Linux-Hardware Digest #906, Volume #9 Fri, 2 Apr 99 09:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux (taniwha)
compaq prosignia laptop: does it have a winmodem? (jessie rechler)
Re: Wanna Hear A Success Story - Dual Pen2 (James Lothian)
Soundcard problems (billysara)
Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: Promise FastTrak IDE Raid Card supported? (Thomas Dorris)
Re: my bloody modem ("Andy Bird")
Sun Adapter (Odinaldo Rodrigues)
Re: Trident 9750 3D AGP under Red Hat 5.2 (Raul Marcelo Young Sieberath Junior)
Re: Linux on SBC? (Robert Lacoste)
Re: Cheapest possible working video card? ("mad")
Re: DLT tape drive documentation or HOWTO? (Johannes Niess)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Alexander Dymerets)
Re: why AMD386 = GenuineIntel? (Alexander Dymerets)
Re: dual K6-III boards anywhere ? (Alexander Dymerets)
TTYS0 to terminal and keyboard to TTYS0 ?? ("Steve Day")
Problem with installing on a SCSI machine (Mike Arnautov)
Linux 2.2.5 instable on HP LH NetServer Pro ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Western Digital HD Problems in Linux and NT (Rubber Glove Seduction)
Re: Compaq presario (win?)modem (Iain A F Fleming)
Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!! ("Antony Platt")
Re: Lost eth0 device after boot?!?! (Tomasz Sienicki | tsca)
Limit ??? (Vincent)
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From: taniwha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:32:53 +0000
Allen O'Neill wrote:
>
> James,
>
> this is most likely due to the little "nipple" just under the screen
> being initiated when you close the lid - this is a small switch that trys
> to put the machine into standard SLEEP mode.
>
> My solution on a similar machine? ... Get a big snippers and cut out the
> nipple !! (Ouch!)
eeew .. grimace .... but seriously I have a Dell Inspirion 7000 (I know
it's really a different beast made by a different no-name manufacturer)
it puts the machine into standby mode when you close the lid, which is
arguably the 'right thing' to do (it also does the 'right thing' when you
close it in the dock - doesn't power down, shuts down the screen, switches to
the external monitor).
I'm continually amazed that all this stuff (mostly) works considering
that it's the CPU popping into SMM mode at random times and doing stuff
in the BIOS completely unaware of Linux (in my case the ATI driver
doesn't save enough state to reliably return from a save-to-disk [you
can crtl-alt-delete out of X and have it reinitialise - but you lose any
active work] and the sound driver (SB emulation) mutes it and doesn't save
enough state to turn the sound back on)
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jessie rechler)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: compaq prosignia laptop: does it have a winmodem?
Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:37:44 -0600
does anyone know if the compaq prosignia laptops (specifically the 100 models,
160,161,162,etc. and NOT the presario models), have a real modem or a winmodem?
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From: James Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wanna Hear A Success Story - Dual Pen2
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:22:26 +0100
I'm currently running a Supermicro P6DBS, with dual 333MHz P2s
and 128megs of memory. IBM wide scsi hard disk, toshiba scsi
CD rom drive, scsi zip drive. Red Hat 5.2. I haven't had as much time to
tinker around with it as I'd have liked, but it's all going like
a charm so far. The real test will be upgrading the CPUs to something
with a 100MHz bus -- that should wring out any motherboard problems.
Hope this is useful,
James
masanobu ono wrote:
>
> Greetings, all.
>
> I'm considering a dual Pen2 board for replacing my 440TX one.
> People talk a lot about Asus P2B-D and sometimes Tyan boards,
> so I guess they are considered highly reliable.
>
> Has anybody had major success w/ 2.2.* + other manufacturer's
> board? As far as I know, EPoX, SuperMicro, Tekram, and Giga-Byte
> are out there. Any inputs about then would be much appreciated.
>
> --
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Masanobu Ono ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] )
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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From: billysara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundcard problems
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 10:57:25 GMT
I recently upgraded from RH5.1 to RH5.2 and have started
to get an odd clicking noise when sound plays, sometimes
the sound cuts out altogether.
I've re-configured the soundcard with the RH sound config
program, and also by hand with isapnp to no avail.
I also tried upgrading to kernel 2.2.4 to see if that fixed
the problem, but it is much the same, except more fatal
with the machine actually freezing after playing sound.
The kernel is outputting a message to the console saying
"Possible irq/dma conflict" each time the sound clicks,
but I cannot find any dma or irq conflicts in /proc or the
BIOS. It also seems strange that this only shows up in 5.2
and not 5.1 or 5.0.
Any help or pointers much appreciated.
Billy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Closing Dell Latitude Cover Crashes Linux
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:43:37 GMT
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:30:17 +0000, taniwha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a chance that your system does a save-to-disk when
>you close the cover and when you repartitioned for Linux
Most reasonable systems shouldnt force you to suspend when the
cover is closed. This behaviour itself ay be a BIOS setting -
check that out too.
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From: Thomas Dorris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak IDE Raid Card supported?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:53:01 +0000
Jay W. Summet wrote:
> I just saw the Promise FastTrak IDE Raid card, and though, "I'd be
> cool if Linux supported that". So, I was wondering if it does now, or
> if a driver is in development.
It's not supported and I'm not aware of any projects under way to add
support. It would be nice, though...
Thomas Dorris
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From: "Andy Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: my bloody modem
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:39:13 +0100
Well thanks for all the help. I finally gave up with isapnp as it was not
taking a blind bit of notice to what I told it. I eventually set the modem
to com 2 settings and irq3. Disabled the port on motherboard and used
modem tool to create the link to /dev/cua1. Bingo a superfast 54k
connection. At last.
Ofcourse then windows lost the modem - just for reference don't forget to
detect the post then the modem for anyone else in my situations.
Thanks again for all you collective help.
Andy Bird
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ajbird.demon.co.uk
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7du8l5$7oo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello. First, turn all the motherboard serial ports that aren't being
> used to "disabled", or "off". This will free up those resources so that
other
> devices that might want to use the standard port addresses/IRQs can. If
you are
> using a serial mouse, put it on the motherboard port of COM 1, pull the
modem
> out of the box, and reboot with your finger hovering over the pause key,
so you
> can check the bios banner on boot up, and check to see which serial ports
were
> detected on boot. If it boots too fast, then stick a blank floppy in the
drive
> to force an error. If you see either no ports detected (because you have
a PS/2
> mouse) then good. turn off the machine, and replace the modem, (and if
the
> modem has any hope of being jumpered, please do so, if not, keep going...)
> reboot to same thing and see if a serial port was detected then. if you
have a
> DOS disketted that came with your modem, boot from a floppy to DOS and use
the
> plug and play configuration manager to set it. If you have a genuine
> Soundblaster 16, 32, or 64 ISA, the DOS configuration manager that comes
> withthat will also work most of the time. Reboot to your CMOS settings
and make
> sure that your bios set to "not boot to a PnP OS" , ie. "PnP OS =NO."
reboot to
> your blank floppy and check to see if your serial port was recognized.
(all of
> these steps may not be needed, but I'm trying not to leave anything to
chance)
> If it is, then record the port info, if not go on... Boot to Linux, and
do a
> pnpdump to see where it fell, if at all, and record all the details. Not
sure
> of the exact commands, but check man pages for isapnpdump and such for
details.
> Then do setserial /dev/ttyS? IRQ # of course filling in the info you got
from
> the pnpdump. This is to inform the kernel where to find your modem.
Beyond
> that, is getting far outside of my area of expertise, as I'm good with
hardware,
> but just starting Linux. (At least it helped to get the right hardware to
learn
> on...)
>
> I guess the first question I should've asked is what other hardware do
> you have in this machine? How are all of your resouces allocated?
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:35:51 +0100, "Andy Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >I have a modem - a generic Rockwell chip which does work with Linux - I
know
> >this because I can get it to work with Linux .... to a point.
> >
> >The problem is, it is very, very slow. Type AT and 25 -30 seconds later
OK
> >pops up in minicom. I can't get kppp to work because all the inits time
out
> >at random. I once made it upto ati 8 wow. It dials out, it speaks to my
> >ISP but they give up on it waiting for it to respond. HELP this is the
2nd
> >week into this problem and I am going nuts.
> >
> >I presume from the Serial-Howto that there is an IRQ conflict. I have
tried
> >every available option to no avail.
> >
> >It is an internal isa PnP modem. I have used isapnp.conf file to set a
> >variety of settings none have improved the situation. With the modem set
to
> >2f8 / irq3 there is no mention of IRQ3 in the irq listings. I have set
the
> >serial port in the bios to all the alternatives and still no luck. The
> >strange thing is that using modemtool to create the link it only seems to
> >work when set to cau2(dos com3). Is this normal?
> >
> >There must be something I am doing wrong but what?
> >
> >Please someone help me.
> >
> >
> >Andy Bird
>
> Allen
>
>
> (email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
> onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
> PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
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From: Odinaldo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Sun Adapter
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 15:39:52 +0000
Dear All,
Does anybody know where (in the UK preferably) I can get hold of
a VGA to Sun 13w3 monitor adapter?
This SUN monitor is actually a multi-sync monitor that can be
used with a PC. The adaptor is available in the US but I'd rather
get it from the UK if possible at all.
Many thanks for any help.
Odinaldo
--
Odinaldo Rodrigues
Department of Computer Science
King's College - Strand
London WC2R 2LS
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From: Raul Marcelo Young Sieberath Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Trident 9750 3D AGP under Red Hat 5.2
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:01:32 -0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've tried add this Option "noaccel", but it didn't work.
fht wrote:
>
> If it is crashing the computer, you could try editing manually the
> /etc/X11/XF86Config and add the Option "noaccel" in the SVGA section. Save the file
> before working on it....
> No acceleration , but no crashes!!!
--
Raul Sieberath Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
De Recife - PE
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From: Robert Lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.embedded
Subject: Re: Linux on SBC?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:37:24 +0000
Their site is www.circellar.com, but I don't think these articles are
on-line.
Witman Peng a écrit:
> Is it possible to read this article online?
>
> BR,
> Witman Peng
>
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From: "mad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cheapest possible working video card?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:46:55 -0500
www.pricewatch.com
Michael Hucka wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>We need to set up a couple of compute servers that will be used through
>remote network connections only. Obviously, it doesn't pay to put any sort
>of fancy graphics board into the computers. So if I wanted to find the
>cheapest possible video card (one that would at least allow the occasional
>console login), what would people recommend getting?
>
>--
>Michael Hucka, Ph.D. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>GENESIS Development Group, Division of Biology, Caltech
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess)
Subject: Re: DLT tape drive documentation or HOWTO?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 17:35:03 GMT
Hi,
I do not want to start a war, but you do not buy a tape changer as a
toy.
If you are serious about backups, check out amanda (www.amanda.org).
It is GPL'ed, arranges backups to fit on tapes, has an client/server
architecture and supports robots. For lazy people there is cron
support and error and status messages are mailed.
There are installations with 30 and more clients (100's of GB) out
there. Support via mailing list is very fast.
Johannes Niess
Jerry Normandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jerry Normandin Replies:
>Check out BRU, I believe there's ROBOT options
>Timothy Riehle wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I've got a DLT hanging off one of my Linux boxes. The only thing I needed
>> to do to get it to work was to recompile the kernel with SCSI tape support
>> enabled - this isn't default with the RedHat distribution kernels (at
>> least for alpha.) This won't help with the autoloader's robot though -
>> good luck on that. At the very least you can control it from the tape
>> drives panel. Check with the DLT manufacture about Linux support for the
>> robot. At least it will let them know there is interest out there ( I
>> would love to put my other DLT, a LoaderXpress, onto my Linux server.)
>>
>> Lotsa luck,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Bill Rausch wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'd like to move a DLT-4500 (5 tape autoloader system) from an HP-UX
>> > system to my LINUX box. Has anyone done this? Is there documentation,
>> > tips, howto, etc. available online anywhere?
>> >
>> > I've not previously hooked any tape drive to LINUX so I'd appreciate any
>> > pointers.
>> >
>> > My system is a P-166 with two SCSI hard drives, IDE CD-ROM, and of course,
>> > the SCSI tape system I'd like to add. The OS is a pretty vanilla RedHat
>> > 5.2 installation.
>> >
>> > Thanks, Bill
>> >
>> > --
>> > Bill Rausch
>> > bill at numerical dot com
>> > UNIX, Mac, Windows software development
>> >
>> >
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From: Alexander Dymerets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:43:06 +0300
Hi!
> >I'm still leaning towards this 'unique identifier' thing to be nothing new
> >at all, that the PIII merely brought the issue to the attention of the
> >public.
>
> There are unique identifiers out there already, just that this one may
> turn out to be immutable.
I don't see any problem in unique identifiers. All hard disks,
mothermoards ans ethernet cards have them and application can use
them, for example, for copyright protection. At least in
DOS and Win9X it's possible.
Alexander
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From: Alexander Dymerets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why AMD386 = GenuineIntel?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:34:17 +0300
> >On an AMD 386 DX 33 Linux 2.0.36's /proc/cpuinfo reports:
> >
> >cpu : 386
> >model : 386 SX/DX
> >vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> >
> >Bug or feature?
386 CPUs don't support cpuid command, so there is no way to recognize
AMD CPU.
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From: Alexander Dymerets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual K6-III boards anywhere ?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:44:53 +0300
> The new K6-III looks like a neat alternative to the pentiums
> and I am looking for a dual K6-III system...
>
AFAIK AMD promise to include support of multi-processor systems
in K7.
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From: "Steve Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TTYS0 to terminal and keyboard to TTYS0 ??
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:33:24 +0100
Can anyone tell me how to redirect a serial port to the terminal and the
keyboard to the serial port ???
I have a device plugged into TTYS0 and need to run some diagnostics on it
(it works with ASCII commands at 9600 baud).
Thanks for your help
Steve Day
Linear Designs
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From: Mike Arnautov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem with installing on a SCSI machine
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:13:24 +0100
Having scanned through FAQs, HOWTOs and the Red Hat manual, I am still
unable to install Red Hat 5.2 (from the cover CD of May PC Plus in UK).
Any help would be much appreciated.
I have a second hand, entirely SCSI based PC. The SCSI controller
identifies itself as "AHA-1520B/1522B 16KB BIOS v1.15", which according
to all the info I can find, should be covered by the aha152x driver.
Following installation instructions, I get to the point of specifying my
SCSI controller, get presented with a list of drivers, headed with
aha152x, and select it. I am given the choice of autodetecting the
controller or specifying additional options.
If I autodetect, I am told that the controller cannot be found. If I
supply the options (0x340,11,7 -- the information on the address, IRQ
and SCSI unit respectively being what the controller itself tells me), I
am told that my SCSI bus is being probed and then the PC hangs.
And that's that. Suspecting P&P trouble, I have played with various
options in the BIOS (AmiBIOS 2.4) and in the SCSI controller configs.
None made any difference. Needless to say, the machine boots Windows
(Win95) off the controller without any trouble.
I am stuck. Can anybody offer any suggestions?
--
Mike Arnautov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace dashes with dots and remove the antispam component.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux 2.2.5 instable on HP LH NetServer Pro ???
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 12:33:13 GMT
I've got a couple of HP LH NetServer Pro machines (dual PPro 200 MHz) running
under Linux 2.0.36. For the past few days I've been trying to get Linux 2.2
(2.2.4 and 2.2.5) running on a few of these machines. Whatever I do, I can't
get these versions of Linux running stable on these systems. The systems
contain at least two SCSI-disks, connected on the two different Adaptec
AIC-7880 SCSI-controllers. I can reproduce my problem by copying loads of
files from one disk to the other (so the data goes through two
SCSI-controllers and the system bus). When I do this, the system will start
reporting SCSI-errors at first (at random errors from scsi0 and scsi1),
throws in an eth0-error from time to time, and the system doesn't do anything
else from that moment on - I can't even reboot it anymore. I wonder if anyone
has experienced the same problem, if someone was able to fix the problem
(settings?)... any feedback about experiences (+ solutions?) on comparable
systems is very welcome.
Thanks,
Arjan
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From: Rubber Glove Seduction <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Western Digital HD Problems in Linux and NT
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 10:01:36 -0600
Thanks for responding. How do I check my boot partition? I have W98
installed on roughly 2000 megs (I can't remember the exact amount, but it is
around 2 gigs) and I have a 1 gig partition that I use for files (the rest is
still unused). Setting boot partition? Are you referring to a setting in
bios or how big of a partition I created in fdisk?
Sascha Bohnenkamp wrote:
> >Are my settings wrong? Where would I look in the bios(ALI Alladin 5)?
> >Win98 works perfectly and the bios autoselect detects the drive just
> >fine.
>
> well, is your boot-partition bigger than 1024cyl? ... set it to 2GB an try
> again
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From: Iain A F Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Compaq presario (win?)modem
Date: 31 Mar 1999 18:50:26 +0100
The entity calling itself dementen wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq presario with a compaq modem 56kflex but linux doesn't
> even recognise it (I think).
It's a winModem, it's junk -- it will NEVER work with linux.
Forget it -- get a PCMCIA modem instead.
--
Iain A F Fleming http://www.spider.com/
Spider Software Ltd Leith Scotland +44.131.475.7045
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From: "Antony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Slow ethernet LAN driving me crazy!!
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 03:34:28 +1000
Back to basics
Check that you don't have Full duplex running on one card and not on the
other.
Also you cannot run full duplex to a HUB
Tony
Stavros C. Kassinos wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a home LAN comprising of 2 linux boxes (Box-1 and Box-2). They
>are both running RedHat Linux 5.2 . The two machines are connected with
>100base-T ethernet via a hub. Box-1 is the server connected to the ISP
>via DSL.
>
>I am using masquerating and ip-forwarding on Box-1 the server.
>Everything seems to work ok, both machines see each other and the world.
>From the client machine I can ping, telnet and ftp to machines outside
>the LAN.
>
>PROBLEM: The connection, even the local one just between Box-1 and
>Box-2, is slow. FTP transfer rates are only 1-5Kb/sec!!
>
>Does anybody have any suggestions where the problem lies?
>
>Thank you for any response.
>
>--
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Stavros C. Kassinos | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> | Office: (650)-723-0546 |
>Center for Turbulence Research | Fax: (650)-723-4548 |
>Stanford University | www.stanford.edu/~kassinos |
>--------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz Sienicki | tsca)
Subject: Re: Lost eth0 device after boot?!?!
Date: 2 Apr 1999 13:28:45 GMT
Spaceboy wrote
[in <7e0iu9$2f4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]:
> I am having som e trouble with my newly installed RH5.2. This afternoon i
> got it up and running in 30 minutes. Network and all (lets see M$ Gates do
> that!) But now - 5 hours and a restart later, the eth0 device is missing
> when executing ifconfig?!?! In X i've gone through the network configuration
> and there I find that the eth0 device is inactive.
Go to X, network configuration, interfaces, edit the eth0 device
and check the box "activate at boot time".
--
tsca
Tomasz Sienicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Limit ???
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:07:45 +0200
How can I configure the limit of coredump for standard user ?
When I'm root it's not a problem. I tried to set the value in the
/etc/profile file but nothing result.
And for the /etc/login.* it's the same.
In what file are store this information ???
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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