Re: [techtalk] What exactly does this mean?
Hello All, Thanks Herald this is exactly what was missing. Everything is working fine now. My hat is off to you. Phil At 14:19 18/10/00 +0200, Harald Welte wrote: >On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:58:52AM -0400, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running RH7 with a PCMCIA dual Modem/lan card. I would like to setup > > dial out but I keep getting the error as anotated in the attached > > file. Could someone please help me out? I would like to have the > existing > >Oct 17 04:41:33 laptop pppd[2167]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 >Oct 17 04:41:33 laptop pppd[2167]: Using interface ppp3 >Oct 17 04:41:33 laptop pppd[2167]: Connect: ppp3 <--> /dev/ttyS1 >Oct 17 04:41:37 laptop pppd[2167]: Remote message: Login Succeeded >Oct 17 04:41:40 laptop pppd[2167]: Peer is not authorized to use remote >address >209.112.154.1 > >You requested the remote end of the connection to use a partucular >remote address. If you are dialing to an ISP, you should probably try >the to include the following options in the apropriate ppp-options file: > >ipcp-accept-local >icpc-accept-remote > > > ethernet interface active as well as the dial up link as well as I would > > like to use IPchains to get out. > >there shouldn't be any difference between a normal setup with a separete >ethernet card and the combo-card. > > > Thanks, > > Phil > > >-- >Live long and prosper >- Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.gnumonks.org > >GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL$ P+++ L$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M- >V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ DI? !D G+ e* h+ r% y+(*) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Mr. stinky face icon in my /home/guest folder
Started up Gnome this AM. Contents of /home/guest folder include an icon (Mr. Stinky face) with a label of 'core.' Please advise. Barbara ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Mr. stinky face icon in my /home/guest folder
Hi Barbara, A core file is simply the left over of a crashed program, or a program that has terminated unexpectedly. If Mr. Stinky Face offends you, you can safely rm the guy and nothing bad will happen. I would suspect what happened was you had something running that you didn't exit before you exited your desktop which could have produced this file. Regards, Phil At 10:28 18/10/00 -0400, m20bi wrote: >Started up Gnome this AM. Contents of /home/guest folder include an icon >(Mr. Stinky face) with a label of 'core.' Please advise. Barbara > > >___ >techtalk mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] laptop on linux
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:44:38AM -0700 or thereabouts, Anmol Khirbat wrote: > I'm thinking about buying a laptop for running linux. I've been surfing > the net and researching for three days now but I am as confused as ever. I assume you have already found the Linux on Laptops page at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ . It is excellent. > I would appreciate it very much if you could share your linux+laptop > experinces with me. Try as many out in advance as possible :) Laptops are expensive. You don't want to fall in love with something because it's purple (Vaios, yay!) and discover you can't type on it. Borrow friends' and try to edit a couple of files on them. See whether your hand keeps brushing the touchpad for the mouse or you keep knocking the little mouse nipple thing. Etc. Find out about the manufacturer in advance. I have a (purple, yay :)) Vaio from Sony and it's only after getting it I found how irritating Sony are about docs, specs, and assistance (No, no and no). I wish I hadn't contributed to their coffers now, even if the purple is cute. I will say now that they suck about this, and there are other and better vendors around. I have a Sony PCG-SR1K (which in the US is a "5K", not a "1K") which came with a CD drive. I gather if you buy the CD drive separately, it is like the USB floppy drive you can get: expensive. Single PCMICA slot which takes either the CD or an ethernet card: but those cards you can get to connect your digital cameras up via that slot do -not all fit- and I had a nightmare experience when one of them stuck and attempts to release it released instead the keyboard. You can imagine my reaction. Lovely. It has the RH 7.0 beta on it (must upgrade :)) and it works fine. Neomagic video (you want "NM2200" in the XF86Config) which is happy with XFree86: having that rather than proprietary X was important to me. 1024x768 resolution: very clear and sharp. Touchpad with two 'buttons' for the mouse: tapping the touchpad is assumed to be button 1 (so when you remap for left-handers instead of a "left-button" you get a "right button" (button 3) which is not generally what you want. Grr!). I wanted the third button for X so I got a trackball and plugged it into the slot just besides the one for the "memory stick" (which latter reports itself as "mass storage" and that's as far as you get cos Sony won't say anything useful, thank you Sony). Works fine. Sound: either it doesn't work out of the box, or I screwed up. I'm not sure because I don't really care about sound. There may be non-free drivers for it. I am not sure. My husband is constantly stealing the thing to try stuff out on it so it may yet work. Some people have problems with the combination of Vaios, something (USB support?) and suspend breaking. I've had a couple of crashes when attempting to resume but that may well have been the kernels my dearly-beloved was putting on it at the time. Hasn't happened for ages now. Issues installing: I found everything had been met and solved by people who'd written their adventures up already for the Laptops page. Things like booting with "linux ide1=0x180,0x360" mean the Vaio doesn't "lose" the CD half-way through the Linux install process, which happened when trying to install both Debian and RH until I knew about this handy line noise to type at the boot prompt. Things I changed: not a lot. NM2200 in the XF86Config. Framebuffer support: very useful when you do a lot of editing and want to see more than 25 lines at one time at the console. I think I shall put that on all my machines. I like it: it means I don't need to start X just to get really large numbers of lines visible on the screen at once. I have had a lot of people tell me useful things: generally, there is a perception that Vaios are not remotely robust. I can believe that after the keyboard popped out and the camera doodah remained stuck. Several people specifically cautioned me about their being flimsy with tales of their own experience. I've not had the battery run out after only an hour, but I typically use it for reading and editing stuff and for jade, so I don't need X for all of that and I run it in console mode and it's fine that way. I have heard the batteries lose their charge over time, and almost all the Vaio owners I know have bought extra batteries: generally the great big "four times the charge!" sort. As well as the memory stick thing, here's also a "JogDial", which Andrew Tridgell is taking an interest in because his Vaio has one. In Windows, this navigates a little popup menu. In Linux, it does... well. Nothing. Yet. Not sure how much that helps, but I hope it does! Telsa ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] What exactly does this mean?
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:58:52AM -0400, Phil Savoie wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running RH7 with a PCMCIA dual Modem/lan card. I would like to setup > dial out but I keep getting the error as anotated in the attached > file. Could someone please help me out? I would like to have the existing Oct 17 04:41:33 laptop pppd[2167]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Oct 17 04:41:33 laptop pppd[2167]: Using interface ppp3 Oct 17 04:41:33 laptop pppd[2167]: Connect: ppp3 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Oct 17 04:41:37 laptop pppd[2167]: Remote message: Login Succeeded Oct 17 04:41:40 laptop pppd[2167]: Peer is not authorized to use remote address 209.112.154.1 You requested the remote end of the connection to use a partucular remote address. If you are dialing to an ISP, you should probably try the to include the following options in the apropriate ppp-options file: ipcp-accept-local icpc-accept-remote > ethernet interface active as well as the dial up link as well as I would > like to use IPchains to get out. there shouldn't be any difference between a normal setup with a separete ethernet card and the combo-card. > Thanks, > Phil -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.gnumonks.org GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL$ P+++ L$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ DI? !D G+ e* h+ r% y+(*) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] laptop on linux
I work for Prima Publishing. This year I produced a book entitled "Linux for Your Laptop." ISBN 0-7615-2816-4. The author is Bill Ball who also wrote Red Hat Unleashed among other books. I'm not trying to push books, just trying to be helpful. Lynette Quinn -Original Message- From: Telsa Gwynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:23 AM To: techtalk Subject: Re: [techtalk] laptop on linux On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:44:38AM -0700 or thereabouts, Anmol Khirbat wrote: > I'm thinking about buying a laptop for running linux. I've been surfing > the net and researching for three days now but I am as confused as ever. I assume you have already found the Linux on Laptops page at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ . It is excellent. > I would appreciate it very much if you could share your linux+laptop > experinces with me. Try as many out in advance as possible :) Laptops are expensive. You don't want to fall in love with something because it's purple (Vaios, yay!) and discover you can't type on it. Borrow friends' and try to edit a couple of files on them. See whether your hand keeps brushing the touchpad for the mouse or you keep knocking the little mouse nipple thing. Etc. Find out about the manufacturer in advance. I have a (purple, yay :)) Vaio from Sony and it's only after getting it I found how irritating Sony are about docs, specs, and assistance (No, no and no). I wish I hadn't contributed to their coffers now, even if the purple is cute. I will say now that they suck about this, and there are other and better vendors around. I have a Sony PCG-SR1K (which in the US is a "5K", not a "1K") which came with a CD drive. I gather if you buy the CD drive separately, it is like the USB floppy drive you can get: expensive. Single PCMICA slot which takes either the CD or an ethernet card: but those cards you can get to connect your digital cameras up via that slot do -not all fit- and I had a nightmare experience when one of them stuck and attempts to release it released instead the keyboard. You can imagine my reaction. Lovely. It has the RH 7.0 beta on it (must upgrade :)) and it works fine. Neomagic video (you want "NM2200" in the XF86Config) which is happy with XFree86: having that rather than proprietary X was important to me. 1024x768 resolution: very clear and sharp. Touchpad with two 'buttons' for the mouse: tapping the touchpad is assumed to be button 1 (so when you remap for left-handers instead of a "left-button" you get a "right button" (button 3) which is not generally what you want. Grr!). I wanted the third button for X so I got a trackball and plugged it into the slot just besides the one for the "memory stick" (which latter reports itself as "mass storage" and that's as far as you get cos Sony won't say anything useful, thank you Sony). Works fine. Sound: either it doesn't work out of the box, or I screwed up. I'm not sure because I don't really care about sound. There may be non-free drivers for it. I am not sure. My husband is constantly stealing the thing to try stuff out on it so it may yet work. Some people have problems with the combination of Vaios, something (USB support?) and suspend breaking. I've had a couple of crashes when attempting to resume but that may well have been the kernels my dearly-beloved was putting on it at the time. Hasn't happened for ages now. Issues installing: I found everything had been met and solved by people who'd written their adventures up already for the Laptops page. Things like booting with "linux ide1=0x180,0x360" mean the Vaio doesn't "lose" the CD half-way through the Linux install process, which happened when trying to install both Debian and RH until I knew about this handy line noise to type at the boot prompt. Things I changed: not a lot. NM2200 in the XF86Config. Framebuffer support: very useful when you do a lot of editing and want to see more than 25 lines at one time at the console. I think I shall put that on all my machines. I like it: it means I don't need to start X just to get really large numbers of lines visible on the screen at once. I have had a lot of people tell me useful things: generally, there is a perception that Vaios are not remotely robust. I can believe that after the keyboard popped out and the camera doodah remained stuck. Several people specifically cautioned me about their being flimsy with tales of their own experience. I've not had the battery run out after only an hour, but I typically use it for reading and editing stuff and for jade, so I don't need X for all of that and I run it in console mode and it's fine that way. I have heard the batteries lose their charge over time, and almost all the Vaio owners I know have bought extra batteries: generally the great big "four times the charge!" sort. As well as the memory stick thing, here's also a "JogDial", which Andrew Tridgell is taking an interest in because his Vaio has one.
Re: [techtalk] laptop on linux
My Umax Actionbook has run Debian, NetBSD and now FreeBSD happily. Additionally I have a Fuji Lifebook 635 running Debian that has been problem free. (no small feat considering the cd-rom and floppy live in the docking station) And to round out my own *nix laptop experiences I'll give a hearty 'me too' to the pro-Dell Inspirion and Latitude reccomendations. Both of these lived on my desk at one point and have run Red Hat with no additional hacking. Regarding my UMAX Action Book, it was a lot of machine for the price, but the display is only 800x600 and their tech support is really, really lacking. My Lifebook was a freebee, i haven't bothered to set up X-windows on it. Weighing in at around at a petite 3.5 lbs with battery I 'schlep' it with me practically everywhere and it's hanging in quite nicely. good luck! -jen x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Voice chat for Linux
Hi, Are there any voice chat programs for linux? Thanks, Davida
Re: [techtalk] Voice chat for Linux
The most famous one is probably: (apparently last updated Oct 1999) http://www.speakfreely.org/ supports: confrence mode answering machine encrypted com and icq interoperability on windows systems atleast a peer to peer only one with encryption: http://www.lila.com/nautilus/ here's one without encryption: http://www.linuxtel.com/EPHONE/ephone.html this one has directory support and a nice looking webpage also seems to be actively developed: http://efone.elysium.pl/ a free but apparenlty not opensource package with LOTS of features: http://www.freewebfone.com/ hope this gets you started on your quest, Chris /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.curious.org/ / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail"This quote is false." -anon On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Davida Schiff wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any voice chat programs for linux? > > Thanks, > > Davida > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Dynamic DNS
I'm interested in using a dynamic DNS registry for my home machine, now that I have a cablemodem. Can anybody recommend a good one? Regards, -- David C. Merrill, Ph.D. Linux Documentation Project Collection Editor & Coordinator www.LinuxDoc.org ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Dynamic DNS
I haven't had experience with them, but www.dyndns.org is probably the most popular free dynamic DNS service. Eric R. Turner On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David C. Merrill, Ph.D. wrote: > I'm interested in using a dynamic DNS registry for my home machine, now that > I have a cablemodem. Can anybody recommend a good one? > > Regards, > > -- > David C. Merrill, Ph.D. > Linux Documentation Project > Collection Editor & Coordinator > www.LinuxDoc.org > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > -- My public OpenPGP key can be found at http://www.wwu.edu/~turnere/turnere.asc ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Mr. stinky face icon in my /home/guest folder
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:40:45AM -0400, Phil Savoie wrote:
> A core file is simply the left over of a crashed program, or a program that
> has terminated unexpectedly. If Mr. Stinky Face offends you, you can
> safely rm the guy and nothing bad will happen. I would suspect what
> happened was you had something running that you didn't exit before you
> exited your desktop which could have produced this file.
Some more information that may be useful: the file corresponding to this
is called 'core' and will possibly be sitting in your home directory.
You can tell which program caused the core dump by running 'file core'
('file' is a utility that tries to work out the type of a file and in
the case of a core file will tell you which program crashed).
Cheers,
Malcolm
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