Re: debian-knoppix digest, Vol 1 #930 - 3 msgs

Ian Soutar <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:40:29 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.knoppix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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>Today's Topics:
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>   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)
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>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
>
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>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
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>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.
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><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Knoppix 3.3 doesn't recognise my new =
>wi-fi=20
>card.&nbsp; Its a D-Link DWL-650.&nbsp; 802.11b Wireless PC card =
>adapter.&nbsp;=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.&nbsp; I=20
>never got KPPP or WVdial to connect to my ISP either.&nbsp; I'm not =
>having much=20
>luck getting Knoppix to be much use at all...</FONT></DIV>
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><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I haven't tried the 3.4 version and =
>this wi-fi card=20
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>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. :-)
>
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>suzaki
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