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[arch-general] dialup woes wvdial, external v92 modem connected via usb/serial adapter
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

I'm having a problem getting dialup to work... Due to financial limitations, I'm going to have to give up my expensive broadband connection in favor of {sigh} dial-up which will save me about $50/month. I still have my external v92 zoom serial modem from before I went broadband. But now that my only working computer is my laptop I had the problem of not having a serial port to connect it to. I already tried to get my laptops internal {win}modem to work via Linmodem, but failed miserably... Thus I acquired a usb/serial adapter cable, and used it to connect my v92 modem. wvdialconf detected it OK. But I can't get it to dial. With some experimentation based on some init strings I found online and a brief modem command reference, I've been able to get the modem to at least go off hook, by adding H1 to the Init2 string. Proving at least that wvdial was attempting to control the correct device. But it didn't dial. It complained that my dial string was invalid and disconnected... Except that the modem didn't hang up (I listened to the phone company recording about hanging up and dialing again...) A little more experimentation reveled that if I used &C0 instead of &C1 it would hang up when it disconnects. But it still doesn't actually dial. And still complains about my dial string. I have verified the 7 digit 'Phone = "7340102" ' string by manually dialing it with a telephone and heard the sound of my ISP's modem attempting to negotiate a connection. And, in my wvdial.conf, I have tried the string both with and without quotes. I've included {below} a copy of my wvdial.conf & pasted in the results of my last attempt to use wvdial... Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? => My wvdial.conf (with password line modified of course): [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ # Init2 as defined by wvdial.conf: # Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 # Init2 modified: Without H1 stayed on hook. Without &C0 wouldn't hang up on disconnect... Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 115200 New PPPD = yes # tried with and without Carrier Check Carrier Check = off # tried with and without Stupid Mode Stupid Mode = on Dial Command = ATDT Phone = "7340102" ISDN = 0 Username = jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net Password = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx => A screen capture of my last wvdial attempt: UnderTree =-> wvdial --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Cannot get information for serial port. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT7340102 --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT7340102 ERROR --> Invalid dial command. --> Disconnecting at Thu Jun 3 15:38:23 2010 UnderTree =->

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[arch-general] Adobe-air
by Madhurya Kakati 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

HI all, I tried all arch packages of adobe-air from AUR and also bin32-adobe-air without success. So i went to their website and downloaded the .bin file for linux. So i ran chmod a+x AdobeAirInstaller.bin to make it executable and then ran sudo ./AdobeAirInstaller.bin. I remember i did this and successfully installed adobe air on Ubuntu but now in arch it throws an error. Error loading the runtime (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64). I am using 64 bit arch. Please help. Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] udev 157-1, initscripts 2010.06-1, mkinitcpio 0.6.5-1
by Attila 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

At Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010 14:57 Thomas Bächler wrote: > udev is an upstream update with mostly bugfixes, but some changes in > behaviour. Most importantly, NAME= rules are being ignored now, you can > not change the kernel's predefined device name anymore. Is there a hope to get "NAME= rules" back in the future or is there a nice upgrade path for at example network rules? I can't believe this because i do this for my usb sticks too. Can i replace this KERNEL=="eth*", ATTR{address}=="MAC", NAME="lan", OPTIONS="last_rule" with a Symlink KERNEL=="eth*", ATTR{address}=="MAC", SYMLINK="lan" and would this works in the rc.conf? See you, Attila

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[arch-general] 2nd partition for bootable USB flash drive
by Sergey Manucharian 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi folks, Of course, it's very convenient to install Archlinux using a bootable USB flash putting the corresponding .iso file in it (e.g. archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso). But it's not convenient to keep a separate flash drive for it. The natural solution is to create another partition at the same jump drive for regular file transfers etc. Linux has no problem working with multiple partitions, but not M$ Windows. It principally recognizes only the 1st partition. Some flash drives can be hacked with toggling so called Removable Media Bit, but most cannot. I realized that the easiest way is to "manually" change the partition number of the bootable image before writing it into a flash drive. The script below does it rewriting the partition record from the first line to the second one. (Alternatively you can rework it to read back the MBR from the bootable drive, hack it and write back). Then with fdisk you can create another partition with number 1 - and voilà - it will be recognizable even by M$. Cheers, Sergey (the script is far from being perfect, just illustrates the idea) ----------------------------------8<------------------------------ #!/bin/bash # changes the partition number of bootable image from 1 to 2 # accepts a bootable image file as argument BLOCK=1 COUNT=16 PARTTBL_OFFSET=446 TEMP_FILE=/tmp/part_table dd if=/dev/zero of=$TEMP_FILE bs=$BLOCK count=$COUNT dd if=$1 of=$TEMP_FILE bs=$BLOCK skip=$PARTTBL_OFFSET seek=$COUNT count=$COUNT dd if=$TEMP_FILE of=$1 bs=$BLOCK seek=$PARTTBL_OFFSET conv=notrunc count=$((COUNT*2)) ----------------------------------8<------------------------------

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[arch-general] Xorg18 status and Gnome
by Keith Hinton 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi, Why is it that Arch seems to take longer than say other distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, etc, to support newer versions of Xorg and Gnome? I was curious about that process. While Debian/Ubuntu/etc distros seem to be supporting the Gnome desktop just fine, it appears that others most noticeably that of Gentoo and other such similar distros, mask or test out Gnome/Xorg, rather than releasing it strate away into say in Arches case, the extra/core repos. I had another question, relating to that of Arch, some webpages I have found compare Arch to Debian Cid/Unstable. How true is this, and exactly in what way is Arch Linux itself, like that of Debian Cid? Thanks! Regards, --Keith Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37(a)hotmail.com Yahoo messenger /AIM: keithint1234

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[arch-general] Broken kwallet after kde 4.4.4 update
by Marek Otahal 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hello, anyone else experiencing issues with kwalletmanager after the upgrade? I upgraded during the kdelibs 4.4.3 issue, but that's fixed now. I don't know if it was a buggy upgrade or the release but the new kde sucks on my machine. Keybindings, such as alt+f2, volume up/down, alt+tab, etc., don't work and my main problem is Kwalletmanager. It runs in tray ok, but my wallet is missing, settings don't react,... I've filed a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19678 . I did even try yaourt -Rcsn kde and yaourt -S kde but bugs still persist. Any ideas on fixing this? Advice to rm .kde4 is the solution I'd like to avoid. Thank you in advance. Regards, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] change user and group in env in PKGBUILD
by Caleb Cushing 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

so i'm trying to update the oracle pkgbuild on AUR. oracle's installer won't run as root, but it thinks that it's running as root. how can I change this? I believe it is supposed to be run as the user and group that it gets installed as what's the best way to add those in the pkgbuild? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] perl-5.12
by Caleb Cushing 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

so what's holding back the rebuilds? outside of rebuilds I have no problems. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.1.2-1
by Thomas Bächler 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Am 02.06.2010 19:40, schrieb Roman Kyrylych: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 20:46, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> Another minor upstream update. From the upstream announcement: >> >> === changes since version 1.1.1 === >> >> * Fix luksFormat/luksOpen reading passphrase from stdin and "-" keyfile. >> * Support --key-file/-d option for luksFormat. >> * Fix description of --key-file and add --verbose and --debug options >> to man page. >> * Add verbose log level and move unlocking message there. >> * Remove device even if underlying device disappeared (remove, luksClose). >> * Fix (deprecated) reload device command to accept new device argument. >> >> For changes in previous version please see Cryptsetup 1.1.1 Release Notes >> http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup111 > > Signoff x86_64. > Anyone for i686 (users too)?

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[arch-general] synergy-plus
by Caleb Cushing 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I suppose this could be filed as a bug... but since extra/synergy has long been unmaintained upstream. I recently found a fork http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/ for which there is already a pkgbuild on AUR. perhaps we should consider relegating the original synergy to AUR and moving synergy-plus into extra (or community) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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