Re: debian-knoppix digest, Vol 1 #930 - 3 msgs
Ian Soutar <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:40:29 -0400
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Hi Terry, As far as I know, you need to be running version 3.4 to get support for wifi cards. I ran version 3.3 without success. Ian Soutar Victoria BC. [email protected] wrote: >Send debian-knoppix mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of debian-knoppix digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Advanced Shell-Programming + Dialog (Fabian Franz) > 2. Knoppix 3.3 not recognising my wi-fi card (Terry Maiden) > 3. KNOPPIX with Japanimation (Kuniyasu Suzaki) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >From: Fabian Franz <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:29:04 +0200 >Subject: [debian-knoppix] Advanced Shell-Programming + Dialog > >Hi, > >just want to share an experience I just made ;-), which can be very useful for >all programmers that use (X)dialog ... > >You all know the redirection, so we do: > >dialog --inputbox "Your name?" 0 0 2>$SOMETMPFILE >NAME=$(cat $SOMETMPFILE) > >Klaus always said, that there must be some shell magic possible ;-) to avoid >that temp-file, which can btw also be quite insecure and he was right: > >The following works: > >exec 3>&1 # make 3 point to stdout >NAME=$(dialog --inputbox "Your name?" 0 0 2>&1 1>&3) # basically redicrect >stdout to #fd3, then redirect stderr to stdout > >The trick is that the $()-construct just redirects #1 stdout descriptor, but >not the #3, even if it also points to stdout ... :-) > >And what the best is, that can be even more simplified. Make for example the >following procedure: > >dia() >{ > dialog "$@" 2>&1 1>&3 >} > >And you can just use dia, after you have setup the #3 fd, just as a normal >command: > >NAME=$(dia --inputbox "Your name?" 0 0) > >All the magic necessary for redirection is done by the procedure. > >I found that out, while I needed a way to somehow close the FDs for another >application (upcoming nxserver). You can read everything about it in the >Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: > >http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html > >cu > >Fabian > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >From: "Terry Maiden" <t.maiden-XfrvlLN1Pqtfpb/[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 16:29:00 -0500 >Subject: [debian-knoppix] Knoppix 3.3 not recognising my wi-fi card > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C4611A.D89CB890 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Knoppix 3.3 doesn't recognise my new wi-fi card. Its a D-Link DWL-650. = >802.11b Wireless PC card adapter. I got the "b" card in the hopes it = >has been around for a few years (unlike the "g" and "super-g" cards) and = >Knoppix would be able to recognise it. I never got KPPP or WVdial to = >connect to my ISP either. I'm not having much luck getting Knoppix to = >be much use at all... > =20 >I haven't tried the 3.4 version and this wi-fi card yet. >------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C4611A.D89CB890 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = >charset=3Diso-8859-1"> ><META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Knoppix 3.3 doesn't recognise my new = >wi-fi=20 >card. Its a D-Link DWL-650. 802.11b Wireless PC card = >adapter. =20 >I got the "b" card in the hopes it has been around for a few years = >(unlike the=20 >"g" and "super-g" cards) and Knoppix would be able to recognise = >it. I=20 >never got KPPP or WVdial to connect to my ISP either. I'm not = >having much=20 >luck getting Knoppix to be much use at all...</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I haven't tried the 3.4 version and = >this wi-fi card=20 >yet.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > >------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C4611A.D89CB890-- > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:34:40 +0900 (JST) >To: [email protected] >From: Kuniyasu Suzaki <k.suzaki-XSdjUN4cZ6fPDbFq/[email protected]> >Subject: [debian-knoppix] KNOPPIX with Japanimation > > >Dear, > >A Japanese KNOPPIX book is published with appendix CD. The CD is >customized with Japanimation. Please check the screenshot home page. > http://www.poe-lina.com/screenshot.html > >You can download the background Japanimatiton. > http://www.poe-lina.com/download.html > >The ISBN is 4-7980-0793-5. :-) > >------ >suzaki > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >debian-knoppix mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix > > >End of debian-knoppix Digest > > > >