March 2005 - main

Re: [ALUG] Multi-card reader
by Brett Parker 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walker <chris_linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar, Brett Parker wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > <snip /> > > Chris Walker <chris_linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > This has 4 slots in it too but I'm failing at the first hurdle. Trying > > > the command above gives me 'bash: modprobe: command not found'. > > > > Ahhh! I may have neglected to say that they need to be run as root, as > > it's loading kernel modules... > > > > I'm *assuming* that Mandrake has modprobe, it's part of the usual base > > system, so it should have. > > Ah. I missed that vital step. OK. Done that and now, having the steps you > gave me earlier, I now have loads of new icons on the desktop. > > I'll have a crack at editing the fstab file now to see if I can get it to do > all this automatically on boot up now. > > I appreciate both your help and that from Chris Glover. You'll probably want to add the modules to the /etc/modules file (or that's where I'd add them on a debian system, anyways... *goes look it up for Mandrake...*) OK - for Mandrake it appears that the file is /etc/modules.conf, and it'll be a line something like: probeall ehci-hcd usb-storage that you need to add, or expand the probeall line to include them. Then the modules should get automagically loaded on boot. Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQYPlEh8oWxevnjQRAhZsAKDOTBJEh0gaGyHEeDz1bnMuVZZi0QCfbqRN xLL3iWeKsawO+NOjr0rdGP4= =qyPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [ALUG] Linux Political Party
by David Briggs 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

> Below is a letter I got after asking the library > spends on proprietary software, I did not use the > phrase "Open Source" A pretty disappointing response that you got. Looking at the relevant page of the 2004/5 budget yields little (http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/council/departments/finance/Budget%20Book%202004_ 2005.pdf - page 20 of the pdf). You could always try asking the Education and Cultural Services Scrutiny Review Panel (http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/council/committees/papers/schedules/education_cul tural.htm) to have a look into this for you. It might make a difference if it came from ALUG as an organisation. Both MJ and I know a bit about Scrutiny, though from rather different perspectives ;-). Dave

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Asus A8V networking problem
by Dennis Dryden 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hello, I decided to upgrade my PC a few month's ago and ended up purchasing an Asus A8V motherboard and a AMD 3200 Athlon64 CPU. It's been working just fine after some initial problems(just needed a bios upgrade) but yesterday decided to stop the built in network card from working. I cant think of anything i had changed to messup configurations or make it act any differently so im quite confused as to what the problem is. The onboard NIC uses the sk98lin kernel module and when i try to modprobe it i get the message that the card was not found. In WindowsXP(the 64bit beta) the card shows up but tells me the network cable is unpluged(its not and the cable works fine). So i decided to just get another NIC and got a cheap Realtech pci card, when i try to modprobe its driver i see a similar message telling me that it can't talk to the card, and in windows i get the message again that the network cable is unpluged. Anyone have any ideas what my problem might be? Thanks, Dennis Dryden

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Setting windows workgroups from DHCP on Linux
by Stuart Bailey 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to configure a DHCP server to automatically assign workgroups to windows clients? Many thanks, -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Proprietor) (01953) 601294 (07778) 383739 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please email postmaster(a)linusoft.co.uk immediately. You should not copy or use this email or attachments for any purpose nor disclose their contents to any other person. NO BINDING CONTRACT WILL RESULT FROM THIS E-MAIL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A WRITTEN DOCUMENT IS SIGNED ON BEHALF OF LinuSoft. LinuSoft cannot accept any responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks. *************************************************************************

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nfs mounted directory ownerships
by Jenny Hopkins 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hi all, I have a central directory owned by user 'balloon' on my server. This can be nfs mounted onto serveral other computers, each with a user 'balloon'. However, the server UID for balloon is different from that of the clients. I'm reluctant to start changing things in /etc/passwd. Is there an elegant way to state the nfs mount with username permissions rather than number? Thanks, Jenny

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Max partition size
by beb 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I've just put in a second harddrive (40GB) in my box (running Sarge on a (badly) customised 2.6.10 kernel). I deleted all the old partitions using fdisk and created a single new 40GB one (actually 39.something according to the partition table), but when mounted 'df' reports it as only 17GB. If I create two partitions of roughly 20GB each then 'df' reports the disk size correctly. Can anyone suggest what the problem is please? Also, during my googles about this I kept seeing pages stating that the maximum drive size in linux is 138GB. Was I just looking at old webpages or is that still the case in the latest kernels? Thanks, beb -- <Insert Bill Hicks quote here>

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Caption Competition
by Peter Onion 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I think we need to put some words to this picture.... http://www.btinternet.com/~Peter.Onion/ALUG/caption.jpg >From sunflowerinrain's decription of the day.... "Mike's crimson machine which has refused installs of Redhat, Mandrake, etc. suffered various attempts to install Debian unstable which resulted in it booting into Win98. Brett re-partitioned and de-bootstrapped it and got almost all the way through the process of getting a working Debian before running out of time. " PeterO

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DemosOfferedDemosWanted page on web site
by Peter Onion 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

I just found the "DemosOfferedDemosWanted" page on the web site. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?DemosOfferedDemosWanted How "current" are those lists ? Without dates it's impossible to tell when the requests & offers were made. PeterO

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OT: SGI Access
by Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi all, First, apologies for being off-topic, but I'm exploring all opportunities. When I complete my Ph.D. research a few years ago, I done all my work on an SGI. On reviewing my work recently, I discovered that most of animations I created are in SGIs movie format. I've tried some options including xanim to view them in linux, but because I created the movies with compression on each frame, I can't get them to play. Rather than recreating the original files, what I really want to do is convert these files from SGI format to quicktime, or extract the original frames. In fact, there is a command to do this on the SGI - dmconvert. Before I go ahead and buy an SGI via eBay or similar (which may or may not work), I was wondering whether anyone here has, or has access to an SGI which could do the movie conversion. I could supply the original movies on CD for you to convert, or we could work together to do this. I know this is a long shot, but can anyone help me? -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "May your spirit be renewed in earth's solitary places." - Native American Indian Blessing

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Re: [ALUG] Multi-card reader
by Chris Glover 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:49 +0000, Chris Walker wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar, Chris Glover wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:15 +0000, Chris Walker wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've just removed a USB card reader from my Mandrake 10 system and added > > > a USB 2.0 card and connected up a new multi-card reader to it. But I > > > can't get the system to recognise the new hardware. Where am I going > > > wrong? > > > > > > I've tried googling for multi-card reader but nothing useful comes up. > > > > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > Have you loaded the ehci-hcd module? You need this for USB 2 to work. > > You'll have to talk me through that one. I don't know how to do that. > It's exactly as Brett said. You could try typing /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd /sbin/modprobe usb-storage You need to be logged in as root. > > Have you tried other devices on this card? Does lsusb show it is there? > > I get 'command not found' for that as I do for modprobe - suggested by Breet > Parker in the list. > What does the output of dmesg show you? To install lsusb on Gentoo, type emerge usbutils It's available on other distros as well, but it's been so long since I used Redhat I've forgotten what th epackage is called. -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris(a)glovercc.clara.co.uk SIP: 84411389(a)voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726

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