Re: [SLUG] Atheros wifi (chipset AR5212) Dapper :-(

2006-06-09 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 08/06/2006, at 10:20 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 07/06/2006, at 6:04 PM, john hedge wrote: Hi List, I'm afraid my wifi (lan is running fine) experience with Dapper is the same as this fellows. http://www.technologyevangelist.com/ 2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html Has anyone had

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:36 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Erik de Castro Lopo Jeff Waugh wrote: What happens when you do the above, when you're on battery? Not good: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on_ac_power [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $? 1 I even tried rebooting

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Robert Collins This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's. Okay, thanks, I'll see what I can do. :-) 1 means 'on battery'. Yeah (thus sweet), but that obviously doesn't have *any* impact on Erik's problem with starting on boot, does it? (I suspect it might be an issue with

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:50:59AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I even tried rebooting and booting on battery and I get the same result, it still thinks is on AC power. This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's. FWIW, this works fine (i.e. I get the expected behaviour of no fsck on

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:39 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Robert Collins This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's. Okay, thanks, I'll see what I can do. :-) 1 means 'on battery'. Yeah (thus sweet), but that obviously doesn't have *any* impact on Erik's problem with

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ian Wienand wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:50:59AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I even tried rebooting and booting on battery and I get the same result, it still thinks is on AC power. This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's. FWIW, this works fine (i.e. I get the expected

Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

2006-06-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:49 +, Mary Gardiner wrote: The user-space program to run is nm-tool. This probably shows up somewhere in the desktop menus, but I have no idea what it's called and $ find ~/.gnome2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep nm-tool isn't helpful on that front. Let me know if

Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

2006-06-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Peter Hardy I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that *weren'* otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you commented out the eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? NM works on interfaces that aren't listed as well as interfaces that have a complete

[SLUG] Changing default save locations on usb-stick mount

2006-06-09 Thread James Purser
I need to capture usb stick mounting events and run a script that changes the default save location for Firefox and OO.o to that memory stick. Target distro is Ubuntu Breezy if that helps. If anyone has anything they could point me at, that would be great. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter -

Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

2006-06-09 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = Jeff Waugh ; I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that *weren'* otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you commented out the eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? NM works on interfaces that aren't listed as well as interfaces that have

Re: [SLUG] Automatic wireless profiles

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 6/9/06, James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I read the documentation and discovered that I need to remove the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces file for all the interfaces I want it to manage. If I do that, it scans for APs and gives me a list of them that I can configure by

Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

2006-06-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Martin Barry i need two active interfaces though. wireless holds default route but wired has crossover cable to a desktop to run synergy, rsync etc.etc. can NM handle that? i can't tell from the threadbare doco in the man page and on gnome.org... It's not a use case that NM (in

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ok, daughter now in bed, so I can hack and stuff. Robert Collins wrote: - which could be my misreading of what 'it' referred to. Anyhow, Erik - can you add: rv = $? log_failure_message on_ac_power result $rv Actually, its log_failure_msg after the /usr/bin/on_ac_power script is run

[SLUG] movie not on output vga connector

2006-06-09 Thread Ken Foskey
I slot in my DVD and it plays and shows on the screen but not on the projector that I have borrowed. All other screen image shows but the movie area just shows black. Any suggestions, I am supposed to run a movie tomorrow night :-( Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] [NRS] - Learn Ruby - space available

2006-06-09 Thread david
Want to learn Ruby? Prepared to commit for at least 6 weeks on Tuesday nights? One of our participants had to drop out because of work commitments, so if someone out there is interested in taking his place that would be cool. Contact me or Matt Palmer off-list. You have to be a newbie at Ruby,

Re: [SLUG] movie not on output vga connector

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 6/9/06, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I slot in my DVD and it plays and shows on the screen but not on the projector that I have borrowed. All other screen image shows but the movie area just shows black. Any suggestions, I am supposed to run a movie tomorrow night :-( This is

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:06:50PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Did you install dapper straight up or install breezy and then dist-upgrade? I'm pretty sure I even installed the one before breezy, upgraded it to breezy and then upgraded again to dapper. I'm afraid I'm one of those

[SLUG] Re: [coders] [NRS] - Learn Ruby - space available

2006-06-09 Thread Vini Engel
Sorry for the top post but I just wanted to be quick. I want to participate, I didn't say anything before because I was concerned about the distance but I have just seen that you guys are meeting in surry hills. I would appreciate to be able to attend :) Thanks Vini david said the following on

[SLUG] USB TV Systems

2006-06-09 Thread Gerald
Hello to one and all, Can anyone suggest a good Linux compatible usb TV system??? Preferably working on both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, but certainly on the 2.6 kernel. Again, preferably out of the working. I would like to purchase one in the next coup;e of weeks. So... Any help would be most