May 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] USB Driver: Where to start?

by Brian J. Conway

> Near as I can figure, there are no drivers for this fool thing for > Linux. > > IF I were to attack the problem, where should I start? I've noticed in > the logs that the system sees it when it is connected and disconnected, > so I suppose that's a Good Thing, but I don't know where to go from > there. Not sure on that one, but I could point you to the Connectix/Logitech QuickCam VC driver page: http://digilander.iol.it/demarchidaniele/qcamvc/quickcam-vc.html . Apparently the driver (thus far) was entirely reverse engineered with no help from Logitech, it might be a good place to start looking for info debugging what's coming across the USB cable and running with it. Brian J. Conway bconway(a)wpi.edu "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." - Albert Einstein

May 30, 2002

Re: [Wlug] FORSALE: DEC 3000 model 900

by stoffel＠lucent.com

Just a quick note to those who are interested, the DEC 3000/900 is a deskside unit, and it's got six TurboChannel slots in it. It will be hard to find any expansion cards that will work with Linux. But it will handle a bunch of internal SCSI 50 pin disks and they're pretty solid boxes. I'd be interested myself, but my wife would kill me. :] John

May 29, 2002

FORSALE: DEC 3000 model 900

by Phillip G Deneault

Full size DEC 3000 model 900 275mhz Alpha 128 megs of RAM 7 internal drive bays 50-pin SCSI, 2 bus chains 1 4 gig hard drive, 1 dual speed caddy CD-ROM built in ethernet RGB video card w/21 inch RGB monitor cables, mice, keyboards, etc Works well, provided as is...$300 obo I run Tru64 on it and I am not sure if Linux will run on it. Any questions e-mail me Phil -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phil Deneault "We work in the dark, We do what we can, deneault(a)wpi.edu We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, WPI NetOps and our passion is our task. The rest is the OpenVMS Guy maddness of art." - Henry James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

May 29, 2002

Another auction

by Theo Van Dinter

This looks like it's got some good stuff in it. Anyone need an E10k? ;) http://www.dovebid.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?auctionID=1141 -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first." - Arno Schaefer's .sig

May 29, 2002

USB Driver: Where to start?

by Bill Smith

Folks, I've got this idiot little USB camera that I got as part of a promotion. (Specifically, it's a QuickVideo weeCam USB from Alaris that I got a couple years back from Earthlink.) Near as I can figure, there are no drivers for this fool thing for Linux. IF I were to attack the problem, where should I start? I've noticed in the logs that the system sees it when it is connected and disconnected, so I suppose that's a Good Thing, but I don't know where to go from there. Bear in mind that I've never had to write anything like this before, so I'll be starting with a clean slate, as it were... 8\ Any assistance would be appreciated. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Wherever you go, there you are. * TAG! v3.0 *

May 29, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Sendmail

by Joe Riopel

It's mail and sendmail doing it. I solved this by simply switching to postfix :) -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Homic Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 1:25 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Sendmail On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Joe Riopel wrote: > I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, > except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me > "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied > queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission > denied" Who is being denied permission? 'mail' or 'sendmail'? I guess if it's queueing (can you have that many vowels together?) it must be sendmail. I don't use sendmail, but I think it's odd that it's using the current directory, and not a full path (as daemons often like to do). I guess I should just defer to someone who knows about sendmail. You could also try calling sendmail directly, instead of using mail, and see if that behaves differently. I always do that in scripts anyway... seems to cut out the middle-man. -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 27, 2002

RE: [Wlug] D-Link Fast ethernet adapter

by Joe Riopel

Thanks for the help, I got it working with the link I received earlier. I just added the info for my card in "/etc/pcmcia/config" and restart "cardmgr" service. After that, I did "ifup eth0" and it worked fine. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Bill Smith Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 2:05 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] D-Link Fast ethernet adapter On Thu, 23 May 2002 22:47:33 -0400 Joe Riopel <joe(a)crankhouse.com> wrote: JR> I got mdk 7.2 installed on a Toshiba Satellite, everything works JR> great except the networking =[ I have a D-Link Fast Ethernet PCMCIA JR> adapter. Model no: DFE-670TXD. I can't seem to get Linuux to JR> recognize it :( JR> JR> Has anyone got one of these successfully working?? If so please let JR> me know how. i've got a LinkSys Cardbus PCMCIA card, so maybe this is comparing apples and oranges... have you tried loading a tulip driver? that's how i got my card working. +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | William Smith wsmith at chezsmith dot com | | Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Can I trade this job for what's behind door number one? | | * TAG! v2.2 * | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 27, 2002

Re: [Wlug] D-Link Fast ethernet adapter

by Bill Smith

On Thu, 23 May 2002 22:47:33 -0400 Joe Riopel <joe(a)crankhouse.com> wrote: JR> I got mdk 7.2 installed on a Toshiba Satellite, everything works JR> great except the networking =[ I have a D-Link Fast Ethernet PCMCIA JR> adapter. Model no: DFE-670TXD. I can't seem to get Linuux to JR> recognize it :( JR> JR> Has anyone got one of these successfully working?? If so please let JR> me know how. i've got a LinkSys Cardbus PCMCIA card, so maybe this is comparing apples and oranges... have you tried loading a tulip driver? that's how i got my card working. +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | William Smith wsmith at chezsmith dot com | | Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Can I trade this job for what's behind door number one? | | * TAG! v2.2 * | +--------------------------------------------------------------+

May 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Sendmail

by Chuck Homic

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Joe Riopel wrote: > I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, > except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me > "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied > queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission > denied" Who is being denied permission? 'mail' or 'sendmail'? I guess if it's queueing (can you have that many vowels together?) it must be sendmail. I don't use sendmail, but I think it's odd that it's using the current directory, and not a full path (as daemons often like to do). I guess I should just defer to someone who knows about sendmail. You could also try calling sendmail directly, instead of using mail, and see if that behaves differently. I always do that in scripts anyway... seems to cut out the middle-man. -Chuck

May 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] SCSI reset error

by Chuck Homic

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:33:09AM -0400, Keith Wright wrote: > That looks a lot like the messages I got from a drive that was > about to die. In my case, timeouts got more and more frequent, > then the drive started making rattling-grinding sounds Hm... now that you mention it... grinding... > Save your files! No problem, I'm just using it to cache a bunch of MP3 CD's, so I don't have to swap discs, so I can let it burn. > > and a 4GB Western Digital Enterprise that someone > > told me was dead. Heh... okay that sounds pretty bad. > > Reports of its death may have been premature, but don't > count on a long reprieve. After it is backed up you can > play with terminators and configurations. I figure the level of failure it's reached so far is enough to confound a Windows machine. (I don't know, does Windows throw around SCSI bus resets when things go awry?) But I'll have to dig up my bucket o' SCSI crap and see if I can't try out a few terminators, or look up the drive on the web site and see if it's got any termination jumpers or whatnot. Thanks. -Chuck

May 26, 2002