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by Douglas Rosher 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

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Kit-meet tomorrow
by Karamoon 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

I'm going to be at the kit meeting tomorrow. I'll bring a switch, some patch cables, some biscuits and my G4 Powerbook. I will also bring an old Toshiba T2130CS laptop. It doesn't have a cdrom drive so if anyuone has some floppy-based OS's, please bring them! In particular, does anyone have a 32-bit version of Menuet???? >From what has been posted so far it seems there'll be about 6 people in attendence... -Matthew ps. Any chance of net access at the meeting tomorrow? __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sorry about the swearing...
by Anthony Anson 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Before you pass on to the next item, the Linux issue appears shortly... I've just put a box together (AMD 900, nine hundred and mumble mumble MB RAM). IDE Channel 1: HD0 (master) and CD/DVD-RW (slave), cable detect IDE Channel 2: HD1 and Zip100 - both slave - not cable-detect. UW SCSI card and 2 × UW SCSI HDs ATI Rage 128 AGP card Internal hardware modem, PCI (can't unforget which one) In addition to the onboard USB ports there is a twin-port USB PCI card and a four port USB hub (camera cable and scanner), the four port hub attached to an onboard port - I'm suspicious of all these, but they've been working OK until today - that is, for a bit less than a week. The OS in the HD0 caddy is (was?) Win 2000 Pro SP1, and noticing I hadn't done so, I fed it SP4. So it fell over, and after five or six minutes trying to boot, I get the BSOD. Recurring. So, I thought - feed it the Win 2000 CD and try a repair, or if it comes to it, a reformat and reinstall... It loads files, then falls over. Recurring. So, I thought, it's set to load from CD first so I can run Knoppix - I'll format C: with Knoppix and reload Win 2000. Oh yeah? Knoppix begins well enough, just as usual. It gets to 'Starting X11.....' and the screen goes dark and the pretty text winks on, then it goes dark again, then it winks again, and again, but only to four or five places - not recurring... We finish with: Retrying with Server Xfree86(vesa) . Retrying with Server Xfree86(fbdev) Error: No suitable X-Server found on your card. And the CD drive was dead so I had to power off, switch on again, remove CD and shut down again. Has anyone got any suggestions? Is there anything in the configuration which I might have got wrong? I need Win 2000 for beta-testing Zetnet's mail and news handling program. I'd also like the computer to work, as the one I'm on (PIII-450) I've built for a friend whose PI-90 is rather sick. -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Re: [ALUG] 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by sfr 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

David Reynolds wrote: > Those?! I think you'll find it was me who fixed it (sure I was told > what to do, but I was still the one who did all the work :P ) And beautifully done, too. The light has stayed on even when landing after roadhumps. and then James Taylor wrote: >Pah! You would have been useless without my superb back-seat directions... heh :) -- sfr

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[ALUG Announce] Conference: Open Source Choices and Resources for Schools
by MJ Ray 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Small reminder: ALUG meet at UEA on Sunday. See www.alug.org.uk Now a message that MK LUG asked us to pass on: Note that "services need to be clearly relevant to education." -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Open Source in Schools Event From: David Willington <david.willington(a)ntlworld.com> Dear All I've been asked by Hemel Hempstead School to help organise a conference putting together schools with an interest in Open Source software with businesses and individuals that can offer support and advice. I'm based in Sheffield where I've just organised one for schools up here. I called the event OSCARS (Open Source Choices and Resources for Schools) and it came about as a result of this year's FLOSSIE (Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Education) conference in Bolton where the view was that everyone there already know about FLOSS and what was needed was a conference to inform people who don't know about FLOSS. The reason for Hemel Hempstead is that I know the new Head there and she said that Sheffield was too far to come. This is the second OSCARS. I learned a few lessons from the first one. Firstly I'm going to try to keep a clear focus on education - the school's getting the schools together, and I'm approaching the Linux community. I'm keen to avoid a room full of Open Source converts, which is what happened at FLOSSIE. I'm planning to get about 10 businesses offering a range of solutions that are directly relevant to education and which are open source based, and ask the school to guarantee at least 25 schools. One of the companies that came to the first one was (as far as I can tell) offering Open Source on the back of a proprietary package. There's nothing wrong with this, but I'm eager to point out to schools that Open Source can come without ties. In other words, an exclusively Open Source event, although companies and businesses working with proprietary software are welcome along so long as they're demonstrating their open source options. From the businesses' point of view, experience in schools is good, but I don't think it's essential. However services need to be clearly relevant to education. If anyone would be interested in being involved I'd be delighted to hear from you. The proposed date is Fri 27 Jan 2006 and the venue is Hemel Hempstead School, Heath Lane, Hemel Hempstead. Thanks David Willington ----- 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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Re: 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by sfr 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Steve Engledow wrote... >Attendees (in alphabetical order because I'm nice like that): >Adam, Becca, Dan (I think), Dave, Eli, Francis, James, Jan, Kaz, Mike, >Noodles, Simon, Steve and a couple of late entries - Matthew and Suzi. It was a very lively meet :) Thanks to those who fixed up the trikelight - I took the Chariot onto the road on the way home, and going downhill we achieved >22mph! Could have been even faster, but a roundabout got in the way. sfr

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Framebuffer on Nvidia cards
by Wayne Stallwood 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Is there anyway to get a framebuffer running on nvidia cards when using the Nvidia closed drivers ? I am sure my SuSE box used to run rivafb as this used to generate loads of warnings about the world ending whenever I tried to build new Nvidia drivers. Ubuntu however seems really reluctant to let me have a framebuffer device..presumably for the same reason as the Matrox equipped machine at work is running one by default.

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RE: [ALUG] Framebuffer on Nvidia cards
by Keith Watson 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

> From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 18 October 2005 00:00 > > Is there anyway to get a framebuffer running on nvidia cards > when using the Nvidia closed drivers ? > > I am sure my SuSE box used to run rivafb as this used to > generate loads of warnings about the world ending whenever I > tried to build new Nvidia drivers. > Ubuntu however seems really reluctant to let me have a > framebuffer device..presumably for the same reason as the > Matrox equipped machine at work is running one by default. As you're running Ubuntu, any clues in the xorg log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)? I know SFA about frambuffers but have been struggling with a dual head set up for the Ubuntu install on my work laptop (which has an Nvidia video chipset) over the past couple of weeks. The Xorg log file has been very useful in finding out what was going on. Regards, Keith ____________ COMMERCE, n. - A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Samba passwords
by Stuart Bailey 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

I have a client who is using FC3 on a server to share up network drives to Win XP Pro computers in their office. I have given each user their own username and password for mapping these drives, but now they want the ability to change the passwords themselves. Are the any good tools for doing this - or do I need to write something. I'm thinking on the lines of a PHP or CGI script (they have Apache running on the server). Many thanks, Stuart. -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Proprietor) Linux Specialist (01953) 601294 (07778) 383739 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ----------------------------------------

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Cry for help - negotiating dialup link with vodafone GPRS via GSM modem
by Guy Eastwood 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Trying to connect to vodafone GPRS with Siemens MC35 GSM Modem. The SIM and Modem both work with nowsms under windows and they do get handshaking things under Linux but the connection never completes establishment. It seems that the Vodafone server never sends any kind of ack to the IPCP request, log pasted below. Anyone have any wisdom on this? In UK, voda APN is set to wap.vodafone.co.uk (which works in nowsms), everything SEEMS sane in the settings but only stupidity happens. BTW, NowSMS is a bit of windoze s/ware for doing this kind of thing but by doing a bit of RTFM I expected to be able to achieve this and more n Linux without paying for some proprietary stuff, plus we run Debian machines at work and don't want to have to bung a 'doze box into the rack with all the associated 'concerns' that creates! uname is: Linux guy 2.6.12 #1 SMP Thu Oct 13 16:45:51 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux log said: SYSLOG PPPD connect output: Oct 14 14:11:36 guy pppd[12794]: Serial connection established. Oct 14 14:11:36 guy pppd[12794]: using channel 40 Oct 14 14:11:36 guy pppd[12794]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 14 14:11:36 guy pppd[12794]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x32a24cf1> <pcomp> <accomp>] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <asyncmap 0xa0000>] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x32a24cf1> <pcomp> <accomp>] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x32a24cf1> <pcomp> <accomp>] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <pcomp> <accomp> <magic 0x9b2bf908> <auth chap MD5>] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <pcomp> <accomp> <magic 0x9b2bf908> <auth chap MD5>] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 <02868b09f850081a7d28153a9010b0693306daa7>, name = ""] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 <4c7362d517196aac19c2c9cc9a26428c>, name = "wap"] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x1 ""] Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: CHAP authentication succeeded Oct 14 14:11:37 guy pppd[12794]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>] Oct 14 14:11:38 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Oct 14 14:11:38 guy pppd[12794]: LCP terminated by peer Oct 14 14:11:38 guy pppd[12794]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Oct 14 14:11:41 guy pppd[12794]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Oct 14 14:11:41 guy pppd[12794]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Oct 14 14:11:41 guy pppd[12794]: Connection terminated.

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