Hi all -
I'm new to the area.. living near the WPI campus.
Is anyone here happy with their DSL service?
Right now I've got DSL service from Earthlink. Man,
they suck. The thing goes out for a week at a time & all
they do is ask me to power cycle my modem & then say
its a Verizon problem & I must wait for Verizon to fix it.
This time I'm getting 400ms pings & terrible bandwidth (50kbps...
and not as smooth as a modem)
Anyone know if going with a different DSL provider would
improve things?
I'm not sure who Earthlink uses locally, but they always
say its a Verizon problem.
Speakeasy uses Covad. Perhaps I should switch?
Thank you -
Matt
Hi everybody,
We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday, October 4th from 6 -
10 PM. I have several folks who have volunteered to make CDs and be
installers - thanks gang! The main target of this install fest is the WPI
community, but I won't turn away folks in need as long as there is room.
I am, however, lacking in RSVPs from prospective installees. If you wish
to have Linux installed on your machine, please send me an e-mail so that
I can handle the logistics.
Let's get the word out and hope for a great turnout!
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
Hi Everybody,
We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October 4th,
from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs room
218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly anybody else
who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join us.
I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell me
how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This is
just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations.
I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish
to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full
installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of Linux
configured, we can do that on a space available basis.
As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees.
This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with
you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do our
best to get that version installed for you.
If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, or
voyeur, please send me an e-mail.
Thanks!
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
HI everybody,
Here is an update on the Lancaster, MA project which started yesterday.
I showed up around 10:30 AM and two other fellows from Holy Cross came to
join me. They left around 5 PM and I stayed until about 7 PM.
We installed additional hard drive in two machines onto which we installed
SuSE Linux. The installation went smoothly, as did the X windows
configuration. The problems started with the networking.
Mixing ISA and PCI cards in a system is problematic. I have discovered
the hard way that the motherboard picks the PCI card interrupts, and if
they interfere with the ISA card, too bad! Some motherboards allow you to
exclude interrupts from being used by the PCI cards - some don't. At
least the really old ISA cards had jumpers so you *knew* which interrupt
it wanted...the "new" ISA cards don't even have this, so you're doubly
screwed.
The systems both had ISA NICs. We eventually got one of them working
(perhaps by accident). I finally swapped out the other one for a PCI NIC
which worked almost immediately.
I played with Coyote Linux on the old 486SX with 16 MB of memory after we
had performed a memory upgrade and a proper CDROM drive installation.
Coyote Linux appears to be a continuation of the work started by the Linux
Router project. Its benefits are that it fits on a single floppy, appears
to be more up to date than LRP, and is definitely easier to configure.
After playing with the modem jumpers and after shutting off the
motherboard COM ports, I was able to get Coyote Linux running, pinging the
local network, and dialing the ISP on demand. In short, it was acting
properly as a router for the other two Linux machines - yipee!
Our host had quite a spread for us at lunchtime consisting of broccoli
quiche, chips and hot sauce, soda, and more!
My thanks to Neel and Ryan (from Holy Cross) for coming to help out, and
to Warren (our host) for a great lunch and for asking for our help.
I expect that we'll be taking another trip to Lancaster in about a month
to install CUPS, perhaps SAMBA, configure two printers and a scanner,
enable full access from all machines to those printers, to enable a packet
filtering firewall on the 486, and to insure that everything else is in
proper working order.
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
What you might want todo is just grab everything; debs, rpms and tarballs.
That way, not matter what distribution we load, we'd be able to install.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lee Ludwig [mailto:davidl@WPI.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:40 PM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] next week's installfest
For next week's installfest, is anyone going to be burning multiple copies
of some particular distribution? If so, what? I was thinking of making
some CDs with Ximian Gnome on it.
--
David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of
davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.'
http://www.wpi.edu/~davidl | That's it." - Linus Torvalds
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For next week's installfest, is anyone going to be burning multiple copies
of some particular distribution? If so, what? I was thinking of making
some CDs with Ximian Gnome on it.
--
David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of
davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.'
http://www.wpi.edu/~davidl | That's it." - Linus Torvalds
HI gang,
As part of the Lancaster MA project, there is a 486 machine with 8 MB of
memory which we would like to make into a firewall. I'm seeking
recommendations on how best to do this. Are we memory limited, or can
this work, and if so, how?
Can we put at least a minimal installation of something on this machine,
or are we going to have to explore the single floppy firewall solutions
such as the Linux Router project?
Finally, is there somebody who would like to volunteer for Saturday 9/29
to explicitly help with solving this problem?
Thanks,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
Andy,
Like usual, I'll volunteer and I'll do the CD's for you.
Just let me know what distribution you want and I'll come up with a graphic
of some kind.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 PM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] WPI Install Fest
Hi Everybody,
We will be having an install fest at WPI on Thursday evening, October 4th,
from 6 PM to 10 PM in "the Discovery Classroom", aka Higgins Labs room
218. I am mainly aiming this at WPI students, but certainly anybody else
who wants to get Linux installed is most welcome to join us.
I don't know if I've seen this classroom...could somebody from WPI tell me
how many computers we could reasonably accomodate in this room? This is
just in case we get overwhelmed with folks requesting installations.
I am seeking volunteers to do installations as well as folks who wish
to get Linux installed fo the first time. I'll give preference to full
installs, but if there are some folks who need to have some piece of Linux
configured, we can do that on a space available basis.
As in the past, I would like to suggest a $10 donation for installees.
This will help to defray the cost of making CDs which you can take with
you after the install fest. If you have your own Linux CDs, we'll do our
best to get that version installed for you.
If you are interested in attending, either as an installer, installee, or
voyeur, please send me an e-mail.
Thanks!
Andy
--
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
_______________________________________________
Wlug mailing list
Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Hey folks!
After reading all those replies I took to crafting a message which answered
the questions posed to me and went step-by-step through the processes I had
done so far. After doing everything, lo-and-behold my NIC actually worked
and I was able to get online with my DSL connection. I guess I must've
mistyped something somewhere. So, it looks like it works ok now.
The *only* snag is that after I rebooted the machine, my settings don't
stay. Can anyone help me with that?!?
Thanks!
--Track
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