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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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Introduction
by Tony Cook 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

I apologies for flooding your e-mail but I would like to introduce myself as a new member. My real name is Tony Cook, I adopted the internet handle of idiamin because the late entirely unlamented gentleman was the only person I ever heard of who was without doubt more self centered, egotistical and a bigger idiot to boot, than I. My computer set up is a Gigabyte AT board carrying an AMD K6/2 500 CPU with a SoundBlaster 128 and a Voodoo 3 graphics card and I have 128M/B of ram plugged in at the moment while my H/D is a 20GB unit which seemed enormous when I bought it but which is now beginning to be a little confining. I currently dual boot Win98 and Linux. Win98, with which I am reasonably familiar because it gives me access to a cheap parallel port scanner, if anyone knows or hears of a scsi emulation which will allow Sane to co-exist with it please let me know together with games, mostly old, which are either not available or comparatively cost a lotty under Linux. For the future however I plan to migrate my more serious interests, D.T.P. and graphics manipulation to Linux with the impact of adapting to new software being lessened by loading Win4Lin from Trelos. As far as Linux is concerned I am a complete newbie and to be frank I find getting used to it to be a bit challenging. My home computing background originated with CPM and the Spectrum, progressed to the Amiga and dos in emulation and then to Win95 native on a PC. At the moment I am still fumbling my way around the Linux CLI structure and trying to forget I ever knew dos. I have tried several Linux distro`s, Mandrake 7.1, Red Hat 7.0 and Suse 7.0 before finally determining on Suse 7 Pro as my system of choice largely due to the excellent documentation available and the, (Comparatively easy and reliable installation). I nearly threw a rock through my monitor when grappling with Red Hat, and Mandrake though initially very good revealed bugs in operation with which at my current level of experience I could not resolve. The only specific problem I currently have centres around Win4Lin for which there is currently no specific Kernal is yet available for Suse 7.0 although 6.4 is supported. I gather from Trelos that support for 7.0 is in the pipeline however. Incidentally support is currently available for both the other distro`s I have. According to the manual, which I have read, there is very little change between 6.4 and 7.0 apart that is from the compiled modules which are of course not interchangeable. If anyone were in a position to supply me with an evaluation copy of the basic Suse 6.4 system I 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. Best regards, compliments of the season and apologies for rattling on,

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Re: [Alug] Another New Member
by MJ Ray 18 Dec '00

18 Dec '00

kerin <kerin.westgate(a)virgin.net> writes: > ManDrake 7.1 but for the life of me, I can not get my dam printer to > print anything, the printer is a Epson 480, I don't get any error > messages, and if I do lpc, status, I get, queuing is enabled, printing > is enabled, no entries, no daemon present, and that's after sending a > test page, It's as though there is a code missing to switch the > printer on, as it's a auto on/off. It seems that the 480 is a bit of a swine and isn't that similar to most of the other Epson printers, which combined with Epson's refusal to provide good docs means it isn't supported just now. To quote: Unfortunately, this printer has some odd quirks that make it more difficult to support than other Epson Stylus printers. Epson also has not been willing to release the command needed to allow changing the printer cartridge; therefore we had to drop support for this printer in the stp driver. on http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/epson-list/2000q4/000045.html Might be worth reading around that list a little. > If any one could help it would show the spirit of the Linux world Hrm, you been bitterness and cynicism about certain manufacturers who will release neither drivers nor the details we need to create our own? ;-) > Kerin. > > Paul Shorter wrote: > > Hi Everyone, Please don't include other unrelated messages. If you're replying, please trim the included message and write replies beneath the quoted parts. That's fairly quick to do and makes it a lot nicer for all. Thanks :-) -- MJR

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New Member
by Kerin 18 Dec '00

18 Dec '00

Hi I just received a e-mail from yourself, I like Linux very much and would like to get involved a lot more, it's a lot more fun than Windows As a newbie I don't really know what i'm doing, maybe you could help though, I've sent up ppp, networking, between my Advent 450 Piii pc and an old Tiny 386 sx all works fine its been good fun, I'm running ManDrake 7.1 but for the life of me, I can not get my dam printer to print anything, the printer is a Epson 480, I don't get any error messages, and if I do lpc, status, I get, queuing is enabled, printing is enabled, no entries, no daemon present, and that's after sending a test page, It's as though there is a code missing to switch the printer on, as it's a auto on/off. If any one could help it would show the spirit of the Linux world Cheers Kerin.

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