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Re: [RndTbl] HP PhotoSmart P1000 image importing
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

According to Ray Henry: > OK, I've got an HP PhotoSmart P1000 connected to a system running RH > 7.1. I've got the printer to print just fine, but have not been able to > find any information on reading the SmartCard, except that it is > supposed to be supported. > > Any idea *where* I can find some type of documentaion on this? I's like > to get away from MS 100%...... I'm not sure about that camera specifically, but many of these SmartCard based systems simply make the memory available as a FAT file system, emulating a disk drive. I've used USB memory sticks this way under Linux, and I assume it would be about the same thing with these. Linux fakes the driver interface to look like a SCSI disk. It should all just happen auto-magically when you plug the thing in, assuming you're using a recent Linux distribution with a 2.4 kernel. You would either use mtools, or mount the thing as a vfat file system type, to access the files under Linux. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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HP PhotoSmart P1000 image importing
by Ray Henry 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

OK, I've got an HP PhotoSmart P1000 connected to a system running RH 7.1. I've got the printer to print just fine, but have not been able to find any information on reading the SmartCard, except that it is supposed to be supported. Any idea *where* I can find some type of documentaion on this? I's like to get away from MS 100%......

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*BSD and PCMCIA networking
by Glen Ditchfield 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Just for the heck of it, I installed NetBSD 1.6 on an old laptop. (12MB RAM - not even enough to run Red Hat 6.2's installer!) I've configured it to network through a PCMCIA ethernet card, using DHCP, and it seems to work fine after booting. But then, if I eject the card and reinsert it, the network breaks. Ping gives the message "sendto: no route to host". I can fix this by manually restarting the DHCP client. I'd like this done automatically. I've looked around, but I don't see any way to configure what happens during card ejection and insertion events. Am I missing something? Do the other BSD variants handle PCMCIA differently?

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ReiserFS for RH 7.1?
by Ray Henry 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

Is there a way to covert ext2 to ReiserFS on a RH 7.1 system without losing data? Can RH 7.1 mount ReiserFS?

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Re: Roundtable digest, Vol 1 #161 - 2 msgs
by wellman1＠mb.sympatico.ca 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

I too would find an additional evening dedicated to Q & A very interesting. Please include my name as one of the interested members. Scott Wellman SA University of Manitoba

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PDF creation under Linux
by Mike Pfaiffer 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

I've been thinking of experimenting with the format of the magazine. It was suggested we consider having a single PDF file as an alternative. I've used ps2pdf successfully in the past. Chris showed me something under Windows which allowed for the creation of a table of contents. Is there something like this under Linux? I'd like to allow people to click on the title of the article and have direct access to it. Later Mike P.S. Good suggestion Sean. Chapters gets my vote. Especially if it is free. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | | See my web page before you think about spamming me. I charge cash. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

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Extra meeting
by Mike Pfaiffer 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Sounds good with me. I'd suggest perhaps we have it on a different day during a different week from the regular meeting (to catch those on a rotating shift). As to where... It all depends on what we want to accomplish with it. If we want to do some advocasy with it then we would probably want to look at some place like the U of W/U of M/St. Boniface College. Preferably a location with good bus service. If it is simply for the benefit of the members, the current location is fine (if Steve can swing it). Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | | See my web page before you think about spamming me. I charge cash. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

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extra roundtable meetings / kppp grief
by Ian Timshel 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi all. Thanks Shawn for putting out the effort to present the Gentoo introduction last night. I live an hour south of Winnipeg so it's not an easy jaunt to come in to another meeting.. it's not even easy to come in once a month...heh I'd like to see this list forum used more, but it seems that most take those energies elsewhere. If I was closer I'd certainly benefit from more contact with you guys. kppp trouble: I run a Redhat 7.2 box with the Redhat 2.4.9-34 kernel with: Qt: 2.3.2 KDE: 2.2.2-3 KPPP: 2.0.9 Duron 1.2 384 megs RAM I am having some trouble with kppp. At least I think so... It is growing in it's memory use and eventually causing me to have to shut it down. However I'd love to learn to be able to prove such a thing. I can't keep this machine up for more than a couple weeks without trouble. I ask these questions to attempt to correct this. The problems probably haven't shown up until now because I am stuck on a dial up and only recently got a dedicated dial-up line... even that sucks, but that's what I get for living in the bush.. heh. I yanked out kdenetwork-ppp-2.2.2-2 and reinstalled this kppp containing rpm but that didn't change the fact that when I start kppp and connect with it, its resident memory size is about 10700k, and several hours later it has more than doubled to 25000k. Granted... I don't know if this is normal, but other programs don't seem to do this... I don't know what the memory size is after a couple of weeks, or even days as I just noticed this yesterday. Obviously I'm grasping at straws here to try and stabilise this box further. I've been monitoring with "ps aux" and periodically have to "kill -9" to some lame process or other but other than that I can't see any other misbehaviour that would cause the stability to deteriorate. No doubt there are a gazillion other possibilities. Could someone suggest an approach for tracing or fixing this problem. I could work up a script to connect to my isp instead of using kppp as I have done in the past but I'd like to know how to rectify this problem regardless. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Cheers! Ian.

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Extra roundtable meeting
by Scott Balneaves 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

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Fwd: Diagnostice tool
by Brock Wolfe 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

I did a little more research and found a few links on Linux Kernel and System Testing. http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/testsuites/ http://www.linux-1u.net/Diags/ Brock Wolfe ___________________________________________________________________ "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." --- Henry Ford ___________________________________________________________________

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