Re: [Eug-lug] Random freezes

2007-01-08 Thread Neil Parker
Martin Kelly wrote, >Nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg... I don't think it's the kernel, >thankfully. It might also be worthwhile to look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and possibly /var/log/syslog. >Yeah, I wasn't able to do Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get to a virtual tty. Is X able >to free that up? > >I ju

Re: [Eug-lug] Random freezes

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Kelly
Nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg... I don't think it's the kernel, thankfully. Yeah, I wasn't able to do Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get to a virtual tty. Is X able to free that up? I've got 512MB ram and usually my RAM usage is between 75-200 (I'm running XFCE too)... I don't think it's RAM. Also,

Re: [Eug-lug] Random freezes

2007-01-08 Thread larry price
/var/log/messages might have something if there were kernel messages they might show up in the output of dmesg are you sure it wasn't strictly an X freeze up? (were you able to suspend the X session and use a tty session to talk to the box?) how much memory + swap do you have on the box? (if you

[Eug-lug] Random freezes

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Kelly
Hey all, I have just had my computer freeze twice within 10 minutes or so. Activities: xorg, XMMS, firefox, apache serving a 60MB or so download. Both times, the freeze happened when the person downloading from me was at 14%... I don't know if this is a coincidence or not. Note these were com

Re: [Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread M. Bitner
Nintendo makes an access point for the DS that plugs into a USB port, although I think it only works with Windows XP. I think there's a third party one out too but I don't know how well it works. Nintendo has announced that they are working on integrating the DS with the Wii, so that might eventu

RE: [Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread Jason LaPier
AFAIK, the DS won't turn it's WiFi until you start up a game and go into Multiplayer mode (otherwise it'd be a waste of battery). I doubt there will be any firmware upgrades for the DS - risking a chance to brick end-users' DSes just to upgrade the wifi capabilities probably doesn't appeal to Ninte

Re: [Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well I got a Wii .. and it found my network with WPA2 no problemo.. if thats any consolation it seems they are catching up. The first thing the Wii did was check and upgrade its firmware .. maybe if you just got the DS on long enough to update itself it would then do WPA ? Mark Rob Hudson w

Re: [Eug-lug] Some interesting links.

2007-01-08 Thread Ben Barrett
Better pix of that yellow duck-like 'puter here: http://www.hifihamster.com/current.html Bender PC details also at: http://mini-itx.com/projects/bender/ Leela PC also: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/leela/ fun stuff, thanks Bob :) On 1/8/07, Bob Crandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I

Re: [Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread Rob Hudson
I thought about a 2nd wireless router that did WEP but wouldn't it be over the same frequency? Oh, but I just thought about the channels. They could be over different channels, right? The DS does provide it's MAC address, so I could do it that way. My preference would be to buy a cheap WAP a

Re: [Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread Ben Barrett
AFAIK the radios support only one [encryption] mode at a time; I've seen mode-hopping for certain but not normal uses... So unless I missed something too I think you'd either need to run a 2nd router (or make a 1-1 connection for the DS Lite). If the current conclusions that WPA is better than WEP

[Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread Rob Hudson
I got a Nintendo DS Lite for Christmas. Unfortunately it doesn't support wireless using WPA, only WEP. Since I don't have any hard wired systems in my house I'd rather not downgrade the security of my wireless. I've got a Linksys WRT-54 -- one of the good ones, and it's running the stock sof

[Eug-lug] Some interesting links.

2007-01-08 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, I don't usually do this but I couldn't resist. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritzgutten/176694735/ http://www.wymenfan.com/bender/ And how to get a MS Tax refund. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/227237 Bob Crandell Assured Computing, Inc. www.assuredcomp.com We are hiring. __