Linuxers June 2005

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Re: Booting Xandros with GRUB boot loader (WAS Re: [ILUG-BOM]Xandros3.0 and Toshiba Tecra 8100: does not read bootable CD#1)
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

On Saturday 11 June 2005 13:03, Rony Bill wrote: > sherlock(a)vsnl.com wrote: > > why bother with lilo when grub can boot everything you throw at > > it. > > That's exactly my query. LILO is not my choice, thats what Xandros > gives to the user. Xandros target market is a windows zombie who will almost never have more than one linux distro on his machine. As a system integrator your requirements are different. > > > Pls post your menu.lst. This will be in the partition of the > > distro that installed grub. Also partition details. > > The easy way to debug a grub problem is to open a grub shell and > > issue commands manually. > > # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an > existing # linux installation on /dev/hda12. > title Mandrake Linux 10.1 (on /dev/hda12) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda12 ro acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda10 > initrd /boot/initrd.img > savedefault > boot > > > # This entry was added manually after loading Xandros 3 on > /dev/hda11 title Xandros 3 (on /dev/hda11) > kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 > initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd-2.6.9-x1.gz > savedefault kernel (hd0,10/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 root=/dev/hda11 you did not tell the kernel it's root partition. The error would have been kernel panic unable to mount root filesystem blah blah rgds jtd

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[ot] printer running costs
by Abhishek Daga 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Has anyone ever done a comparison exercise for printer running costs? Some time back I had googled, Dot Matrix Printer: 10 paise per page Laserjet: Rs. 0.5/page Inkjet Printers: Rs. 2/page The cost of the Dot Matrix printing is further reduced because of the low tech and highly reliable reinking costs. Till date i have never been successful in getting a inkjet cartridge re-inked (though only tried the hp deskjet 670C). Does anyone have more reliable estimates on the cost comparisons? Have you been successfully and consistently reinked an inkjet cartridge thus reducing the cost per page? if yes, then which brand/model is the most "re=ink" friendly. HP deskjets IMO are just ink delivery devices. -thanks abhi __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html

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[Announce] UML coding
by Vickram Crishna 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Anyone with experience in uml coding please write me offlist. This is for an opportunity coming up soon for both outsourcing and for regular (as in 9-5 type) work, in Bandra. -- Vickram

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Inode Help
by deepak shingan 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

hi all i hav some questions i m reading a book on UNIX-kernals by Mouris j. Bach but i m not sure abt these concepts does kernal uses the inode(internaly) for rename a file? or as inode don't hav any field related to name of file..rename does changes in only parent directory containt? does "chmod" command internally opens the file by open function or just changes the inode containt without opening the file? incore inode no and inode no on the disk are same? does any file hav more than one incore-inode nos..in any case? superblock manupulation i.e. allocation of inode nos..buffres to perticular files works always works in Critical Section..? i know these questions might b funny n so simple for all u Kernal-gurus... but i really wants my concepts clear thanks and regards deepak thinks.....deeply! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG meet
by Sameer Niphadkar 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 Anurag wrote : >Sometime on Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:16:14AM -0000, Sameer Niphadkar said: > > > > > I don't think there should be any problem if you bring in your > > system, we could configure it at the venue. A ll the same I'd like to > > request the organizers and other people of the list as well to vote > > for a convinient a nd suitable venue. It would be great if we could > > have it fixed by this weekend. Anurag...are you listning ? > > >KReSIT should be fine. If we cannot manage it then we can have the meet >at HBCSE. Venky, can you confirm if we can have KReSIT's room on 19th? > >Anurag As far as I know...Venky is out of station, so it would be for one of us to book the venue. I'd try for MET from my side, would confirm within 1-2 days. Anyways do let me know if we do book any one of them. Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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(mdk9.2, win XP pro) samba 3 configuration problem
by Nikhil D. Kikkeri 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

hi-- my samba server runs on the machine that has mandrake 9.2 on it. i have an account on my windows XP machine whose username is tom and password is jerry. i create an account in linux using the same username and password above. i then add the password to the password database using smbpasswd. when i log into windows using the same login info, i can see the machine in Network Neighborhood.however i cannot see the list of shares because when i double click on the machine it brings up this login screen.and even though i enter the correct login name and password the process doesnt go beyond the login screen.i dont even see a message saying that the login information is incorrect. all ports that are of interest to samba are open. when i run smbclient with a particular username i get NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE any ideas on how to deal with the problem? rgds -NDK --- http://engr.smu.edu/~nikhil _________________________________________________________________ Top-of-the-line jobs!. http://creative.mediaturf.net/creatives/timesjobs/hotmail_TOL.htm Log on to timesjobs.com and apply TODAY!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG meet
by Sameer Niphadkar 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

>Dear Sameer / list, > >I was planning \g to give a talk at this meet. There are 2 topics that i'm working on atm. First one is "Gaming on Linux" which is a complete 1 hour session. Second is a topic called "Grub to Gnome in 90 Secs". but the second one is incomplete, and i dunno if i can have it ready for the meet. so i'll probably hold it for afterwards > >The Gaming session is one that i've already conducted once at SuSE, so i have all the resources ready, and ill be in a position to demo the latest games, from Doom3 to UT2k4, Counterstrike, Condition Zero, etc etc. Do let me know if i can tale it up. Also, is it ok if i carry my system, as all the high end games on a laptop is not really possible... > >Regards >R. K. Rajeev I don't think there should be any problem if you bring in your system, we could configure it at the venue. All the same I'd like to request the organizers and other people of the list as well to vote for a convinient and suitable venue. It would be great if we could have it fixed by this weekend. Anurag...are you listning ? rgds Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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Re: Booting Xandros with GRUB boot loader (WAS Re: [ILUG-BOM] Xandros3.0 and Toshiba Tecra 8100: does not read bootable CD #1)
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

> > I did that but it constantly gave kernel panic after going past a > few paragraphs of booting text. Different script combinations were > tried but same result. I had to reinstall the distro with a boot > floppy option. This is the second time I have faced problems of > lilo not going with grub on distros based on debian. Debian uses > grub so beautifully but its modified distros still stick to lilo. > Why??? why bother with lilo when grub can boot everything you throw at it. Pls post your menu.lst. This will be in the partition of the distro that installed grub. Also partition details. The easy way to debug a grub problem is to open a grub shell and issue commands manually. rgds jtd

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USB (or PCI) Linux WiFi NIC with Monitor mode
by Shahed Moolji 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Hi All, I am looking for a USB Wi-Fi NIC interface, so that I can connect to a wireless network, on a PC running Linux. (Suse 9.2, Kernal 2.6 i believe ) I have found the URL below, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers… which lists a lot of options, but I was wondering if anyone on this list can suggest from their experience, a good USB piece of hardware, that is relatively easy to install. My most important requirment, is to be able to use ethareal, to sniff packets on the WLAN, so I am looking for a driver that supports monitor or promouscious mode. Ethreal seems to have problems with this on WinXP, with most common wifi nic drivers, and so recommends using Linux, therefore my quest to find a device. I dont have any PCI slots free, but if anyone has had good experience with a PCI card, then I may even free up a slot, instead of going the USB way. Thanks Shahed.

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re: [ILUG-BOM] Xandros 3.0 and Toshiba Tecra 8100: does not read bootable CD #1
by Arun Khan 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

On Thu, 2005-06-09 Abhishek Daga <abhishekdaga(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Does not Boot from the CD. or a DVD. >The CD Works fine on other systens, >Other OS CDs work fine on this system (Tecra 8100). Your laptop CD/DVDrom is unable to read the specific media. I have a Tecra 8000. Although the CDROM is able to read most CD-R and R/W, I have experienced similar behavior with few CD-R media. The CDROM led will keep blinking ad infinitum. You might try burning the CD/DVD on to a different brand media. HTH. Regards, Arun Khan The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

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