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Re: [Wlug] Wireless

by Wesley Allen

I just picked one up as well (it's not here yet though), my searches seemed to say it was supported though....any ideas? Wes On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 11:16, Chuck Haines wrote: > I just bought a new Netgear Ma401 wireless card. I figured it was > pretty cheap and it seemed like it was supported under linux. Well > after doing some research I've found conflicting views. Some say its a > PrismII based card, some say its a Orinco card. I have no idea and I'm > new wireless with linux. My question is, does anyone have this card and > wants to point me in the right direction. Or can someone point me in > the right direction for wireless and linux in general. > > Thanks, > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | > | WPILA Lab Manager | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | > | GDC Webmaster | ICQ: 3707881 | > | http://www.wpila.org | http://gdc.wpi.edu | > ------------------------------------------------- > "Geek by nature, Linux by choice." > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

June 12, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Wireless

by Josh Huber

Chuck Haines <chaines(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > I just bought a new Netgear Ma401 wireless card. I figured it was > pretty cheap and it seemed like it was supported under linux. Well > after doing some research I've found conflicting views. Some say > its a PrismII based card, some say its a Orinco card. I have no > idea and I'm new wireless with linux. My question is, does anyone > have this card and wants to point me in the right direction. Or can > someone point me in the right direction for wireless and linux in > general. I'm pretty sure the Prisim II chipset is supported by the Orinoco driver. (and there's also a Prisim driver aparently, which I haven't tried yet) Is this a PCMCIA card? You'll need to enable support for this card in the kernel (if it isn't already). It's under the Network Device Support->Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)->Hermes chip 802.11b support (...) Enable that option, and the appropriate support option below it (PCI, PCMCIA, etc, depending on what kind of card you have) Of course, this doesn't sound good: Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy. You have been warned. This is from the help text for the Ma301 driver support option. Good luck, -- Josh Huber

June 12, 2002

Re: [Wlug] OSs with RPM

by Brad Noyes

I didn't think it was possible. But using source rpms is a greate idea, and may be a way around it. using rpm is a must (it's not my desision), so using .app packages would not work, at least for me. Thanks! --brad On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:16:27PM -0400, Nate Godin wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Brad Noyes wrote: > > Hi all, Does anyone know if there'a a way to build a single rpm that can > > be applied to multiple OSs? > > Hmm... I don't think this is possible with binary RPM's, but you could > distribute the source RPM, assuming the installees have the resources to > compile the app in question. > > The only OS I've ever personally encountered that does this is > NeXT/OpenSTEP, which has .app packages, which are actually just binaries, > libraries, pixmaps, and various other program resources stored in a > directory hierarchy. "Fat" .app's contained both i386 and m68k binaries. > It may be possible to use this format on other platforms... check out > GNUSTEP and Darwin. > > http://www.gnustep.org/ > http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ > > Nate > -- > > Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens > to you. > -- Aldous Huxley > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

June 12, 2002

Re: [Wlug] OSs with RPM

by Nate Godin

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Brad Noyes wrote: > Hi all, Does anyone know if there'a a way to build a single rpm that can > be applied to multiple OSs? Hmm... I don't think this is possible with binary RPM's, but you could distribute the source RPM, assuming the installees have the resources to compile the app in question. The only OS I've ever personally encountered that does this is NeXT/OpenSTEP, which has .app packages, which are actually just binaries, libraries, pixmaps, and various other program resources stored in a directory hierarchy. "Fat" .app's contained both i386 and m68k binaries. It may be possible to use this format on other platforms... check out GNUSTEP and Darwin. http://www.gnustep.org/ http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ Nate -- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley

June 12, 2002

Re: [Wlug] OSs with RPM

by Brad Noyes

The porting part is all taken care of, thankfully. Although one of the platforms i'm working with is cygwin. rpm already uses uname to determine the OS. But if you build a package on one system, say Linux and i try installing it on Cygwin, i get the error the the package was build for a different OS. I want to build a rpm package simaliar to how noarch rpms, but instead of arch independent i want it to be OS independent. There are tags for the spec file '%ifos ... %endif', but that's only for the build machine. I also noticed that in the system rpmrc file (/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc), that all archs are compatable to 'noarch' like so arch_compat: alpha: axp noarch but i don't see a common name that all OSs are compatable with. i don't think this is possible but i thought i'd ask anyway. Thanks, --brad On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:15:53AM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: > I would think the first thing would be porting RPM to those multiple OS's. > > >From there it would be a matter of creating a pre script that could use some > reliable (like uname or something) mechanism to determine what the OS is and > what needs to be done. > > Are you talking strictly unixish Os's or do you want to see RPM on MS filth? > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Noyes [mailto:maitre@ccs.neu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:10 AM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] OSs with RPM > > > Hi all, > Does anyone know if there'a a way to build a single rpm that can be applied > to > multiple OSs? > > Thanks, > --brad > _______________________________________________ > 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

June 12, 2002

Wireless

by Chuck Haines

I just bought a new Netgear Ma401 wireless card. I figured it was pretty cheap and it seemed like it was supported under linux. Well after doing some research I've found conflicting views. Some say its a PrismII based card, some say its a Orinco card. I have no idea and I'm new wireless with linux. My question is, does anyone have this card and wants to point me in the right direction. Or can someone point me in the right direction for wireless and linux in general. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | WPILA Lab Manager | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | GDC Webmaster | ICQ: 3707881 | | http://www.wpila.org | http://gdc.wpi.edu | ------------------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice."

June 12, 2002

RE: [Wlug] OSs with RPM

by Keller, Tim

I would think the first thing would be porting RPM to those multiple OS's.

June 12, 2002

OSs with RPM

by Brad Noyes

Hi all, Does anyone know if there'a a way to build a single rpm that can be applied to multiple OSs? Thanks, --brad

June 12, 2002

Explicit Congestion Notification

by Charles R. Anderson

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:49:04AM -0400, Bill Smith wrote: wsmith> Interesting. I couldn't get to the domain. This is really irritating wsmith> when EVERYONE refers to this one document. 8\ Are you using Linux 2.4? Do you have trouble reaching www.kernel.org too? See this document: http://www.gtf.org/garzik/ecn/ In Linux 2.4, ECN is enabled and disabled with a sysctl called tcp_ecn which is documented in: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt You can find out if your system is using ECN: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn If a 1 shows up there, you are using ECN and may be unable to reach sites which incorrectly filter packets that use the ECN bits. You can try turning ECN support off: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn However, if the remote site is using ECN and there is a broken firewall between you and them, you may be out of luck. Are you behind a firewall? If so, you might want to check its configuration if possible. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

June 12, 2002

Re: [Wlug] meeting topic brainstorm

by Bill Smith

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:53:48 -0400 "Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: CRA> I'd personally love to see a talk on LDAPv3 w/KerberosV done on CRA> Linux. Bonus points if someone has gotten this to interoperate CRA> with Active Directory(which is basically just that). Here's the CRA> HOWTO: CRA> CRA> http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html Interesting. I couldn't get to the domain. This is really irritating when EVERYONE refers to this one document. 8\ there's another LDAP HOWTO on Linux.org .... :) the link for THAT is http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/LDAP-HOWTO.html ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com How is it that a building burns up as it burns down? * TAG! v3.0 *

June 12, 2002