May 2003 - main - earth.li

[Alug]Lilo - Fatal: register_bios: volume ID serial no. duplicated: 0000000A
by Barry Samuels 23 May '03

23 May '03

The current version of Lilo that I am running with Debian Testing is 22.4.1-1 which is fine. If I upgrade to the latest version 22.5.2-2 I get the message in the subject line when I run lilo. Nothing on the machine has changed and if I revert to 22.4.1-1 every thing is fine again. I've put the new package on hold to prevent upgrading until I know what's going on. Can anyone tell me what the message means, why this should happen suddenly and can I do anything about it? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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[Alug]Wireless Rural Broadband
by Ben Francis 23 May '03

23 May '03

After I mentioned on either PLUG or ALUG that a local company was looking into providing a wireless internet service based on 802.11g, I had a couple of people asking who this company was. I can now confirm that the project will be run by Stamford based company 2xp (http://2xp.co.uk) and the webpage of the project is here http://www.wrbb.net Worringly there have been several messages recently claiming that there are no 802.11g cards yet that run on Linux. I'd love to know if anyone knows any different as I'm very interested in the proposed service. There was recently a lot of activity on Slashdot regarding this article http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,81450,00.html ?nas=PM-81450 which claims that the latest (and possibly final) draft specification released for 802.11g by the IEE will drop the original 54 meg speed to around 20 meg, quite a significant difference. 2xp, the Stamford company got in touch with the IEE and the following text is from here http://www.sourcewire.com/sub_releases/search_results.php?id=16844&hilite "WRBB technical staff visiting the WiFi Exhibition in Olympia have been in contact with Dennis Eaton (Chair of the WiFi Alliance) and Nicholas Sargologos (Prism Product Marketing) who are both voting members of the IEEE 802.11g Committee and have been assured that this is not the case. The standards are to be ratified at the end of June and the voting members assured WRBB that "there is a less than 2% chance of the standard being downgraded". Sorry if this seems a little off topic, but my main concern is that I won't be able to use the proposed wireless internet in Linux. Perhaps there are some 802.11b products that run on Linux and will be compatible with the service? Regards Ben "tola" Francis

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[Alug]USB HC TakeOver Failed! message
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hi all, I'm getting this message on startup with kernel 2.4.20 usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xce915000, IRQ 10 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:01c2 (nVidia Corporation) usb-ohci.c: USB HC TakeOver failed! Trying to free vfree() nonexistent vm area (ce915000) usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xce915000, IRQ 10 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, PCI device 10de:01c2 (nVidia Corporation) usb.c: new bus registered, assigned bus number 1 The machine then hangs. I did a google search and found a thread where someone said that meant the bios and kernel were having a punch up over usb controller, and to turn USB controller to disabled. I did this, and sure enough it booted, but then I had no usb. This is on the motherboard A7N266-VM I was droning on about in an earlier thread. Am I missing some point or other where I should have installed an nvidia driver for usb control as well as audio, net and graphics? Any help appreciated. Jen

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[Alug]In praise of Mandrake 9.1
by Ian Bell 22 May '03

22 May '03

I have recently been trying a number of distros including debian and knoppix in an attempt to find something better than my current rh7.3 (rh9.0 being abysmal). On this month's Linux Format DVD was Mandrake 9.1 so I gave it a whirl. Installs OK on my Dell laptop, X works fine, has a recent kde desktop, a good selection of apps and best of all my USB camera plugs in and pops up as a desktop icon. Like rh9 they have omitted kpackage but at least the Mandrake installer allows you to install non Mandrake rpms. This could be it. Ian

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[Alug]Norwich evening meeting status
by Syd Hancock 22 May '03

22 May '03

Overall concensus seems to be for the British Legion Hall on Aylsham road. Just a brief update - I have contacted the BL Hall but the person who deals with bookings is not there for a few days. I will also be away from friday but I'll try and remember to phone up again early next week to make a booking or bookings. Syd

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[Alug]Kernel Assertion Failure (TCP)
by Steve Fosdick 22 May '03

22 May '03

I am getting a interesting kernel assertion failure message relating to TCP. KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) KERNEL: assertion ((1<<sk2->state)&(TCPF_ESTABLISHED|TCPF_CLOSE_WAIT|TCPF_CLOSE)) failed at af_inet.c(689) Does anyone know if this indicates a kernel bug, or could it just be the result of someone sending me IP packets that don't conform to the standard? Steve.

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[Alug]pci wireless card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hi, Can anyone recommend a PCI wireless card that they have found to work well under linux? I've been looking at these: http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopSearch.asp?CategoryID=59&ShopGroup… Other recommendations welcome! Thanks, Jenny

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Re: [Alug]pci wireless card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 21 May '03

21 May '03

Adam Bower wrote: >prism2 cased cards work quite well I have a dlink dwl-520 (not an dwl 520+ they >don't work) but I think they have now been discontinued, if you do get a prism >based card you can run it as an access point (saving money, but this does >involve more tearing out of hair :)) http://hostap.epitest.fi/ is a good place >to look for supported kit, they have good mailing lists. Adam, thanks....tearing out of hair definitely not on the cards, much as BJ thinks I like to do things the hard way :-) Some most useful links there. Jen

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[Alug]John Atkinson's Sensory Keyboard Project
by John Seago 20 May '03

20 May '03

John, could you get in touch with Ian Bell <ian(a)redtommo.com> as he may be able to put you in touch with others who may be able to further your above mentioned project. I would have put in direct contact with Ian, but I am afraid that your Email address has disappeared in past re-installations. -- John Seago

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[Alug]SCO stuff
by Adam Bower 20 May '03

20 May '03

Oh how they have changed... http://www.caldera-benelux.com/ou8_os_news.html Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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