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Reminder: WLUG meeting July 17th (WEDNESDAY)
by Andy Stewart 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

HI everybody, This month's WLUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 17th in Kinnicutt Hall on the WPI campus at 7:00 PM. The topic will be "Wireless Networking" and I'm pretty sure we have a speaker. If you have a laptop with a wireless connection, bring it along. I'll bring my new Linksys access point (WAP11) and my laptop. Bring whatever you think will make this an interesting meeting! After the meeting, we'll make a trip to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. I hope to see you there! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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interesting problem
by Wesley Allen 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

Shortly after I started using a wireless lan, I began having problems with connecting to my local ip addresses; I'm not sure what's causing it. Internet works FINE, and yet, a couple of minutes after I boot my machine I can't connect to anything in the 192.168 range! It doesn't matter the protocol, smb, http, etc. no connections at all. What's stranger is that my win4lin install, which uses vnet, has no problems at all. What in the world is going on here? Any thoughts? Wes

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Lexmark z22 printing
by Bill Smith 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Printing fun... Some of you might already know what I have to say, but I wanted to get this out for those that are in my boat... I am running a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop with Red Hat 7.3 installed. I mentioned a few months back (almost a year ago, now) that I had gotten my Lexmark z22 to print with Red Hat 7.1. One thing that I hate about upgrading RH versions is that it invariably forces me to re-learn things, since Red Hat can't seem to leave current configurations alone. 8\ ANYWAY, for a bunch of Stupid Reasons, I decided that I wanted to make use of the USB port on my z22 instead of the parallel port. Imagine, if you will, the fun I had in trying to get a printer that is barely supported by Linux to be recognized on the USB interface... I went to Lexmark's website and got the Linux drivers. Wouldn't you know it, though, but the drivers make no effort whatsoever to support the USB interface on the printer! After a bit of poking around, I realized that there was a KDE Control Panel! I use Window Maker by default and I was annoyed that control-panel was removed. I went through there and LO! the Lexmark z22 is there, right on the USB interface! 8) Granted, there are a couple snags. It looks like I can print multiple text-only documents with no problem, but if I print a Postscript file, then I have to turn the printer off then turn it on again. Compared to having no printer at all (or worse-yet, having to print from WinDOZE!), I see this as only a minor inconvenience. I'm thinking that this rig is using the foomatic configuration scripts, which may be unacceptable to some. I base this thought on the fact that the driver in use is actually for the Lexmark 3200 series, which (according to the .xml file) may print "a bit too rich"... <shrug> It looks okay for the black text that I'm printing with right now. I just wanted to share what I came across. Any corrections/suggestions are appreciated. (Yes, I went to http://www.linuxprinting.org ...) Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars." -- Jeff Green, on the difference between men and women * TAG! v3.0 *

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Konqueror enhanced browsing
by Andy Stewart 14 Jul '02

14 Jul '02

Hi all, I've noticed in Konqueror that one can type things like: info: ...in the URL field and Konqueror will display info pages. There are others, such as: smb: lan: ftp: man: http: camera: The aforementioned are not listed in the Konqueror enhanced browsing configuration window, and I would guess that they are Konqueror defaults. Is there a definitive list of these? I'm wondering what features I might be missing that I'd like to use! Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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09 Jul '02

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Wireless LANs
by Andy Stewart 09 Jul '02

09 Jul '02

HI everybody, Now that I have a laptop, I'm interested in a Wireless LAN for it. I'm wondering if this is a topic of general interest that somebody might like to present at our next meeting. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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tmpfs
by Bill Mills-Curran 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

When researching the Reiserfs a while back, I discovered the tmpfs file system and the --bind option to mount. Both of these are nice tools to have around. --bind has made it into the mount man page, but the tmpfs is not documented in the man pages anywhere I can think to look. Does anyone know of a reason that it should not be used? I'm thinking of using it for some locking files and pid stamps -- all stuff that should not persist across a reboot. TIA, Bill

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CUPS + Samba + Win2000
by Michael Frysinger 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

problem: print jobs sent to cups via samba from windows sit in print queue and never get processed printer: HP OfficeJet 600 set up cups + hpijs drivers. going through localhost:631 i set up the printer. had cups print out a test page ... looked good. set up samba ... samba file sharing/access/etc... works. added printer support to samba (see bottom for smb.conf). was able to add printer on windows2000 machine. viewed the properties of the printer, all of that stuff. went to print test page, no error came back. goto localhost:631 and i see: ID Name User Size State Control HP_OfficeJet_Series_600-2 smbprn.000004.mITl7Y root 313k processing since Sun Jun 30 02:53:03 2002 Hold Job Cancel Job basically it sits there forever (by forever i mean 24+hrs) and never gets printed. any ideas ? k thx -mike cups' printer.conf <DefaultPrinter HP_OfficeJet_Series_600> Info HP OfficeJet 600 Location Home DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> smb.conf [global] preferred master = True domain master = False wins support = yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes guest account = root netbios name = Home workgroup = WH0RD.ORG server string = home.wh0rd.org Samba %v # load printers = yes printcap name = lpstat printing = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers guest ok = yes browseable = yes read only = yes write list = root

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Help with Audio on Linux
by Prakash Purushotham 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Gurus I have a P-IV with AC97 on i810 (AvanceLogic ALC200/200P). I am unable to get FullDuplex audio working. I have installed the RC2 release of ALSA drivers but still, mic and speakers don't work together. I am pretty sure I am missing something in the configs. I have not been able to get any leads from Google. (Rh7.2, kernel 2.4.9-31, alsa-drivers 0.9rc2) TIA Best regards Prakash Purushotham

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Poster policy changed
by Frank Sweetser 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Since it seemed pretty much unanimous (at least among those who spoke up) the WLUG list should now only accepts submissions from subscribed members. If anyone has any problems, feel free to contact me. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy |

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