Linuxers October 2001

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Help Needed
by Mohan Cheema 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Hi everybody, I am using the mozilla browser for the kiosk as the browser and all the plugins are working well but the plugin for playing movie(xanim) is not working it ask for downloading when i go for downloading it gives error. All the plugin i am using are same for the netscape the same plugin for the movie in netscape is working properly. Is there any other plugin available for mozilla for playing movies. Wainting for your early reply Regards, Mohan Cheema -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Have you downloaded the latest calling software from Net2Phone? Click here to get it now! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?157

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Re: Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] kernel recompilation problem
by Mahesh Gharat 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

I was trying this on the Kernel sources that comes with Redahat distribution(Default).Is that a problem?Should I download the new sources and try again?One thing I should tell you that I have only installed the Linux kernel and it's sources i.e.the minimum system.Will it give dependencies problem since there are no other packages and libraries? Mahesh Gharat On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 Philip S Tellis wrote : > Just a thought, are you compiling the kernel sources > that came with > redhat or did you download the entire source? I was > never able to > compile the default redhat sources. > > Philip > > -- > It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are > twenty gods or no God. > It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. > - Thomas Jefferson > > > Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ > Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/wri- > tings/ > > MSN philiptellis Yahoo! > philiptellis > AIM philiptellis ICQ > 129711328 > > _______________________________________________ > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >

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More controversy over the name GNU/Linux or Linux
by Philip S Tellis 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

An article on segfault confirms what many of us were worried about when Stallman started insisting that linux be called GNU/Linux. Read ahead: GNU/Linux name row starts up again Following a recent reaffirmation of Richard Stallman's that Linux-based operating systems make note of the fact that a large proportion of their software is GNU software, by changing their names to 'GNU/Linux', many other notable software groups have made their feelings known on the subject. One notable Linux distributer has reported that, of its entire distribution, the Linux kernel makes up 3% and GNU software 30%. The missing 67% has recently been addressed. XFree86 has requested that its name be tagged onto the end of the operating system name, and Wine, Perl, Berkeley, Gimp, Mesa, Python, Apache, Sendmail, Bind and Tcl have all made similar requests. All distributions using the name GNU/Linux had no moral choice but to oblige, and become Wine/Perl/BSD/Gimp/Mesa/Python/Apache/Sendmail/Bind/Tcl/GNU/Linux - or WPBSMPASBTGL (pronounced 'Linux') for short. Red Hat, on the other hand, is considering changing the name of its Linux distribution to `ls -R /` (pronounced 'Lisa Slash'). This would avoid any future changes in name, since Bash performs the backticks expansion by executing "ls -R /" and replacing the command substitution with the standard output of the command, with any trailing newlines deleted, and the -R switch to 'ls' lists files in directories recursively, thus producing a list of all files on the machine. Other Linux and Unix vendors are reportedly considering similar name changes, and Microsoft Corporation has decided to change the names of all future releases of its Windows line of operating systems to "Click on the Start button. Move to 'Find'. Click on 'Files or Folders'. A 'Find' window should pop up. Enter '*.*' in the 'Named' field. Select 'My Computer' from the drop-down 'Look in' menu. Click 'Find Now'. Please wait, this may take a few minutes." Microsoft decided against the name "dir c:\*.* /s" because "it would be too complicated for the average Windows user." -- NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328

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Kernel Compilation Problems
by Mayur Joshi 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Dear Lugers, I'm currently using RH 7.1 running Linux 2.4.2-2. I'm trying to upgrade to 2.4.12. I'm not upgrading just by applying patches. I'm having problems with my ethernet card. Its Realtec and the old kernel uses 8139too.o module. I do make the proper selections but eth0 fails to come up and also vfat not supported by kernel. I just follow the usual steps make menuconfig, make dep make clean, make bzImage, make install, make modules, make modules_install. I've not done any kernel compilation before.....so may not be knowing some known issues. I also want to know what exactly should be selected as part of kernel and what as modules. Awaiting your reply, Best regards, Mayur Joshi Interpole Solutions _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: mouse not working in KDE
by Parul Mathur 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:31:13 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis wrote: >Sometime Today, Parul Mathur assembled some asciibets to say: Asciibets, Philip? Shouldn't it be asciibits or tasty asciinybbles maybe? >>Whenever I run KDE, the mouse does not respond but it does change >Does it work in the console? Nopes, it doesn't. >Do you have gpm running? Yes. What does it do? >You don't need a mouse to get a mouse icon. One learns something new everyday! >Make sure that your mouse works elsewhere, to isolate the problem either >to the mouse driver, or to KDE. >Philip The problem was with the mouse driver. I ran mouseconfig and specified the driver as "MS Intellimouse 2.1 or higher". Thanks. Parul

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Re: mouse not working in KDE
by Parul Mathur 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:37:36 +0530 Vinod Ramanathan wrote: >Parul you need to run "mouseconfig" command (without the quotes) and >select Microsoft Intellimouse ver 2.1 or higher from the menu. Your >mouse will begin to work then I feel. Also check emulate three buttons >at the bottom. Dear Vinod, I think you had mentioned once before that you have hardware identical to mine, which must be why your advice is always spot on - you must have faced the same problems before! Thanks. Parul Mathur

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18 Oct '01

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mirroring the installations over a LAN ? / kernel related query
by rahul saxena 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

hello people, these are newbie questions.. but i couldnt find answers anywhere !!! is there any utility of replicating a linx installation over a LAN ... some how have the same installation over all the hosts on that network? Also i have a kernel related query ! during configuring the modules and the make of the kernel.. there are option like sound support or video support or suport for specific devices ? my question is ?? what files are included in the kernel when such support is compiled in , are these the drivers for such devices or support files or kernel function or what?? -thanks for having a look ! -rahul _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] kernel recompilation problem
by nilesh patil 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

Don't use the KERNEL that comes with redhat instead u download the latest kernel from http://www.kernel.org and try to compile, before that please update u r gcc compilers. -NIlesh ----- Original Message ----- From: Mahesh Gharat Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:43 AM To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] kernel recompilation problem I was trying this on the Kernel sources that comes with Redahat distribution(Default).Is that a problem?Should I download the new sources and try again?One thing I should tell you that I have only installed the Linux kernel and it's sources i.e.the minimum system.Will it give dependencies problem since there are no other packages and libraries? Mahesh Gharat On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 Philip S Tellis wrote : > Just a thought, are you compiling the kernel sources > that came with > redhat or did you download the entire source? I was > never able to > compile the default redhat sources. > > Philip > > -- > It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are > twenty gods or no God. > It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. > - Thomas Jefferson > > > Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ > Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/wri- > tings/ > > MSN philiptellis Yahoo! > philiptellis > AIM philiptellis ICQ > 129711328 > > _______________________________________________ > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxersGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Kernel Compilation Problems
by Mayur Joshi 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

>Try running make modules_install again > >also, read through /usr/src/linux/.config to see if anything is >configured as a module. Well, .config does not show anything configured as module. It either shows y or not set. But I have set a lot of modules as M, for that matter the .config does not show up that RTL8139 is selected at all. Seems like whatever I select as module is neither selected as part of kernel nor in the modules. In the /lib/modules/2.4.12/kernel/drivers/net just see one module dummy.o and thats it. Infact whenever I run make modules_install, I see messages nothing to be done for modules_install as it enters various directories in the src tree. Its somewhere I'm making a blunder but cant figure it out. Best regards, Mayur Joshi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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