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UK Linux Day
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

A UK Linux Day has been suggested for Sunday 29 April. The main backer so far is LinuxCare, who will act as co-ordinator and take out advertising to support the event, and other tentative support includes IBM and RedHat (although I'm trying to get some latitude on that, as I don't recall there being many ALUG RH experts/fans). The main event would be an installfest, with appropriate disclaimers and support materials. Our contribution would be our time and the payoff should be increased membership numbers. Hopefully by that point, we should have awoken from hibernation anyway and things can get going for 2001. Are we up for this? Any comments to feed back to lug.org.uk and LinuxCare? Shall I start trying to get one of the main venues at UEA (Hive or LCR)? Would we want to be based at UEA again, somewhere else, or at multiple centres? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] saying hello
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Yes, Welcome Syd. (I'm new myself anyway.) What distro's have you tried so far? I'm still coming to grips with red hat on an old cronky box at home, networked to a windows machine, and at a laptop at work which I'm trying to get up and running on a network. (Yes, still not there with the pcmcia, but getting closer!). I'm getting curious as to what some of the others are like, though, especially as I have a couple of freebie discs at home, - slackware, corel, debian - all waiting to be tried sometime. I thought it would be better to get completely familiar with one first before looking at the next. Kerin - are you related to Brian on this list? Just nosey. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] UK Linux Day
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

"John Woodard" <mail(a)johnwoodard.co.uk> writes: > Do you think we should/could organise a meet before this, Syleham maybe? Definitely. Probably two, if someone else would step forward to arrange it. I have basic artwork and other support materials available to me now. -- MJR

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Printers, was Re: [Alug] saying hello
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

"Kerin Westgate" <kerin.westgate(a)virgin.net> writes: > found the install very good including the partitioning, one problem I do > have and that is I'm unable to get my printer (Epson 480) to work as its not > yet supported, do to the chip in the cartridge. I did spend Sunday night I've just bought a new printer, the Canon BJC-1000, and found http://www.linuxprinting.org/ a useful assistance, including their scripts for getting it up and running. Sadly, the Epson Stylus 480 is classified on that site as "paperweight", sharing no features with the other Stylus printers before it, and people's comments have been quite biting. A nice tweak which I shall document Real Soon Now is setting up a printer called "fax" which allows me to send faxes from any application. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] saying hello
by MJ Ray 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Syd Hancock <sydhancock(a)compuserve.com> writes: > My current project as far as getting to grips with linux goes is to > install several distros and try them out for a while. So far I have > partitioned the drive and hopefully discovered what to do next. Here > goes, fingers crossed. Please let us know how you get on. Once the website gets kicked into shape (Martyn, are you out there?) then a (unbiased?) newbie's experiences with some distributions would be ideal material to link into it. I know traditionally people here advocate either Debian or SuSE (is that right?), but broadening horizons would be good. -- MJR

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saying hello
by Syd Hancock 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Hi All, I discovered this list and signed up this morning. I am a total newbie and only installed my first distribution a few weeks ago (Storm Linux, Debian based) although I have been lurking on some usenet groups and reading 'Running Linux' beforehand. At present we do not live in East Anglia so you may wonder why I have joined - well, there is a strong possibility that we will move to the Norwich area soon for family reasons - in-laws and grandparents living nearby. My current project as far as getting to grips with linux goes is to install several distros and try them out for a while. So far I have partitioned the drive and hopefully discovered what to do next. Here goes, fingers crossed. I've kept this very brief but am very happy to talk more about the details (system, distros etc) if anyone is the least bit interested! Best wishes to all Syd Hancock Brittany, France.

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OT: Landcrab in Monte Rally (Definitely OT!)
by Laurie Brown 06 Jan '01

06 Jan '01

Not exactly LUG-related, I know, but a lot of you know me, and a few will remember me discussing this car before... Just FYI for any readers of this group in the Ipswich area. Cheers, Laurie. ---- cut here ---- Support Coping with Breast Cancer (Charity Number: 1022588) On Sunday 14 January 2001, A 1971 Wolseley 'landcrab' 18/85 MKIIS will leave Brooklands bound for Cannes as part of the 2001 Winter Challenge, the 12th annual re-enactment of the legendary Monte Carlo Rally using cars which were eligible for the 1968 Monte or earlier. Driven by Laurie Brown, navigated by George Potter, with Geoff Jardine as third man, it will arrive in Cannes on Friday 19 January after many miles of gruelling driving, navigation, driving tests and timed regularities on mainly unclassified French roads, and across the Alps in winter. The car has been totally re-built by George Potter: there isn't a part, panel, screw, nut or bolt that hasn't been looked at, repaired, restored or replaced. Rally-prepared, the car will be on display at the Woolpack Inn, Tuddenham Road, Ipswich on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 January. You can support the charity either by making a donation or entering our "Guess the Total Mileage" competition. The closest guess to the total mileage to and from the Woolpack will win a bottle of vintage champagne (other prize donations welcome!). Entries accepted in the Woolpack until 11pm Friday 19 January ---- cut here ---- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie(a)brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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pcmcia question
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Greetings, all. Can anyone give me a pointer here? I have spent weeks trying to work out how to get my laptop connected to a home network. I have RH6.2 running on a Toshiba satellite, and have bought a buffalo 10/100 pcmcia, which uses pcnet_cs driver. What I have done so far: Edited the /etc/pcmcia/config file to include the card type, as per instructions that came with card. Edited /etc/conf.modules to include alias eth0 pcnet_cs options pcnet_cs io=0x300, irq=5 I then changed the io=0x300 to io=0x254 after looking up pcmcia entry in /proc/devices. /etc/pcmcia/config.opts shows to exclude 4,7 and 12, and to include port 0x100-0x4ff, port0x1000-0x17ff When I boot up the card gives a high beep and a low beep. I get the message that it can't find the net address. If i do an ifconfig eth0 i get an error fetching information message. I can ping using loopback but any other address on my local network gives network unobtainable. Networking is turned on, can't bring eth0 up, i think addresses are in ok. I'm booting with the card inserted. Can anyone see anything i have done that is glaringly obviously wrong? Cheers, Jenny.

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Singapore Linux Conference 2001 (fwd)
by MJ Ray 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Anyone wanting to travel? ;-) Eeek re paper date, though. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 03:57:09 -0600 From: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane(a)dotxtra.com> Subject: Singapore Linux Conference 2001 Dear Sir, I would appreciate your circulating the message below on your mailing list. The SLC, first held in 1999, is organised by the Linux Users' Group (Singapore), in collaboration with IDG, which runs LinuxWorld Expo. Last year, some of our speakers included Mr Robert Young, Red Hat; Mr Robert Chassell, Free Software Foundation; Mr Theodore T'so, IETF; Chip Salzenberg, OSI; as well as senior staff from IBM, SGI, and Intel. We also conducted Tutorials on Samba and Perl Extensions, among others. We typically aim for two tracks, Business and Technical, with some Speakers having slots that cut accross both. This year, I also hope to organise a Debian BoF meet. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Singapore Linux Conference / LinuxWorld 2001 March 21-24 2001, Singapore This annual conference and expo, started in 1999, aims to draw world-renowned experts in the exciting field of Linux and showcase the state-of-the-art in Linux and Computing in the IT hub of South-East Asia, Singapore. In this third edition, we plan a conference which will focus on the growth of Linux as a broadly available and used platform. CONFERENCE Papers are invited for presentation during the Conference, which will be held on Thursday, 22nd, and Friday, 23rd March. Following last year's success, there will be two tracks, "Business" and "Technical". The topics below are meant to indicate the possible variety of areas, they should not be regarded as exhaustive. * Productivity Tools and Suites * Multimedia enhancements * Internationalization and Localization * Beowulf / High Performance Computing * Distributed Computing * Life Sciences * Embedded Linux * Linux PDAs * IPv6, and "personal" IP addresses * B2B Ecommerce * Security: DoS attacks using innocent third parties * Security in General * Network Trust * Open Standards: What value to the user? * Wireless Technology * Mobile Computing * IP telephony (Truly everyone at everywhere!) * Linux in Education * The Linux Community * Diversity in the Linux Demography * LUGs' Experiences * Software Licencing * The Open Source Movement Prospective authors are requested to submit full papers for review. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged through email. Hard-copy submissions are also permitted, and three copies of the manuscript should be sent to the address below. You may like to take a note of the following dates - Submission of full paper - 5th January, 2001 Papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Technical Program Committee, and reviewers' comments will be relayed to the authors on request in the interest of transparency. TUTORIALS Tutorial Sessions will be held on Wednesday, 21st March. Tutorials have a strong technical bias, and are intended for a more mature audience, in terms of Computing and Programming exposure. Prospective tutorial speakers are invited to submit proposals to the Conference Secretariat. Each proposal should include: * a summary * a course outline and * a brief biography of the speaker. Proposals complete with the required documents should be sent to the address below. CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Sanjeev Gupta 40 Kaki Bukit Place Singapore 416218 email: ghane(a)dotxtra.com Tel: +65 9855 1208 Fax: +65 7494434 All correspondence will be acknowledged. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Introduction
by MJ Ray 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

"Tony Cook" <idiamin(a)idiamin.plus.com> writes: [...] > should be very greatful as I believe I could then overlay the 2.2.16 modules > with the 2.2.14 set and thus get Win4Lin running correctly and > interconnecting with my system components, noteably my printer and > soundcard. This may well work for *some* modules. Another answer has already pointed you to the SuSE downloads... -- MJR

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