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ThinkPad Mania
by Simon Royal 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

After weeks of trying to find a ThinkPad to use for Linux and having no joy I have won five in the last week - a 770, 755CX, 380ED, 380ED & 760XL. I have decided to keep the two 380EDs and resell the rest. One of them is for my wife so she can wirelessly surf while watching TV, but she is not interested in Linux and will be running Windows 98SE or 2000. Bearing in mind the age of the machine, what's the best distro to use for a Linux newbie? I don't want to dual boot or to run anything too heavy on it. I want it for wireless surfing, emails, light word processing and expanding my knowledge of Linux. I know it is old, but I would like it to run pretty smoothly. I am fairly new to Linux and would prefer a distro with a GUI, but know that Gnome or KDE are resource hungry. I have been running Vector Linux SOHO live on my wifes PC and it seems pretty easy on resources and uses Xfce desktop manager, it also has special ThinkPad tailored settings. I have also dabbled in DSL, Knoppix and Ubuntu - the last requiring a better machine than the 380ED. I have an 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card which apparently works in Linux according to the box. So the ultimate question is, which distro will run relatively smooth, work on a 380ED, work with my wireless PCMCIA card and is pretty user friendly and configurable via GUI and not too much Linux knowledge initially. One final question, does anyone know the max hard drive and RAM you can put into a 380ED. Kind Regards Simon Royal ---- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac

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ThinkPad & DSL Help
by Simon Royal 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi After weeks of searching I have a ThinkPad 380ED with Damn Small Linux installed. For a Pentium 166 machine with only 32MB RAM it is damn (no pun intended) fast. The 380ED has a built in CDROM drive which is bootable and built in floppy, unfortunately it's PCMCIA slots are 16 bit and not cardbus compliant, so my cardbus wireless card won't work on it. Firstly, Can anyone recommend a 16-bit wireless card that works well under Linux. It can be with a 802.11b or 11g card don't mind. I have heard that the Belkin FSD6020 v2 works straight out of the box in Linux and the LinkSys WCP11 v3 works with a bit of tweaking, but neither of these manufacturers websites mention anything about Linux. Secondly, I have bought a number of RAM chips for the 380ED. After searching Google for the exact spec, I realised it has 16MB on board non-removeable and a 16MB stick removeable, upgradeable to 64MB. The machine has an 80MB maximum support. None of the sticks I have bought work. Although DSL runs fine with 32MB it will run even better with 80MB so would like to upgrade. I noticed the sticks I bought where a lot taller than the one I removed and this is the only difference I can see. Any help here would be appreciated. The sound don't work at the moment but I have found a modprobe work around so will try that later. Any further advice or experience anyone has had with one of these or general ThinkPad problems, all info would be great. Kind Regards Simon Royal ---- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac

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USB Wireless
by Peter Hunter 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi everyone. I have been away from Linux for far too long. I was having withdrawals when a friend gave me a full unregistered copy of Linspire 5.0. I hastily installed this onto my laptop (which is running a 1.2GHz VIA C3 processor). It installed in super quick time, and everything was recognised and working OK, even my USB card reader. The Ethernet connection was setup without any help from me, and setting up the email account was simple. The one thing I haven't been able to get working yet though is my Belkin USB WiFi stick. I have a Belkin WiFi /Cable router in the ´work room´. The WiFi worked ok when I had winxp on it, so I know it´s all ok. Any ideas as to how to get it working would help please. Many thanks Peter

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Newsforge: Why LUGs matter
by Keith Watson 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Haven't read the entire thing but it looks interesting; <http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/03/1813216> Regards, Keith ____________ The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones. - Henry David Thoreau

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Sunday 30th April Kit meet reminder
by John Woodard 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Bring your box kit meet. Sun 30th April 2:00pm onwards at Syleham Village Hall. Meeting info: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2006/04-30Sun.html Venue info: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html Cheers, BJ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.6/323 - Release Date: 24/04/2006

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Any kit meets planned ?
by Peter Onion 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Are there any plans for any "kit meets" this year ? Peter

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Document Imaging systems
by Wayne Stallwood 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Does anyone know of an OSS Document Imaging System for Linux ? Specifically I am looking for a system that can batch scan invoices and delivery notes and then file them using a printed invoice/delivery number in either an integrated DMS or perhaps populate a MySQL database. Even filing them a filename generated from the invoice/delivery number would be sufficient. Essentially I want to make approx 7000 printed invoices a month available on an extranet (Possibly integrated with a CMS like Mambo) I have found a couple of non-free systems (1mage and others) but these are all either too expensive or too feature rich and I would far rather do this with OSS if possible.

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lppaswd file
by Nick Daniels 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi I have installed Kororaa-xgl, all works fine, except printer. The print manager wants a password (neither root or user) In Suse I used lppasswd -a However in Kororaa I get: xgl nick # lppasswd -a Enter password: Enter password again: lppasswd: failed to backup old password file: No such file or directory How do I create, or can I create the password file? Regards - Nick Daniels

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Vector graphics formats importable by Windows?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi Folks, I'm wondering what vector graphics forms (i.e. not bitmap) are importable by Windows applications such as Word. When one makes a graph in Linux, the principal such output format available is PS or EPS. Now, while EPS can be imported (and will print on a PS printer), it does not display on screen since Win support for PS is grudging at best. And it certainly cannot be edited in Word! The "standard" Windows vector graphics format is WMF or EWMF, but normal Linux applications will not create this format. So the question is: what (if any) vector graphics formats can both be created on Linux and imported into WinWord so that Word can handle them as flexibly as it can proprietary formats? With thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 14-Apr-06 Time: 08:58:39 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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