Re: USB Compact Flash card reader?

2002-08-11 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, We've got a Sundisk one at work that works fine under Linux, although I'm not sure what it cost, it wasn't purchased by us.. I believe they are in the order of $100 ish. Cheers, Chris H. - Original Message - From: Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: USB Compact Flash card reader?

2002-08-11 Thread Nick Rout
Hi. I'm looking for a cheap linux compatible USB Compact Flash card reader. Is anyone able to recommend brands that work well with linux and where I can get one from? Thanks. Muse USB 5-in-1 CompactFlash, Smartmedia, MMC, Microdrive Secure Digital Card Reader 80.00 + GST Muse

Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread Lee Begg
On Sunday 11 August 2002 8:35 pm, you wrote: Who said that Linux doesn't lock-up like Windows! I was trying to save a copy of my MBR (mbr.b) by copying to diskette via Mandrake 8.2 and Konquerer. The mouse pointer disappeared and the machine locked up. No copying was done to the diskette

Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread Nick Rout
On the other had, the webserver I admin has been up 4 weeks (tomorrow), no problems (Debain Sid, no X). 4 weeks? whats wrong with it? Many people on this list have uptimes of the thick end of a year. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html reports longest uptimes of 1420 days!!

Uptime wank, was Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread C Falconer
lemonsqueeze up 423+16:48, 0 users, load 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 Its a cable firewall, doing NAT, portforwarding, and running dnetc. On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 07:51, Nick Rout wrote: On the other had, the webserver I admin has been up 4 weeks (tomorrow), no problems (Debain Sid, no X). 4

Re: Lock up! (maybe not...)

2002-08-11 Thread Carl Cerecke
Peter Cornelius wrote: Who said that Linux doesn't lock-up like Windows! I was trying to save a copy of my MBR (mbr.b) by copying to diskette via Mandrake 8.2 and Konquerer. The mouse pointer disappeared and the machine locked up. No copying was done to the diskette according to the 'copy

Borrow RH 7.3 CD's please

2002-08-11 Thread Carl Cerecke
Hi All, Anyone willing to lend me a set of RH7.3 CD's for a week or so? I live in Shirley and own a car. Cheers, Carl.

Re: Multihead X

2002-08-11 Thread C Falconer
I had a nvidia geforce 2 ddr AGP card, and a 2 Mb S3 trio and 2 Mb S3 Virge DX. The nvidia uses the nvidia kernel module, and the S3 card uses the VESA X server. My screens were configured like this: ++---+ ||xxx| || | |1 | 2 |-- S3 at 1024x768 |

Re: Uptime wank, was Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread Nick Rout
Sad, those people who don't keep their firewall kernels updated with the latest security fixes... and all in the interest of some dumb useless numbers. But at least you changed the subject: appropriately :) Volker As someone said on the list recently, there may be ways to update your

Re: Lock up! (maybe not...)

2002-08-11 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: Sometimes it is just X windows that gets its knickers in a knot, not Linux. Usually the following works: Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a virtual terminal. (You can use F1-F6). If this doesn't work, you are probably hung hard. If you are on a network you can

Re: Lock up! (maybe not...)

2002-08-11 Thread Yuri de Groot
Yep, I've had X freeze up the keyboard. I know the kernel is still chugging away in the background - I can hear it breathing. (I know you're in there - I can smell your brain...) So I've got an mgetty thingy in inittab listening to the serial port (not the one my mouse uses, the other one),

Re: Uptime wank, was Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread C Falconer
Linux lemonsqueezer 2.2.19 #3 Tue May 22 05:46:18 NZST 2001 i686 unknown Port State Service 22/tcp openssh 25/tcp opensmtp 113/tcpopenauth and the machine is running up-to-day woody.

RE: USB Compact Flash card reader?

2002-08-11 Thread Guy Steven
I have a 5-in-1 reader, although not sure of the brand. I got the impression it was one of these generic things. I can verify that it works with linux. It sure as hell does't work with Win 98 or Win 2000, causing the former to hang and the latter to spontaneously reboot, badly written drivers I

OT: biscuits

2002-08-11 Thread C Falconer
Griffens have a new line of biscuits - Turkish Delight They look like stunted mallowpuffs, but they're bloody nice! (how much more OT can we get?)

Re: Very OT: biscuits

2002-08-11 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 10:07, C Falconer wrote: Griffens have a new line of biscuits - Turkish Delight And what type of toxic industrial waste did they choose to colour it with ? Rex

Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread Lee Begg
Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On the other had, the webserver I admin has been up 4 weeks (tomorrow), no problems (Debain Sid, no X). 4 weeks? whats wrong with it? Nothing. Nothing at all. 4 weeks ago the box was installed in it's current position. I has run flawlessly. It

Re: Uptime wank, was Re: Lock up!

2002-08-11 Thread Stephen Nicholas
The longest uptime my computers ever had is about a week, (i think i went on holiday and left it running) its normal is about 16hrs at a time. I like to sleep without that highpitched whizzing noise, and i break stuff and swap hardware way to ofetn to worry about uptime. Steve On Mon, Aug 12,

Re: help needed with Dual Head - XF86Config file included

2002-08-11 Thread C Falconer
Try commenting out the dri and GLcore lines. Its a stab in the dark but all the configs I've compared have DRI disabled. On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 11:28, Steve Bell wrote: Section Module #Load GLcore Load dbe Load extmod Load fbdevhw # Load dri

CFReaders

2002-08-11 Thread Vik Olliver
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 19:16, Chris Hellyar wrote: Hi-ho, We've got a Sundisk one at work that works fine under Linux, although I'm not sure what it cost, it wasn't purchased by us.. I believe they are in the order of $100 ish. I've been looking for one that plugs into an IDE socket. That

Network problems: no usable address fam. found.

2002-08-11 Thread Gerard van Antwerpen
Hi, Trying to set up a gateway / modem share on our LAN with Slackware 8.0. Install went ok, now i'm having problems with the nic. Card is a DE-220 (PnP disabled) , I load the module for a standard NE-2000 and that seems to work ok. Card is recognized, but when doing ifconfig or ping the

Kde panel lost, how does one get back?

2002-08-11 Thread j . visch
My sister managed to lose the kde panel, how does one restore it? She has tried rebooting. I had a browse through the .kde2 directory structure but couldn't find it or didn't know what to look for. Any help much appreciated. Julian p.s. thanks for those who helped with my sound card, its now

RH7.3 lender found

2002-08-11 Thread Carl Cerecke
Thanks to the multitude who replied and offered a copy of RH7.3 Cheers, Carl.

RE: CFReaders - Possible option

2002-08-11 Thread Steve Dunford
I have a Maxtor MobileMax DeskRunner PCMCIA adaptor that plugs into its own ISA card, and screws into a 3.5 or 5.25 bay. I have no idea if it is supported under Linux, as I just found it hiding in one of my drawers - it used to use it under Windows 95 ok - it allows a normal PC to use PCMCIA