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I jus recently switched from slackware to gentoo and I am loving it. So far my only problem is that my ide bus speed is only 33mbs. This is a real pitfall and causing me to only burn cds at 10x and dvd even slower. I have a sata hd so im not worried about that. My dmesg message for the ide bus is as...

Well I have finally come back to this program and I am trying to get my actual driver to work so that i can call it from any type of program. I am gettin an error though and I am not sure how to fix it. The code for my driver is the following. #include <linux/config.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <...

Well i got sending and recieving the file working hopefully. Now I have a question about the syscall() function. We need to be able to remove a file from a program. How would we do that? There is no syscall() function for rm. only for rmdir and i dont know how to use that so that you can remove all ...

We are doing this as a school assignment and our project is to creat a parall-proccessing software. We have a head node and client nodes then 3rd party software that runs on top of it all. One of the requirements though installing and unistalling the 3rd party software with the head node onto all th...

Netcat dosent seem to do what i need so that is a no go. Voidmain the socket code you have was more or less what I already know howto do. I can send files over a socket and telnet in to see what the socket has already. So I know the send file works. I have been looking around on google but I can not...

How would I recieve a file from a socket? I can send it find and connect with telnet and it will show the file if it is text but how do i connect with a program and download it to a certain directory?

Do you have X11 running? That could be a problem if you dont have that running. Also if you are in kde and want to run them why dont you just goto the run choice in the menu and put it in there?

Ok how do i log into a cvs server on sourceforge? I need to download the following folder http://cvs.xbox-linux.org/cgi-bin/viewc ... nux/kernel Once I get that i should be able to get on my way with installing linux but thats only after i do some soldering

Some guy shot one with a rifle and the bullet bounce off the case. These things are tough as hell. Also a pain in the ass to figure out what the hell i am doin. Maybe its just cause im tired. Must goto sleep now

Well i got me an xbox today. Within 20min of being home I had already taken it apart and currently working on gettin linux on it. I plan on flashin the TSOP and using it as a dedicated movie/mp3 server. So far it has been very interesting. Just reading right now. Tommorow I might actually get to sol...

I am looking into this now but just wondering if I try the non open source code and it dosent work as planed will i be able to go back to the firmware that is currently on my WRT54G? As i dont want to kill it at all costs

I have the following 2 routers http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=601 and http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=544 . I was wondering if it is possible to set one of them up conneted to the cable modem and share internet to my room wireless wi...

Thanks that last command worked fine. And dont worry that was the only thing in bin that i did chmod 777 on.

shuiend@darkstar:~$ ls -l /bin/mount
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 68868 Aug 25 20:06 /bin/mount*
Thats what i get

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda3 /window vfat defaults 1 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,owner,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/sr1 /mnt/dvd auto user,owner,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 devpts /dev/p...