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Internal Broadcom
by Simon Royal 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi I am trying to get a permanent wireless solution for my R31. I have a variety of devices that work under Ubuntu but some have issues. USB Zydas stick - it works fine, but is taking up my only free USB port (as I broke the other). Edimax PCMCIA card - hangs the machine when on battery. Buffalo PCMCIA card - works great, but is my sons. Intel Mini PCI card - hangs the machine after a few mins. So far - apart from the USB stick - the Buffalo card which is Broadcom 4306 based card has been the most reliable. Whilst scouting around on eBay I found a Broadcom based Mini PCI card which uses the same chipset. Are the problems I have with my other internal card - the Intel 2200BG - related to my particular card, those Intel cards or Mini PCI cards in general? Would a different card suffer from the same problems? I know you cant really answer it, but does anyone have any experience or problems with other internal wireless cards. It is only a few pounds so I wont lose too much if it doesnt work when it gets here. Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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DD-WRT VPN settings
by Ricky Bruce 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Somewhat off topic but as dd-wrt is Linux based i tenuously justify it to myself. I use strong vpn along with a dd-wrt flashed router to create two seperate wifi SSID's from the same router. One is my standard wifi and routes all traffic normally through my UK IP. The other redirects it through the VPN through virtual network vlan3 and is used to access USA based services such as Netflix on devices that lack the ability to run a VPN client. (Dare i say Apple TV?) I followed the instructions in the strong vpn forum (http://strongvpn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=806) to get it up and running and for the most part it is working great. However on occasion the router seems to drop the VPN connection and revert to the UK ip. Rebooting the router does not on its own fix it, neither does setting the router to reboot periodically once a day. The only way i have found so far to reliably establish contact with the VPN is to edit and then resave the firewall script, and then power cycle the router. I use Mint at home, and while i have been using Linux for sometime i have been lucky enough to never really have to go beyond configure; make; make install when using my machines, so my scripting knowledge is severely limited. Can anyone suggest any ways to make the router detect when it has dropped the VPN connection, reload the required script and reboot? Below is the copy of the firewall script that is in its current form. VPN_IPUP=/tmp/pptpd_client/ip-up grep -v "exit 0" /etc/config/pptpd_client.ip-up > $VPN_IPUP echo ' sleep 15 # Load ebtables for i in ebtables ebt_mark ebtable_filter ebtable_nat; do insmod $i; done # Clean up ebtables -t nat -F ip rule del from 0/0 fwmark 4 lookup 4 ip route flush table 4 # Hack: take QoS down (but we need it enabled for ebtables) iptables -t mangle -F # Set up ebtables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wl0.1 -j mark --set-mark 4 ebtables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i vlan3 -j mark --set-mark 4 ip route show table main | grep -Ev ^default | while read ROUTE; do ip route add table 4 $ROUTE; done ip route add table 4 default dev ppp1 ip rule add fwmark 4 table 4 ip route flush cache ' >> ${VPN_IPUP} chmod +x ${VPN_IPUP} Kind regards, Ricky

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week, Monday 17th January, at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://www.pjmcgintys.co.uk/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. We're usually to be found in the lowest section of the bar, near the library entrance to the pub. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Hopefully, see some of you there! Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Ubuntu help
by Chris Walker 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

I'm trying to persuade a Virtual Ubuntu installation to talk to a Windows 7 host. What's frustrating is that one share works but another doesn't and I can't see why, other than the 'Protocol error' which is displayed. Is there somewhere on the virtual machine where this stuff is logged so that I can perhaps see what's going wrong? I've looked in the syslog but that doesn't show any networky-type errors. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .----------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |______________________________________________|

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migrating debian to another machine - update
by Peter Alcibiades 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Sorry, should have said that the old machine is socket 754 with a 64 bit amd install, and the new one is an i3. Hi, can I pick your brains on this one? That time has come round again and I have to move someone to a new machine. What is the best way of doing it? Last time, I did a new install on the new machine, then moved the contents of the /home partition by copying, tracked down all the extra bits and bobs that we have installed, and got them again. It was quite a bit of work. I am wondering if it is possible to just move the hard drive subject to then reconfiguring the distribution? Or is it possible to copy over the partitions to the new hard drive, then....? Any suggestions gratefully received. I have also read about using netcat, is this possible or sensible? Peter

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PCMCIA wireless
by Simon Royal 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hi Ive had a number of power problems under Ubuntu and finally worked out it was to do with my Edimax PCMCIA wireless card. It works fine but causes oddities when running off battery. I know it sounds odd but I have tried everything else to resolve it locking up under battery and without it in it works fine. So I switched to a USB wireless stick. Now, I broke one of my USB ports yesterday and would like to free up the other one by getting rid of the USB wireless stick I have. What I would like to know is, is my lock up problems going to happen with any PCMCIA wireless card or just my Edimax which is RaLink based. My USB stick is a PlusCom which in Windows shows up as a ZyDas. It is 1121B based, which is not RaLink. I have a Broadcom based Buffalo card floating around which I know works under Linux with additional drivers available. I need to work out whether it is the PCMCIA bus causing problems or just the card. Any help, advice or previous experience appreciated. Simon

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migrating debian to another machine
by Peter Alcibiades 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hi, can I pick your brains on this one? That time has come round again and I have to move someone to a new machine. What is the best way of doing it? Last time, I did a new install on the new machine, then moved the contents of the /home partition by copying, tracked down all the extra bits and bobs that we have installed, and got them again. It was quite a bit of work. I am wondering if it is possible to just move the hard drive subject to then reconfiguring the distribution? Or is it possible to copy over the partitions to the new hard drive, then....? Any suggestions gratefully received. I have also read about using netcat, is this possible or sensible? Peter

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Re: [ALUG] Mailing List Etiquette...
by Adam Bower 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

THANKS FOR THAT BRETT VERY USEFUL LINK TA! On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:03:46PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought that as we're getting a few more people joining the list, > it would be good to actually start documenting the mailing list > etiquette. > > So, I've started a magic page on our wiki, if people have more to add to > it, please feel free. > > The page is: > http://www.alug.org.uk/MailingListEtiquette > > Cheers, > -- > Brett Parker http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ > PGP Fingerprint 1A9E C066 EDEE 6746 36CB BD7F 479E C24F 95C7 1D61 > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! -- New signature required, suggestions on a post card please.

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Re: [ALUG] R31 Sleep...Can We Resolve This
by Wayne Stallwood 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

On 15/01/11 21:48, Simon Royal wrote: > Wayne > > Setting my power management options to Suspend means my R31 wont wake > up. This is the problem I had before. > > This is why I had to use Hibernate as it will come back from that but > not Suspend. > Ahh ok, then you may want to google about a bit...a quick look around myself suggests that the R31 had problems even with some versions of Windows which were corrected with a BIOS update. The ubuntu forums might have something as well, look specific to the R31 and whatever version of Ubuntu you are on now you may find a fix. Whilst you have the browser open have a little look at http://www.alug.org.uk/MailingListEtiquette as well. I don't want to nag but top posting and then leaving the entire contents of the message you are replying to just makes it hard for others to dip into the conversation later. It becomes particularly important when someone later on is trying to make sense of the message in the archives.

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R31 Sleep...Can We Resolve This
by Simon Royal 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi I have just about sorted all the problems out on my ThinkPad R31 under Ubuntu, except sleep. When I close the lid I want it to sleep and then wake when I open it. I have been playing with the different settings and cannot it to work as I would like, so I thought I would throw it over to you guys to see if you could help. Ive always worked on laptops and never come across this problem. Mac OSX is the fastest for coming back from sleep, you open the lid and within two or three seconds it is up and running - even on my old 10 year old G3 PowerBook it does it. Windows XP takes a bit longer and then you get faced with a log back in screen. I find it odd that my 10 year old G3 500Mhz Mac can come back from sleep within seconds but my sons 2.2Ghz P4 laptop takes about 20 seconds to get back. Ive run Ubuntu and various other buntu and non-bunto based distros on other hardware - x86 and PPC - and never had sleep problems like this. I had a ThinkPad 600 and 240x about a year ago and they just worked with sleep. Open the lid and it comes back on, sometimes faced with a log back in screen but it worked. So why can I not get this R31 to behave in a similar way? Why would a 600 and 240x have better power down support than this R31? If I press Fn+F4 it will go to sleep, but then coming back on takes a boot (bios splash, grub etc) and then you get the log back in screen. That is my work around at present. It is slightly faster than a full boot but still not that quick. My other option is for when the lid is shut just to blank the screen but that doesnt shut any hardware off or conserve battery life. My PowerBook can sleep for about 5 days and then open it up and bang, its back on again. Thats what I would like for my ThinkPad. I have my laptops running 24/7, I have never turned them off, just shut the lid and open it when I need it. So if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. I must add, that this is a Ubuntu issue - or Linux issue - as XP sleeps and wakes correctly. Regards Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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