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Problem No. 347 - Remote printing
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

Well - it feels like that sometimes. I have two machines networked. Machine1 (Debian Testing) has two printers - one on the parallel port and one on a USB port. I want to be able to print from Machine2 (Mandrake 9) to Machine1 but when I try I see a message in the logs 'Remote host did not accept the control file'. I see this whichever printer I try and use so I assume the problem is on Machine1 but I don't know how to correct it. Machine1 does have an /etc/hosts.lpd with the following entry: machine2.mynetwork There is an iptables firewall running (Endoshield) but I have tried after shutting down the firewall to no avail. All other networking functions correctly. Any advice would be appreciated. Barry Samuels

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Problem installin Videolan Client
by celldee＠tiscali.co.uk 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

Hi all, I'm having trouble installing Videolan Client. I'm using Redhat 8.0 (2.4.18-19). I've installed packages for libdvdcss,libdvdread and libdvbpsi but when I try to install the vlc packages with the command 'rpm -Uvh vlc-0.4.6-1.i586.rpm vlc-mad-0.4.6-1.i586.rpm vlc-gnome-0.4.6-1.i586.rpm' I get the following error message :- error: failed dependencies: liba52.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.4.6-1 libavcodec.so is needed by vlc-0.4.6-1 libmad.so.0 is needed by vlc-mad-0.4.6-1 Can anyone help me out ?

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Re: NTL broadband
by tom potts 11 Jan '03

11 Jan '03

Its superb but theres a few hitches Linux wise.. 1) You can only register using a windows box and IE5/5.5 and no firewall running! Once up and running turn off the modem for an hour or two and then you can DHCP on using Linux but make sure your firewalls tight and you passwords are shadowed - I left mine unsecure to see what happened and got hacked pretty quickly one an attempted takeover and once sendmail was so busy I had to cold boot! 2) I get 1.5M UDP (mainly who-has) on my port per week so watch out what you do with a tcpdump output on a small router. 3) I had to have the engineers round 3 times to get it sorted properly. Warning: With 600k you can browse everything useful in about a week! And those nasty sites with splash screens everywhere can download too fast for you to stop them so be ready to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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wireless networking
by simon 11 Jan '03

11 Jan '03

Thanks to everyone who replied to my wireless network questions the card is up and running. I brought a DLink DWL-500 which has the prism2 chipset which seems to be the most supported chipset. Here's somethings I found useful. There is a RedHat RPM for setting up wireless network cards which was handy it can be found at prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us and includes all the documentation as well. http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/linux-ethernet.html for the basics of which scripts to edit to get your network going. Once again thanks Simon

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Knoppix problem
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

I seem to be having problems with the ALUG mailing list. The message that I last sent wasn't returned to me as it usually is and I have received no mail from ALUG since. I see on the ALUG site archives that my message is there together with two replies for which I thank the people concerned. As far as the SCSI modules go I really can't remember if the module offered was ncr53c8xx.or sym53c8xx.o but it was the only one offered. SCSI adapters in both machines are Symbios adapters. Barry Samuels

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Linux Anti-virus software.
by Robert Tillyard 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced anti-virus product for Linux? Ideally we would want incoming and outgoing mail scanned and if possible HTTP/FTP downloads. This is for Red Hat 7.3 to protect PCs that will be using it as a mail/proxy server. Regards, Rob.

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Paintball?
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

Would any members of ALUG be interested in paintball matches against other LUGs? It's currently being discussed by some LUGs, although mostly they seem to be from the Midlands area at the moment. We're a big mailing list... must have some good shots out there, surely? -- MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ IM: slef(a)jabber.at This is my home web site. This for Jabber Messaging. How's my writing? Let me know via any of my contact details.

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Knoppix problem
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

I have recently acquired a Knoppix CD. Neither of my two computers will boot from a CD so I made a boot floppy from the knoppix image provided. Booting from machine 1, a dual CPU with 512MB ram and all SCSI devices produces the message 'Can't find KNOPPIX file system, sorry' and I find I'm dumped into a *very* restrictive shell which, although it includes 'insmod', doesn't include 'ls' which is not very helpful. Insmoding the correct SCSI module gets me precisely nowhere and 'lsmod' produces nothing. Trying the 'expert' boot gives me a list of SCSI modules and having selected the appropriate module I get the same result. Booting from machine 2 with 128MB ram and also all SCSI gets me into the full Knoppix system without any problems. Although both machines use the same SCSI module, ncr53c8xx, one of the differences is that Machine 1 has a dual channel SCSI adapter which is fairly modern and Machine 2 has a single channel adapter which is some years old. Anyone have any experience of this? Regards Barry Samuels

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Realplayer plugin for Mozilla uses 98% CPU!
by N3tw0rkAng31B0y 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

I use Mozilla 1.0 on Debian Woody. I have installed RealPlayer8, and can run realplay fine. However, when I visit a website (such as the Radio 1 site, which is WHY I installed it, having used Windows for a project, I got rather addicted to John Peel's show again ;) ), realplay uses up to 98% of the CPU, meaning I have to kill the process. Typing about:plugins in the address bar gives: <snip> File name: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes <snip> So it seems to be installed OK. Anyone else found this? Anyone had any luck with RealOne (the newer one?) I can't seem to find ANY plugin bundled with it. It's quite irritating. Specially cos my housemate oversaw both install processes... "so it took u about 3 minutes in Windows, and a whole night and it still doesn't work in Linux..." (Nelson from the Simpsons laugh) "...HAAA HAAA!" grrrr. lol Ricardo

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[newsforge daily] January 06, 2003 : Microsoft Belgium's GPL attack refuted in detail
by Keith Watson 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

<http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/1023218> leonbrooks writes "Recently, images from a presentation by Microsoft Belgium were published on the web. The presentation made some startling (for Microsoft) concessions to Open Source, then set about FUDding the GPL into the ground. I whacked together a point-by-point answer to the anti-GPL FUD and here it is." <http://cyberknights.com.au/articles/areas-for-concern.phtml> Keith

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