wrote: Samuel Penn wrote: I've had a problem for a while now with not being able to type a pound symbol. If I press shift+3, then I get a 3. All the Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? broken keyboard? If I drop out of KDE to the console, then things work, so the keyboard appears to be okay. wrong charset? Not sure. Country is set to UK in KDE control centre. What confuses me is that if charset/country is a problem, then I'd expect to get a different special symbol, rather than a 3. Is there a way to display X11 keyboard events, or some other way to monitor what the system (at various levels) thinks is being sent by the keyboard? -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam.Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Missing pounds
On Monday 29 June 2009 18:03:29 Vic wrote: Is there a way to display X11 keyboard events xev HTH It does. I can see that X11 is receiving the right state (shift) and keycode, but the keysym is wrong (when compared to what I get when the 2 and 4 keys are pressed). Time for some googling... Thanks. -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam.Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] No WPA2 option in Jaunty
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 17:34:57 +0100 (+0100), Rob Malpass wrote: [snip] Not sure which chipset it is - could be Prism2, in which case you _may_ be able to switch to the hostap driver - which also isnt ideal. The other option is to use ndiswrapper with a windows driver, which again, is less than perfect. Last option is get a new pcmcia/usb network card to replace that one. Just FYI I used to use hostap and WPA2 on a prism2 card (MA401) in case that's useful info. Even got a bug report to prove it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/211780 Adrian -- Email: adr...@smop.co.uk -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux - the maintainable distribution -*- www.debian.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Missing pounds
Scuse the gmail-mobile top-post. Isn't UK Unkranian? GB is normally what is needed. ISTR that with UK set there are no cyrillics, and things almost work, but not enough to get @ and others in the correct place. HTH On 6/29/09, Samuel Penn s...@glendale.org.uk wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 12:42:31 Jacqui Caren wrote: Samuel Penn wrote: I've had a problem for a while now with not being able to type a pound symbol. If I press shift+3, then I get a 3. All the Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? broken keyboard? If I drop out of KDE to the console, then things work, so the keyboard appears to be okay. wrong charset? Not sure. Country is set to UK in KDE control centre. What confuses me is that if charset/country is a problem, then I'd expect to get a different special symbol, rather than a 3. Is there a way to display X11 keyboard events, or some other way to monitor what the system (at various levels) thinks is being sent by the keyboard? -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam.Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Missing pounds
On Monday 29 June 2009 20:38:38 Chris Aitken wrote: Scuse the gmail-mobile top-post. Isn't UK Unkranian? GB is normally what is needed. ISTR that with UK set there are no cyrillics, and things almost work, but not enough to get @ and others in the correct place. It's actually set to United Kingdom, I just shortened it to UK in my email :-) -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam.Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] July Meeting
On Sunday 28 June 2009 21:20:35 Hants LUG Chairman wrote: Hi, Summer greetings! Our next meeting will take place on Saturday 04 July at Southampton, 10:00 - 16:30. Details are on the wiki[0] and as before please email Damian in advance if you plan to attend or need wireless network access. If anyone would like to give a talk[1] at the meeting, please let me or any committee member[2] know and we will add you to the list. I am still awaiting books to review, so at the moment I have no more books for review, and yes I've asked for everything you asked for... ;-) ### We have spoken with Jamie's Computer club and they are happy for us to visit them again[3]. To make it viable for them to open their doors to us on a weekend we need to make sure enough people turn up and that we are happy to have a look at what they have to sell - well actually buy stuff... Do we as a group want to go to James? When do we want to go? ### [0] http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?4thJuly2009 [1] http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingSuggestions/Talks [2] http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CurrentCommittee [3] http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/ I have looked at what jamies sell. Myself I find the computers they sell overpriced. If I find this how many others find this? A number of people who wanted to get rid of old computers have been told that they must pay Jamies for the privilege of taking the computer of their hands. The computers ended up being dumped in a landfill instead. Obviously I am not up to date with what Jamies are doing now. If people do not buy stuff at Jamies how does it effect the cost of meeting there. John Eayrs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] July Meeting
On Monday 29 June 2009 23:47:15 john wrote: I have looked at what jamies sell. Myself I find the computers they sell overpriced. If I find this how many others find this? A number of people who wanted to get rid of old computers have been told that they must pay Jamies for the privilege of taking the computer of their hands. The computers ended up being dumped in a landfill instead. Obviously I am not up to date with what Jamies are doing now. If people do not buy stuff at Jamies how does it effect the cost of meeting there. Their bits and bobs are very useful. Old cards, keyboards, cables etc. And I have bought a printer there. Many of us buy there whenever we want something a bit dated. I have always been very satisfied with what I have bought from Jamie's; but I have never in fact bought a computer from them. They are meeting a demand, even if it is not your demand. I doubt that it will be a condition of entry that every individual buy something, and I for one am happy to buy some bits and bobs to replenish my stock. I might even be lucky and find a Microsoft Intellimouse. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] July Meeting
On Monday 29 June 2009 23:47:15 john wrote: Do we as a group want to go to James? When do we want to go? Yes - but I may not be able to get there. School holidays has my vote. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
