Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:37:32PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Hrm... I see (via strace) that /etc/modules.conf is being read. > > It looks like this was generated by 'update-modules', and I see: > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-base > > And in there, I see /this/

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:42:28AM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sun 26 Dec 04, 10:27 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:21PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > > One: Do you see anything interesting with this: > > > > > >strace modprob

[vox-tech] another tip: reading passwords in a shell script

2004-12-26 Thread Ken Bloom
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:38:31PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > UC Davis has several services which have absolutely no relation to > HTTP, but nevertheless require you to login over the web in order to > take advantage of these services. Among these services are > news.ucdavis.edu, and Moobilenet (the

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 26 Dec 04, 10:27 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:21PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > One: Do you see anything interesting with this: > > > >strace modprobe -a sb 2>&1 | egrep -v 'map|brk' > > > > What constitutes "interesting?" ;^)

[vox-tech] A script for automating secure UCDavis logins

2004-12-26 Thread Ken Bloom
UC Davis has several services which have absolutely no relation to HTTP, but nevertheless require you to login over the web in order to take advantage of these services. Among these services are news.ucdavis.edu, and Moobilenet (the UC Davis wireless network). Here's a simple script (that seems to

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:16:02PM -0800, Richard Harke wrote: > My x86 system was installed with Debian and the kernel was 2.4.26 so I still > have a /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386 directory. (I have since gone to kernel > 2.6.8) in sub-directory kernel/drivers/sound is a sb.o so I guess that > would

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:21PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > One: Do you see anything interesting with this: > >strace modprobe -a sb 2>&1 | egrep -v 'map|brk' > What constitutes "interesting?" ;^) > Two: Does modprobe -v give any additional information? Nada. :^( > Three: sb

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 26 Dec 04, 3:05 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hello, all! Happy Holidays! > > I just got back from out of town and did an 'apt-get update && apt-get > upgrade' > on my Debian Testing box. In the process, it apparently installed an > updated version of the Linux kernel

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Richard Harke
On Sunday 26 December 2004 15:05, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Hello, all! Happy Holidays! > > I just got back from out of town and did an 'apt-get update && apt-get > upgrade' on my Debian Testing box. In the process, it apparently installed > an updated version of the Linux kernel 2.4.27-1-686 packag

Re: [vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Rod Roark
On Sunday 26 December 2004 03:05 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Hello, all! Happy Holidays! > > I just got back from out of town and did an 'apt-get update && apt-get > upgrade' > on my Debian Testing box. In the process, it apparently installed an > updated version of the Linux kernel 2.4.27-1-

[vox-tech] SoundBlaster 16 woes

2004-12-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
Hello, all! Happy Holidays! I just got back from out of town and did an 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' on my Debian Testing box. In the process, it apparently installed an updated version of the Linux kernel 2.4.27-1-686 package, and told me (using VERY strong words) that I needed to reboo