Re: [PLUG] Debian G/L & मी

2024-07-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole via plug-mail
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 9:55 AM Sudhanwa Jogalekar via plug-mail wrote: > > I remember two instances of my Debian installation ages back. > > After getting fade up for about half an hour of giving yes/no input to > various questions, pressed the reset button, ejected the CD. End of install!! > >

Re: [PLUG] Mageia 9 WiFi issue

2024-07-25 Thread Amarendra Godbole via plug-mail
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 1:13 AM Shirish Bhagwat via plug-mail wrote: > > I was happy using Mageia 8 without any trouble. > > Somewhere possibly after upgrade to 9 WiFi stopped working. > > Ignorant me blamed something & started using cable when necessary. > > After few days even my computer (netbo

Re: [PLUG] What is up with PLUG mailing list these days?

2023-12-11 Thread Amarendra Godbole via plug-mail
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:48 AM शिरीष शरश्चंद्र SHiRiiSH Bhagwat via plug-mail wrote: > > I only returned to reclaim my identity stolen using PLUG conversations and > virtually misused for personal aggrandizements by some [not so honorable] > honoured ones... > > Nothing more because lot of such

Re: [PLUG] What is up with PLUG mailing list these days?

2023-12-01 Thread Amarendra Godbole via plug-mail
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:28 AM G Karunakar wrote: > > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 10:57, Mayuresh via plug-mail > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 09:00:42PM -0800, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> > I stay here for nostalgia, and I believe many do so too.

Re: [PLUG] What is up with PLUG mailing list these days?

2023-11-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole via plug-mail
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 8:27 PM Mayuresh via plug-mail wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 09:49:26AM +0530, Mayuresh via plug-mail wrote: > > I see some mail traffic and when I open the mail I find something that > > does not interest me (and guess that may not be interesting many others, > > but

Re: [PLUG] Handling attacks on a community

2020-05-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:07 AM Amey Abhyankar wrote: > > Hello All, > > Not sure if anybody from our group follows/reads Debian project mailing list. > > To cut the story short, Debian Project has asked 1 DD aka 'Debian > developer' to leave the project [1] > > Detailed report/description can be

Re: [PLUG] Distribution that actually surprised me in the past..

2020-05-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:34 PM Inkar•Nation/Notion wrote: > > Though slightly hesitant and sarcastic > > Bodhi Linux impressed me from concept and implementation of finer > philosophical points.. > > It worked in first go without any hicuup on most platforms that I tried back > then.. And the

Re: [PLUG] The current and future state of PLUG

2019-12-28 Thread amarendra godbole
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:46 AM Tejas Sanap wrote: > > Hey, folks! > > The following email may turn out to be a bit controversial. The current state > of PLUG is not very bright. That is a fact. However, numerous members are > taking efforts to revive PLUG from it's deep slumber, and are trying

Re: [PLUG] I wish, I knew this when I started with Vim

2019-12-09 Thread amarendra godbole
With experience, anything that purports to be the true way -- is religion, vim is no exception. I believe in using the right tool for the job AND having a choice in making that determination. :-) Thanks. -ag On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 6:43 PM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > On २६/११/१९ ९:२१ म.पू.,

Re: [PLUG] IBM to acquire Red Hat

2018-11-01 Thread amarendra godbole
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:54 AM ganesh kadam wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 1:09 PM Gaurav Pant wrote: >> >> IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion. > > > > The Evil Corp has got us! :( > Many of us at RH are highly disappointed... Though for them it is business as >

Re: [PLUG] Please Sign The Petition

2015-04-14 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:56 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: [...] > The idea that MS and Apple hit it right isn't also so true, whether > for the so-called 'single user experience' or any other. Both MS and > Apple had to spend millions of marketing dollars to sell their ribbon > interfaces, UI's etc. T

Re: [PLUG] Please Sign The Petition

2015-04-11 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi Milind, Though I understand the desire and need to be "in control" of your life and your software, which is a laudable goal, I am confused at the anti-Microsoft stance taken by many FOSS people, since it deflects slightly from the original goal of being "in control" - Microsoft is not the only

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-15 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे wrote: >> Can you elaborate what "moving with times means"? Tools of the newer times >> make me no more productive than those of yesteryear, so I don't see much a >> point. >> > > It was a generic remark - may or may not apply in the context

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-30 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:24 PM, .आ.शा. wrote: > On Friday 18 Jan 2013 10:13:11 AM Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Praveen A wrote: >> > 2013/1/18 ag@gmail : >> >> So do I read it something like this: While walking on the street, I fou

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-30 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Praveen A wrote: > 2013/1/18 ag@gmail : >> So do I read it something like this: While walking on the street, I found an >> unlocked door to a bar and walked in, grabbed a bottle of vodka, gulped it >> down, and walked out. I was caught, since I was 17. >> >> Now

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-20 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Praveen A wrote: > 2013/1/18 ag@gmail : >> So do I read it something like this: While walking on the street, I found an >> unlocked door to a bar and walked in, grabbed a bottle of vodka, gulped it >> down, and walked out. I was caught, since I was 17. >> >> Now

Re: [PLUG] [mailing-list] improving ease of use

2012-08-21 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Jayant Ogale: > moderater draws a line between "swatantra" and "swairachar" > there might be a difference of openion about where this line should be. and > this happens every where, in day-to- [...] So the definition is ambiguous and open to human interpretation. For one mans swatantra is others

Re: [PLUG] [mailing-list] improving ease of use

2012-08-17 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Sunil Beta Baskar wrote: > Hello everyone at PLUG, [...] > Suggestions: > Section 1 'before posting' > * Item 5 > ** Linux documentation is available at http://tldp.org/ > ref: http://www.linuxdoc.org the docbook archive and Q&A > > Section 2 'posting to the l

Re: [PLUG] Open source mail server

2012-07-11 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 11-Jul-2012, at 10:37 PM, Varun Deshpande wrote: > Hi > > I want to configure a email server on my laptop. can you suggest me which > is best email server which easily configurable on ubuntu 12.04 machine. > > I download atmail opensouce & extracted on /var/www. when I try to access > http:/

[PLUG] Symantec announces final-year (B.E.) engineering student projects

2012-06-20 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Symantec Corp. invites final-year B.E. students for student projects, that run from Sep-2012 through Apr-2013. Your team will be guided by a Symantec engineer. You should be final year student for BE Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Information Technology. Anyone interested, please drop me a

Re: [PLUG] slackware it is

2012-05-17 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 17-May-2012, at 6:08 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:44:59PM +0530, ??? wrote: >> to my sir prize, after trying out everything from opensuse to debian >> to kubuntu and including mageia dual arch >> the truly amazing thing was the first distribution to cleanly load on

Re: [PLUG] offlineimap / isync alternatives or solution to uid validity issues

2012-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Data is never corrupted as far as I know. However, deleting cache is required. -ag -- pl. excuse brevity & possible typos - sent from a tiny device. On 18-Apr-2012, at 7:52 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > I have been using offlineimap and isync - more or less similar > applications to sync local Maildir

Re: [PLUG] Video of Linus Talking about Indian contribution

2011-11-11 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Kapil Agrawal wrote: > Thanks Swapnil, > > I was there at Gstreamer & ELCE -  LinuxCon 2011 at Prague and it was > amazing & fun. Not sure why but I found very very few Indians attending > these. [...] Maybe its not economical to travel to Prague without funding

[PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] Symantec, Pune - Senior developer position - unix/linux kernel, ~10 yrs. experience

2011-10-24 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, We have one position open for a kernel developer, with around 10 yrs. experience, and 3-5 yrs. on the core unix/linux kernel. Knowledge of storage is desirable, but not mandatory. This position is in the Veritas File Systems group. If you or your friend(s) are interested, and fit the requireme

Re: [PLUG] O'Reilly Ultimate Collection

2011-10-23 Thread Amarendra Godbole
I differ. The thread should remain with a warning from Sudhanwa, so other folks take a note before posting (c) violated stuff. On that note - most non-standard domains (.ua, .ru, and other countries in the earlier-Russian Federation) are known to host copyright violated stuff, and while you downloa

Re: [PLUG] MeeGo community unhappy about yet another abadoning

2011-10-23 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwMzE > > How long does it go on - creating a flavor, abandoning before seeing light > of the day, merge it with another and repeat the cycle... > > Surely does affect the moral of the core deve

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Siddharth Karandikar wrote: > Is www.openbsd.org down for last couple of days?  If anyone is on > their mailing list, whats the status there? > > just "openbsd.org" works as its different machine but it doesn't have > any of the doc or package links. > > - Siddhar

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-19 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/15/2011 11:54 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> [...] >> >> Most companies use OpenBSD on to secure their periphery, especially >> with pf. Though there is no direct link, there is something that >>

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Amarendra Godbole > wrote: >> What good is efficiency when it sacrifices stability and reliability? > > I find the statement to be contradictory - suggesting that Linux is > efficient but n

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Mayuresh wrote: [...] > Agree, BSD development is much cleaner and Linux lacks same amount of > control - as someone's blog says, the latter follows chaos model. (It is a > well meaned remark about Linux development model.) > > Why does chaos win over discipline in

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mayuresh wrote: [...] > What pleases me as a user is effective use of CPU to achieve higher > efficiency and a minimalist no-bloat approach to installation, services > etc. > > BSDs I saw till now are good in the latter, though Linux fared better on > efficiency so

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-17 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:54:56AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> Oh, and missed one very important point: >> * OpenBSD is not determined to dominate the world, and fast. >> >> -Amarendra > > Thanks. That

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-14 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Mayuresh wrote: >> I don't intend to start any BSD/Linux or anything vs anything flame. >> >> There is ample material on such comparison on the web some of which I >>

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-14 Thread Amarendra Godbole
rating systems in the world. Gients >> such as Google uses Open BSD at the server end. One of the experts of Open >> BSD, whom I know very well, is Amarendra Godbole (Symantec) > > Haven't heard of Google using anything but Linux on the server.  Reference? [...] Most

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-14 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > I don't intend to start any BSD/Linux or anything vs anything flame. > > There is ample material on such comparison on the web some of which I > have browsed through. > > If somebody has used any of the BSD systems (FreeBSD or NetBSD), I'd have > j

Re: [PLUG] Question about companies and open source applications

2011-05-07 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Nikhil Karkare wrote: > No. I did not buy the product. I already have the biggest Linux deployment > amongst schools, with GCompris installed. I don't think talking will help > much, but worth a try. > Should I make a list of companies who do this? Maybe make a blac

Re: [PLUG] Real Linux Server and Security Management Course

2011-04-20 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Good security courses cost a lot of money. Are you ready for that? The alternative is to purchase a good security book like "The Art of Software Security Assessment", and learn. Will work far too cheap, unless your company is funding you. Since you wish to learn, I'd echo - stay clear from CEH, CIS

Re: [PLUG] OpenSuse 11.4 boot loader installation problem

2011-03-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, I was trying to install to install OpenSuse 11.4, on > installation screen it shows me warning  "The boot loader is > installing on a partition that does not lie entirely below 128 GB", is > anybody else fa

[PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] Symantec is hiring -- engineering and technology positions.

2011-02-09 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Symantec has several hunior and senior level engineering/technology positions, across all technologies and product groups (legacy Veritas, Security technologies, Security Response labs, etc.). Relevant work experience in the range of 2 yrs. and above only. If you wish to apply, or want to know the

Re: [PLUG] Need project for M.S.

2010-11-23 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Satvashila Nikam wrote: > Hi all, > I am doing M.S. from Bits Pilani. It's distance learing programm & i want > the project in networking or network security which is worth while > implementing. > If anybody has any idea related to this or some idea related to othe

Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > There is this news article in some newspapers today: > > "India to develop its own OS" > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/India-to-develop-its-own-futuristic-computer-operating-system/articleshow/6719490.cms [...] All hogw

Re: [PLUG] Practical shell Implementation of the login command.

2010-07-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Kulkarni Shantanu wrote: > * Amarendra Godbole [100729 22:19]: >> I have moved over to the OpenBSD land, and things are 100% better - >> maintaining man page accuracy is one of the primary aim of the group. > > have you moved your deskto

Re: [PLUG] Practical shell Implementation of the login command.

2010-07-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: >> >> Thank you for the information. I am using RHEL5.4. I did not find your given >> information in _man 1 login_.  Which manual page did you consult? >> > > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. I would have expected man page parity between > distrib

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:17:20AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> lost the battle already. It is also surprising to see many Linux folks >> who consider Microsoft as their #1 enemy. Hey, what about Oracle, IBM, > > At lea

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > > On 7/26/10, Mithun Shitole wrote: >> Hi, >>      Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The >> website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't >> seems to care about users wh

Re: [PLUG] Testing tools for shell scripts

2010-04-01 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: > Hi... >     Are there any testing tools like WinRunner to test shell scripts? [...] Syntactical checking can be done via the -n flag that ksh provides. Since most of the scripts are portable, it is easy for me to do that - not all worl

Re: [PLUG] testing on multple linux platforms

2010-03-31 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Kapil Agrawal wrote: [...] > Thanks everyone, > > I will go the VM way. [...] Not really required, if you can carefully list the dependencies of your program, and ensure that there are no major dependency version changes across different versions of the OS. For e

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Regarding GPL

2009-12-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Dnyanraj Mali wrote: > Hello All, > > I need some help on GPL licensing, can someone suggest me any group/forum > where i can ask some questions about GPL [...] If you run a "for-profit" organization, and this question stems from your need to use some GPL software

Re: [PLUG] Random number ( integer code )

2009-09-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Suraj Swami wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to generate random number integer in CPP ( gcc compiler ) using > rand() function. But it is giving some error. I have tried a few things. > Which did not work. As I am not at my home PC right now hence I am unable to > te

Re: [PLUG] file locking

2009-07-21 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Vishal Rao wrote: >>> >>> I am looking at a user level approach, not a programmer level approach. >>> >> >> For a user level (requires cooperation) approach, assume you have the same >> app sharing files in t

Re: [PLUG] Linux Support

2009-05-06 Thread Amarendra Godbole
amp; Regards >> >> Deepak Gadre [...] Sure. I can do it for you. But there will be a charge/fee for consultation. Please drop me a private email on amar at obscure dot org if you are interested to take this further. Thanks. -Amarendra Godbole Pune ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Linux XP! It's not a joke

2006-02-26 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 2/24/06, Gurudatta Raut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OTOH, if you work with Linux from the start, Windows > > seems to be very complex and arcane - as it does not > > allow you to do lot many things that Linux does. > > > I am Using Mandriva and tryin to make a complete > switch over from

Re: [PLUG] Linux XP! It's not a joke

2006-02-24 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 2/16/06, Udayraj Bal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Linux XP is not a joke, though the artical is! > It's available for download through some torrent > thingy, I didn't knew how to download it and also > forgot the link. It's based on Fedora Core linux they > say. Looks much like XP. I saw t

[PLUG] [Commercial - job posting] VERITAS Software looking for i18n engineers / lead.

2006-02-10 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi All, VERITAS Software (now Symantec Corporation), based in PUNE is looking for i18n engineers, and i18n team leads for their product groups. Following are the details: * i18n Engineer . 3+ yrs. of development experience, either on Win or Unix platforms. . Knowledge of C language, and vario

Re: [PLUG] Debian CDs

2006-02-02 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 2/1/06, Hemant Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would like to shift to Debian from RPM based stuff. > Wondering if I can get hold of some debian (x86) CDs, if available with PLUG. I have 3 Debian 3.1r1 ``sarge" CDs, of the total 14 CD set. I should be able to loan them to you sometime next we

[OT] Re: [PLUG] Reliance LG USB Cable

2005-07-14 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Curtis McCutchin wrote: I have an LG-RD2130 phone from Reliance and would like to possibly use it for my internet connection. I think they want like 800 rupees or something for the kit, so I was wondering if maybe anybody had one (LG USB cable) they don't use any more? [OT] You can possibly ch

Re: [PLUG] RPM files dont get installed

2005-07-14 Thread Amarendra Godbole
sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: Wondering how M$ does not take any objection on a website which clearly uses their look and feel. If it is not hitting their business in any way, I don't see a point in MS trying to take action. In fact, this site (though a parody) has generated considerable interest a

Re: [PLUG] microsoft V/s general motors

2005-07-13 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Nilesh Ranade wrote: At a computer exposition Bill Gates reportedly compared > the computer industry with the auto industry & stated: And your PLUG related query is??? Amar -- These opinions are _MINE_. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux U

Re: [PLUG] Text editor for Linux.

2005-07-13 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, I would request the author of the above post to please stop giving wrong information and if the case is that of utter ignorance and incompetence, to just shut up. These posts are archived for further Most of the posts by the OP clearly indicate that he is a TROLL. I guess the best thing to

Re: [PLUG] tool that finds memory lecks in program

2005-05-24 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Atul Thosar wrote: i need an efficient tool that finds memory lecks in program program is written in c, platform linux currently i am using valgrind tool. You can give a shot to Electric Fence, which is a malloc() debugger. http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/ is the link. IMHO, valg

Re: [PLUG] linux books download

2005-04-27 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Yogesh wrote: The whole O'Reilly CD Bookshelf (v 3.0) along with many other books is available for download at -- http://files.nixp.ru/books/unix/ It's a single file of size 30 MB ! Also, I am not sure about copyright issue. I mentioned in my previous email - it is *definitely* a (C) violation. A

Re: [PLUG] linux books

2005-04-27 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Shantanoo wrote: I don't know the IP laws regarding the book. If there are any please let me know. For time being the file is available on following links. http://shantanoo.bsdnerds.org/upt.tar.gz http://home.ripway.com/2005-4/295823/upt.tar.gz http://host.picturewizard.com/2005-4/295823/upt.tar.g

Re: [PLUG] Problem with loading modules into Linux 2.6 Kernel

2005-04-15 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Phaneendra Reddy wrote: Hi PLUG, I have a problem with loading a miodule into tha kernel using "insmod" http://www.dazuko.org/tload.shtml#GENERAL-INSMOD-ERROR should help you probably. Alternatively, you can post the contents of /var/log/messages here, if still things are unclear. Cheers, Amar --