January 2002 - main

Re: [Alug] Something is killing my box each evening, need help
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

James: > The software is Debian Sid. I had this problem, dist-upgraded and it > still occurs. I am inside X when the crash happens, I have not tried > closing X down for the day to see if it repeats. I am running kernel > 2.4.17, and whilst I did have crashes in previous kernels (I jumped from > .13) they were not daily. Summary of what I said on IRC: If you're tracking sid closely, you should be talking to Debian lists to cure this. If they coincided with the kernel change, try another kernel. Doubt that helped, but there you have it: replace bits until it stops crashing. Slow, tedious, but will work eventually. -- MJR

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RH 7.2 problem
by Ian Bell 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

I have RH 7.2 installed which provideds a couple of icons on the KDE desktop for mounting/unmounting CD and floppy drives. I have recently been trying to compile myself a kernel as yet without success. But a side effect seems to be that I can no longer mount/umount CD and floppy drives - even by hand as root. mount just hangs. Looking at it with Gtop shows it is asleep waiting for an interrupt. As I have a PIII, I wondered if when I did make modules and make modules_install I may have overwritten some functioning code with now non functioning code. Any suggestions? TIA Ian

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Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

> This may not appeal to anyone but an alternative location near to > Norwich for an alug meet sometime is my house. It's free, warm and > there is always plenty of tea and biscuits :) That's very generous of you. Can you fit an ALUG meeting in it and are you sure you want ALUGgers there? > Other advantage - internet connectivity (64k isdn) and a 100tx hub > with a spare uplink port. Disadvantage - a few miles out of Norwich > for those not driving. Plenty of parking space though for those who > are. It is on the A140 south of Norwich, just off the A11 (Newton > Flotman). Bah, you can cycle to Newton Flotman fairly easily, IIRC. ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] isdn card and connection (a bit long)
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Syd: > insmod hisax failing during boot. I looked at dmesg but did not see > these messages - should I be looking in /var somewhere? /var/log/syslog or messages, at a guess. > modprobe hisax type=35 protocol=2 id=hisax > Presumably I should be able to use this information to edit a > config file somewhere to have it happen during boot? No idea where It needs to end up in /etc/modules.conf, but some distributions build this from elsewhere (eg /etc/modutils/* in Debian). I think the line should be options hisax type=35 protocol=2 id=hisax > Also, MCC requires root password so I am not sure if I am dialing > out with root privs or with my user privs. I know its a mandrake > thing but any informed guesses? Dialouts are normally effectively root, as they have to add a network device and routes to the system. Can't help with ippp0, as I've never had an isdn system. There's an ipppd package in Debian, though. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

> Mark - you mentioned some time ago having a Feb meet in King's > Lynn. Any further thoughts? I've yet to find a venue that is both: a) free or cheap b) available at weekends If anyone can help with this in the King's Lynn area, please email me and I'll try to help you arrange it, if you want. Is anyone (Alexis? Andrew?) on this list still at UEA and willing to do the room booking dance again? If so, shall we go to UEA for February, Newton Flotman for March (assuming that's OK), SomewhereElse(tm) for April and Syleham for May.. (any more venues want to step in?). Then we're probably planned far enough ahead to get in the magazines, for a change! -- MJR

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isdn card and connection (a bit long)
by Syd Hancock 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Home Highway was installed yesterday. It's good! Forgive the long message and newbie questions following - I have tried to figure this out and have looked around the net and the system and *have* got it working after a fashion - using it now in fact - but its a terrible lash-up at the moment. So I'd really appreciate any advice and comments on what follows, including where else to look for answers since I don't really know where to go next. 1. OK, I am using Mandrake 8.0 and it hasn't completely recognised my internal isdn card (Asuscom ISDNink 128). I see something about insmod hisax failing during boot. I looked at dmesg but did not see these messages - should I be looking in /var somewhere? 2. But if I give this command (found in the documentation) then I can use it: modprobe hisax type=35 protocol=2 id=hisax Presumably I should be able to use this information to edit a config file somewhere to have it happen during boot? No idea where to find it though - there seem to be an awful lot of start-up files and I clearly have not found the correct one yet. 3. Finally, what app is recommended to dial an ISDN call in KDE (or on the command line)? I was using kppp for the modem but is does not see ippp0 - should it be able to find this or does it only recogniise the serial ports? At the moment I am having to use something called the Mandrake Control Centre to go to the network settings to find a place to dial out on the isdn. It is very long-winded, clunky and obviously just not the right way to do it. Also, MCC requires root password so I am not sure if I am dialing out with root privs or with my user privs. I know its a mandrake thing but any informed guesses? TIA Syd

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Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by Dryden 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

>Mark - you mentioned some time ago having a Feb meet >in King's >Lynn. Any further thoughts? >Syd Ye a meat in kings lynn would be good :) i still havnt managed to get to a meat yet... ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Syd Hancock wrote: >This may not appeal to anyone but an alternative location near to >Norwich for an alug meet sometime is my house. It's free, warm and >there is always plenty of tea and biscuits :) My house is expensive and cold. A warm free one sounds most appealing, to me anyway! Jenny.

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Next Meeting - Jan 27?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Hi All, a surfeit of blackberry wine and cheesy excalibur films last night prompted me to wonder when the next meeting was: There was talk of Simon P putting us up at his folks place in Cheveley again, and talk of end of January? How about Sunday 27th January - Cheveley (if that suits Simon?) Sunday 24th Feb - Norwich - anyone at the uni find somewhere? If enough people could come to one or the other we could have a small website and library discussion to organise them into shape.....both topics that crop up from time to time and get dropped without being resolved. The Central Scrutiniser

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Re: [Alug] apt problems
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Andrew wrote: >What's in your /etc/resolv.conf? Can you surf the web ok? No! Stupid, d'oh. The routing table had lost its gateway setting (box did the weird crash thing again over hols) for the outside world. All working again, thanks Andrew and Earl. apt-get install libiodbc2 here i come. Jenny.

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