[EUG-LUG:525] Re: missing header file?
Have you downloaded your kernel source? Alsa creates kernel modules for your system. These are called 'drivers' in windows. Alsa needs kernel source to make proper modules for your particular system. A compiled an alsa module for a 2.0.38 kernel may look a little different than for a 2.4.3 kernel. Rob has been mirroring the linux kernel for us (thanks rob!) http://www.euglug.org/kernel Also, after you extract the tar ball for the kernel (extract it in /usr/src) make sure the directory name is linux. Or you can leave it at linux-2.4.3, but make a symlink for linux. So the path to the kernel source is /usr/src/linux. Of course if you are running 2.2.17, downloading the 2.4.3 source won't help you to get Alsa working, unless you switch to the 2.4.3 kernel. In fact, the 2.4.3 kernel may already have soundblaster live drivers in it, which circumscribes the need for alsa in the first place. Cory On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:40:25PM -0800, Julia Coolman wrote: Hey folks-- I'm trying to compile the ALSA sound driver so I can use my SB Live on my debian side. I downloaded the source from www.alsa-project.org and started the usual tarball incantations. ./configure chokes on "checking for kernel version" and suggests /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h is missing. This reminds me of me of the "missing a devel RPM" signs from when I was running lPPC. Is it the same sort of fix? Julia Coolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Who died and left YOU sysadmin?"
[EUG-LUG:526] Re: missing header file?
If you are running Debian, don't waste your time grabbing the source from other websites, just install it via 'apt-get install' it will install all the needed dependancies that way. Installing from original source is a last resort for Debian... Seth - Original Message - From: Julia Coolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: [EUG-LUG:522] missing header file? Hey folks-- I'm trying to compile the ALSA sound driver so I can use my SB Live on my debian side. I downloaded the source from www.alsa-project.org and started the usual tarball incantations. ./configure chokes on "checking for kernel version" and suggests /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h is missing. This reminds me of me of the "missing a devel RPM" signs from when I was running lPPC. Is it the same sort of fix? Julia Coolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Who died and left YOU sysadmin?"
[EUG-LUG:527] Looking for a printer...
A decent used inkjet, maybe. Can anyone suggest the best second-hand places to try? Randolph
[EUG-LUG:528] Re: Been hacked
At the risk of being accused of anything but helpful.. For a small to medium network, it seems to me that isolating your servers from BOTH the LAN and outside networks with a DMZ firewall AND secure access box with POTS remote access makes lots of sense and is relatively inexpensive to implement. There was a nice article in LJ recently about DMZ configuration and I think Cyclades and others market 4-32 port RS-232 terminal servers, while Pentium and K6 boxes with modest resources and a pair of NIC's are dirt cheap compared to downtime, loss of revenue, etc.. Invoke serial port console support in the kernel, allow only the IP of the terminal server access to ssh, telnet, etc on that port ONLY, deny everything else and use a POTS dial-up line for remote access and let the DMZ take hits from the outside. Double, triple and multi-dundant. It's a simplistic approach, but sometimes that's just what it takes. Plus, it's way cheaper than hardware routers and gawd awful software licenses! IMHO the loss of LAN internet console access is well worth the security features. jk - James S. Kaplan KG7FU Eugene Oregon USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu ICQ # 1227639 Have YOU tried Linux today? -
[EUG-LUG:529] Re: Looking for a printer...
Rite-Aid has Apollo (HP DJ 8xx compatible) for $79 and they have a $30 or $40 rebate. $49 is cheap enuf? jk At 11:54 AM 3/31/2001, you wrote: A decent used inkjet, maybe. Can anyone suggest the best second-hand places to try? Randolph - James S. Kaplan KG7FU Eugene Oregon USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu ICQ # 1227639 Have YOU tried Linux today? -
[EUG-LUG:533] Re: Coyote Linux, a report
Here's a message I originally posted on Tuesday. I'm reposting it in the hope that somebody out there cares about my firewall saga. - Bob Miller wrote: This is a bit long, so here are the main points. * Coyote Linux makes setting up a firewall way too easy. * The Linuxcare Bootable Business Card rocks. * My firewall uses 32 watts. * Yet another failed tech startup. * Diverse tales of hardware acquisition and assembly. Here's an update. I spent the weekend trying to make Coyote do things it doesn't do. Specifically, I wanted to: Put an sshd on it so I don't have to use telnet. Give home machines static IP addresses via DHCPD Put a DNS cache on it Put a DNS server on it to give names to the machines on the LAN Hang a whiteboard in my office. (Oops, sorry, not Linux content. (-: ) Anyway, I messed around for quite a while, and learned that LRP packages do not plug in to Coyote. The startup scripts for Coyote are completely different. I got sshd working, and started reading about djbdns (Bind is 400K, djbdns is 28K, and we're limited to a single floppy, so djbdns is the obvious choice). I also learned about superformat, which will make a floppy hold 1680K instead of 1440K. Then I noticed that the Unix version of Coyote is 1.27, while the Windows version is 1.20. I built a 1.27 disk, and it came with two new features: ability to format disk to 1680K size sshd Oops, I'd wasted all that time. (-: So I built a brand new 1.27 disk and threw away the disk I'd painstakingly customized, then edited /etc/dhcpd.conf to give several machines static private IP addresses, then I put up djbdns on one of the machines with static IP. Is anybody here using djbdns? Wow, it's as idiosyncratic as its creator! So, once again, the lesson I failed to learn is, don't tinker. (-: On Friday, my cubemate had warned me that LRP systems are nothing but time sinks. I'd said, "Yeah, but I only spent five minutes configuring the software." Well, he was right. I've now spent a whole weekend on it. Other "upgrading pays off" news: I bought a copy of MacOS 9.1 on Friday, the last day before OS X was available. That allowed me to run the AirPort Setup Utility on my Mac, and the latest AirPort Setup Utility includes a firmware upgrade for the AirPort that fixed most of its buggy behavior. So my AirPort is happier now. And the whiteboard is up. Covered with router setup notes. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft, LLC, software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EUG-LUG:534] DHCP client ids and host names
Has anyone successfully configured DHCP to set a host to a static IP address based on its client ID or host name? I couldn't figure out how to get this to work. We occasionally swap our wireless cards around, so I don't want to base the IP address on the Mac address. Another, less pressing, desire is to get dhcpd to serve multiple IP addresses to the same DHCP client. Can that be done? Thanks. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft, LLC, software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EUG-LUG:535] Re: DHCP client ids and host names
I have been getting the same IP by simply claiming it... My box gets the same IP from the firewall each time by default, and the firewall gets the same IP "consistently" from my outside network, both of which use dhcp. "Consistently" is entirely based on my experience, I've never seen re-assignment, using dhcp when the hardware doesn't change (if I plug my laptop into a different port on UOnet, I will indeed get assigned a different IP). In some cases I've set a machine to assume an address in the range acceptable by the dhcp server, and if there's no conflicts it appears as though the dhcp server will accept a choice from the client ?? ben On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Bob Miller wrote: Has anyone successfully configured DHCP to set a host to a static IP address based on its client ID or host name? I couldn't figure out how to get this to work. We occasionally swap our wireless cards around, so I don't want to base the IP address on the Mac address. Another, less pressing, desire is to get dhcpd to serve multiple IP addresses to the same DHCP client. Can that be done? Thanks. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft, LLC, software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EUG-LUG:536] Re: Looking for a printer...
At 02:54 PM 3/31/2001 -0500, you wrote: A decent used inkjet, maybe. Can anyone suggest the best second-hand places to try? Randolph Hey, you can get a brand new HP Apollo for $79 or so and then get a $30 rebate. Why get a used one? Regards, Jim
[EUG-LUG:537] Re: recommendations for PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet
At 02:47 PM 3/31/2001 -0800, you wrote: Patrick R. Wade wrote: Does anyone have any experiences or recommendations for a PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card for Debian GNU/Linux? I'm looking to purchase one soon. Did you check the supported cards list? http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft, LLC, software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Geeks was selling Kingston 10/100 cards which are Linux compatible for $9.95 plus shipping. Regards, Jim
[EUG-LUG:538] Re: Looking for a printer...
For less than $50 and re-inkers @ $20 for black and $30 for color, just buy one and find out! I'm sure someone on the list will buy it for a windoze printer if you can't get it to print from Linux. jk At 01:35 PM 3/31/2001, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:05:05PM -0800, James S. Kaplan wrote: Rite-Aid has Apollo (HP DJ 8xx compatible) for $79 and they have a $30 or $40 rebate. $49 is cheap enuf? Well, I don't know. Would you recommend them for use? Do they work with Linux? Are the supplies also compatible? Randolph - James S. Kaplan KG7FU Eugene Oregon USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu ICQ # 1227639 Have YOU tried Linux today? -
[EUG-LUG:539] Re: DHCP client ids and host names
DHCP servers will often just revalidate the client's lease (ie, the same IP address.)
However there is NO GUARANTEE that the client will get the same lease. This is the
same with service providers, or local lans.
Bob, are you using dhcpd-2.2.x? In my debian config file there are a lot of helpful
notes (/etc/dhcpd.conf). One of them includes an example such as:
#host fantasia {
# hardware ethernet 08:00:07:26:c0:a5;
# fixed-address fantasia.fugue.com;
#}
I bet you can just comment out the hardware address and let it give the ip, or
hostname address to any computer claiming to be 'fantasia'. (if specifying a domain
name, it will be resolved first before the ip address is assigned, naturally).
Cory
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:49:15PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
I have been getting the same IP by simply claiming it...
My box gets the same IP from the firewall each time by default,
and the firewall gets the same IP "consistently" from my outside
network, both of which use dhcp. "Consistently" is entirely based
on my experience, I've never seen re-assignment, using dhcp when
the hardware doesn't change (if I plug my laptop into a different
port on UOnet, I will indeed get assigned a different IP).
In some cases I've set a machine to assume an address in the range
acceptable by the dhcp server, and if there's no conflicts it appears
as though the dhcp server will accept a choice from the client ??
ben
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
Has anyone successfully configured DHCP to set a host to a static
IP address based on its client ID or host name? I couldn't figure
out how to get this to work.
We occasionally swap our wireless cards around, so I don't want to
base the IP address on the Mac address.
Another, less pressing, desire is to get dhcpd to serve multiple
IP addresses to the same DHCP client. Can that be done?
Thanks.
--
Bob Miller Kbob
kbobsoft, LLC, software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EUG-LUG:540] Re: recommendations for PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:47:23PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: Patrick R. Wade wrote: Does anyone have any experiences or recommendations for a PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card for Debian GNU/Linux? I'm looking to purchase one soon. Did you check the supported cards list? http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS Yup. Actually, i wound up going to the Plan 9 site and found a card that was supported by Plan 9, then made sure it was on the Linux supported cards lists. Now if i can just get rio to play nice with my graphics stuff... -- "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson
