Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Masood
Marty Thanks for the info. The bug report rules out WL-167G as a "just works" solution. Regards, Masood On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Martin Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $quoted_author = "Masood" ; > > > > ASUS WL-167G appears to be supported by rt2500 kernel module (I checked > > 2.6.2

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = "Masood" ; > > ASUS WL-167G appears to be supported by rt2500 kernel module (I checked > 2.6.26). Also, it seems it's the only one with Linux support specifically > mentioned on manufacturer's website. But I haven't used it so if you really > have to go USB, you can give it a try.

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Masood
ASUS WL-167G appears to be supported by rt2500 kernel module (I checked 2.6.26). Also, it seems it's the only one with Linux support specifically mentioned on manufacturer's website. But I haven't used it so if you really have to go USB, you can give it a try.* * Regards, Masood * *On Tue, Sep 2,

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Ben wrote: > Yes, that's just it. > The router idea is pretty good, but I don't have time to mess around > with that right now (I haven't used ddwrt before). Not particularly difficult to do, though with some devices it does involve tftp shenanigans. Best current ro

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Ben
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem that I thinkt he OP is alluding to is that you can't be > sure, even buying the same product, that you're getting the same > hardware. The chips on the card can change between batches, so you go > from a "Jus

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Craig Dibble wrote: > I've got a netgear 802.11g model at home that "just works", but I found I > had to switch off network manager and configure it manually, otherwise it > broke every time I logged in. > > Can't remember the model but I can check for you this eveni

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Craig Dibble
Quoting Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I need to buy a PCI or USB WiFi card that works with Ubuntu, and will _keep working_. I just can't seem to find anything concrete - maybe a market opening I should be exploiting? I've got a netgear 802.11g model at home that "just works", but I found I had to

Re: [SLUG] What are the best web-based CRM systems?

2008-09-01 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:35:25AM +1000, Richard Hayes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear List, > > I am looking for a very simple crm system. > > Both Sugar / TigerCRM might be overkill as only need to track a small > number of salespeople. The OpenSource version does not cost anything, is up

[SLUG] syncml server?

2008-09-01 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:34 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:35 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > > I just have to figure out how to sync evolution contacts with it... > > I use scheduleworld[1] for syncing all of my stuff. evolution contacts > and calendars sync using syncevolution[2

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Ben wrote: > I need to buy a PCI or USB WiFi card that works with Ubuntu, and will _keep > working_. I just can't seem to find anything concrete - maybe a market > opening I should be exploiting? I've found the USB ones use too much CPU and the PCI ones are difficult

[SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Ben
I need to buy a PCI or USB WiFi card that works with Ubuntu, and will _keep working_. I just can't seem to find anything concrete - maybe a market opening I should be exploiting? Anyway I'd like to pick it up somewhere in Sydney today (preferrably somewhere near one of the stops on the North Shore

Re: [SLUG] File / Disk Encryption

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:58:39AM +1000, Morgan Storey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > GPG works fine in windows, it even has a command line version, that is > similar to the linux one afaik (I love ym Gui's). I have used it to > sign and encrypt emails in gmail, Outl

Re: [SLUG] File / Disk Encryption

2008-09-01 Thread Morgan Storey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GPG works fine in windows, it even has a command line version, that is similar to the linux one afaik (I love ym Gui's). I have used it to sign and encrypt emails in gmail, Outlook2007 and to decrypt gpg encrypted files. But being I like Gui's truecryp

[SLUG] File / Disk Encryption

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking for a substitute for truecrypt, why because I don;t like how they have gone to the insistence for a gui front end on the linux side of things, the real pain being the how hard it is to compile for debian, true atleast for 5.x not sure for the new 6.x series. Currently I have a usb

[SLUG] MySQL and Direct Admin

2008-09-01 Thread Roberto
Hello all, Anyone has experience with DirectAdmin and MySQL. We're using DA at the moment on a Ubuntu 7.10 installation and I asked Direct Admin support how to upgrade with no luck. Actually we're quite desperate in the job because we are offline. If anyone has any idea or give a hand would be hig

Re: [SLUG] Asus m51s Audio problem

2008-09-01 Thread Ben Nisenbaum
Del wrote: Daryl Thompson wrote: Hi I have a customer who has just brought a ASUS M51S Laptop and has install Fedora 9 but he has no Sound. What should we be looking for to fix this I think the problem is in the distro. I have never gotten sound working on Fedora 9 on anything I've tried i

Re: [SLUG] Asus m51s Audio problem (corrected)

2008-09-01 Thread imss
Del wrote: Daryl Thompson wrote: Hi I have a customer who has just brought a ASUS M51S Laptop and has install Fedora 9 but he has no Sound. What should we be looking for to fix this I think the problem is in the distro. I have never gotten sound working on Fedora 9 on anything I've tried i