Re: USB novice question.

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
"Steven W. Orr" wrote: > > My wife bought a digital camera but it runs on a usb port. Turns out that > my 'puter has a usb port already on it, so I thought... > > Ok. Here's the deal. I'm running kernel 2.2.18. Can someone tell me what I > have to do to make linux talk to the port? I guess I nee

USB novice question.

2001-01-05 Thread Steven W. Orr
My wife bought a digital camera but it runs on a usb port. Turns out that my 'puter has a usb port already on it, so I thought... Ok. Here's the deal. I'm running kernel 2.2.18. Can someone tell me what I have to do to make linux talk to the port? I guess I need to know. * What kernel thingys do

Re: multilink?

2001-01-05 Thread Rich Payne
I assume you that by ISDN-DOV you mean Data over voice? This is what I use and it works nicely...get yourself an external ISDN device and it acts just like a modem. There's command's you send them to do DOV and dual channel (bonding). FWIW I pay Bell about $40 a month for the ISDN line, and that'

Re: multilink?

2001-01-05 Thread Karl J. Runge
The /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO has this section: 6.2. EQL - multiple line traffic equaliser The EQL device name is `eql'. With the standard kernel source you may have only one EQL device per machine. EQL provides a means of utilizing multiple point to point lines such as PPP, slip or p

Local mirror of 2.4 kernel at NNHLUG

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Cavender
Hi All- The Linux kernel 2.4.0 was released last night, and we have a fresh copy, downloaded directly from kernel.org, available on our ftp site. Just ftp into nnhlug.org and go to the "kernel" directory, and download linux-2.4.0.tar.gz --Pete *

multilink?

2001-01-05 Thread Kurth Bemis
i have a customer that needs to have a machine connect and server as a gateway for about 10-12 computers. That's not a big deal. THe problem that i have is living in the sticks :-) I suggusted taking 2 phone lines and using multilink to get 2 modems to act as one interface. The other option is

Linux 2.4 changes

2001-01-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
For those curious about what all the 2.4 changes are, Joe Pranevich has written a very good article on the changes (in fairly non-technical terms for the non-geeks in the audience), available at: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-05-007-04-NW-LF-KN jeff ---

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:34:20 EST Benjamin Scott said: > There are always incorrect ways to do it. ;-) There's them too :) It worked just fine on your example string :) You never mentioned numbers > 1 digit ;) -- Seeya, Paul I'm in shape, my shape just happe

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Here's another solution: > > $foo = '1.2.3a-4b.5.c6'; > > $foo =~ s/\W//g; > > while ($x = chop ($foo) ) { >unshift @foo,$x; > } Unfortunately, this code is buggy; it breaks when versions utilize numbers greater than 9 or multi-cha

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > Here's another solution: > > $foo = '1.2.3a-4b.5.c6'; > > $foo =~ s/\W//g; > > while ($x = chop ($foo) ) { >unshift @foo,$x; > } This fails for the case where a version number component is greater then a single digit.

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:58:33 EST "Kevin D. Clark" said: >>I'm after the list (1, 2, 3, a, 4, b, 5, c, 6). > > $_ = qq(1.2.3a-4b.5.c6); > > push @array, $1 while(/([a-zA-Z]+|\d+)/g); > >I can think of convoluted ways to do this too, but I'm not sure that >they're worth the effor

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:16:04 EST Benjamin Scott said: >I'm after the list (1, 2, 3, a, 4, b, 5, c, 6). Are you after an array/list context, or is a simple string with all -'s and .'s removed sufficient? -- Seeya, Paul I'm in shape, my shape just happens to be

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:59:13 EST Benjamin Scott said: >On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote: >> I can think of convoluted ways to do this too, but I'm not sure that >> they're worth the effort. > > Awww, come on. Convolution is half the fun of Perl. ;-) > > (Thanks for th

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > I can think of convoluted ways to do this too, but I'm not sure that > they're worth the effort. Awww, come on. Convolution is half the fun of Perl. ;-) (Thanks for the help. I was hung-up on using split() and never considered just looping throu

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What I'm trying to do is split an arbitrarily complex version number, in the > general form of 1.2.3a-4b.5.c6, into its component parts. Using that same > example, I'm after the list (1, 2, 3, a, 4, b, 5, c, 6). $_ = qq(1.2.3a-4b.5.c6); push @array, $1 while(

Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
Hello all, This one seems to be eluding me, and I'm hoping someone here can wrap their mind around it. I'm using Perl. I'm looking for a regexp for use with split() that will match the boundary between a digit and a letter (or a letter and a digit). What I'm trying to do is split an arbi

Re: 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
>From the Godfather himself (copied from his posting to LKML): In a move unanimously hailed by the trade press and industry analysts as being a sure sign of incipient braindamage, Linus Torvalds (also known as the "father of Linux" or, more commonly, as "mush-for-brains") decided that enough i

Re: 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: > For those that didn't see it on /. Linux 2.4.0 was released today! > (er, sorry, yesterday. It's already Wednesday. damn.) The mirrors are being hammered, but somebody posted this cute bit on Slashdot: > I hate my ISP. So to help consume their band

Re: 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Every now and then, you can get some enjoyable irony in the computer business. From Thursday's Linux Weekly News (www.lwn.net/bigpage.php3): "The next kernel release should be 2.4.0. Don't expect it to come out tomorrow, though." Linus sure fooled them! He released it the _same_ day. ;-) -K