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Need Help With Soft Modems And FC4

Posted: 17 Sep 2005 12:28 AM PDT

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:48:01 +0200, Michael Heiming wrote:
 

My local charity shop has external serial modems quite often, they run
about $15 NOSIB, and about $3 to $5 loose.
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Ignoring SAN disk during a Kickstart.

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 06:47 PM PDT

Actually this is for a Oracle RAC configuration so they all need access
to all the disks in the future, however we are only concern with the OS
install at this point.

mini PC Itx "Twister" & Linux?

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 11:17 AM PDT

Enrique Perez-Terron <no> wrote: 
 

It is a case. You add (or choose) the motherboard you want. They detail
the following possibilities:

SBC Board Model Description
CV860A 1~3 Lan
CV862A 3 Lan
CV863A 2 PCMCIA Slot / 4 Lan
SV823A 4-16 Video in
MV823A 2 IEEE1394 / Video in & TV-out, LVDS (option)
MV823S 1 Lan, TV-out
FI855A TWIN-VIEW / LVDS / 4 COM Ports / PC 104 Plus / Mini PCI

Peter

Wireless Card Support

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 11:09 AM PDT

Davide Bianchi wrote:
[...] 

Ever heard of ndiswrapper?

the only potential problem is ndiswrapper does not support SMP meaning that
no hyperthreading is possible. Usually installer will install SMP kernel if
hyperthreading is detected.

=arvi=

2-1 splitter-like jack to be used with CAT5 cables?

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 08:26 AM PDT

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:16:10 +0200, Joe Pfeiffer <nmsu.edu>
wrote:
 

Based on similar assumptions, my setup could be an example. I have an
ADSL modem and two computers. The ADSL modem speaks PPPoE,
"Point-to-Point Protocol (o)ver Ethernet". In the middle I have an
"ethernet" hub.

(I say "ethernet" in quotes, because the modern equipment running
IEEE 802-dot-something is a bit different from the original ethernet,
but we all keep saying "ethernet". The data contents of the packets
is identical, though.)

Because of the nature of the PPPoE protocol, only one of my PC's can
talk directly to the ADSL modem. But I don't have to flip switches or
disconnect or connect cables to change. I let the first PC establish
the conversation with the ADSL modem, but if that PC goes down or
anything, I just enable the second PC to do the same with a keystroke.

Whichever PC has the PPPoE conversation tells the other and serves as
gateway to the internet. The two PCs have identical firewall/nat
masquerading set up, but the non-gateway will never see its firewall
rules triggered.

When the two PCs talk to eachother, the communication goes through
the same hub. Yet, the communication between the PCs is IP datagrams
while the communication between the gateway and the ADSL modem is not.
But they are all "ethernet" datagrams. The hub only sees the data as
ethernet packets with some (varying) kind of payload. The hub does
not care what the payload is.

Even if the packets go throught the same wires and the same hub, all
the IP datagrams are "inside" the firewall. The PPPoE datagrams
carry the "outside" traffic like in a tunnel.

Compared to Joe's proposed router, my hub is more like a dead wire,
but the PC that is serving as the gateway is the router.

-Enrique

what version?

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 06:13 AM PDT

Nico Kadel-Garcia <net> wrote:
 

Well, people who go out of their way to use a distribution with a real
policy, and then carelessly break that policy, are going to encounter
pain.

More about real policies here: "Policy" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian
 

Ah. Well, now you have a bit more detail about why things broke. ;->
 

It's workable because there's only a tiny package-version gap between
the testing and unstable branches. That, in turn, is because testing
consists of packages from unstable that have been vetted by a nightly
quarantining script, which verifies that they have passed a set of
canned, automated quality tests. Here is some (possibly slightly
obsolete) information about how that works:

"Testing FAQ" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian

Doing a stable/testing or stable/unstable mixture, by contrast, is
unworkable because there's a _huge_ gap in versions, and you will tend
to instantly create a huge dependency mess.


[My full list of Official Debian releases, including point releases.]
 

Too small for _what_? You might be misunderstanding the overall thrust
of what I was saying.

Debian admins use installation media -- the physical manifestation of
"releases" -- as merely a point of departure in creating a maintainable
Debian system. The aim is not, as a general rule, to remain at exactly
those versions of the initial-load system; the aim is to create a
functional host that can then be incrementally maintained as a coherent
system, remaining some fixed distance away from the bleeding edge,
always the same distance even as new versions of everything emerge.

In the case of the unstable branch, you're right next to the (advancing)
bleeding edge. In the case of testing, you're a couple of steps back
from the (advancing) edge, for slightly greater comfort.

Anyhow, too small for _what_? The point I was making is that Official
Debian 2.2r0, 2.2r1, 2.2r2, 2.2r3, 2.2r4, 2.2r5, 2.2r6, 2.2r7 were
functionally equivalent to RH 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 during that same time
period -- except that Debian's releases were _much_ more frequent, which
is exactly the opposite of what you claimed.

Thus my point: You spoke from ignorance, and in error.
 

I personally find the "stable" branch to be of no interest for my needs
-- especially following the "testing" package-quarantining concept
having been battle-proven around four years back. The people who do
find it of interest are those who want to run absolutely-ultra-reliable
systems, generally _servers_, with almost no effort. I appreciate
reliability, but don't mind spending a little individual attention to my
systems (server and desktop) to achieve it -- and want more cutting-edge
software than the "stable" branch's design goals allow.

For people wanting Debian reliabilty on desktop systems without needing
to spend any attention assuring reliability, the correct solution is
Ubuntu Linux (Kubuntu if you prefer KDE), which forks off and
maintains/stabilises a large subset of Debian-unstable every six months.

Returning to your implied comparison, for a moment: The stability of
Debian-testing hosts, the maturity of toolsets, and the ease and
effectiveness of maintenance, have all been a bit better than those of
RH releases of the same time periods, in my experience. But other
people's Mileage May Differ.<tm>

I _do_ rely on "speaks of Debian only in terms of the stable branch,
fixates over dates of 'releases', and appears ignorant of the
point-releases" as a reasonable heuristic approximating "doesn't know
the subject". This heuristic hasn't failed me yet.

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Rick Moen inform you that circumstances are beyond our control."
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Ubuntu video command?

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 06:00 AM PDT

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:00:05 GMT, ***** charles
<com> wrote: 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg


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redhat-logviewer and CommuniGate Pro

Posted: 16 Sep 2005 12:19 AM PDT

Peter T. Breuer wrote: 
Thanks Peter, and I apologise for missing the obvious.
Thanks again Enrique, the script works fine now with that one change.
I owe you both a pint.
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;-)
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http://turner-smith.co.uk

capture console output while root is still mounted read-only

Posted: 15 Sep 2005 02:07 PM PDT

Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
 

On Mandrake it is part of SysVinit package so I guess - every distribution
base on SYSV init?

=arvi=

Looking for Notebook support Linux

Posted: 15 Sep 2005 07:35 AM PDT

Somsak Limavongphanee wrote:
 

There is also kubuntu (I believe they have live CD too) and you always can
install KDE (if my memory serves me right, the meta package is
kubuntu-desktop).

=arvi=

where can I find firmware_class module ?

Posted: 14 Sep 2005 10:37 PM PDT

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:37:50 +0200, Bruno Costacurta <tiscali.be>
wrote:
 

On my system (FC4):

$ locate firmware_class
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/firmware_class
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/firmware_class/README
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/firmware_class/hotplug-script
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
/usr/src/build/drivers/base/firmware_class.o
/usr/src/build/drivers/base/.firmware_class.o.cmd

I am not using any wireless, but it seems I only have this in the kernel
source.

$ grep FIRMWARE /boot/config-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y

Seems you need to read Documentation/firmware_class/README to learn why,
what, and how.

-Enrique

ipw2200: unknown symbol ieee80211

Posted: 14 Sep 2005 10:36 PM PDT

Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
 

Indeed I missed some modules or had wrong setups.

After a download, compile and installation of ieee80211 everything (mean
wireless) is fine.
Thanks to all for advise and attention.

Bruno

HELP: Cross Setup Linux

Posted: 14 Sep 2005 01:47 PM PDT

Matthew Clark wrote:
 

What exactly do you mean? How did you do upgrade and what failed?
 

well, you always can build list of RPMs on your system and try to fetch
them. Sometimes between releases RPM structure changed, so it may be you
will need additional RPMs; usually RPM tells you about missing
dependencies :)
 

If you can attach CF card to desktop PPC you may simply try to upgrade 8.1
installation directly on CF. Or copy contents of CF to spare partition and
update this then copy back to CF. Or install minimum Mandrake on PPC
desktop and use "urpmi --root" to upgrade installation on CD (well, when
you upgrade using installer it does slightly more than just updating RPMs
but many people do it and claim it works).
 

How did you get your installed system there in the first place?

Oh, and if this supports booting over LAN with PXE the simplest thing is to
setup install server.

=arvi=

get rid of Login Password?

Posted: 14 Sep 2005 06:03 AM PDT

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:49:30 GMT, TooManyPutters Cried: Read These Runes!: 

Think twice about doing that. Peter's just urging you to think.

Thorn
--
Be different: conform.

Ubuntu setup problems - network, permissions

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 08:27 PM PDT

beta on at the moment), and tyiou have a choice of Nancy Rudins wrote:
 

generally very impressed. Install goes easily apart from one thing that
might have been particular to my setup - the router I have is supplied
already configured and inaccessible by the Company my wife works for
(they also pay for the Broadband - <VBG>) and thus I have to disconnect
my ethernet cable during the install otherwise it hangs for about 45
minutes on the "Configure Apt" part as the dhclient.conf file needs to
be edited for the ISP DNS which of course can't be done until after the
install!
Synaptic Package manager is a breeze as long as you configure the other
repositories. The only slightly strange thing is, there's no root log
in! (There are ways of configuring this if you REALLY need to). The
default packages are good, Open Office (one of the repositories has
1.9 Beta on at the moment. You have a choice of Evolution or Thunderbird
for mail.
A very good distro for the beginner or someone who has a little bit of
knowledge.
Good support in the forums.


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