[SLUG] ndiswrapper in mandrake 10
Finally got mandrake 10, and installed ndiswrapper for my annoying netgear wg311v2, everything is working ok, and i got network connection, but when i do a restart, the configuration for thw wifi seems to be lossed, I recall someone in the group also have the same problem, just want to know how you go around it? Thanks Steven -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Bingo. 'message' dump = ... ... ... Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.192.124#53 Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.193.124#53 Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.192.124#53 Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.193.124#53 Aug 25 16:52:22 linux01 named[5353]: message.c:809: REQUIRE(*rdataset == ((void *)0)) failed Aug 25 16:52:22 linux01 named[5353]: exiting (due to assertion failure) - The full file is 600kb+ dated from Aug 22. - The last few rolled logs (from whenever to Aug 22) are about 16k in size! Those are just the last few lines (obviously!) Does this help? Bind version: bind-9.2.0-8 If it can be fixed without re-installing / upgrading bind or named, then fantastic! =) I sense progress ;) I also looked at the zone files as per Plameras advice. NONE of them seemed to have Tabs.? And from memory, this was always the case. I changed a couple of the more important ones to have tabs anyway... I'll give an update tomorrow, in the meantime, if someone sees something else, or finds something in the log extract above, feel free to post it ;) Ta. Regards, Jared Pritchard The Waterexchange Pty Ltd Ph: (02) 6881 6316 Fax:(02) 6881 6318 -Original Message- From: David Gillies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2004 1:54 PM To: Jared Pritchard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns) Jared Pritchard wrote: I assume just by running it...? When I do it reports nothing. =) I'm not confident/experienced enough to make 'major' changes like updating named, because this server is very critical to our livelihood. I can't risk taking it offline. =( on my server, named logs all its output to /var/log/messages If you run 'grep named /var/log/messages', what does it come back with? Any other thoughts as to why it just suddenly started doing this without any apparent reason, or anything I can do to fix it? Also, I can't manage to figure out how to find its distribution. It's not in /etc/issue, and wasn't installed as a package (ie. rpm doesn't list it) try running rpm -q bind. What does it come back with? The dns server package under Redhat linux is called bind. It must be some sort of configuration error because it still does it after a reboot (mind you, I haven't tried a cold boot) - but we made If a warm reboot doesn't work, then a cold boot isn't going to do anything for you under linux unless it was specifically a hardware issue. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Obviously, when you find spaces, replace with TABS. That's false. BIND copes just fine with spaces or tabs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
This one time, at band camp, Jared Pritchard wrote: I assume just by running it...? When I do it reports nothing. =) It checks the config in (by default) /etc/named.conf and reports errors. If that returned nothing then there's nothing wrong with the configuration. The other thing to try (based on the assertion failure in your other mail) is to use named-checkzone on the zone files to see if there's an error there. named-checkzone domain path/to/zonefile -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
This one time, at band camp, Jared Pritchard wrote:
Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving
'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.192.124#53
These are mostly harmless and can be ignored, if you want to chuck them out
of the logs totally then the following
logging {
category lame-servers { null; };
};
in named.conf will hush it up.
Aug 25 16:52:22 linux01 named[5353]: message.c:809: REQUIRE(*rdataset ==
((void *)0)) failed
Aug 25 16:52:22 linux01 named[5353]: exiting (due to assertion failure)
I think you have a bad zonefile somewhere.
And you shouldn't need to restart BIND to make any changes, if you have rndc
set up correctly then 'rndc reconfig' to reload any changes to named.conf
and 'rndc reload domain' to reload the zone without interrupting
nameservice.
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Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Obviously, when you find spaces, replace with TABS. That's false. BIND copes just fine with spaces or tabs. When did this specs change. With BIND 4 this is the case, namely: that delimiters on zone files must be TABS and not SPACE. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, O Plameras wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Obviously, when you find spaces, replace with TABS. That's false. BIND copes just fine with spaces or tabs. When did this specs change. With BIND 4 this is the case, namely: that delimiters on zone files must be TABS and not SPACE. I've never used tabs I've been using BIND since 4. Maybe I was lucky :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [chat] Unwired
Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, spake thus. Does anyone have any experience of unwired.. .good, bad or ugly? My daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory implementation of wireless. I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can correct me on that standard number at any rate. hth -- The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get results. The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy problems in order to get results. The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at toy problems in order to get results. Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
I used what I'm confident is confirmed knowledge, namely: Delimiter SPECS on zone files are 'TABS'. This is the case with at least BIND4. I stayed with that SPECS since then for as long as the SPECS work for me. I have O'Reilly BIND Book for BIND 4. I know there are latter editions. But I have no need for them now. SPACE delimiters worked for you; stay with it. TABS work for me. I'd be grateful if you can point to me an RFC, Book, or Online Internet Document to say about enhancements to this specs. TABS are still OK because it works for me. But I do not rely on luck when it comes to operating computers and networks. I have to satisfy myself that it is part of the SPECS. That's the rule I follow. David wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, O Plameras wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Obviously, when you find spaces, replace with TABS. That's false. BIND copes just fine with spaces or tabs. When did this specs change. With BIND 4 this is the case, namely: that delimiters on zone files must be TABS and not SPACE. I've never used tabs I've been using BIND since 4. Maybe I was lucky :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ldap problem
Hi I seem to have run into a bit of ldap problem, I was trying to do a change to my ldap database and it froze the command did not seem to complete. I was using phpldapadmin to modify a record Since then I have had problems doing anything against the ldap db. eg ldapsearch -x - stop 1/3 of the way through in the same spot! slapcat - stop and freezes in the same spot slapindex gets stuck as well when I have done a strace agains these processes (slapindex, slapcat), they seem to be pumping out schd_yeild and ps has then up s R I have am wondering what tools there are to look at the bdbm database files, I had a quick look at the db4_ files but they haven't been much help. Currently looking for a backup of the data, I have a replicated site (fingers crossed), but I used to backup the raw files, but it seems like I have a backup of dud files ! Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Unwired
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:25:11PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, spake thus. Does anyone have any experience of unwired.. .good, bad or ugly? My daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory implementation of wireless. I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can correct me on that standard number at any rate. hth Note sure if it is nonstandard, it isn't 802.11b/g/a. This is out side of the 2.5 5 Ghz free range, they have paid for the spectrum as fas as I understand and to use the service you need there modem, not sure of the interconnect with the pc, but my guess would be ethernet A -- The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get results. The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy problems in order to get results. The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at toy problems in order to get results. Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldap problem
I'd do two things to check: 1. Check that your LDAP programs or systems are OK, by doing: ldapwhoami -x 2. Check the permissions on you LDAP DB directory. What change did you do ? Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I seem to have run into a bit of ldap problem, I was trying to do a change to my ldap database and it froze the command did not seem to complete. I was using phpldapadmin to modify a record Since then I have had problems doing anything against the ldap db. eg ldapsearch -x - stop 1/3 of the way through in the same spot! slapcat - stop and freezes in the same spot slapindex gets stuck as well when I have done a strace agains these processes (slapindex, slapcat), they seem to be pumping out schd_yeild and ps has then up s R I have am wondering what tools there are to look at the bdbm database files, I had a quick look at the db4_ files but they haven't been much help. Currently looking for a backup of the data, I have a replicated site (fingers crossed), but I used to backup the raw files, but it seems like I have a backup of dud files ! Alex -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Thanks for both copies of your email. This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Obviously, when you find spaces, replace with TABS. That's false. BIND copes just fine with spaces or tabs. When did this specs change. With BIND 4 this is the case, namely: that delimiters on zone files must be TABS and not SPACE. BIND 9, and I'm fairly certain my RHEL 2.1 boxes use BIND 8 which also have numerous spaces sprinkled liberally throughout them. I find your use of BIND 4 in this modern age extraordinary! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
I thank you again for both copies of your email. This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: TABS are still OK because it works for me. But I do not rely on luck when it comes to operating computers and networks. I have to satisfy myself that it is part of the SPECS. That's the rule I follow. Exciting developments in the combined fields of DOMAIN NAME SERVICE and CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT have led to two tools which I described elsewhere in this thread -- named-checkconf and named-checkzone. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Thanks for both copies of your email. This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Obviously, when you find spaces, replace with TABS. That's false. BIND copes just fine with spaces or tabs. When did this specs change. With BIND 4 this is the case, namely: that delimiters on zone files must be TABS and not SPACE. BIND 9, and I'm fairly certain my RHEL 2.1 boxes use BIND 8 which also have numerous spaces sprinkled liberally throughout them. I find your use of BIND 4 in this modern age extraordinary! The SPECS I'm familiar with says at least one (1) TAB as delimiter. I have BIND 9 on Fedora and I'll experiment. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wireless PCMCIA cards - recommendations
I used to use a Linksys WPC11 card (I think that is what it was). Frankly I was underwhelmed by it. I think it was prism, but I'm not sure (I'm sure someone here will know about it). My current laptop has an Atheros wireless card built in to it and it's been working superbly pretty much since day 1. The drivers are proprietary, but available at no cost and quite stable and functional. You have a prism2 card, which is basically 802.11b only. Prism2 cards have the best support for WPA on linux. Using the hostap drivers that is. Not they same type of card Simon Wong is asking about. I've not tried the sniffing etc, so I'm afraid I can't comment on that. Is there an easy way for me to test that? Install kismet, and you'll have to give kismet.conf a quick hack. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: BIND 9, and I'm fairly certain my RHEL 2.1 boxes use BIND 8 which also have numerous spaces sprinkled liberally throughout them. I find your use of BIND 4 in this modern age extraordinary! That's the DNS software I have in my piles of DISKETTES. I am am using a 386 Computer with 128K Memory(not Pentium and not 128Meg) for my DNS running the old version of Slackware. This is a hangover from back over 10 years. I have to chuck it out soon, I suppose. And I just copy the zone files from there for my recent installations and modify a bit. I had a big problem one day with my DNS; and I learned about this SPECS the hard way when everything seems OK but my mail servers will not allow customers to check their emails. Imagine to have about five thousand customers trying to connect to their mail and can't. The phone rings hot and 'abuses' flies one way, to my directions. This was back in 1996. I know that SPEC works because it worked well for me since then. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wireless PCMCIA cards - recommendations
Simon Wong wrote: I've decided to upgrade my wireless pcmcia card to something *really* well supported under Linux. Its like looking for the digital holy grail. It seems that the Prism chipsets are very well developed so after perusing the Prism54 supported cards list (http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php?sort_by=success_cnt) it seems that the Netgear Wg511 and the 3com OfficeConnect 11g are the pick of the bunch. Got a Netgear WG511, because I basically visited the same page. I want something that will do 128bit WEP, WPA (for when it's supported and yes, I will use a *real* VPN later). Can't wait till WPA support hits the streets, so I can finally WiFi at uni in linux. It would be great to have something that allows you to set it up as an AP and to sniff air traffic for testing work. Prism2/2.5/3 cards are the one for that. Using hostap drivers, with the hostapd service. Does anyone have any experience with these cards or another on the list? Yeah its pretty good, but I keep hitting this bug. http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87 -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
BIND 9, and I'm fairly certain my RHEL 2.1 boxes use BIND 8 which also have numerous spaces sprinkled liberally throughout them. I find your use of BIND 4 in this modern age extraordinary! The SPECS I'm familiar with says at least one (1) TAB as delimiter. I have BIND 9 on Fedora and I'll experiment. I copied my zone files from my server and changed all TABS and restarted my named. It works just as well. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wireless PCMCIA cards - recommendations
Simon Males wrote: Simon Wong wrote: I've decided to upgrade my wireless pcmcia card to something *really* well supported under Linux. Its like looking for the digital holy grail. It seems that the Prism chipsets are very well developed so after perusing the Prism54 supported cards list (http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php?sort_by=success_cnt) it seems that the Netgear Wg511 and the 3com OfficeConnect 11g are the pick of the bunch. Got a Netgear WG511, because I basically visited the same page. I want something that will do 128bit WEP, WPA (for when it's supported and yes, I will use a *real* VPN later). Can't wait till WPA support hits the streets, so I can finally WiFi at uni in linux. It would be great to have something that allows you to set it up as an AP and to sniff air traffic for testing work. Prism2/2.5/3 cards are the one for that. Using hostap drivers, with the hostapd service. Does anyone have any experience with these cards or another on the list? Yeah its pretty good, but I keep hitting this bug. http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87 I've just installed a DLink DWL-G650 (Atheros chipset) using the MADWifi drivers. I've only just managed to compile the WPA support (wpa_supplicant) successfully. While the wpa_supplicant binary seems to run ok and look for an AP, I can't be certain it works until I test it on the uni network tomorrow. I've had to jump through some hoops to get this card to work but I REALLY wanted to have network access at uni with Linux. Hopefully my efforts will bear success. I will post an update advising of my success or failure. Having said that, IF you are at all thinking of going with an Atheros based card I suggest you visit http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm first. Then should you require WPA support, take a look at http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ You may not see fiery hoops as I did, but only a walk in the park. ;) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Top and hyperthreading.
Hi guys, Recently i upgraded from FC1 to FC2. My machine's got a P4 2.8 HT, kernel is 2.6.8-1.521smp , lilo.conf has acpismp=force. i found something quite strange. 1. cat /proc/cupinfo shows there are 2 CPUs, which is what i expected. 2. top shows only CPU. I remember with FC1 2.4.*smp kernel, i could see 2 CPUs in top. 3. I am not noticing a dramatic change in performance, so i am not sure if HT is actually working on my machine. is there anything missing? cheers J Ai -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldap problem
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:34:09PM +1000, O Plameras wrote: I'd do two things to check: 1. Check that your LDAP programs or systems are OK, by doing: ldapwhoami -x anonymous 2. Check the permissions on you LDAP DB directory. What change did you do ? I was changing the email attribute on a record the permissions look okay, strange it gets some way through and then stops! Alex Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I seem to have run into a bit of ldap problem, I was trying to do a change to my ldap database and it froze the command did not seem to complete. I was using phpldapadmin to modify a record Since then I have had problems doing anything against the ldap db. eg ldapsearch -x - stop 1/3 of the way through in the same spot! slapcat - stop and freezes in the same spot slapindex gets stuck as well when I have done a strace agains these processes (slapindex, slapcat), they seem to be pumping out schd_yeild and ps has then up s R I have am wondering what tools there are to look at the bdbm database files, I had a quick look at the db4_ files but they haven't been much help. Currently looking for a backup of the data, I have a replicated site (fingers crossed), but I used to backup the raw files, but it seems like I have a backup of dud files ! Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [chat] Unwired
since when did telstra garuntee 28 k? according to the molds server they garuntee 19.2 -- Automobile, n.: A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians. Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] IDE Flaky on Linux ?
yeah you can just get pci card - ide controllers. but first of all i would make sure your running the latest version of your distribution of choice. you could upgrade your kernel (which is effectively what im saying) but i would just stick with easy steps for now and just make sure your distribution is up to date and hence that your kernel is fairly new. you would have to find out what chips you are running exactly then see how well they are support. generally though most of the hardware problems of the past have gone. most of the big manufacturers now give out specs i believe. they are pretty much killing themselves now if they dont. i think creative pretty much proved that being silly about it just gets your hardware blacklisted and when you release specs (and crap drivers) assuming your hardware is good someone will fix them nicely. sb live is what i was refering to. initially black listed but now probably the best sound card for linux. Dean Rod Butcher wrote: Thanks... how do I check what IDE controller I have ? I have a $99 Gigabyte board with all Via chips. How do you use a separate controller ? PCI board ? (be patient with me, I'm used to Windows and don't you worry about that). thanks, Rod Dean Hamstead wrote: ide is way better on linux than in windows but that all depends on the support for your ide controller chip (so basically the driver) options include upgrading your kernel or getting another ide controller. i just bought a nice silicon image pci ide controller for $40 whole dollars that gives me another 2 channels ata133 Dean Rod Butcher wrote: Newbie here again... I think I've narrowed dow my system flakiness during heavy audio editing to a 10-gig Seagate IDE drive I was using for temp work files... switching these to the main SATA 120 gig drive results in a stable system. Reason for using the IDE drive was to try and spread the disk IO around. My IDE CDROM R/W drive is also flaky on Linux... both IDE devices work great on Win2K dualbooted on the same box. So - is IDE known to be flaky on Linux, or is it a matter of me configuring my system better ? The CD Burner is old anyway and only writes these days at 2x, so I need to get another one soon - question is, what type should I get to suit Linux ? thanks Rod -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldap problem
Alexander Samad wrote: the permissions look okay, strange it gets some way through and then stops! I had a similar thing today with an RPM database on redhat EL3 - I think it uses sleepycat DB4 type files as well. rpm -qa and stuff would just stop half way through. anyway, there was some lock files that needed removing ___db4* I think. maybe you have some of them? there might also be some sleepycat db repairing type tools you can use - rpm comes with a bunch of them. whats the best/recommended way to backup these ldap databases anyway? dump to ldif every now and then? I would have thought copying the raw files would be fine, but you always run the risk of getting caught in the middle of a db write i spose. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache
perhaps someone might have some ideas: I have transferred a user site from my Apache OS/2 server to Linux Apache 1.3x; it's an HTML/ flash 'static' site. everything is working OK, EXCEPT: the user has several directories with PDFs, these do not have a top level HTML page, just a bunch of PDFs in a directory. he then sends an email containg a full-q url like 'www.mydomain.tld/path/MYDOC.PDF' yes, the file names are mixed case...(don't ask... I even offered to lower case them myself...) anyhow, back to the problem: since I moved the files to the RH Apache: on several of his systems (XP W2K, IE6, Acrobat6), the fully Q URL will not open by clicking; IE offers to download the file, then returns an error 'cannot download, host not found' *but* the url cut'n'pasted into browser works I have tried myself from several windoze: 98/w2k/xp with differing IE. works properly for me; several colleagues have tried from different windoze boxes, works OK I'm happy to email links to anyone who would like to try, though, rather not post them, to prevent search engine indexing see screen shots attached (screen shots deleted from this copy as they exceed 25k limit) suggestions or ideas greatly appreciated... meanwhile, I'll try looking at web logs in case I can see anything -- Voytek -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Code Fest!
Revision: We are now in building G17 on the map, Electrical Engineering (linked from the event). Photo's of the building are here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/about/vtour/buildings/elec.html Apologies for the late change. On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 23:22, Craige McWhirter wrote: I know the announce is a little late (we had trouble finalising the room) but it's been on the calendar since January so there's no excuses! Here's the run down, head here for more: http://debian.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=133 When: Saturday, August 28, 10:00am - 6:00pm Where: University of New South Wales We're holding a Debian RC Bug Squish and Code Fest. The idea of of the day is to have a social, coding day, learn a few things and maybe close some Debian RC Bugs, for which we will be having prizes etc for a variety of achievements such as closing the most bugs, closing the most difficult bug, closing the most important bug. The winners will be chosen by those attending the day. Full details, including a map and directions are at the above URL. See you there! -- Big book, big bore. -- Callimachus signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Top and hyperthreading.
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 21:50 +1000, Jeff Ai wrote: 1. cat /proc/cupinfo shows there are 2 CPUs, which is what i expected. 2. top shows only CPU. Did you try pressing the '1' key when top was running? It should toggle between showing a single aggregate line for all CPUs, and a summary line for each CPU. [I'm on a dual CPU system, not HT, but...] AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS Operations Consultants and Infrastructure Engineers http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldap problem
I assume you are using LDAP as your password server for Samba ? If you do, use LDAP Account Manager(LAM) from, http://lam.sourceforge.net to maintain Samba Accounts. I use LAM to enter accounts and modify them; and I use PhpLdapAdmin to view these accounts because it has tools to display the details of accounts. My Samba works well with openLDAP using LAM. I've used PhpLdapAdmin to maintain Samba Accounts before, but the fields do not correspond accordingly. And I have similar problems as you do, ldapsearch freezes. I did not bother to investigate why. I do not have much time, I suppose. I use openldap-2.1.xx. I also have problems similar to what you have describe when using openldap-2.2.xx. List on [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested to recompile all my other software related to or interacting with openldap-2.2.xx. Did not have time to test. Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:34:09PM +1000, O Plameras wrote: I'd do two things to check: 1. Check that your LDAP programs or systems are OK, by doing: ldapwhoami -x anonymous 2. Check the permissions on you LDAP DB directory. What change did you do ? I was changing the email attribute on a record the permissions look okay, strange it gets some way through and then stops! Alex Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I seem to have run into a bit of ldap problem, I was trying to do a change to my ldap database and it froze the command did not seem to complete. I was using phpldapadmin to modify a record Since then I have had problems doing anything against the ldap db. eg ldapsearch -x - stop 1/3 of the way through in the same spot! slapcat - stop and freezes in the same spot slapindex gets stuck as well when I have done a strace agains these processes (slapindex, slapcat), they seem to be pumping out schd_yeild and ps has then up s R I have am wondering what tools there are to look at the bdbm database files, I had a quick look at the db4_ files but they haven't been much help. Currently looking for a backup of the data, I have a replicated site (fingers crossed), but I used to backup the raw files, but it seems like I have a backup of dud files ! Alex -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldap problem
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:34:43PM +1000, O Plameras wrote: I assume you are using LDAP as your password server for Samba ? no, address book If you do, use LDAP Account Manager(LAM) from, http://lam.sourceforge.net to maintain Samba Accounts. I use LAM to enter accounts and modify them; and I use PhpLdapAdmin to view these accounts because it has tools to display the details of accounts. My Samba works well with openLDAP using LAM. I've used PhpLdapAdmin to maintain Samba Accounts before, but the fields do not correspond accordingly. And I have similar problems as you do, ldapsearch freezes. I did not bother to investigate why. I do not have much time, I suppose. I use openldap-2.1.xx. I also have problems similar to what you have describe when using openldap-2.2.xx. List on [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested to recompile all my other software related to or interacting with openldap-2.2.xx. Did not have time to test. Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:34:09PM +1000, O Plameras wrote: I'd do two things to check: 1. Check that your LDAP programs or systems are OK, by doing: ldapwhoami -x anonymous 2. Check the permissions on you LDAP DB directory. What change did you do ? I was changing the email attribute on a record the permissions look okay, strange it gets some way through and then stops! Alex Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I seem to have run into a bit of ldap problem, I was trying to do a change to my ldap database and it froze the command did not seem to complete. I was using phpldapadmin to modify a record Since then I have had problems doing anything against the ldap db. eg ldapsearch -x - stop 1/3 of the way through in the same spot! slapcat - stop and freezes in the same spot slapindex gets stuck as well when I have done a strace agains these processes (slapindex, slapcat), they seem to be pumping out schd_yeild and ps has then up s R I have am wondering what tools there are to look at the bdbm database files, I had a quick look at the db4_ files but they haven't been much help. Currently looking for a backup of the data, I have a replicated site (fingers crossed), but I used to backup the raw files, but it seems like I have a backup of dud files ! Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldap problem
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:10:40PM +1000, David Kempe wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: the permissions look okay, strange it gets some way through and then stops! I had a similar thing today with an RPM database on redhat EL3 - I think it uses sleepycat DB4 type files as well. rpm -qa and stuff would just stop half way through. anyway, there was some lock files that needed removing ___db4* I think. maybe you have some of them? there might also be some sleepycat db repairing type tools you can use - rpm comes with a bunch of them. thank you thank you removed the files and it all started to work again whats the best/recommended way to backup these ldap databases anyway? dump to ldif every now and then? I would have thought copying the raw files would be fine, but you always run the risk of getting caught in the middle of a db write i spose. I am doing both, but I shut down the ldap db and then copy the files, I now also slapcat -l as well but with versioning now dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Unwired
Shaun Oliver wrote: Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, spake thus. Does anyone have any experience of unwired.. .good, bad or ugly? My daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory implementation of wireless. I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can correct me on that standard number at any rate. hth I use a wireless ISP here in Wollongong (Fish Internet - Etherwave http://www.fishinternet.com.au/broadband_intro.php). As I have a business connection plan, they provided me with a Cisco Aironet350 Workgroup Bridge (shweet). I simply plug it into my (Debian) firewall via a cross-over cable and that's it. Assign IP's to my network (I have a /27 subnet) and I'm done. Their consumer product uses a less flashy box, which AFIAK has both USB and Ethernet connection options. Then, like most broadband modems, hands out an IP via DHCP etc. The guys at Fish Internet don't officially support Linux, but their tech guys use it extensively and can unofficially provide $CLUE ;) Bandwidth? I see up to about 2Mbps synchronous when things aren't too busy, but when all the script kiddies get on between about 3pm-6pm it drops off to about 256kbps. The ISP is clueful though, and will be de-prioritising P2P traffic in the near future as this is what sucks up the bandwidth during those busy hours. Even with the drawbacks of a multi-homed network, for $110/mth, 32 IP's, and 5Gb of data (their consumer product has a more consumer price)...it's not bad. Especially when you consider we can't get cable, *DSL etc. in our area. So that's my experience with wireless broadband. Cheers, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] parental control ?
what can be used to provide 'parental-control' to an intranet, that is, to control what sites can be accessed by intranet users ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] parental control ?
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 08:08, Voytek wrote: what can be used to provide 'parental-control' to an intranet, that is, to control what sites can be accessed by intranet users ? Squid proxy springs to mind. Run it somewhere so that all http requests get redirected to it then set up the proxy ACLs to do what you want. From here on in, RTFM. -- Voytek -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people http://www.lannetlinux.com -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Top and hyperthreading.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Jeff Ai wrote: Hi guys, Recently i upgraded from FC1 to FC2. My machine's got a P4 2.8 HT, kernel is 2.6.8-1.521smp , lilo.conf has acpismp=force. i found something quite strange. 1. cat /proc/cupinfo shows there are 2 CPUs, which is what i expected. 2. top shows only CPU. I remember with FC1 2.4.*smp kernel, i could see 2 CPUs in top. 3. I am not noticing a dramatic change in performance, so i am not sure if HT is actually working on my machine. is there anything missing? Try pressing 1 or I when running top. By default, top displays a total of CPU useage/time. Pressing 1 changes the display to show individual CPU's. Of course, this assumes your kernel is actually using both CPU's - have you compiled/booted with an SMP enabled kernel? DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Top and hyperthreading.
Hi Jeff On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Jeff Ai wrote: Hi guys, Recently i upgraded from FC1 to FC2. My machine's got a P4 2.8 HT, kernel is 2.6.8-1.521smp , lilo.conf has acpismp=force. i found something quite strange. 1. cat /proc/cupinfo shows there are 2 CPUs, which is what i expected. 2. top shows only CPU. I remember with FC1 2.4.*smp kernel, i could see 2 CPUs in top. 3. I am not noticing a dramatic change in performance, so i am not sure if HT is actually working on my machine. is there anything missing? cheers J Ai -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Just using SMP kernels is not enough to get the full advantage of HTing. The problem is that the second CPU is a virtual CPU and the SMP code does not recognise it properly and will in some cases starve it from being scheduled, thus you end up with a UNI processor system. Looking at the FC2 release notes they are using the 2.6 kernel though you will need to check to see if they have enabled symmetric multi- threading(SMT) when building the the kernel. SMT in general has not quite matured yet with development still being done today in the latest kernel releases. If you would like to take full advantage of SMT I suggest you keep up to date with the latest kernels and build your own. That said I am am using a HT processor with a SMT kernel 2.6.7 and do see improvements in build times using the -j option with make. There are however other issues with 2.6.x that you may be seeing. Many users are reporting that there desktop is sluggish in response times, ripping music sometimes fails or that the machine they are running goes into swap hell (whenever you start a process it takes longer than normal to load and there is a lot of disk activity). If you are seeing any of these symptoms I suggest you go to lkml.org and do a search on your problem, there will be an answer. -- Darren Williams dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.gelato.unsw.edu.au -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] IDE Flaky on Linux ?
the ide driver will be built into the kernel. you can either type 'lspci' or watch while your machine boots or look in /var/log/messages it could be a conflict with pata and sata buts hard to say without more details you know. your kernel is a little old but not chronically old. it would be worth updating if possible. i dont know if mandrake has a nice update method or not. thats kind of why i use debian. but mandrake will still rock your world. but without knowing specifically what your hardware is its hard to say if there are known problems and what the state of support linux has for your hardware. Dean Rod Butcher wrote: Thanks Dean. Is it possible that IDE doesn't work too well together with SATA ? I have Mandrake 2.6.3 kernel, and I don't want to touch it for a few months yet... by then I'll have a list of things to do to it ! It's stable now and I want to keep it that way. What command do I issue to find out what IDE driver is loaded ? Is it a module or builtin to the kernel ? The Controller and devices must be OK if they work OK for Win 2k, so it can only be driver or incompatibility with SATA surely ? thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Dean Hamstead wrote: yeah you can just get pci card - ide controllers. but first of all i would make sure your running the latest version of your distribution of choice. you could upgrade your kernel (which is effectively what im saying) but i would just stick with easy steps for now and just make sure your distribution is up to date and hence that your kernel is fairly new. you would have to find out what chips you are running exactly then see how well they are support. generally though most of the hardware problems of the past have gone. most of the big manufacturers now give out specs i believe. they are pretty much killing themselves now if they dont. i think creative pretty much proved that being silly about it just gets your hardware blacklisted and when you release specs (and crap drivers) assuming your hardware is good someone will fix them nicely. sb live is what i was refering to. initially black listed but now probably the best sound card for linux. Dean Rod Butcher wrote: Thanks... how do I check what IDE controller I have ? I have a $99 Gigabyte board with all Via chips. How do you use a separate controller ? PCI board ? (be patient with me, I'm used to Windows and don't you worry about that). thanks, Rod Dean Hamstead wrote: ide is way better on linux than in windows but that all depends on the support for your ide controller chip (so basically the driver) options include upgrading your kernel or getting another ide controller. i just bought a nice silicon image pci ide controller for $40 whole dollars that gives me another 2 channels ata133 Dean Rod Butcher wrote: Newbie here again... I think I've narrowed dow my system flakiness during heavy audio editing to a 10-gig Seagate IDE drive I was using for temp work files... switching these to the main SATA 120 gig drive results in a stable system. Reason for using the IDE drive was to try and spread the disk IO around. My IDE CDROM R/W drive is also flaky on Linux... both IDE devices work great on Win2K dualbooted on the same box. So - is IDE known to be flaky on Linux, or is it a matter of me configuring my system better ? The CD Burner is old anyway and only writes these days at 2x, so I need to get another one soon - question is, what type should I get to suit Linux ? thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wireless PCMCIA cards - recommendations
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 21:16, Simon Males wrote: Its like looking for the digital holy grail. Feels like it :-) Can't wait till WPA support hits the streets, so I can finally WiFi at uni in linux. Yeah, what a drag! Prism2/2.5/3 cards are the one for that. Using hostap drivers, with the hostapd service. Okay but the thing is working out which damn cards have which chipsets :-( I feel I'm stuck in a Google whirlpool... Does anyone have any experience with these cards or another on the list? Yeah its pretty good, but I keep hitting this bug. http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87 I'm wondering whether to stick with 802.11b for the moment and find a Prism2/2.5/3 based card. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Spare Sun Serial Splitter?
Hey gang, Does anyone going to the meeting tomorrow night have a spare Sun serial splitter that I could borrow? I have a 220R under my desk that needs some serial console loving before it can be used for great justice. ;-) Thanks, - Jeff -- What's all that about? http://www.no-name-yet.com/ On Tuesday I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with Zack and two ladies whom I presume are gracious. - Seth Schoen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spare Sun Serial Splitter?
I always thought you could just use a standard 25-9 cable if you only wanted one port... but I could be wrong.. it's been a long time since I was that involved with a Sun :-) Dave. On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey gang, Does anyone going to the meeting tomorrow night have a spare Sun serial splitter that I could borrow? I have a 220R under my desk that needs some serial console loving before it can be used for great justice. ;-) Thanks, - Jeff -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spare Sun Serial Splitter?
I always thought you could just use a standard 25-9 cable if you only wanted one port... Correct. 2, 3 7 are wired as per normal rs232. The second and third serial ports are wired to other pins (sorry don't know which ones) and the splitter just wires them back to 2, 3 7. P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] New to Linux: Suse 9.1 RE: NIC
Thanks James, I pulled out the 2nd NIC and followed the steps. Presto! It works without sweat! Now what happens to my 2nd NIC? Can I plugged-in as a 2nd NIC and plugged-in a cable so that there will be 2 cards for easier flow of data? Would 2 cards make the flow of data from this machine faster? Kind regards, Teddy Quoting James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TedA wrote: Can you please offer direction or assistance on what I am doing. I have a new Suse Linux 9.1 Professional on an AMD PC I am trying to get to work the Network Interface CArd on Board Rhine VII. I have a 4 port switch and a new DSL When the linux boots up there is a message regarding the ethernet card eth0 and that failed written in red. Likewise to the second card. The cat 5 rj 45 is connected to the on-board ethernet card (though I have a second eth0 card) not plugged. This 2nd card I think recompiling which as a newbie I don't how to get this compiling fo the 2nd card. I prefer to get the first eth0 get working. Please assist or direct. Thanks and much appreciated. Teddy I too use SuSE 9.1 Pro on an AMD64 machine and it's a great combination. Googling for VIA Rhine VII didn't reveal anything (plenty for Rhine-II chipsets though; you sure it's Rhine VII??). Although you will probably get some mileage from trying the via-rhine kernel module (it should support all current VIA Rhine chipsets). SuSE's kernel's are pretty comprehensive - you shouldn't need to recompile anything unless it's truly exotic hardware ;) Here's how I would approach your problem: 1. Power down the system and remove the PCI (2nd) Ethernet card and plug your cable into the on-board Ethernet. 2. Restart and boot into Linux. 3. Start YAST and go to the Hardware section then open Hardware Information. This will start a detection process and can take a while (several minutes on a slow machine - my Athlon64 takes about 30sec). 4. Expand the Network Card and see what it has detected. If you are using a VIA on-board Ethernet controller you should see something like VIA Ethernet 10/100Base-T Adapter. This step will confirm that SuSE has found your network card. If not, then you have problems, report back here with the results. 5. Close the hardware info window and go back to YAST. Select the Network Devices and open Network Card. A new window will appear. 6. From here (the window that opened) you can configure your detected network card. If nothing was detected in #4, you probably have an incompatible card. If that's the case, shutdown, install the PCI Ethernet card again (plug the Ethernet cable into this card now), disable the on-board Ethernet in your BIOS, and repeat steps #2-6. If you get stuck, report back here with any and all errors you receive. Write them down or something - we can't replay error messages from our end. ;) BTW, some more details about your hardware would be useful. What make/model motherboard is it? Your 2nd Ethernet card - make/model? Linux kernel version would be helpful too (uname -a from a command prompt). Good luck, James --- Your health is your wealth http://www.usana.com Are you aging? Ask me for a free questionnaire. Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Love life and enjoy to its fullest while you can -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spare Sun Serial Splitter?
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:43:38 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: Correct. 2, 3 7 are wired as per normal rs232. The second and third serial ports are wired to other pins (sorry don't know which ones) and the splitter just wires them back to 2, 3 7. The pinout varies: http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/A-B-Ycablepinout.html although it says that a 220R has two separate DB25 ports. This document: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-1081-10/6jad2hnsg?a=view also says that there are two DB25 connectors with standard RS-232 pinout. Cheers, John -- All software sucks. Everybody is considered a jerk by somebody. The sun rises, the sun sets, the Sun crashes, lusers are LARTed, BOFHs get drunk. It is the way of things. -- Steve Conley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Unwired
Exetel are going to start reselling Unwired's service at a lot less than Unwired in September. From what I've seen on the web sites there is two forms of the modem, one for USB connection the other with an Ethernet port. In theory there shouldn't be a problem using the ethernet one with Linux. Phil. On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:38 am, James Gray wrote: Shaun Oliver wrote: Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, spake thus. Does anyone have any experience of unwired.. .good, bad or ugly? My daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory implementation of wireless. I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can correct me on that standard number at any rate. hth I use a wireless ISP here in Wollongong (Fish Internet - Etherwave http://www.fishinternet.com.au/broadband_intro.php). As I have a business connection plan, they provided me with a Cisco Aironet350 Workgroup Bridge (shweet). I simply plug it into my (Debian) firewall via a cross-over cable and that's it. Assign IP's to my network (I have a /27 subnet) and I'm done. Their consumer product uses a less flashy box, which AFIAK has both USB and Ethernet connection options. Then, like most broadband modems, hands out an IP via DHCP etc. The guys at Fish Internet don't officially support Linux, but their tech guys use it extensively and can unofficially provide $CLUE ;) Bandwidth? I see up to about 2Mbps synchronous when things aren't too busy, but when all the script kiddies get on between about 3pm-6pm it drops off to about 256kbps. The ISP is clueful though, and will be de-prioritising P2P traffic in the near future as this is what sucks up the bandwidth during those busy hours. Even with the drawbacks of a multi-homed network, for $110/mth, 32 IP's, and 5Gb of data (their consumer product has a more consumer price)...it's not bad. Especially when you consider we can't get cable, *DSL etc. in our area. So that's my experience with wireless broadband. Cheers, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] parental control ?
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:08:15AM +1000, Voytek wrote: what can be used to provide 'parental-control' to an intranet, that is, to control what sites can be accessed by intranet users ? http://dansguardian.org/ (though i've never used it myself) Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
