July 2001 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

REMINDER: Meeting Wednesday, July 18th, 7 PM
by Andy Stewart July 17, 2001

July 17, 2001

HI everybody, This is a reminder of the upcoming WLUG meeting to be held this Wednesday, July 18th, at 7:00 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI in Worcester, MA. The topic for this meeting will be "Using Digital Cameras with Linux". Marc Hughes will do a presentation / demo with his digital camera. I will then do a quick demo of gimp-print to print the images which Marc takes with his camera. I'll be bringing my Epson Stylus Color Photo 870 printer to the meeting with some 4x6 photo paper. After the meeting, a bunch of us will probably go to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. See ya there! Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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USB hangs system - requires reboot
by Andy Stewart July 16, 2001

July 16, 2001

HI gang, I just installed SuSE 7.2 Professional and upgraded to the 2.4.6 kernel (SMP). For the very first time, I'm attempting to enable the USB controller on my motherboard to talk to my Epson 870 printer (which has both parallel and USB interfaces). The onboard controller is an 82371AB. I looked and noticed the following kernel modules loaded: usbcore printer usb-uhci I think this is correct. I've enabled verbose debugging messages in the kernel. I looked at /var/log/messages, and it is detecting my printer. Also, I ran a program called usbview and saw the printer there as well. OK so far. I tried: cat some_file > /dev/usblp0 I get about 1 line of output and then my entire system hangs (it completely ignores any keyboard input, mouse movements don't cause cursor movement, and the machine is unaccessible from the network). I end up reaching for the reset button and waiting forever for my disks to fsck (yes, Tim K. I'm seriously considering Reiser fs). :-) I'm not sure I know how to go about debugging this...any suggestions? Oh, by the way, I did insure that there were no parallel port modules in place that might somehow interfere. Thanks in advance, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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What is shmfs?
by Andy Stewart July 16, 2001

July 16, 2001

HI gang, After upgrading to a 2.4 kernel, I now see a mounted device thus: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on shmfs 76220 0 76220 0% /dev/shm I can't find anything written that says what this is. I seem to be able to put files there. Any thoughts? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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Re: [Wlug] USB hangs system - requires reboot
by ccb＠acm.org July 15, 2001

July 15, 2001

Hi Andy - Try the VALinux beta 2.4.5 kernel: ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/kernel/beta USB hasn't been a priority for VA but one of the usb-linux developers is inside the VA kernel group and tends to plug in a bunch of stuff with each of the kernels. Ain't tried it. Let me know what you think. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

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Re: [Wlug] USB hangs system - requires reboot
by ccb＠acm.org July 15, 2001

July 15, 2001

Hi Andy - Long time no see. 2 things: That kernel comes with EXT3 already integrated in the source. Once you have an ext3 kernel you can enable it by changing fstab. Disable it by changing fstab. The on-disk structure is the same. Start debugging by booting with the second CPU turned off. You could be locking on MP bug. Used to happen with me and my HP720 OfficeJet until they get their MP act together. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

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Any complaints about Charter cable modems?
by Kingsbury, Michael July 15, 2001

July 15, 2001

Just wondering if anybody here has had any problems/complaints about the Charter cable modem services? -mike

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Problem with network card
by Simoncini, Matthew July 11, 2001

July 11, 2001

Hi guys, This message is not actually a Linux based question, but is still "nix". I have recently installed Solaris 8 (for Intel) on a PC at work and am having problems connecting to the network. I think that the problem is related to the speed that the NIC is trying to use when connected to the LAN. I suspect this because the little green speed indicator for 100mb is illuminated (on the NIC) when the workstation is connected to the network jack. Here are some supporting details that I hope someone might find useful: Hardware: HP Vectra Vli8DT (733mhz) Solaris 8 for Intel 3com Etherlink XL PCI NIC ifconfig -a elxl0 flags=100843<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 172.17.24.76 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.17.24.255 ether 0:1:3:68:1b:f3 netstat -rn Routing Table: Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ --------- 172.17.24.0 172.17.24.76 U 1 2 elxl0 224.0.0.0 172.17.24.76 U 1 0 elxl0 default 172.17.24.3 UG 1 0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 29 1897 lo0 If anyone can help or has similar experience, please give me a shout. I think I remember reading somewhere about a device driver file that can be changed to force the speed of the NIC. Anyone else ?? Thanks. Matthew

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Determining speed of device...
by Keller, Tim July 11, 2001

July 11, 2001

Got a quick question... Other than looking in dmesg for what the driver reported the speed of the cable of the network device, does anybody know what utility or place in /proc that'll tell you what the speed of the cable connected to your machine is. Thanks, Tim.

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Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?
by Rob July 9, 2001

July 9, 2001

Hi, I've had Charter for almost a year and have had no problems. Except my modem going last month.. that was the first real big problem. Like any ISP.. they have had a few outages here in Auburn, but they didn't last more than 2 hours. I had no problems getting my Linux (Mandrake)system working with it. Rob Mahlert --- "Kingsbury, Michael" <mkingsbury(a)avayactc.com> > wrote: >Just wondering if anybody here has had any problems/complaints about the >Charter cable modem services? > >-mike >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug _____________________________________________________________ Are You in the Atari-Users.Net's Links Engine? ---> http://www.atari-users.net

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Re: [Wlug] linux on PDA
by Jeffry Smith July 3, 2001

July 3, 2001

Also try www.handhelds.org. Compaq sponsors the site, and they do a lot of ipaq work. jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux smith(a)missioncriticallinux.com phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: Old Testament n. [C programmers] The first edition of K&R, the sacred text describing Classic C. skip gaede said: >Hi Wes, > >Have you tried the net? I have a friend how has one and has managed to >do it. >Going to altavista and searching on {+ipaq +linux} returned 21,897 hits... > >--Skip > >Wesley Allen wrote: > >> Anyone out there able to give me a hand installing linux on an iPaq? >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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