Re: [vox-tech] Netflix
You might look at a roku. http://www.roku.com/ It runs linux and uses very little power. Current versions also allow you to write/install your own apps (for instance to stream from a local network server) Cheers -Mark On 03/06/2011 11:24 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: Some Android... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_owners_netflix_has_good_news_and_bad_news.php It's all about the DRM http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/the-netflix-linux-conjecture-how-netflix-snubs-the-linux-community/1745 You may also consider Hulu Plus or Amazon Prime which are flash based as opposed to Silverlight, and don't seem to be as caught up on the DRM nonsense. Enjoy, Alex On 03/06/2011 11:05 PM, Lance Geroso wrote: oh and android has a netflix client, go figure On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Lance Gerosogero3...@gmail.com wrote: sorry bud netflix DOES NOT work with Linux only systems natively yet. I know, I have netflix, you can however use nextflix on most game systems like the wii, apple devices like the iphone, in winblows via virtual box, and of course in winblows running natively off your comp. You can also try wine with firefox, but I had some issues with that, including system freezing, and I have a decent system too. Netflix keeps saying they will eventually release something for Linux users, but no one knows when. Good luck with netflix on Linux. On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM, jimboevesautomot...@wavecable.com wrote: My wife and Iwas renting oscar winner and nominee movies starting from 2009 until our neighborhood blockbusters closed. This is our only entertainment as we have cut back severly. Netflix looks like a great fit. At 9.99/mo. this is a great deal. I am however behind the times as far as streaming. Does anyone stream netflix with Linux programs? I think xbnc does this. Using Linux would have huge advantages over Windblows, I think. I also need to find an option to stream to my non wifi tv w/o hooking my pc to it. One last thing. I can use an older spare pc and hook it to my tv but what about quality? Can I get away with a so so gpu but get 1080p pumping out of my set? What would be a light weight Linux distro that will let me do this? Maybe I can come to the next installfest and not only have this but a dvr? Jim GM http://evesautomotive.com ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Why change default ssh port?
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Richard S. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Our hosting service has (without notice) changed our default ssh port from 22 to 22799. This strikes me as an unusual decision, but I am still a novice at this sort of thing. Why would a host make such a switch (I won't ask why they wouldn't announce it ahead of time; I'm used to that level of service from them). Because they prefer to hide their network services, rather than concentrate on reducing actual vulnerability. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech Every little bit of security/obsfucation helps. Security layers are like an onion. Moving the default port of SSH is just another layer that will throw off a whole bunch of port scanners, and let them concentrate on easier target hosts. Just changing the SSH port probably removes 90% of the threats with 10% of the effort. -Just my 2 cents- -M ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] windows support, unfortunately
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Mon 06 Feb 06, 1:11 PM, Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:19:39PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Hi all, At work I have to use WinXP, but all of my development is with open source tools like cygwin, miktex, etc., so I'm almost happy. This morning a bad thing happened. Adobe Acrobat wanted to install an update 7.0.5 on my work computer, and stupidly, I allowed it. It wanted to reboot to finish the upgrade, and again, I allowed it. Unfortunately, after the reboot, my system has become flakey. Here are some manifestations: snip It's an obvious one, but I'm obliged to ask it: have you tried /uninstalling/ Acrobat, and if so, did it make a difference? Also, is your desktop backed-up? Thanks, Micah. After the Acrobat update, I seem to have completely lost the ability to install and uninstall programs. Most of the time it says that I need admin privs. Some of the time it says it can't access a particular .dll or it can't find a particular file. Before this whole thing started, I was able to install/uninstall programs just fine. The reason why I'm posting to vox-tech is that one of the help desk guys noted that i have a lot of illegal software. this is the term he actually used; i'm not making that up. he was referring to firefox, putty, miktex, gvim, cygwin, etc. he said i have to uninstall the illegal and unsupported software to fix the machine. IMO, this is worth making an issue of. All of these are extremely legal to have on your machine, and it is worth making the support guy understand this. Now, some of it /may/ be against company rules: but since you mentioned that you use cygwin to do development, I sincerely doubt it. Beat this into the support guy's head. Actually, a good tactic is to ask /him/ questions, and make him answer them reasonably. Most answers from these sorts of people will reveal more questions to ask. How, exactly, is Firefox (e.g.) illegal to install? How did you learn this (from the answer to previous)? What do you think about (appropriate link to strong materials denying the truthfulness of his previous answer)? I think his intent was it's against company policy, but I'll try this tactic. I don't have the admin password for this computer, but I noticed a utility on the web that obtains the admin password on XP machines. Actually *changing* the admin password is out of the question, for obvious reasons. Actually snooping it may be a bad idea as well. You can certainly get fired for such activity, and probably jail time, depending on the judge. Woof! Yeah, I definitely don't want to lose my job. ;) If you must use this, make it a last resort. Probably the one right after attempting to reinstall your system, reinstalling cygwin, etc on top of a fresh install. Unfortunately, my hands are completely tied now; I can't install or uninstall anything. It's almost as if my user account went from 'admin' or 'power user' to 'restricted user'. Maybe tomorrow I should try calling support again and telling them that I can no longer install/uninstall software? I really don't know what else to do, and you have me too spooked to try to change my user permissions now... Pete ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech Agreed. I would be very wary of stepping on the wrong toes in the support department. Most, if not all, offices that have worked in do not generally allow employees to install random software, whether it be free, open source, or anything not on the list. I have always been a developer, and they generally leave the developers alone (until you begin to pester the desktop support guys) It sure sounds like you have successfully hosed up a windoze installation, and I would suggest a walking over and sweet-talking the desktop guys. This approach has worked for me *several* times. I have hosed up many windoze boxes ;) Good Luck -Mark ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] windows support, unfortunately
Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:46:30PM -0800, MB wrote: I have hosed up many windoze boxes ;) Are you /sure/? IME, they tend to be quite adept at doing that themselves. :-) (Disclaimer: I can't actually claim this to be true anymore; XP seems to be a quite more stable platform than its predecessors, and I can't recall actually having to reinstall it yet.) Very true. On your disclaimer though xp may be infinitely more stable than its predecessors, but you are not setting the bar very high. I have sucessfully hosed up lots of xp boxes with updates, or installing two windoze updates without rebooting in between, and on and on. -M ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Need to bypass Squid proxy
Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:01:18PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: Ehrhart, Jay wrote: I have a Linux proxy server filtering all my outbound web traffic. All traffic leaving the proxy assumes the proxy IP address. I have an internal web site and I need that web server to see the originating IP address of my internal web traffic. How can I make that one IP address or url bypass the proxy? Can I use Squid or iptables and if so how do I set it up? In addition to what everyone else said, if it's a transparent proxy that you have no control over, you can connect by HTTPS. I don't know of any proxy that can proxy an encrypted connection. If it's not transparent, it can (the CONNECT method). But, yeah, I don't see how a transparent one could do that. Unfortunately (or fortunately), squid WILL proxy SSL and regular web sessions. It will also proxy other connections like ftp. Squid happens to be a *very* powerful proxy. -Mark ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Wireless-to-ethernet bridges
You are on the right track, and here are a few other suggestions: http://www.wlanparts.com/product/NL3054CB3PLUS ( same money but 200mw ) I have a 802.11b buffalo client bridge that I can sell to you for $20. Looks like: http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=116categoryid=7 but is 802.11b If you don't need the 802.11g speed, then you can find really cheap 802.11b client bridges much like the dlink 900AP+ (make sure that its the (AP+) model ) -- something like: http://cgi.ebay.com/D-LINK-AirPlus-DWL-900AP-WIRELESS-ACCESS-POINT_W0QQitemZ5816022794QQcategoryZ51164QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem -Mark Henry House wrote: I finally have no choice but to get a wireless interface for my home workstation. Given the difficulty with changing chipsets and poor driver support, I am thinking of a ethernet-to-wireless bridge, which is alleged to bridge a one-device ethernet network to an existing wireless network with an existing access point, all without any drivers on the PC. Here are two products, both by Linksys, that claim to do just that: http://www.buy.com/prod/Wireless_G_Game_Adapter/q/loc/15625/10351886.html http://www.buy.com/prod/Wireless_G_Ethernet_Bridge/q/loc/15625/10346525.html The second is about twice the price of the first. My questions are: - Am I on the right track going with an ethernet bridge? - What reasons are there to prefer the more-expensive device? I loathe wireless networking and so would prefer to spend as little as possible. I am not really interested in special features. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Wireless-to-ethernet bridges
oooh, thats right!! I'd get a WRT54G and flash the firmware to get client mode working. This is a VERY powerful router and cheap!! -Mark Henry House wrote: I finally have no choice but to get a wireless interface for my home workstation. Given the difficulty with changing chipsets and poor driver support, I am thinking of a ethernet-to-wireless bridge, which is alleged to bridge a one-device ethernet network to an existing wireless network with an existing access point, all without any drivers on the PC. Here are two products, both by Linksys, that claim to do just that: http://www.buy.com/prod/Wireless_G_Game_Adapter/q/loc/15625/10351886.html http://www.buy.com/prod/Wireless_G_Ethernet_Bridge/q/loc/15625/10346525.html The second is about twice the price of the first. My questions are: - Am I on the right track going with an ethernet bridge? - What reasons are there to prefer the more-expensive device? I loathe wireless networking and so would prefer to spend as little as possible. I am not really interested in special features. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] USB/Firewire HDDs with laptop
I have a couple of external usb drives and they seem to work just fine mounting them from /dev/sda. ( so it looks like a scsi drive to the kernel ) I am running Debian/testing or unstable. Good luck Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop. I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and an external drive is the cheapest solution. I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work. Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated. Regards Ronald Bradford ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] What address to put my gateway/router
Rod Roark wrote: On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:17 pm, Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, Simple question (probably going to be one of those, depends). My linksys router's default address is: 192.168.1.1, when I install Linux (Debian) it's default gateway address: 192.168.1.254. Not that either of them are hard to change but... What address do you guys normally put your router? Well, my local network used to be 192.168.1.* until a client wanted me to be on their VPN which also had that address, so I changed mine to 192.168.8.* and it's been that way ever since. Why 8? Because it's fastest to type when the previously typed digit was 8. By that reasoning, I guess my gateway box (which is also my nameserver, web server, mail server, NTP server, etc.) should be 192.168.8.8, but it's 192.168.8.1. -- Rod ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech The .254 gateway address is old school, and I guess that the folks who wrote the linux setup script picked .254 to show that they have been around for a while. It really doesn't matter what the gateway is ( as long as it's on the same network ), but all of the new consumer products generally have the gateway at .1, whether thats 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.33.1 I will normally leave the gateway at .1 because that seems to be the new standard. Mark ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] I have a laptop to donate
I dont' know of a school, but if you want to give it a good home, I can use pretty much any old PC laptops for little projects. Mark --- Norm Matloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old (1999) Toshiba Satellite 2105CDS machine which I would like to find a good home for. It's underpowered (only 64M of RAM, 4.3G hard drive etc.) but is in good condition. If anyone knows of a school or some other institution which could use it, please e-mail me. Norm Matloff ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Linux skills supposedly a hot commodity
Thanks Doug. We should all be painfully aware of ad.doubleclick.net links by now. I actually have that host mapped to 127.0.0.1 so that NONE of those type of links work. Mark --- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norm Matloff wrote: I think this article is exaggerated, but it's nice to see anyway. Norm http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N2537.internet.com/B1417960;sz=160x600;o rd=1311697052? I couldn't get the above doubleclick.net link to work. Here is the direct URL, if you're interested: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3393671 And tinyurl'ed: http://tinyurl.com/5zlue -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dooglio.net begin:vcard fn:R. Douglas Barbieri n:Barbieri;R. Douglas email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.dooglio.net version:2.1 end:vcard ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Cloning a drive?
Here is how I clone drives -- normally I boot into linux ( on a separate system ), and then mount the original drive via external usb case, and then mount the clone drive via a second external usb case. This method should work just as well if you boot with a knoppix or other cdrom linux distro, and have both drives on the IDE bus. 1. Boot knoppix cd. 2. Mount your original drive -- mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/orig_10gig_drive 3. partition your clone drive -- cfdisk /dev/hdb (or wherever your drive need to be mounted from) a. I have just one partition, so if you have /tmp or /home or whatever on separate partitions, then you will need to adjust these instructions accordingly, so that your new drive has a similar layout -- i.e. if your original drive has one partition for linux and a swap partition, make the clone the same adjusting the sizes to accommodate the full 20gig drive. That includes making the clone partitions in the same order on the drive. b. don't forget to make your main/root partition bootable and your swap partition as a type 83 c. you can check the partitions on the original drive with -- fdisk -l 4. format your clone drive -- mke2fs -v /dev/hdb1 ( add -j for an ext3 filesystem ) 5. mount your clone drive -- mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/clone_20gig_drive 6. copy all files from old drive to clone -- cp --preserve=all -r /mnt/orig_10gig_drive/* /mnt/clone_20gig_drive/. 7. create /mnt/clone_20gig_drive/lilo_tmp_hdb.conf with something like: boot=/dev/hdb disk=/dev/hdb root=/dev/hdb1 map=/mnt/clone_20gig_drive/boot/map # I don't remember... install=/mnt/clone_20gig_drive/boot/boot.b # copy from host #loader=/mnt/usbDrive2/boot/chain.b# -- #backup=/dev/null vga=normal default=linux lba32 prompt timeout=100 delay=100 image=/mnt/clone_20gig_drive/vmlinuz optional label=linux append=root=/dev/hda1 # kernel options read-only 8. Then run -- lilo -v -C /mnt/clone_20gig_drive/lilo_tmp_hdb.conf 9. Remove your original 10 gig drive, and replace with new 20 gig drive, changing the drive jumper as needed. 10. boot new system. Good luck. Mark Paul wrote: I need to move my desktop from a (full) 10G drive to a (spare) 20G drive. The ideal results would be copy everything over, then run lilo on the new drive, then it would boot up looking just like the old one. Some googling found me an out of date HOWTO and a few sites with instructions that were a little vague, so I thought I would ask the experts. Has anybody done this? Is it easy - not to hard - increadibly difficult - don't even think about it? How do I do it - or better yet - a site with almost idiot proof instructions. What are the things that can go wrong? Thanks, Paul ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Remove a filesystem
Jay, I think that if you delete the partition in question, and then recreate it. That should do the trick. Something like: fdisk /dev/hdc or cfdisk /dev/hdc Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a command to remove a filesystem? If I partition a disk, build a filesystem (mke2fs), is there anything like rme2fs? I'm playing with software raid and after I've built my raid device, built a filesystem on it, mounted it, I'd like to delete the filesystem, so that the next time I do a: mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level raid1 --raid-disks 2 missing /dev/hdc1 It doesn't give me a message like: mdadm: /dev/hdc2 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=40001728K mtime=Sun May 2 22:32:37 2004 mdadm: /dev/hdc2 appears to be part of a raid array: level=1 devices=2 ctime=Sun May 2 22:28:46 2004 Continue creating array? y Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] One more problem - masquerading
Cam,
Can you post the command (rule) that you are using to set the
forwarding? i.e.
${IPTABLES} -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s ${subnet} -o ${INET_IFACE} -j
MASQUERADE
Mark
Doctorcam wrote:
* Doctorcam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The aforementiond laptop (Toshiba M30) contacts my internal LAN very
well, and NFS works like a charm. Attempts to get outside meet with
consistent failure, however.
I'm really thick - must be the 5-hour nights. Forgot to specify the
gateway.
Sorry about that.
However, the other issue, below, is unresolved:
The third machine on the network has no
trouble, at least most of the time. I notice that masquerading fails
on an irregular basis, and must be reinstated. ip_forward is always
set to 1, so something else is going on.
Cheers
Cam
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Re: [vox-tech] Old PC
If you can a little RAM, then you could have a nice little box. I may have a few sticks lying around if you can check to see if it needs 72 pin simm, or 168 pin dimm memory. Mark John Marcotte wrote: I have an old Dell Optiplex GS+ in my office. I thought It might make a dandy little Linux box, but it's pretty darn slow by today's standards. At a cool 200MHz at a whopping 32MB of RAM, I think a current distro would run poorly (if at all) on the box. So my question is: What version of Linux should I put on this little guy? I'd like to use it as an internet terminal and word processor. John Marcotte ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
Pricewatch is by far my favorite choice, but i'll sometimes check www.nextag.com as they have a nice way of searching that includes shipping to a zip code included. Of course google wants in on the action with froogle.google.com... Mark --- Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: based on specs (haven't read reviews yet), this is the motherboard of my dreams: Thunder K8W (S2885) dual opteron dual memory channels (4 PC2700 DDR EEC for each CPU) SATA AGP 8x/PRO 110W USB 1.2 (oh well. can't have everything) integrated stuff i'll never use the only thing i can't find is which opterons the board supports, so i'm assuming it'll take me all the way up to opteron 248. one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) i've always bought my stuff through pricewatch because other than a few years ago when memory prices shot sky high, hardware has been so cheap the past 5 years. it wasn't worth my time to bargain hunt for 10 or 20 bucks. have people found better prices than what pricewatch lists? are there any favorite price hunting sites that people have been using lately? thanks, pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Toil! But success
Bill, That sounds great! I still have not found that modem. It's probably hiding under one of those big piles of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my desk. Anyway, glad you got things running. That box should last quite a while as it has a bunch of memory and a speedy little amd. Mark Bill Kendrick wrote: Man, I just had fun(tm) getting this new box I bought from Mark Breitung working. :^) It's got a rather old network card, which happens to have three connectors on it (10BaseT, the RJ45 style we're all used to these days, as well as BNC and something that looks kinda like a joystick or MIDI port.. AUI, I think it's called?) It's a 3COM Etherlink III '3c509(b)' card. It seemed the EEPROM was set to make the thing always try and use the BNC connector, so I was never able to get onto my network. I finally discovered a tool called '3c5x9setup' which can write new settings to the EEPROM. Of course, a lot of my problem is I still don't understand those oldfangled IRQs and IO Ports. I'm used to plug it in, it works from the good old days of one-vendor computing (read: Atari 8-bit, and Apple Macintosh) I seriously hate hardware and PCs, by the way. ;^) Anyway, no network? Let's try a floppy disk! Install mtools. WHAT!? Debian Potato want's X-Window common stuff, too? Force the hell through that. Dumb old Debian! :^) Okay, mtools installed. Oh wait, the floppy's not working! Seems we plugged the cable in backwards. ;) Easy fix. But oh no! Having trouble reading the disk! Is the drive broken!? No... just an old disk. WHEW! Okay, time to crack this puppy open. Erg... install bzip2 and libraries off the CDROM, THEN crack it open. Then finally, under Knoppix, after much tweaking and testing, I was FINALLY able to ping my router. Then my other desktops. HUZZAH! I've got network! Time to apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest stable (Woody). WHEW!!! I'm glad I didn't give up. And I REALLY thank Knoppix for its help (detected lots of useful info when it booted up). I'd be pretty lost, since I've honestly not done very many Linux installs... and I always stick to the same set of hardware (Soundblaster, Tulip-based Netgear, etc.) I almost feel like I'm ready to help more at Installfests. Wait, what am I saying!?!? :^) :^) Anyway, thanks again for the box, Mark. Sorry to rant. I'm sure if I were doing this with the more popular OS (Windows), I'd be just as lost... if not MORE lost. (Most info I found while Googling for this net card was posts from people using Linux, even though I didn't include linux as a keyword :) ) I made the mistake of telling my dad I've got a computer, and he's already asking me when I'm delivering it. D'oh! Gotta install some software first, dad! ;) -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Shatner, ya remember that episode of http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ Space Trek where your show got cancelled? ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Keyboard lockup when reading /dev/psaux
Bill, I can give you a PCI nic if you would like It sounds like it would make things a lot easier for you. I just stuck that old nic in there because I had it lying around. Mark Bill Kendrick wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:30:03AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: What-thu!? Tried cat'ing /dev/psaux... LOCKUP! Brief Googling proves I'm not crazy, and this has happened to others. Some folks mentioned pcmcia being involved. Tried apt-get remove'ing pcmcia_cs, but the cat still locked the machine up. Will try rebooting. I don't see any modules lying around, though: Hrm, more Googling and it seemed to have to do with legacy USB kbd setting in BIOS. Seems to work, though I need to make sure my NIC's IRQ is set to 5 now. *oy* -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Debian networking problem -- where do I start?
Is the winXP box in your arp cache? arp -an Have you tried a port scan from the debian box? nmap -P0 -n -v -F winXPip Mark Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Wed 28 Jan 04, 3:47 PM, Richard S. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:37, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: what makes this a bit difficult is the fact that XP may not log as well as a unix OS. doesn't XP come with a firewall now? why don't you check that first? It's off. First thing I checked. :) ok. so you can't ping XP from debian. can you ping debian from XP? Yep. can you ping XP from anyone else on your local LAN? Yep. I can ping it from both of my Red Hat boxes. when you type route on debian (not route -n, i mean route) does it hang for a long time or do you get results immediately? I get immediate results: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /etc # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 hmmm. here's what i suggest: 1. on debian, ping XP. 2. on some other host on your LAN, run tcpdump and look to see if the pings are being broadcast. this will tell you if the pings are being sent correctly. if they are, the problem is that XP is just not listening. pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] I'm setting up a DNS server...
William Perdue wrote: It's my first time setting up a DNS server and I bought a book to help. in the line @ IN SOA @ root.localhost ( is the root.localhost part where you would you replace that with the name of the DNS server? correct, you should replace it with the authoritative name server. You define it's real ip address down in the zone file like you have here below. and then there's a ; servers atlas IN A 192.168.1.255 www CNAME atlas is the atlas part the name of the server your hosting? and does the www CNAME and atlas part is the www the extention for the beginning like in www.bob.net or talk.whatever.org? right, so atlas.domainName.com would resolve to 192.168.1.255(which is a broadcast address, so you should not use), as well as, www.domainName.com William Perdue E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: www.williamperdue.com - To be or not to be that is the question. -Shakspeare ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] rusty newbie CD mounting woes
If you take a look at dmesg, there should be a few lines describing the cdrom and what device it is listed as. Also, since it is a cdrw drive you may look into using the ide-scsi module. I was warned that I should use ide-scsi for my laptop cdrw/dvd drive... Mark Alexandra Thorn wrote: Having extreme difficulty with really basic task here. Would probably help if I hadn't built this computer for myself so that I could be sure that various drives are attached in the standard places. Hoping you guys can help without getting after me too much for asking stupid questions. I have tried google, but am only meeting with frustration. All I want to do is get a CD to mount. My CD drive is a Plexwriter 40/12/40A. I'm reasonably certain that I've never mounted a CD on this computer before, since there was no /mnt/cdrom or other CD oriented directory when I got started this morning. Here's what I've tried doing with the loving aid of various online HOWTOs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrw mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Password: mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom ls: /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom mount: you must specify the filesystem type [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/hda /mnt/cdrw mount: you must specify the filesystem type [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw mount: /dev/hdc: unknown device [EMAIL PROTECTED] thorn]$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw mount: /dev/hdd: unknown device Pretty sure I'm either missing something obvious or completely forgetting the main thing I need to do. I know it would help a lot if I actually knew the name of the device I'm trying to use. Please don't be too hard on me. Thanks, Alex Tru5t m3 --Boo, from megatokyo.com ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Connecting to a remote Oracle database
Richard, To use most (if not all) oracle clients, you need the oracle drivers installed on the local machine. For instance, when I am accessing an oracle db using java, oracle provides jdbc drivers. I am not sure about TOra, but when I was using TOAD, I had to install the oracle client ( sqlplus and some other oracle client software ) before TOAD would work. (www.toadsoft.com) cheers Mark Richard Crawford wrote: I've got my department's Oracle 9i database running happily on Solaris 9, but I would like to be able to connect to it from home. I've installed TOra on my desktop at home, but that appears to be inadequate. Port 1521 is open on our department's firewall to my home network, so I should be able to get in. And I can tel-net in and run SQL*Plus from the command line just fine. Anyone know what I'm missing? Is it possible to do this without installing all of the Oracle database software on my box? I certainly have the room for it, but it's still something I'd like to avoid Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. --Michael Moore ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] How do i refer my system with IP and make sure that its accessible from windows(server is running there)
Ok. I understand the problem now. You could use any old transfer method... ftp, samba, nfs, etc... just create a SSH/SFTP tunnel first. Or on the other hand, you could use java and SSL... Mark Jeff Newmiller wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: Hi, First of all thank you so much for your mail :). 1. are you changing the ip of your machines? (192.168.0.44) Or are you changing the script on each machine? Not going to do both. The java argument need someway to access my system files by refering my System IP/Name but not normal path i.e /home/enigma The existing DOS solution depends on CIFS (e.g. samba). 2. are you running iptables/ipchains on your linux machine (firewall), that would block network traffic? I dont think the system that I am testing runs both(iptables/ipchains) 3. can you verify that the java program (com.enigma.client.PETClient) is starting? and trying to talk on the network? You can use tcpdump, or tethereal to see network traffic. yes it does and thats why it says wrong input files. One my friend told me that its better that I copy input files from client to server and then ask java to refer to those input files and if it generates some output files copy it back to client. Now this is too much cause this is not that case with dos batch files. Another guy was suggesting me to try samba but that once again puts the question WITHOUT Authentication. Complain, complain. You seem to want your cake and to eat it too: must be able to access files anywhere, but must be secure. The \\host\path notation depends on the presence of CIFS servers, such as samba. Perhaps you should set all files you want to access up within the scope of FTP servers, and use ftp URLs in all cases. --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go Live... DCN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/BatteriesO.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --- ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] How do i refer my system with IP and make sure that its accessible from windows(server is running there)
Just a couple of quick questions. 1. are you changing the ip of your machines? (192.168.0.44) Or are you changing the script on each machine? 2. are you running iptables/ipchains on your linux machine (firewall), that would block network traffic? 3. can you verify that the java program (com.enigma.client.PETClient) is starting? and trying to talk on the network? You can use tcpdump, or tethereal to see network traffic. Mark karthikeyan wrote: Hi, why I am running a shell program which after setting some variables with values invokes a java program and pass it some parameters. Few of the parameters requires Input/Output file location. Which can be in the same system or a different Linux machine. /why I am pasting the shell file I wrote(which ofcourse doesn't work) Unix Shell file === #!/bin/bash # 192.168.0.115(points to server) # 192.168.0.44 (is this machine) javac -d . com/enigma/client/*.java javac -d . com/enigma/common/*.java export Host=192.168.0.115 export Port=8080 export InputFile=//192.168.0.44/Enigma/input/xml/Chapter30sample.xml export OutputPath=//192.168.0.44/outputXML/ export programName=Daniel_rajesh export logoPath=//192.168.0.44/Enigma/input/images/Goodrichlogo.gif export userType=IPC export userRev=2 java -DHost=$Host -DPort=$Port com.enigma.client.PETClient -input $InputFile -type $userType -rev $userRev -out $OutputPath -param _3C_BookName $programName -param _3C_UserDef1 $logoPath The above shell file is the replacement for the below DOS batch file(which works) Dos Batch file === javac -d .\ .\com\enigma\client\*.java javac -d .\ .\com\enigma\common\*.java set Host=192.168.0.115 set Port=8080 set InputFile=\\192.168.0.44\Enigma\input\xml\Chapter30sample.xml set OutputPath=\\192.168.0.44\outputXML\ set programName=Daniel_rajesh set logoPath=\\192.168.0.44\Enigma\input\images\Goodrichlogo.gif set userType=IPC set userRev=2 java -DHost=%Host% -DPort=%Port% com.enigma.client.PETClient -input %InputFile% -type %userType% -rev %userRev% -out %OutputPath% -param _3C_BookName %programName% -param _3C_UserDef1 %logoPath% Any solutions hints would be of great help. Have a great day. Karthikeyan B ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] OT: DSL Filters
Marc, Have you tried searching the web for two line filters? http://www.twacomm.com/Catalog/Model_900LCC-2F-50.htm bottom of: http://www.2wire.com/office/adap_fil.html http://www.telephonestuff.com/Catalog/Jmp_Suttle/Dept_ID_302.htm This would solve your problem? MB Marc Elliot Hall wrote: I have a bunch of two-line phones; and I have two phone lines. Originally, my DSL was associated with my primary number. However, my provider decided to stop doing the DSL thing, which prompted me to find another ISP. To ensure seamless service, I activated DSL on the second line and then cancelled DSL on the primary number. So, now I want to use my two-line phones with, get this, BOTH phone lines. Unfortunately, although they have two pairs of pins at each connector, it appears that my line filters (mPHASE Technologies model DFMU2PL1001) do not pass the second line signal through to the phones. Leaving the filter off allows me to use the second line, but periodically disrupts the DSL service and results in a low signal-to-noise ratio. I have tried different phone sets and different filters to eliminate damaged hardware as the cause of this problem. Bad ASCII art: Current config, one voice line working: service entrance line 1-- ===0+ line 2 -- ===0=== DSL MODEM ===+| |+=\line filter==[phone 1] +^=/ || |+=\line filter==[phone 2] +^=/ || |+=\line filter==[phone 3] +==/ Desired config, two voice lines working: service entrance line 1-- ===0+ line 2 -- ===0=== DSL MODEM ===+| ||=\line filter/==\[phone 1] ||=/\==/ || ||=\line filter/==\[phone 2] ||=/\==/ || ||=\line filter/==\[phone 3] ||=/\==/ I could get a filter for the service entrance and bypass it just for the DSL; but that would limit my flexibility to relocate the DSL modem for my home network -- something I plan to do in the future, as it's an eyesore hanging off the wall in my library, at present. Alternate config 1, two voice lines working: service entrance line 1-- ===0\line filter|| line 2 -- ===0/ || Splitter -- || ||===\[phone 1] 0=== DSL MODEM ||===/ || ||===\[phone 2] ||===/ || ||===\[phone 3] ||===/ I could also get an adapter that splits line 1 and line 2 into separate cable runs, allowing individual filters for each cable and thus bypassing the one-signal-per filter problem. However, I already have enough junk hanging out of my wall jacks as it is; and doing this for all three of my two-line extensions would be a serious PITA. Alternate config 2, two voice lines working: service entrance line 1-- ==0==|| line 2 -- ==0=== DSL MODEM ==|| ||=line filter==\[phone 1] ||=line filter==/ || ||=line filter==\[phone 2] ||=line filter==/ || ||=line filter==\[phone 3] ||=line filter==/ Has anyone else experienced similar issues with multi-line phones? Were you able to resolve the problem without resorting to a filter at the service entrance? Can anyone recommend a line filter that will pass through signals on multiple pairs? ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] OT: The Bouncing WAP
I have seen a similar issue with XP. Is your wireless adapter set to use 802.11x or any other authentication? If so try turning it off. If this does not help, can you supply your setup? brand/firmware of wireless cards: firmware of WAP11: MB Richard Crawford wrote: I have a Linksys WAP11 at my house, and I use it to connect our two laptops, which happen to be running WinXP. Every few minutes, the WAP seems to drop the connection; or, at least, a message appears on the laptop telling me that the link has been lost; and a few seconds later it comes back. This is very annoying when I'm browsing the web or playing MP3's from my file server. Why might this be happening? Any ideas? Any way that I can make it stop?? Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. --Antoine de Saint Exupéry ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] OT: DSL Filters
I have not used any of these, but I can imagine that they all work equally as well. I could not tell from your diagrams that you had proposed using 2-line filters, but if you have a two line phone, then I would use a 2-line filter. MB Marc Elliot Hall wrote: MB wrote: Have you tried searching the web for two line filters? http://www.twacomm.com/Catalog/Model_900LCC-2F-50.htm bottom of: http://www.2wire.com/office/adap_fil.html http://www.telephonestuff.com/Catalog/Jmp_Suttle/Dept_ID_302.htm This would solve your problem? Yes, I have searched for two-line filters. Thank you for the links. However, my question was: I have a bunch of two-line phones; and I have two phone lines. Originally, my DSL was associated with my primary number. However, my provider decided to stop doing the DSL thing, which prompted me to find another ISP. To ensure seamless service, I activated DSL on the second line and then cancelled DSL on the primary number. So, now I want to use my two-line phones with, get this, BOTH phone lines. Unfortunately, although they have two pairs of pins at each connector, it appears that my line filters (mPHASE Technologies model DFMU2PL1001) do not pass the second line signal through to the phones. Leaving the filter off allows me to use the second line, but periodically disrupts the DSL service and results in a low signal-to-noise ratio. I have tried different phone sets and different filters to eliminate damaged hardware as the cause of this problem. much snippage of ugly ASCII art Has anyone else experienced similar issues with multi-line phones? Were you able to resolve the problem without resorting to a filter at the service entrance? Can anyone recommend a line filter that will pass through signals on multiple pairs? I'm looking for a RECOMMENDATION here -- not an unweighted link. Have you used and do you recommend one of these products? Do you recommend these vendors? ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Outlook Question (I know, but please bear with me...)
At least ditch that Outlook virus. Use any free mail client such as mozilla... Mark Richard Crawford wrote: I have a RH8.0 server running at home which pulls mail in from our remote mail server and then distributes it for me and my wife between our various accounts. Now, in addition to my desktop computer which runs Linux, I also have my WinXP laptop which runs Outlook 2000 (currently this computer runs that because I cannot make my Palm Tungsten talk happily to my desktop computer, and because I have not been able to make Debian run well on that laptop -- still soliciting suggestions on both those issues, by the way). While at work, I check my personal e-mail by logging in to my server and using SquirrelMail. But recently I've discovered that even when I shut down Outlook on my XP laptop, there are still Outlook processes running, even if I kill them with Task Manager. As a result, when I log in to SM, messages are marked as read even when I haven't read them though SM (because Outlook on my laptop has checked my mail -- even when I don't want it to). This is just one more reason why I hate MS in general and Outlook in particular. I'd love to find a way to run Ximian Evolution on my Windows laptop, but until then is anyone aware of a way to kill Outlook processes on my Windows computer once and for all so that it actually shuts all the way down when I tell it to? Just assume that I have processes running on my laptop which makes it inconvenient to shut it down all the way. ;-) Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. --Antoine de Saint Exupéry ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] dns, apache question
There are several options, but I have a couple of questions/answers: 1. where/who is hosting www.mydomain.com? If you, then you can do a simple redirect on your home page. -- simple html redirect - html head titleHTML REDIRECT/title meta HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=0; URL=http://www.mycompany.com/~myUsername; /head body/body /html - I believe the 0 is the number of seconds that the browser waits until doing the redirect. 2. where/who is hosting your dns server(s)? It sounds like you are not, but whomever is may have a service for a few dollars a year that will perform the above http/s redirection for you. Mark Charles McLaughlin wrote: At work, I have root access to a Apache server, but don't have access to the DNS servers. I would love to be able to associate domain names to the Apache server, but I would have to ask the sys admins for help and they would frown on this sort of thing. I guess what I'm asking is this: Is there any way to get www.mydomain.com to point to www.mycompany.com/~myHomeDir without having access to the DNS servers at my job? I was hoping this could be done with a Apache virtual host, but after reading up on that, it doesn't sound possible... Thanks! Charles ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Measure network usage?
I like ntop ( www.ntop.org ). It has a nice SSL server w/interface and graphs to view what is going on, and it uses nmap, lsof, and several other network utilities to find out about the machines on the network ( and the remote connections ) Mark Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2003 01:50 am, Samuel Merritt wrote: Shawn P. Neugebauer said: I have a few Linux boxes that have uptimes of days to months. I need to try to estimate bandwidth usage for a long-ish period of time (e.g., days or weeks) in order to characterize how much bandwidth I use (to decide on level-of-service issues for a new ISP---I have to move :( ) . Is there a way to tell the amount (in bytes) of traffic sent and received by a running box? Is there a simple *non-intrusive* tool that might add a little value to whatever is built-in? I'm aware of MRTG, and Orca, but these are overkill for this type of problem. Take a look at the output of /sbin/ifconfig. It should have a line like RX bytes:2328595615 (2.1 GiB) TX bytes:3104087047 (2.8 GiB) or so. Have a script dump the byte counts to a text file once an hour, and then you can do a little simple analysis with a hand-rolled tool. That was the first place I checked, but slapping hand on forehead I saw RX/TX packets and missed the byte count. I just man'd ifconfig, noticed it used /proc/net/dev, saw byte counts in *there* and started wondering why they didn't show up with ifconfig... Now, if I can extract some info from my router, I might have some idea how much data exits and arrives at my network... Thanks. ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Re: sniffing wireless packets / war driving
Have you tried NetStumbler.com? Mark Charles McLaughlin wrote: Sorry I thought that I noticed a basestation in infastructure mode. It was actually in ad-hoc mode, so maybe it is just someone else's laptop and not a basestation. Charles On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Charles McLaughlin wrote: Ok... I know what your thinking. No, I'm not trying to crack someone's WLAN. I just moved and am just curious if any WLANs are near by. At my old apartment complex, I was able to use my neighbor's DSL connection from his wireless basestation. He didn't even enable WEP, so I couldn't help but use his signal -- my laptop automatically recieved an IP address from his basestation! Now... I've moved and am just curious what signals are out there. I'm using Kismet to sniff wireless packets. I guess this is legal because I haven't actually circumvented any encrypted packets. ;-) Using Kismet, I can see an infastructure type signal, which I assume is a neighbor's WLAN basestation. I've let Kismet run for two days and have sniffed almost 80,000 packets, but none of them have been encrypted. When I look at the WLAN using a Winbloze box, I'm asked for a WEP key. My conclusion is that my neighbor's basestation is using WEP, but s/he hasn't booted any wireless clients in the past two days. Maybe that is why none of the packets are encrypted? Maybe I should mention that I don't know much about networking theory -- I'm more of a hands-on type of guy, so I hope this post makes sense. Thanks for any insight, Charles ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] pc/104 board
All, I am looking for anyone with working knowledge of pc/104 boards. I have a 486 board with no apparent video output, but with 10MB network, and 2 pcmcia card slots ( with wireless cards currently ). It seems to be booting from a flash disk, and has a removable memory chip. There is a 2.2 kernel on this device, and I would like to reconfigure the network. Problem is: I do not have root passwd or any local account. All I have is https/http access. There is a telnet server running, but I do not have passwords. The board I have is VERY similar to: http://www.microcomputersystems.com/msi-cm486.pdf I tried emailing them, but go no response. I am looking for: 1. keyboard connection 2. serial port(s) 3. some way to just read/write the flash disk, and reset the root passwd Thanks in advance, Mark B ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] pc/104 board
I looked at several different vendors (online), and this was the only one the had the same layout. I know that the PDF states that there are PS/2 and serial ports, but it does not give specs on pinouts. Any ideas? Mark Mike Simons wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:55:31AM -0700, MB wrote: I am looking for anyone with working knowledge of pc/104 boards. I have a 486 board with no apparent video output, but with 10MB network, and 2 pcmcia card slots ( with wireless cards currently ). [...] The board I have is VERY similar to: http://www.microcomputersystems.com/msi-cm486.pdf I tried emailing them, but go no response. I am looking for: 1. keyboard connection 2. serial port(s) 3. some way to just read/write the flash disk, and reset the root passwd Well the PDF you gave above says that the board has keyboard and serial ports included... you will need to build your own connectors to convert the pins into a standard cable. If you connect up a pc/104 VGA card to the device you will be able to see the console output on bootup... maybe someone here has a video board? Also if you build a serial connector is is possible that the linux system has one of the two serial devices configured as the console, hooking that machine up to a desktop over a null-modem and seeing what you get would be a good idea. Have you confirmed the board you have is really from microcomputersystems? or could it be from some other vendor? ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
