KLUG Meeting Minutes and Agenda (#11) The eleventh meeting of the Kingston Linux User Group was held Wed, Sept. 1, 1999 at 7PM at RMC. The meeting lasted until about 10:30 PM. The attendees were: Allen, Rob Beyer, Brekke Conrad-Avarmaa, Brigitte Cragg, Milf Drummond, Mark Dunne, Shane Gauthier, Daniel Harker, Steve Healy, Art Hore, Dennis Jezak, Edward MacKinnon, James Mitton, Douglas Moizer, David Postill, Rob Williams, Steve Meeting Schedule: (Monthly, alternating between first Mon and Wed evenings at 7PM. Locations to be determined.) 12 - Mon, Oct. 4 at Chapters(?). (IPCHAINS & Masquerading (2.2.x kernels)) 13 - Wed, Nov. 3 at RMC. (Software management (RPMs, source code)) 14 - Wed, Dec. 1 at RMC. (Managing Window Managers (KDE, GNOME, WindowMaker, etc)) 15 - Wed, Jan. 5 at RMC. (*** KLUG 1st Anniversary!) Summary Of Activities: - Web page host and domain name - klug.on.ca has been registered(not yet in use). - Internet presence - Temporary web page at http://signals.rmc.ca/klug. - Mailing list - klug-subscribe@lists.rmc.ca (send an _empty_ email.) Agenda/Minutes: 1) Roll Call and Introductions (if required) - See attendees above. 2) This Meeting: This meeting was our first dedicated completely to installations. There were 17 attendees and 7 computers were brought in. One computer was used just to repartition hard drives and preserve existing operating systems (thanks Shane). One other machine had Linux installed as the primary OS (Brekke), and she was going to use it that way exclusively. There was a lot of activity and in general the installations went well. The same problems that we found at the June InstallFest raised their heads again, namely PCI modems and plug-n-play peripherals (Daniel left without his sound card or modem working, but he is upgraded to Mandrake 6). Steve W.s modem wouldn't co-operate and Mark was having some excitement with a DECpc LPv 433dx that Steve H. brought in. There seems to be a lot of problems identifying PCI modems ... some are compatible (standard PCI), some will be compatible in a future/experimental driver (I/O address) and some will probably NOT be compatible (memory mapped models). There is a web page with links that is starting to track this issue at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and some experimental drivers at http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/serial-4.30.tar.gz. I've also come to the conclusion that there are different PnP (sound) cards as I use a Creative Sound Blaster 16 with very little difficulty where there have been several attempts at Daniels and none have co-operated yet. One of the installations (of Slackware 4) went so quickly that there was time for a game of Quake (Rob)! Wow! Also, our youngest attendee provided some very interesting view points on Linux ... in general he is very taken with it (thanks Andrew). I hope everyone found the meeting enjoyable and informative and hopefully the interest level for this activity will remain high. Thanks to all who attended and participated. 3) Next Meeting: - Mon, Oct. 4 at Chapters, pending confirmation, otherwise at RMC. 4) Socialize / Adjourn (Set location and agenda for the next meeting.)