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[Alug]Goodbye
by Alexis Lee 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hi, It's been a pleasure, but I moved pretty permanently to Southampton about a month ago so I'm going to transfer LUG. Thanks for the help, hopefully I gave as good as I got! Cheers, Alexis -- Prunes give you a good run for your money. "Think about the good things, that I did to you, And think about the bad things, that I didn't do" - Crystal Method

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[Alug]PS tothe Debian Post
by John Seago 26 May '03

26 May '03

I'm subscribed to the Digest, so you may not a quick thank you unless you copy the reply to me and the list. Thank you all for your forebearance. -- John Seago

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 26 May '03

26 May '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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Re: [Alug]Lilo - Fatal: register_bios: volume ID serial no. duplicated: 0000000A
by Wayne Stallwood 25 May '03

25 May '03

ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> >I don't have two the same. They are both IBM but the product and >revision numbers are quite different for each drive. >The scsiinfo command gives me the drives' serial numbers which are both >different and nothing like the number quoted in the error message. Ok I am looking at the Lilo source now, it all seems to happen in device.c at about line 425 Can you set the verbosity to level 4 "lilo -v 4", run lilo and send the output. Wayne

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[Alug]hexdump
by richard 24 May '03

24 May '03

Hello ALUG list, Does anyone know to use the hexdump program? I've been trying all night (and am at serious risk of fatal caffeine poisoning!) All I want it to do is print every byte of a file in hex notation without any other rubbish (no indexes, no ASCII, no spaces, no line feeds, no nothing). It claims that you can pass it a format string in the same format as fprintf() so I tried this: $ hexdump -e "%x" {filename} >{outputfile} but it just said that my format string was a "bad format {%x}". Any help would be very much appreciated! Richard.

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[Alug]Lilo - Fatal: register_bios: volume ID serial no. duplicated: 0000000A
by Barry Samuels 23 May '03

23 May '03

The current version of Lilo that I am running with Debian Testing is 22.4.1-1 which is fine. If I upgrade to the latest version 22.5.2-2 I get the message in the subject line when I run lilo. Nothing on the machine has changed and if I revert to 22.4.1-1 every thing is fine again. I've put the new package on hold to prevent upgrading until I know what's going on. Can anyone tell me what the message means, why this should happen suddenly and can I do anything about it? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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[Alug]Wireless Rural Broadband
by Ben Francis 23 May '03

23 May '03

After I mentioned on either PLUG or ALUG that a local company was looking into providing a wireless internet service based on 802.11g, I had a couple of people asking who this company was. I can now confirm that the project will be run by Stamford based company 2xp (http://2xp.co.uk) and the webpage of the project is here http://www.wrbb.net Worringly there have been several messages recently claiming that there are no 802.11g cards yet that run on Linux. I'd love to know if anyone knows any different as I'm very interested in the proposed service. There was recently a lot of activity on Slashdot regarding this article http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,81450,00.html ?nas=PM-81450 which claims that the latest (and possibly final) draft specification released for 802.11g by the IEE will drop the original 54 meg speed to around 20 meg, quite a significant difference. 2xp, the Stamford company got in touch with the IEE and the following text is from here http://www.sourcewire.com/sub_releases/search_results.php?id=16844&hilite "WRBB technical staff visiting the WiFi Exhibition in Olympia have been in contact with Dennis Eaton (Chair of the WiFi Alliance) and Nicholas Sargologos (Prism Product Marketing) who are both voting members of the IEEE 802.11g Committee and have been assured that this is not the case. The standards are to be ratified at the end of June and the voting members assured WRBB that "there is a less than 2% chance of the standard being downgraded". Sorry if this seems a little off topic, but my main concern is that I won't be able to use the proposed wireless internet in Linux. Perhaps there are some 802.11b products that run on Linux and will be compatible with the service? Regards Ben "tola" Francis

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[Alug]USB HC TakeOver Failed! message
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hi all, I'm getting this message on startup with kernel 2.4.20 usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xce915000, IRQ 10 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:01c2 (nVidia Corporation) usb-ohci.c: USB HC TakeOver failed! Trying to free vfree() nonexistent vm area (ce915000) usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xce915000, IRQ 10 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, PCI device 10de:01c2 (nVidia Corporation) usb.c: new bus registered, assigned bus number 1 The machine then hangs. I did a google search and found a thread where someone said that meant the bios and kernel were having a punch up over usb controller, and to turn USB controller to disabled. I did this, and sure enough it booted, but then I had no usb. This is on the motherboard A7N266-VM I was droning on about in an earlier thread. Am I missing some point or other where I should have installed an nvidia driver for usb control as well as audio, net and graphics? Any help appreciated. Jen

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[Alug]In praise of Mandrake 9.1
by Ian Bell 22 May '03

22 May '03

I have recently been trying a number of distros including debian and knoppix in an attempt to find something better than my current rh7.3 (rh9.0 being abysmal). On this month's Linux Format DVD was Mandrake 9.1 so I gave it a whirl. Installs OK on my Dell laptop, X works fine, has a recent kde desktop, a good selection of apps and best of all my USB camera plugs in and pops up as a desktop icon. Like rh9 they have omitted kpackage but at least the Mandrake installer allows you to install non Mandrake rpms. This could be it. Ian

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[Alug]Norwich evening meeting status
by Syd Hancock 22 May '03

22 May '03

Overall concensus seems to be for the British Legion Hall on Aylsham road. Just a brief update - I have contacted the BL Hall but the person who deals with bookings is not there for a few days. I will also be away from friday but I'll try and remember to phone up again early next week to make a booking or bookings. Syd

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