[PLUG] Configuring Tata Indicom Broadband in Linux?

2005-10-02 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Hi I have a Tata Indicom broadband connection, which works perfectly in Windows. I am, however, unable to configure it for Linux. The Ethernet card to which the broadband cable is attached is configured as DHCP. I've set the card to DHCP even in Linux, but it still does not allow net access. Cle

Re: [PLUG] SuSE 9.3 Profssional available on linuxcd.org. Who's buying with me?

2005-05-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Kapil D. Pendse wrote: Check out the following link, and let me now if your are willing to > contribute. Yes, count me in as well. - Debajit -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Info

[PLUG] SuSE 9.3 cds?

2005-04-21 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Is anyone (pre)ordering SuSE 9.3 this time? (Sumeet?) If yes, could you let us know here, and we could all share the cost :) Alternatively, does anyone have the CD's? :) If yes, could I borrow them or have a copy? Thanks in advance Debajit --

[PLUG] DVD-Ripping to DivX to fit one CD?

2005-02-23 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Hi I'd like to rip a movie on DVD such that it fits one CD -- so that its under around 700MB say... I've used mencoder for this, but the resulting .avi always seems to be over 900MB. (I've tried scaling it to a lower resolution as well -- 512xHHH, DivX5 -- but that didnt seem to help). I surely

[PLUG] iPod not accessible on SuSE 9.2

2005-01-04 Thread Debajit Adhikary
I'd like to connect my iPod (its a USB 2.0 device) to my SuSE 9.2 machine. (Its a 20gb 4th generation) When I plug it in, however, unlike normal USB devices (like pen drives), I have no idea where it is mounted. Trying to mount it manually seemed to help, and one can even unmount it, but nothing ap

[PLUG] Having trouble with connecting USB 2.0 device on USB 1.1 port on kernel 2.6

2004-12-13 Thread Debajit Adhikary
I have USB 1.1 ports, and I would like to connect a USB 2.0 device (iPod) to it. This works perfectly in Windows XP -- which correctly detects and says that a Hi Speed device is conected to lower speed hardware. In Linux (Im running SuSE 9.2) however, the iPod does correctly indicate that it is plu

[PLUG] Your Favourite Linux Software?

2004-12-02 Thread Debajit Adhikary
I suppose something like this has been posted in the past, but nevertheless, there is so much obscure, neat and useful software out there, that I just wanted to know what you like and what you don't and perhaps a why. (Not that I plan to start a flame war or something) If you do reply, please add

Re: [PLUG] mplayer

2004-11-29 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Vikram Karandikar wrote: > > Another way: (If you're using gmplayer) > > In gmplayer, right click on the video window > Open > VCD > Where can i find gmplayer for FC2? gmplayer is a gui for mplayer that comes with the mplayer sources. If you've downloaded the "official" mplayer sources from the mp

Re: [PLUG] mplayer

2004-11-28 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > If you are trying to mount a VCD and play the .dat files within, then that > wouldnt really work... What you need to do, is issue the following command in > order to play VCDs. > > $ mplayer vcd://2 Another way: (If you're using gmplayer) In gmplayer, right click on

Re: [PLUG] compilation of any software on SuSE 9.2 fails!

2004-11-25 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > do a > ./configure --disable-fbdev > make > make install BTW, Sumeet, how did you figure out that --disable-fbdev would do the trick? -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PLUG] compilation of any software on SuSE 9.2 fails!

2004-11-24 Thread Debajit Adhikary
I had that problem too. But I got it solved out the easy way :) I installed the rpm's directly: To install MPlayer 1.0pre5 on SuSE 9.2, you can install the following RPM's: (1) w32codec-all (2) lame-3.96.1-pm (3) MPlayer-1.0pre5-pm You can find the w32codec rpm here: ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/f

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Firefox Release Parties in India

2004-11-09 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Firefox 1.0 has been released! http://www.getfirefox.com/ -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTE

[PLUG] LinNeighborhood Problems with (Un)Mounting Windows Shares

2004-11-04 Thread Debajit Adhikary
I can browse all the Windows shares on my LAN with LinNeighborhood, but when I try to mount it, it gives an error saying "Cannot resolve name". I can however mount them manually using smbmount. When I mount using smbmount, the mounted shares do show up in LinNeighborhood, but when I try to unmount

[PLUG] The Truth about Linux

2004-11-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
http://www.novell.com/linux/truth/ -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructi

Re: [PLUG] Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: > On Tuesday 02 November 2004 03:26 pm, Debajit Adhikary wrote: > > How could I safely remove a USB drive attached on the fly to my Linux > > system? > > > > As of now, I cannot seem to unmount it because it is not listed in > > /etc/fstab

[PLUG] Re: Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
This seems to be a "problem" with only SuSE 9.1: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/5/2004/08/2/179440 -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/maili

[PLUG] Re: Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Debajit Adhikary wrote: > How could I safely remove a USB drive attached on the fly to my Linux system? umount does work. In fact, there is no error message at all, but the flash drive still keeps blinking -- and it doesnt seem safe to remove the drive yet. I'm running SuSE 9.1, which m

[PLUG] Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-02 Thread Debajit Adhikary
How could I safely remove a USB drive attached on the fly to my Linux system? As of now, I cannot seem to unmount it because it is not listed in /etc/fstab (that's the error message I get). Nothing seems to give... ... clearly I'm missing something obvious here? -- __

Re: [PLUG] Suse 9.2 preorder

2004-10-28 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > I am preordering Suse 9.2 professional. It is costing me a pretty penny, so > would anyone who is interested enough be willing to share the cost with me? > I'll happily burn a set for him. It is costing me Rs 794/-. More the people > sharing the cost, lesser would the

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-28 Thread Debajit Adhikary
kapil pendse wrote: > You could try Mdk10. I'm saying this because I've used SuSE and > Redhat. None could configure hardware graphics accleration for my 865G > board, but mdk10 did it out of the box! > and now I can play quake3 without a hitch! :-D I've successfully played Quake III Arena in Redh

[PLUG] [OT] Firefox Release Parties in India

2004-10-21 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Parties are planned all over the world to celebrate the (yet-to-be-finalized) official release of Firefox and Thunderbird Official MozParty2 Website http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/ Interestingly, there are plans for 9 parties in India, in various cities. And surprisingly Pune -- despite its

[PLUG] Sound Problems when playing MPEGs with MPlayer 1.0pre5 on SuSE 9.1

2004-10-15 Thread Debajit Adhikary
I've compiled and installed Mplayer 1.0pre5 on my SuSE 9.1 machine. Mplayer works fine except for the fact that when playing MPEG videos, there is a buzzy noise in the background and the sound seems slightly distorted. What could be the problem here? The MPEG decoder libraries? This is not a prob

Re: [PLUG] Icara broadband

2004-09-15 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Debajit Adhikary wrote: > > (1) Reliance (The last I heard, they're operational in the Deccan > > area and others) > > What type of connectivity? I am interested.. Broadband Internet connectivity. This should be

Re: [PLUG] Icara broadband

2004-09-14 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone on the list use icara broadband. What is the speed like? Iqara does provide broadband in Pune. One area that I know they cover is Parihar Chowk in Aundh. One of my friends did call them up... supposedly they are "reviewing" their plans lat

[PLUG] GmailFS

2004-09-01 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Check this out: GmailFS http://p2pnet.net/story/2292 This is supposed to be a mountable filesystem which uses a Gmail account for storage :) - Debajit -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List