PrismII WLAN driver recommendations?

2001-10-24 Thread Karl J. Runge
Hi, I just slurped up some D-Link 802.11b wireless lan cards (DWL-650) at Best Buy for $69 (after rebate) per PCMCIA card. This is to upgrade my 2 Mb/s wlan to 11 Mb/s, I hope it goes smoothly... I see at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ there seem to be several Linux dri

No Nashua meeting tonight.

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
Since no one at all responded to my e-mail yesterday about having a meeting tonight in Nashua, there will be no official meeting. If people wish to congregate on their own at Martha's, I'm sure they will be happy to have your business. I won't be there myself, since I have a ton of stuff at

Re: IP Address

2001-10-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
Don't listen to anyone who advocates the use of pump. pump sucks because it renews leses as long as it can. Then if the lease fails to renew, pump aborts. i.e., it will not ask for a new lease. The best thing to do is to rpm -e pump Then make the following mods: Modify ifdown so that it doe

Re: RH 7.1 ls sort order...

2001-10-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: > Welcome to my nightmare. You think that is bad? Wail until Unicode becomes popular, and characters are *two* bytes wide. *shudder* -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not |

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: >>ifconfig $IFACE | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/inet addr:([0-9.]*)/;' > > Or another variation on the same theme without the overhead of perl: I actually use "awk" in practice more often. The Perl version I use above has the advantage that it is not qu

Re: RH 7.1 ls sort order...

2001-10-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek D. Martin said: > mark tolman said: > > > I just upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.1 and I have a small issue. > > > > When I 'ls' a directory it mixes upper and lower case files and > > directories instead of being in the correct order (upper first,

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Lussier said: > Ahh, very nice. I new there was probably a better way to do this in > awk, I just don't know awk very well and never bothered to figure > this out. Common myth says that AWK was named from the first letters of the authors. T

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: 24 Oct 2001 14:33:00 EDT Kevin D. Clark said: >Actually, all that does is time ifconfig. Not very useful... Oh yeah >You might try: > > time sh -c '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk -F: "{print $2}" | cut -f1' That'll probably work a little better :) >``Ov

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:24:54 EDT Marc Evans said: >time ifconfig | awk '(/inet/) {print substr($2,6)}' Ahh, very nice. I new there was probably a better way to do this in awk, I just don't know awk very well and never bothered to figure this out. Thanks :) -- Seeya, Paul

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Though I think Ben's idea is actually faster: > > $ time ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk -F: '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d' ' Actually, all that does is time ifconfig. Not very useful... You might try: time sh -c '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep ine

Re: RH 7.1 ls sort order...

2001-10-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mark tolman said: > I just upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.1 and I have a small issue. > > When I 'ls' a directory it mixes upper and lower case files and > directories instead of being in the correct order (upper first, then > lower). I posted on the RH

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Lussier said: > > In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:03:01 EDT > Benjamin Scott said: > > >ifconfig $IFACE | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/inet addr:([0-9.]*)/;' > > > > (or something like it) is what I usually use. > > Or another variati

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Marc Evans
time ifconfig | awk '(/inet/) {print substr($2,6)}' 172.17.156.23 127.0.0.1 real0m0.006s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:03:01 EDT > Benjamin Scott said: > > >ifconfig $IFACE | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:03:01 EDT Benjamin Scott said: >ifconfig $IFACE | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/inet addr:([0-9.]*)/;' > > (or something like it) is what I usually use. Or another variation on the same theme without the overhead of perl: ifconfig eth0 | grep inet

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:36:33 EDT Michael O'Donnell said: >P.S. I lost the earlier emails so I can't remember > who was asking but I did find that doing this: > > mv /etc/securettys /etc/securettysDISABLED > > allows root to login anywhere. Use with care.

Re: Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > I can run ifconfig to learn what IP addr a given Enet > interface currently has assigned to it but I wonder if > there is some more direct means of obtaining such info > that is simpler to use from a script, maybe something like > >eth2ip_addr=`c

Obtaining IP addr of a given interface

2001-10-24 Thread Michael O'Donnell
I can run ifconfig to learn what IP addr a given Enet interface currently has assigned to it but I wonder if there is some more direct means of obtaining such info that is simpler to use from a script, maybe something like eth2ip_addr=`cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth2/ip_addr` ...but I haven

Re: RH7.0 Automount problem?

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Chabot
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > What type of errors are you seeing in the logs, both on the client > and the server? It was my boss talking to the machines... I haven't seen the logs. > Have you tried the obvious: >/etc/init.d/autofs restart > > or >/e

Re: RH7.0 Automount problem?

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:44:42 EDT Brian Chabot said: >The RH7.0 boxen are becoming unable to automount after a period of time >and the only way we've been able to figure out how to get it working >again is to reboot. And then it only seems to work sometimes. Also, >logins take a

RH7.0 Automount problem?

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Chabot
Hello, One of my clients has a mixed network that includes RH7.0, 7.1, Win2k, and Solaris. The RH7.0 boxen are becoming unable to automount after a period of time and the only way we've been able to figure out how to get it working again is to reboot. And then it only seems to work sometimes. A

Re: IP Address

2001-10-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:37:36 PDT "Karl J. Runge" said: >All that said, I use Derek's ifdown/ifup method meself. :) You can always use /etc/init.d/networking restart as well. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to