spinynorman

The Register reports that a German court has granted an injunction for an infringement of general public licence (GPL) software.

Lawyers acting for the netfilter/iptables project said that to the best of their knowledge, this is the first case in which a judge has ruled on the validity of the GNU GPL.

Welcome to the board. :)

As VeeDubb says, this may take a lot of time and energy, but www.linmodems.org is a good starting point.

I'm still on 9.1 and my speedtouch worked ok once I sorted the firewall and configured the speedtouch connection only. MCC initially identified an ethernet card and a winmodem as well as the speedtouch; I didn't eliminate the other options, and only the ethernet got configured. I had to reinstall to get rid of it.

In this thread in the networking forum, Arthur says he used advice in Tips & Tricks to get 9.2 working; and by the end of the thread he's solved his problems with 10, possibly using one of my suggestions - he doesn't say. :unsure: Eska's thread in this Tips & Tricks search looks a likely candidate for the 9.2 solution.

I'm pinning my hopes on MDK 10, as support is in the kernel. There were initial problems because they left old config files lying around, but I think they've fixed that now.

If 10 doesn't do it for me, I think I may get a router - no drivers required! :)

There is also the captive project. This uses the original MS drivers through Wine style emulation. You have to have the XP drivers but they can be used on older NTFS versions too.

I don't know how reliable it is, but it has been incorporated into LinuxDefender Live! CD - a BitDefender version of Knoppix.

The Register reports on an EU initiative.

The Consortium for Open Source in Public Administration (Cospa) ... will also attempt to address perceived barriers to adoption of open source software, specifically; cost of data migration, interoperability and integration problems with existing infrastructure, personnel training, concerns about support, maintenance and future proofing.

Let's hear it for the European Commission!

Could you describe what you did? Did anything in particular fail to work - did you get any error messages?

You could try the suggestion I made in this thread. It didn't seem to help anyone there, but you never know... :unsure:

Could you explain for me please what you mean about putting ppp0 in /etc/shorewall/routestopped.

Edit the file /etc/shorewall/routestopped as root and simply write on a line of its own

ppp0

If there's an entry for eth0, take it out - I'm not sure what to expect as I'm not using shorewall. :)

Try this list of servers. :)

For a complete newbie, can anybody recommend a site that will allow me to install the 330 without any complications.

I don't know that such a site exists, but as many of the problems are created by Mandrake trying to simplify things, this is probably as good a place as any!

We're short of experts on this subject, but let me outline the situation as I understand it - I'm no expert but I do use the Speedtouch USB modem with Mandrake 9.1.

Firstly, there is a problem with the firewall in 9.1, 9.2 and 10. The shorewall config files are set up to use eth0 instead of ppp0. These can be changed manually.

Secondly, the mgmt.o file is missing in 9.2. This can be downloaded in the package from the Thomson site.

Thirdly, support for the modem in 10 is now provided in the kernel, but there are references to 'speedtch' in /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf which prevent it working. There are updates to rectify this, so the future looks brighter!

So - as you're using 9.2, get the driver package from http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/dvrreg_lx.htm or http://download.ethomson.com/download/speedmgmt.tar.gz and save the mgmt.o file in /usr/share/speedtouch.

If you enable shorewall, amend the entry in /etc/shorewall/interfaces to read 'net ppp0'... instead of 'net eth0'...; and put 'ppp0' in /etc/shorewall/routestopped.

When you set up your internet connection, your speedtouch should be detected, along with an ethernet card and a winmodem, perhaps. Select the speedtouch only. In particular, do NOT select the ethernet card, as it won't let you change your mind afterwards! Not via the GUI anyway.

I don't know if this will work as I don't have 9.2, but if you give it a try, you can come back with problems as they arise! :)

If you're looking for Tux specifically, try here. :)

The high security option may well be the problem. Unless you are using your machine as a server, the standard option should be sufficient. :)

Found this bug report for drakconf. The solution given is -

speedtouch only works in kernel mode on 2.6.x kernel.

thus you need to remove any speedtch reference from /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf

 

latest speedtouch and drakxtools already fix that.

This seems to confirm what I said above, and may explain the firmware/module conflict you described. If you could get the updates, you probably would have fixed it! :)

#modprobe speedtch -v

install /bin/true

 

now what in the world does that mean?

Using 'info true'

`true' does nothing except return an exit status of 0, meaning "success".  It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where a successful command is needed, although the shell built-in command `:' (colon) may do the same thing faster.  In most modern shells, `true' is a built-in command, so when you use `true' in a script, you're probably using the built-in command, not the one documented here.

Can't think why true isn't installed - it's included in the coreutils package.

The analyst they quote - Rob Enderle - is a notorious troll. See this PCLinuxOnline article.

See this thread. :)

The modem firmware loads properly so I know it's not the modem. It's when I do "pppd call adsl" that nothing happens. In 9.2 if there's an error it shows up in "connect-errors" log, but nothing shows up in 10.0 so I don't know what's wrong.

Found this on Linux Questions -

With kernel 2.4.x I used the module driver (as stated above), with kernel 2.6.x I use kernel driver (modem_run has -k option).

 

I have a 1024k/256k aDSL line and it works like a charm.

 

The only "not so fine" thing is that I have to tell "sleep 20" after launching "modem_run -k -f /path/to/my/firmware", so that "pppd call adsl" works.

Don't know if this helps, but I hope you get it working as I'd like to move up from 9.1 - with my green frog - when 10 becomes official.

:)

According to a Computerwire report, Microsoft "is preparing to shift its stance by releasing code to the open source community."

More smoke and mirrors. See The Register.

Rather than software becoming commoditized, hardware will be almost free in ten years, says Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.

Wishful thinking? :unsure: See The Register's story.

... and it doesn't suport PJL, whatever that is.

PJL is HP's Printer Job Language. That's probably as much as you need to know, but there's lots of documentation at this HP website.

See the FAQ. :)

See this thread about the cds.

I don't think that has anything to do with xmms. If you give more details, someone else can probably help with that - I'm still on 9.1. :)

Edit: I see you've got another thread on xmms, so continue there. Welcome to the board, by the way...

Maybe this interests you:

http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/IhateMS.html

I must make time to read it all, but I did like this -

"WE ARE MICROSOFT. LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER. WE WILL ADD YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

:D :D :D

Nothing new, this link was posted in this board a while ago. But it's good that the maximum of people be aware of this...

I didn't see it the first time round, Roland. My purpose in posting wasn't to focus on Microsoft, but to draw attention to the possibility of a few large Linux companies, like IBM & HP, adopting TC.

If the community doesn't want to go down this road, or can't afford TCG evaluation certificates, these few companies could act as gatekeepers for the community, adopting ideas for their own benefit and stifling innovation.

PCLinuxOnline mentioned this document produced by the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University. It's a rather long explanation of what Trusted Computing means.

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which promotes a standard for a `more secure' PC. What caught my eye was this reference to IBM and HP...

IBM and HP have apparently started work on a TC-enhanced version of GNU/linux. This will involve tidying up the code and removing a number of features. To get an evaluation certificate acceptable to TCG, the sponsor will then have to submit the pruned code to an evaluation lab, together with a mass of documentation showing why various known attacks on the code don't work. (The evaluation is at level EAL3 - expensive enough to keep out the free software community, yet lax enough for most commercial software vendors to have a chance to get their lousy code through.) Although the modified program will be covered by the GPL, and the source code will be free to everyone, it will not work in the TC ecosystem unless you have a certificate for it that is specific to the Fritz chip on your own machine. That is what will cost you money (if not at first, then eventually).

Has anyone heard about this? :huh: