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> Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> > Hi folks |
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> > I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get |
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wrapped |
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> > up in the easiest method possible |
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> > 1. Flashcards / memory sticks |
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> > - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives |
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> > -- I have to become root -- its easy, but an annoyance - I have |
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looked |
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> > at automount and that is FAR more problems than im willing to go |
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through |
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> > (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is |
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like |
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> > 3 pages), so if I could get it set up so that I can just do the |
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mount |
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> > commands as my user instead of having to su it would be nice |
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> |
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> Google for "gentoo dbus" or "gentoo hal". You want three programs. |
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> Hal, D-Bus and ivman. Hal and gentoo are real easy, you basically |
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> emerge and have them start at boot. ivman is the app that listens for |
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> events and will carry out actions in a nice and easy xml file. There |
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is |
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> a system wide config and a per-user config. You can tell it to launch |
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> totem/xine/mplayer if a DVD is inserted or mount your camera, usb key, |
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> etc. |
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> |
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> > 2. Energy saver thingy |
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> > - after about 10 minutes or so of inactivity, the screen shuts |
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> > off under power saver -- I cant seem to find how to prevent this |
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from |
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> > happening, and could use some guidance |
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> |
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> Is it a BIOS thing? What kind of laptop? I have a new Toshiba laptop |
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> and Toshiba did away with a real BIOS for some custom one with very |
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few |
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> settings. |
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> > 3. I need a good VPN Client with easy gui |
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> > - right now our school has a VPN set up on the cisco pix that |
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> > works beautifully with a Microsoft VPN connection on a windows box, |
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I |
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> > need to be able to access this with my gentoo laptop as well |
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> I can't help here. I have to use a Nortel VPN client. Their Linux |
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> version just doesn't work. I paid $100 for it! My only option has |
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been |
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> to use VMWare and vpn into work that way. I needed VMWare anyway for |
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MS |
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> Dev stuff. I think I read somewhere that it is pretty easy to connect |
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> to ciso VPN with Linux. A quick eix search shows these ebuilds: |
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> |
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> jim@kaleb $ eix -Ss -c cisco |
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> [N] dev-perl/Net-Telnet-Cisco (): Automate telnet sessions w/ |
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> routers&switches |
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> |
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> [N] net-analyzer/ipcad (): IP Cisco Accounting Daemon |
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> |
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> [N] net-analyzer/ndsad (): Cisco netflow probe from libpcap, ULOG, |
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> tee/divert sources. |
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> |
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> [N] net-misc/cisco-aironet-client-utils (): Cisco Aironet Client |
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Utilities |
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> |
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> [N] net-misc/cisco-vpnclient-3des (): Cisco VPN Client (3DES) |
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> |
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> [N] net-misc/vpnc (): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software |
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> > 4. I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my |
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> > switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have |
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the |
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> > driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good |
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communications |
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> > program (equivalent to hyperterm ) to use with them to talk to my |
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> > switches and to my UPS |
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> I never used one. However I just compiled my kernel and there seems |
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to |
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> be a whole bunch. Run make menuconfig and take a look at: |
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> |
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> Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial Converter support |
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> > Thanks folks - any pointers and/or suggestions are gladly welcomed |
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[Timothy A. Holmes] |
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Hi Jim -- thanks for the response |
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The card mounting stuff looks good, but is gonna require more time than |
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I have right now to spend to set it up -- I will file it for future |
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refrence. |
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As far as the VPN Stuff - unfortunately, this is a cisco pix 501, and |
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from what I can tell, it doesn't use the standard protocols (sadly) I |
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tried the cisco client on another box and it just sat there and looked |
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at me |
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Thanks for the tip on the kernel stuff - I'll check into it when I do my |
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next kernel build -- (something I avoid like the plague) -- |
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TIM |
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Timothy A. Holmes |
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IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher |
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Medina Christian Academy |
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A Higher Standard... |
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Jeremiah 33:3 |
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Jeremiah 29:11 |
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Esther 4:14 |
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