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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

Re: [Wlug] SCSI reset error

by Brad Noyes

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:09:56PM -0400, Chuck Homic wrote: > 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... now that i think about it, i had the same probablem. in order to fix it i turned the speed of the scsi bus down. You can give that a try, by going into the SCSI-Select utility (ctl-a on boot), and turn down the scsi bus speed. --brad

May 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Bryan Scaringe

Just one more thought: Files with goofy names might be indicative of a screwed-up file system. It may not be a bad idea to run fsck before you go deleting any of those strange files.

May 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Brad Noyes

Thanks everyone! All these ideas are great and i probably wouldn't have though of them on my own. Thanks again, --brad

May 25, 2002