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Re: [ALUG] Linux friendly external modem, and ISPs
by Wayne Stallwood 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

On Monday 08 December 2003 18:08, Chris Walker wrote: > There's a company local to Norwich called Grey Electronics that sell modem > protectors. I have one around here somewhere but I've been a bit lax in not > buying one to protect my ADSL router. Reject any type that doesn't filter mains as well. (or at least have a decent earth connection) Why ? Erm umpteen zillion volt lightening bolt (or just a transient induced voltage) will need to be going to ground. unless filter is the size of a house, or has a decent earth it won't work ! I've seen modem filters that are just a box that goes in the line, unlikely to do very much as your modem and computer will still be a far more attractive path to ground. Oh and also reject any line filter that doesn't say it can cope with ADSL (if that's what you have) Some of them are a bit of a bandpass filter as well and that will upset ADSL unless the filter has been designed to let it through. Most modem deaths are an induced voltage picked up by the line from a near strike, more often happens in the sticks where a higher percentage of lines are in the air. If you get a direct strike, you will be lucky to find your modem, let alone use it again. Never really understood why BT don't just put a smallish spark gap at the point the line enters the house, tie it to a convenient ground. Won't stop the transients, but would stop the "Ok so who replaced all my phones with charred lumps of plastic during the lightning storm last night" That I saw a few times when I used to fill out technical insurance reports at a previous job.

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Windows-to-Linux migration support articles from IBM.
by Syd Hancock 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Windows-to-Linux migration support articles from IBM. Looks like a useful and detailed resource. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-roadmap.html Syd

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Mandrake Community Twiki
by Syd Hancock 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Heaps of Mandrake support and advice here http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome

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USB/SCSI fun in 2.6.0
by MJ Ray 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I'm having the following problem with my scanner under 2.6.0 It connects through SCSI and a USB bridge. I do the following steps: 1. Power everything up; 2. modprobe usb-storage 3. modprobe sg 4. sane-find-scanner runs fine and can see the scanner; 5. scanimage locks the machine up hard -- sometimes magic SysRq gets me out, sometimes it doesn't. After a reboot, I see no errors in the syslog. Anyone know how to debug this, or a better configuration? I'd really appreciate it. Meanwhile, I'm going to try patching the kernel up to the latest. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Re: [ALUG] Linux friendly external modem, and ISPs
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:08:22PM +0000, Chris Walker wrote: > > There's a company local to Norwich called Grey Electronics that sell modem > protectors. I have one around here somewhere but I've been a bit lax in not > buying one to protect my ADSL router. I think it says something that I had one of these and it didn't work very well, but that was down to me managing to plug the wrong cable in at the wrong point and bypassing the protector entirely :) -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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Installing Gentoo
by Graham Trott 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I'm installing Gentoo on a VIA 800MHz mini-ITX, following the excellent instructions on the website. However, at the crucial point of entering the new environment, the following command fails: cdimage gentoo # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash Illegal instruction Everything seems to be in the right place; any ideas why this might be happening? Have I made an error in assuming the CPU (calls itself an Ezra) is a 686-class? -- GT

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UK NHS trials Sun Linux
by Craig 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

UK NHS trials Sun Linux, threatens 800k user defection from MS: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34396.html It is a start... -- - Craig - http://www.wizball.co.uk "Simplicity, the best way to approach life"

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Re: [ALUG] Linux friendly external modem, and ISPs
by Dave Briggs 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

On Dec 8 2003, Rob Kendrick wrote: > US Robotics. (Or 3com, whoever makes them these days.) Although if you > can get a PCI one still these days, I'd get one of theses. They can be > slightly less latent. Thanks. Had a quick search on Dabs, just to get a gauge on prices, and the US Robotics one is £75 - rather more than I thought I would have to spend. Are the £35 odd quid ones not worth bothering with? > Eclipse. For a fixed fee, they'll give you dial-up with a static IP > (you can even chose rDNS for it). Although it does kick you off every > so often (2 or 4 hours, depending on package) you can just instantly > redial, and there are no limits. And because you've got a static IP, if > you redial quickly enough, it doesn't really matter. All for less than > 30 quid. Had a look at these - they look very reasonable. Thanks for the tip. Dave

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. 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 tkirc, bitchx, xchat 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://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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ext3 in windows
by Ben Francis 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Is there a way to view my ext3 Linux root partition in Windows? At the moment all my files are stored on a FAT partition so I can view it as a drive letter in Windows and mount it in Linux. I'd prefer to store my files in /home/tola/ and be able to view them from Windows when I need to. Any suggestions? -- Ben "tola" Francis 00101010 tola ^/. http://hippygeek.co.uk mailto:tola_at_imen.org.uk opinions expressed are of the voices in my head only

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