Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-06 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:15:03 -0400 > From: "Alan Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK folks, I have finally gotten back to this and have something of a new > twist on the subject. I have followed Ben's instructions except the bit > about creating com1 and com2 configs (which is very cool) becaus

Re: portable music players

2008-10-06 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > > YMMV. > > Haven't gotten around to trying Rockbox on my iPod yet, but it does > seem really cool. > Yes, I hope to buy a player on their supported list. Coincidentally, Paul Louden of Rockbox is interviewed on this week's FLOSS podcast on twit.tv. That might provide a

Re: portable music players

2008-10-06 Thread Travis Roy
> Yes, I hope to buy a player on their supported list. Coincidentally, > Paul Louden of Rockbox is interviewed on this week's FLOSS podcast on > twit.tv. That might provide a bit of additional background, perhaps a > little push to get you or others to try it: > > http://twit.tv/floss43 > > Strange

Re: portable music players

2008-10-06 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:24 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Strangely, their podcast is only available in MP3 format... > > > > Why do you say that's strange? > > "only" In other words, lots of truly "floss" podcasts also come

Re: portable music players

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Strangely, their podcast is only available in MP3 format... > > Why do you say that's strange? "only" -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http:/

ethtool/nic question

2008-10-06 Thread bruce . labitt
What has your success been with ethtool? I cannot determine if I have a software (ethtool) or hardware issue. I cannot set either ethernet adapter I have to 1 Gbit. I have a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI express and a Realtek RTL-8169 adapters in my box. The Broadcom is int

Re: portable music players

2008-10-06 Thread Travis Roy
That's for streaming, not for podcasts. It is cool that they offer it in a bunch of different formats. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:30 PM, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WBUR.org has theirs in a bunch of formats including vorbis: > >http://www.wbur.org/listen/feed/ogg.m3u > > > > On Mon

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-06 Thread Darrell Michaud
I'm sure there's other advice out there but I'll throw in: Don't change the linux broadcom or intel gig-E ethernet drivers from their defaults without a specifically documented reason. They will autonegotiate to 1000 when possible under normal circumstances. Check your wiring, your switch, your s

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
> gig-E ethernet drivers [...] will autonegotiate to 1000 when > possible under normal circumstances. > > Check your wiring, your switch, your switch's configuration first. > My personal experience is that GigE automatically dumbing down > from 1000 to 100 has not been due to an configuration is

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-06 Thread bruce . labitt
I have a switch between the two computers I am trying to interconnect. The remote computer comes up as gig-E. The local computer, connected to either port, seems to come up as 100M. I have tested the switch by swapping ports - I know the switch is ok. (The gig-E indicator follows the remote

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Oct 3, 2008, at 19:15, Alan Johnson wrote: > I am convinced that the serial port is still confusing > things. I saw something similar (symptom-wise) with a serial console server and it wound up that I had to turn off hardware flow control in agetty. I suspect it's a bad cable as five oth

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody who has actually tried this before might help > on syntax. In Minicom, flow control is under "Serial port setup", under "Configuration". (ALT-O in the program, or "minicom -s" from the command prompt.) -- Ben

META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-06 Thread VirginSnow
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:13:01 -0400 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > SSBoYXZlIGEgc3dpdGNoIGJldHdlZW4gdGhlIHR3byBjb21wdXRlcnMgSSBhbSB0cnlpbmcgdG8g > aW50ZXJjb25uZWN0LiBUaGUgDQpyZW1vdGUgY29tcHV0ZXIgY29tZXMgdX

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do we think about standardizing the transfer encoding types used > for messages sent to this list? The original sender may well have sent using quoted-printable or something else. Mailman automatically converts everything that i

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Johnson
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:08 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serial is tough in comparison to other technologies because it has so > many different parameters (baud rate, parity, stop bits, IO port, IRQ, > flow control, DTE/DCE, any I'm missing?) I manged to get into the device by moving the ser

Re: Serial admin console program

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Alan Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, as soon as I ran the config utility ... Clarify "config utility". minicom setup? Something else? Since you seem to be avoiding saying what your "device" actually is, and saying "device" over and over again is go