[PLUG] Slackware 12.1

Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wevl at pacifier.com
Mon Dec 8 20:07:14 UTC 2008


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:
>
>   
>> Firefox on my Slackware 12.0 used to crash when I viewed video on youtube
>> until I upgraded to Firefox 3.0.4 and downloaded the latest flash player.
>>     
>
> Wayne,
>
>    To throw another log on this fire, I had issues with flash-10 on my
> Slackware-11.0 host, regardless of firefox version. Turned out to be the
> glibc version. As soon as I upgraded to 12.0 (and now it's on 12.1), firefox
> no longer tells me I am missing a plugin to view videos.
>
> Rich
>
>   
Rich:
My wife is running Slackware 12.1, but I didn't like a couple things 
about it, so thus far, I sticking with Slackware 12.0. If writing a 
driver or something and I want a recent kernel, I update the kernel.

Some of my clients are not computer people (manufacturing folk - 
sawmills to be exact) and they like to have spare computers, spare disks 
etc. so that should something fail, they can get the mill back up and 
running. I supply them with machines that are equipped with what are 
sometimes called "Mobile Docks" for the disk drives. The Slackware 12.1 
/etc/udev/rules.d/75-network-devices.rules seem determined to make it 
impossible to move a disk to a different NIC without deleting  
/etc/udev/rules.d/75-network-devices.rules  and rebooting.

Have I been behind the door on this?
Is there something in the configuration that you know of where I can do 
away with using udev rules?

With Slackware 12.0, I make the network-devices.rules promiscuous with 
rules  like the following:

KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:06:4f:25:67:b1", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:06:4f:59:04:34", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:13:46:e7:81:52", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:04:bf:90:b7:a2", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:04:bf:90:b7:a1", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:a0:cc:69:5c:55", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:d0:09:e6:23:38", NAME="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth?", ATTR{address}=="00:1e:90:fe:9d:ac", NAME="eth0"

No matter which of the above listed machines (NICs) the disk finds 
itself running, the network will run.
This doesn't work on 12.1. Someone probably worked very hard but the 
result takes some of the flexibility out.

Another bitch is the EMACS that ships with 12.1. What a waste. If 
everything else was OK, I probably could remove the EMACS that ships 
with 12.1 and install an older one. For me, that would probably be much 
faster than trying to customize EMACS. I love EMACS, but I need to use 
it, not study it.

Wayne




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