[SLUG] Configuring a Netcomm NB2, ADSL modem.

[Adam Dawes]

Is a Netcomm NB2 ADSL modem supported in linux? If 
so, how do I go about setting it up?
I can find zero mention of linux on the Netcomm 
forum.
My distro is Ubuntu, 5.04
kernel 2.6.10-5-386
Please spoon feed me. My knowledge of linux is 
limited at best.
 
PS This is the second time I've looked to the SLUG 
for help. The first time, Richard Phil and Steve were most helpful with answers 
concerning X server and my new motherboard. 
 
Many thanks,
Adam
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[SLUG] MondoRescue via NFS

[Raphael Kraus]

G'day...
 
Has anyone had any experience using MondoRescue over NFS?
 
I'm getting very frustrated with the documentation, as it is sparse in
the spots I'm needing more information. (E.g. "Press enter a few times
and it'll work" - no it doesn't and there's no further descriptions
argh!) 
 
Anyway, I've performed a back-up to an NFS server. How do I restore from
NFS? I've got another box here with which I want to test a bare metal
restore on.
 
Thanks!
 
Regards,
 
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Re: [SLUG] Suse 9.3 and internet

[John Gibbons]

My thanks to Grant, James and Graham for their help. I am now hooked up 
successfully. Graham generously talked me through the process by phone. 
I like what I see with Suse and will stick with it as my distros of 
choice. But, the experts behind Suse still have a long way to go before 
they are effective communicators so far as the average desktop user is 
concerned.


I love the open source philosophy and really admire the generosity of 
the people involved. However, I think there is an opportunity for a 
consultancy that bridges the communication gap between experts and the 
average computer user.


There ends my lecture for the day.

John.


Grant Parnell wrote:


On Mon, November 14, 2005 5:18 pm, John Gibbons said:
 


I have just installed Suse 9.3. It did not automatically connect with my
internet service provider, Unwired. Can someone give me a GUI based
guide to getting it to communicate? Or else spell out a command line
communication? Thanks for any help.

John.
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Turn off your unwired external ethernet modem, turn it on again, use DHCP
on your Linux box. If you haven't actually signed up yet, fire up a web
browser and go to any web page to get the unwired modem registered, then
you'll have to re-fetch an IP address (down the interface and up it
again).

It's important to note that I found the unwired modem will only talk to a
single MAC (ethernet card) address. Thus if you had it working on another
computer and just move the cable you'll pull your hair out trying to get
it to work until you turn it off/on again. I've also had this happen with
iBurst and some other ADSL and cable modems too.

 



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[SLUG] Partition - Updated

[jam]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> By /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and /hda2 in my previous e-mail - Partition - I
> meant Root, Swap, and Home.
>
> I know what the purpose of each of them is, however given my previous
> specifications I am seeking to optimise my memory use.

A differant question, a differant answer:

10G / is probably more than enough
256M or 512M swap
Rest /home

James
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Re: [SLUG] Partition

[jam]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I am a linux newbie, and I curious if there is a rule of thumb when it
> > comes to partitioning the hard drive(using fdisk).  I have a desktop with
> > 1024 MB of RAM, and an IDE hardrive (80Gb).
> >
> > How much space would I have to allocate for /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and
> > /hda2.  I have been reading through the Linux Bible (Wiley Books), and
> > while the process seems pretty straight forward, I am stuck as to how I
> > can partition my hard disk adequately for optimised performance. How much
> > memory should I allocate for each partition?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dom L.
>
> If you are new to Linux, I would suggest that you allow the distro you
> are using to partition your drive for you, especially if you are on one
> disk. This will give you a good start. Afterwards you can start looking
> at customising your disk structure, especially with the addition of new
> drives.

Or hardley partition at all, 1 root partition of most of the disk and a swap 
partion of any 100s of meg. With 1G ram I doubt that swap will ever be used, 
but Its a good-thing to have some anyway.

With luck you'll fiddle, try, learn, redo, and what you do now won't matter.
James

Oh and urban legand says use as much swap as ram, but that's dumb! With 32M 
ram 128M - 256M is needed, with 512M ram I hardly every see swap used and 
with 1G ram (and a busy server, only making DVDs ever used any swap)

[tigger] /opt [74]% cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:  1034560 kB
MemFree: 16868 kB
Buffers: 74316 kB
Cached: 515624 kB
SwapCached:  0 kB
Active: 735576 kB
Inactive:   206584 kB
HighTotal:  130752 kB
HighFree:  308 kB
LowTotal:   903808 kB
LowFree: 16560 kB
SwapTotal:  530064 kB
SwapFree:   530064 kB

[tigger] /opt [75]% uptime
  8:57am  up 62 days 13:06,  7 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
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Re: [SLUG] re Dufus

[Russell Davie]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:33:22 +1100
Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:41 +1100
> Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Dear List,
> > 
> > >Today I had a friend send me the following link:-
> > 
> > >http://www.dofus.com/en/
> > 
> > 
> > I only get 1/4 of the pages as well.
> > 
> > Kubuntu / Firefox/Flash
> > 
> > -- 
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> > PO Box 12 Gordon Australia 2072
> > Tel: +(61-2) 9412 4367 Fax: +(61-2) 9412 4920 Mob: +(61) 0414 618 425
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> 
> Same here, only 1/4 of the page
> Running Ubuntu breezy, firefox, flash
> 
> ~$ apt-show-versions | grep firefox
> mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb/unknown uptodate 1.0.4lang20050515-1ubuntu3
> firefox/unknown uptodate 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
> firefox-gnome-support/unknown uptodate 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
> mozilla-firefox/unknown uptodate 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
> 
> ~$ apt-show-versions | grep flash
> flashplayer-mozilla/unknown uptodate 7.0.25-0.1
> 
> the flash player came from a different source, 
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
> 
> HTH
> 
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It works in Opera
instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-78626.html
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Re: [SLUG] re Dufus

[Russell Davie]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:40:41 +1100
Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> >Today I had a friend send me the following link:-
> 
> >http://www.dofus.com/en/
> 
> 
> I only get 1/4 of the pages as well.
> 
> Kubuntu / Firefox/Flash
> 
> -- 
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> Nada Marketing
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Same here, only 1/4 of the page
Running Ubuntu breezy, firefox, flash

~$ apt-show-versions | grep firefox
mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb/unknown uptodate 1.0.4lang20050515-1ubuntu3
firefox/unknown uptodate 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
firefox-gnome-support/unknown uptodate 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
mozilla-firefox/unknown uptodate 1.0.7-0ubuntu20

~$ apt-show-versions | grep flash
flashplayer-mozilla/unknown uptodate 7.0.25-0.1

the flash player came from a different source, 
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

HTH

Russell
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Re: [SLUG] Partition

[Terry Collins]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> SLUG,
> 
> I am a linux newbie, and I curious if there is a rule of thumb when it comes 
> to
> partitioning the hard drive(using fdisk).  I have a desktop with 1024 MB of 
> RAM,
> and an IDE hardrive (80Gb).
> 
> How much space would I have to allocate for /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and /hda2. 

Chuckle. Please excuse my smile.
I would suggest you put all of it as /dev/hda, otherwise you are going
to need another hard disk. You are confusing devices as partitions

Your master device on your first ide chain is /dev/hda
Your slave is /dev/hdb
Your master device on your second ide chain is /dev/hdc and
your slave on your second ide chain is /dev/hdd


Now, for partitioning, it can depend on what your hardware is and want
it for, but I'm going to assume you have modern hardware and are a home
user.

I use fdisk
? - gives commands(?)
n for create a new partion
p for primary
1 for first
 it will throw up a start cylinder that you accept.
then say +20480M<- note it talks in MEGAbytes, not gigabytes, so
20Gb for system
(when you mount this partition, your mount it as the root ( / ) partition.

d for display to see your handwork
n
p
2
?? accept this number
+1024M<- probably excessive swap file
d look again

t for changing type
2  <- because you want number two partion as SWAP
82 (?)

d <- to check that partion 2 is SWAP

n
p
3
?? accept this number
take it all

You mount this partition as home (/home).

d check it all

w to write it all out to disk

q for quick/exit


If you have older hardware, you may need to create a small (100m)
partition as your first partition. This would be your /boot partition.
Linux can read monstrous disks that old bios hardware barfs on, but you
need to have all the linux part that does this in the section that the
bios can read,

Don't worry, I'm yet to destroy a hard disk using fdisk.

Come back to the list with any further questions and clarifications


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[SLUG] re Dufus

[Richard Hayes]

Dear List,

>Today I had a friend send me the following link:-

>http://www.dofus.com/en/


I only get 1/4 of the pages as well.

Kubuntu / Firefox/Flash

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[SLUG] Dofus

[dll]

SLUG,

Today I had a friend send me the following link:-

http://www.dofus.com/en/

When I try to view the website I only get one quarter of the website loading up.
 I have Macromedia Flash installed on my desktop so I don't know why it isn't
loading up properly. I can hear the sound in full effect, it's just the load up
fo the website.

Anyone else who is currently infront of a Linux system, could you please look at
this site, and maybe suggest what I have to do? 

I use FireFox as my web browser.  Apparently this is supposed to be a game which
can also be installed in Linux.

I currently have Xandros Deluxe O/S 3 installed on my desktop.

Regards,

Dom L.

PS:- I see that Macromedia ShockWave PLayer available for Linux, is there an
open source alternative.  I have looked about with no luck.
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Re: [SLUG] Partition

[DaZZa]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Thanks for the info, however last night I installed successfully VectorLinux,
> including all of my hardware.  Unfortunately this Slackware based distro 
> doesn't
> have the function you mention, so I have to manually partition the drive.
>
> If there is some advice or help you could shed with me I would appreciate it
> very much.

There's no hard and fast rule - it depends what you intend using the box
for.

If it's for personal use {I.E. you're the only one going to be using it},
then just set aside an area equal to your RAM size for swap, and put the
rest in one big partition.

If you intend using the box as a server or for some specific purpose, then
it gets more difficult - if it's going to be used, say, as a dedicated web
server then you'd want more room for logs & web pages - it really depends
what you want to do with it.

The easiest way is to run two partitions - one for swap, and one for
everything else. It works.

DaZZa

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Re: [SLUG] Laptop recommendations

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:47 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:52:43AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 09:59 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > Robert Collins wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:42 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Heres my Dell X1 against your specs
> > > 
> > > I looked on the Dell site and I can't find the X1 anymore.
> > > 
> > > Is that me or is that Dell?
> > 
> > http://dellstore02.dell.com.au/public/cart/configurator.jsp?prd_id=421312&sr_no=1
> 
> Erik,
> 
> You may be interested that the X1 is a rebadged (repackaged?)
> Samsung Q30, with added bluetooth. (Rob, correct me if I'm wrong)

Repackaged I guess - its got different colours :).

> I note that the Q30 now has bluetooth as well; ht.com.au have it
> on their website. DickSmith also have it in their powerhouse stores
> but don't advertise on their website for some reason.

Sweet.

> I just (like an hour ago) bought a Samsung R50, which meets all
> your specs, including full 6pin (i.e. powered) firewire and the
> availability of a long life battery.  Memory is default 512mb but
> expandable up to 2gb.
> 
> I haven't actually tested the sleep function; I've yet to install
> Linux.  But I'm pretty hopeful.  Remind me to let you know.

How much battery life do you get ?

> Curious thing: apparently you cannot get Samsung laptops in the USA.
> I was wondering if it's the presence of the libdvdcss code in the AVstation
> software that could be a problem.  Although a quick google says it's because
> they're under contract to HP and Dell.  Much less interesting explanation :-)

:)

Rob

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[SLUG] badges,emblems,sword knots & military uniforms accessories

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[SLUG] MySQL database crash and recovery

[Marcel Hecko]

Hello everybody,
the scenario: our old server crashed (one of the disks crashed) with
non-critical data, we have set up a new server and we are thinking how
to migrate the old MySQL database content to the new instalation. We
cannot start mysqld on the old server any more, but files are recovered.

I am not DB guru nor advanced user of DBs.

Thanks for any help.

Marcel
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Re: [SLUG] Another postfix query..

[Voytek]

> On 11/14/05, Voytek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> homer:/etc/apache2/sites-available# postconf -m
> static, cidr, nis, dbm, regexp, environ, proxy, btree, unix, hash, tcp
>
> Looks like i will have to recompile it, I think I found some info on a
> website about patching the deb-src packages and then rebuilding new ones.
> Will look into it eventually, at the moment I am just tinkering around.
> The
> machine isn't live for anything but testing. I'd certainly like to get the
>  virtual stuff going with mysql, so I guess I will have to do some leg
> work.

yes, I think it's well worth the effort, both mysql'ing postfix as well as
doing admin through postfixadmin; as it has 3 tier access, down to (if
desired) individual (virtual) mail box user self-admin of his
mailbox/alias.



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Re: [SLUG] Laptop recommendations

[Richard]

One of the staff baught one of these laptops

http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/info.asp?c1=3&c2=13&id=1015

Ive installed Ubuntu on it (Dapper Drake) works fine seems to fit all your specs plus its not expensive.

They also have some nice AMD64 units.

>From memory you can also order the laptops without windows.


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:42 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:



Here's what I'm after, with the highest priorities at the top.

  - Working sleep/resume (ie close lid -> sleep, open -> resume)
  - 12 or 14 inch screen
  - 1280 pixels or better horizontal resolution
  - 60G or larger drive
  - 1Gig ram
  - Ethernet
  - Wireless (source code driver)
  - USB
  - Decent sound in and out.
  - External (preferred) CDROM drive.
  - Good battery life
  - Availability of external long life battery.
  - Firewire

Does anyone have any recommendations on machines and/or vendors?

TIA,
Erik
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Regards

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Seen on Slashdot 30-09-2005





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Re: [SLUG] enter root password or type ctrl-D to continue...

[unauthorized]

>   I've been ignoring for the past few months a problem with my system whenever
> it reboots.  Which happens to be quite often actually (dual boot).  I have 3
> partitions which are raid-1 (md0, md1, md2), and ext3 fs types.
> 
> md0 = /boot
> md1 = /
> md2 = other
> 
> For some reason md1 is busy on the reboot, so never gets turned into a
> read-only like the other 2, but md0, and md2 do go read-only.  Now the problem
> I have is that when booting into linux I find it asks me for the root
> password, or to type ctrl-D to continue on into run level 3.  I have searched
> and search through the logs, and well I can't find any type of error.  The
> only thing I can think of is that md1 doesn't go read-only when
> rebooting/shutting down.  I just didn't think this was the behaviour of an
> ext3 fs.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction as where to look so I can fix
> this?

So a few things.  I've been able to "mount -o remount,ro /" from single user
mode without problems.  The interesting thing is that the error messages must be
coming from the mdadm stuff or something similar, because even as "ro" md1 (/)
was still "in use".  Now What I did figure out was that the mdadm started before
the enterprise volume management or EVMS.  This is interesting because for some
reason it was still working even though I had all devices pointing in fstab to
/dev/evms/md/md[0,1,2].  I'm sure it calls something later, or else it just
wouldn't work me thinks.  Anyway I moved the S25mdadm-raid to S28mdadm-raid as
only evms and lvm were started before it.  Now what clued me into the problem
was the fact that both the /etc/rc2.d, /etc/rc6.d directories had mdadm-raid at
S50 and not S25 like rcS.d.  So as most of you can appreciate somehow I was
booting into single user mode.  I looked at my grub config and yes of course I
had forgotten to change my default from "1" which is my single user grub image
to"0" which is my non-single user grub image.  Anyways all changed things work
just fine.  This would also explain quite a few other things that I worked
around before (:

Thanks for everyone's help, and I'll try not to be so forgetful next time (;

Chris-
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Re: [SLUG] Partition

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James,

Thanks for the info, however last night I installed successfully VectorLinux,
including all of my hardware.  Unfortunately this Slackware based distro doesn't
have the function you mention, so I have to manually partition the drive.

If there is some advice or help you could shed with me I would appreciate it
very much. 

Regards,

Dom L.

PS:- I am curious to know if anyone has played with VectorLinux

James Purser wrote:

If you are new to Linux, I would suggest that you allow the distro you
are using to partition your drive for you, especially if you are on one
disk. This will give you a good start. Afterwards you can start looking
at customising your disk structure, especially with the addition of new
drives.
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[SLUG] Partition - Updated

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SLUG,

By /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and /hda2 in my previous e-mail - Partition - I meant
Root, Swap, and Home.

I know what the purpose of each of them is, however given my previous
specifications I am seeking to optimise my memory use.

Thanks,
Dom L.
Linux Newbie


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Re: [SLUG] Partition

[James Purser]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:07 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> SLUG,
> 
> I am a linux newbie, and I curious if there is a rule of thumb when it comes 
> to
> partitioning the hard drive(using fdisk).  I have a desktop with 1024 MB of 
> RAM,
> and an IDE hardrive (80Gb).
> 
> How much space would I have to allocate for /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and /hda2.  I 
> have
> been reading through the Linux Bible (Wiley Books), and while the process 
> seems
> pretty straight forward, I am stuck as to how I can partition my hard disk
> adequately for optimised performance. How much memory should I allocate for 
> each
> partition?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dom L.

If you are new to Linux, I would suggest that you allow the distro you
are using to partition your drive for you, especially if you are on one
disk. This will give you a good start. Afterwards you can start looking
at customising your disk structure, especially with the addition of new
drives.
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[SLUG] Partition

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SLUG,

I am a linux newbie, and I curious if there is a rule of thumb when it comes to
partitioning the hard drive(using fdisk).  I have a desktop with 1024 MB of RAM,
and an IDE hardrive (80Gb).

How much space would I have to allocate for /dev/hda, dev/hda1, and /hda2.  I 
have
been reading through the Linux Bible (Wiley Books), and while the process seems
pretty straight forward, I am stuck as to how I can partition my hard disk
adequately for optimised performance. How much memory should I allocate for each
partition?

Thanks,
Dom L.
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