Re: [SLUG] Re: Discussion about SLUG meetings and format

2010-08-04 Thread dave b
On 4 August 2010 13:19, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/08/10 21:09, elliott-brennan wrote: and a wife who has late clients Jon J wrote: So she's an undertaker? Jon. Boom Tish! Clin Psych. If you can't afford one, marry one - that's my motto! ;) James -

Re: [SLUG] NASA’s own Nebula cloud released under an Apache 2

2010-08-04 Thread Morgan Storey
very interesting development, if it is better than KVM or the Xen that Amazon EC2 use then it will get use or the features rolled in. The thing that interests me most is the first two comments, touting Microsoft's Azure, something I had heard of but from what I was aware had almost 0 uptake in

[SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Jon Jermey
I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the Wi-Fi (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know of a distro which recognises wireless out of the box on this specific model or, failing that, a

[SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 22:57:20 Jon Jermey wrote: I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the Wi-Fi (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know of a distro which recognises wireless

Re: [SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2010 22:57:20 Jon Jermey wrote: I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the Wi-Fi (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know of a distro which

Re: [SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread darrin hodges
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.auwrote: Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2010 22:57:20 Jon Jermey wrote: I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010, Jon Jermey wrote: I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the Wi-Fi (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know of a distro which recognises wireless out of the box

[SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Thursday 05 August 2010 00:54:07 Adrian Chadd wrote: I have one of these very-recent atheros chipset Eeepc laptops and it works fine. Just need to remember to recompile it every time the kernel is updated. Been through that a few times with my EeePC 701 and 1005HA. More recently with

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Jon Jermey
Under Windows it can be turned on or off with Fn-F2, and it's always on after booting. I don't know any other way. The output from lspci -v tells me it's an Atheros Communications Inc Device 002c (revo 01) Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1112 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 Memory at

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
It is supposed to work with more recent kernels. The eeebuntu and fedora info says it works -- now. And this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-2.6.32/+bug/521967 suggests it works for more recent ubuntu or one of the PPA kernels mentioned there. Maybe you just

Re: [SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010, Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2010 00:54:07 Adrian Chadd wrote: I have one of these very-recent atheros chipset Eeepc laptops and it works fine. Just need to remember to recompile it every time the kernel is updated. Been through that a few times

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread james
On Thursday 05 August 2010 08:34:25 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee 1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the Wi-Fi (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know of a distro which

[SLUG] Getting a Thunderbird plugin modified

2010-08-04 Thread Nigel Allen
Greetings First off - apologies if this is misuse of the list. I'm a frequent lurker / occasional poster I'm looking for someone who can modify an existing Thunderbird plugin (ImportExportTools) for me. Basically I need it to prompt for some information and use this in the name of the exported

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/10 10:26, Jon Jermey wrote: Under Windows it can be turned on or off with Fn-F2, and it's always on after booting. I don't know any other way. The output from lspci -v tells me it's an Atheros Communications Inc Device 002c (revo