[Durham] Meeting reminder: 19:30 Durham rowing club, in the bar

[Ian MacKenzie]

Almost a full house!
And thanks to the hive for getting my laptop functioning. There was a wifi problem, and a bigger problem with getting updates from the linuxmint repositories: although I could get on to the wired internet at home, the update requests always generated a bunch of 'failed to fetch' notices, and failure to resolve the repository addresses. The wifi problem related to the combination of Realtek ethernet and Broadcom network controllers, a known problem on Compaq Presario CQ56 models:
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
Initial focus was on the Realtek chip, but the Broadcom doofer needed a driver , and then a firmware update before it would play ball.
The problem with updates seems to be domestic-router related: Olly had a workaround for that - reset the dns IPv4 to the google numbers which seems to work fine now that I have it home.
Thanks guys!
Ian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dougie at highmoor.co.uk
> Sent: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:29:07 -0000
> To: durham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Durham] Meeting reminder: 19:30 Durham rowing club, in the
> bar
> 
> It was good to see a few people down last night and sampling the new
> local
> brewery beer in the rowing club.
> 
> If anyone is interested in the SRS's I was talking about the links are:
> http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
> and
> http://ankisrs.net/
> 
> and I blogged a bit recently on how browse images under Linux at
> http://www.bluecedar.org.uk/?p=195
> 
> now, onto important matters. How can I do a big number '30' for printing
> on
> A4 portrait. I quite fancy a bit of snow on top of the numbers, or
> something
> a bit christmasy. Is that easy to do in gimp?
> 
> Dougie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: durham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:durham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Dougie Nisbet
> Sent: 20 December 2011 07:36
> To: durham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Durham] Meeting reminder: 19:30 Durham rowing club, in the
> bar
> 
> On 20/12/11 07:21, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
>> On 20/12/11 06:51, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
>>> 
>>> Things that might get tried out/discussed include:
>>> 
>>> - Trying to get wireless drivers installed on Ian's Compaq
>>> (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=84853)
>>> - Me finding out more about what I need to do for remote access
>>> - installing 64 bit wine on LMDE
>>> 
>> I'd also be interested in any ideas anyone has in tracking down a
>> server crash. I have an old PC in the loft running LMDE that crashes
>> periodically. Nothing on the screen and nothing in syslog. In the past
>> when I've had this sort of thing it's usually turned out to be memory
>> (hmmm, haven't run memtest on it) or hardware.
>> 
> and I'm also interested in investigating utils that monitor file
> modifications in a file-system or directory tree (jpegs) if anyone has
> any
> experience.
> 
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