How to build an USB driver/data extractor?

2012-10-23 Thread Manuel Escudero
I have a Magnetic card reader and two linux machines (ubuntu and fedora) I would like to build an USB driver/data extractor with something like Ruby or Python (preferably ruby) The device plugs and powers on, and sliding a card results in outputing a strange code from wich I would like to extract i

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Shirley
On 10/23/2012 6:52 PM, Digimer wrote: Yes, you need a corresponding 'ifcfg-' file to match the udev.d's NAME="" value. Do not use the ifcfg-'s 'HWADDR="..."' though. I started using the NAME parameter in Fedora 16. ifcfg-lan: NAME="lan" TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT="yes" UUID="331f16e6-ee78-40a6-b06

Re: Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/23/2012 02:58 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: Forgot how you can disable/enable that stuff, especially from XFCE… above should at least give you some pointers. From the Main Menu->Applications->Settings->Accessibility. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Digimer
On 10/23/2012 06:20 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Digimer wrote: >> On 10/17/2012 09:18 PM, Digimer wrote: >>> On 10/17/2012 06:24 PM, JD wrote: Briefly $ ifconfig -a em1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:...etc loLink encap:Local Loopback virbr0

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Digimer wrote: On 10/17/2012 09:18 PM, Digimer wrote: On 10/17/2012 06:24 PM, JD wrote: Briefly $ ifconfig -a em1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:...etc loLink encap:Local Loopback virbr0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:...etc virbr0-nic Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr x

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: On 10/17/2012 02:15 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 14:01:25 -0600, JD wrote: So, does anyone have any other suggestion how to prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1? Do you have 71-biosdevname.rules in either /etc/udev/rules.d or /usr/lib/udev/rules.d ? I e

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:56:51PM -0600, JD wrote: What a useless package that does not solve anything, but creates new problems for everyone. That's really not the case. It may not solve anything for *you*, but it does address a real problem. Maybe not perfectly, but w

Re: Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:03:28PM +0100, Joe Feely wrote: > The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive > technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer. The performance impact was only solved quite recently (GNOME 3.6). I assume the assistive tech is stil

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Digimer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/2012 12:15 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 23:02 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 13:43:17 -0400, "Michael H. Warfield" wrote: Now that being said, there's still some notable diff

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 15:24 +1030, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 22:41 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: Following his instructions, I ended up with this: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:19:b9:13:a8:fc", NAME="eth0" Finding it

Re: How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

2012-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:56:08PM +0300, sirdeiu wrote: installed from netinstall.iso - KDE desktop. After installation, my NIC's were named with p35pX. So I've just edited /lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules and uncommented the line GOTO="netdevicename_end", saved and

Re: Yahoo and thunderbird.

2012-10-23 Thread Sergio
On 10/22/2012 09:19 AM, Sergio wrote: Yahoo does have IMAP on the free service. Here are the parameters to set it up: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_MOBILE&id=SLN3361&impressions=true If you don't get prompted for a password when you connect, make sure

Re: Howto: 32 bit skype, working with a webcam, on 64 bit Fedora 17

2012-10-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 October 2012 09:51, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > Just a heads up, in case anyone else decides (against all sanity) to try > using Skype, *and* get a webcam working, on 64-bit Fedora 17, you get > stymied by: > >Skype being only released in 32 bit >Skype wanting video for Linux 1 >Fedora

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-23 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: > Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something > that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that > data is cacheable. I replied: > In general, true. > > It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying, > though. It sounds like t

Re: Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Fedora User
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 15:03 +0100, Joe Feely wrote: > Hi, > > Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, > goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not > corrupted). It could be correlation in contrast to causation. Which video players have you t

Re: Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Sergio
--- Em ter, 23/10/12, Joe Feely escreveu: > De: Joe Feely > Assunto: Have I got an AT hangover? > Para: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Data: Terça-feira, 23 de Outubro de 2012, 12:03 > Hi, > > Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't > play properly, > goes out of sync, mome

Re: umask in /etc/sysconfig/httpd not being used in Fedora 16, Fedora 17

2012-10-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.10.2012 15:15, schrieb Ron Wagner: > Hi, > > I have been trying to setup Fedora 17 via boxgrinder as a LAMP server. What I > am stuck at is getting apache httpd > to use a umask of 002. I have added "umask 0002" to /etc/sysconfig/httpd but > it doesn't seem to be used. I built a > Fedora

Re: [SOLVED] kernel 3.6.x and Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (kmod-wl)

2012-10-23 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 23/10/2012 alle 11.41 +0200, Dario Lesca ha scritto: > After kernel update to 3.6.[12] Sorry, kernel is 3.6.x and not 2.6.x as erroneously reported in the subject -- Dario Lesca - sip:da...@solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 17 Gnome3) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Joe Wulf
Joe, Quick one-page snapshots of top can be gotten with: # top  -b  -n  1 R, -Joe > > From: Joe Feely >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:03 AM >Subject: Have I got an AT hangover? > >Hi, > >Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of

Re: Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue 23 Oct 2012 10:03:28 AM EDT, Joe Feely wrote: Hi, Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted). The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive technology, which nearl

Have I got an AT hangover?

2012-10-23 Thread Joe Feely
Hi, Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted). The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer. After disa

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-23 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 23/10/12 03:54, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 23/10/12 02:14, James Wilkinson wrote: I’ve been involved with a similar problem, with a site with lots of small graphics hosted in the UK, and customers in Australia. Putting the graphics on a content delivery network with Australia

umask in /etc/sysconfig/httpd not being used in Fedora 16, Fedora 17

2012-10-23 Thread Ron Wagner
Hi, I have been trying to setup Fedora 17 via boxgrinder as a LAMP server. What I am stuck at is getting apache httpd to use a umask of 002. I have added "umask 0002" to /etc/sysconfig/httpd but it doesn't seem to be used. I built a Fedora 15 configuration which did use the umask, then tested w

Re: utf-7 encoding (Re: Howto: 32 bit skype, working with a webcam, on 64 bit Fedora 17)

2012-10-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 October 2012 09:27, Tim wrote: > To re-write the instructions, which I'm sure were from another message > thread, the line being added to the GRUB file should be two words > separated by an underscore, equals, eight-hundred by six-hundred: > > GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600 > > The UTF-7 encoding s

[SOLVED] kernel 2.6.x and Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (kmod-wl)

2012-10-23 Thread Dario Lesca
On this Asus EeePC seashell series Notebook: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_e9f34fbb-dd9d-4b7d-8c77-027292c81297 After kernel update to 3.6.[12] (plus relative kmod-wl* module) the WiFi stop work I have found this article: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1176829 then I have in

Re: utf-7 encoding (Re: Howto: 32 bit skype, working with a webcam, on 64 bit Fedora 17)

2012-10-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 11:27 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > in ThunderBird 16.0.1 on Fedora Rawhide an email that Tim sent thru > shows this in his comments: > > > In the /etc/default/grub file, I added this line: > > GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600 The above has been automatically corrected by my mail cli

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-23 Thread Tim
Tim wrote: >> Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something >> that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that >> data is cacheable. James Wilkinson: > In general, true. > > It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying, > though. It soun

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-23 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 23/10/12 02:14, James Wilkinson wrote: I’ve been involved with a similar problem, with a site with lots of small graphics hosted in the UK, and customers in Australia. Putting the graphics on a content delivery network with Australian servers knocked five seconds off page load time. Fedora net