Laptop pcmcia

[Rick Sivernell]

list

   I have a question here, I have installed a new copy of eW3.1 on a laptop and
the pcmcia is not all the way up. Now going thru the Howto's from David Hinds,
I have them printed in a book, it says there should be a pcmcia file in /etc/rc.d
directory. I also tried /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart and got an error that the
./pcmcia file is missing. Is this file a symlink or am I missing something. Any
info will be most appreciated


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Firewall Question

[Jim Bonnet]

Could someone enlighten me on the finer aspects of firewalling. What I 
have is a new netgear router/firewall at home. It all works very well, 
but.. In the logs that it generates I see that The IMAPS server I am 
connecting to wants to make a connection back to me on some high port.

My question is should I open these high ports to allow this? None of the 
rules I have created allow this so it goes to the default rule wich is deny.

Further, I have googled and also been reading the oreilly book about 
building internet firewalls, and it says nothing about IMAP making a 
connection back to the client on a high port.

Here is a snip from the log:

2003 Jan 11 10:09:12 (FM114P-2a-5f-a4) 63.206.87.66 TCP packet - 
Source:63.206.87.67,993,WAN - Destination:63.206.87.66,33815,LAN [Drop] 
- [Inbound Default rule match]

When this happens I lose the connection to IMAP and I need to relogin, 
so this must be a discovery packet or something I suppose.

What would the suggestion be?

Thanks-
Jim

btw: 63.206.87.66 is the router, 63.206.87.67 is my mail server in the 
DMZ, and I am on a 192.168.x.x machine doing NAT behind this router.


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Sound problem: Microphone input gives low quality output

[Joel Hammer]

I am trying to get clear sound coming from a microphone, connected to my
sound card, and playing through speakers connected to the sound card. I have
tried two different computers with different sound cards and
speakers  and two different  microphones (cheap pc microphones) and
the result is the same.  I have to hold my mouth right up against the
microphone to get any output from the speakers. This is associated with
considerable distortion of the sound (words). I have played with
every knob in kmixer, but nothing changes for the better.

Audio files (mp3's, really) play on both these computers with no garbled
sounds.

Any suggestions appreciated,

Joel

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Re: Gimp question: Resizing part of an image

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:08:40PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I don't know where to start looking this up in the gimp manual.
>Is there a way to select and resize part of an image?
>The idea here is to insert a ruler into an image which could be scaled
>to match the image. I would take the picture using some nasty, dirty,
>foul looking ruler, made from brass which nobody has bothered to polish
>for a while, likely covered with fresh blood and bile, next to the object
>being photographed. Then, edit the image, replacing the real ruler with
>a fancy one (an immaculate white on a pure black background with our
>hospital logo, or some such). The only question is scaling the new ruler.

I'm not a gimp expert by any means, but I'll make a suggestion anyway.
First create the new ruler either in a separate layer or gimp window.  Size
appropriately, then paste into the image.

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Re: Gimp question: Resizing part of an image

[Joel Hammer]

Fuggeta about it.
I stumbled onto the transform tool.
Joel


On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:08:40PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I don't know where to start looking this up in the gimp manual.
> Is there a way to select and resize part of an image?
> The idea here is to insert a ruler into an image which could be scaled
> to match the image. I would take the picture using some nasty, dirty,
> foul looking ruler, made from brass which nobody has bothered to polish
> for a while, likely covered with fresh blood and bile, next to the object
> being photographed. Then, edit the image, replacing the real ruler with
> a fancy one (an immaculate white on a pure black background with our
> hospital logo, or some such). The only question is scaling the new ruler.
> 
> Joel
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Re: mtrr setup?

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:48 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel 
wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:09:14 -0500
>
> begin  Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:

> > Perhaps only one write-back per type of RAM module? I have two sticks of
> > RAM, a 512MB and a 256MB and I get
> > $ cat /proc/mtrr
> > reg00: base=0x (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> > reg01: base=0x2000 ( 512MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
>
> yep -- the values jive w/ your memory
>
> > reg02: base=0xe400 (3648MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg05: base=0xe000 (3584MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=2
> >
> > reg02 is my video card. Dunno what reg05 is. I've only got 1 video card
> > installed. I have a SCSI card for one of my CD-RW's, a sound card and a
> > NIC.
>
> a PCI host bridge perhaps? (look in /proc/iomem)
>

That'd be it...

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Re: KPF

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote:
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% >Kde Pukes Flawlessly ;-)
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% Yeah, but it does it in full technicolor 

You've got a point there, Ted.

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Re: New CD won't play

[Federico Voges]

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:49:37 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote:
>% Don't know if this is a linux issue or not, but here goes...
>% I have a brand new audio CD that plays perfectly well on my stereo and in my 
>% car, but won't play on my PC. I have a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW (6x4x16x) and a 
>% LiteOn IDE CD-RW (24x10x40x). Neither of which like the CD. 
>% Other audio CD's seem to work fine, this new one doesn't. FWIW, it's an import 
>% from Australia (the Dead Ringer Band).
>% Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and how to overcome it?
>
>Congratulations. You've just been bitten by RIAA and digital rights
>management, that is, by RIAA managing your digital rights and deciding
>on your behalf where you can play your music. I'd return the CD as
>defective, because it *is* defective.
>

Am I wrong or some time ago Philips was about to file a lawsuit against
the RIAA and/or record labels for distributing those discs with the
"Compact Disc" logo  when in fact where in violation of the specs??

Bye!
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make mrproper, etc

[Brett I. Holcomb]

What exactly do the following commands do.  I've seem them in the StepxStep and other 
guides but haven't seen an explanation of them.

make clean
make distclean
make mrproper
make dep
make clean bzImage
make modules (I assume this builds anything I've defined as being a module)
make modules_install (This installs the module in /lib/modules/* ???)

When I am rebuilding my kernel do I need make clean, make distclean, and make mrproper?

Thank you.
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Fonts

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

Doing my daily freshmeat browsing, I've discovered this site
http://www.dustismo.com/

There, you can find a few free fonts (True Type) and some links to
other related sites like: Free Font Foundation, Larabie Fonts,
Fontosaurus, etc.




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Gimp question: Resizing part of an image

[Joel Hammer]

I don't know where to start looking this up in the gimp manual.
Is there a way to select and resize part of an image?
The idea here is to insert a ruler into an image which could be scaled
to match the image. I would take the picture using some nasty, dirty,
foul looking ruler, made from brass which nobody has bothered to polish
for a while, likely covered with fresh blood and bile, next to the object
being photographed. Then, edit the image, replacing the real ruler with
a fancy one (an immaculate white on a pure black background with our
hospital logo, or some such). The only question is scaling the new ruler.

Joel


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Re: New CD won't play

[C M Reinehr]

Tim Wunder wrote:

> On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A.
> Bandel wrote:
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>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:53:33 -0500
>>
>> begin  Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
>> > Don't know if this is a linux issue or not, but here goes...
>> > I have a brand new audio CD that plays perfectly well on my stereo and
>> > in my car, but won't play on my PC. I have a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW
>> > (6x4x16x) and a LiteOn IDE CD-RW (24x10x40x). Neither of which like the
>> > CD. Other audio CD's seem to work fine, this new one doesn't. FWIW,
>> > it's an import from Australia (the Dead Ringer Band).
>> > Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and how to overcome it?
>>
>> DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights).
>> Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your
>> computer's CD.  The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept delibrately
>> broken products.
>>
>> 
> 
> I tend to agree, but wouldn't another way to fight DRM be by rendering the
> technology to "digitally [mangle] your rights" ineffective?
> 

This might give you personal satisfaction, but would do nothing to lead 
them to change their behavior.

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TALUG:Ready or not, here it is - The Economic Times

[Scott Patterson]

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A very good article on the adoption of Linux. The list of enterprises
and countries using Linux is quite impressive.



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Re: mtrr setup?

[David A. Bandel]

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:09:14 -0500
begin  Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:

> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 8:43 pm, someone claiming to be David A.
> Bandel wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:56:37 -0500
> 
> >
> > reg00: base=0x (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
> > reg01: base=0xe400 (3648MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1
> > reg02: base=0xdc00 (3520MB), size=   4MB: write-combining, count=1
> >
> > IIRC, you can only have one write-back entry, the rest will be
> > write-combining.  
> 
> 
> Perhaps only one write-back per type of RAM module? I have two sticks of
> RAM, a 512MB and a 256MB and I get
> $ cat /proc/mtrr
> reg00: base=0x (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> reg01: base=0x2000 ( 512MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1

yep -- the values jive w/ your memory

> reg02: base=0xe400 (3648MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=1
> reg05: base=0xe000 (3584MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=2
> 
> reg02 is my video card. Dunno what reg05 is. I've only got 1 video card 
> installed. I have a SCSI card for one of my CD-RW's, a sound card and a
> NIC.

a PCI host bridge perhaps? (look in /proc/iomem)

Ciao,

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Re: New CD won't play

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:53:33 -0500
begin  Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:

> Don't know if this is a linux issue or not, but here goes...
> I have a brand new audio CD that plays perfectly well on my stereo and
> in my car, but won't play on my PC. I have a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW (6x4x16x)
> and a LiteOn IDE CD-RW (24x10x40x). Neither of which like the CD. 
> Other audio CD's seem to work fine, this new one doesn't. FWIW, it's an
> import from Australia (the Dead Ringer Band).
> Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and how to overcome it?

DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights). 
Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your
computer's CD.  The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept delibrately
broken products.

Ciao,

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(fwd) Re: [XFree86] Problems with font anti-aliasing

[kwall]

Geez! This came from the XFree86 mailing list. If a KDE developer
doesn't know how to fix this fairly common problem, tell me again
why I should *use* KDE?

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% Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:13:04 +0100
% From: Sven Lueppken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% Subject: Re: [XFree86] Problems with font anti-aliasing
% To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
% 
% Hi again!
% 
% Ok, it seems, the problem went away...weird, I did nothing.
% But there's one problem left (which prevents me from coding for KDE again 

Hmm. Hacking new features instead of fixing existing broken ones, 
no doubt.

% ;)...the key with the pipe, > and < is dead on my german keyboard...I already 
% checked my XF86Config file and it looks correct (still using XFree CVS).
% 
% Regards,
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He *really* meant, "Look out for KDE 3.1 (ready early January 2003)".
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Re: New CD won't play

[kwall]

Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote:
% Don't know if this is a linux issue or not, but here goes...
% I have a brand new audio CD that plays perfectly well on my stereo and in my 
% car, but won't play on my PC. I have a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW (6x4x16x) and a 
% LiteOn IDE CD-RW (24x10x40x). Neither of which like the CD. 
% Other audio CD's seem to work fine, this new one doesn't. FWIW, it's an import 
% from Australia (the Dead Ringer Band).
% Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and how to overcome it?

Congratulations. You've just been bitten by RIAA and digital rights
management, that is, by RIAA managing your digital rights and deciding
on your behalf where you can play your music. I'd return the CD as
defective, because it *is* defective.

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this year's PGP key

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You can download this year's PGP key for me at 
http://doug.hunley.homeip.net/doug.key


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Reply-to is fixed

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seems the upgrade to mailman 2.1 did some weird things with my settings. they 
should be fixed on all the lists now. let me know personally (not to the 
lists) if things still aren't right
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New CD won't play

[Tim Wunder]

Don't know if this is a linux issue or not, but here goes...
I have a brand new audio CD that plays perfectly well on my stereo and in my 
car, but won't play on my PC. I have a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW (6x4x16x) and a 
LiteOn IDE CD-RW (24x10x40x). Neither of which like the CD. 
Other audio CD's seem to work fine, this new one doesn't. FWIW, it's an import 
from Australia (the Dead Ringer Band).
Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and how to overcome it?

Thanks, 
Tim

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Re: another small problem with networking

[David A. Bandel]

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begin  Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:

> [ snips ]
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:42:26 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:57:00 +1000
> > begin  Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> > 
> > > At 05:55 PM 5/01/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >If you want to know how to put both Win boxes on the same subnet
> > > >using the bridge tools, let me know and I'll provide you a short
> > > >SxS.
> > > >
> 
> > 
> > First a little theory so you understand what's going on.
> > 
> > Basically there are three networking devices: gateways, routers, and
> > bridges.  These are systems that normally have multiple interfaces.
> > 
> > For our (very limited) purposes, gateways and routers are the same
> > (please don't flame, I know better, but I want to talk about bridges)
> 
> Very clear presentation.  Now dummies like me who don't deal with
> communications protocols very often would like to know - why would you
> use a bridge as opposed to a gateway/router?

Some very general examples (which I happen to have in practice)

Often, you'll find that you have systems you want on the same network that
are spread out over a large area.  Wireless is one of the best examples of
this, where you may have 10-30 clients hitting each access point, but you
don't want the nightmare of routing, or you want the systems to do load
balancing so you don't have 50 on one AP and 5 on another (this function
is also performed by STP, the spanning tree protocol).  DSL is another
example.  I don't route to the DSL modems because I'd burn up twice the
IPs and need 3 C blocks where one works now.

Because of the way they work, routers have to have valid IPs on each
subnet to route.  But true bridges don't.  So my DSL clients have a public
IP, but all my modems have a private IP (it's for administration only). 
In fact, the modems all have the same private IP.  But it's not visible
except to the system directly connected if it's on the same private subnet
(which they're not).

In Keith's case he can go either way because he's using private IPs and
NAT on the internal systems.  But if his ISP lets him have 5 public IPs
for his use and he decides to put them to work directly (rather than via
DNAT under iptables, which has some protocol limitations), under his
scenario, only bridging will allow him to use them all.  Breaking a /29
block (where he has 5 usable IPs for 3 interfaces) into two /30 blocks
(each w/ 2 usable IPs, 3 for his use on 5 interfaces, but only two, not
the three needed subnets) nets him nothing. (How did I go from 3
interfaces to 5? Remember a bridge combines two or more interfaces into
one, in a case like this you'd have the three interfaces on his one box
act as one bridge interface, and the other two systems each have one
interface).

Did this answer the question?

David A. Bandel
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