I took my printing problems to our local GNU/Linux SIG (part of Olympia Microcomputer User Group) a while back. Basically, I had an HP LJ 1300 connected to a WinXP machine and shared on our network. But the WinXP kept losing its connection with the printer...no idea how or why.

So someone at the Linux group had a small print server he said I could try. I set it up, installed the software to the WinXP machine, and voila! All the other computers (mostly Mepis 6.5, one Win98) found...

I have an old laptop computer that I have had an old distribution of Fedora running on for ages. I wanted to use the laptop with QCad to create drawings of a brake van that I am helping to renovate at my local steam railway.

I could have installed QCad on the Fedora setup but it was very slow and clunky and I thought that with a more stripped down installation it might be quicker. So I decided to install Slackware 12 that I got on the DVD that came with a copy of Linux Format Magazine...

My Last Interview went finally well and that too one of the questions asked was "Does NFS support TCP or UDP?" I was lucky I had read this blog before I attempted the interview. THis is what Sysadmin should read about:

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Hi

I need to configure my HUAWEI E220 HSDPA USB MODEM to my red hat Linux enterprise 5 edition.

Please let reply to this with all commands and steps to be followed.


Also hw do i find USB MODEM FROM /dev directory when i connect the modem.. i don not know which one is the modem.


Please reply to this,

lakshi2005ster@gmail.com

Regards
Lakshitha

About three weeks or so ago I installed Debian on a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything was going pretty smooth.

I did a netinst with LXDE desktop and plugging in my USB Dell 2 button wheel mouse worked. It has the 2.6.26 kernel.

Around Aug, 09, I did a safe-upgrade and now the mouse is not working at all. The touchpad continues to work.

When I run dmesg | tail, I see 'New USB device found' after unplugging & re plugging the mouse in the port....