Comments on: Compiz Beta – Part 4 http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/ best viewed at 1024x600 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:38:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Alan Bell Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:59:45 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-829 @heeman, don't worry too much about the settings on the router, we are only going to be using it as a hub (and possibly DHCP server) changing DNS1 to point to the Orange DNS wouldn't be a bad thing to do, and if it lets you set the webbook internal IP address as the default gateway then that would be great. More important to set the default gateway on the other computers on your LAN to point to the gateway. Try using traceroute to an IP address on the outside and see if it goes to the webbook and beyond. If that works then try to ping something by name rather than IP address. @heeman, don’t worry too much about the settings on the router, we are only going to be using it as a hub (and possibly DHCP server) changing DNS1 to point to the Orange DNS wouldn’t be a bad thing to do, and if it lets you set the webbook internal IP address as the default gateway then that would be great. More important to set the default gateway on the other computers on your LAN to point to the gateway. Try using traceroute to an IP address on the outside and see if it goes to the webbook and beyond. If that works then try to ping something by name rather than IP address.

]]> By: heeman http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-828 heeman Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:31:07 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-828 Hi Alan.. I have tried to mess around with it but I had no luck so far...A bit of help would be greatly appreciated..On the router set up screen there is a page which ask about the internet connection settings which ask for internet ip address , subnet mask, default gateway, static DNS1,Static dns2 and dns3. So which setting would you say? Hi Alan.. I have tried to mess around with it but I had no luck so far…A bit of help would be greatly appreciated..On the router set up screen there is a page which ask about the internet connection settings which ask for internet ip address , subnet mask, default gateway, static DNS1,Static dns2 and dns3. So which setting would you say?

]]> By: Peter http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Peter Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:49:29 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-827 Is anyone else having a problem with the fast user switching? If I have the VIA drivers enabled, trying to switch users from the top status bar just locks the machine up - but it works fine (obviously with no compiz) if you have openchrome loaded. Is anyone else having a problem with the fast user switching? If I have the VIA drivers enabled, trying to switch users from the top status bar just locks the machine up – but it works fine (obviously with no compiz) if you have openchrome loaded.

]]> By: Tim Jones http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-826 Tim Jones Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:22:12 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-826 Alan, just had to add a comment. I received my Webbook yesterday, could only get the XP vers as my local CPW said they were no longer supplying Linux versions, (they then went on to say that XP was so much better !) and I couldn't find the Linux vers on the CPW website. So, anyhows, installed 8-04 via external DVD, and installed the Three 3G dongle - expecting bit of a nightmare, but no, works straight-away. Went to bed feeling very happy ! Onto today, installed the new VIA drivers and setup compiz - went totally smoothly. So, onto the point why I had to post, all of the above would not be possible without the effort yourself and others have put in. It REALLY is appreciated. I just cant believe how fantastic that little box is ! Again, thank you very much, Regards, Tim Alan, just had to add a comment. I received my Webbook yesterday, could only get the XP vers as my local CPW said they were no longer supplying Linux versions, (they then went on to say that XP was so much better !) and I couldn’t find the Linux vers on the CPW website.

So, anyhows, installed 8-04 via external DVD, and installed the Three 3G dongle – expecting bit of a nightmare, but no, works straight-away. Went to bed feeling very happy !

Onto today, installed the new VIA drivers and setup compiz – went totally smoothly.

So, onto the point why I had to post, all of the above would not be possible without the effort yourself and others have put in. It REALLY is appreciated.

I just cant believe how fantastic that little box is !

Again, thank you very much,

Regards,

Tim

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Alan Bell Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:25:15 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-825 Whilst I remember, there is a bit of a trick that needs doing on the other client PCs too, you need to point their DNS servers at the Orange DNS (158.43.192.1) and set their default gateway to be the internal IP address of your webbook. The router is normally your DHCP server and because it is a bit confused about not being the actual gateway to the internet you have to override some of the settings it hands out. Whilst I remember, there is a bit of a trick that needs doing on the other client PCs too, you need to point their DNS servers at the Orange DNS (158.43.192.1) and set their default gateway to be the internal IP address of your webbook. The router is normally your DHCP server and because it is a bit confused about not being the actual gateway to the internet you have to override some of the settings it hands out.

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Alan Bell Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:44:20 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-824 @Heemank, funny you should ask, I set this exact scenario up just yesterday. We (<a href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/" rel="nofollow">The Open Learning Centre</a>)are exhibiting on Thursday at the <a href="http://www.wokingmeansbusiness.com/" rel="nofollow">Woking Means Business</a> show and I wanted internet access for all the laptops on the stand via a webbook. The webbook has the mobile broadband connection and is connected to a wireless router, the other computers use the webbook as the gateway. To get it working there are a couple of magical incantations required on the webbook, specifically, <code>sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1</code> to allow it to forward packets from the wireless interface to the mobile broadband interface, and then <code>sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/16 -o hso0 -j MASQUERADE</code> to set up a firewall rule to do network address translation (NAT) for the 192.168.0.0 subnet (the local network) with the external interface being called hso0 (if you have the Orange dongle the network card is called hso0, if it is 3 or T Mobile then substitute hso0 for ppp0) @Heemank, funny you should ask, I set this exact scenario up just yesterday. We (The Open Learning Centre)are exhibiting on Thursday at the Woking Means Business show and I wanted internet access for all the laptops on the stand via a webbook. The webbook has the mobile broadband connection and is connected to a wireless router, the other computers use the webbook as the gateway.
To get it working there are a couple of magical incantations required on the webbook, specifically,
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
to allow it to forward packets from the wireless interface to the mobile broadband interface, and then
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/16 -o hso0 -j MASQUERADE
to set up a firewall rule to do network address translation (NAT) for the 192.168.0.0 subnet (the local network) with the external interface being called hso0 (if you have the Orange dongle the network card is called hso0, if it is 3 or T Mobile then substitute hso0 for ppp0)

]]> By: Heeman http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-823 Heeman Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:13:45 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-823 Hi Alan, I have a mobile internet connection and wonder if there is any way of enabling Internet connection sharing on ubuntu so that my other pc's can access it and browse the net.I have a router and xp and vista see each other but on the other hand ubuntu does see them two but not itself on the network..Is there any way of having ICS from a ubuntu o/s? Thanks.. Hi Alan,
I have a mobile internet connection and wonder if there is any way of enabling Internet connection sharing on ubuntu so that my other pc’s can access it and browse the net.I have a router and xp and vista see each other but on the other hand ubuntu does see them two but not itself on the network..Is there any way of having ICS from a ubuntu o/s? Thanks..

]]> By: Will Watts http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Will Watts Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:49:02 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-822 Thanks, Alan, got it. Thanks, Alan, got it.

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Alan Bell Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:32:23 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-820 @Will, alt-drag allows you to drag from any point on the window, not just the title bar. That means you can hold the window by the bottom and push the title bar off the top of the screen. A forum is planned fairly soon. @Will, alt-drag allows you to drag from any point on the window, not just the title bar. That means you can hold the window by the bottom and push the title bar off the top of the screen. A forum is planned fairly soon.

]]> By: Will Watts http://webbookblog.com/compiz-beta-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Will Watts Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:27:07 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=259#comment-821 Glad to see you back, Alan. I have implemented your suggestions successfully, and it all works. The only thing remaining is to decide whether the effect achieved is useful and not just irritating... Could you remind me how alt-drag works - I don't seem to be able to get it to do anything. What precisely should I be attempting? Hold Alt key, click and hold on title bar, then... what? Seem to be no further forward. On another matter, I wonder if you would consider setting up a forum on this website, using one of the php apps for this sort of thing, so we could ask each other questions and provide peer support. So you don't have everybody waiting for you to solve their pet problem*. What do you think? Will *Which in my case is wanting to turn off touchpad clicks. Just in case you were interested. Glad to see you back, Alan.

I have implemented your suggestions successfully, and it all works. The only thing remaining is to decide whether the effect achieved is useful and not just irritating…

Could you remind me how alt-drag works – I don’t seem to be able to get it to do anything. What precisely should I be attempting? Hold Alt key, click and hold on title bar, then… what? Seem to be no further forward.

On another matter, I wonder if you would consider setting up a forum on this website, using one of the php apps for this sort of thing, so we could ask each other questions and provide peer support. So you don’t have everybody waiting for you to solve their pet problem*. What do you think?

Will

*Which in my case is wanting to turn off touchpad clicks. Just in case you were interested.

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