pings with noise-apology

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 11:52 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 13May2011 08:17, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> 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 default. So you need to load it explicitly to make the
> | ping -a feature work. At least it is not loaded by default on my
> | machines.
> 
> 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.
No that does not work. Neither does ctrl-g typed at the keyboard work on
my laptop. So I guess it is a laptop related issue.

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