Sad news...
by Andy Stewart
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Doug Waud passed away peacefully yesterday evening at his home,
with his family and relatives in attendance. Doug had been an active
member of WLUG for the last several years.
For those who don't get the Worcester Telegram, I thought I would
include information on funeral arrangements:
Calling hours Wednesday (tomorrow) from 7-9 PM and
Thursday (3/23/06) from 2-4 PM & 7-9 PM, at Britton's
Funeral Home, 648 Main Street, Shrewsbury, MA, 508-845-6226
The funeral will be this Friday (3/24/06) at 11:00 AM, at the
First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury, 19 Church Road
(on the common at the intersection of Main St. and Rt. 140)
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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12 years, 11 months
maxing out the cpu
by Mike Leo
2 meetings ago, someone was trying to push the cpu of Andy's homemade router to 100% using a
for/loop of some sort....can someone remind me of the syntax of that?
while true; do; done
or something similar?
thanks
12 years, 11 months
FreeBSD snd_emu10k1 issues
by TheLobster
Hey,
I currently have FreeBSD 6.1 installed. I have a sound blaster audiology 2
and in order to use it on previous linux and freebsd installs I needed to
load snd_emu10k1 into the kernel. When i run "kldload snd_emu10k1" as root,
the computer completely freezes up. Gnome doesn't respond, no keyboard
responce (Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+alt+F1) and everything seams to lockup.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Bob
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12 years, 11 months
REMINDER: Upcoming meeting Wed Mar 15 7:00 PM
by Andy Stewart
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HI Everybody,
Its that time again for a WLUG meeting!
At this month's meeting, WLUG member Frank Sweetser will be presenting
"Wireless Networking Security".
Frank will be doing a quick overview of some of the major security
related issues in setting up a wireless network, the major
vulnerabilities (WEP weaknesses in particular), and ways to close up the
holes. He will also include a brief demo of Back Track, a bootable linux
CD that includes numerous security related tools, and use it crack a WEP
key. Frank is a Network Engineer at WPI, where his duties include Linux
administration and the care and feeding of the campus wireless network.
I'll bring a book for the no cost raffle:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Manual
2nd Edition
ISBN: 0-13-188222-8
Published by Prentice Hall
After the meeting, we'll go out to the Tech Pizza restaurant to enjoy
pizza, soda, and conversation on a variety of topics (including Linux!).
See ya at the meeting!
Andy
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Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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12 years, 11 months
problems with smb export on external usb drive
by Jim Dibb
I had a drive with an ext3 filesystem in an old p2 running RH8 storing my
mp3 files. I moved the drive into a USB enclosure attached to a laptop
running FC4. The laptop mounted the fs on /media/media pretty much
automatically. The problem is I can't export the /media/media FS with samba
to mount on a windows host. I can export /media, and the xp box can see
/media/cdrecorder, but /media/media is invisible. I have the following in
various config files:
from mount:
automount(pid2427) on /net type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=2427,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/sda1 on /media/media type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,_netdev,user=jim)
in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /media/media ext3
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
ls:
[root@linuxlaptop /]# ls -al /media
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 5 21:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:14 cdrecorder
drwxrwxrwx 247 root root 8192 Mar 1 09:29 media
in smb.conf: ( I did have /media/media)
[media]
path = /media
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
valid users = jim
in /var/logs/samba/ (when path above was /media/media)
[2006/02/28 21:03:28, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(615)
'/media/media' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to
[media]
Since I have a copy of the files on my xp box now, I was thinking of
destroying the fs and recreating it, then putting all the data back. I just
find it very strange that with the above smb.conf, I can mount /media as
media on my xp box and I can see the cdrecorder directory but I can't see
the media directory.
Any advice on what might be wrong?
Thanks.
12 years, 11 months
Adding repositories?
by Bill Mills-Curran
I've added a new repository (or two) to my yum config, and I'm feeling
a bit exposed. I wonder what other WLUG members do about additional
repositories.
In an effort to support vlc, I had added the livna repository, and
when that stopped working (after recent fedora updates), I found that
switching from livna to dries helped. Now I notice that there are
quite a few packages from dries that will update fedora packages.
So, I'm feeling a bit worried. Does anyone have a sense of how much
these repositories should be trusted?
TIA,
Bill
12 years, 11 months
Bluetooth hardware recomendations
by Karl Hiramoto
I need a blue tooth interface for my PC, and wondering if anyone has any brands,
or hardware chip sets to recommend.
I will probably buy a USB or PCMCIA interface. Buying something USB though
would allow me to use it in both my desktop and laptop, where only my laptop has
PCMCIA.
Bluetooth devices i want to hook too, claims it is something like rs-232 serial
output over bluetooth, but i gota figure that out. After that i may try with a
digicam or mobile phone.
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12 years, 11 months
Help with Fedora Core3 -> Core4
by Ken Jones
Yesterday I transitioned from Core3 to Core4. My sound disappeared.
Core4 is shipped without the kernel source code.
I have a special sound driver for my Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live
EMU10k1X card. The driver is Open Sound System from
<http://www.opensound.com/>. It needs to be compiled with the kernel.
I sent the soundconfig.log to the Help Desk.
--------------Open Sound's Help Desk wrote----------------
Hi,
You don't have the kernel source RPM, otherwise OSS would not be
complaining:
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1833_FC4/source: No such file or
directory. Stop.
> make: [ossbuild] Error 2 (ignored)
> make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source SUBDIRS=/usr/lib/oss/kbuild
CC="gcc" modules
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1833_FC4/source: No such file or
directory. Stop.
Please install the kernel source RPM and then get the REGPARM version of
OSS.
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I downloaded and installed <kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.src.rpm>.
Since then I have been thrashing around without success. I would
appreciate an email from anyone who has a moment to help. It does not
seem appropriate to foist further details onto this whole list.
Ken Jones
12 years, 11 months
Re: Help with Fedora Core3 -> Core4
by Ken Jones
Got it!
Remember Open Sound System stopped working when I went from Core3 to
Core4? Now it works.
I had also upgraded the kernel. This was a problem because OSS needs to
compile with the kernel. I missed some of the modules needed for a
successful compilation.
The system would not work with ALSA. I think my sound card is unique
for some reason. ALSA needed to be disabled before OSS would work.
OSS help desk Dev Mazumdar was very helpful.
Thanks, you all, for being there.
Ken Jones
12 years, 11 months
