March 2006 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

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. ---------------------end snip---------------------------------------- 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

March 4, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: NO meeting THURSDAY

by kwright＠keithdiane.us

> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Upcoming WLUG meeting THURSDAY 7:00 PM > From: Bill Smith, Frank Moody, Ross Minkov, Andy Stewart It's time to change the subject line. The meeting was two weeks ago. When I saw the last message, I started to make plans to go to WPI tomorrow, but further investigation shows that people have been replying to Andy's message without changing the subject line, even though it is now totally wrong in two different ways--- It's a false statement and not the topic of the message. -- Keith

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Bluetooth hardware recomendations

by Jamie Guinan

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > 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. I've used a Belkin F8T001 v2.11 successfully, and transferred images from a Concord GoWireless camera, and a friend's mobile phone. <rant> I think it was a Motorola V557 (or similar), but it was on Cingular service, which doesn't disable BlueTooth OBEX features, unlike certain other services, http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/v710.html </rant> I also have an IOGear dongle that I use with a mouse in my living room setup, http://www.buy.com/prod/IOGear_Bluetooth_1_2_USB_Adapter_CL_2_Range_66FT_Fr… http://www.buy.com/prod/Kensington_PilotMouse_Mini_Bluetooth_72414/q/loc/10… I'm prety sure you can run any protocol (HID, serial, etc.) over the dongle. -Jamie

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle solved

by Jared Greenwald

I find that for doing multiple edits on a single line on a single pass its best to use awk. -Jared On 3/1/06, douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com <douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Jared and Frank for your quick responses. > > The solution, it turns out, had nothing to do with RE's, but rather with > input lines and files. > > I'm dealing with multi-line, comma-separated-value records, using Perl > programs to convert them to single line records, change bare carriage-return > characters to newline characters and eventually remove extraneous trailing > commas, e.g. ...,"Moe, Larry, Curly, ",... (the comma and space after > "Curly" is extraneous). I guess you can only do so much in one pass through > an input file. > > The solution was to write two Perl programs, and use a two-stage process > as in: > > cat multi-line-input-records | makethemsinglelines.pl | > removetrailingcommas.pl > greatlookingfile.out > > Thanks again, > Doug > > > > > *"Frank Sweetser" <fs(a)WPI.EDU>* > Sent by: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org > > 03/01/2006 09:40 AM Please respond to > "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > > To > "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> cc > > Subject > Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:30:26AM -0500, douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.comwrote: > > The obvious s/, "/"/g doesn't work, nor does escaping the > > double-quotes, as in s/, \"/\"/g > > Try > > $target =~ s/,\s\"/\"/g; > > -- > Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution > that > WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL > Mencken > GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Upcoming WLUG meeting THURSDAY 7:00 PM

by Bill Smith

Le Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:52:58 -0500 Frank Moody <fmoody-ug-wlug(a)moodman.org> a écrit: > Heh, not having management to approve paying for LW, I've > opted to get the free exhibits pass. It includes the feature > presentations and keynotes, so it should be worth the commute on the > T.... That's probably the approach I'll be taking. :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com

March 1, 2006

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. -- --- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto GTalk=karl.hiramoto(a)gmail.com ------

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle. Thanks for ascii man page

by douglas.r.aker＠verizon.com

Thanks Andre. You know, last night I was looking for a good table showing ascii codes. That ascii man page is a nice tip. Thanks again, Doug "Andre Lehovich" <andrel(a)yahoo.com> Sent by: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org 03/01/2006 10:49 AM Please respond to "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> To "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> cc Subject Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle > I've been spending far too much time trying to accomplish a (seemingly) > simple thing: use a Perl substitution operation to replace, a comma > followed by a space followed by a single double-quote with a single > double-quote. Octal escapes are one way: perl -pe 's/, \042/\042/g' See the ASCII(7) man page for octal and hex codes. --Andre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle

by Theo Van Dinter

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:30:26AM -0500, douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com wrote: > I've been spending far too much time trying to accomplish a (seemingly) > simple thing: use a Perl substitution operation to replace, a comma > followed by a space followed by a single double-quote with a single > double-quote. Ok. > The obvious s/, "/"/g doesn't work, nor does escaping the > double-quotes, as in s/, \"/\"/g There's no reason to escape the double-quote, it has no special meaning in perl RE (same with the comma, the space, etc). The first version should work, assuming you're doing the substitution on $_. ie: $ perl -e '$_=q/Foo, "Bar", "Baz"/; s/, "/"/g; print "$_\n"' Foo"Bar""Baz" If it's not something simple like operating on the wrong variable or $_ not containing the data you expect it to, a possible more obscure issue that I've run into problems with is related to a bug in perl (typically 5.8.0) where the double-quote isn't properly dealt with sometimes. If this is the case, the solution I've used is to tell perl to not do Unicode (5.8.0 has a fairly buggy Unicode implementation) by putting "use bytes" at the top of the script. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "It's not that we're afraid ... Far from it ... It's just that we have this thing about death ... it's not us." - Space Balls

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle

by Andre Lehovich

> I've been spending far too much time trying to accomplish a (seemingly) > simple thing: use a Perl substitution operation to replace, a comma > followed by a space followed by a single double-quote with a single > double-quote. Octal escapes are one way: perl -pe 's/, \042/\042/g' See the ASCII(7) man page for octal and hex codes. --Andre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

March 1, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle solved

by douglas.r.aker＠verizon.com

Thanks Jared and Frank for your quick responses. The solution, it turns out, had nothing to do with RE's, but rather with input lines and files. I'm dealing with multi-line, comma-separated-value records, using Perl programs to convert them to single line records, change bare carriage-return characters to newline characters and eventually remove extraneous trailing commas, e.g. ...,"Moe, Larry, Curly, ",... (the comma and space after "Curly" is extraneous). I guess you can only do so much in one pass through an input file. The solution was to write two Perl programs, and use a two-stage process as in: cat multi-line-input-records | makethemsinglelines.pl | removetrailingcommas.pl > greatlookingfile.out Thanks again, Doug "Frank Sweetser" <fs(a)WPI.EDU> Sent by: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org 03/01/2006 09:40 AM Please respond to "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> To "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> cc Subject Re: [Wlug] Perl puzzle On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:30:26AM -0500, douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com wrote: > The obvious s/, "/"/g doesn't work, nor does escaping the > double-quotes, as in s/, \"/\"/g Try $target =~ s/,\s\"/\"/g; -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 1, 2006