Re: 2 hardware questions

2007-08-11 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Saturday 11 August 2007 01:19, Dan Armak wrote: > When using smartctl with a sata drive you may have to specify manually that > it's a sata drive and not a real SCSI one, try adding the -d ata parameter. thanks - that was the problem -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KD

Re: 2 hardware questions

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Armak
On Friday 10 August 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > 2 - I want to use smartctl, but: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# smartctl -i /dev/sdb > smartctl version 5.36 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Device: ATA WDC WD

2 hardware questions

2007-08-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
1 - I need a USB 802.11g dongle. The cheapest one I found is a tp-link TL-WN321G sold for 74 shekels at Ivory. The Ivory site and the manufacturer's site don't mention Linux support, but I did find an Australian reseller who does mention Linux and a few vague references to it working in Fedora o