July 2010 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

External 56k modem
by Glenn Morrissey 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

Hi all does anyone have an old external 56k serial modem for sale? I have given up trying to make my 56k Lucent internal modem work. Glenn Morrissey.

3 3

Remote adminstration
by cmoman 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hello all, Is there a tool in ubuntu that a user can start that reports the real world ip address and configures a home router to open a port to allow remote administration? I have a friend or two for whom it would nice to get them to start a program, report to me the details via MSN or Skype or telephone etc and allow me to log in and fix or make a configuration change to their machine. I know how to set things up using ssh etc but that relies on some initial configuration at the their end. KDE has a nice VNC invite function but it won't do the router config part. It appears the likes of KTorrent and Azuereus have the ability to do some to the router via UPnP to open ports up on the router dynamically so I am guessing all this is possible. Cheers

6 6

WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday Mar 6th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

6 8

route table
by Glenn Morrissey 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

I formatted and reinstalled Linux this morning, so as to remove the possibility I have accidently changed a file. Here is the result of changing my route table: route -F add default gw 169.254.214.162 [169.254.214.162 is the IPv4 address of my windows machine.] glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.42.43.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0 glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ route -F add default gw 169.254.214.162 SIOCADDRT: Operation not permitted glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ sudo route -F add default gw 169.254.214.162 glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.42.43.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0 default 169.254.214. 162 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ Does that look in order? Glenn.

3 5

output
by Glenn Morrissey 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Id love to come down but I'm stuck in Auckland for the moment. My OS is: Ubuntu Version 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx 64 Bit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IPv4 method options: Automatic (DHCP) Automatic (DHCP) Addresses only Manual Link-local only Shared to other computers. IPv6 method Options: Ignore Automatic Automatic, Addresses only Link-local only Shared To other computers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the output from /sbin$./route -n command: glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ ./route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.42.44.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 eth0 glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/sbin$ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPv4 Windows Box: 10.42.44.10. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- And the output from /etc$ cat hosts glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/etc$ cat hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 glenn-desktop # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts glenn(a)glenn-desktop:/etc$ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I type in: glenn(a)glenn-desktop:-$ host Google.com ;;connection timed out; no servers could be reached glenn(a)glenn-desktop:-$ Interesting question: why when I run ifconfig in Windows does the IPv4 default gateway show as my Linux box's IP address??? That's surely not right. And when I have my network plugged in sometimes my mail fails to send, as in cant reach server. I wonder if the windows box is looking at the Linux box as a server. I can't imagine why though. What ever it is its playing mary hell with my dialup connection. Glenn.

5 9

Modem
by Glenn Morrissey 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Just got the word from the people at linmodems that dialup modems are not supported on 64 bit versions of linux. Thats not catastrophic, I can use my Windows laptop to connect to the net and internet share across my home network, until I can get ADSL. Now all I have to do is make my Linux system communicate with my windows laptop. I have manually configured my networking settings on my Linux system, and can ping both ways, but cant get internet sharing up and running. I think the problem is with settings on my windows laptop. GLENN.

6 12

Switch
by Glenn Morrissey 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hi all, would the fact that I am using a switch with regular network cables make a difference? Im not using a crossover cable. Glenn.

4 6

Network Details
by Glenn Morrissey 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

OK here is the technical stuff: On my Linux System, Under the edit Connections Tab, I have the following entered: Connection Name: Affordable Wired Network Tab Mac Address: Empty MTU: Automatic 802.1x Security Value: not checked IPv4 Settings: Method: manual Address: 192.168.0.2 Netmask: 255.255.0.2 Gateway: 0.0.0.0 IPv6 Settings: Method: Ignore. Interesting note: whatever value I add in the IPv4 Gateway, always ends up as 0.0.0.0. Shouldn't it be 192.168.0.1? I have turned my PC's Firewall Off (the default firewall for Vista Home Premium). MY PC Network Connection Details: Connection-Specific DNS: no value Description: Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T Controller Physical Address: 00-1F-C6-ED-C2-10 DHCP Enabled: Yes Autoconfiguration IPv4... 169.254.214.162 IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0 IPv4 Default Gateway: no value IPv4 DNS Server: no value IPv4 WINS Server: no value NetBIOS over TCP En.. Yes Link Local IPv6 Address: fe80::cb2:5cf7:71e2:d6a2%10 IPv6 Default Gateway: IPv6 DNS Servers: fec0:0:0.:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0.:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0.:ffff::3%1 MY Kiwi Online Connection Details: Connection-Specific DNS: no value Description: Kiwi Online Physical Address: no value DHCP Enabled: NO Autoconfiguration IPv4... 202.150.121.52 IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255 IPv4 Default Gateway: no value IPv4 DNS Server: 210.55.12.1 210.55.12.2 IPv4 WINS Server: no value NetBIOS over TCP En.. No In the sharing tab I have ticked Enable Internet Connection Sharing Home Networking Connection is ticked in the box under properties of local area network. If, in my Linux system, if I set the IPv4 settings to DHCP, the connection doesn't happen and the system remains disconnected. If I open the connection information box, I get the following: ACTIVE NETWORK CONNECTIONS Affordable Interface: eth0 Hardware Address: 00:26:55:37:81:53 Driver: Forcedeth Speed: 100MB/s Security: None IP Address: 192.168.0.2 Broadcast Address: 192.168.0.3 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.254. Although the connection says established, whenever I ping 169.254.214.162 or 192.168.0.1 from my Linux system, it doesn't ping. Whenever I ping 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3 from my Windows system, it says connection timed out. I have set my Linux System Network Proxy Settings to Direct Internet Connection. Glenn.

2 2

Monday night meeting
by Bruce Kingsbury 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Monday night WLUG meeting will be a film screening; US NOW - http://www.usnowfilm.com/ A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers. The founding principles of these projects -- transparency, self-selection, open participation -- are coming closer and closer to the mainstream of our social and political lives. Us Now describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Milliband with the possibilities for participative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others. "Linus likes to joke that the official project goal is world domination, possibly there is some truth in that. It would nice to get to the situation where we have democratised knowledge and the ability to actually contribute and change, particularly information technology, across the entire world." Alan Cox July 26th 7:30pm MS4.G.02

1 0

WLUG Blade Server
by John Billings 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

There is a problem with the switch connected to the WLUG Blade server. We are not sure what the problem is, other than some IPs are not working. We possibly need a new switch. Does anyone have one? I'm able to schedule a call-out, if someone is able to go to the data center and replace the switch. A call out will cost us $50 for every 30 min. Is anyone able to help with this? Thanks, John Billings Treasurer WLUG Committee

3 3

Kiwi PyCon 2010 Registrations now OPEN
by Tim Knapp 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi all, FYI this email announcement went out a few days ago: ---------------------------------------------------------- The time has come - online registrations for Kiwi PyCon 2010 are now open! Registration fees are as follows: **Regular NZD100** Earlybird: if registered before 01 Sep: NZD80 **Student/Unwaged NZD60** Earlybird: If registered before 01 Sep: NZD40 This year we have a limit of 180 participants. Given the demand and huge success of 2009 you better be quick! Just head over to Registrations (http://nz.pycon.org/registrations/) to secure your seat. Please note that the Paihia/Waitangi area is a very popular spot for both domestic and international visitors, so also make sure to secure accommodation (http://nz.pycon.org/2010/about/accommodation/) before it gets expensive. "What am I getting for this?" - A nice venue - Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days - A Kiwi PyCon 2010 t-shirt - A lanyard with the conference schedule - Wifi access to Internet (separate from the hotel) See you there! Danny W. Adair President New Zealand Python User Group Incorporated

1 0

Ubuntu Lucid
by Glenn Morrissey 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

Hello everyone does anyone have a copy of the latest Ubuntu Linux download? Its going to take a week or more to download it for me, if anyone has a copy, ill send you a reply paid box and a CD for a copy. Glenn.

6 11

Kiwi PyCon 2010 Call for Participation
by Tim Knapp 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21 November. Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging everybody to come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a community conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all knowledge levels. Be it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5 minute Lightning Talk), or up to running an hour long tutorial. Or are you interested in the dynamic evolution of a session? Then the unconference like Open Spaces will give you just the platform for interaction. Also ... make sure to spread the word. Tell everybody else about it. Blog about it, post it on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc. http://nz.pycon.org/2010/talks-cfp/call-for-papers/ ... Code and enjoy, The Kiwi PyCon Committee

1 0

New DVD drive unusable in Lucid...
by Chakat Sandwalker 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

I got hold of an old computer, and managed to put Lucid on it. At the time, it had an old CD-RW drive in it. Now it's got a brand new DVD +/- RW drive, and Lucid can show me that it exists, but it can't mount any discs. In XFCE, it shows the error 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist'. The problem is pretty much as described on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509538. I would have installed Windows, but I didn't have any working Windows XP discs (or a valid key), and even installing Lucid was rather hit and miss. I can't reinstall Lucid to see if that fixes the problem as I'm not at home, and I didn't bring my Lucid disc (or if I did, it's corrupt). If anyone has idea of how to fix this problem (the computer's for my parents, aren't they're not exactly computer savvy, even with Windows XP), I would very much appreciate a solution. If worst comes to worst, would a complete reinstall work (even if I have to download the ISO again, although I'm not sure I have access to a spare CD). I have until Saturday, which is when I have to go home. Sandy (rather desperate)

4 7

HP dx2355 MT (KM421 AV)
by Glenn Morrissey 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hey all does anyone know if I can run the latest incarnation of Ubuntu on my desktop machine? Do I need to get drivers for the motherboard or is that included in the distribution? The motherboard is a HP dx2355 MT. Cheers Glenn Morrissey.

3 2

computer bits
by John 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi All, I have been asked to build-up a couple of secondhand computers (for free) by my work colleagues. I have a couple of boxes and other peripherals but am in need of a main-board with processor and an optical drive (at least dvd read) If anyone is able to donate towards these projects please contact me. Secondary question in case I am overwhelmed with gear. Is there an E-Day in NZ this year?

8 12

Xubuntu disc...
by Chakat Sandwalker 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Would anyone here have an Xubuntu disc I could borrow? Preferably a text-mode install, I think. I've just got hold of an old Dell Latitude with a 600MHz Celeron and 128MB RAM (4MB given to video), and I can't put anything on it except Puppy Linux (which I don't much like) and Damn Small Linux (which can't properly deal with the USB flash drives I tried with it). Sandy

3 2

rpm build errors - checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
by Gregory Machin 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

Hi I have a 32 build build environment on fedora 12 64bit. The build environment is a complete system (unless the provider has missed something) .. I chroot into the build environment. When I run rpmbuild on any of the provided sources / spec files they exit with " checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables " Or similar. eg : bash-3.00# rpmbuild -ba -v ./SPECS/expat.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf expat-1.95.7 + /bin/gzip -dc /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/expat-1.95.7.tar.gz + tar -xf - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd expat-1.95.7 + echo 'Patch #0 (expat-1.95.7-xmlcall.patch):' Patch #0 (expat-1.95.7-xmlcall.patch): + patch -p1 -b --suffix .xmlcall -s + echo 'Patch #1 (expat-malloc-failure.diff):' Patch #1 (expat-malloc-failure.diff): + patch -p0 -b --suffix .malloc -s + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd expat-1.95.7 + export 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC' + CFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC' + CFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC' + export CFLAGS + CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' + export CXXFLAGS + FFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' + export FFLAGS + ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-pc-linux --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info configure: loading cache /dev/null /dev/null: line 1: ./configure:: No such file or directory checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 (%build) bash-3.00# Any suggestions ? Greg Regards Gregory Machin Phone: +64 78 525 380 a/h Mobile: +64 211 844 347 Chat Google Talk: clubbing80s(a)gmail.com Skype: clubbing80s MSN: clubbing80s(a)hotmail.com Y! messenger: clubbing80s(a)ymail.com Contact Me [image: Linkedin]<http://za.linkedin.com/pub/gregory-machin/8/310/8ab>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/clubbing80s>

1 0

WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by Meeting Reminder bot 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday July 3rd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

1 0

WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday July 3rd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

1 0