On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send ilugc mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ilugc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) (Zico) > 2. Re: problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > (Rahul Sundaram) > 3. Re: problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) (Zico) > 4. Re: problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) (Krishna) > 5. Re: problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) (Zico) > 6. Re: problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > (Rahul Sundaram) > 7. Re: open source final year projects (Kenneth Gonsalves) > 8. Re: Lance Davis Co-founder of CentOS missing (Karanbir Singh) > 9. Re: problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) (Zico) > 10. Re: open source final year projects (Shakthi Kannan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:20:34 +0600 > From: Zico <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I am trying to use my edge modem which is embedded in my cell phone. I am > using Fedora Core 11. > > When i go for System --> Administration --> Network > > and. select for "New" device as "modem connection" > > then this error comes: > > *Component: system-config-network > Version: 1.5.97 > Summary: TBf1b4415d NCPluginDevModem.py:37:* *getModemList:ImportError: No > module named kudzu > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "/usr/share/system-config-**network/netconfpkg/gui/**NCPluginModemInterface.py", > line 136, in on_Modem_prepare > dlist = getModemList() > File > "/usr/share/system-config-**network/netconfpkg/plugins/**NCPluginDevModem.py", > line 37, in getModemList > import kudzu > ImportError: No module named kudzu > > Local variables in innermost frame: > ** > *I cannot understand what should i do* > * > > > -- > Best, > Zico > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:00:22 +0530 > From: Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 08/01/2009 12:50 AM, Zico wrote: > > I am trying to use my edge modem which is embedded in my cell phone. I am > > using Fedora Core 11. > > > > When i go for System --> Administration --> Network > > > > and. select for "New" device as "modem connection" > > Doesn't NetworkManager detect this? Did you try to create a new > connection via that? > > Rahul > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:58:38 +0600 > From: Zico <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Rahul Sundaram > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Doesn't NetworkManager detect this? Did you try to create a new > > connection via that? > > > > Yep! I tried with new connection. But, then this error it comes.. > -- > Best, > Zico > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:15:47 +0200 > From: Krishna <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Zico <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Rahul Sundaram > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > Doesn't NetworkManager detect this? Did you try to create a new > > > connection via that? > > > > > > > Yep! I tried with new connection. But, then this error it comes.. > > Some mobiles have two modes to connect to PC, either as memory device, or > modem so make sure in your mobile you configured it to appear to PC as > modem. > > - > Krishna. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 02:27:30 +0600 > From: Zico <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Krishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Some mobiles have two modes to connect to PC, either as memory device, or > > modem so make sure in your mobile you configured it to appear to PC as > > modem. > > > > Actually, it`s not me, one of my friend is facing this problem. And, > according to him, he is using his cell phone as modem in Windows. So, I > think, it`s already enable. > > -- > Best, > Zico > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:07:47 +0530 > From: Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 08/01/2009 01:28 AM, Zico wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Rahul Sundaram > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> > >> Doesn't NetworkManager detect this? Did you try to create a new > >> connection via that? > >> > > > > Yep! I tried with new connection. But, then this error it comes.. > > What error? What you just showed was output from system-config-network > and not NetworkManager. > > Rahul > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 06:44:48 +0530 > From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] open source final year projects > To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Saturday 01 Aug 2009 12:40:26 am Eknath Venkataramani wrote: > > thank you. but these links are about starting your own projects, which > > means I'll have to come up with something totally new (or) invent > something > > (it sounds creepy). I will, of course, look into freshmeat and satyaakam. > > since you are new to open source this may be of interest to you: > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/MailingListEtiquette > > -- > regards > kg > http://lawgon.livejournal.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:40:48 +0100 > From: Karanbir Singh <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Lance Davis Co-founder of CentOS missing > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > There is an embargo on the CentOS DevTeam about this issue - however, > keep in mind that Dag is no longer a part of the CentOS Team, he left on > his own months back. Also - http://planet.centos.org/ will give you the > complete picture. > > CentOS isnt going anywhere, the projections are for a 'worst case > scenario' - which are *always* meant to be grim, since the worst that > can happen is just that - quite grim. > > There will be news on that front shortly. > > On 07/31/2009 06:59 PM, Sivakumar Gopalan wrote: > > I don't know how to put this but looks like there is something bad > > happening in the CentOS world. > > > > <snip> > > > > Some people may have noticed the open letter to Lance Davis that has > > appeared on the CentOS website (www.centos.org) or the CentOS mailing > > list (http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079767.html). > > Some people may also notice that the project was not running as it > > should lately. Since it is in the open now I can talk about all this. > > These are my personal opinions about this issue. > > > > </snip> > > http://planet.centos.org/ > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10300222-92.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksAr > > ea.0 > > > > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:23:33 +0600 > From: Zico <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone) > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Rahul Sundaram > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > What error? What you just showed was output from system-config-network > > and not NetworkManager. > > > > These are the errors: > > [i...@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep tty > console [tty0] enabled > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > cdc_acm 5-2:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device > [i...@localhost ~]$ wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf > Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'. > > Scanning your serial ports for a modem. > > ttyS0<Info>: Device or resource busy > Modem Port Scan<*1>: S0 > ttyS1<Info>: Device or resource busy > Modem Port Scan<*1>: S1 > ttyS2<Info>: Device or resource busy > Modem Port Scan<*1>: S2 > ttyS3<Info>: Device or resource busy > Modem Port Scan<*1>: S3 > ttyACM0<Info>: Device or resource busy > Modem Port Scan<*1>: ACM0 > > > Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program? > Did you configure it properly with setserial? > > [r...@localhost imam]# ifdown eth0 > usage: ifdown <device name> > [r...@localhost imam]# wvdial > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory > [r...@localhost imam]# > > > -- > Best, > Zico > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:33:46 +0530 > From: Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] open source final year projects > To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > My thoughts below: > > --- On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Eknath > Venkataramani<[email protected]> wrote: > | 2) Yes I want to submit it back to project heads(upstream) because I > would > | want to do my my final year project in whatever I am taking up. Or is it > | something you suggest against? > \-- > > There is nothing for or against. You can always submit your changes > upstream. > > --- > | a) A project good enough for the professors (of whichever > | department) to take me as a student in a good US university for my MS. > | Rather simply put, a project that would add a lot of weight to my > statement > | of purpose enough to make them want me in their college (or am I being > | overly ambitious?). > \-- > > 1. It is not ambitious, but, has a very cunning motive. IMO, you > should always work on F/OSS projects because it teaches you something > new, and you enjoy doing it, and contributing to it, and not for the > motives you have mentioned. > > 2. What hasn't been learnt and practised very well in 3 1/2 years of > "engineering" cannot be undone by one final semester "project". This > is yet another of those common statements that I hear from students, > "Let me do one good project, and hopefully get a job or an MS". > > --- > | b) A minimal stipend (Quite evidently, my project mentor > | wouldn't be a professor from my institution(or am I wrong?). If so, then > | according to my college's final year project specifications, 'a student > is > | allowed to undergo only an _internship_ outside the college'. And by > | internship, they mean 'a project giving the student some amount of money > in > | the form of a stipend' or 'the student must already be placed in that > | company'. > \-- > > That is a shame! Are they running an educational institution or doing > business? > > 3. You always work on a Free Software project because it teaches you > something, and that you enjoy the freedom of source, knowledge and > fellowship, and not for the above 'motives'. > > Sure, you could get 'money', 'fame', 'job', 'admit for > post-graduation', but, those are only side-effects. > > SK > > -- > Shakthi Kannan > http://www.shakthimaan.com > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ilugc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > > > End of ilugc Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2 > ************************************ >
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