RE: [SLUG] Network Mapping tool

2004-04-27 Thread Visser, Martin
I used scotty/tkined must be 8-10 years ago. Certainly quite powerful. I'd forgotten about it. Certainly it allowed customisation etc. (Of course if you have the readies, HP have released OpenView Network Node Manager for Linux - binaries only :-) ) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security

[SLUG] CD+RW question

2004-04-27 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I have run in a strange situation using cdrdao, I have written a vcd image to a cd+rw. My problem is I can not blank this CD now. Is this a linux thing, I have tried it with cdrecord + cdrdao both fail on my laptop with an ide-scsi drive I get Not ready error, seems like the drive can't

[SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, Iam using TPG ADSL, it came with a free D-Link DSL-200 modem which only has telephone and USB connection. I want to create a gateway from Debian, with an old computer. My question is, did anyone ever try to use the same modem (via USB) to make it as gateway/firewall? Or do I need to buy

Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread David Kempe
Phillipus Gunawan wrote: G'day, Iam using TPG ADSL, it came with a free D-Link DSL-200 modem which only has telephone and USB connection. i have got it to work. i think i posted something about it - it should be in the archives dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] CD+RW question

2004-04-27 Thread Alexander Samad
I have the answer When I slow it down to speed 1 the reformat works Alex On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:40:01PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I have run in a strange situation using cdrdao, I have written a vcd image to a cd+rw. My problem is I can not blank this CD now. Is this a

Re: [SLUG] CD+RW question

2004-04-27 Thread Greg Cockburn
Alex, I had a similar problem, but with DVDs. I had to used cdrecord-prodvd to blank the disk. It is a commercial programme some how based on cdrecord. I didn't look into it too much. There is a trial version. So give it a go.

Re: [SLUG] CD+RW question

2004-04-27 Thread Alexander Samad
ta I was just able to reformat all my previously unformatable cd+rw at speed=1 so back in business. Alex On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:24:05PM +1000, Greg Cockburn wrote: Alex, I had a similar problem, but with DVDs. I had to used cdrecord-prodvd to blank the disk. It is a commercial

Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread kisa
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:35:13AM -0700, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: G'day, Iam using TPG ADSL, it came with a free D-Link DSL-200 modem which only has telephone and USB connection. Without trying to sound negative or anything - you may want to look around for a modem with an Ethernet port

Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Ben de Luca
Ive set it up too failry easy to do, http://home.pacific.net.au/~twhitema/linux_adsl.html this might help but just look on the driver home page On 27/04/2004, at 9:08 PM, David Kempe wrote: Phillipus Gunawan wrote: G'day, Iam using TPG ADSL, it came with a free D-Link DSL-200 modem which

Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Ben, I read the web for awhile, but it didnt say anything about setting up the ip address. Is TPG use my user name/account name? Today I rang TPG and I didnt have to set any user name on my computer, they said the IP address is the most important thing. I am using Xp at the moment and I am not

FW: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Phill O'Flynn (Bigpond)
I have to agree with glen, I have been down that road of mega frustration trying to get a USB modem to run on Linux. Though, I see that other people have had more success than me. I have used both the modems Glen suggested but have found DLink to be less glitchy. They have built in firewall

Re: FW: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i would go out and just buy a little firewall. im using a netgear one. my set up is an alcatel bridge with a netgear firewall. the alcatel bridge connects ethernet to the phone line (bridging the ethernet over the dsl), then the firewall reeches down

Re: FW: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread kisa
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:35:05AM +1000, Phill O'Flynn (Bigpond) wrote: I have used both the modems Glen suggested but have found DLink to be less glitchy. They have built in firewall features (though basic) and also a dhcp server. As I understand it (though someone with more knowledge can

[SLUG] SLUG Monthly meeting, Friday April 30th (fwd)

2004-04-27 Thread Grant Parnell
Just in case people aren't on the announce list... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:40:44 +1000 From: Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] SLUG Monthly meeting, Friday April 30th http://slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=139 When:

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Monthly meeting, Friday April 30th (fwd)

2004-04-27 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004, Grant Parnell wrote: Just in case people aren't on the announce list... Any mail to announce gets copied to slug@ automatically (*most* people on slug aren't on announce). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Dave Kempe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without trying to sound negative or anything - you may want to look around for a modem with an Ethernet port and which manages the PPPoE/PPPoA connection for you - this is what I use at home, and my experience has been that for the extra $100 or so, it will save you that

Re: [SLUG] TPG modem recommendation

2004-04-27 Thread Dave Kempe
Dave Kempe wrote: Down with TPG! sorry, what I really meant was down with PPPoE! pppoe bad, tpg mostly good :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 13, Issue 57 (TPG modem)

2004-04-27 Thread Jan Newmarch
I have been using a Billion ADSL router with wireless access point built in. This is pretty cheap (about $150) and has four ethernet ports plus the wireless. Every now and then it doesn't talk to TPG, but overall it has been pretty reliable and gives me wireless around the house. I haven't

[SLUG] Antigen found VIRUS= Win32/Netsky.P.Worm (CA(InoculateIT),Sophos) worm

2004-04-27 Thread Antigen_BARSBS1
Antigen for Exchange found document_with_notice.zip-document.txt .exe infected with VIRUS= Win32/Netsky.P.Worm (CA(InoculateIT),Sophos) worm. The message is currently Purged. The message, You cannot do that!, was sent from [EMAIL

[SLUG] RHEL installations

2004-04-27 Thread Andrew Cowie
Hey, I'm doing a bit of research and need to speak with someone who has a large installation of machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3. If anyone would be willing to share some experiences, please contact me off list. Thanks, AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS

Re: [SLUG] Kernel update causes kernel panic - devfs? lilo update?

2004-04-27 Thread Peter Hardy
On 04/28/04 11:47, Simon Wong wrote: console RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 VFS: Cannot open root device 305 or 03:05 Please append correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 /console It seems to be trying to use devfs which I do not

Re: [SLUG] Kernel update causes kernel panic - devfs? lilo update?

2004-04-27 Thread Simon Wong
Quoting Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Peter! It's not telling you it's using devfs. That's the kernel trying to find an initrd image, and not being able to. It can't boot any further because the modules it needs to mount the root partition are in the initrd image. :-) Oops! A

FIXED Re: [SLUG] Kernel update causes kernel panic - devfs? lilo update?

2004-04-27 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:08, Peter Hardy wrote: It's not telling you it's using devfs. That's the kernel trying to find an initrd image, and not being able to. It can't boot any further because the modules it needs to mount the root partition are in the initrd image. :-) Well, it turned

[SLUG] ACS Draft Policy on FOSS

2004-04-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hey, So, OSEG http://www.opensource.org.au/oseg/ got together with ACS to develop their policy on FOSS. They've put a draft up, which I've converted to HTML and PDF: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/acs-oss-policy/ Pretty rad stuff. When it is finally published, guarantee it'll hit all the

Re: [SLUG] ACS Draft Policy on FOSS

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Lake
Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey, So, OSEG http://www.opensource.org.au/oseg/ got together with ACS to develop their policy on FOSS. They've put a draft up, which I've converted to HTML and PDF: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/acs-oss-policy/ After a quick look I could not find the original of the

Re: [SLUG] ACS Draft Policy on FOSS

2004-04-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Michael Lake After a quick look I could not find the original of the above paper on the OSEG site. If the format is similar to your converted doc Jeff then they certainly need to add a Contents to the document. Nah, Pia just sent it to the linux-aus mailing list (it's only a draft).

Re: FIXED Re: [SLUG] Kernel update causes kernel panic - devfs? lilo update?

2004-04-27 Thread Peter Hardy
On 04/28/04 12:50, Simon Wong wrote: Once booted I was able to run lilo and it fixed the problem ?! Boh! I'm not sure why it didn't work first time 'round either. I guess I'm still wondering how to update lilo if you boot with a different root fs? Ay clues? I think you're looking for the -r