Linux.com Forum Syndication http://www.linux.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:15:51 -0800 Linux.com http://www.linux.com/components/com_fireboard/template/default/images/english/emoticons/rss.gif http://www.linux.com Linux.com Forum Syndication http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3485#3612 Thanks for the opinions, I'm running a software raid 1 between each of the drive pairs. I'll probably end up backing up the data on smaller pair and attempting the software raid between the two operating systems and report back here to see what happens. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:21:31 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3611#3611 Hello world. I am not only a total newb to linux, but to computers in general past being an end user. besides taking up computer science as my second major so that i can learn as much as possible, i am making it a point to read books and joining internet groups. All have pointed to linux. I would like some opinions of how much potential my first apple machine has with linux. specs are as follows: -Apple G4 Powerbook Titanium -667mhz processor -256mb ram -optical=combo (cd/dvd-r, cd-rw) -60gb hd -pc adapter card slot -no wifi -usb and firewire. -OS X (10.2.8) i am getting the faulty optical drive replaced for under 200 bucks, and could upgrade the ram to 1GB for another 100 or so. in my dreams, i would like to someday build an OS from the ground up, just to learn how its done. but thats some time away. my question is whether or not this hardware is viable for linux (slide!!!) and if so what kind of applications. I hear old (p)pc's are great materials for making servers, for example. please remember that i am a total newb. i am just now learning how to get around on linecommands (terminal). basic stuff like "man", "pwd, ls, mkdir" and so forth. i have no real programming language experience or knowledge, other than having written the "hello world" program in ruby. thanks ahead of time for your help ps- this isnt my only machine by the way. I have an imac, a macbook, and am about to purchase a new macbook pro in a couple of weeks. the g4 powerbook is going to be strictly a "project and learn" machine. thanx, Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:13:26 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=12&id=3610#3610 i have just installed mandriva 2010 on a laptop hp dv61103ee. i got this one problem there is no sound i already disable pulse audio, what shall i do to solve this? thanks Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:44:50 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585&limit=6&start=6#3609 I am thinking about this a little more. Is your bootloader set to go to the intended boot entry by default (the one you enter into manually), or could it be trying to enter and invalid boot entry? Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:22:10 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586&limit=6&start=6#3608 gaurav.radioactive wrote: What i mean to say is windows provides the facility to monitor the network status by allowing us too see the duration, speed and the most important thing - bytes sent and received. Is there any such thing in ubuntu?? If you right click on the network manager applet and click on connection information it will give you the basic connection information as shown below. [URL=http://img14.imageshack.us/i/screenshotconnectioninf.png/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8484/screenshotconnectioninf.th.png[/IMG][/URL] And if you go to system -> Administration -> System monitor you can view the bit and transfer details as shown below. [URL=http://img690.imageshack.us/i/screenshotsystemmonitor.png/][IMG]http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6240/screenshotsystemmonitor.th.png[/IMG][/URL] Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:15:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585&limit=6&start=6#3607 Well, if there is no disk light activity, fsck has a problem. Have you tried doing an fsck from terminal? I think it's strange that if you don't wait for the timeout in grub that it boots, but doesn't otherwise. Try (as root) "fsck /dev/sda3" without quotes, and see if it blows up from terminal. I'm assuming sda3 is your root, let us know. If it's not root, what is it? Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:59:32 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586&limit=6&start=6#3606 Of course, go to System - Administration - System monitor - Resources and there is Network history and actual receiving and sending. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:54:42 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586#3605 What i mean to say is windows provides the facility to monitor the network status by allowing us too see the duration, speed and the most important thing - bytes sent and received. Is there any such thing in ubuntu?? Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:58:32 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585#3604 Here it is what I think about the situation. I'm sure, I haven't got any problems with BIOS, the motherboard or other hardware. Also, I think that the problem is in the fsck utility. It seems, it can't perform an HDD check. Early when I started my system, fsck worked correctly and performed the check regulary after 26 system boots. It said something like /dev/sda3 was mount 26 times without checking, bla-bla-bla, check forced after that it showed me a progress bar and I could see the progress of checking. Now the situation has changed. I push the “Power” button, the system starts, I see the boot operation sequence on the screen and sometimes when the boot process goes to the “Checking file systems…” stage the system just hang. The HDD's led is off and it doesn't blink . The system is in that state five, ten, fifteen minutes and nothing happens. I push the “Reset” button, the system reboot and if I push the “Enter” key in GRUB the system boot without problems, “Checking file systems…” returns some info that I think relevant to the last successful check. But if I don't push “Enter” the system hangs again. I have to notice also I performed partitions size change about month ago. I reduced the partition where the root directory was and increased the partition with the “home” directory. I performed this operation booting with Ubuntu live CD and using the GParted utility. Partition size changing completed without any errors or warnings. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:13:28 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586#3603 thanx everybody. now i am connected to internet.:) but now the problem facing is it is not showing any icon or such thing to indicate that connection is on. even the icon at the panel is showing > No connection. this time i did not found any satisfactory result by googeling.:( Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:20:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585#3602 Ah, my bad, I've only noticed it when using Debian. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:04:37 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585#3601 Actually the disk check is based upon the filesystem, not the distro. If you are using ext3 or ext4 that is probably the reason for the apparent stall. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:27:02 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585#3600 I was a Debian user for many years. Debian sets a disk check after you boot up a partition after a certain number of times. I used Debian sid which allowed you to see what was happening during the boot, i.e., during the boot scroll. After 30 or so boots, Debian would perform an fsck (disk check), which, depending on the size of the partition, could take from 5 to 20 minutes. This could be what is going on. You boot isn't actually frozen, it's just checking the disk partition. One simple way to check is to look at the disk access light on you computer. If it's constantly on, or on and flashing, it is probably performing that disk check. It shouldn't happen every boot, and, whether you hit enter or let it time out during grub shouldn't make a difference. Let us know if you see that disk light flashing or not during that time, and, let it sit and finish (even if it takes 15 minutes). If you allow it to finish, it may not hang again for some time, or whatever your disk check is set for. One can always extend the amount of time that the disk check is set for, but, lets see if that's what is happening first. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:10:00 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3573#3599 Partition Encryption Since I am an avid Slackware and CLI user, I cannot comment on graphical encryption tools and I cannot write a guide better than the one I learned from, so I will refer to it. The guide in the following link is included in the root directory on all Slackware disks and explains pretty well how to make pretty well encrypted partitions on your system via command line using cryptsetup. ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/README_CRYPT.TXT The guide at http://maarten.lippmann.us/?page_id=116, explains to how create static and dynamically sized virtual partitions, after these are built you can apply the cryptsetup methods from the Slackware guide to make them encrypted for personal information in which you can open them only when you need to. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:41:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3574#3598 This is my old firewall script with the comments included, this simple one worked pretty well. Since then I have made a much more complicated and modular one, I will share that when it is complete. [code]#!/bin/bash ######################################################## # START THE FIREWALL SCRIPT # ######################################################## # Flush the current rules iptables -F # Block all forwarding iptables -A FORWARD -s 0/0 -j DROP # Allow all input into loopback iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT # Allow 4 pings per minute to block ping DOS attacks iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -m limit --limit 4/m -j ACCEPT # Allow all echo replies including destination unreachable and time exceeded iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT # Block all other icmp traffic iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j DROP # Allow all response traffic iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT # block all other incoming traffic iptables -A INPUT -j DROP # Display confirmation message RED=$'\e[31;01m' NORMAL=$'\e[0m' echo "$Firewall Started.....$"[/code] Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:32:17 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3480#3597 When I do a clean install, I go to google and put ubuntu jre6and plugin command. Go into the site Kabatology. There will be an install missing plugin at the top of the page. Click on it and choose adobe falsh. It will install it. Wait until it is done. I open the terminal and install jre by highlighting the command line and pasting it into the terminal. This is for playing online games. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:34:28 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3485#3596 mfillpot wrote: If the partitions are setup properly and the software is seperate then you should not have any issues running the software raid. I wouldn't be so fast to make that assumption. A lot depends upon the level of raid being used. My best guess is that mirroring would work ok, but striping probably not since other than using the concept of parity, there is no standard for what parity computations are used, how the data is striped, etc. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:53:58 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3554#3595 You have two blocks that are testing for a child process and none that check for parent process. Try this: [code] if(p_id==0) { for(i=1;i Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:30:58 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3554#3594 I dunno help you with your problem but learn to use the BB codes. The code you put into bb code, then it would be readable, dude. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:54:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=807&limit=6&start=18#3593 nulld0g wrote: Free, safe, quick. Right, but I'm using modern linux distributions. I used debian but he has long booting and it's disadvantage. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:36:59 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585#3592 I wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that it is a bug, it may be the result of a problem with your bios, motherboard or a single hard drive. Does it freeze when checking a specific partition or is the freeze always at a random point? Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:16:00 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586#3591 I know you have probably used the guide that arochester used, but here is some information anyway. Most DSL internet connections are run through a modem/router that you keep at your house/business, any computer that connects to that router in then connected to your local area network and does not need additional software to connect to the internet. Once your system is connected to the router via wired or wireless connection you only need to go into the gnome-network-manager to choose which connection you want to use and the option for the network device if necessary. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:13:23 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3579#3590 i found the name. i just never new what to type because network-manger came up with no such command. nm-applet & in my startup file. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:41:24 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586#3589 People should learn to use google. I know, people maybe can't to use google but it's faster than write here at forum. If you can't to find what you need then can ask it us. We are friendly to people and always we help to people but don't ask simple questions. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:51:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586#3588 Googled: how to connect ubuntu to the internet 4 million hits. Top of list "Connecting to the Internet" https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/internet/C/connect-to-internet.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:59:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3558#3587 That isn't a big difference. Flash Chat is usually nicer than php chat, but I recommend to use PHP chat because it's better in terms of functionality. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:02:58 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3586#3586 Hello everybody!! I have installed today Ubuntu 8.04.1 as guided by the moderator M Fillpot. Now i need to connect to internet via a DSL connection. Please help me by giving me a step by step description as i am newbie totally. Thanking you.:) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:23:49 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3585#3585 Hi. Last time my system starts to hang on boot. It occurs while the "Checking file systems..." process. I noticed that it happens only when I wait established time in GRUB. If I press the "Enter" key in the GRUB menu the system will boot without any errors. What is the reason of the bug? How can I fix it? Thanks. Debian 5.0.3; GRUB 0.97. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:43 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3579#3584 Unfortunately in ubuntu to install wicd it requires the gnome network manager to be removed. Have you tried calling network-manager from the command line to see if you can launch it in fluxbox? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:23:06 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3579#3583 Isn't there a way to activate gnome network manger in fluxbox. i used gnome when i make errors and when i have trouble running in fluxbox. so if i installed wicd it want me to remove network-manager and network-manager-gnome. i'm trying to keep my gnome intact. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:08:11 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3579#3582 you could install wicd as a network manager that will control both your wireless and wired connections, it has a tray icon. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:17:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3558#3580 It is very good idea.I want to put a chatroom in my website too. can anybody tell me the difference? www.123flashchat.com/index_9.html is flash chat, while phpchat is php. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:54 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3579#3579 bend looking for a site for adding a tray. Gnome installed by default. I have done the background , an edit my menu . Now i want to add a tray. - my network failed me once when playing open arena. - didnt know terminals command to restart it. * I want my network show up in a tray for a quick fix if it happens again * plus a few others things too. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:48:25 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543&limit=6&start=6#3576 Homeless_Drunk wrote: FIXED! There was some setting in VLC that i didn't have checked off and that did the trick! I now have sound AND video. :D So the video was not being displayed in a specific application, I was thinking you were saying that the problem was that no video was coming from ubuntu. When explaining issues please explain exactly which components/applications are effected by the specific problem. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:59 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543#3575 FIXED! There was some setting in VLC that i didn't have checked off and that did the trick! I now have sound AND video. :D Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3574#3574 Everyone likes to think that their firewalls are perfect, but there is always room for improvement. I would like people to share some useful iptables configuration options that you use and explain their functionality. The sharing of this information can be used to teach others about functions that they may not be aware of and it will help to community by showing just how shared/open information increases security. I will post some of my options and functions later tonight after I sort through my large modular script. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:24:51 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3573#3573 In an effort to make the contents of the site increasingly useful I would like to request for those of you that use partition, file and disk encryption to write guides for setting up and using your encryption methods to post them in the blogs section, if possible make a new thread in the security section with a link to you blog post explaning your methods which will create an open venue for questions and discussions. I use partition encryption and have also setup virtual partitions with encryption, but I would like to know what other options are available and how to implement them on various distros. Thank you all in advance for sharing the information. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:18:42 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543#3572 Have you tried going into the ubuntu recovery mode to see if you have video in command line mode prior to the system loading the video acceleration drivers for the gui? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:37 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543#3571 OK...UHHH...I have no idea what happened BUT i somehow have sound. I updated to the latest version of Ubuntu that just came out, and reboot and BOOM i have sound! Now, i don't have video! anywho, I'm gonna try and figure this out...if you have any pointers just shoot em at me. i know this isn't my blog... ;) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:07:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=12#3570 Good luck moving to OpenSUSE, some of the functionality to me seems too much like windows which is why I only use it to help opensuse users, but I wish you the best of luck with that distro. Can you please tell me what in ubuntu turned you away from that distro? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:59:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=12#3569 thanx a lot bro. now i m going to remove the ubuntu completely and then i will install opensuse. thanx again and now i must move to the group of opensuse. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:19:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=6#3567 gaurav.radioactive wrote: yes, i can see wubi* files in C: drive. are you sure that it is now safe to delete these files and edit the bootloader? is it safe to delete the partition having ubuntu? i m just waiting for your yes so that i can confidentally do that.:) Those files are the boot instructions, kernel image and the virtual disk(s) that hold your ubuntu installation. In the wubi installation the files are not written to a new partition, but are written to the virtual disk file(s) that are stored on your C: drive. Now if the ubuntu physical partition was used then you may have installed two occurances through seperate install attempts, one as a physical install and the other as a wubi installation. Buy removing the files and the partition then you would be removing both installations of ubuntu and all data that resides within those installation. You can safely remove all of the wubi and ubuntu files and remove the ubuntu boot entry. But by removing these files the ubuntu boot entry will not work and you will loose all access to your previous ubuntu installation. Feel free to report back and ask questions when you are willing to allocate some time to fully installing and distro. Who knows, we may help you find some functions that will make you question ever going back to windows ;) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=6#3566 yes, i can see wubi* files in C: drive. are you sure that it is now safe to delete these files and edit the bootloader? is it safe to delete the partition having ubuntu? i m just waiting for your yes so that i can confidentally do that.:) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:57:01 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=6#3565 If you are still seeing an ubuntu option after running the fixmbr command then that means that the entry is in the windows bootload, that is an effect of using the wubi installer. If it was indeed installed by wubi then you should bee entries on your C: drive that are called wubi* or ubuntu* that are your actual installation. To completely remove a wubi installation you first need to delete the wubi and ubuntu files from your C drive, then you right click on the my computer icon, go to properties, click on the advanced tab, click on the Startup and Recovery settings button, under System Startup click Edit, and in the open boot.ini file you can remove the ubuntu option from the windows bootloader. Now this thread is quite informative since I have covered the uninstallation of ubuntu from both a wubi and physical installation. As always please respond with any additional questions or issues that you have. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:44:14 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=6#3564 use windows xp cd maybe it work.boot from xp cd and when cd is loading dont press any keys even Enter key.till window come up. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:24:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3558#3563 Yes, Create IRC canal it's good idea. If you don't want to use IRC so try to find using google php chat. For example PHP Free Chat (http://www.phpfreechat.net/). ;) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:45:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3544#3562 Good catch seeing my typo. I don't think that your router has been compromised, I would recommend trying to capture some of the questionable packets to analyze their structure to see if they all have the same contents or if the data changes. The UDP flood may be the result of an attempted denial of service attack or maybe even the result of an error on an outside connection, packet analysis can help you to identify the cause and potentially modify your firewall rules to discard those packets. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:05 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3558#3561 I've been on other forums that have tried to incorperate chat into their forums, the responses were not always pleasant. The biggest issue was that all help and conversations in the chat were not recorded for future use. I would recommend looking at setting up webpage based IRC client for the users and using an IRC channel, this can help you because you can record all activity in the IRC channel and archive it on your site for future use. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:33:55 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=6#3560 i have fixed the MBR using the fixmbr command @ the recovery console. but even then it is showing 2 OS to select one from them when booting starts. has the MBR been fixed or something more is to be done?? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:43:13 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3544#3559 Hi, Thanks for your response, just a quick correction on your reply: 2009-11-19 09:50:53 - UDP Flood - Source:192.168.1.3 ,57285,LAN - Destination:194.168.4.100,53,WAN The destination is a 194 not a 192 subnet, My external IP currently is 77.101.212.219 My Router primary DNS is 194.168.4.100 which matches the Destination address and its always port 53, which you would expect. The router internal address is 192.168.2.1 DHCP is delivering an IP address range of 192.168.2.100 through 192.168.2.200 So it makes no sense to me, Could my router be compromised somehow? Regards Gordon Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3558#3558 I have a community website, just like this. I want to put a chat room in the community to let my users to communicate with each other. what do you think of it. I went to 123 flash chat http://www.123flashchat.com/index_9.html. it seems good for linux. but a little expensive. can you recommend me some cheap or free linux chat server software? http://www.123flashchat.com/index_9.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:12:54 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543#3556 ok, thanks. edit: i didn't see it in the ubuntu section, so i went ahead and started a new thread. So you can delete this thread. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:36:45 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=30#3555 Still too overly techie Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:19:29 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3554#3554 i am learning the kernel,the fork() ,i have some questions,and read some from the net,but not very know about it the source: #include #include #include void main() { int i; int p_id; printf("aaa"); p_id=fork(); if(p_id==0) { for(i=1;i Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:59:56 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=9&id=3553#3553 Hi all, In my company, the storage guys are going to perform EVA upgrade on their SAN device and they have requested us to change the disk timeout on the Linux systems. We have RHEL5 as well as RHEL4. By default in RHEL5 its 60. We are looking at changing it in RHEL4 (which is using both Emulex and Qlogic cards) We have tried the below steps (We want this setting to be persistent) *) lpfc_linkdown_tmo -> no luck *) nothing specific found on the udev rules file for the timeout. (which was there in RHEL5). Using rc.sysinit i think we can do it? but is it recommended. Please help. Cheers K Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:55:27 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3541#3552 Thanks man for your reply, now I try plug in headphones into the monitor and works it! but it ain't comfort because this jack is hidden in back of monitor... :( Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:13:50 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3326&limit=6&start=6#3551 Things to do after installing Ubuntu? I think don't need install some additional programs. On laptop I'm using ubuntu and I just installed VLC media player and MonoDevelop. VLC media player is best media player under Linux platform for me and MonoDevelop I installed because I need it for programming .net apps under Linux platform. :) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:55:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3544#3549 The issue I see is that the traffic is coming from a 192.168.1.X subnet and going to a 192.168.4.X subnet. That really doesn't make sense since you are running on a 192.168.2.X subnet. It sounds like it is receiveing misaddressed packets from the outside connection. Can you confirm the port(s) that have been receiving those packets, your outside connection IP address and the subnet group used on your outside connection to see if the addressing corresponds? Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:50:20 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543#3548 I am moving this post to the Ubuntu section so their pros can try to help you. It sounds like your system may be having a conflict trying to figure out which sound card to use. I don't know if ALSA is used in ubuntu 9.10, but you can try to run alsaconf in a terminal to tell the system which sound device to use. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:44:24 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3541#3547 Per my understanding standard audio output through the headphone jacks is one-way communication. However if you plug headphones into the jack on a set of speakers it's the speaker's internal controll that is re-routing the audio. In the case of your setup the speakers are getting the audio via one-way communication from the jack on the back orf your computer and the headphones are receiving their audio from the jack on the phone of the system. The two jacks are taking the same audio but sending it down two sperate channels that do not communicate. I do not know of a way to auto mute the audio in this case because they are being routed through seperate channels that do not pass data back to the system for connection verification. There may be a command-line script you can run to disable a specific port, but that you have to be manually triggered. I am responding with my best thoughts about this, but I may be incorrect, I am hoping someone can pitch in and prove me wrong. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:37:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3326#3546 This is a great list. I saw it on digg when it first came out and shared it all over the place. If you can, also write stuff about "mod"ing your Ubuntu, like... "10 things to do to make your Karmic an awesome office/work machine", or "gaming rig", etc... Like altNull said, there are SO many packets out there that sometimes it's hard to know where to go and what to do. This style of tutorial, for me, is the clearest, easiest way to learn. :) Oh, and I agree about Google, they are evil :P I use yahoo mail. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:34:05 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3541#3545 I plugged headphones on my tower. But I've headphone jack on the monitor too but I don't use it. Headphone jack on my tower is more comfort to plug in headphones. Therefore I use jack on my tower. I will try use jack on monitor but I will glad if I could use jack on tower... :) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:20:38 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3544#3544 My internal network runs with a 192.168.2.x class C address range but my router (It's also the DHCP server of course) keeps emailing me the following message: 2009-11-17 19:53:00 - UDP Flood - Source:192.168.1.3 ,58393,LAN - Destination:194.168.4.100,53,WAN How come the source is 192.168.1.3? The Destination is my ISP DNS server I guess I hope someone can explain whats going on, Gordon P.S. I don't run an internal DNS Server. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:08:55 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3543#3543 I know this has probably been asked 100x before, I'm sorry. I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu, and i really like it. It would be my main OS but, i cannot get the sound to work! The video's play back perfectly, just no sound. I do have a sound card (Creative X-Fi Xtreme gamer) I would like to use it, but i really don't care if i have to go back and use my on-board sound. Can somebody please give me a very basic walk-through on how to get this to work?! I'm desperate, I will mail you $1 if you can help!! :) I think this is the right forum to post this question, if not, soooorry. THANKS! Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:32:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3541#3542 Are you plugging the headphones into a headphone jack on the monitor or on your tower? Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:02:17 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3541#3541 Hey, I've a little problem. I've speakers included in a monitor. And when I plug in headphones so music is playing in speakers and in headphones too. I want music is playing only from headphones when I plug in headphones. I'm using ubuntu... Somebody help me? :( Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:18 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525&limit=6&start=6#3540 In that case what you need to do to uninstall ubuntu is: 1. delete the ubuntu partition(s) 2. then boot up your window rescue/recovery disk/partition and go into recovery mode, once in recovery mode you need to run the command "fixmbr", that command will remove the ubuntu bootloader and reinstall the windows bootloader. If you are looking for a quick fix then you can just overwrite the mbr now and then delete the partitions when you need the space. If you install didn't even get far enough in the install process to add the bootloader, then all you need to do to remove it is delete the ubuntu partition(s). Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525#3539 i have installed ubuntu on seperate partition, not within windows. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:16:03 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=961#3537 Yes, use google. By the way good games for linux are America's Army, Racer, FlightGear etc... ;) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:55:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=1055&limit=6&start=6#3536 I don't play browser games. I played travian and ikariam but now I haven't free time to play games. :) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:51:16 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3477#3535 shelner wrote: Or just use google. ;) Google is a great tool, however not all users are proficient at using the advanced seach options. Normally the results of vague searches further confuses the users, and in the case of a potential switch to a Linux based Distro the user can become frustrated with Google and consequently with Linux based Systems because of the difficulty they have finding information. I welcome this dicussion to continue and if the need arrises then we can help others to learn to use google more effectively. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:15 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=12#3534 shelner wrote: I think linux is better choice. ;) Shelner, What comparisons or examples can you give to justify your opinion? Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:38:03 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3477#3533 Or just use google. ;) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:05:44 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=12#3532 I think linux is better choice. ;) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:02:56 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525#3531 Actually I was referring to the ubuntu installtion, there is an option to install it wihtin windows which is called the "Wubi Installer". Did you install Ubuntu on a new partition or within windows using the wubi installer? Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:09 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525#3530 i have installed windows from a new partition, not from windows. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:09:24 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525#3529 Were you doing the installing from within windows or were you installing it on a new partition? If you think the ubuntu installation took too long, then try very hard to avoid reinstalling windows, the install time is quite long. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:05:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=1544&limit=6&start=6#3528 I started with GNOME. I tryed KDE and I was satisfied but GNOME I think is better. :) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:34:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3110#3527 I'm using Pidgin almost since his first release. I've a good experience with pidgin. He is best! :) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:25:44 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525#3526 Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Uninstall or change a program and then in the list you find ubuntu and uninstall it. :) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:14:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3525#3525 Hello all.. I have windows XP installed on my pc. Then I was installing the "ultimate edition of ubuntu", but it was taking too long so i quit the installation without completing it. Now I want to uninstall ubuntu without affecting windows XP. What to do? Please help me. :( Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:24:19 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=41&id=3524#3524 Hello all, I am configuring SSH CHROOT on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.3 but I have a problem with it. My problem is that when a I login with a chrooted user through putty, after entering password putty session is closed and when I view message in log file in /var/log it shows that session is disconnected by localhost. so please someone help me to resolve issue. If someone has chroot configurations then please forward me. thank you very much in advance. Ayaz Ahmed Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:49:56 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486&limit=6&start=6#3521 lol, I think I'll try to change the settings first - the laptop's only a month old and I don't want to ruin my two year warranty. besides I don't have a spare board. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:23:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3225#3520 I repair friends computer. If they are gamers I have to push them to Windows 7 since Vista is unsecured, and Linux can't support all of the Games they play (well it can, but you have to be a wine nut like me). If I find out the computer is used for school work, email, or web surfing, then I bump them to Linux right away. Usually I select Ubuntu for its support of a bunch of fun apps and the graphical installer. However, I really suggest Fedora since its more hardy, faster, and more secure. Problem: You do have to learn to use and love bash...wait that's not a problem. Lol. Really, Windows 7 days are numbered. They rely on the x86 architecture, which has been maxed out on current processors. In order to keep moving forward, Intel and AMD will release Power PC architecture or another architecture which will allow them to pump out more powerful processors without paying through the nose for materials or construction. This, for Linux and Unix, simply means a recompile and tests of apps. For Windows, this means DOOM. They can't simply recompile. Since the kernel is written in C/C++ and C# they can't recompile in another architecture since C# is built around the x86 architecture. This means a complete rewrite of their compiler and then they have to rewrite the .Net framework and then they can try try try to recompile. That or they would have to write a new compiler and a new OS. Wait, that's about the same amount of work. Examples of this can be seen in the PS3 vs Xbox360. The 360 relies on x86 architecture, while PS3 is PPC. Which has more power and performance? PS3 by a ton! Basically, Linux and Unix just need to push for PPC. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:11:43 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3225#3519 Could you start by not referring to Microsft as M$? People dont like having something they use / know insulted. It makes the defensive. Often aggravated. Never a good first step. Best thread ever on the subject of bringing people to Linux Smartboyathomes : One of Linux's biggest lessons: Don't preach, mention - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=865750 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:49:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=27&id=3517#3517 I have some components for the x10 home remote control system and I wanted to hook up and install some software and hardware or other to run the system under Linux (whichever version). I'd like to hear feedback from anyone about ease of use, cost, flexibility, etc. Negative reports are also very welcome. ~Lee Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:42:19 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486#3516 Yeah, I had a similar problem with an Intel on-board video chip, but for me the solution was easier: I just swapped out the motherboard. Good thing I had the other board and the knowledge to swap! Incidentally, XP (Nova Logic) games had problems with that video chip, too. ~Lee Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:08:23 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=219&limit=6&start=18#3515 hi, nice to answer you, I have a good iWisoft swf to moive converter. It can convert swf to movie (http://www.swftomovie.com/) /avi/3gp and many other formats. Hope it helps you. :) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:32:36 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3514#3514 pthread_mutex_lock() call never returns causing other threads to wait for gaining its lock forever in turn causing 100% cpu load. I have tried using alternate call pthread_mutex_trylock() which try to lock and if the mutex is locked in some other thread it returns with an error code. The above mentioned call pthread_mutex_lock is used in an application which goes to full cpu load once mutex blocks forever, and even if i kill the application and restart it, it will again go to full cpu load, the problem of full cpu load only gets resolved when i restart the machine, is there any other alternate call or any other possible solution for this problem. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:15:29 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=14&id=3513#3513 Just wanted to post about the most recent Mepis release. One of my favorite distros, this may be the last release that contains the KDE 3.5.9/10 desktop, and it sure runs nice and is easy for newbies. DistroWatch link here: http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=mepis&month=November&year=2009 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:12:43 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486#3512 Barry See if you can locate the nvidia-settings app and run it and see if you can adjust the settings. If that doesn't help it may have not been installed correctly, or, the xorg file might need to be adjusted. Let us know what happens. Tom Edit: sorry, it's under the system tools in fedora, if I can get into my Ubuntu install later, I'll tell you where to look. It can also be run in terminal by typing "sudo nvidia-settings" (without quotes). It will even write a new xorg for you when you save it. 2nd Edit: Since I have Ubuntu running in KVM I can't install the nvidia graphics drivers, hence, I can't tell you where in the menu the nvidia-settings app can be found. But, in Applications-->Ubuntu Software Center if you type nvidia-settings into the search box, it does come up and is available. Once again, if you need more help, just ask. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:54:10 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486#3510 Thanks guys. I managed to get it going now. It has thrown up another problem now though. Under these drivers, my screen is not being detected properly. it's being detected as an unrecognised screen only 640 pixels high. The result is that everything is being displayed six times on my screen. I'm gonna go and see what I can find out about this now. any suggestions are much apperciated. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:52:53 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3509#3509 I was searching on the internet about porting applications from Mac OS X to Linux, and I saw that there was a project called Cocotron (http://www.cocotron.org/), which aims to implement Cocoa frameworks completely so that porting apps from Mac OS X to Windows or Linux would be as simple as a recompile. What I'm wondering is if there is something similar for Carbon? The Carbon API is used in many, many, many applications and it would be great if there was a way to take that code and just recompile it to the Linux target. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:37:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285&limit=6&start=6#3508 The SMB or Samba service sets your system up to share directories and printers with windows computers through the windows sharing protocol. Once you have your system properly confirgured to communicate with a windows smb shared directory then you can mount it to any directory in your Linux file system that you wish. Once that is setup you can use a GUI or CLI utility to move and copy files. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:24:50 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285#3507 This may be a silly question, but wouldn't it be much easier to use a GUI which has drag-and-drop capabilities? In Mint or Ubuntu, I just use the Nautilus file manager. Lee Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:30:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3225#3506 Thank you, Chris! I've been cursing Micro$oft for the last 15 years, and I think it high time I switched back to an OS for which I can develop without investing all those dollar$ let alone trying not to pull out any more hair. I just about lost all of my religion because of them, but that's what I get for going with the antichrist. As I just posted on another thread, I would have been very happy if M$ had just stayed with Windows 3.11, but noooooo. They had to go and make it obsolete with '95 just when I had the old version tweaked to my satisfaction. Bleah! Next time I go looking at a closed OS, I hope someone has the decency to kick me very hard in the hoohoos. Meanwhile I will be trying my very hardest to make sure all of my friends and acquaintances switch to some version of Linux. Call me converted! Lee P.S. If you ever want to really understand how backstabbing, underhanded, and conniving Billy and the people at Micro$oft can be, read the book Hard Drive. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:19:00 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=6#3505 Personally, I don't know that much about either of these versions in particular, so I will keep my response generic. For the last 15 years I have used one version or another of Windows starting with 3.0. I found Windows cumbersome and a tremendous resource hog eg.: need more RAM, need more processor speed, need a larger hard drive. Also as soon as a new version comes out, they at Microsoft will make sure you switch over because all the newer versions of software and hardware require the new versions of Windows. I was perfectly happy with Windows 3.11. It did everything I needed it to do including ease of networking setup, but suddenly 95 came out and I could no longer get drivers for my newer hardware. They at Microsoft also NEVER let software developers know about all the little quirks which every OS has. Conversely, I installed Linux Mandrake on a machine which had an 80 MB drive (that's 1/1024th of 80GB). It ran fine with 16 MB of RAM. Incidentally Windows 3.11 ran fine on the same machine (I think it was a 100 MHz 486). Windows is a closed OS meaning if you actually want to develop software for it look forward to dropping $1000 at the very least for the SDK and all the other related materials. Linux, however, is open OS. This means you can look forward to spending just a few hours and fewer dollars acquiring your developing tools and info. Microsoft has so many people hating them that some people have made it their life's goals to trash Windows OS any way they can. Some people hack Microsoft software just for general principles and I understand it isn't much of a challenge. In summary, I'd go Linux if I were you and never let Microsoft grab you by the short curlies. ~Lee P.S. ...and never ever buy a Lexmark printer and expect it to work with Linux. L Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:54:56 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3395#3504 Hi Lee, LOL...the "ads by Google" below your post was for a free download of Lexmark drivers. Coincidence... or is Google that good? But I'm sure they were for Windows drivers not Linux, I didn't look. At work, the corporations always seem to buy Lexmark to go along with their Windows programs and their Citrix servers, and as always, the folks who are installing them tell me it's a waste of time trying to get them to work with anything but windows. It's too bad, when you first asked, I thought their attitude had changed, but the more I look into the threads that come up, it seems that no one has any luck with getting their drivers to work with Linux. IBM is so pro Open Source these days, I can't believe they continue with this policy. Well, I write enough emails for other causes, I guess I can add another. If I get a response I'll let you know. Geez, when I found that pdf relating to the setup with Unix, I thought there was a solution. (OK, gonna calm down now and write my email). Take care Tom Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:28:38 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=30&id=3503#3503 I'm starting to pull my hair out with this one. I have a HP 2575 Photosmart all-in-one printer that has just started giving me low ink level errors. According to the driver, it has no ink level function, although, when I installed hplip-gui it shows me the ink level. Anyway, at first I thought the cartridge may be low, so I let it go until the cartridge actually ran out of ink, but, even with the new cartridge I still get the low ink error. I could live with the warning, but it sporadically stops the printout mid page, and, it's starting to become very annoying. There seems to be no way I can remove or stop the ink level function. I'm thinking that there's a config file with a flag set somewhere, but, for the life of me I can't find it. I've tried reinstalling the printer driver, changing the cartridge, rebooting, restarting cups, etc. etc. etc. I'm open to any ideas, I've had this printer for years and never had a problem with it. It may be an updated driver that was installed (there have been recent cups updates in Fedora 11). It may have something to do with my moving the printer to a Fedora machine after the old Mepis box died, but I moved it weeks ago. It may be that the printer is just old, and needs to be replaced. Has anyone seen a spurious ink level error before, or know of a way to shut off the ink level monitoring function? TIA Tom Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:10:54 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3395#3502 That link was helpful, bit it still never gave me the driver. The driver link in the document was broken... Still, I appreciate your help. I live near Lexington and have worked there approximately half of my life. Lexmark (IBM) has always been closed mouthed and sometimes even downright disgraceful in their dealings with the public, so I really didn't expect much. I even posted a request for assistance from their tech support and the dumba** who responded apparently didn't even read my question thoroughly before responding. I got directed to a page to which I'd already been which only has links for Winduhs drivers. I responded by telling them that from now on I think I'll just buy HP. That ought to stir them up! ~Lee Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:07:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488&limit=6&start=6#3501 I just looked at nvidia-smi myself. I thought it did diagnostics, unless I'm missing something, I just see it as a sort of setup program that can monitor gpu temp. Since you had your problem, I realized it would be nice to find a gpu diagnostic app that works with linux, everyone I find seems to be windows only. Going to keep my eyes out for one, maybe look a little deeper on nv forums over the weekend, or maybe see if there's something on my Hiren's CD that will do the job. I'll let you know if I find something. Tom Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:54:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488#3500 the bois refresh fixes it, but it comes back after advanced graphics are called. So just in case I am going to try to get my hands on another PCI-e video card to test it further. This could just be an advanced sign that something(s) need replaced. I did find nvidia-smi on my system it is part of the nvidia drivers. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:44:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3491#3499 Just another site to look at, Kernel Newbies, I've found some useful info there at times. http://kernelnewbies.org/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:10:11 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488#3498 Wow, bios corruption due to power fluctuations, I never would have considered that. BTW, the nvidia-smi is a nvidia app that comes with the driver, it wasn't just a Fedora thing. At least that was my impression. Glad you worked it out though. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:43 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3491#3496 Thanks for your answer, I will see the links. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:51:15 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3491#3495 Per my understanding the process is highly controlled and reviewed, so with that being said then all you need to do is coopertate and submit patches or new moduels. If you are comfortable enough with the kernel components then you download the latest kernel snapshot from git and start making and submitting your revisions. I found a guide called "HOWTO do Linux kernel development" at http://lwn.net/Articles/160191/ which should give you same good starting instructions. An index of the kernel trees and quick instructions for downloading the trees using git are located at http://git.kernel.org/. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:54:21 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488#3494 I became patient and worked through the artifacts and get to the bios settings and reset the bios to the fail-safe which has fixed the problems. It appears that the surges and power outages in my area last night caused the corruption of my bois configuration, which has now been fixed. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:20:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488#3493 I am using a GeForce 8800 Gt, and tested it in Slackware, Unbuntu, Kubuntu and Windows. Unfortunately all of my attemptes to install Fedora have failed with massive errors, so using a fedora tool is out of the question, but I will check to see if it is present in Slackware. i will see if I can get my hands on another vid card to test with. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:04:17 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488#3492 You didn't say which video card your using. I have nvidia cards, and there is a utility called nvidia-smi that is present on my Fedora 11 install (nvidia-smi is in the proprietary driver). Type nvidia-smi --help and see if it has use for you. Although I have never used it, it does testing (smi=system management interface). Never heard of anything but a video card causing artifacts like that, you might have to break down and test another video card to make sure. Just thinking out loud, does memtest check video card memory? Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:07:03 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=16&id=3491#3491 Hi everybody!!! I work with Linux five years ago, but I want to programing the Linux Kernel, I want to be Debia Developer. I want to hear you opinion about the wish one the best way. PD: I sorry but my english is very bad. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:18 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3485#3490 If the partitions are setup properly and the software is seperate then you should not have any issues running the software raid. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:11:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486#3489 I experienced the same issue, unfortunately ubuntu 9.10 was unable to detect the nvidia dirvers through the "hardware drivers" tool. After I used the software center to manually install the 185 driver, then it started showing up in the "hardware drivers" tool. Go as GoingEasy9 recommended and you will have it up an running. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:30 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3488#3488 Ok, now it looks like I ave a true problem with my system. Tonight the screen started displaying misc character at random locations (including in the grub bootloader screen), when I boot into CLI mode I get blue vertical bars around the screen on top of the terminale due, Additionall when I attempt ot go into a GUI my monitor reports no video input. I have already connected my monitor to another comp and confirmed that is not the issue. I beleive that my vid card went and it is no longer able to do accelerated video, please give you input if you think the problem could be caused by something else. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:06:50 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486#3487 I have Ubuntu 9.10 running in KVM right now (yaaay, I wanted to do that for a while). If you go to Applications-->Ubuntu Software Center and type nvidia into the search field, one of the choices is NVidia binary X.Org driver ('version 185' driver). If you click on that and then the arrow to the right, it should install the driver for you (after you click install). Your card is one of the newer cards and should be handled by this driver. I'm fully updated and I see that the 190 driver is still not listed in the choices in Ubuntu, even though it is the most recent stable driver. I guess that will come in time, it's been only listed as stable for about 2 weeks. See if that works. If it says it's already installed, or still doesn't work, let us know and we'll take it to the next step. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:54:15 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3486#3486 I've got a bit of a wierd one here. I've got a Geforce G102M video card on my laptop which is recognised when I run the live CD but when I run Ubuntu (9.10) it doesn't seem to recognise that I need proprietry drivers any more therefore I can't set up my card. Anyone else get this problem or know how I can get around it? I'm only a newbe but willing to learn so don't be afraid to ask for more info or give me a complicated solution. Thanks guys Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:42:29 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3485#3485 Hello all i'm new to the boards and hope to become an active member here. ^_^ I'm currently running a software raid between two terrabyte drives and two 500 gig drives under windows 7. If i were to install ubuntu 9.10 and setup software raid between those drive pairs would there be any weird issues when switching back and forth between windows and linux? My Guess is that there shouldn't be any issue with this but I'd like to have a few more opinions on the subject. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:37:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3480#3484 I must say, after installing Ubuntu myself, if you follow mfillpot's instructions above, and enter flash into the search field in the upper right hand corner and hit enter, Adobe flash plugin is visible. Looks like easiest install of flash from any distro I've seen. If you click on adobe flash plugin, then on the arrow on the right side of the field, flash is installed automagically. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:47:16 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3480#3483 Since you are truly new, then I can introduce you to the easiest thing in Linux distros. At the bottom of your Application menu there will be an item called Software Center or Add/Remove Programs, with this tool you can lookup and choose apps to install, that system will download them from the internet, install them and configure them for you. With most recent Linux distros a similar tool will be available, there is no need to search the internet for software anymore. You will be able to find the flash app there. Please feel free to respond with further questions. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:08:29 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3480#3482 like i said, new ubuntu user. really new. so i have no clue what a repo is. thank you for the link btw. EDIT: tried the download off that link you gave me, its saying the file may be corrupted or i am not allowed to open the file Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:10:37 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3480#3481 why didn't you just pull the flash package from a repo? http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/flashplugin-installer Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:10 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3480#3480 allright, tried to install adobe flash onto mozilla, used the .deb version. the software installer is now telling me that the package for it needs to be reinstalled but it cant find an archive for it. any advice on this one? Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:35:15 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3458#3479 thx Mr. altNull it helps me a lot.. i gonna check that configuration.. thx again.. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:38:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3477#3478 This website is not currently a package repo site. If you can specifiy what distro you are using, then we can point to you good repos for your chosen distro. If you are looking to download and install a Linux based distribution, then if you tell us you needs we will do our best to point you to a good distro and we can assist with the installation is necessary. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:10:30 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3477#3477 Hello, how can I download linux package from this website? thanks:S Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:54:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3476#3476 Calling all developers: start developing apps for Moblin - alpha version of the Intel Atom Developer Program software developer kit out today http://www.moblinzone.com/blog/768/63/Atom_SDK_now_available_from_Intel,_and_a_developer_challenge! For more information on IADP see: http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:31:27 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3473#3475 I am not on ubuntu right now, but I beleive that after an app is downloaded and installed the installation package is still kept on the disk, if you can find the location of the package files (.deb), then you should be able to share that directory with another comp and use gdebi to install the packages from the first computer. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:56:00 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=6#3474 Windows 2000 is the only MS Os that I think is reasonably stable, but as altNull pointed out, the forced updates quite frequenctly make undocumented changes, those changes in my experience open new holes, break components, turn components off or remove backward compatability. Due to those potential issues I would personally stay away from using any form of Windows as a production server. If you are looking are Mandriva for a corporate Linux server then by all means go with Mandriva, I know of an organization that is pretty much completely backed on Mandriva and they don't have many problems. My personal preference would be to go with Slakcware instead, many corp version tend to do custom code modifications to source code prior to compiling that alter the base functionality of apps, those alterations can lead potentiall lead you to more frequent security updates. Slakcware uses the original source from the true authors, this guarantees that the apps operate exactly as the original author intended. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:49:32 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3473#3473 I have two computer with ubuntu 9.10 .when i install a program from synaptic or software center i do it twice for computers.Is there any way for me to do it once ?I know aptoncd but i think i can do it with network sharing files .Is that true.? Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:21:58 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=6#3472 Loved Mandy myself, its what got me into Linux many moons ago ^^ Not havin much luck with recent version though :( Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:16:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3458#3471 Well, are you on Linux or Windows right now? I'm on Windows unfortunately. If you on Linux you need to make sure that you have GCC installed. Its the compiler that is used to compile the Linux Kernel. To do that, you can just open up a terminal and type in gcc and enter. If you get a response saying that your missing a target file or something, then you need to configure Code::Blocks to use GCC. If you get a response that says that you don't have GCC installed, then install it and then configure Code::Blocks to use GCC. In Windows, Code::Blocks the "Configure Default Compiler" comes up right away. I can't remmeber about Linux. I'll have to get on Linux and figure it out. Oh, you need to make sure that the int is assigned a number before you assign it a number from cin. Like int "i = 0;" This prevents problems with random numbers from another program being in the memory. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:07:29 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3458#3470 Mr. altNull, im using Code::Blocks now for testing.. after installing, ive created a C/C++ source code file then paste my c++ code. My Code: // i/o example #include using namespace std; int main () { int i; cout > i; cout Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:54:52 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=6#3469 deatharte wrote: wow! Mr. GoinEasy9, what a trivia.. thats nice.. thanks for the info. I'm just pointing out the deficiencies of Windows. Something you forgot to do. You can say one is good and the other is better. But that's just an opinion, not backed from fact or experience. I was pointing out the deficiencies from experience. One night, a friend of mine and I spent 6 hrs dealing with a Windows 2000 email server that failed after Microsoft pushed another "update". That's another point, Microsoft's updates "fix" broken software vs. Linux's updates improve AND fix software. If your going to say anything in a thread that has a technical question, back it up with data. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:38:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3326#3468 That may be true. I haven't had a chance to go through the source code, nor have I had the chance to find someone who has. I'm just tense about anything from Google - they are always watching. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:21:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3326#3467 altNull wrote: Also, why would ever recommend Chrome. As a Linux supporter, you should be accustom to reading TOSs. Basically, Google's TOS for Google.com, Gmail, and Chrome says that they have the right to record any date - personal and private - that happens while using their products. They then resell this data to corporations. Oh, no they don't sell your private data, but there's nothing in the law against them trading it with a partner or subsidiary company. So, you research something private, and suddenly your getting emails or ads that are targeted at selling you what ever you just researched. Never use Google, unless it can't be helped (yes I use google.com to research stuff, but I never use Gmail or Chrome because Google has no right knowing my private data). I didn't actually recommend chrome, but actually Chormium, the open source base for Chrome, which i don't believe has those implications. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:53:24 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3326#3466 Good Post. You forgot the number 1 thing you can do in a Linux distro - Figure out some way to epicly break Linux, then post about it on the forums. I ounce, after downloading about 600+ packages to fix an audio problem, found my self on a different desktop from Gnome. It wasn't KDE or Xfce. I showed it to a Linux guru I know. His response was "What the..." Best laugh of my life. Also, why would ever recommend Chrome. As a Linux supporter, you should be accustom to reading TOSs. Basically, Google's TOS for Google.com, Gmail, and Chrome says that they have the right to record any date - personal and private - that happens while using their products. They then resell this data to corporations. Oh, no they don't sell your private data, but there's nothing in the law against them trading it with a partner or subsidiary company. So, you research something private, and suddenly your getting emails or ads that are targeted at selling you what ever you just researched. Never use Google, unless it can't be helped (yes I use google.com to research stuff, but I never use Gmail or Chrome because Google has no right knowing my private data). Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:50:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=6#3465 wow! Mr. GoinEasy9, what a trivia.. thats nice.. thanks for the info. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:29:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3458#3464 i admit my mistake, hehe! Code::Blocks and Eclipse? ok let me try that.. thx Mr. altNull..GBY! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:24:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454&limit=6&start=6#3463 CentOS! And to be frank - screw Windows. They pretty much force updates on you which can really give you a headache. On top of that, its pretty much a GUI OS. Yes there is Power Shell, but its still underpowered compared to *nix's shells. On top of that, security is horrid with any Windows OS. They lack ROOT! Basically, once you have access to a Windows server or OS, then its yours. There is no layering within the file system to truly prevent people from accessing restricted files or activities. Yeah, there is Active Directory, but its buggy and easy to create loop holes (like the one I found at a local University). There are *nix alternatives that are better. What cloud or cluster computing? Linux all the way. Majority of Super Computers use a form of Linux or Unix. If you go to Amazon, eBay, or Facebook - they are all running Linux servers. As far as Mandriva - DK. I have used CentOS and loved it. I really love the RPM vs DEB or Slack. But that comes down to personal experiences and tastes. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:19:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3458#3462 There is only C++. Its a computer language. Like Java or C# or Cobalt or C. I'm believe that you've mistaken IDE (integrated development environment). That's a program that you use to help you write, compile and link your program into an executable. Like there's Microsoft's terrible IDE Visual Studios. Personally I use Code::Blocks which is open source. There is also Eclipse from Sun Microsystems. There is also Libraries for C++ which can private. Like Windows.h for programs written on windows computers. But they usually have generic or easily understood names. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:10:25 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454#3461 Thanks! Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:25:46 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454#3460 Mandrake is now Mandriva ... for all you trivia buffs out there. It was a great distro to learn on. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:05:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454#3459 I have never tried Mandrake, any release, but for a server OS I am partial to CentOS, or Ubuntu Server edition. I perfer to go command line when it comes to servers. Of course any distro can be command line, but Ubuntu Server Edition does not even come with a GUI. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:30:25 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3458#3458 C++? what kind of C++ language linux developer used? i am totally comfused with the Visual, Turbo and Blah blah blah C++.. can you help me Linux brothers.. please id like to learn C++ but the Linux developers C++ or in other words Hacker programming language.. hehe! thanks in advanced and sorry for my english grammar.. :-D Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:23:18 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454#3457 windows 2000 server is good.. but linux servers is great... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:08 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3435#3456 From Unstable, heh, your a brave person. I ran Debian Sid as my main distro for a few years, so I'm not surprised that it's working. Also, my worries about dependencies, since everything is working for you, were just worries. That does not mean that I'm not going to experiment and let you know the results. Have fun, you earned it. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:56:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454#3455 I started Linux using Mandrake 9.2, and that was many years ago (MANY YEARS AGO). So what is your question? Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:48:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3454#3454 Linux Mandrake 7 or MS Windows 2000 Server? Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:56:15 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3435#3453 i download the deb files od openarena081 from debian ubstable. main , data , server *deb files then installed them using gdeb. it working fine. online battles are working too. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:35:37 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=30#3451 Sure! " THE MythTV thread" makes it rather unique on top of it :P I try to put as much info as possible, just to make it easier for people that can help me and as clear as possible for people that can be helped by this thread :) Anyway, I'm glad that it's interesting! So I'll keep you posted with my story here and if anybody has an idea, let me know! Patrick Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:14 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3435#3450 Glad you worked it out...but I'm still going to try what I posted earlier, and I'll let you know how I make out. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:44:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=6&id=3362#3449 I just learned something new...thanks timjcasey. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:42:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=30#3448 I changed the topic line. Since we started talking about MythTV early. I'd hate to loose or split the thread, it's been interesting. That okay with you? Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:38:01 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=24#3447 Hello all! Well, I've managed to make that thing work. I simply reinstalled Mythbuntu but this time in safe graphical mode. worked perfectly. I only noticed a weird thing when I got in the OS; my refreshrate is 61 Hz...and my screen flickers a little bit Anyway, I can see something that is not white over a black background so it's an upgrade :P Now I have to figure out how to make my tv-tuner...I didnt hit the documentation right now, but when I select "watch tv", MythTv tells me that there are no active recordings...anyway, I'll figure that out later :) Oh and by the way here's what I tried: - dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg still did not work. It showed no output. I even wonder if it did anything at all :P - xorgsetup does not seem to exist...or I am missing something (a package, bad spelling, etc...) - xrandr did not work as well...it said something like "cannot open display". Same thing with some of the options I've used with it. - I've also tried various options I've seen in this post: http://threebit.net/mail-archive/mythtv-users/msg10862.html - I've managed to start X with a specific config file, (can't tell how I did it though...:P) but I always had the same problem. - Whatever I used cut the signal between my tv and my pc. The only thing that did something is when I used the vesa driver. My screen would go all black, but i would not lose signal. Do you guys think I should make a new post at this point? It's been a while that I'm a little bit off topic... Thanks again! Patrick Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:30:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3435#3446 Right now i have the zip for nexuiz.2.5.1 and been running the sh file to play. it runs without a problem , haven't check out mutliplayer yet now they are up 2.5.2. just wonder how to config them into the system. might just make icons for nexuiz since it updates so fast. downloading OA8.1 tonight see how to play that. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:19:38 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=6&id=3362#3445 This might be of help. http://fedorasolved.org etwork-solutions/ads-server Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:55:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3435#3444 Hey Drake, We didn't forget about you. I just checked the Lenny backports and they don't have a more recent version of either app in the repo. What you may want to do is temporarily activate the testing repo, pull down the new versions of the games, then deactivate the repo again. I don't think that will cause any dependency problems, but, to make sure, I'm going to try it first on a lenny install I'm putting on a virtual machine and I'll let you know how that works. Be patient and I might have a step by step how-to in a day or so. Tom Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:29:13 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3401#3443 We would definately want to hear how you made out. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:43:00 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3207#3442 I agree with you, never change a good system unless you have to. I am also using Ubuntu 9.10 and I was tempted to keep the menu.lst but I backed it up instead just b4 I upgraded to 9.10. It's working fine on my PC, I had sound, screen resolution problems after the installation. I reported the issue to Ubuntu support and I was connected to https://launchpad.net/ and the nex thing I know after a reboot everything is working fine. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:33:16 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=24#3441 You can also try to run "sudo xorgsetup", I am not at an ubuntu system now so I cannot verify if it is available. xorgsetup attempts to automatically find the appropriate settings for your video card and monitor nad write them to /etc/X11/org.conf. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:02:27 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=24#3440 There are a few things I found since my last post; when I hit alt+f1 I do get to the console mode. So my computer is not frozen and my tv-out does work. A strange thing though; i do not have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file...this is confusing me a bit :P I'll try to do the following: [code]sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start[/code] I found that on a few websites, so I'll give it a shot. I tried it without stoping GDM, but it did nothing. I will also try the command xrandr which I found on the Ubuntu website. I'm not sure what it does yet... from what I read it lists the different resolutions available and lets you set it. Ciao! Patrick Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:02:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3406#3439 slitaz :: http://www.slitaz.org/en/index.html a 30 mg distro pclinuxos :: http://pclinuxos.com/ , lite side around 370 meg antix :: http://antix.mepis.org/index.php/Main_Page , 430 meg Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:18:28 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3401#3438 I found out that the used chipset is a "Qualcomm Gobi". It's a little bit tricky to get the wwan-module work, because I have to backport the driver from the recent development kernel (2.6.32-rc6) and feed it with the proprietary firmware (taken from windows). Don't know, how it will work but I let you know... ;-) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:53:55 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3406#3437 considered puppy, but last time I wanted wine in it, it was hell to install. Or maybe I was just not doing it right... I know that there should be at least one puplet that had wine pre-installed, gonna look for it later anywho, seems the puppy website is down.... any other suggestions? Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:59:09 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322&limit=6&start=6#3436 hehe! whatever it means.. im still using linux! long live linux.. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:46:26 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3435#3435 on debian lenny 5.03 want the newest version of these two. open arena nexuiz. How would i configure these into my system. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:11:00 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3427#3434 Okay i dont want to do this. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:04:51 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3427#3432 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html This is the link to the Debian Apt How-To, starting at section 3.8 is an explanation of how to run a mixed system in Debian. You cannot enable both stable (Lenny) and testing (Squeeze) and expect apt to work properly without setting up a apt.conf file You need to set the default release, i.e., APT::Default-Release "version" and then pin those apps that you want to pull from testing. In Debian, this could be dangerous because newer versions of apps might need dependencies that haven't yet been incorporated into the older release. Maybe if you explained why you want to enable the testing repos, we can give you a more detailed explanation of what to do. If you want to upgrade to testing, the instructions will be different than if you just want to pull some newer apps from testing. In fact, Debian stable has a backports repo that allows you to pull newer apps into stable, without enabling testing. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:03:51 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410&limit=6&start=6#3430 Unfortunately the failure of your device is not due to issues within the Linux kernel but with the wireless card manufacturer's disregard for standards and universal compatibility. Just because one piece of hardware is difficult is no reason to go back to the system that you must constantly maintain. Look at it as a comparison you had to search for your wireless driver to make a Linux distro work on your system, how much time do have to spend looking for the drivers in windows that just work in a Linux distro? But if you give up so easily then you will be happy with windows where you assume things work rather than being able to confirm proper operations. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:05:09 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410&limit=6&start=6#3429 Well apparently, after the whole ndiswrapper freezing, ubuntu doesnt work anymore. So I give up, im tired of this crap, If it takes this much energy just to get my wi-fi to work, it hurts to think about how hard other thing are. Thank for your help. But no thank you. Im sticking with good 'ole reliable, stable, Windows. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:07:54 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410&limit=6&start=6#3428 Well I did that sudo ndiswrapper -l, and t said present, but my Wi-fi adapter still doesn't work. I'll try those commands you just posted and post what it sends back. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:50:03 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3427#3427 What do i add/change in my source list. To add testing without errors this is what i have. # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20090214-16:29]/ lenny main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20090214-16:29]/ lenny main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/updates main contrib non-free #deb http://ftp.us.debian/org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free but i get error:: Could not download all repository indexes when i activate testing. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:11:19 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3417#3426 Flash wasn't install and was not in synaptic. needed this in my source list. deb http:// www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free flashplugin-nonfree was there Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:29:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=24#3425 Nevermind about the display settings; I found out that the display settings to use with a TV is 800X600 60Hz . So I changed it and still have the same problem...I also tried to reinstall the whole thing just to see what it will do; I can get to the installation prompt, then I select my language, then nothing... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:45:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3417#3424 unknown about flash. i don't see it in synaptic. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:32:26 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3417#3423 Do you have Flash installed? Maybe that's the problem. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:06:45 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410&limit=6&start=6#3422 You should not get a message from loading ndiswrapper. however if you run "sudo lsmod|grep ndiswrapper" you should get see that ndiswrapper is loaded. I don't remember the output from "sudo ndiswrapper -l", but that should confirm that your driver is loaded. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:58:51 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3417#3421 debian lenny 5.03 . also for some reason it keep replaying the bar. it acts like i cant even click on it. evince and ghostscript are already added. in iceweasel there was no PDF under Applications Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:46:57 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=24#3420 Hi again! So I redownloaded MythBuntu, installed it, BAM! everything worked. :) Until I plugged it in my TV :( The problem; I see the POST when I boot up, the little MythBuntu splash, then nothing. I think the next thing I am supposed to see is they greyish progess bar. I use a good old cathodic TV with an S-Video cable. First thing, I thought it was because of the resolution. So I lowered it to the minimum thinking I would set it as high as I can afterwards. (it was 720X480 if my memory is good..) But still nothing when I plug it back in my TV. Back to my screen; the default resolution (at the login prompt) is not the one I set in my session. So I'm stuck there...duh! :P So I set up auto-login just to see if it would work; still nothing! I also noticed I could not lower the refresh rate (80 hz) Maybe thats the problem... Oh and I don't know if it makes a difference, but the image just stops diplaying as if I unpluged the cord. So it's not just a black screen. That's what makes me think my display settings are not right. Anyway I'll check out the MythBuntu documentation as well as my TV's doc. But as usual, your help is always welcome :D See ya! Patrick Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:42:56 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3417#3419 Iceweasel is the same as Firefox. If you add that as your web browser, you still need to add a pdf reader like evince or ghostscript, or adobe reader. (you can get evince or ghostscript from the Debian repos). Then in Firefox/Iceweasel go to Edit --> Preferences --> Applications type in pdf in the search line, and it will come up with PDF document. Change the Default to whatever pdf reader you chose to install and when you visit the web site, and click on the Price List, the Price List will come up after it is downloaded into the pdf reader. Ask if you have anymore questions. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:15:13 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3406#3418 Puppy Linux http://www.puppylinux.com/ around 100 meg distro. This one has a virtual drive as an option to save. takes about 1 gig depends on harddrive size. install virtual drive right to c: without any partitioning. Then just use cd to boot from. there also many different flavors of puppy. There the main one. Might want to look at puplets. Lighthouse pup is kinda of interesting. icewm or kde . http://www.lhpup.org/ lighthouse look like it going through some changes. kde edition was around 400 meg Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:49:52 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=11&id=3417#3417 what do i add. http://www.compudiscount.com/ top bar just keep replaying . I want to read price list . it in a pdf format. so basicly what do i need to add . Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:32:02 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410&limit=6&start=6#3416 so you want me to try that command 'sudo ndiswrapper -mi'? and then do the 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper'? What message should i get? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:48:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410#3415 read "man ndiswrapper" to get instructions, I believe it would be "sudo ndiswrapper -mi", but after the commands are loaded for ndiwrapper run "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper" and it should appear. But there are some issues with drivers that are badly written for windows so their stability under ndiswrappers is poor. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:24:20 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410#3414 Im using Ubuntu, im not sure how to do that, is it: sudo depmod -a sudo modprobe ndiswrapper Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:12:38 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410#3413 Did you also run the commands to append the ndiswrapper configuration as modules and launch the ndiswrapper module in modprobe? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:29:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410#3412 I already did that, installed the ndiswdm.inf that came in the drivers on my Disc. i also installed Wicd network manager, not sure if i should've done that. After that I checked the Windows Wireless Drivers(ndiswrapper) and it just froze on me. when I typed in 'ndiswrapper -l' it came out 1737:0075 Present. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:15:43 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410#3411 That device appears to be using a ralink chipset, I have not found any of their drivers to be included in a Linux distribution. What you will need to do is install ndiswrapper and download the windows xp drivers for the device, ndiswrapper will allow you to use the windows drivers to setup support in your chosen distribution. Post back when you have the windows drivers downloaded and ndiswrapper installed so we can give you further guidance. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:44:40 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3410#3410 I tried switching to Linux awhile back, but there was only one thing in my way; getting my wireless adapter to work. I have a Linksys WUSB54GSC Usb wireless adapter. Last I checked, there was virtually no support for it, but now that I'm back, Im wondering, is there a distro that supports it? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:26:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3409#3409 1. Sorry for my bad english 2. Please, help me :) I need to take a screenshot of swf and save it as image file. I found this: http://www.mail-archive.com/swfdec@lists.freedesktop.org/msg00403.html I wrote something like this: [code]#include #include #include #include using namespace std; void swfdec_player_save (SwfdecPlayer *player, guint width, guint height, const char *filename) { cairo_surface_t *surface; cairo_t *cr; surface = cairo_image_surface_create (CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, width, height); cr = cairo_create (surface); swfdec_player_render (player, cr); cairo_destroy (cr); cairo_surface_write_to_png (surface, filename); cairo_surface_destroy (surface); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *input = argv[1]; char *output = argv[2]; SwfdecPlayer *player = swfdec_player_new(NULL); SwfdecURL *url = swfdec_url_new_from_input(input); swfdec_player_set_url(player, url); swfdec_player_save(player, 300, 300, output); return 0; }[/code] , but it doesn't save screenshot to file, it save just empty png file with transparent background. How can I fix it? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:08:21 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=9&id=3381#3408 woboyle wrote: 16 meg is too little for most current linux distributions, including RHEL versions such as 4.2 or later. There are some distributions that are aimed at minimal systems, such as DSL (Damned Small Linux), or are intended to be built for such systems as is Gentoo. In your case, you probably want to check out DSL since the current version of Gentoo requires 64MB of RAM to run the minimal installer. thanks man but can i install older versions of red hat or slackware and in case yes how could i create a cd and , i want a graphical interface system [the laptop has a default system of windows 95 but i cant find the CD] Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:40:30 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3406#3406 howdy folks ;) I need a little help from y'all... I'm looking for a small distro that can run wine relatively well and/or is not hell to install... and I'll be running that linux distro on a virtual machine, hence the need for it to be lightweight basically, I'm running two custom softwares for work in my home computer. one works fine in win7 (gasp! i know... i know...) while one does not. I thought "oh well, there's XP mode" but turns out my processor does not have the necessary features for it I'm trying my luck if I can run the non-working software with wine. any ideas? I was able to run wine relatively easily slax before (with some minor font problems) and have also made a virtual XP machine before in Ubuntu (in a separate partition) so I know I should still be able to function with two full blown OSes running alongside each other without crashing so here's hoping that win7+small distro should be fast enough as well Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:27:22 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=7&id=2187#3405 :) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:01:10 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3401#3402 It seems like all the 3g WWAN technology comes from the same Partnership. HSDPA/UMTS is in the same family of technologies as HSPA 7.2, GSM (Global System for Mobile) and LTE (Long Term Evolution). All are represented by the 3d Generation Partnership Project, a collaboration of equipment makers and carriers. Another link: http://www.3gpp.org/ This stuff is way over my head, but, from what I've seen, the 3G connections work well with most flavors of Linux. The Sony laptops, on the other hand, I remember from a couple of years back, were problematic with Linux. I don't know from experience if that's true today, but if it was me, I would want to find some vendor that will allow that usb stick to be plugged in. I had the same experience when I last shopped for a laptop, so, I told the store manager I was displeased, wrote an email to customer service (which was never returned), then, took my business to Dell. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:46 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3401#3401 Hi there, I plan to buy a Sony Vaio VGN-Z51XG. Unfortunately none of my notebook dealers allows me to plug in a live-usb-stick to verify that the hardware is detected properly. Anyway, Sony has built in a 3G-module called "everywair". I couldn't find any informations on what chipset this module is based on :-( Does anybody know what's that for a network adapter and if linux will support it? Thanks! Regards, Holger Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:32:24 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=26&id=3384#3400 I got confirmation that the reason of above issue is memory allocation limit in 32-bit kernel (as expected). Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:10:08 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3399#3399 Hey everyone, version 2.1 of Moblin has been released! Look here for more details: http://moblin.org/community/blogs/imad/2009/moblin-v2.1-project-release-netbooks-and-nettops-its-here Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:27:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2047#3398 I wrote bofh of my MSc and PhD theis in LaTeX (as well some scientific paper) and many presentation, however, it's not so popular among chemists. I also have my CV written in LaTeX. It's nice because gives special and fresh look and feel. http://wawrzek.name/CV/cv.pdf Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:43:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=26&id=3384#3397 Thanks for great response. As each good response it lead to further question. Do data cached by kernel have to fit into 1GB of kernel memory? Is there different in handling this memory between 32bit and 64bit version of x86 arch? I'm asking because on a busy 32-bit server (apache serving static content - from 2 or 3 week non-stop) I see: [code] ~ > free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16633136 3370264 13262872 0 520812 2391332 -/+ buffers/cache: 458120 16175016 Swap: 1052248 88 1052160 [/code] My estimation is that if the system kept all served files in the cache the memory would filled in few hours. So there are some software limit of the memory usage. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:23:30 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3395#3396 Lee Lexmark printers are notorious for not working with linux, but, I found this pdf, see if it has some info you can use. http://www.lexmark.com/publications/pdfs/print_drivers/en/ug.pdf Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:06 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=25&id=3395#3395 Anyone out there in Linux Land know how to make this stupid printer/scanner work in either Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, or MEPIS? I'm getting to the point where I hate Lexmark more than I even used to. At least my HP3900 gets recognized with all these versions (not sure about MEPIS, yet). lsusb: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 043d:0069 Lexmark International, Inc. X74/X75 Printer Bus 002 Device 004: ID 043d:0060 Lexmark International, Inc. X74/X75 Scanner Bus 002 Device 002: ID 043d:0061 Lexmark International, Inc. X74 Hub dmesg: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x0069 xsane: found USB scanner (vendor=0x043d, product=0x0060, chip=rts8858c) at libusb:002:003 Lee Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:28:47 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=40&id=3267#3394 A later version of Ubuntu for one. Another one is Linux 7 Mint. Still another is MEPIS. These CD's all show up as mounted on the Desktop when I insert them. I can browse :S them with Nautilus. Lee Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:48:46 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=3042#3392 I'm not sure about anything existing for the XML part, but a cron job or script which uses the ImageMagick tools can do the resize for you. I think the tool you need here is "convert". Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:50 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=1227#3391 I have the collector's edition that comes on a DvD and requires me to install a few 3rd party apps (I think Quick Time). I'll try it, but my experience says it wont work. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:47:04 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=26&id=3384#3390 The sendfile() function uses kernel instead of user-space memory. That means that your application heap will not be increased appreciably. However, the OS will still cache the data as that is not a matter of the application calling sendfile() as it is a matter of how the OS caches data read from disc. So, yes, it will use system memory to cache the data. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:11:18 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=26&id=2192#3389 Given current pricing and performance, I would recommend holding off on SSD's as primary system drives for another couple of years, especially given a 7200rpm 1tb disc is under $100 USD these days. Also, the file system support for SSD's (noting your query about support for TRIM, etc) is still coming along. Even the drives themselves are just now getting support for TRIM in their firmware, and there are still problems with that (see current problems with Intel SSD's wrt TRIM support firmware updates). So, rather than spending big $$ to fall over the bleeding edge, wait awhile and let things settle down, both from the technology as well as the price perspective. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:07:01 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=27&id=3375#3388 At least it isn't a game port device. I wrote an x-windows driver to use my game port joystick as a mouse over 10 years ago. It worked ok, but I never did get comfortable using it for mousing vs. flying... :-) Anyway, the biggest issues for the driver was the code for debounce control, edge detection, and acceleration. It was one of those "fun" projects, just to know I could do it, and to get more comfortable with low-level x-lib programming. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:00:36 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=9&id=3381#3387 16 meg is too little for most current linux distributions, including RHEL versions such as 4.2 or later. There are some distributions that are aimed at minimal systems, such as DSL (Damned Small Linux), or are intended to be built for such systems as is Gentoo. In your case, you probably want to check out DSL since the current version of Gentoo requires 64MB of RAM to run the minimal installer. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:54:23 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2047#3386 I've been using tex for years now When I have the choice I prefer to use plain tex (instead of latex). It's true that at first it was used mostly for writing math articles/books but it's no longer true. Physicists, chemists, linguists, or anybody that just wants nicely formatted pages ... you can typeset anything with it (including music scores, ...). Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:26:32 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2047#3385 LaTeX is heavily used for writing texts with lots of math formulas. Absolutely all modern articles in mathematics (I'm not quite sure about physics) are written in LaTeX only. It is a well-established standard. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:08:18 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=26&id=3384#3384 Could you please confirm or denied that system call sendfile(), opposite to read()+write() operations, does not use memory cache at all. What means that i.e. in an Apache serving many times the same static content turning EnableSendfile Off might bust the performance, because files would be read from memory rather then from disk. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:33:01 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=26&id=2192#3383 Please check the link under the following article on my blog: http://larryn.blogspot.com/2009/08/stone-redskin-comparision-of-apache2.html BTW. In the article there are some test of Apache on HDD and SSD. Might be interested for some. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:25:28 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=9&id=3381#3381 i have a very old laptop with about 16 mb Ram and i wanted to install linux on it, i preffered redhat than slackware but the problem is when i entered a site of old linux systems http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/ i went through red hat then 4.2 i didnt understand any thing ,could anybody tell me how to create a CD of this version of linux? [sorry about my english] Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:41:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=1227#3380 Are you just trying to play the original Myst? If you are, I don't see the point of installing a virtual machine or anything of the sort; it runs perfectly well in DOSbox (I should know, I've set it up a few times). The only thing to keep in mind when running it from DOSbox is that it requires the CD in the drive to play, which DOSbox won't automatically pick up. Basically all I did was edit .dosboxrc to automatically mount my games directory (~/Games) as C: and mount my DVD drive on startup. When DOSbox is installed, you should probably check to see if your arrow keys work in it. I know some versions of Ubuntu changed something involving the keymapping which causes DOSbox to map the arrow keys incorrectly (only the arrow keys, fortunately). If your arrow keys don't work, just open up a text editor and create the file .dosboxrc (no file extension) in your home folder. Add the following lines: [code][sdl] usescancodes=false [autoexec] @mount c ~/Games @mount d /media/cdrom -t cdrom @c: @cls[/code] Now the keyboard should work just fine, your C:\ drive is mounted to the Games directory in your home, and the CD drive is mounted as well. You should be able to install and run Myst just fine this way without having to start up a virtual machine to play it. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:30:02 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2105&limit=6&start=6#3379 Since it's my first programming language I have no issue with the language taking out the garbage and preventing memory leaks by it self. But I guess it is as with Linux. You start out with Ubuntu and Fedora and then as you learn more you may choose to go deeper int Arch or Gentoo. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:24:11 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=27&id=3375#3378 OK, I have a Logitech Attack 3 that's just sitting here, what do we do? Haven't plugged it into a Linux machine in ages. Bus 006 Device 002: ID 046d:c214 Logitech, Inc. ATK3 (Attack III Joystick) Well at least it's recognized...I'll check back later. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:39:42 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2033#3377 In reality, since Linux users typically do not use IE or most Microsoft products, then you really should not try looking at your website through IE in Linux. Going through the hassle of setting up Vbox with every type of OS is eventually rewarding. While you can do your development within Linux, you should always test the website with every browser on every OS, or get a lacky to do it for you. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:01:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2105&limit=6&start=6#3376 Good luck. Personally, though I did not take a class, I found C# to be to controlling to be considered a programing language. You have to do garbage collection their way. I prefer programming to be the most opening experience possible - even if that means wiping your hard drive or causing a memory leak. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:57:25 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=27&id=3375#3375 Just bored. I would like to add my joystick as a mouse. Its just a fun project. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:52:09 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=40&id=3107&limit=6&start=18#3374 BTW, the more I use the tethered laptop, in the different places i work, I'm noticing that the speed of the connection has a relation to the number of bars visible on the cell phone. It makes sense, but I never thought of that when I started. When I use the broadband connection directly on the Palm Treo, I never really noticed to much of a difference, Probably because the apps on the phone are minimized and the amount of data that has to be received is a fraction of the amount of data that it takes to fill up the firefox screen when I have the laptop tethered to it (Verizon Palm Treo 700p uses a browser called Blazer and I've noticed a line at the bottom of the screen that says that google is reformatting the screen for mobile). I know this is a big Duh, but it's the first time I actually put 2 + 2 together. LOL....forever a noob. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:09:34 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=40&id=3107&limit=6&start=18#3373 Did I mention? You guys are the bomb. It works at least slowly. I am enduring the garbage on the screen for now. I have since installed MEPIS on one of my machines and it works there, too. (I am installing wvdial manually from a thumb drive on these systems.) Thank you very much for all your help. BTW, I found "Linux for Dummies" at the local library and I'm studying it as well. I'm finding lots of neat stuff there. It came with a DVD ROM of Fedora Moonshine (that's old). It trashed my GRUB menu for Ubuntu, so maybe I'll fix it later. Meanwhile, I can't find my manual for the Boost phone so I still haven't called tech support... ex TI99 Guru Lee Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:01:49 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=27&id=3372#3372 OK, so I found this IR PCVA-IR6U receiver at a yard sale. Neither Windows nor Linux seem to work with it without drivers which I haven't found yet... dmesg says: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61 lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 80 usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mceusb lirc_mceusb: USB Microsoft IR Transceiver Driver v0.2 lsusb says: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:006d Microsoft Corp. eHome Remote Control Keyboard keys BTW, I don't have the keyboard - just the IR box. I was thinking I could use it as a receiver for IR remote to control Rhythmbox or the DVD player... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:37:43 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=18&id=3368#3370 http://tuxmobil.org/ is a great place to start. Don't be too hard on Verizon, right now I'm typing with a laptop tethered to the internet through my Treo 700p and through the Verizon 3g network. OMG, suddenly all these people are following me (Gee I hope you got the joke). Seriously, let us know if you have any success. My Treo is also old and I am looking for a new phone, and I'd like to try installing Linux on this one after its been replaced. One thing that's a must on a new phone, a usb port that allows tethering, the usb sticks, from what I hear aren't as fast. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:10:06 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=6&id=3362#3369 I would say, yes, maybe you can explain more of what your trying to accomplish. Your obviously trying to access Windows from Linux or vice versa, Tell us about your hardware, how do you have the machines connected etc. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:41:27 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=18&id=3368#3368 I'm tired of Verizon. I have an older phone, and I am about to get a new Blackberry. I was thinking about installing Linux on my old phone and seeing if I could try some phreaking out. Anyone know where to find some good tutorials on how to install Linux on a phone? Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:41:01 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=1227#3367 Ironically, I got the DVD box set of Myst 1-3 and it would not run in Windows XP (even though its supported), so I to my VirtualBox and added a Win95 machine. It worked but i wanted to play full screen, so I played with the graphics of 90s for ever until i finally gave up. Then I finally got it working with the Wine with the tutorial that was posted. I had to create an ISO of the dvd on the computer and then point wine to it. Worked sweet. Of course my friends and family didn't see me for a few days. When they asked "WHY?" I was like "MYST!" I just don't get people that don't like Myst. Its like not liking portal. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:38:24 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=2986#3366 There's a Diablo hack/slash/button blazer called FreeDriod. The controls take some getting use to, and the ability to access the editor makes it feel like SimCity when you send a tornado, but I like! Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:32:06 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322#3365 I think he's also saying that Microsoft can Suck it! Yeah, they are claiming innovation, they are pushing the envelope, but they are really peddling backwards while going "upwards" in reverse. What was their last innovation? Oh, look its Windows 7. It uses the same basic kernel as Windows XP, the same basic GUI of Vista (cutting out the bugs), and its still slower than XP. What did they innovate? They added nice floating icons that bounce around the screen. Touch screen? No...that's not it. Oh look we made the GUI more accesses able. WAIT you still have to through 3 different screens to get to the networking stuff, and they are stilling using their failed version of a GUI root. What have they improved? They were able to sucker in some people, but not enough to call marketing a success. And they just handed the mini-notebook market over to Ubuntu. I think that's what Linus is saying Thanks for the keys! Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:28:21 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3361#3364 I am unaware of a single certification for LAMP (Linux, apache, MySQL, PHP), but there are certifications for the individual pieces. Linux Redhat Certifications - http://www.redhat.com/certification/rhce/ LPI Certifications - http://www.lpi.org/ Linux+ Certification - http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx There may be others that I am unaware of. Apache I don't know if there are any certification program for MySQL administration. MySQL MySQL Certification - http://www.mysql.com/certification/ PHP PHP Certification - http://www.w3schools.com/cert/cert_php.asp And there are several Web Developer Certifications to choose from http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1049618.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:07:02 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3361#3363 I am sorry but I removed your e-mail address for the post, this is to protect your e-mail address from being picked up by spammers. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:57:01 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=6&id=3362#3362 Dear all, I had joined my linux machine with Windows domain and I am unable to login as domain user. Can you pls tell me the steps to login as domain user in FEDORA CORE 11 machine. I need steps to login as domain user. in the initial screen as domainname\username or username\domainname or simply the domain user name. Do i need to mount any users from windows AD so that i can login only with the mounted users. if i need to add more details kindly let me know pls. Thanks and Regards, Rakesh. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:50:48 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3361#3361 hi sir am kiran hi to all friends and community people i done my M.C.A 2009 passed out ...am looking for my carrer into open source ...please tell the course details after learning the LAMP (Linux,Apache,Mysql , and Php) after finishing the course can we place in better company ..becuase am not aware of that LAMP course please can any one briefly explain after finishing this course is there any good demand or not ....and then can any one please explain the concept of open source ..... i want to this course in lynus academy chennai, anna nagar i hope to be the positive reply from u r side experts and wellwishers please express their ideas ,,views and thoughts please feel free to say contact and just mail to me Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:11 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322#3360 1. A window7 vendor letting Linus make fun of window 7. 2. Linus giving thumbs up . Saying windows7 is making GNU/Linux more attractive . 3. Linus making fun that there no line for windows. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:31:37 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3359#3359 There seems to be a lack of social setup for this forum. I would like to post links to Hackers for Charity and Electronic Frontier Foundation , but there are no social sub-forums here at linux.com. Why? Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:10:54 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3136#3358 I would recommend familiarizing yourself with the Manual for 0.97 (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.pdf). They also just released 1.97. But the only manual for it is located within the man pages. Check them out by going to the command line and typing in man grub2 or grub2 --help . Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:54:33 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=2319#3357 Personally, with my X-Fi Extreme Audio, I had to do several searches for open source drivers. They do exist. Depending on your distro, you might have to manually install them. With Fedora 10 and 11 the drivers were automatically installed. Google +X Fi Extreme Your Card Here +Linux +driver +OSS . Also check your distro's forums, there is usually a support forum for these matters. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:45:19 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=36&id=2093#3355 Have you tried using pulseaudio to configure your sound devices? I found that very easy to use. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:55:14 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3134#3354 Thanks for that guide Mfillpot. Helped me out with my extender! Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:52:07 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3353#3353 I'm looking to start a LFS project for myself. What was your experience? What would you advice would you give? Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:27:27 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3110#3352 Oh nice. I didnt even know pidgen supported that. I have to try it out as well! Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:16:12 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3207#3351 Look here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported) for supported cards. And please feel free to update the page if necessary. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:13:59 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=40&id=3267#3350 What is on the CD you are trying to load? Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:59:39 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=12#3349 Swap can be a file, but usually it is setup as a partition. Swap is a location on a hard drive that is designated for less used memory files and is also used as RAM if your used memory exceeds your physical RAM size. You must remember that your hard drives are much slower than RAM chips, even though with swap you may be able to run many things, the performance will be highly degraded compared to running the same apps from RAM. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:53:26 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=12#3348 The swap file is where Linux would be copied to and run from? Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:21:17 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3345#3347 I have moved this article to web management because the contents of the post are about your web management system. The idea of a wiki form of article publishing is quite interesting, however this leads me to question how you plan to control the content to limit inaccurate information and spam posts within existing articles. Do you have functions built in to identify only revised text and the author who revised them to the readers? Is there a tool in place that you can use to quickly remove specific changes from a particular user? If so please point me to a page that identifies the modification and the user responsible so I can see the output. Additionally, is this platform based upon open source software, commercial software or a mixed platform. Would you publish a guide to setting up a similar system so others can test the functionality on their own sites to speed up development. If this is your own creation, then I would highly recommend setting up a guide about the setup and a section on your site for just the framework, so that other can use it and share ideas/solutions to make your site the core location for development of the system. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:16:05 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=12#3346 I think you have confused terms, windows uses a paging file, in Linux you setup a swap partition. The general recommendation for a swap partition is to make it 2X the amount of RAM installed, however with your current amount of memory I would recommend setting up a 2G swap partition. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:56:35 -0800 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3345#3345 Firstly, i apologize if this is in the wrong forum category. I've been procrastinating on this for a while now, because i do not quite have my system complete; but this feature has been usable for a long time now, and i guess that i can start letting others use it... Anyway, as some of you may already know (or not, i guess), i have http://LinuxIntro.com which is (obviously) a Linux and open source software oriented website. I am too damned busy to keep up with creating new articles, and updating out of date articles, and exploring new areas of Linux and Open Source software to educate myself enough to make articles for others to learn it. I have been running my unfinished Content Management System on this site (and on my political reform website, that is likewise falling into a state of neglect for the same reasons), and noticed that many others are trying to assist the open source movement by publishing their own articles on their own little home pages, or blogs. So now it is a community content management system; a hybrid between a wiki, a blog, and a high-end commercial CMS. It allows users who have any at least Level 1 privileges (normal 'users' are level 0) to publish articles and edit articles (even if they did not create it, as sometimes another user may have more experience, and thus more useful information to add to an existing article), and for users with Level 2 privileges to move articles and upload images, and for users with Level 3 (highest you can be) privileges to delete articles and to delete images. I don't have any publishing guidelines written yet, but for the most part it is common sense. All articles must be filed in the appropriate category (just try your best, and at worst i will just move it to the correct category), and limit only 1 video per article page (articles can have many pages). When you log in, you can click on "Account" and then "My Website" to enter your own website address for others to see. When a user reads an article you've written, they can click on your name below the article, and see your profile, which will display anything you want to share (website, bio, interests, etc). If you publish an article, you are not limited to keeping it only on Linux Intro. You can publish it on your own site, or any other site; however you cannot delete it, as others may have made a contribution to your article, and that would not be fair to them. You can add YOUR VERY OWN you tube videos that you already have, or any new ones that you make; just remember 1 video per page. Also, if you DO post a video with your article, make sure that what you do and say in the video is typed out in the article's paragraphs. This is not a video site, and so textual content is mandatory for articles; also text is accessible and video is not, so i try to adhere to 801 standards as much as possible (or practicable). For the record, in case anyone is wondering, this is NOT an attempt to 'steal users' from this website. It is only an attempt to create a more user-engaged, comprehensive, and in-depth informational material for new Linux and Open Source users to benefit from; and to make it MUCH easier to publish content. Oh, almost forgot, if you have been a member of this forum for longer than 4 months, and have over 200 posts, PM me HERE with your Linux Intro user name, and i will raise your security clearance on Linux Intro so that you can publish articles (otherwise you're only a user). If you already have a moderator/maintainer/admin status here on this forum, then PM me HERE with your user name on Linux Intro and i will raise your security level on Linux Intro. I know that the site may still look like crap, but i'm about to redesign it again to look much more clean (like i just did with http://Ionisis.com ) and presentable. I am brainstorming for ideas atm, and should begin with a new design tomorrow. Also, if you do not find an appropriate category for your article, then feel free to suggest one; but i believe that i have a fairly comprehensive --yet still generalized-- list to choose from. And please do let me know what you think about this system. Try to remember that "articles" are not the same as "article pages". An article is an object that is independent from its pages, and has a parent-children --or one-to-many relationship with its pages. You publish the ARTICLE's details, like its title, keywords, and description, and THEN you publish any/all of the pages that belong to that article. You can completely ignore the "previous" and "next" options, as the system takes care of pagination automatically; those are for advanced use, namely, chainlinking disparate articles together (the end of one article leading to the beginning of another). Enjoy, and please do give feedback! Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:48:21 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=12#3344 Good news, I decided to try from the start, my old laptop runs Puppy 1 with the 64 mb of ram. I'll experiment with this for a while and will try 2, 3, then 4 if each works accordingly. I was reading that I'll have to setup a pagefile which will help with the low ram issue I have. Applications do start but take a while to load up. I'm quite excited. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:45:22 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3343#3343 Hi, I had 9.04 running rather smoothly on my HP2133. Now I updated to 9.10 - and here are my problems ... - The Boot menu doesn't list 9.10, just 9.04 - but does load 9.10. That's probably due to me saying to keep the old menu.lst and not much of a problem. - When it loads, it says "longhaul is currently broken in your configuration". ?? - Also, there is an error message saying that the swap partition could not be mounted - has never been a problem before. - Way more annaoying are the next two problems: the touchpad does not work anymore (USB mouse oK) - and there's no sound, not even an audio device apart from "Dummy stereo". Other than that, it really looks nice - and I was tempted to try out the Ubuntu One service :-) Looks like kind of a lecture on "Never change a running system", eh? Any hints on hoew to reslove these problems? Uh - I'm not much of a Linux crack, by the way, so.... Any helpful hint is greatly appreciated. Uwe Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:33:31 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=28&id=3269#3341 Sorry, I never used the usb setup before, the router was just an idea. Since Linux always set up the ethernet port automatically, I never really experimented with it. Now you've got me curious, I'll try hooking up the laptop to it as soon as I get a chance. I'll let you know how I make out. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:28:18 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322#3340 I posted this on the mepislovers forums right after the picture appeared without the text around the internet. Picture was missing the explanation, got it from link on identi.ca: Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even had setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center. During a break, we decided to make some fun of Microsoft and dragged Linus over there. When we arrived there, Linus was sold immediately on the product as you can see in the picture. At least that's what the sales guy thought. He obviously had no idea who he was dealing with. But in the end Linus surprisingly did not buy a copy. Wise man! Heh... Oh yeah, the link if it works outside of identi.ca http://tr.im/CFJi Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:06:58 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281&limit=6&start=6#3339 Just another idea. Do you have the Ubuntu Live CD? If you do, can you boot up the Live cd and see if the modem is recognized after booting. I agree with mfillpot, the ath5k module should be in your kernel, it's been in the Linux kernels for quite some time. After booting with the Live CD, if the modem is not recognized, maybe then try to modprobe ath5k again. It might take some experimenting to figure out what is going on. It is possible that the iso you originally installed from was faulty. Wait, I just noticed something.... In Ubuntu you might have to use sudo, so the command would be "sudo modprobe ath5k" (without quotes). Sorry, my bad, I still don't have an Ubuntu install running so I can try these things out first. With the new 9.10 release just out I might actually get to do that this weekend. Let me know what happens when you try the sudo modprobe ath5k command (if it doesn't work try the Live cd). And don't worry about being new to Linux, after 5 years I'm only starting to get used to it myself. Sharing knowledge is what the Linux Community is all about. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:13 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=28&id=3269#3338 "Why not buy a router so you can both plug into the same port?" Because this unit worked flawlessly with Ubuntu 7.04 (someone else installed) until I upgraded it to 8.04! I do have a router, but it is in use somewhere else. Also, what's the point of having a 'free' and 'open' OS if none of the hardware I have works with it? Am I going to have to learn some programming language and spend hours trying to dig up the tech data on the hardware to make it work? Bleah! And I repeat, it worked with that old version! Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:17:18 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3134#3337 Seems like most distros on that list are meant for headless set up, I'm more of wanting one for use inside of a Linux distro as needed with full GUI. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:41 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=24#3336 Oh great, I just downloaded the RC 2 days ago... :P Thanks for the info! Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:41 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2105&limit=6&start=6#3335 Thank you Lelouch, or would you like to be called Zero?, for the recommendations. Anyways it turned out that my class is for C# so I'm going Mono along with Monodevelop. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:07:25 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=22&id=2105#3332 C++/C are the priamary langauges of Linux. C# is a Microsoft gimmick designed at suckering in developers. It only works within the .net framework of Windows, thus anything built in C# cannot be directly compiled Linux or Unix. If your truly a supporter of Open Source, then you'll boycott it like the rest of us. As for IDE, I recommend Code::Blocks. Its Open Source, has many of the same support features as Microsofts IDE, and it supports a multitude of Compilers (including the Microsoft one). But for beginners, the best thing is a text editor with color coding for multiple languages. I recommend Notepad++ or gedit. Both are open source and gedit comes on most Linux distros that use Gnome. That, along with GCC is the best for getting your feet wet in programming. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:33:14 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=1055&limit=6&start=6#3331 I like Go and Chess, but is hard to find a decent online system that doesn't want to charge money for membership. Ironically, the best platform for these sorts of games would be social websites like facebook, but they don't seem interested in satisfying intellectual stimulation. And even if they did, the fact that they don't check 3rd party apps, which have unlimited access to the Facebook API, means that all 3rd party apps can't be trusted unless they are created by the actual Facebook company. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:18:31 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3326#3329 You covered some good stuff, but there is always more than can be added and I encourage others to add their input on additional things to do with ubuntu on this thread. I am moving the thread to the ubuntu section and it will have a link in the "Getting Started with Linux section". Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:14:18 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322#3328 It is Linus, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. Competition leads to innovation which is why the Linux and FOSS projects have matured so quickly. Everytime MS or Apple release an update it just encourages the developers of other OSs to think outside of the box and compete. I congratulate MS for their effort, but the lack of abilities and lack of adequate security in their products is why I will not go back to using them. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:11:21 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281&limit=6&start=6#3327 I know that ath5k is included in the ubuntu kernel, it should load. Did you attempt to build a custom kernel? Did you check the md5sum of the cd iso image when the downloaded the ubuntu disk and verify the disk image when it was written? 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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:13:08 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281&limit=6&start=6#3325 Hi No problem with any delays in your reply as I am a retiree and thus can spend my time as I wish :-) I am just very grateful to find someone who is sufficiently interested to help. However I am slightly concerned that I may not always understand exactly what you want me to do as I am very new to linux and any familiarity with unix goes back many many years. Anyway, I hope the following is what you want. peter@Rock-laptop:~$ modprobe ath5k FATAL: Module ath5k not found. peter@Rock-laptop:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6812 CardBus Controller (rev 05) 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 02) 00:05.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM720 Lynx3DM (rev b1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) peter@Rock-laptop:~$ Peter Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:32:22 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322#3324 if im not mistaken... this is linus torvalds? hehe! Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:08:29 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3322#3322 im so curios with this! http://www.linux.com/images/fbfiles/images/500x_torvalds_windows_7.jpg Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:30:52 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=18#3321 Just saw this on DistroWatch and thought of this thread: http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=mythbuntu&month=all&year=all New Mythbuntu is out. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:21 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281#3320 Hey Peter I can see that ath_hal is in your lsmod, that is needed for your wifi card, but I don't see the ath5k module. Could you try to (as root) "modprobe ath5k" (without quotes) in terminal and see if that helps. While I try to read the forums once a day, I've had a busy work schedule. So, be patient, we'll get it working eventually. I'm pretty sure that I used the ath5k module to get my atheros working on the thinkpad, it is used for the widest range of atheros devices. If that doesn't work give us the listing of lspci from the terminal and we'll go from there. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:11 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3316#3319 I deleted the partition and recreate it with disk utility, it works fine! case solved Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:30:12 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=43&id=3318#3318 System Administrator Valley, AL A System Administrator position is available immediately for someone who has strong experience with Unix (Linux, Solaris, and AIX) and scripting skills in Shell and/or Perl. This person will manage an Apache Web Server to include supervising upgrades and identifying vulnerabilities. Need a self-starter who will be able to interface with various departments to accomplish responsibilities. Required Experience • Apache/PHP web server/web hosting • Tomcat Java web server • Unix (Linux, Solaris, AIX) • Scripting experience in Shell and/or Perl • Associates degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field Preferred Experience • Weblogic application server • Business Objects • Websphere application server • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field • Equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for education requirements Must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship Equal opportunity employer Interested and qualified candidates please submit resumes to hh@mau.com ~Heather Hughes, Recruiter MAU 803-335-3235 http://www.linux.com/images/fbfiles/images/MAU_WF_swash300_100x60pixels.jpg Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:21:39 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3316#3316 Recently I had reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 cause of a GRUB issue, I have decided to reinstalled Ubuntu and upgraded to version 9.10 I have 2 partitions on the drive and Ubuntu is installed onto the first one and the second partition I want to use it for data What I am experiencing even b4 I have upgraded to 9.10 whenever I tried to access the second partition to write a file or create a folder I keep having an error message '' Can't write to: /media/87f251f1-dbb0-4a35-8c97-de1e7470dca7 Are you sure have write access ? Questions? How do I go around this, I am the only user created on this PC? Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:56:45 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=12#3315 you can install slackware without even a cd-drive, doing it all from the hard drive. For this you will need 1. be able to boot from a linux system (it can be a live system) 2. a sufficiently big partition to hold the slackware*.iso file and to extract it to a directory in that same partition 3. a boot loader installed on your hard drive (such as grub) 4. and 2 empty partitions for installing slackware (one for the linux system and a smaller one for the swap) If you meet these requirements then you can read this page where I describe how I did it from my hard drive. I explained it for grub. For other boot loaders (eg lilo) you'll need to adapt ... http://vonbiber.x10hosting.com/slackware ocd/index.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:22:39 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=18#3314 Hey guys! So I got my brand new ram and CPU. All excited (and worried it would not work), I unpacked it all, replaced my parts, booted up and TADAAAA! I got 2 times the CPU speed and 2 times the RAM :-) So this week-end I'll try out MythBuntu and give you some updates afterwards. (So if anyone else is wondering if it's easy to upgrade your hardware in Ubuntu, the answer is yes :)) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:23:37 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3308#3313 thanks for replying. its an approximation only and the hpd are a recognized reference of the popularity. i dint uses the smaller distros for the reason u said as they can be influenced by directed effort and as i do people who dont use them look to c whats up and coming. however u cannot get to the top 15 by fraud alone. so it is true that ubuntu has more users than fadora and mint has less. this is more accurate than user agent strings or sales figures which say linux is at .9%. if any one has better numbers i think the pount is to use the stuff we know the get an estimate so that companies dont quote the .9% as y they dont support linux drivers. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:49:19 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=12#3312 To make it a little easier, since your comp only has 64Mb of RAM the changes of running a live CD or even a GUI is small. Your best bets would be to try Puppy (which you have) or possibly Arch Linux. You can attempt to install Slackware, but if Arch doesn't work then Slackware won't either. The only other option is for you to install a distro that has no window manager and runs in Command Line Mode, which means that you can't use apps like firefox or anything Graphical User Interface based. But in CLI mode you can use links or lynx to access the internet in a text based browser. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:16:59 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=6#3311 Mfillpot, I have no idea what you just said, I am new to Linux. That computer has 64mb of ram, I am not interested in anything fancy, just something for basic web browsing. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:02:14 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3308#3310 Interesting equation, except I wouldn't use DistroWatch HPD as a variable in any equation to calculate Linux install base. I know of too many distros that encourage their user base to click on the so-called DistroWatch vote area to increase their particular distros standings. That alone invalidates its use as a variable. Nice try though. And I'm glad that someone is working on the illusive Linux share. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:05:41 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3308#3309 sorry the ascii art looked ok in the preview it got messed up it says joe werner Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:35:28 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=20&id=3308#3308 [code] #################################### # Linux Install Base Approximation # # October 28 2009 # #################################### *16 million fedora installs number from jef spaleta "giving accurate fedora client counting the 115% effort it deserves" *H.P.D. from distrowatch for last 6 months *all the distros from top to gentoo included because gentoo by my guess is the smallest major distro *the installs column is the percent of fedoras H.P.D (hits per day) of the distro's H.P.D times fedoras installs. assuming that the page hits represent how much more or less popular the bistro is than fedora and that popularity is representative of the distros install base *from my experience most linux boxes were sold as windows boxes so im using the 1 billion number from microsoft as the total number of PCs divided by the the Linux install base to get Linux market share http://arstechnica.com/micros oft ews/2007/07/windows-install-base-to-break-one-billion-in-2008.ars DISTRO H.P.D H.P.D/1618 INSTALLS +---------+-----+----------+----------+ |fedora |1618 |1 |16,000,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |ubuntu |2067 |1.3 |20,800,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |mint |1313 |.8 |12,800,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |opensuse |1249 |.8 |12,800,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |mandriva |944 |.6 | 9,600,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |debian |897 |.6 | 9,600,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |puppy |806 |.5 | 8,000,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |sabayon |773 |.5 | 8,000,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |pclinuxos|700 |.4 | 6,400,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |arch |678 |.4 | 6,400,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |slackware|632 |.4 | 6,400,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |centos |592 |.4 | 6,400,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |tinycore |467 |.3 | 4,800,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |mepis |453 |.3 | 4,800,000| |---------+-----+----------+----------| |gentoo |417 |.3 | 4,800,000| +---------+-----+----------+----------+ LINUX INSTALL BASE: 137,600,000 LINUX MARKET SHARE: 7.3%!!!1!1!!!!!1!!! ________ ___________ __________ written by /\_______\/ _____ \/ ______\ \/\ _ \\ \___/\ \\\ __\__/___ \ \\ \\\_ \__\_\ \\\ \_/__/\ \ ____\ \\ \\____________\_____________\ / /__\ \\___________/_____________/ __//_ _\\ / /___________________\ / |___________________/___ _______________ ________________ / / ___ \ \/ ____\/ __ -\ _ -\/ _____\ __ -\ // /_/ \_\ \\ __\_/\\ \_\ \\___\\ \\\ __\_/\ \_\ \\___ //_ _\\\ \_/_\_\_ _____ \\\ \\ \_/_\_\_ _____ \ /_______________________\__________\_\___/\__\\\___\__________\_\___/\__\ |_______________________/__________/_/ \/__///___/__________/_/ \/__/ aka metacon [/code] Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:33:23 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=6#3307 You might be able to install Slackware with xfce (exlude the kde packages) on that system and get it running. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:43:42 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=6#3306 Since you are stating that you are short 64Mb of RAM, then I would assume that you are using 32Mb - 184Mb, in that case I would not be confident that any modern distro with a GUI can run on that system. You can try a distro based on ratpoison, xfce or lxde to see if they will work. However you should be able to setup the system to be CLI-only and run it with minimal applications. Just don't look for anything fancy when you have minimal resouces available. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:42:35 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=6#3305 Wow, 64mb ram, I don't think I ever ran anything in 64 mb but DOS. I'm sure that there must be Linux distros that will run under 64 mb, but they will probably be more of a project for you, then a live cd that just runs. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:04:32 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281#3303 Hi Thanks for your continued help. Hopefully the following is what you need. peter@Rock-laptop:~$ lsmod | grep ath* cpufreq_stats 7360 0 freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative 8200 0 battery 10756 0 ath_rate_sample 14080 1 ath_pci 97312 0 wlan 204484 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci ath_hal 192592 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 40852 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ata_generic 9092 0 libata 125720 1 ata_generic scsi_mod 142348 1 libata peter@Rock-laptop:~$ Regards, Peter Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:43:07 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=6#3302 Well I tried Puppy on that old computer, it starts to boot, then looks like it hangs.. from what I can tell from the puppy website, I don't have enough ram, 64 mb short, will have to look into it more. I could try Gentoo also, does this one have a boot from cd option only too like puppy does? Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:05:29 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285#3301 Mine is Linux SUSE Enterprise 10. From what I saw in the system services, there is one called "smb". But is not enabled.. will it affect anything if I enabled it? Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:03:56 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3177&limit=6&start=6#3300 Thanks for all the suggestions on a distro. First I have a simple problem, and I think the solution is probably simple. Seems the first step should be to get lilo to boot a live distro from a CD. How do I set up lilo to do this? Does it know how to control a CDROM? Maybe I'm missing something obvious? I have previously tried GRUB-which did not work. Then I tried PLOP, which was a FLOP. It hung up and I had to reboot, fortunately the MBR was still intact. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:45:44 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3296#3299 Go to the menu above, click on Community --> Groups and see if you can find something that interests you. Since this is still a new site, the groups don't have many members yet, but I bet if you posted a question in one, you'd get an answer. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:30:14 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285#3298 It would help if we knew more about what Linux distro you are running, but, whatever distro it is, it needs samba to communicate with windows. Do you have samba installed? Do you have smb (or smbd) enabled in the services section. In Gnome I have a Services menu in System --> Administration. If you have that in your distro you can check to see (1) if it's there and if it is (2) if it's enabled. I'm sorry I don't actively use samba, but a quick way to check would be to type "service smb on". I use Fedora with Gnome, and, if I type that phrase, there is no reply if samba is installed and the smb daemon is running. If it is not installed I get an error message. If you don't have samba installed, you can go to your administration menu, click on add/remove software, search for samba then install it. Since I don't know what distro or Window Manager you are using I can't be more precise in my instructions than that. LOL..this is under Suse Enterprise, my dumb. If your using Gnome in Suse, the above should work the same as in Fedora. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:25:02 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285#3297 May I know how can I check if my Linux is configured properly to communicate with Windows? Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:12:27 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=3296#3296 Hey guys! I started a long time ago with basic HTML not that great at it however I never really liked guides..I found 1 guide for python that I like sadly I can't figure out it. A little bit before I got into python I got into making epic picture in GIMP..and I entered one contest where I doubt my entry got looked at. Anyways I learn code quick with actually people as opposed to a guide because I sometimes have questions but I do pick it up rather quick. Quite honestly I want to learn most web based/gaming languages such as PhP, C, and all that other good stuff. So I'm looking for any project that I could help out with..preferably a social networking project if it exists. But yea please tell me if there are any groups.. PS. I would like to help with a social networking site because I think the time is right for a new one..seeing as facebook is currently failing miserably. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:35:55 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281#3294 I looked a little further, and it seems that the madwifi driver, which is now in the kernel, should work for this wireless card. Can you show us lsmod | grep ath* I'm a little rusty, the last laptop I has that had an atheros chip was a few years ago. I think that line will bring up the info we need. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:24:48 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=18#3293 wow, another very usefull post :D I'll defnitly look at this video (And I supose I'll have to throw boxee to the trash...what a shame) Thanks! Patrick Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:11:49 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=18#3292 If its mainly for watching tv, you would need to lookup MythTV or the other options. I had a quick at the comparison chart here http://www.deviceguru.com/comparing-10-free-media-center-apps/ (http://www.deviceguru.com/comparing-10-free-media-center-apps/) (pdf at the end of the post) and Boxee doesnt support tv tuner cards. On the slow response of Boxee, you can consider disabling vsync (http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=635&postcount=2). @Goineasy9: Boxee is Open Source (source code available for download after registration at the website) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:49:59 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=18#3291 Actualy, Hulu seems to be a website that "offcialy" streams only to americain customers for legal reasons. I've seen a way to bypass this, but I do not want to listen to only american TV. I'm from Québec so I also want to watch stuff from my place. Although, Hulu seems to be a very good site...I wish they had some of our stuff there :) Patrick Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:23:03 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281#3290 Thanks for the suggestion which didn't work for me. In fact even the first command line was rejected as having too few arguments. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:08:13 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=18#3289 I don't believe Boxee has the abilities of say a "MythTV". But I've never really used it, so I can't tell you for sure. Isn't it a proprietary app like hulu? BTW:congrats on getting everything else to run. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:57:12 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3283#3288 If you are referring to either Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x or CentOS 5.x, then there should not be any issues with it. The differences are minor and I had no problems with the upgrade. I've just this week upgraded to 5.4 and still have not issues with existing software. However, before you do an upgrade like this, it is a good idea to make a bit-image copy of your system disc(s) in case there are issues, so you can efficiently revert it back. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:37:13 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3087&limit=6&start=12#3287 Hey guys! Just an update and a question (again :P) So I finaly decided to go with a Hauppauge 1600 tv tuner. I got it yesterday and threw it in my system. Booted Ubuntu, detected and installed my card, everything is perfect :-) I also installed a wireless keyboard/mouse combo and there again, I did not have to fight with it. So I started boxee, and the interface was kind of sluggish. But it must be my wireless mouse since I did not have any problem using my keyboard. And suddently my mouse started to respond faster...oh well...I will also get a new CPU and some extra RAM because as I said, I think I will get tight on resources. So I started messing around with boxee, looking for the option to start treaming the TV...but never found it. I went through a bit of documentation on Boxee's website and a few others on the net; nothing! Is Boxee only to watch videos that has been previously recorded on my harddrive or streaming videos on the web? If that's the case, I might just throw away Boxee, because that's not what I wanted to do :P Ciao! Patrick Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:40:43 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285#3286 Have you confirmed that your Linux based distribution is properly configured to communicate with the windows smb shared directory? Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:19:45 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=10&id=3285#3285 Hi, I have a Linux platform and Windows XP platform. I have created a shared folder on Windows. I am unable to copy file from linux to my shared folder in Windows. My command is as follow: cp cp file.txt smb:///Deploy Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:01:14 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3283#3284 Is your server running Centos 5.2, and are you asking if you upgrade it to 5.3 will you have problems? If this is the case it would depend on the requirements of informix 4gl itself. This is the home page for IBM informix: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ There is no mention of 4gl, unless someone here is familiar with the product, maybe you should contact IBM. That, of course, is if I guessed your original question correctly. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:31:17 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3283#3283 dear; good day to you. im very new to linux and there are some questions i would like to get information from here and would appreciate if you can guide me through. i'm having production running linux 5.2. mostly this production is using linux scripting and informix 4gl programming. what if my test and development server upgraded to version 5.3, do you think there is impact to my production if i compile my linux scripting and information 4gl program in linux 5.3 and execute it in linux 5.2? please, your help is greatly appreciated. thanks and regards Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:55:29 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281#3282 Give this a try: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1024108.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:47:58 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3281#3281 As a total newbie to linux I decided to install ubuntu on an old Rock Agenda laptop that I used to use with Windows XP. The installation appears to have worked fine but it does not recognise the Netgear WPN511 wireless PCMIA that I need to contact my router. Am I correct to assume that I need to install a linux driver for this card? If so, any ideas where I could find one as I am not getting any response from Netgear. All suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks, Peter Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:41:35 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3278#3279 I just checked on my Fedora 11 install which uses Gnome like Ubuntu. My machine (which has a dual boot with Vista), recognizes the windows partitions but does mount them. How do you know that your windows partitions are mounted? It's possible that Ubuntu automatically mounts the windows files. To Check (I know there is a cli way to do this but....) On the desktop, there should be a Computer Icon, by clicking it it should show you all of your HD partitions. A right click on any of them will bring up a menu, one of the choices on the bottom would be to mount or unmount the drive. If the choice says mount, then, the partition isn't mounted. If it says unmount then it is mounted and you can click on unmount to unmount it. Heh...might've been easier to tell you the cli way. unmount /dev/sdaX where X is the partition you want to unmount. As root fdisk -l (that's a small L not a 1) will give you a list of your partitions, mine looks like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 6 1918 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 * 1918 28026 209718272 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 28027 60801 263265187+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 * 28027 28157 1048576 83 Linux /dev/sda6 28157 33379 41943039+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 33379 34423 8388607+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 34423 60801 211884031+ 83 Linux sda2 & 3 are windows partitions, Dell utility doesn't have to be mounted either, but is not a partition used by windows. Also, mounting partitions doesn't eat up space (or much memory), what did you mean by that? Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:27:42 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3278#3278 Hi, I am using Ubuntu and windowsXP in my system. When i log on to Ubuntu it is mounting all the windows drives automatically. Because of this i am facing the space problem. Can anyone please help how to make this mounting manually i.e when required. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:08:27 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=21&id=1055&limit=6&start=6#3277 I created (and play), a browser game called Crimelife (http://www.crimelife.eu.pn/). Its a fast-paced mobster game. And in the spirit of free games, there are no paid items or plans. Everyone has the same free account. I have tried creating open source games in the past, but Crimelife is my only "real" success. My friends love it. Feel free to play, and look for me in the game. My username is "Godfather". ;) Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:07:29 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3136#3276 Generally IDE/ATA harddrives are listed under hd#, scsi and sata drives are listed under sd#. But I have been seeing some newer distros refer to the hd# drives as sd# drives. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:21:11 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=8&id=3275#3275 In trying to sync my Blackberry to Linux using Barry, I discovered that I'm missing a plug-in for the laptop side (evo2-sync). The plug-in needed for the device is installed (barry-sync). According to the OpenSync project website, the Evolution2 (evo2-sync) plug-in is still under development. The article "Syncing a Blackberry to Linux", where I got the syncing instructions, was written by Joe Barr. Is there another Evolution plug-in available? Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:16:00 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=3136#3274 Can you please me to understand the difference between hda and sda. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:29:53 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=18&id=3135&limit=6&start=12#3273 That means here Ubuntu replaces the /boot partition of Suse with the Ubuntu /boot partition and left the /(root) and swap partitions of Suse unchange. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:25:47 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=40&id=3267#3272 Most likely it is referring to the cdrom that is configured in /etc/fstab, I recommend changing the cdrom device in your fstab file and reporting the results. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:58:50 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=40&id=3107&limit=6&start=18#3271 3g should be a fast(er) connection, I guess your going to have to call someone. Just tell them your trying to tether your computer with the broadband connection, then ask your questions. Don't mention Linux until your get some answers first. It's amazing how fast some providers like to cut you off when you tell them your trying to connect using Linux. BTW, I read that Windows 7 has a Network Connections menu choice also, so they might not even get into the OS questions with you. Tom Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:57:53 -0700 http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=28&id=3269#3270 Lee Why not buy a router so you can both plug into the same port? I have one similar to the one in the link: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1030252&CatId=198 There might even be cheaper ones there, didn't have time to shop around. Tom Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:49:38 -0700