Re: pings with noise-apology

2011-05-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14May2011 21:44, Tim wrote: | On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 11:52 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > So, this command: | > echo ^G | > also produces no noise? Because that's all ping is goging to be doing. | > | > That ^G is meant to be a literal ctrl-G, possibly typed as ctrl-v | > then ctrl-g. |

Re: pings with noise-apology

2011-05-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 11:52 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 13May2011 08:17, Aaron Konstam wrote: > | On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 21:04 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > | > As root, "modprobe pcspkr" > | > > | I need to apologize. The above suggestion does work. But not on my > | laptop. It works on m

Re: pings with noise-apology

2011-05-14 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 11:52 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > So, this command: > > echo ^G > > also produces no noise? Because that's all ping is goging to be doing. > > That ^G is meant to be a literal ctrl-G, possibly typed as ctrl-v > then ctrl-g. All you have to do to test the terminal

Re: pings with noise-apology

2011-05-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13May2011 08:17, Aaron Konstam wrote: | On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 21:04 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: | > As root, "modprobe pcspkr" | > | I need to apologize. The above suggestion does work. But not on my | laptop. It works on my desktop. What is also strange is that the pcspkr | is not loaded by

Re: pings with noise-apology

2011-05-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 21:04 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/10/2011 10:58 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping > > command as in: > > ping -a ip-address > > each ping return should