Re: [SLUG] Suggestions please
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Have you tried PCLinuxOS. It is a fairly small distro but easy to configure. Heracles On 07/12/11 13:20, Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day all, > > I have an old laptop I'm planning to use at installation sites for a > knockabout test laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite L10: Pentium M 1.6GHz, > 768MB RAM, 40GB HDD, Intel Pro 2200BG WLAN. > > I've tried several distributions on it so far, and getting a bit > frustrated: > > * Ubuntu, Fedora & CentOS install and run wireless (critical need) OK, >but /*very*/ slowly > * Lubuntu, Puppy, WattOS & Knoppix run pretty quickly, but wireless is >more than a little flaky - and slow to set up if it connects at all. >I'm no longer a newbie, but neither do I want to have to play with >command line configuration of wireless for every access point I set up! > > Am I really asking too much for a light distribution that will run > quickly /*and*/ have simple support for wireless? If not, can anyone > suggest a suitable distro? > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7fZy8ACgkQybPcBAs9CE/teQCbBKeW1lqX/2zebSBxpWlOgKhX WqIAnRNh7HLytkSWBu1F3V8mi3bvLdS2 =cfnN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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HI Slug, Can you please help me diagnose and fix a problem with my WPA supplicant? What does FATAL: Module wL not found mean? Here is the out put from my wireless start up: using interface wlan0 FATAL: Module wl not found. wpa_supplicant: no process found dhclient: no process found ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2 Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium. If you can shed any light on these two things and help me get my wifi setup properly so there is no unencrypted data being transmitted from my computer to my netcom router. I am running Open Suse 12.1 on an Asus laptop with the following network card and drivers: zen:/home/sharon # hwinfo --wlan | grep Driver: Driver: "b43-pci-bridge" zen:/home/sharon # lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Sharon Doig Linux novice Sharon Doig E: po_box_...@yahoo.com.au Blog: http://www.rosiesstuffnsew.blogspot.com Make your mark and achieve success or, if need be, die in the attempt. Miriam Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Sharon, Have you got the broadcom-wl driver installed? I believe this driver came about as a fix for a range of broadcom devices mainly used in Dell laptops? Just a guess. -- Regards, Peter On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:49 -0800, Sharon Doig wrote: > HI Slug, > Can you please help me diagnose and fix a problem with my WPA supplicant? > What does FATAL: Module wL not found mean? > > > Here is the out put from my wireless start up: > > using interface wlan0 > FATAL: Module wl not found. > wpa_supplicant: no process found > dhclient: no process found > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2 > Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium. > > If you can shed any light on these two things and help me get my wifi setup > properly so there is no unencrypted data being transmitted from my computer > to my netcom router. I am running Open Suse 12.1 on an Asus laptop with the > following network card and drivers: > > zen:/home/sharon # hwinfo --wlan | grep Driver: > Driver: "b43-pci-bridge" > zen:/home/sharon # lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 > 09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g > LP-PHY > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Cheers, > > Sharon Doig > Linux novice > > > Sharon Doig > > E: po_box_...@yahoo.com.au > > Blog: http://www.rosiesstuffnsew.blogspot.com > > Make your mark and achieve success > or, if need be, die in the attempt. > Miriam Leslie > > -- 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 Digest, Vol 71, Issue 8
On 08/12/2011, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm looking for the right distro to install. I have a couple of laptops that > I don't care if they break, so I can take out to work-sites where we're doing > installations in sometimes less than hospitable circumstances. > > 1. Because they're old laptops, I need a fairly lightweight > distribution - perhaps based on xfce or Enlightenment or similar. > 2. There for things like network configuration & troubleshooting, so > support for media playback is of no consequence. > 3. Because so many networks are wireless or hybrid with wireless, > simple wireless support is essential. > > It seems to me from the distros I've tried, you can have condition 1 met, or > condition 3. But not both - most of the lightweight distros seem to assume > that one is rpepared to spend half-an-hour on each wireless network setting > it up - and whilst I'm not a newbie, I don't really get off on always doing > things the hard way. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Unless they are Noah cast offs (Then go for Damn Small Linux) or similar you don't need a light weight distro, you need a light weight window manager icewm and fvwm both work nicely with 256M (and are nice to use) I've used icewm on a 64M machine but fvwm is prodly a better choice here. 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] Suggestions please
+1 to that. On 08/12/11 00:16, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Have you tried PCLinuxOS. It is a fairly small distro but easy to configure. Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Analog clock with transparent background and timezone support
G'day sluggers, I'm looking for a Linux XWindows clock display that will allow me to have three instances of the clock displayed on my desktop as part of the background. Each clock will display the time in a different timezone. The desktops timezone is UTC. So I want to be able to set the TZ to the appropriate value for Sydney, Perth and UTC and have the clock display on the desktop with a title or label showing the name of the Location that the time is for. xclock understands the TZ variable but looks a bit lame/ugly on a modern desktop. Whilst it supports the -title argument it can't be seen unless the clock is huge because of the window control buttons. Any suggestions. Pete -- 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] Analog clock with transparent background and timezone support
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:06:23AM +, Peter Rundle wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux XWindows clock display that will allow me to have > three instances of the clock displayed on my desktop as part of the Have you tried the screenlets clock (screenlets package on Ubuntu, not sure about other distros)? Lets you run multiple clocks, each with a different timezone & label on the clock face. John -- I used to gripe about how C should have provided this feature of PL/I, back when I was a newbie Berkeley student. Thank you ever so much for being smarter than that. -- Peter da Silva praises Dennis Ritchie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
