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ball
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response 7 of 79:
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Jan 17 00:08 UTC 2007 |
I would be surprised if Linux granted that kind of hardware
access to an emulated environment, although if it were an
external serial modem it might still work. I have three DVD
-RAM disks and a borrowed DVD-RAM drive. It doesn't work
with NetBSD, probably because of the 2K sectors. It might
work with -current. I'll test it if I can get -current to
build.
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twenex
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response 8 of 79:
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Jan 17 02:51 UTC 2007 |
As far as wireless goes, I recommend staying away from Linksys, and doing the
same with Broadcom (or supplementing inbuilt laptop broadcom with something
that works (for Linux/BSD values of "works"). (I never had any joy with
NDISwrapper.))
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ball
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response 9 of 79:
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Jan 17 03:41 UTC 2007 |
I shudder at the thought of NDISwrapper. Native binary
drivers are bad enough without resorting to that kind of
evil. I suppose binary drivers are a fact of life in Linux
though. :-/
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keesan
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response 10 of 79:
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Jan 17 04:30 UTC 2007 |
Linksys WPC11 ver. 3 works with hermes and orinoco drivers, and kernel 2.4.
Cisco aironet 340 works with kernel 2.4 or 2.2 and has better range.
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maus
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response 11 of 79:
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Jan 17 04:52 UTC 2007 |
Ignoring the moral rhetoric of evil, you will find a much easier time by
using a wireless board that is known to work natively in your
environment. I believe Orinoco wireless boards are known to work well,
as are older Aeronet boards (though the Cisco webpage will lead you
around in circles when you go to look for the Aeronet drivers for
Linux).
You may want to look on your vendor's webpage to see if there is a list
of wireless boards known to work well.
- SuSE Linux Enterprise:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)
- CentOS (If there's a Y at the end of the line, the driver is compiled
into the kernel itself, if there is an M at the the end of it, the
driver is available as a module.):
http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/centos4-config?action=AttachFile&do=g
et&target=config-2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4
- Slackware refers you to a generic Linux Hardware Compatibility
booklet: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
- Debian refers you to the same document that Slackware does.
- RedHat's webpage is currently down for maintanance
- Mandriva maintains a searchable Hardware Compatibility database for
its Mandrake Linux product: http://www.mandriva.com/en/hardware
- I can't seem to find any useful information on TurboLinux's webpage
- Ubuntu (Intel):
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/hardware-supp
orted.html
If you use a different version of Linux, you will need to search the
vendor's site for more informaiton
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gull
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response 12 of 79:
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Jan 17 20:44 UTC 2007 |
You really have to be careful with wireless cards. Manufacturers
frequently change the chipsets inside them without changing the model
number. I still find them to be pretty hit-or-miss in Linux.
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naftee
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response 13 of 79:
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Jan 22 03:17 UTC 2007 |
unlucky
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fudge
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response 14 of 79:
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Feb 13 18:50 UTC 2007 |
don't use firewire but WPA/PSK works for me with a netgear card and madwifi
drivers + wpa_supplicant. also had it working with some intel/broadcomm
chipsets.
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ball
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response 15 of 79:
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Feb 13 23:44 UTC 2007 |
Thanks for the data point. I have a wireless card working
on a beta of NetBSD 4, using wpa_supplicant. I haven't tried
Firewire since upgrading.
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vivekm1234
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response 16 of 79:
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Sep 28 16:02 UTC 2007 |
Has anyone tried using apt-get/dpkg with Linux - Is there a way to
select between file:/ and http:// while installing a pkg??
I have copied deb iso's 1-4 to disk and made them accessible to apt-get
via file:/whatever, in sources.list. I also have the http:// lines.
Most times i want to install from CD but sometimes i need to install
from the net, which is why i have retained the http:// lines. Now if i
do a apt-get install something, most times because the online repo's
have the latest copy, apt will download the package!! So i keep the
http:// lines hashed out BUT then every time i unhash them to DL
something, i need to apt-get update - that re-downloads the meta-data
and i lose around 5-6MB/event! Also un-hashing is a pain in the butt!
Can't i tell apt to just use the disk files or to ignore the
latest-version??? I DON'T want to use dpkg -i because it involves a lot
of typing (long path and then i have to hunt for the pkg-files on disk)!
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Also, is there a decent color picker tool for Linux. I'm not running
KDE/Gnome because it's way too slow! I want some sort of stand-alone app
that is light and can support ANSI, RGB, Hexadecimal notation. It should
also show how things look for some sample text. Anything??
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Any way to unload all the kernel modules that debian loads? I don't use
USB/Parallel Port/Thermal/Processor/rtc/pcspkr/ and many more. I googled
it and some sites suggest blacklisting, but the man pages seem to
indicate a different purpose (man modprobe.conf)??
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I've already asked on USENET (they are slow as molasses) and
IRC/local-LUG (they didn't know). Any decent online resources??
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mcnally
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response 17 of 79:
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Sep 28 17:18 UTC 2007 |
It looks like that might be something you can accomplish with
apt preferences (man apt_preferences)
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vivekm1234
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response 18 of 79:
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Sep 29 05:29 UTC 2007 |
Re #17: Working :) Not quite what i wanted, but good enough i hope.
Package: *
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: 999
If it's a completely new package that's not on disk then it will do a
net install; also, if the pkg exists on disc and the net has a newer
version it will do a disc install which is great! BUT, what if i want
the latest package that is on disc?? I'm generally content with a old
version of emacs/xmms/WM, BUT i do want the latest xchat/browser
packages.
Found a great color picker in xcolors! But, the clicking to scroll up
and down is a pain (it has no "drag the scrollbar"). You have to right
and left click, to move up and down. WTH is Linux brilliantly elegant in
some ways and totally f! in other ways! Grr!
kernel modules: apparently blacklisting is the correct way but the
syntax is weird: install module-name /bin/true .
Thanks mcnally.
PS: Time is acting weird!! hwclock --localtime --systohc sets the time
okay in Linux but in Windows it's gets completely broken! If i use
nisttime.exe in windows, then Linux gets broken! I think windows is
using utc whereas i'm setting localtime on Linux. FUD! <sigh> (But I'm
liking Debian - it's almost perfect.
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vivekm1234
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response 19 of 79:
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Sep 29 07:59 UTC 2007 |
Re #18: time got fixed. Windows uses localtime, Linux was using UTC in
it's config file and hwclock --systohc --utc was breaking because of the
UTC value in the cfg file (and it's undocumented to boot Grr!)
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h90cbf
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response 20 of 79:
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Sep 30 17:22 UTC 2007 |
NONSENSE!
"This item is for discussion of the GNU/Linux system originally written
by Finnish (then) student Linus Torvalds."
Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel - not the GNU/Linux system. Shit!
Give Eric S. Raymond some credit for founding GNU and the FSF, and the
GNU developers for making Linux possible FOR ONCE!
I realize that GNU is credited elsehwere as being seperate from Linux in
the post BUT the first line is still utter nonsense.
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twenex
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response 21 of 79:
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Sep 30 17:45 UTC 2007 |
Good point.
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mcnally
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response 22 of 79:
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Sep 30 18:41 UTC 2007 |
re #20:
> Give Eric S. Raymond some credit for founding GNU and the FSF, and the
> GNU developers for making Linux possible FOR ONCE!
Umm.. speaking of "NONSENSE!"
Do you want to take another shot at that?
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nharmon
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response 23 of 79:
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Sep 30 23:40 UTC 2007 |
*cough*Richard Stallman*cough*
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gull
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response 24 of 79:
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Oct 8 19:05 UTC 2007 |
Yeah, don't mess with him or he'll come after you with his katana.
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sridharp
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response 25 of 79:
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Dec 17 04:49 UTC 2007 |
it is very interesting.But i facing my problems while writing programs.
It is very difficulty to remember commands.
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veek
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response 26 of 79:
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Jan 1 07:15 UTC 2008 |
dude, just do ls /bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin to find command names and then
man cmdName for more information on the command. Eventually with usage,
you will remember. You can also press the Tab key to auto-complete if
you use the bash shell. So: ifc<Tab> should auto-complete the command
for you. If it doesn't press <Tab> again and you should get a list of
commands that match the letters ifc.
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arthurp
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response 27 of 79:
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Jan 28 00:04 UTC 2008 |
I use lines like:
alias net-pf-10 off
in /etc/modprobe.conf
Generally I don't bother with things like USB and lp and such as they
are so tiny. A Few hundred K out of a few hundred M isn't worth the
effort. I do disable various kernel modules for security reason. I
would disble USB if people stealing data on USB keyfobs were a worry for
me on that system, or IPv6 when I don't want to have to chase firewall
rules and daemon configs when IPv6 won't be used anyway.
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remmers
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response 28 of 79:
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Jul 30 14:56 UTC 2008 |
This could happen to you...
http://xkcd.com/456/
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crosvera
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response 29 of 79:
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Aug 4 14:11 UTC 2008 |
remmers, that's true!!
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mattl
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response 30 of 79:
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Jul 19 19:07 UTC 2012 |
Are people still actively using GNU/Linux around here?
I just left working for the Free Software Foundation after four years,
but remain a GNU developer -- GNU FM and GNU social are my two projects,
and I found Grex because I am looking to set up a Backtalk system for
some fellow GNU developers.
Hello.
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ball
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response 31 of 79:
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Jul 22 21:43 UTC 2012 |
My daughter's PC runs Qimo and (the machine that is
theoretically) my primary desktop PC runs Xubuntu.
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