**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Feb 21 02:59:57 2009
Feb 21 13:40:03 <fredsa> Hi
Feb 21 13:40:52 <fredsa> Just tried to setup my slug for the first time and it isn't being detected by the linksys software.  Anyone had this problem before?  Google tells nothing
Feb 21 13:41:14 <fredsa> I can't detect it on my switch either
Feb 21 13:43:57 <Reedy> brand new or 2nd hand?
Feb 21 13:45:32 <fredsa> nevermind.  You'll laugh when I tell you what I did
Feb 21 13:46:06 <fredsa> plugged the wrong kinda cable into the ethernet port.  Musta been drunk at the time.  It plugged in fine
Feb 21 13:46:35 <fredsa> ok. it finds it now :p
Feb 21 14:51:08 <fredsa> the wiki's not very clear about upgrading over a network.  Is upgrading over a wired network ok or do I literally have to plug the unit directly into my pc?
Feb 21 15:00:26 <bizkut> fredsa, you can wired to dhcp router if the slug initially set to use dhcp
Feb 21 15:04:35 <Reedy> over a networks fine
Feb 21 15:04:46 <Reedy> i've done it over a wireless (well, laptop on wireless) before now
Feb 21 15:08:15 <fredsa> yeah, I guessed it must be ok and did it anyway.
Feb 21 16:47:14 <fredsa> in lan settings should gateway be set to my router's ip?
Feb 21 16:47:25 <Reedy> yup
Feb 21 16:47:52 <fredsa> besides adding my slug's ip to my router, is there anything else I need to do to get online?
Feb 21 16:49:46 <Reedy> dns server is a good idea
Feb 21 16:49:54 <Reedy> *setting the
Feb 21 16:50:40 <eno> one usually don't need to add slug's ip to router
Feb 21 16:51:05 <Frigolit> DHCP exists for a reason :P
Feb 21 16:51:08 <Reedy> suppose it might depend how your dhcp server works if you want staticassignments ;)
Feb 21 16:51:36 <Frigolit> if you want a static IP on the slug, add the slug's MAC address to your router's static DHCP list
Feb 21 16:51:40 <Frigolit> that's the best way
Feb 21 16:51:56 <fredsa> that's what I've done Frigolit
Feb 21 16:51:57 * eno second that
Feb 21 16:51:58 <Reedy> what i was saying
Feb 21 16:52:01 <Reedy> lol
Feb 21 16:52:09 <Reedy> hi brian!
Feb 21 16:52:19 <fredsa> I'm not particularly fussed about having a static IP.  I've got one cos that's what the manual recommends
Feb 21 16:52:22 <eno> hi reedy and guys
Feb 21 16:52:35 <Reedy> well, then at least you know which ip its going to be on ;)
Feb 21 16:52:38 <Frigolit> fredsa: well, and it's easier to find the slug on the network with a static ip :]
Feb 21 16:53:36 * fredsa tries rebooting the slug (when in doubt...)
Feb 21 16:54:01 <eno> no no, in linux/unix world you rarely need to reboot
Feb 21 16:54:14 <fredsa> I know, but I don't know what else to do
Feb 21 16:54:17 <eno> except for flashing
Feb 21 16:55:56 <eno> so do you know what ip the slug is using? can you ping it? can you telnet/ssh in?
Feb 21 16:56:54 <fredsa> I can telnet in
Feb 21 16:57:15 <fredsa> I can't ping a website from it
Feb 21 16:57:21 <eno> ok, can you ping your gateway from slug?
Feb 21 16:57:33 <eno> one step at a time
Feb 21 16:57:49 <eno> using ip address
Feb 21 16:57:50 <fredsa> yeah
Feb 21 16:58:09 <eno> alright, you're close to success
Feb 21 16:58:23 <eno> type "cat /etc/resolv.conf"
Feb 21 16:58:49 <fredsa> nuthin
Feb 21 16:59:20 <eno> ok, that's the problem
Feb 21 16:59:43 <eno> you need to setup dns server(s) on that admin page
Feb 21 17:00:09 <eno> or, from the command line, setup /etc/resolv.conf (this probably won't persist)
Feb 21 17:00:51 <fredsa> is that the same address as my router?
Feb 21 17:01:24 <eno> usually not
Feb 21 17:01:39 <eno> look at your other PC
Feb 21 17:01:54 <eno> on windows, use "ipconfig" from cmd prompt
Feb 21 17:02:08 <eno> "ipconfig /all"
Feb 21 17:02:27 <eno> usually these are the DNS settings of your ISP
Feb 21 17:02:44 <eno> (unless you setup your own DNS server on your LAN)
Feb 21 17:05:33 <Reedy> or easiest way, is just to set your router
Feb 21 17:05:43 <Reedy> i did say you needed to set them above ;)
Feb 21 17:05:53 <fredsa> it was router
Feb 21 17:06:02 <fredsa> sorry reedy, I didn't see that
Feb 21 17:06:13 <Reedy> heh
Feb 21 17:06:14 <eno> no Reedy, we're talking about DNS here
Feb 21 17:06:25 <fredsa> yeah, dns was router address as well
Feb 21 17:06:26 <Reedy> <Reedy> dns server is a good idea
Feb 21 17:06:26 <Reedy> <Reedy> *setting the
Feb 21 17:06:37 <Reedy> should work fine pointing to the router as the dns server
Feb 21 17:07:14 <eno> i don't think so, unless the router is also a dns server
Feb 21 17:08:07 <eno> copy dns setting from a working PC is the safest
Feb 21 17:08:18 <fredsa> it's working, so I guess it is
Feb 21 17:11:09 <Reedy> good good
Feb 21 17:11:11 <eno> your router probably forward dns requests to the real DNS server
Feb 21 17:12:08 <eno> if you have quite a few machines on LAN, it's actually a good idea to run your own dns server
Feb 21 17:12:15 <eno> i use dnsmasq
Feb 21 17:15:07 <fredsa> thanks eno. I'll look into that
Feb 21 17:15:53 <Reedy> eno, i know you said before armel was better on the nslu2 than arm.. have you found the .26 kernel to be more stable too?
Feb 21 17:16:16 <fredsa> right.. I've gotta hit the shops before they close.  Thanks for the help guys
Feb 21 17:16:54 <eno> Reedy: so far my debian armel slug runs quite stable
Feb 21 17:17:13 <eno> up 218 days
Feb 21 17:17:31 <eno>  2.6.25-2-ixp4xx
Feb 21 17:17:39 <Frigolit> sweet
Feb 21 17:18:07 <eno> even did some torrents occasionally
Feb 21 17:18:26 <Reedy> 218? nice
Feb 21 17:18:34 <Frigolit> my slug hung hard when i added a 50GB torrent once :D
Feb 21 17:18:44 <Reedy> mine didnt like 1gb torrents too much ;)
Feb 21 17:18:48 <Reedy> mine became unresponsive after a few days for no real reason before... (on arm)
Feb 21 17:18:54 <Frigolit> :D
Feb 21 17:18:59 <Reedy> up nearly 3 days now... which is doing well
Feb 21 17:19:13 <eno> arm or armel?
Feb 21 17:19:31 <Reedy> reinstalled it to armel
Feb 21 17:19:39 <Reedy> arm did seem better when upgraded to lenny
Feb 21 17:19:47 <Frigolit> it does stream 720p nicely over smb to a normal windows machine though, for 1080p i gotta increase the cache size with mplayer in linux
Feb 21 17:19:54 <Frigolit> haven't found out how to do that in windows with MPC yet :P
Feb 21 17:20:09 <Reedy> lol
Feb 21 17:20:39 <Frigolit> well, NFS with linux machines should work i guess
Feb 21 17:21:27 <Frigolit> ie. with 1080p
Feb 21 20:41:03 <Kvaks> Frigolit: My Debian slug won't stream 720p smoothly over samba.
Feb 21 20:41:50 <Kvaks> I'm considering retiring it from active service.
Feb 21 20:42:13 <Kvaks> It's too slow to use as file server.
Feb 21 20:42:52 <Kvaks> Runs irssi and apache2 nicely, but that's all I use it for.
Feb 21 20:42:57 <Frigolit> yea it's a bit slow when writing, reading is okay though
Feb 21 20:46:38 <NSLU2-IRC> Hi, my rtorrent downloads are corrupted (under debian). Other downloaded files are ok.. any help?
Feb 21 20:49:01 <cayou99> Hi, my rtorrent downloads are corrupted (under debian). Other downloaded files are ok.. any help? 
Feb 21 20:51:17 <Reedy> is your rtorrent checksumming it?
Feb 21 20:58:34 <cayou99> I don't think so, but all the files are corrupted
Feb 21 23:32:19 <arthur92710> Hi, guys
Feb 21 23:32:50 <arthur92710> I finally got cups installed and samba working... kind of
Feb 21 23:33:42 <arthur92710> when I try to log in from windows it askes for a password
Feb 21 23:34:02 <arthur92710> I tried root and my password but no
Feb 21 23:34:39 <arthur92710> I made a user named printer and password, but is also did not work.
Feb 21 23:34:44 <Reedy> account needs to be setup as a samba user IIRC
Feb 21 23:35:35 <arthur92710> where?
Feb 21 23:36:18 <Reedy> smbpasswd -a username
Feb 21 23:37:28 <arthur92710> actualy can I do it without a password?
Feb 21 23:37:54 <Reedy> yeah
Feb 21 23:37:55 <Reedy> errm
Feb 21 23:37:56 <arthur92710> It did work but I dont need a password
Feb 21 23:38:04 <Reedy> (i always do that to make life easy)
Feb 21 23:39:17 <Reedy> writable = yes
Feb 21 23:39:17 <Reedy> guest ok = yes
Feb 21 23:39:45 <arthur92710> in the smb.conf
Feb 21 23:39:51 <Reedy> ya
Feb 21 23:39:57 <Reedy> under the [MyShareName]
Feb 21 23:46:29 <arthur92710> uh is it supposed to say "[MyShareName]" or the name I need or something
Feb 21 23:46:50 <arthur92710> oh and do I need to restart after?
Feb 21 23:54:08 <Reedy> the name of the share you've created
Feb 21 23:54:10 <Reedy> and yeah
Feb 21 23:54:16 <Reedy> the samba daemon
Feb 22 00:57:06 <arthur92710> ok thats working
Feb 22 00:57:37 <arthur92710> I sent a test page and some text and the test backed it up
Feb 22 00:58:52 <Reedy> woo
Feb 22 00:59:16 <arthur92710> how do I clear it?
Feb 22 00:59:26 <Reedy> clear what?
Feb 22 01:04:24 <arthur92710> the spool
Feb 22 01:04:33 <arthur92710> its stuck at the test page
Feb 22 01:07:20 <Reedy> oh, printing?
Feb 22 01:07:29 <Reedy> http://slugip:631
Feb 22 01:07:32 <Reedy> use the web if
Feb 22 01:08:05 <arthur92710> web does nat work on slugos
Feb 22 01:08:10 <arthur92710> not*
Feb 22 01:09:06 <Reedy> oh, thats a bit pants
Feb 22 01:09:18 <Reedy> should be in /var/spool then?
Feb 22 01:13:16 <arthur92710> I found some in opt/var/spool and then deleated it
Feb 22 01:13:52 <arthur92710> but the are still on
Feb 22 01:14:48 <arthur92710> http://192.168.1.77:631/printers/  says Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, publishe
Feb 22 01:14:54 <arthur92710> how do I start it?
Feb 22 01:15:08 <Reedy> theres a start button under admin?
Feb 22 01:15:11 <arthur92710> oh it also says "Unable to open device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied"
Feb 22 01:15:39 <arthur92710> it does not work, says you need to upgrade,(does not work in slugos)
Feb 22 01:15:45 <Reedy> hmm
Feb 22 01:15:51 <Reedy> http://192.168.0.70:631/admin/?op=stop-printer&printer_name=Samsung_ML-1610_USB_1 is what mine uses to stop (Debian 5)
Feb 22 01:17:19 <Reedy> arthur92710, presumably you made the node and such?
Feb 22 01:17:28 <Reedy> following http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddPrinter-OpenSlug ?
Feb 22 01:17:56 <arthur92710> humm I was looking at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddPrinter
Feb 22 01:18:08 <arthur92710> thanks, Ill look into it
Feb 22 01:18:31 <Reedy> unslung != slugos...
Feb 22 01:18:39 * Reedy tries to remember if openslug and slugos are the same
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