January 2005 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Wireless and FC3

by Mike Leo

Never mind! Its working!! --- Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a new Dell D400 with a Broadcom 4309 wireless > card and I have installed FC3 and ndiswrapper. I > have > installed the "correct" Windows .inf file and > everybody is happy. > > when I iwlist wlan0 scan, it lists all the WAP's I > can > see correctly. > > However, I cannot get an IP address via DHCP, and > assigning one staticaly does not work. When i > dhclient wlan0, it finds the WAP, and the DHCP > server, > but refuses to accept an IP. > > My guess is that the ndiswrapper "trick" isn't > working > for this driver. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks > Mike > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

Jan. 26, 2005

Websphere MQ Messaging

by Andrew Robert

Hi Everyone, If anyone is interested, I've been compiling some documentation on IBM WebSphere MQ Messaging for the Unix/Linux environment. You can find it on my web site located at http://shardservant.no- ip.info:8080 . -- Andrew Robert <arobert(a)townisp.com>

Jan. 25, 2005

Wireless and FC3

by Mike Leo

I have a new Dell D400 with a Broadcom 4309 wireless card and I have installed FC3 and ndiswrapper. I have installed the "correct" Windows .inf file and everybody is happy. when I iwlist wlan0 scan, it lists all the WAP's I can see correctly. However, I cannot get an IP address via DHCP, and assigning one staticaly does not work. When i dhclient wlan0, it finds the WAP, and the DHCP server, but refuses to accept an IP. My guess is that the ndiswrapper "trick" isn't working for this driver. Any thoughts? Thanks Mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Jan. 25, 2005

Re: [Wlug] samba printer config

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:31:12PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I'm floundering trying to get my fedora 3 machine to act as a print > server for an WinXP machine. The linux box is freshly built, and I > just moved my printer from my redhat 9 machine. > > What works: > > 1. Local printing. It's a USB printer, and it worked just fine from > the CUPS setup. > > What doesn't: > > 1. I can't "add printer" on the WinXP machine. > > 2. When I start the smb daemon, I get the following in the smbd log: > > [2005/01/22 18:14:51, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383) > nt_printing_init: error checking published printers: > WERR_ACCESS_DENIED > > This looks like the problem to me, but I'm not sure. When I try to > add the printer in WinXP, I get a popup "Windows cannot connect to the > printer. Operation could not be completed." > > So, I'm stuck. (And under pressure -- my wife can't print!) > > Any advice? > > Thanks, > Bill After trying "everything", including building an older version of samba, I discovered that I had left the "security = share" out of the config file. Just another case of fat-fingering the file. Bill

Jan. 24, 2005

Re: [Wlug] audio on new machine

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:49:32AM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote: > Well... it's not being utterly depreciated, it's being superseded with > "udev". Basically, the /dev directory has become dynamic. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html > > Explains it quite nicely. > > Tim. > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:01 -0500, Keith Wright wrote: > > > From: Bill Mills-Curran <bill(a)mills-curran.net> > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:50:22AM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote: > > > > > > > > You do realize that the /dev/ stuff is being progressively > > depreciated... > > > > Tim. > > > > > > Yeah, I've read about /dev going away, but I have no experience > > with > > > the replacement. > > > > > > BTW, you guys on WLUG are a tremendous resource. > > > > > > Bill > > > > Oh No! Don't let /dev go away! > > > > One of the first things I ever did with my first Linux system back in > > 1996 was accidentally delete /dev. The result was just horrible; > > I don't think I can take that again. > > > > Seriously, I haven't heard that /dev is deprecated. > > Who deprecates it? Where can I read about it going away? > > I assume the deprecator has a new plan well documented somewhere... > > > > -- Keith It turns out the solution was easy (Charles suggested it) -- upgrade. I can't find where the upgrade made the difference, but both my scanner and my cdrom behave now. I've got the right symlinks, too. Just a tip... Don't try to figure out the udev stuff in a hurry. It will make your head hurt. Bill

Jan. 24, 2005

RE: [Wlug] samba printer config

by Jared Greenwald

Not sure what version of samba you are running (I'm running 3.0.9-r1), but I almost exactly copied the config files from the samba howto for a small business network (chapter 4 or 5) and it worked like a champ on the first try. Then again, my file/print server is running Gentoo. Are you sure that your config files are correct? Do you have the permissions setup correctly (ie through a guest or something)? -Jared >From: Bill Mills-Curran <bill(a)mills-curran.net> >Reply-To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> >To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)wlug.org> >Subject: [Wlug] samba printer config >Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:31:12 -0500 > >I'm floundering trying to get my fedora 3 machine to act as a print >server for an WinXP machine. The linux box is freshly built, and I >just moved my printer from my redhat 9 machine. > >What works: > >1. Local printing. It's a USB printer, and it worked just fine from >the CUPS setup. > >What doesn't: > >1. I can't "add printer" on the WinXP machine. > >2. When I start the smb daemon, I get the following in the smbd log: > >[2005/01/22 18:14:51, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383) > nt_printing_init: error checking published printers: > WERR_ACCESS_DENIED > >This looks like the problem to me, but I'm not sure. When I try to >add the printer in WinXP, I get a popup "Windows cannot connect to the >printer. Operation could not be completed." > >So, I'm stuck. (And under pressure -- my wife can't print!) > >Any advice? > >Thanks, >Bill > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Jan. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] samba printer config

by Charles R. Anderson

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:52:04PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:31:12PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > 2. When I start the smb daemon, I get the following in the smbd log: > > > > [2005/01/22 18:14:51, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383) > > nt_printing_init: error checking published printers: > > WERR_ACCESS_DENIED > > When was the last up2date run? Things are moving so quickly these > days, that you may have encountered a bug that has already been fixed > in an update. > > cups has been updated 4 times since FC3 release. > samba has been updated 2 times since FC3 release. > selinux-policy-targeted has been updated 9 times since FC3 release. Looks like it hasn't been fixed yet: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139477

Jan. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] samba printer config

by Charles R. Anderson

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:31:12PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > 2. When I start the smb daemon, I get the following in the smbd log: > > [2005/01/22 18:14:51, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383) > nt_printing_init: error checking published printers: > WERR_ACCESS_DENIED When was the last up2date run? Things are moving so quickly these days, that you may have encountered a bug that has already been fixed in an update. cups has been updated 4 times since FC3 release. samba has been updated 2 times since FC3 release. selinux-policy-targeted has been updated 9 times since FC3 release.

Jan. 22, 2005

samba printer config

by Bill Mills-Curran

I'm floundering trying to get my fedora 3 machine to act as a print server for an WinXP machine. The linux box is freshly built, and I just moved my printer from my redhat 9 machine. What works: 1. Local printing. It's a USB printer, and it worked just fine from the CUPS setup. What doesn't: 1. I can't "add printer" on the WinXP machine. 2. When I start the smb daemon, I get the following in the smbd log: [2005/01/22 18:14:51, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383) nt_printing_init: error checking published printers: WERR_ACCESS_DENIED This looks like the problem to me, but I'm not sure. When I try to add the printer in WinXP, I get a popup "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed." So, I'm stuck. (And under pressure -- my wife can't print!) Any advice? Thanks, Bill

Jan. 22, 2005

Soundcard gone bad?

by Michael Long

Hi, I have a soundblaster pro sound card that has been working well for several years. Tonight with I started xmms to listen to some music I get a very distorted sound at a very low volume. To test whether the speakers my be the problem I unplugged the external speakers and plugged in a set of headphones directly into the card and get no sound out of the headphones. The last time I listened to music everything was working well. The machine has not been rebooted since the last time I used the sound system. Is there anything else I can do to determine if the soundcard has failed or if the problem lies elsewhere. Thanks, Mike

Jan. 22, 2005