[SLUG] keyboard converter?

2002-11-29 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
is there any way to use old keyboard connection with a ps2 keyboard? i know there is converter for serial mouse to ps2 mouse, but what about keyboard? Thanks. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] keyboard converter?

2002-11-29 Thread Paul L Daniels
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:03:01 +1100 Phillipus Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any way to use old keyboard connection with a ps2 keyboard? i know there is converter for serial mouse to ps2 mouse, but what about keyboard? There are converters to go from PS/2 - 5pin keyboards. and

RE: [SLUG] keyboard converter?

2002-11-29 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
is it will works on linux (redhat 8)? coz i've got the converter for the mouse and it doesn't work when I install RH8, the RH didn't detect any mouse. after I change it into 'real' serial mouse, it works. is that because my converter is broken or RH8 never allow mouse converter? -Original

RE: [SLUG] keyboard converter?

2002-11-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Basically if a serial mouse is not designed to work with both PS/2 and serial it won't work on a PS/2 port with or without a converter. I would say the mouse is a plain ole serial mouse with no ps/2 capabilities whatsoever. (Most newer serial mouse have both protocols built in). Has it worked on

[SLUG] [OT] Telstra switches to Linux/Unix

2002-11-29 Thread evilbunny
Hello syd-wireless, http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=0Art_ID=11352 Telstra standardises on Linux, Unix Telstra chief information officer Jeff Smith has revealed plans to shift the telco's back-office systems to the Linux operating system wherever possible, to take advantage of the

[SLUG] (no subject)

2002-11-29 Thread Barrie Hall
Solaris yes, Linux (unfortunately) no. Hello syd-wireless, http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=0Art_ID=11352 Telstra standardises on Linux, Unix Telstra chief information officer Jeff Smith has revealed plans to shift the telco's back-office systems to the Linux operating

Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Bill Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Fox wrote I've been playing with 2.4.20-rc4 and 2.4.20-rc4-ac1 through the day. And then just before I went to look on kernel.org again to see what other patches I could get, only to find that 2.4.20 had been merged into the tree. I

Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

2002-11-29 Thread Ben de Luca
hmm when i read the change log isnt 2.4.20-rc4 really 2.4.20 you could just use that? - Original Message - From: Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

[SLUG] USB webcam driver development

2002-11-29 Thread Paul L Daniels
Anyone here in Australia any good with USB driver development? I'm embarking on writing a driver for a low-cost/common webcam here in Australia sold as the 'Swann Versacam MINI'. I've already located all the specs on both the sensor chip ( Hynix HV7131D ) and the sensor-to-USB bridge. I was

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-11-29 Thread Martin
$author = Barrie Hall ; Solaris yes, Linux (unfortunately) no. have another read. he says they're are moving to linux across the board unless linux can't scale for a particular application in which case solaris will be the UNIX they choose to fill those needs. marty -- To err is human, to

RE: [SLUG] Suscpicious IRCd connections

2002-11-29 Thread Minh Van Le
I totally forgot about netstat ! I do believe I've been owned ... [root@f1 04:06:53 ppp]# netstat -pant |grep 443 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1591/httpd [root@f1 04:06:59 ppp]# netstat -pant |grep 6667 tcp0 0 202.7.95.227:1057

RE: [SLUG] Suscpicious IRCd connections

2002-11-29 Thread Minh Van Le
These hackers mean business. The suspicious DALnet server on 64.35.57.81:6667 turns out to be a DALnet imposter. I only picked this up when noticing brief modem activity (when there should have been none) and took a look at tcpdump, and started doing nslookups on various hosts to add to my

Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Ben de Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hmm when i read the change log isnt 2.4.20-rc4 really 2.4.20 you could just use that? That is correct, as someone pointed out yesterday 2.4.20-rc4 was frozen to 2.4.20 with no changes. And since I don't pay for bandwidth while I am working, I just

RE: [SLUG] Suscpicious IRCd connections

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Minh Van Le [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I totally forgot about netstat ! I do believe I've been owned ... [root@f1 04:06:53 ppp]# netstat -pant |grep 443 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1591/httpd [root@f1 04:06:59 ppp]# netstat -pant |grep

[SLUG] Mouse Scroll Up disappared in X11

2002-11-29 Thread Karl Bowden
I just bought a new Logitech optical wireless mouse (my last mouse was a Logitech wireless as well, but it had balls), and now I cannot use the wheel to scroll up when using X11, Gnome, or KDE. Yet it works fine in windows still. Any suggestions? Regards, Karl Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] redhat 8.0

2002-11-29 Thread jared
against my better judgment i baught redhat 8.0 at the latest slug metting (yesterday) and so far i havent been able to get my modem to work under it. the gui doesnt locate it however wvdial does on port ttyS1 however when i try to dial the modem it cant send the strings to the modem i

Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

2002-11-29 Thread Bill Taylor
20mnins for a patch? surely your not on a 28.8 modem? 56k..download didn't come under 4.1k/s Having just 1 full source tree for a kernel and then using patches each time to get that source upgraded is quick n easy if you don't want to download the full tar source for each release.

Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

2002-11-29 Thread Grant Byers
Bill Taylor [of Sydney Linux Users Group] wrote: patch asks file to patch: the answer is not linux-2.4.19 apparently ? I have cd'd to linux -2.4.19 and it says no such file or directory How are you applying the patch? You only need to cd to the top level kernel source directory and

Re: [SLUG] redhat 8.0

2002-11-29 Thread Kevin Saenz
Hmmm, Spell checker could help :) What exactly is your problem? Do you want some help? Or you just have an axe to grind about RedHat? Have you tried the HOWTOs? Just a side issue are you aware that Outlook Express is very insecure? against my better judgment i baught redhat 8.0 at the

Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement

2002-11-29 Thread Bill Taylor
Grant Byers wrote: How are you applying the patch? You only need to cd to the top level kernel source directory and do a patch -p1 patchfile Cheers, Grant thanks Grant , it was me that did it wrong! as usual!!! bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Re: IBM viavoice

2002-11-29 Thread lukekendall
On 27 Nov, Internet wrote: Luke - use the force Mandrake 7.2 came out with IBM VV - might that help?? I have copies... I've heard that it's only a trial version (at least, in Mandrake 8.0). Do you know what that means? Is it limited in some way? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Motherboard replacement = no sound

2002-11-29 Thread lukekendall
On 26 Nov, David Fitch wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:14:03PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any advice on sensible next steps? If I disable the AC97 codec via the BIOS, and re-run sndconfig, are things likely to suddenly just start working? maybe, or remove the sb and use the

[SLUG] last night's broken presentation

2002-11-29 Thread James Gregory
I've put the magicpoint presentation up along with some screenshots of what I wanted to show you guys at http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~jgre4014/slug/ In case anyone was wondering why it was broken, it was because I'd done something stupid and destroyed my package database before the

Re: [SLUG] redhat 8.0

2002-11-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=jared p.s anyone know how to kill that god awful blue curve ive checked through the most obvious gnome config files Wow, which Bluecurve themes do you dislike? I'm not a huge fan of the icons (change /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme in gconf-editor), but I love the metacity