June 2004 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Committee meeting minutes
by Craig Box 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Minutes of tonight's committee meeting are now up at http://www.wlug.org.nz/CommitteeMeetingTopics.2004-06-23. Please note that last meeting we clarified our subscription policy; the $20 subscription is for a year's membership between AGMs. We're sorry that the installfest fell within 6 months of the next meeting, but we hope that you'll all consider the WLUG a worthy enough cause to resubscribe in September when our AGM occurs. Please also accept our apologies that there was no notification of this meeting; the meeting reminder bot is on holiday and will be fixed very shortly. Craig

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Re: Re: [wlug] modem
by Stephen Pearce 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hi, Went ahead and got one of these ... and the ltmodem source which I'm trying to compile under 2.6 what do you list when you "lspci" the modem? I get an unrecognised pcTel device .. number 2179 .. I am wondering if they have substituted a no name brand for the lectron modme you got ... either way compiling seems to be un straightforward .. so could you send me any tricks you used to get it compiled (fedora 2) thanks Stephen > > From: Daniel Lawson <daniel(a)meta.net.nz> > Date: 2004/06/18 Fri AM 08:59:46 GMT+12:00 > To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Subject: Re: [wlug] modem > > > > > > I'd get a Lectron I56PSP/F40 PCI modem from Ascent > > (http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=120287) $20.93, and > > it works well in linux. > > > > Get the ltmodem drivers from > > http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/. If you're running > > FC2 on a P2 or Celeron or later, you'll *probably* be ok to get the > > binary release drivers - make sure you get the right one for the > > kernel you are running however! > > > > Just following this up - there are (or were, when I looked a month or > two back), two sets of binary drivers - one for i386, one for i686. > Except, the ones targetted for i386, were actually still compiled for > i686. This means they will not work at all on an i586 system, such as a > pentium, or a k6 or k6-2 processor. > > If you've got a Celeron or Pentium 2 or later, or an AMD Athlon or > Duron, you'll be fine. > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Win4Lin sponsorship
by Gavin Denby 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

I see Dun and Hawkes bay have taken advantage of this. http://www.netraverse.com/LUG/ Are we interested, I was about to price a copy but thought I'd ask first.

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Re: Re: [wlug] modem
by Stephen Pearce 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hi Gavin, I'd be keen to obtain the 56k external .. I'll be in Hamilton 4th Sept. and could pick it up then or I could get a Hamilton friend pick it up beforehand if you wish .. how much do you want for it? Thanks Stephen ps I could swap it for an internal 56k conextant hcf modem !:) > But I do have adsl so, I have a 56K external, and some 33.6k Phone > Modems if you need one, and you don't mind collecting from Hamilton.

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modem
by Stephen Pearce 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Any suggestions for a replacement of my conexant hcf internal, modem which has stopped since I upgraded to fedora 2? The DS Intel Ham has a similar problem with the chip manufacturer having a proprietry component to the driver and not upgrading to the latest linux releases Thanks Stephen

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HP-UX 11i expertise wanted
by Pete 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Hi UNIXers, I'm working on a port of a very large C++ project from Windows to Unix. The aim is to get the system running successfully under HP-UX 11i. The application is multithreaded and runs as a service under Windows and as a daemon under Unix. The application uses the 3rd party libraries boost, CenterPoint XML, OTL++ and libodbc++. It currently interacts with SQL Server and Oracle databases. I have to say that I'm definitively not a Unix person; my skills are in the Windows arena. Even so I have managed to convert the code successfully so that it runs fine under Linux RH8 and RH9 (compiled using GCC 3.2). However, I'm extremely frustrated to find that I have a major problem with the software under HP-UX: it seems to CORE dump after running for "some time" (typically 2 - 3hrs). I simply don't know enough about HP-UX and urgently need someone assist me. The skills that I'm seeking are: - HP9000/HP-UX 11i - C++ - STL, pthread (or even better boost::thread) - GCC and GDB One word of caution: the HP9000 machine I'm using for testing is located in the USA and Internet access is relatively slow. I have managed using an X-client, but response times make this a fairly impracticable option. I'd love to hear from anyone who might be interested. Peter Hug Warehouse Optimization LLC Phone +64-6-8354933

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HP-UX 11i expertise wanted
by Craig Box 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

This message from Peter got eaten by the "too big" fairy the first time around -- Craig -- Thanks for your many insightful comments Perry. > What signal is it dying with? The message I get is: Program exited with signal 11 (Segmentation Fault) However, from the attached stack frame you can see that erros occur inside stl code. In this particular case, it all has to do with simple std::string manipulations which require resizing the strings internal buffer. However, the error can also occur at entirely different locations. Also, I'm really puzzled why I only see 11 frames on the stack for this thread. What the code actually does is call a method of class ExceptionContext to write a message to a log file (the method behaves basically like sprintf). The following code reflects somehow what the code might have been doing at the time of the crash (error occurs at gEC.ReportDiagnostic()): #include "Exception.h" ExceptionContext gEC("mylogfile.log"); void foo() { std::string strDB = "Database"; std::string strTbl = "Table"; std::string strK1 = "12"; std::string strK2 = "A92bit12"; std::string strK3 = "901-12"; gEC.ReportDignostic("Table %s has key %s", (std::string("[") + strDB + "." + strTbl + "]").c_str(), (std::string("[") + strK1 + "/" + strK2 + "/" + strK3 + "]").c_str()); } Clearly, there are more frames on the stack, but I simply don't understand how to get the complete picture. But don't be fooled by this stack trace; a fact is that the error is everytime totally different and only occurs under HP-UX. > Linux has a great program called "valgrind" that can be used for > debugging memory and threading issues. If you can get it to compile > under Linux on x86 I'd **highly** recommend you run valgrind on your > program. I will most definitively try this one out. Pete

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Waikato 2020 Communications Trust
by Daniel Lawson 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Matt Brown and I recently (4 June) had a meeting with Prof Ted Zorn, regarding the Waikato 2020 Communications Trust and the Waikato Linux Users Group. Prof Zorn is in the Department of Management Communication in the School of Management at Waiakto University. The 2020 Communications Trust is a charitible trust set up with the basic objective of promoting “… discussion and investigation of ideas, knowledge and technology in new media and computer networking". The full objectives can be found at http://www.2020.org.nz/trust/princip.htm. They are basically looking at improving community absorption of modern IT, and improving the general understanding of IT in the community. One of the projects the Waikato 2020 Communications Trust is working on at the moment is called the ‘Waikato Community Net’, or “WaiCN” for short. This is being modelled on fairly successfull project run by the Wellington 2020 Communications Trust, unsurprisingly called the ‘Wellington Community Net’ or WCN for short. (http://www.wcn.net.nz/) WaiCN will provide a portal for community sites, which perhaps wouldn’t otherwise be able to decently host websites. This will have a secondary effect of perhaps becoming a de facto standard for looking for community information in this region. WaiCN also aims to improve community groups’ education overall, and to integrate and coordinate other community-oriented ICT programs. (Most of that was lifted from the project outline.) Prof Zorn contacted the WLUG to see if we were interested in working together with W2020CT (I’ll start abbreviating things here) on this project, and in general. We seem to share some similar goals, although ours are primarily focussed around F/OSS software, and the W2020CT is at least nominally neutral on this issue. Matt, Prof Zorn and I had a nice chat over lunch, during which we discussed the objectives of both groups, and how well we’d been meeting them. We pressed the point that some of the ultimate goals of OSS are not ‘to beat Mickey$haft’, but to provide choice, and to provide open standards. As it happens, a ready example of where open standards should be adhered to was provided by Prof Zorn himself, as he emailed the project blurb for WaiCN out as a MS Word document. Prof Zorn seemed interested in possible collaboration between the two groups, and Matt and I came away with the same feeling. He is going to talk with the Trustees of the W2020CT, and at some point we’ll swap representatives for meetings and get a better idea of what each group is doing. I personally think this collaboration will be useful from a couple of viewpoints. W2020CT provides a good vehicle for neutral advocacy of choice, and of open standards. This doesn’t mean they’ll push linux everywhere, but it might mean they make people aware of the choice. Also, they are part of a much larger organisation than WLUG, with better access to resources. Some of the people in the W2020CT and the national 2020CT are in fairly “high” places in terms of local and national government. Whether that matters or not is yet to be seen, but it’s worth remembering that our Charter does include advocacy of F/OSS to government, commercial and industrial bodies, something which we’ve not really been addressing lately. This is perhaps a good starting point. Daniel

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Re: [wlug] HP-UX 11i expertise wanted
by Wayne Rooney 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

>One word of caution: the HP9000 machine I'm using for testing is located >in the USA and Internet access is relatively slow. I have managed using >an X-client, but response times make this a fairly impracticable option. That's a bit far away. I've got one in my garage. Mine runs Debian though. If you wanted to borow it you'd have to supply your own copy of HP-UX. Nice machines - mines got dual 64 bit RISC processors. Wayne

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conexant and intel ham modems
by Stephen Pearce 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi Recently upgraded to Fedora 2 Then realised that the linuxant driver for my conexant hcf modem would not work .. and the only one available free is cripple ware at 14.4k .. it is ~$15$US to upgrade to the full 56k ok .. so I can buy a new DS Intel Ham modem for abt the same .. maybe less .. BUT a bt of research shows that intel have no plans to release a 2.6 kernel version of the linux driver for this 536ep modem .... Has anyone any suggestions on how to get 56k back thriftily (excluding going back to the 2.4 kernel Thanks Stephen

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