Linux-Hardware Digest #686, Volume #10 Tue, 6 Jul 99 20:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Multiprocessing for Webserver using Apache/JServ with Servlets (Jimmie Houchin)
Re: NIC IRQ Problem (Paul Anderson)
Re: uniprint < M$ drivers???? (John Hong)
Jazz SCSI drive ("JF Kobus")
Re: How much space for each partition? ("TURBO1010")
Re: Jazz SCSI drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Re: dual processor setup? (Vincent Fox)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Ditto / Dash Drive question ("MS-Tired")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Re: How much space for each partition? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Promise Ultra 33 ("TURBO1010")
TV-out on ATI/TNT2/Voodoo3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Jazz SCSI drive ("JF Kobus")
slow linksys (Harry Westfahl Junior)
Re: how to setup mandrake 6 for a cable modem (Jean-Michel Dault)
Re: Running X on an LCD (Terry L Morris)
Re: dual processor setup? (Bryan)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Bryan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimmie Houchin)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Multiprocessing for Webserver using Apache/JServ with Servlets
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:41:28 GMT
Hello,
I see lots of debate and conflicting opinions on the value of having
multiple processors. Many of the most reasoned posts state that it
depends on the application being used. So, I would like to ask about
my situation.
I am building a webserver for my website. The purpose of this post is
to help understand and explore hardware options for the server.
I anticipate running Linux (possibly FreeBSD, not looking for debate
here), Apache with JServ. The only thing running on this machine will
be Apache, JServ and the webapp I am developing using Servlets.
Java is multithreaded and can use native threads which should be able
to access multiple processors. This will be with a JVM which uses
native threads.
Other pertinent information: I will have 512mb of ram to start.
Questions:
Would I benefit from multiple processors?
In the debate of PII vs. Celerons, there is much talk about cache size
and memory access. I have no idea of the size of threads or data being
placed in the cache when using Java and Servlets.
How would the threads from Java impact such a decision?
I am currently exploring options of dual Intel either PII or Celeron
and also would consider a single AMD K6-3 450mhz or better. Xeons are
not an option. I do not know the performance equation of larger
caches, K6-3, vs mulitple processors.
Thanks for any assistance in making this decision.
Jimmie Houchin
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From: Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIC IRQ Problem
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 21:21:21 GMT
In article <7lsac3$6qs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Any help appreciated:
>
> I have been trying to setup an ISA network card on my machine. All
> available IRQs are taken, and I have to enable COM ports in the BIOS
in
> order to get my USR PNP modem card to work with the right IRQ under
> Win95.
>
> This means that when Linux boots, it assigns IRQ3 to a COM port, which
> is a problem as it then can't see the ISA Network card (which can ONLY
> work on IRQ3).
You might want to try uncommenting the COM2 settings in the
/etc/isapnp.gone file. That will force the system to not allocate that
particular resource so you can use it for something else.
>
> So: how do I tell the kernel not to assign IRQ3 to the COM port so I
can
> use the Network card OK?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
--
"Sometimes you have to slap them in the *face* just to get their
attention."
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: uniprint < M$ drivers????
Date: 6 Jul 1999 21:40:08 GMT
Garry Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am using gimp on RH6 to print to an Epson color stylus 640. Two problems
: emerge.
: 1. The quality of the printing is inferior to that produced under M$
: using the drivers Epson wrote. It is grainier but otherwise about equal.
: In any event, any amatuer can say clearly that the M$ output is superior
: nowwithstanding the assertions that the quality under linux is perfect.
Only in a basic sense as in black text and color is Ghostscript
output as good as what one would expect while running Windows. However
in the realm of photo printing I'm afraid Ghostscript doesn't even come
close, especially since you won't be able to use most printers specialty
photo ink cartridges.
This is what has made switching from OS/2 to Linux for myself so
difficult. With OS/2, one run's Windows 3.1 under its virtual DOS
machine. You can then install the Windows 3.1 driver for the said
printer and get the best quality photo printing possible for the said
printer. With Linux, there isn't really anyway to achieve that (unless
it is VMWARE...does that support printing?). Windows 3.1 (or
Win-OS/2...the IBM version) has been recompiled to utilize DPMI memory
with OS/2, this is the reason why one can run Windows 3.1 in enhanced
mode under OS/2. I've tried many times to fake out Linux's DOSemu in
order to do this but I have yet to succeed. I was really hoping that
WABI would be the answer but it appears that WABI is has to use its own
limited printer drivers. WINE...well, it either works or doesn't and
unfortuantely for most people (including me) it doesn't.
NOTE to any OS/2-Linux users out there...simply coping Win-OS/2
into DOSemu's hard drive image doesn't work either. ;-)
I suppose the only way you will get the superb photo printing
capabilities of your printer is when one of them (HP, Lexmark, Epson,
Canon, etc.) tries to make their own driver for Linux. So far, none
have...
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From: "JF Kobus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jazz SCSI drive
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:59:33 +0200
Hi L-people,
I've just installed Caldera's distribution of Linux. Seems to be working
just fine. Only bought a softmodem (a few weeks ago) which was a mistake.
Anyway, the real problem is the following. I can't mount to my SCSI-devices
(1 = CD burner, 2=Jazz 2GB). Allthough XRoaster recognises my Yamaha
CD-Burner!
Mounting, as said, is fairly difficult. I tried:
mount ext2 (also msdos/vfat/default) /dev/sda /mnt/Jazz2GB
but message are allways: fs not supported blablabla...
also edited fstab and added some lines with the previous statement.
During boot Linux is activating the Jazz-drive and SCSI is fully supported.
What do i do wrong ? Is Jazz allready loaded in the kernel (if so, how in
heavens name can i mount to it ?) or is it just a boot-check for all devices
mounted to my SCSI host adapter ?
Thanks for your help
Jan-Frederik Kobus
-x- Help me get rid of Winblows -x-
-x- When Linux works 100 %, my Windows CD will become a frisbee -x-
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: How much space for each partition?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:55:02 -0700
Can I initially just have a / (root) partition and a /home (home) partition
on sda1 and sda3. Then add more hard drives later, and move /usr and /var
over to the other hard drive?
wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> DanH wrote:
>
> > Marc Mutz wrote:
> > >
> > > I have all these on separate partitions:
> > > / 50M
> > > /usr 2G
> > > /var 500M
> > > (more if you have a local news server and want to do big printing
jobs)
> > > /tmp 1G
> > > (I'm going to burn CD's and here's where the images go)
> > > /home 3.7G
> > > /opt 1G
> > > (here is where KDE and Gnome and *Office and other large package
reside)
> >
> > Been using Solaris?
> >
> > /usr/local is where most of the Linux products get put. I don't even
> > have an /opt directory on my Linux box and nothing's seemed to miss it.
> >
> > Solaris uses /opt for the 'optional' packages.
> >
> > Dan
> > --
> > UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
> > Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
>
> Hi Dan;
>
> Actually there are many RPMs available that make use of the /opt tree.
> Some of these are compiler snap shots, having this directory as a place to
> put experimental stuff is very useful. A one time a few binary Tarballs
> floated around that expected to put every thing in the /opt directory.
I
> find it useful for binarys that are not locally compiled nor are RPMS.
> This allows the freedom of using a package manager for the core system and
a
> place to put the other nice stuff out there.
>
> Since almost everything on a computer is optional maybe we need a better
name
> for this directory.
>
> Dave
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Jazz SCSI drive
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 19:09:33 GMT
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:59:33 +0200, "JF Kobus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi L-people,
>
>I've just installed Caldera's distribution of Linux. Seems to be working
>just fine. Only bought a softmodem (a few weeks ago) which was a mistake.
>Anyway, the real problem is the following. I can't mount to my SCSI-devices
>(1 = CD burner, 2=Jazz 2GB). Allthough XRoaster recognises my Yamaha
>CD-Burner!
>
>Mounting, as said, is fairly difficult. I tried:
>mount ext2 (also msdos/vfat/default) /dev/sda /mnt/Jazz2GB
The "/dev/sda" is your problem. You are trying to mount the physical
device which is recognized as the first hard drive on your SCSI chain.
Since a Jazz disk is a hard drive like anything else, you need to
mount a _partition_ on the device which contains a filesystem. Most
Jazz disks are pre-formatted with one DOS partition, and that
partition is (for some reason) /dev/sdX4 (X being an "a" in this
case).
So your mount command should be "mount -t vfat /dev/sda4
/mnt/Jazz2GB". If you will be using this only under linux, you might
want to reformat the disk (cfdisk /dev/sda; mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1).
You should also add the disk into the /etc/fstab so that you can just
type "mount /mnt/Jazz2GB".
The CD Burner can be mounted the same way, since it should be detected
and automatically become the /dev/scd0 device. Use "mount -t iso9660
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom". XCDRoast (as you said) already finds the
writable part of the CD Burner.
>but message are allways: fs not supported blablabla...
>also edited fstab and added some lines with the previous statement.
>
>During boot Linux is activating the Jazz-drive and SCSI is fully supported.
>What do i do wrong ? Is Jazz allready loaded in the kernel (if so, how in
>heavens name can i mount to it ?) or is it just a boot-check for all devices
>mounted to my SCSI host adapter ?
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Jan-Frederik Kobus
>
>-x- Help me get rid of Winblows -x-
>-x- When Linux works 100 %, my Windows CD will become a frisbee -x-
>
>
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:13:20 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Come on people, begin to snip the quoted stuff :-)
You quote around 40 lines and write only two.
That's crappy.
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:21:38 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
L.Angel wrote:
>
> I'm all for AMD but based on a simple Pascal DOS based program, no
> pipelining obviously, running a series of 20million pre-generated
> single precision operations, P2-233 takes 235msec (85.1M/s), K6-233
> takes 440msec(45.45M/s), K6-2-350@400 takes 258msec(77.5M/s).
> 45.45:85.1 is about 0.53 : 1
> (77.5/400) to (85.1/233) is about 0.53 : 1 too
>
Well, as I mentioned long long ago at the beginning of the thread:
Get yourselves K7's (sorry: 'Athlons').
Marc
PS: The ratio will be approx. 4.5:1 for K7-600:PII-233
:-)))) <- AMD fan watching Intels ass being kicked ...
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: dual processor setup?
Date: 6 Jul 1999 22:18:04 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>All that being said in the future I intend to go the dual Celeron route.This
>seems to balance many performance and cost issues. Of course if Intel
>modifies the Celerons as the're talking, I may end up just getting a K7 or
>Alpha. Intel would loose a customer for life if they follow through with
>locking out dual processor capablity on the Celerons, it really is no way to
>jerk your customers around. To me this is far worst than there attempts at
>limiting overclocking but I'm not happy about that either.
I just got an Abit BP6. Had a couple of Socket 370 Celeron 300A's sitting
on the shelf waiting for the motherboard, but from calling around a few
places like Micro Source to find more for a friend, you can still buy them.
At around $125 for the board, and $60 each for CPU's, this is SO DAMN CHEAP
it's impossible to resist. I replaced my BH6 with it, booted up the SMP
kernel, and it flies. Purely on a user subjective level, I used to have
to wait a bit after clicking for a kterm, now it's blink there. As someone
else in this thread said, depending on what you are doing you may not see
any big difference, but then again when it is this damn cheap, why not?
You do see some performance diffs in some things. We have kind of a hotrod
thing going around here to see who can crack the most RC5 keys on one box,
and my dual Celerons at 2x450 are doing a pretty notable > 2.40 Mkeys/sec at
a darn site cheaper price than most other unixen around here.
As to the future of Celerons, who cares? I got my duals now, the future
will probably hold some new motherboard with chipsets newer than BX anyhow.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:36:35 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
chrisv wrote:
>
> I mean, you want to be first in line for one of these contraptions?
> Clearly, there will be bugs to work out on the motherboard at
> least....
>
We're talking AMD here, not Intel :-) In fact Ironside is out and
running with alpha processors, so they'll catch the bug, if there are
severe ones...
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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From: "MS-Tired" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ditto / Dash Drive question
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:34:40 -0400
Hi guys,
I was wondering how to get a Ditto Internal 2 GB drive and a Ditto Dash card
to work under ftape 4.02. Whatever I have tried ends up using the floppy
disk controler. One of the problems is that the Dash card wants to use the
FDC IRQ. So far I no problem using the Ditto with out the Dash card, but the
Dash card really speeds things up. Under Win98 it works just fine. I am
running RH5.2, kernel v.2.0.36.
Perhaps somebody has an idea. Thanks
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:31:02 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Andrzej Popowski wrote:
>
> These are times for compiling Linux kernel with different CPU set:
>
> CPU time in seconds
AMD K6-2 300 ~360 <giggle> (can you send me the .config you used?)
> P2 350 416
> Celeron 450 353
> Celeron 550 314
> Celeron 450 + P2 350 273
> 2*P2 350 256
> Cel. 450 + Cel. 550 233
> Celeron 550 + P2 350 223
>
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:41:34 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: How much space for each partition?
DanH wrote:
>
<snipped my fstab breakdown>
>
> Been using Solaris?
>
> /usr/local is where most of the Linux products get put. I don't even
> have an /opt directory on my Linux box and nothing's seemed to miss it.
>
> Solaris uses /opt for the 'optional' packages.
>
Never installed SuSE, eh?
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS), 0x31748570 (DH)
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:16:51 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Chris Robato Yao wrote:
>
> >>(And the NUMBER ONE top MORON
> >>1. >Chris
> >
> >Nope, I don't.
>
> Yep you do.
>
No, I don't. -- Yes you do. -- Muuum? ...
Children in their natural environment -- observed by
Marc :-)
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux
Subject: Promise Ultra 33
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:16:27 -0700
Has anyone out there had any luck with the Promise Ultra 33? I'm having a
hell of a time getting this card to work. The kernel recognizes the card at
boot up, I can see it there, but the install program doesn't see it. If I
pass parameters to the kernel, ide0=0x67c0,0x6706 then it can see the hard
drives. On reboot, lilo just gives me LI and that's it, I can't boot back
in. I'm thinking of installing first on my sci drive, and then mount the
ide drives separately? Anyone have any ideas? Also, is it bad for the
controller and the nic card to share the same irq? Seems that ever since I
put this controller in, that I can't route anymore. Any suggestions are
appreciated, thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TV-out on ATI/TNT2/Voodoo3
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 19:22:05 GMT
We are looking to purchase some cards for a project, and one of the
requirements is that the machines have tv-out capabilities. My
question is: do any of the above cards support TV-out in linux (and
how well?)
I have an older voodoo1 card, but that only supports tv-out on 3d (of
course). What we are looking for is a card that we can use either the
vga port, or the tv out port for the desktop. What would be even
better would be if we were able to have two separate screens going,
like an presentation running on the tv out, while a regular desktop
would be running on the vga output.
(BTW, if anyone knows of any tv-out _only_ cards that we could use in
a similar manner, please respond.
Thank in advance!!
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From: "JF Kobus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Jazz SCSI drive
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:33:09 +0200
WOW !
Asking Caldera for help (which will do probably) will take 1 day (no
offence, fine people overthere). Asking this group for help just takes only
a couple of minutes.
fantastic, thank you very much !
Now i'm gonna log into Linux again.
In a week i'll be able to surf on a ethernet-card, so by then it will be
Linux only !!
Thanks again
Jan-Frederik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:59:33 +0200, "JF Kobus"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi L-people,
> >
> >I've just installed Caldera's distribution of Linux. Seems to be working
> >just fine. Only bought a softmodem (a few weeks ago) which was a mistake.
> >Anyway, the real problem is the following. I can't mount to my
SCSI-devices
> >(1 = CD burner, 2=Jazz 2GB). Allthough XRoaster recognises my Yamaha
> >CD-Burner!
> >
> >Mounting, as said, is fairly difficult. I tried:
> >mount ext2 (also msdos/vfat/default) /dev/sda /mnt/Jazz2GB
>
> The "/dev/sda" is your problem. You are trying to mount the physical
> device which is recognized as the first hard drive on your SCSI chain.
>
> Since a Jazz disk is a hard drive like anything else, you need to
> mount a _partition_ on the device which contains a filesystem. Most
> Jazz disks are pre-formatted with one DOS partition, and that
> partition is (for some reason) /dev/sdX4 (X being an "a" in this
> case).
>
> So your mount command should be "mount -t vfat /dev/sda4
> /mnt/Jazz2GB". If you will be using this only under linux, you might
> want to reformat the disk (cfdisk /dev/sda; mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1).
>
> You should also add the disk into the /etc/fstab so that you can just
> type "mount /mnt/Jazz2GB".
>
>
> The CD Burner can be mounted the same way, since it should be detected
> and automatically become the /dev/scd0 device. Use "mount -t iso9660
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom". XCDRoast (as you said) already finds the
> writable part of the CD Burner.
>
> >but message are allways: fs not supported blablabla...
> >also edited fstab and added some lines with the previous statement.
> >
> >During boot Linux is activating the Jazz-drive and SCSI is fully
supported.
> >What do i do wrong ? Is Jazz allready loaded in the kernel (if so, how in
> >heavens name can i mount to it ?) or is it just a boot-check for all
devices
> >mounted to my SCSI host adapter ?
> >
> >Thanks for your help
> >
> >Jan-Frederik Kobus
> >
> >-x- Help me get rid of Winblows -x-
> >-x- When Linux works 100 %, my Windows CD will become a frisbee -x-
> >
> >
>
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From: Harry Westfahl Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slow linksys
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:45:46 -0500
Hi all,
Does any one knows what causes the "linksys etherfast" pcmcia card
to run slow in some networks?
I was running it in a 10 Base T network and it was going fine. Now I
am trying to run in another 10BT network and the connection is awfully
slow!
Is there a "network related" setting that I should change in the
pcmcia configuration files?
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3500 running RH 6.0. Thank you all in
advance,
Greeting, Harry.
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From: Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: how to setup mandrake 6 for a cable modem
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:33:04 +0000
Always disable it on the card. It might work in PNP mode, but in my not-so-very-humble
opinion, PNP sucks.
The default sendmail configuration denies relaying except from your network. So it's
pretty safe.
Jean-Michek Dault
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
doc wrote:
> When 'disabling' PNP, are you doing it on the card or
> thru the BIOS???
> I am "planning" on a cable modem thru a NetGear 10/100
> NIC (err, forget the model, but it is a modified TULIP.o)
> and ABSOLUTELY don't want spammers to use my box...
> So, will check out these sights...
>
> Thanks for the information
> --
> Rich "Doc" Colley - MIS Dept.
> Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens
>
> Wayne Larmon wrote:
> >
> > Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> > >
> > > I installed a cable modem yesterday and it works great.
> > >
> > > Once you get your EtherExpress PNP disabled, you should be able to install, and
> > > it will ask you for the network parameters.
> > >
> > > If you need to reconfigure, just start Linuxconf, go to the Network section,
> > > then configure your IP address, gateway and DNS.
> > >
> > > Jean-Michel Dault
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I'm also using a cable modem with an Intel EEPro connected to it and it
> > also works great. Like Jean-Michel said, disable PNP and it will work.
> >
> > My EEPro is connected directly to the cable modem. I'm using Mandrake
> > 5.3 as a firewall/IP masquerader. (Still shaking out Mandrake 6.0.) My
> > second nic feeds a hub and I can connect all the computers I want to it.
> >
> > If you are using a cable modem then you really should consider
> > configuring a firewall for protection. And don't run sendmail unless
> > you *really* know how to configure it, because spammers *love* to find
> > Linux boxes running sendmail so that they can relay their spam using
> > *your* box. Guess what your cable modem company's reaction will be?
> >
> > And they can find new Linux boxes fast, because they use auto-probing
> > methods. One of our local cable modem users reported that a hacker
> > found a new Linux box of his within 6 hours after he first started it.
> >
> > You can use Samba to network with your Win 9x machines.
> >
> > I have links to networking and Samba information at
> > http://www.scrounge.org/linux/docs.html#networking
> >
> > Using Linux with a cable modem:
> > http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cablemodem.html
> >
> > Also, check out http://www.cablemodemhelp.com/
> >
> > Wayne Larmon
> > http://www.scrounge.org/
> > http://www.scrounge.org/linux/linuxtips.html
> >
> > > anthonymelillo wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am trying to install Mandrake 6, and if I can get it to go past the
> > > > network card detection, I was wondering if anyone tell me how to setup Linux
> > > > to work with my cable modem ?
> > > >
> > > > I have an extra IP for this machine and all the specs, such as IP, gateway,
> > > > ect but I do not know how to setup Linux so I can access the FTP, and web
> > > > servers from other machines ?
> > > >
> > > > Also, can I setup linux so I can access the hard disk from my Win98 machine
> > > > through my home network and copy files, ect ?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Anthony Melillo
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Terry L Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Running X on an LCD
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 18:50:15 -0400
Check this URL for your particular notebook computer:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Terry L. Morris, KB8AMZ
Chad Scherrer wrote:
> I've been trying to get X to run on my Gateway Solo 9150. I have an ATI
>
> Rage LT Pro video card and a 15" screen. The video works fine when I
>
> connect it to an external monitor, but I can't get it to work with the
>
> built-in LCD. All I see is garbage. I called Gateway to find out the scan
>
> frequencies, and the guy I talked to said that question doesn't really
>
> make sense for LCD's because the screen is continually updated. Is that
>
> true? I don't know what else I can adjust to get it working. I'd really
>
> appreciate any help - for now I'm stuck using text mode (or Windoze).
>
> Thanks.
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual processor setup?
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:15:16 GMT
Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The price differences between the Celeron and the P-II is not that
: much anymore.
cel300a are in the $60 range. the p2-450 (if you could still get
them) are in the $200+ range. assuming you o/c the 300a to 450 (and
you will!) then there's QUITE a big price delta the way I see it.
: And the P-II still beats the Celeron on database and so on by a wide
: margin.
no, NOT a wide margin. very very slim, if any.
: I know, I have both dual Celeron and dual P-II set ups. Both
: are 400Mhz.
your cel is not overclocked then, I assume. o/c the sucker and watch
the full speed cache (at 450) really soar...
: And in many disk intensive applications, the extra cache in the P-II
: still beats the faster, but much less cache in the Celeron.
not in the real world, usually.
--
Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:10:59 GMT
on my dual cel system it was closer to 90% faster.
the kernel build is quite parallel - others aren't quite as good. fyi.
In comp.os.linux.hardware kls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >>Have you seen http://www.cpureview.com?
: >>
: >>Article shows a K6-III 400 is faster than a Cel @ 450 in compiling.
: >
: >
: >From http://www.cpureview.com/art_kernel_discuss_c.html,
: >k63-400 vs single c400(4x66) k63 23.5% faster(though
: >he gives different results in seperate reviews?).
: >
: >Remember 23.5%,
: >
: >http://perso.easynet.fr/~hugues.michel/gcc_time.html(use babefish)
: >
: >The times are not comparable(different build,..) but the % speed
: >difference between single & smp is viable.
: >
: >Here's freebsd(pretty graphs even:),
: >http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html
: Even better/recent! Linux compilation on two different dual systems: 1 celeron
: based, the other p3 based:
: http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/3q99/smp/smp-9.html
: Dual celeron 71% faster than single! Stick that in your pipe & smoke it:)
--
Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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