Linux-Hardware Digest #191, Volume #9 Sat, 16 Jan 99 19:13:43 EST
Contents:
K6-400 "kernel paging request" errors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Signal 11 and Illegal instruction (Nicolas Kisselhoff)
Random filesystem corruption - dual boot only (Mark Baker)
Re: Linux Fileserver Hardware question (Blake Sobiloff)
Relocate '/' after replacing HDD (Howard Arons)
Re: modem fails under Linux... (John Cochran)
Ensoniq AudioPCI - 1371 - MIDI Problems (Jean-Yves Levesque)
Re: Celeron 400 under OS/2 and Linux (Ludovic Braun)
Re: Total newbie - PLEASE HELP! (Blaine Lupulack)
Re: Relocate '/' after replacing HDD (Paul Hughett)
Re: lpr and "unknown printer" problems... (Frank Hahn)
emachine 300c Cyrix - Any Red Hat 5.2 Success? ("Dirk Leas")
ATI Xpert@Play AGP vs. ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP ("Dan Finn")
eepro100 and 2.2.0pre7 ("Nik Anderson")
Re: Cannot talk to /dev/cua1, which is a modem (and NOT a winmodem). (zentara)
Re: Linux Fileserver Hardware question (FFR)
Newbie and Notebook. (Gary)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: K6-400 "kernel paging request" errors
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:05:51 GMT
Suffering from an unstable system.
K6-400 (stepping 12), Motherboard FIC PA-2013 (VIA MP3),
256 MB Ram (PC-100), (the board allows to downclock the RAM to 66 Mhz, what I
did),
AGP Matrox G200, 2 SCSI-Controller, EATA-DPT (only Disks)
and ncr53c825 (DDS-3, CDROM ).
RedHat 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36 and I tried as well all 2.2.0-preXX. the last
2.2.0-pre7ac2.
The system keeps chrashing.
I am trying to fix the system now since christmas. Getting frustrated....
Any ideas, suggestions??
Thanks in advance
Mario Dix
This is from 2.0.36:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e8f7ce98
current->tss.cr3 = 083ac000, %cr3 = 083ac000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00125af0>]
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 28f7ce98 ebx: 08c30814 ecx: 00000400 edx: 00000025
esi: 00000814 edi: 00067831 ebp: 00000400 esp: 0313de68
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process tar (pid: 3707, process nr: 53, stackpage=0313d000)
Stack: 08c3f398 00067831 00000814 00000002 00000000 00000025 0012702d 00000814
00067831 00000400 0313df18 00002484 00000000 0dfddf00 00067831 00000814
00000100 08c3f498 036c0814 00000000 08c3f498 08c3f418 036cf918 0313df14
Call Trace: [<0012702d>] [<001274af>] [<0011d25c>] [<0011d341>] [<0011d6b4>]
[<00123c70>] [<0010a941
>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 17 f9 ff
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e8f7ce98
current->tss.cr3 = 041b8000, %cr3 = 041b8000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00125af0>]
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 28f7ce98 ebx: 00080814 ecx: 00000814 edx: 00000025
esi: 00000814 edi: 00086831 ebp: 00000400 esp: 0313dddc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process tar (pid: 3708, process nr: 53, stackpage=0313d000)
Stack: 00086831 03130814 00000400 00086831 08975818 00000025 00126352 00000814
00086831 00000400 00086831 0313def4 001d25a0 00086831 00000001 00154cec
00000814 00086831 00000400 00000000 00086831 00000001 0df16b00 00000400
Call Trace: [<00126352>] [<00154cec>] [<0015534c>] [<001555d5>] [<00153905>]
[<00156845>] [<0012c414
>]
[<0011d7f2>] [<00123deb>] [<0010a941>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 17 f9 ff
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00125af0>]
EFLAGS: 00013286
eax: 88f0e018 ebx: 0dbf0811 ecx: 00000400 edx: 0000008c
esi: 00000811 edi: 002f889d ebp: 00000400 esp: 0ee6be8c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process X (pid: 384, process nr: 4, stackpage=0ee6b000)
Stack: 0dbff898 002f889d 00000811 00000001 00000000 0000008c 0012702d 00000811
002f889d 00000400 0ee6bf3c 00000004 00000000 0dfdc800 002f889d 00000811
00000100 0dbff918 00000811 00000000 0dbff918 0015638b 0df10400 0ee6bf38
Call Trace: [<0012702d>] [<0015638b>] [<001274af>] [<0011d83e>] [<0011d91d>]
[<00123c70>] [<0010a941
>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 17 f9 ff
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00125af0>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: 88f0e018 ebx: 06850811 ecx: 00000400 edx: 0000008c
esi: 00000811 edi: 0000689d ebp: 00000400 esp: 04c02e60
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process m4 (pid: 3762, process nr: 47, stackpage=04c02000)
Stack: 06851b18 0000689d 00000811 00000001 00000000 0000008c 0012702d 00000811
0000689d 00000400 04c02f10 00000044 00000000 0e321c00 0000689d 00000811
00000100 06851898 06850811 00000000 06851898 00154ee1 06851518 04c02f0c
Call Trace: [<0012702d>] [<00154ee1>] [<001274af>] [<0011db3f>] [<0011dc39>]
[<0011b1f7>] [<0011b0f4
>]
[<00111b48>] [<00111a2c>] [<0011414e>] [<0010aaa4>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 17 f9 ff
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From: Nicolas Kisselhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Signal 11 and Illegal instruction
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:55:23 +0100
Benoit PLESSIS wrote:
>
> Before, Thnaks a lot for responding me.
>
Salut Benoit,
le fatal signal 11 est un problème matériel du à un composant (mémoire
et/ou DD généralement) qui est trop lent ou qui est exploité trop vite.
Voir http://www.linux-france.com/article/sig11-fr
A propos je te propose de faire partie d'une mailing list en français et
je te joints un petit texte qui explique cela.
A bientôt, Nicolas.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Bonjours à tous,
devant le nombre croissants des demandes, j'ai donc ouvert une mailing
list en français consacrée à Linux at surtout à ses utilisateurs.
Vous devez, si vous souhaitez y participer, faire acte de candidature
volontaire à l'adresse :
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/amilinux
L'accès à cette liste est libre sous réserve des conditions
d'utilisation suivantes, qui sont imposées par le site qui héberge la
liste :
- respect des loi en vigueur et bonne moeurs.
- pas de publicité volontaire et d'acction commerciales.
Vous pouvez lire ça en détail sur la page d'entrée du site :
http://www.onelist.com/
Principe de fonctionnement de la liste:
Ceci n'est pas un forum, chaque mail qui est envoyé à la liste est reçu
par chacun de adhérent. Les réponses, les suggestions et les autres
mails sont aussi envoyés à la liste : ils seront donc reçus par tous.
Rien a consulter (sionon sa boîte aux lettres).
Votre adresse e-mail n'apparaît pas sur les messages que vous envoyez à
la lite.
Le site tient à jour les archives des messages passés. Elles
peuvent/doivent être consultées par les nouveaux abonnés. Elles peuvent
même être consultées par tout le monde, à moins que l'on en décide
autrement. C'est un point à discuter.
Il faut bien entendu faire de la publicité pour cette liste autour de
soi sans que toutefois le nombre d'adhérents n'excède 10-15 personnes
(on avisera quand on y sera) par soucis d'efficacité.
Je pense qu'il est bon de se présenter brièvement ainsi que le matériel
que l'on utilise et ce qu'on veut en faire afin de ne pas se répéter à
chaque mail.
Bonne année a tous et longue vie à la liste.
Nicolas.
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From: Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random filesystem corruption - dual boot only
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:56:17 +0000
I currently have a dual boot system with Win95 as the first partition and the
Linux / partition second.
Whenever the Win95 partition fills up the next time I boot up Linux the /
partition is badly damaged. I suspect that Win95 expects to see partition
boundries on certain multiples of cylinders and perhaps it is walking off the
end of /dev/hda1 when it fills up.
This is pure speculation and a fix (apart from the obvious) could be to have a
buffer partition os say 100Meg doing nothing as /dev/hda2.
I had the same problem when using an adaptec scsi card and have no problem with
the same distribution (Suse 5.3) on other Linux only boxes.
Has anyone else observed this and or is there a more elegent fix than my idea
above?. Am I spouting total rubbish (possible) or is Win95 stupid enough to
ignore partition boundries?
Mark Baker
Remove REMOVE to reply by mail.
--
"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft slogan
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer" - Adolf Hitler
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From: Blake Sobiloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Fileserver Hardware question
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:04:56 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm going to be setting up a Linux Fileserver and I wanted to make sure the
> hardware I'm
> going to use will be what I want and won't create a bottleneck.
Lance, skip IDE and go to SCSI for your HD. With the slow processor you
have your IDE devices are going to hit your processor pretty hard,
slowing everything down. You'll be much better off with something as
slow and cheap as Fast SCSI II.
--
Blake Sobiloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Higher Education Consulting
KPMG LLP
Washington, DC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Arons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Relocate '/' after replacing HDD
Date: 15 Jan 1999 18:59:05 GMT
I am planning to replace the small HDD where my / partition and swap
partition are located (along with a Win95 FAT-16 partition for Win swap
and misc stuff) with a bigger HDD. Here is how I plan to do it.
Does anyone see any (hidden) danger here?
1. Tar the / filesystem to my /opt partition on a 2nd HDD. "Mount"
shows 49041 blocks used for / and 79838 blocks available on /opt. I
will exclude /proc from the tar file. I do not have access to a tape
unit.
2. Remove old HDD, install new HDD, set up Linux ext2 partition and
Linux swap partition with Linux fdisk.
3. Using boot/rescue disks, untar to the new / partition. Modify
fstab to reflect the new partition /dev names where necessary. Add a
/proc directory under / with mkdir.
4. Boot Linux with loadlin as usual.
Where can I go wrong?
TIA,
Howard Arons
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Cochran)
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: modem fails under Linux...
Date: 15 Jan 1999 11:15:18 -0500
In article <nhBn2.166$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ochre small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Here's a puzzler...
>getting bizzare error messages from PPP....
>I am running a p166 system with an ISA PnP internal netcomm modem (rockwell
>chipset), and after much diddling seem to have gained recognition (I think)
>of the modem by Linux.
>I set up the PPP link as well as I could, but it doesn't connect. I can't
>tell if it is dialling as my modem has no speaker, so I don't hear the
>dialling or handshaking.
>The following is an exerpt from my /var/log/messages when I try to initiate
>a connection under usernet. HELP PLEASE!!
>
>Jan 14 21:41:17 reddwarf chat[1583]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
>Jan 14 21:41:17 reddwarf chat[1583]: abort on (Invalid Login)
>Jan 14 21:41:17 reddwarf chat[1583]: abort on (Login incorrect)
>Jan 14 21:41:17 reddwarf chat[1583]: send (ATZ^M)
>Jan 14 21:41:17 reddwarf chat[1583]: expect (OK)
>Jan 14 21:42:02 reddwarf chat[1583]: alarm
>Jan 14 21:42:02 reddwarf pppd[1581]: Connect script failed
>Jan 14 21:42:02 reddwarf chat[1583]: Failed
>Jan 14 21:42:04 reddwarf pppd[1581]: Exit.
>Jan 14 21:42:09 reddwarf kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
>unregistered
You aren't even talking successfully to the modem. Here is short
description of what the above lines mean...
abort on xxxx
This is setting up various conditions that will cause the chat script
to abort if they are detected.
send (ATZ^M)
This is the computer sending to the modem the ATZ command which on
Hayes compatable modems will cause them to be reset and reload their
configuration from NVRAM. This command usually takes only a second or two.
expect(OK)
The script will wait for the modem to send OK back to the computer
(the ATZ command will do this when it's done)
alarm
You have problems. The modem didn't send back to the computer OK, but
instead did nothing. After sending the ATZ command, 45 seconds went by
without the modem responding with OK. Not good.
The rest of the lines describes chat and PPP terminating.
I would suggest that you type to see if you can use the modem manually
via a comm program like seyon. When you can sucessfully communicate with
the modem, then try again with PPP.
Hope this helps,
John Cochran
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Yves Levesque)
Subject: Ensoniq AudioPCI - 1371 - MIDI Problems
Date: 16 Jan 1999 22:28:33 GMT
A few questions:
1- I have a problem playing MIDI files with the sound card. From what
I could read, there is no MIDI capability under Linux. I tried to
play MIDI files under kmidi (KDE) but I always get the following message.
'can't open /dev/dsp device'
Is there any idead on if this can be fixed somehow?
2 - Also, I do have a second card (MPU-401, Roland). Is there any way
I can have two sound card working without having the re-build the kernel?
I would like to play midi through my Roland sound card but it is not
recognized by the system.
3 - The sound module (es1371) is loaded as a module. However, I do not see
anything under /dev/sndstat. Is it right?
Thanks,
Jean-Yves Levesque.
System: RedHat 5.2
KDE 1.1 alpha
--
Jean-Yves Levesque - Nortel Networks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
P.O. Box 3511, Station C Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4H7
-
Ideas expressed belong to the owner and not to the company
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Braun)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc
Subject: Re: Celeron 400 under OS/2 and Linux
Date: 16 Jan 1999 22:57:16 GMT
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 04:47:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED]$N0!SPAM$.org (nul) wrote:
> Is anyone out there running a Celeron 400 under OS/2?
I'm running a Celeron-300A under OS/2 Warp 4 and Aurora,
has been rock solid and performance is very good... I could
even test both a "true" PII-300 with 512 kB L2 cache and that
supposedly "castrated" Celeron-300A with 128 kB L2 cache,
and with the same hardware I did not see any difference in
everyday use. Only SysBench could see the (small) diffe-
rence with memory tests, where the biggest L2 cache of the
Klamath takes the advantage over the Mendocino. But once
again, these are numbers, and I couldn't see the difference
in real-world applications. On the other hand, I did see the
price difference († 183 = $ 200 for Klamath, † 76 = $ 82 for
the Mendocino) !
Plus, the Celeron is easily overclockable. While my
Klamath-300 wouldn't accept more than 338 MHz (4.5
* 75), the Mendocino-300 runs happily at 450 MHz (4.5
* 100) - a whopping +50 % increase !
And reliability is not affected - I've been running this Celeron
at 450 MHz for over a week, 24x7 on an Aurora server, with
its original heatsink & fan. David Wei's ThermoProtect LM79
monitor shows a temperature of 35°C inside the computer
case (too bad I don't have a thermal sensor for the CPU).
I think AMD is going to have hard times, because with the
Celeron Intel can offer powerful processors, compatible
with all applications, with a killer FPU (AMD's K6-2 and
upcoming K6-3 still show a 20 % slower FPU) and at a
competitive price. Hopefully, this will benefit to us, OS/2
users !
If you're still not convinced, look at those numbers :
RC5-64 cracking keyrate (client v.2.7105.430)
Pentium-II at 338 MHz: 950 Kkeys/sec
Celeron-300A at 450 MHz: 1250 Kkeys/sec
Java Caffeine Mark 3.0 (Java 1.1.7 build 08-Jan-99)
Pentium-II at 338 MHz: 5860
Celeron-300A at 450 MHz: 7800
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From: Blaine Lupulack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Total newbie - PLEASE HELP!
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:19:47 -0800
Gino Cerro wrote:
> Thanks for the info. What do mean by your second comment?
>
> "2 - Yes, but I think that the "flavor" tends to be more BSD-like."
>
There are two main "flavors" of UNIX, System V and BSD.
BSD is more modern ( read as "complicated" ), but System V has incorporated many
of it's features.
Linux is usually regarded as a System V - like OS, where FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
are ( obviously )
BSD-derived.
For your purposes, yes, Linux is a UNIX-like OS, so most anything you read about
UNIX applies. It just uses
free versions of all the same features.
--
Blaine Lupulack
BC, Canada
--
An optimist is one who feels that we live in the best of all possible
worlds, a pessimist is one who fears he may be right...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hughett)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Relocate '/' after replacing HDD
Date: 15 Jan 1999 19:57:10 GMT
Howard Arons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am planning to replace the small HDD where my / partition and swap
: partition are located (along with a Win95 FAT-16 partition for Win swap
: and misc stuff) with a bigger HDD. Here is how I plan to do it.
If your hardware will permit it, I would recommend installing both
disks simultaneously, using the old system to set up the new system,
booting up the new system, figuring why it doesn't boot, booting the
old system and using it to fix whatever you did wrong, and repeating
as necessary. As I've hinted, having a known good old system makes it
much easier to recover after shooting yourself in the foot.
: Does anyone see any (hidden) danger here?
: 1. Tar the / filesystem to my /opt partition on a 2nd HDD. "Mount"
: shows 49041 blocks used for / and 79838 blocks available on /opt. I
: will exclude /proc from the tar file. I do not have access to a tape
: unit.
I don't think that tar will correctly handle /dev either; at least, it
never seems to have worked for me. Either use MAKDEV to recreate the
/dev directory or (rumor says) use cpio to copy the /dev directory.
: 2. Remove old HDD, install new HDD, set up Linux ext2 partition and
: Linux swap partition with Linux fdisk.
: 3. Using boot/rescue disks, untar to the new / partition. Modify
: fstab to reflect the new partition /dev names where necessary. Add a
: /proc directory under / with mkdir.
Use MAKDEV to create /dev.
: 4. Boot Linux with loadlin as usual.
: Where can I go wrong?
I'm sure there's something that both of us have overlooked, so make
sure you always have a way of backing out to a working system. Good
luck!
Paul Hughett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: lpr and "unknown printer" problems...
Date: 16 Jan 1999 23:04:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15 Jan 1999 19:43:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Using Debian 2.0 and lpr (why on earth doesn't Debian have an lpr package?)
>
>I have a normal /etc/printcap:
>
>lp|bj|bjc4400:\
>
>:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>:mx#0:\
>:lp=/dev/lp1:\
>:sh:
>
Just a question. Is there really a blank line or was this just
part of your formatting?
>(Yes, there should be tabs on those, but lynx is being screwy).
>
>I have run lpd from my init scripts.
>
>lpc yields no output with the status command.
>
>The printer works fine with cat xxx > /dev/lp1 and with ghostscript.
>
>Running lpr yields "lpr: lp: unkown printer".
>
>Yes, there is a /var/spool/lpd and /var/spool/lpd/lp and lpd.lock in /var/spool/lpd.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
The only other comment I can make is that when I print I use something
like this:
lp -P printername filename
I'm not sure exactly what the lpr command does. Did you look at
your /etc/printcap file closely and make sure that another printer
is not listed that may be conflicting?
Printing can either go very quickly or really be a pain. Generally
it is something really simple that keeps the whole thing from working.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: "Dirk Leas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: emachine 300c Cyrix - Any Red Hat 5.2 Success?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:28:11 GMT
Anybody successfully gotten this to fly? My installation fails at the point
the packages are being copied/installed with tons of I/O errors. I've seen
lots of success with the older 266Mhz Cyrix, and the 300Mhz Celeron, but
haven't heard from anybody with this new box.
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From: "Dan Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: ATI Xpert@Play AGP vs. ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:04:02 -0500
Just wondering if anyone out there is using the either of these cards with
RedHat 5.2 or xfree86 3.3.2. On RH's compatibility list it says the
Xpert@Play agp is supported however it doesn't say anything about the
Xpert@Play 98. I've read about the 98 version and it seems like a really
good card for the money but I cannot find the Xpert@Play for sale anywhere.
What I would really like to know is this : is there a difference between
this two cards and/or has anyone had trouble setting up the Xpert@Play 98
with RH 5.2. Any suggestions of other relatively cheap (around $50) video
cards that are agp and work with RH 5.2 (out of the box) would be really
appreciated.
Dan Finn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Nik Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eepro100 and 2.2.0pre7
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:27:40 -0800
Hi, I'm running redhat 5.2 and am trying to install the new 2.2pre7 kernel.
I have updated all the necessary requisites to 2.2 (as far as I can tell).
The problem I'm having is that dhcp isn't working. It tries to obtain ip
information via dhcp for eth0 on bootup, but always fails. I compiled in
support for eepro100 and know it works, and I've used it on a network on
which it has a static ip. The only thing it won't do is dhcp.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zentara)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot talk to /dev/cua1, which is a modem (and NOT a winmodem).
Reply-To: ""
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:00:41 GMT
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:53:48 +0100, Christopher Bruce
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Problem of a major kind with my Compaq Presario 1805 in the sense that
>the pnpdump doesn't find the modem and the configuration tells me that
>the modem is busy when I set everything by hand!
Pnpdump will usually find a winmodem, but it gives an outlandish
isapnp.config file with about 20 registers listed.
If you are on Com 2, I would check to make sure your
onboard com2 is disabled in bios. If not, you
will get a conflict with your modem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FFR)
Subject: Re: Linux Fileserver Hardware question
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 23:21:49 GMT
Reply-To: ak398@#cp-vms.org
Agree with Fast SCSI
If you can afford it include
maxed out RAM
100BT net
and Wide SCSI
My works Linux server is
RH5.2 install
Dual P233MMX TYAN 1564D with 512 RAM
Mylex 958 SCSI Wide with 4 - 9G WS HD
besides a bogomip rating of 980, the graphic designer nuts love the
transfer rate.
ttfn,
Frederick
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:04:56 -0500, Blake Sobiloff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to be setting up a Linux Fileserver and I wanted to make sure the
>> hardware I'm
>> going to use will be what I want and won't create a bottleneck.
>
>Lance, skip IDE and go to SCSI for your HD. With the slow processor you
>have your IDE devices are going to hit your processor pretty hard,
>slowing everything down. You'll be much better off with something as
>slow and cheap as Fast SCSI II.
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From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie and Notebook.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:26:59 -0500
Greeting and salutations : I have a working Linux setup S.U.S.E. 5.3 on
a Intel PC. I want to do an install on a notebook w/o a cd rom, (IBM
Thinkpad). Can I connect the two with a serial cable and have the
notebook "see" my CD Rom drive? The notebook has Winblows 3.11
installed..which I plan to dump and format the 700Meg disk as Dos only
and then install Linux. Thanks in advance.
--
Gary Pagliaro RN
ICQ#1405727
http://www.idsi.net/nurseman/index.htm
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