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Installing Linux on Thinkpad 240 No CD drive boot

kenf0 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:55:55 GMT

Hello,

I have an old Thinkpad 240 that I would like to use again. (It was the original netbook :-) )

The problem is it will not boot from anything but the floppy or the HD. In the past I have used a floppy boot and installed from a SCSI cd drive.

There is an old version of Fedora that is on the machine, but it is not working well. I could try copying an iso onto a partition on the drive, and then install that way, but I am not sure which install kernel files to use. I looked for one for Debian, and could not find it.

Or I could do the boot floppy routine, if any reasonable distro still supports it.

Any help or advice appreciated.

Ken

gcc problem when compiling many games

lilmike — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:53:18 GMT

Hi,
I am getting an error about gcc cannot create executables, I think it is a package I don't have installed.
I think this because it works on other things.
It says this when I try ./configure on one moo:

Quote:

loading cache ./config.cache
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot creat
e executables.
brlboy@mtgames:~/MOO-1.8.2g4r1$

Then when I look at config.log, it says this:

Quote:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:563: checking for bison
configure:596: checking for gcc
configure:709: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works
configure:725: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find /lib/ld-linux.so.2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:

#line 720 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}

Any help with figuring out which package is responsible would be apreciated.
-Michael.

P.S. I am using ubuntu 9.10.

[Perl] fail to sort a file with 300,000 lines by multiple columns

Kunsheng — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:46:09 GMT

Each line of the file I am sorting is in the following format:

For example:

http://www.google.com 10 3

I wrote the following to sort:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl



$in = shift;



chomp($in);



open(INFILE, "<$in") || die "Can't open file";

chomp(@fields = ); # slurp in the file

close(INFILE);





@sorted =

map { $_->[0] }

sort { $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] || #sort by date

$a->[1] <=> $b->[1] # sort by month

}

map { [ $_ , (split /\s+/) ] } @fields;#tab separated fields







foreach (@sorted)

{

    print "$_\n";

}

The script worked fine for my small testing files, but failed in my input file. The input file is 18MB and containing more than 300,000 lines.

The output will contains some lines like that:

-----------------
url_one 10 1
url_two 10 1
url_three 10 3
url_four 10 1

----------------

Is that because my file is too big for perl to handle ?

Any idea is well appreciated,

-Thanks,

-Kun

Install sound in PC-BSD?

Willrandship — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:40:58 GMT

I was wondering how to install the audio drivers for pc-bsd. I know the sound card should be compatible, as it worked perfectly with libaudio for ubuntu. I am unaware of most of the processes to install the audio driver for freeBSD, including where to get it. Any help would be appreciated.

how to online expand LUN (without reboot)

m2mthu — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:40:16 GMT

I'm trying expand lun without reboot. The lun was configured with multipath.
I'm using RHEL 5.3.
Thanks so much!

LXer: Novell Brings Linux to Microsoft's Visual Studio

LXer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:30:06 GMT

Published at LXer:

"We want to make it a lot easier for Windows developers to get their hands dirty on Linux, deploy on Linux and debug their software on Linux," Miguel de Icaza, Mono project founder and vice president of developer platforms at Novell, told InternetNews.com. "We're trying to eliminate the barriers to adoption for Mono and Linux and address the developer concerns that we've heard over time."

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Bering, Vmware and a Merlin XU870

ratboy74 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:27:45 GMT

First, a bit of detail about what I am doing. I have a 3 MobileBroadband card (the Merlin XU870) which I want to share amongst the three virtual machines running on my laptop.

Installed on the laptop is Vmware Workstation.

I have built a Bering firewall virtual machine (it requires bugger all resources) and have networking setup with one interface on "host-only" and one interface "bridged".

For POC, I wanted to see if eth0 would get a dhcp assigned IP address. Tick, success!!

Now I give the firewall control of the wireless card and the following happens (ultimately, no ppp0 connection).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Code:

cadia# cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers 

         usbdevfs

         hub

         serial

         acm

Code:

cadia# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices 

T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2

B:  Alloc= 11/900 us ( 1%), #Int=  1, #Iso=  0

D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1

P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00

S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub

S:  SerialNumber=2440

C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA

I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0

D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1

P:  Vendor=1410 ProdID=1430 Rev= 0.00

S:  Manufacturer=Novatel Wireless

S:  Product=Novatel Wireless HSDPA Modem

C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA

I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)

E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  16 Ivl=128ms

E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)

E:  Ad=84(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

E:  Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 7

D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1

P:  Vendor=0e0f ProdID=0002 Rev= 1.00

S:  Product=VMware Virtual USB Hub

C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=  0mA

I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   1 Ivl=255ms

I think this is where the problem lies. The device is "seen" by the virtual machine, but not assigned?

Code:

cadia# cat /proc/tty/driver/usb-serial 

usbserinfo:1.0 driver:v1.4



cadia# dmesg

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs

usb.c: registered new driver hub

usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 16:04:45 Jan 31 2009

usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2440, IRQ 11

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver

usb.c: registered new driver serial

usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic

usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4

usb.c: registered new driver acm

acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

hub.c: new USB device 02:03.0-2, assigned address 2

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 7 ports detected

hub.c: new USB device 02:03.0-1, assigned address 3

usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x1410/0x1430) is not claimed by any active driver.

SED vs. AWK showdown

pixellany — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:06:34 GMT

Every so often, there's enthusiastic debate** about which is better: SED or AWK. I'd like to see this be a fun thing---maybe even a learning thing.

Here's a problem:
Given a file with a word list, rearrange into sentences which all begin with a keyword. Remove any leading spaces, and extra spaces between words.

Here is a SED solution (keyword = "the"):

Code:

sed -n '${H;x;s/\n/ /g;s/^ *//;s/ \+/ /g;s/ the/\nthe/g;p};H' words.txt

And the file I used is attached.

The logic used:
while not at the end of file, append each line to the hold register.
when EOF is reached, also append that last line, then bring the hold register into the working register. Now we have the whole file in the register. Then:
replace all linefeeds with spaces
replace all spaces at the beginning
replace all multiple spaces with just one
insert line breaks before all instances of the keyword (the), except at the beginning, where there is no space.
print the result

So:
Is there an AWK solution which is:
faster?
less code?

**many of which I lost......;)

Attached Files

words.txt (78 Bytes)

Move files from Linux to Windows

Goddard — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:03:29 GMT

I have a web server that is running Linux and it hosts a website where people can upload files for a game server which is running Windows XP well atleast ideally it would do this. I did host them both on the same server at one point and time and it was easy to move these documents from one location to the next. How would I do this on a windows(XP) machine from a linux machine(Ubuntu)?

Thanks for the help.

Gentoo Install

gerard4143 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:42:15 GMT

Well I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about...What Gentoo is all about...

That's right I decided to install Gentoo via VirtualBox. Thank God for Virtulabox - Web browser open to Gentoo's doc page, I follow the pages of instructions and proceed, proceed and proceed.....Hours later(3 1/2) I have what they call a working Gentoo installation...a terminal window...I figure in about a day to a day and one half I should have a window system with some apps all complied and optimized for my system...Is it worth it? Is it worth the waiting, downloading, compiling? Why yes, Gentoo will introduce the willing and able Linux user to a whole aspect of Linux that's taken for granted. You'll glimpse the inner workings, you'll see how the machine is put together(well some of it)...

I think Gentoo would be great warm up for Linux From Scratch....Anyway I must be off Mp3Blaster and its dependencies are compiling/installing - all 53 of them...

web cam

FWSHARROW — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:30:59 GMT

in chat rooms can i use a web cam?

LXer: Just how flawed is Firefox?

LXer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:30:26 GMT

Published at LXer:

Please don't shoot the messenger, but all is not well in Firefox land. According to one new report, Firefox is responsible for some 44% of all the browser vulnerabilities that were reported during the first six months of 2009 and that's far more problematical than Internet Explorer.

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lpfc rpm

abhijeetdutta — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:15:08 GMT

hi

how to get rpm of lpfc (x86_64 rhel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5) i am not able to find in redhat site.

thanks

Can't adjust brightness on X200

kenshinji — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:14:28 GMT

I installed an debian lenny on my X200 laptop,and upgrade kernel to 2.6.30,then I found that I can't adjust the brightness by Fn keys.But I could adjust the brightness by Fn keys on the kernel version of 2.6.26.It's really weird.

[SOLVED] Install Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) on old blind laptop to use as server

passcod — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:13:50 GMT

Hi

I want to install a small Linux Server using preferably a Ubuntu or even Debian-style distro. By small I mean that I only want enough to develop websites on there. Apache, PHP, MySQL, Python, Perl should be way enough.

Now, the problem lies with the laptop I want to use. It's 'blind' in the way that I have no mean whatsoever to view anything on the screen. In fact, it has its screen broken, and its vga external screen port broken too; this is recent, I have been able to install linux on it previously using an ext screen some time (years) ago, but now it's broken. I think I did set the BIOS to boot from the CD drive first; that should help.

Then, it's quite an old laptop (for me), it's around 5 years old. Specs are: (approx.) 1 GHz proc, 256mb or 512mb ram, 5gb hdd, ports are: network, usb, maybe serial. I don't exactly remember for the ram, but it ran a winxp system with the min reqs, so...

I went and read this article: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...aptop.-655913/

and it pointed to that one: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

which I skimmed over. But: I'm not (yet) a linux geek. I think you couldn't even quite call me an advanced user. I've used the command line and have no problem with that. But please do not point me to a complicated technical specification or article, I'm not really able to deal with that (yet). What I'm looking for is kind of like a walkthrough, or a something like a tutorial.

Thanks in advance

passcod