@tlm

Getting a router is good move nowadays, having multiple computers online is pretty common.
I would advice to avoid m setups where modem-router is used as modem and router simultaneously.
Here the modem is supplied by the connection provider (not the ISP, but local telecom company).
I had (pretty bitter) experience where I tried the modem-router supplied instead of of separate modem that worked before that with separate router (until the supplied modem went bananas and they suggested to get combined device as a bonus + the having wireless functionality) .
I thought using one evice instead of 2 will reduce clutter but proved non functional when connecting 3 computers (slow LAN or bad QOS when uploading, depending on the model of the device).
Switching back to separate modem and router restored the functionality. The router btw is "Level One" and works great. Not too expnsive and according to the local internet support the specific brand is very good.
The dsl dialing can be done via modem or via router. The former allows monitoring of DSL connection parameters.
But connecting then through modem directly worked here as well.

Jack

@nbache

Aztech 600E modem and Levelone router work just fine with OWB.

Jack

@Snuffy

Another option is to try the modem's interal ADSL dialer software. They usually have it.
Just set the roadshow to automatic DHCP mode, see what IP does it get if any, if there's an IP address:

try to locate the modems one on the LAN side

get into it's administration interface (using a browser, OWB will do the best job imho, Try different not-/yes-capitalized combinations of Admin/Admin authorization info or browse the net for your model or check the login prompt for any hint about default values, some declare them)

set the connection type to PPPoE, fill in the username and password

try to connect

if fails, probably non-default VCI/VPI values are needed,

retry to connect.



Here the modem's lan subnet is 10.0.0.0, it's IP is 10.0.0.138, it acts as a gateway and dns server.
That way you might save those 60$
And you'll probably be able to monitor DSL connection quality as a bonus.

Jack

Wow! Tabs!!!

BTW: internal bookmarks window communicates with the tab that was active when the bookmarks windows was opened (afaiu).

Great work!

@RacerX

try runnig xeyes from shell when amicygnix is up.
It should be in path and appear on the X11 screen (which is in the behind the WB screen at this stage)

Edit:
The full path to xeyes:
Cygnix:CygnixPPC/X11R6.3/bin/xeyes

Jack

I found today that smbfs no longer does the job as it used to.
I don't know whom to blame, but seems that the latest samba upgrade on server side (linux x86, debian, now samba 3.2.5) is the main suspect.
Symptoms:

1. names are 8.3 uppercase regardless server settings and "case" keyword in smbfs command.

2. I get weird error message upon connection , but successive disconnects and connects reder the smbfs unusable
The weird message (every successfull connect):

7.AOS4.1:Libs> smbfs domain home user jack device wd2 volumename wd2 //aetpy/wd2
smbfs: Unknown error - (1, 87).
Connected '//aetpy/wd2' to 'wd2:'; "Break 7" or [Ctrl-C] to stop... smbfs domain home user jack device wd2 volumename wd2 //aetpy/wd2


Restarting network doesn't help.
Sfter a while it can be persuaded to connect, there's no trace in the server's logs while connection fails but there's a probably relevant message just before the connectivity gets resumed:

[2009/01/22 02:49:27, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1194)
aeone (::ffff:192.168.123.14) connect to service wd2 initially as user jack (uid=1001, gid=1001) (pid 6304)
[2009/01/22 02:49:28, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1405)
aeone (::ffff:192.168.123.14) closed connection to service wd2
[2009/01/22 02:58:15, 0] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(531)
negprot protocols not 0-terminated
[2009/01/22 02:58:15, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1194)
aeone (::ffff:192.168.123.14) connect to service wd2 initially as user jack (uid=1001, gid=1001) (pid 6348)
[2009/01/22 02:58:18, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1405)
aeone (::ffff:192.168.123.14) closed connection to service wd2

The scenario is as follows according to the log:
2:49:27 connection
2:49:28 disconnection
then 9+ minutes of failed connections that generate the following on amiga side:

7.AOS4.1:Libs> smbfs domain home user jack device wd2 volumename wd2 //aetpy/wd2
smbfs: Cannot connect to server (5, Input/output error).

2:58:15 complaint about not --terminated something, then successful connect


Did anyone experience similar stuff?
Any ideas?
TIA,
Jack

Edit: reverting to samba 3.0.27 on the server side helped. God bless /var/cache/apt/archives.

@Ricossa

What I meant is to login into networked linux box as follows:
with "ssh -X"

or

other mean while on the remote side setting "export DISPLAY=amiga_one_ip_address:0" or "setenv DISPLAY amiga_one_ip_address:0" (according to the type of shell used on the remote side) and "xhost + remote_ip" on amiga_one's side.

The every X11 app launched from that shell will try to open it's window on AmiCygnix display.
Whith stock launch script of AmiCygnix I found it impossible to launch several applications such as grip, seamonkey.
Adding "-kb" to the line that launches xgeekppc solved the inability to display the above mentioned applications, but disabled keyboard extension (thus rendering keyboard layout swithcing in AmiCygnix impossible)


Jack

Here progressbar text is wrong (always "currenvalue/total")

Screenshot here

Hi folks,

Just wondering:
did anyone manage to use remote gtk/gdk apps such as mozilla/seamonkey/firefox on AmiCygnix display (running the app on Linux or Unix and displaying its window on Amiga) with keboard extension active (means stock configuration, no "-kb" switch being added manually to the launch script).

Afaik, there's one case besides mine where "-kb" is a must.
If this occurs for everyone, then keyboard extension is to be inversitigated, otherwise the problematic cases should be investigated.


Thanks
Jack

@tldaley

Check the protocols available in the printer's web interface (I bet it has one, just access http://its-IP-address in the browser)
Then somewhere there'l be the info on available protocols.

Jack

@tldaley

Which printer?
RAW=socket printing, maybe your printer supports lpd only?
For socket printing: port 9100 is the default one.

@Chris

I have the sdk server added in tooltypes (as per requester that popped after the latest amiupdates' self-updates)

Jack

Amiupdate picked up today that there's newer libopenssl, however it downloads libcurl and after next sync the need for the update shows up again.

Desn't look quite normal to me
Jack

@tldaley

Here:

8.AOS4.1:> getenv env:lpr.device
PRINTER=xerox RAW
8.AOS4.1:> grep xerox Devs/Internet/hosts
192.168.123.13 xerox

Imho, Edgar and Joerg are the two most crucial developers out there atm.
Browser is very complicated project.
So is maintaining X11 ports (besides porting there's very slick packaging + source maintainance).

BTW: if Edgar won't be the featured one, he's into some serious A1-related hardware problems that probably will cost much more than battery replacement (hint, hint)

Jack

@xenic

If you set up PATH as in my suggestio above (in AOS, prepend the :, I did it in cygnix:s/cygnix-startup file), gcc will work both ways.
And $HOME is a bit complicated issue. It mustn't be cygnix:home/root, but the best thing to put it in cygnix:home/username.
Don't try to link it to some dir outside. I found some apps fail to work well.
And $USER mustn't be root. Both, env:cygnix/USER and $USER are set to my username on unix boxes, ssh uses it, AOS devs:initernet/users file has it and smbfs uses it too.
It just makes things more practical and logical.

Jack

@Mikey_C

Edgar Schwan and Joerg Strohmayer.
And Steven Solie deserves too but there's no paypal link...

@Elwood

One remark about the article you linked to: the "graphical mode" you references is "textual menu interface".

Jack

@yoodoo2

kompozer: most probably "K"=kde, hence QT.

@Snuffy

What is Xtime? Do you mean the clocks show in amiga X11 apps is wrong?


Timezones should be in sync:
14.AOS4.1:> getenv Cygnix/TZ
Asia/Jerusalem
14.AOS4.1:> getenv TZ
Asia/Jerusalem

and AOS should use TZ settings.
Here:
prefs/time->UTC is set to auto
prefs/timezone uses locale settings.

As long as timezone file is correct, the time should be fine (AOS comes with 2 timezone files here, one fo previous year and althpugh not being the latest, AOS picked it up till I spotted it and deleted the obsoletefile)

Jack