ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 207

Thu Feb 21 04:35:22 UTC 2008

Does anyone have experience with the application ytree in Ubuntu 7.10?  I've downloaded the program, I just need someone to tell me how to compile it under the standard Ubuntu 7.10 installation.  Thanks for any help you can provide me; please provide URLs for anyplace you visited on the WWW.  Thanks again.

Phil Reschly

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Today's Topics:

   1. Wireless connection sharing (NoOp)
   2. [Correction] Re: Wireless connection sharing (NoOp)
   3. Re: Wireless connection sharing (steve)
   4. Re: Looking for a CLI tool for MP3 tagging (Sridhar M.A.)
   5. Re: Wireless connection sharing (NoOp)
   6. Re: Wireless connection sharing (Owen Townend)
   7. Re: BIOS problem? (Karl Larsen)
   8. Re: 2nd NIC [RESOLVED] (jack)
   9. Re: BIOS problem? (Felipe Figueiredo)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:54:23 -0800
From: NoOp 
Subject: Wireless connection sharing
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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I have a son that is a few hundred miles away attending college. It
seems that I am *always* trying to fix something on the wireless PCMCIA
card on his laptop (Gutsy); either poor quality connections, no
connection at all, or he tries to install a new card & of course he has
no connection to download drivers etc. He does however have a desktop
(Gutsy) with an old WUSB11v2 connector that works, so here is my question:

Does anyone know a simple, easy way that he can connect to the desktop's
nic (while the desktop is connected via wireless) to the nic connector
on his laptop in order to download drivers etc?

So:

Wireless desktop connection ---> desktop nic ---> laptop nic port.

If I can figure out a way to easily instruct him how to do this
(remotely remember) then at least I'd have a chance in fixing his
wireless problem(s) - he's just purchased a new WPC400N to try to
replace the Dynex so I'm sure that he will need a connection from the
laptop do download drivers, ndis bits etc.

Notes: he has access to the wireless router etc., he uses a free open
connection in his apartment complex to connect the desktop. Also, both
computers (laptop and desktop) connect just fine when using a hardwired
dhcp connection. Also, the WUB11 once worked on the laptop, but we've
fiddled with the settings to get Dynex and Linksys PCMCIA cards working,
and in the process the WUSB11 no longer seems to work on the laptop.

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:04:12 -0800
From: NoOp 
Subject: [Correction] Re: Wireless connection sharing
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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On 02/20/2008 04:54 PM, NoOp wrote:

> Notes: he has access to the wireless router etc., he uses a free open
> connection in his apartment complex to connect the desktop. Also, both
> computers (laptop and desktop) connect just fine when using a hardwired
> dhcp connection. Also, the WUB11 once worked on the laptop, but we've
> fiddled with the settings to get Dynex and Linksys PCMCIA cards working,
> and in the process the WUSB11 no longer seems to work on the laptop.
> 

Correction:

he has *no* access to the wireless router etc., he uses a free open

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:13:20 -0500
From: steve 
Subject: Re: Wireless connection sharing
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"

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NoOp wrote:

| Does anyone know a simple, easy way that he can connect to the desktop's
| nic (while the desktop is connected via wireless) to the nic connector
| on his laptop in order to download drivers etc?

crossover cable from the desktop to the laptop?  im assuming the laptop
has an ethernet port.... or why not just plug the laptop into the router?

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:48:12 +0530
From: "Sridhar M.A." 
Subject: Re: Looking for a CLI tool for MP3 tagging
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:08:56PM +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote:
   > 
   > Can somebody recommend a command-line tool to change _one_ ID tag 
   > in an MP3 file? (I want to change the Genre tag, all other tags 
   > shall stay with the old values.)
   > 
I use mp3tag in the mp3blaster package for this. It is very easy to use
and fast. In your case, something like this will suffice :

  mp3tag -r -g 032 *.mp3

I am assuming all the songs have to be tagged with the same genre.  

Regards,

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:31:38 -0800
From: NoOp 
Subject: Re: Wireless connection sharing
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On 02/20/2008 05:13 PM, steve wrote:
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> NoOp wrote:
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> | Does anyone know a simple, easy way that he can connect to the desktop's
> | nic (while the desktop is connected via wireless) to the nic connector
> | on his laptop in order to download drivers etc?
> 
> crossover cable from the desktop to the laptop?  im assuming the laptop
> has an ethernet port.... or why not just plug the laptop into the router?
> 
> 

Sorry, correction was he has no access to the router. It's a free
connection (I suspect off of a neighbors router), so he has no ability
to access the router.

I don't think a crossover cable will work without something telling the
system to pipe data from the wireless connection to the nic port, but
thanks anyway :-)

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:34:52 +1100
From: "Owen Townend" 
Subject: Re: Wireless connection sharing
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"

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On 2/21/08, steve  wrote:
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> NoOp wrote:
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> | Does anyone know a simple, easy way that he can connect to the desktop's
> | nic (while the desktop is connected via wireless) to the nic connector
> | on his laptop in order to download drivers etc?
>
>
> crossover cable from the desktop to the laptop?  im assuming the laptop
> has an ethernet port.... or why not just plug the laptop into the router?
>
>
> - --
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> http://reillyblog.com
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Hey,
  http://www.fs-security.com/docs/connection-sharing.php shows how to
set up internet connection sharing using 'firestarter' which is a nice
front end to ip-tables.
  Or there's http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91370
  It's a few years old now, but it shows a step by step way to (manually)
set up connection sharing on an ubuntu box.

  The google search term that'll help most is probably 'Ubuntu
internet connection sharing'.
  http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+internet+connection+sharing

  Hope this helps,

cheers,
Owen.
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:38:49 -0700
From: Karl Larsen 
Subject: Re: BIOS problem?
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"

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Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> On Wed 20 Feb 2008 19:46:05 Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>> Again, "nothing to see here, move along". You have to do the grub dance 
>>>       
> when 
>   
>>> you change the system to another HD.
>>>
>>> You have to find out (don't know how) which of the HDs is recognized by 
>>>       
> grub 
>   
>>> as hd0 and which one as hd1. Assuming it is hd1 (mutatis mutandis if not):
>>>
>>> sudo grub
>>> grub> root (hd1,6)
>>> grub> setup (hd1)
>>> grub> quit
>>>
>>> This will set grub in the second HD, and look for boot information in the 
>>>       
> 7th 
>   
>>> partition (for this, I'm also assuming you don't have a separate /boot 
>>> partition).
>>>       
>
>   
>>>   
>>>       
>>     The problem I am seeing is that even if I turn off the IDE HD in 
>> Bios grub can't do the right thing to the SATA drive. When I do root 
>> (hd0,6) it says no Linux found. This means it can't find grub setup files.
>>
>>     
>
> Well, then it means my assumptions are incorrect. You must know what the 
> variables mean if you are to fill the blanks.
>
> Did you issue 'root (hd0,6)' from within your working installation, of after 
> disabling the PATA HD?
>
> Does sda7 have the /boot directory, with the grub informations, and linux 
> images?
>
> If so, then you might give grub-install a try. Also, have you read the grub 
> docs?
>
> regards
> FF
>
>   
    Well the plot gets thicker. I was checking the plugs to the SATA 
drive and after a careful test the drive doesn't work at all now :-)

    I think the power plug on the printed wiring board is screwed up. 
The HD does not show up in BIOS at all now. So tomorrow I will take the 
drive out and see if I can find a problem. HD's are so cheap now it is 
almost better to just buy a new one, but this SATA is just 4 months old.

    The wiring board plugs look real cheap and shoddy to me :-(

Karl

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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:40:05 -0500
From: jack 
Subject: Re: 2nd NIC [RESOLVED]
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"

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On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:25 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> jack wrote:
> > I plugged in the 2nd nic card,  but it won't light.
> > dmesg|grep eth1 shows
> > e1000: eth1: e1000 probeL Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> >
> > ifup eth1 returns
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> >
> > /etc/network/interfaces has
> > auto eth1
> > iface eth1 inet dhcp
> 
> While the kernel first gives it the name eth1 it might be renamed 
> afterwards. Check the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules 
> where there might be a different association between MAC address and 
> interface name. Maybe the real name is eth2 or something else.
Bingo! It's called eth2 after bootup...
Thanks, Nils! That cracked it.

> 
> 
> Nils
> 

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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:53:40 -0300
From: Felipe Figueiredo 

Subject: Re: BIOS problem?
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"

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On Wed 20 Feb 2008 22:38:49 Karl Larsen wrote:

>     Well the plot gets thicker. I was checking the plugs to the SATA 
> drive and after a careful test the drive doesn't work at all now :-)
> 
Indeed. How did you manage to copy data onto it? Did it *just* stopped 
working?

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