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open voices mirror

Submitted by Anonymous
on January 8, 2008 - 6:41pm

Has someone a mirror for the open voices interview with linus torvalds?

linux installation in sata hard disk

Submitted by kssreddy22
on December 30, 2007 - 3:46am
Linux

Hi...

I tried to install linux (rhel-4, fedora-6, debian) in my new system with 160gb, 1 gb ram, but it stops at probing for pci hardware(bus 00).
i am not getting how to resove this and install linux in my system, i have installed windows-xp sucesfully.

can any one help me in this regard.

-kssr

Problem with simbolic link

Submitted by Anonymous
on December 25, 2007 - 4:03am
Linux

I am facing a strange behavior when I create the same symbolic twice. The followins is what the situation ..

[root@bglr1 tmp]# mkdir -p /tmp/tmp/{1,2}
[root@bglr1 tmp]# ln -s /tmp/tmp/2 /tmp/tmp/1/2
[root@bglr1 tmp]# ls -lR /tmp/tmp
.:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 20:34 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 20:33 2

./1:
total 0

pinging problem with ipsec

Submitted by Dilip Modi
on December 22, 2007 - 5:37am
Linux

Hello

I have mentioned my configuration details and firewall details are as follows...

left - left subnet - left live ip <==> right (ppp0) live ip - right subnet - right
192.168.100.200 - 192.168.100.0/24 -219.64.85.10 <==> 123.201.5.65 - 192.168.0.0/24 - 192.168.0.10
===============================================================================
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

Can anyone tell me the Procedure to create an init ramdisk using busybox

Submitted by kummy_linux
on December 21, 2007 - 8:38am
Linux

HI all,
i am trying to create a init ramdisk for the kernel versioned linux-2.6.14 using busybox-1.8.2 tool for powerpc architecture. i am using ppc_7xx- as a cross compiler, can anyone tell me the changes that is to be done in the busybox software in order to create the init ramdisk.

On board LAN on RedHat 9

Submitted by Anonymous
on December 20, 2007 - 5:42am
Linux

Hi
I have installed RH-9 on a ABIT BL 30G motherboard celeron p4 machine. I need to configure LAN on this machine. How is it possible?
Tarun

Booting FC6(Fedora 6) of USB flash

Submitted by abc95129
on December 17, 2007 - 12:37pm
Linux

I'm trying to make a bootable USB flash with fedora 6.

I select the kernel via grub to boot which is fine. Here
is a screen output(I had to hand copy so it does not have all details but the relevant ones)

kernel /vmlinux-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
..
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6.img
..

Uncompressing Linux...OK, boot the kernel.

Boot failure after add RAM

Submitted by JETTAGiX
on December 8, 2007 - 1:44pm
Linux

RHEL AS 4.0 kernel 2.6.9-5 EL
512MB is OK.
Add RAM to 1GB, the system boot failure.
I change the "kernel" parameter, add "mem=512M", it's OK.
Why I can't use the whole 1GB memory?

capture raw 802.11 frames

Submitted by sudeepta
on December 8, 2007 - 3:10am
Linux

How to capture raw 802.11 frames, that contains whole 802.11 mac header even though that is not intended to me and i an not associated to any Access Point, by using sockets, and how to catch frames from all the channels those are being used(means i can see through iwlist scan).

Firewire (or scsi or hardware?)problem at Boot

Submitted by MisterIO
on December 8, 2007 - 1:48am
Linux

Booting kernel v. 2.6.23.9 I get this with cmd dmesg (Why all those errors at boot time and then nothing more?) :

R_OK,SUGGEST_OK
[   47.037554] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 204298668
[   47.037925] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_BUS_BUSY driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
[   47.038054] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 204298669

SPAMMER : Ringtones - If you click on profile it is a advertisment for ringtons

Submitted by abc95129
on November 21, 2007 - 8:38pm
Linux

I just noticed a user called Ringtones. I clicked on the profile and it was SPAM. Please disable the user.

--thanks

RPC-Remote Procedure Call

Submitted by rajesh_palanichamy
on November 21, 2007 - 5:23am
Linux

#include
#include
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int num;
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf (stderr, "usage: rnusers hostname \n");
exit (1);

}
if ((num = rnusers (argv[1])) < 0)
{
fprintf (stderr, "error: rnusers \n");
exit (-1);
}

how to compile rpc in fedora 7

Submitted by rajesh_palanichamy
on November 21, 2007 - 3:22am
Linux

hi,

i tried many times to compile simply rpc program

#include
#include
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int num;
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf (stderr, "usage: rnusers hostname \n");
exit (1);

}
if ((num = rnusers (argv[1])) < 0)
{

How can I diff two different kernel sources from kernel.org?

Submitted by abc95129
on November 16, 2007 - 12:10am
Linux

Hi,
If I want to know the source code differences between , let's say, 2.6.12 and 2.6.21 how could I do it? To be more specific I want to see a diff output or similar of sources files that are different.

--thanks

Closing a Network Connection

Submitted by nextraztus
on November 14, 2007 - 10:30am
Linux

Several times in the past, I've run across the need to shut down a single network socket for a program that had several open. The best solution I've come up with is target the particular host it was connected to (that is, the one I want to d/c) and fire up iptables.