Steve Scrimpshire

With a little play, I got the new bcm43xx driver to work fine. Make sure you use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract your firmware. Modprobing the driver will fail until a reboot. Anyway, yes, 2007 (Mona) boots faster and seems to be more responsive on my laptop, as well.

For clarification: Yes, it is the *.inf file to choose and not the *.sys file.

FSview is part of kdeaddons and works (as already mentioned) as a plugin to konqueror. There's also a pkg named, oddly enough, kdirstat. :P

You have to set $page. Just passing it in the url is not enough: $page = $_GET['page']; Or something like that.

Wow. I'm glad I have been watching this thread. I did not know that VMWare Server was now free with paid support options. It was ridiculously too expensive for me to try it before. Carry on.

I did an LFS the same time mysti was doing hers. I got it all installed but got an init error on boot. Got distracted and never figured out the error. I would say it was a great learning experience, though.

Did you use this driver? http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE Use wine R115321.EXE to extract it and then use ~/.wine/drive_c/dell/drivers/R115321/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf?

What I would do is not load the driver at boot, but after booting, open a terminal, su to root and run tail -v -f /var/log/messages Then plug the cable in, modprobe the driver and see if it says something like: "Created new serial device /dev/ttyS0" (my serial modem when I had it was named that....note the capital S)

That's what I was thinking. Maybe users of ksh or tcsh can verify if it works there, too.

This is bash, right? (Just to clarify)

You should be able to install using this: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/a...-1.i386.rpm.zip Make sure you have the kernel-source for your currently running kernel installed first. (If the RPM doesn't work you can try installing from source: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/a....02full.tar.gz)

When was that decided?

That's why you create it:

The Perl Black Book. Tao of Regular Expressions (I can't get to the site currently, but I have the page saved on my HD if you want it.)

For kicker dying, check /home/neddie/.xsession-errors and/or /var/log/Xorg.0.log For the system not properly shutting down, it may be related or it may be an acpi issue. Make sure you have acpi and acpid installed and go to mcc -> boot -> Set up how the system boots. Select 'Enable acpi' and then 'Next'. Highlight the kernel you normally boot to and click 'Modify' and make sure that acpi=on is in your append line. Click 'Ok'. Click 'Finish' You may have to play around with noapic and nolapic, too, but I think acpi will fix it. This won't be solved until after a complete reboot.

I found disct@2 today while googling again. It is not the same site I remember.

As far as I know, by default, php runs as user nobody. Seriously, it is a bad idea to allow php to run shell scripts on your computer unless it is only accessible to your home network and not outside.

Wow. I paid $240 for my Sony DVD+/-R/RW 8x a couple years ago. This just rubs it in even more. Yes, there is a noticeable speed difference between SATA and IDE...especially when formatting. My 160 GB SATA drive can do a full format in like 2 seconds, compared to about 30 minutes for my 80 GB IDE. I don't believe hdparm -tT figures are reliable for SATA, as I don't believe the technology is fully supported by hdparm and I haven't heard of any utility that can accurately do the read/write timings of SATA. I could be wrong, because I haven't checked into it lately. I'm sure LightScribe would come to Linux soon. I had already read on a site about how to use the normal laser on your CD burner to burn an image into the unused portion of the 'write' side of your CD. Can't recall the site, as I have been looking lately for the same reason (possibility of LightScribe working).

arctic: I was going to mention the same thing. :D You can go to the HD manufacturer's website, more than likely, and download a bootable utility to troubleshoot/diagnose the clicking. As for HD activity, it could be several different services that could be writing log files, etc.

Yes. Make sure your DVD burner supports the type of media. Some DVD burners can burn both +R/RW and -R/RW (There is a difference between + and -), while some can only burn and/or read one or the other. Also, the brand of media could be an issue. My burner doesn't like Imation, for example and refuses to recognize any Imation disk.

Right-click the Kopete icon in your taskbar and select 'Configure Kopete'. Highlight 'Accounts' in the left pane. Highlight the account you are connecting with and click 'Modify'. Select 'Remember password and enter your password in the textbox.

Fixed. And, yes, if something goes wrong, it won't get to the 'halt'. One would actually have to write a script to handle errors and then halt, in that case.

More specifically: < root /home/omar > su --help Usage: su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...] Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER. -, -l, --login make the shell a login shell You are making it a login shell, so that it sources your /root/.bashrc, /root/.bash_profile, etc.

wget <<url for blah>> && wget <<url for blah>> && wget <<url for blah>> && halt or wget $(urpmq --sources mozilla-thunderbird) && wget $(urpmq --sources mozilla-firefox) && halt && means to wait for successful completion of previous command before executing. Just & means it can start immediately after the previous one starts. There are also GUI download accelerators that have the option to run certain commands when all downloads finish.

I wondered where that option had gone to.