Linux-Misc Digest #749, Volume #24 Thu, 8 Jun 00 10:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Best freeware firewall/proxy for RedHat linux? (Jonathan Brimsfield)
Re: Security problem with 'passwd' program (Kapil Sethi)
help desk software ("Tom Verzele")
size of *.mov (Baton)
Re: WinNT/Mandrake7.1 dual boot (Andreas Kahari)
tty watcher for linux (Michal Kolesar)
Re: RH6.1 and /etc/cron.daily question (Andreas Kahari)
Re: tty watcher for linux ("Cedric Blancher")
Re: What distribution is most popular? (Michael Daly)
how to make samba work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gnome (Bob)
Re: Can't Install Ethernet Card after Linux is already Installed (William
Wueppelmann)
Re: Dialpad-like site that is Linux friendly? (Chad Lemmen)
Re: RH6.1 and /etc/cron.daily question (NDQ)
Linux Sound Spikes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
(Roger Blake)
Re: Where to get Java Compiler (Timothy Murphy)
Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems (mst)
Re: newbie ? for suse 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ftape 4.02 make error RH 6.2 (2.2.14) (Stan Crook)
Re: Freewwweb slow ? ("fm")
re: hda: Lost Interrupt (Stewart Honsberger)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Brimsfield)
Subject: Best freeware firewall/proxy for RedHat linux?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:16:59 GMT
Hello,
What is the best freeware firewall/proxy for RedHat Linux?
What do you use? Are you satisfied with the security and
performance from this firewall/proxy software?
Thanks,
JB
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From: Kapil Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Security problem with 'passwd' program
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 17:40:18 +0530
Linolil wrote:
>
> There is a serious problem with the 'passwd' program under RH 6.1,
> VALinux version.
>
> If you have an account with a null password or an asterix, even though
> the program states that it has updated the tokens, nothing happens.
>
> Not a good thing.
>
> Linolil
> --
> Cleric of Tunare
> The Seventh Hammer
> everquest
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Try putting anythig else like abcd in the
encrypted password field, and the change password.
Its' unlocked.
--
Kapil Sethi
System Administrator
Fluxart Online Solutions P. Ltd.
http://www.fluxart.com
T +91 11 5501206
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom Verzele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.apps,linux.help,linux.misc
Subject: help desk software
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:19:43 GMT
Hi...
I'm looking for help desk software for Linux , released under the GPL.
I searched the Web & I found some solutions which are very good , but
unfortunately cost big $$ .
Functionalities I'm looking for:
- trouble ticket system
- history
- knowledgebase
- reports
- webbrowser support
- ...
Any help appreciated ....
Kind Regards,
Tom Verzele
System Administrator
Mediagenix NV
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From: Baton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: size of *.mov
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:34:40 +0200
I want to serve mov files (qt apple) through http but I do not know how
to find out what is the size of the picture they are going to show. I
need this information for embed tag (height and width). Can somebody
help me ? Maybe someone has ready script (any language) ? I would
apprieciate every piece of help.
TIA
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dzik.pl/
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Subject: Re: WinNT/Mandrake7.1 dual boot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 8 Jun 2000 14:37:52 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ferdinand V. Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to dual boot an existing winNT system and
>Linux, probably Mandrake 7.1. I will do some kind
>of hard disc installation and I need to put the
>Mandrake and base directories in an NTFS partition.
>My question is, would a Linux installation recognize an
>NTFS partition? I don't have any problems before with
>Fat16/32 partitions.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ferdinand
>
Please read section 5.4 of the Filesystems HOWTO at
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html>.
The NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO at
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html> might
also be interesting but notice that the current version was written in
1997.
If you search for "NTFS" at <URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/> you will
find loads of other sources of information.
/A
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# Andreas Kähäri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>
# -----------------------------------------------------------
# All junk e-mail is reported to the appropriate authorities.
# Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: Michal Kolesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.security.unix
Subject: tty watcher for linux
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:24:35 +0200
Hi all,
Exist tty watcher for linux?
Thank You.
Please answ. to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Preji prijemny zbytek dne.
Michal Kolesar
===========================================================
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mobil: +420-608-225025
ICQ: 27403872 home : +420-2-7860326
http://egarden.cz work : +420-2-61710034,6
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Subject: Re: RH6.1 and /etc/cron.daily question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 8 Jun 2000 14:44:57 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>>
>> NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> : I use RH6.1. In directory /etc/cron.daily I see a lot of script for
>> : daily executing.
>> : But my daily cron job now runs at 10:00 AM !
>> : I would like to redefine the executing time at 1:00AM, how to do that ?
>>
>> It really depends how the jobs in cron.daily are run. Only a redhat 6.1
>> owner can investigate that. But look at /etc/crontab and see if you can
>> figure it out from there.
>
>In this file I have :
>
>02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>
>But this job was executed at 10:OO AM ??? :-(
>
>I'm not understand :-)
>Q.
If you are also running anacron (a random anacron URL is
<URL:http://lwn.net/lwn/980226/a/anacron.html>), then the daily
scripts will probably be started as soon as your computer is booted
(or, as in my case, 5 mins after). Anacron will affect the time when
the daily/weekly/monthly scripts are executed depending on when you
booted your computer.
/A
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# Andreas Kähäri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>
# -----------------------------------------------------------
# All junk e-mail is reported to the appropriate authorities.
# Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: "Cedric Blancher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: tty watcher for linux
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:51:41 +0200
"Michal Kolesar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message news:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Exist tty watcher for linux?
Yep. Have a look at freshmeat.net on ttysnoop.
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From: Michael Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]*del*>
Subject: Re: What distribution is most popular?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 00:54:46 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]*del*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <BRt_4.3648$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "jmt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I was just curious on which Linux distribution is the most popular that is
>> run by most users.
>
>I don't recall the exact numbers, but I believe that Red Hat has held
>the #1 popularity position for some time, at least in terms of easily
>quantifiable measures like sales and number of downloads from sites that
Red Hat seems to be the most widely available.
I took the plunge a few days ago and installed SuSE 6.4 on my old
Pentium 1 MX200 without any major dramas.
One feature that had attracted me to the SuSE distribution was the new
user-friendly YaST2 installation tool, but it turned out that 48mb Ram
wasn't enough for this and I had to install using standard YaST anyway.
This still worked fine, was able to configure XFree86 3.3.6 even
though it couldn't find a driver for my Dell monitor.
I had foolishly forgotten to note down my Awe32 soundcard settings
before trashing Win98, but the suggested Soundblaster defaults
seem to work just fine.
However, I wouldn't recommend this exercise to someone new to computers.
As most of the software I need is on Win98 I will still use my new pc
most, but I am getting to like that KDE 1.2 desktop :)
The only drawback is that the dreaded Netscape 4.72 bloatware is the
default browser for displaying Linux help within KDE, will have to
figure out how to get rid of this!
Michael Daly
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~mikedaly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to make samba work
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:48:05 GMT
Hi, I am new to linux, so maybe this is a stupid question. I want to
know, how to make Samba work so that I can access other PCs on the
network available just like Network Neighborhood in Win 95/98. PLease
also provide info whether this would require any other utility or samba
is enough.
I have red-hat linux 6.2 installed with Samba package.
Thanks for your help.
-AA
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: gnome
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:01:01 GMT
Hello,
This is what I always do...
Go to www.altavista.com
...and search for
e2fsprogs-devel
..and follow one of the many links.
In fact you may want to bookmark this site:
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
Yours
Bob
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:44:14 +0200, Casper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>hi
>
>i'm compiling gnome on my suse 6.2 linux box, but to compile,
>gnome-utils-1.2.0 i need e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-devel. Where can i find
>that package??? I don't find it on the gnome-site.
>
>tx
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Can't Install Ethernet Card after Linux is already Installed
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:07:54 GMT
In our last episode (Thu, 08 Jun 2000 10:32:15 GMT),
the artist formerly known as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hello, we have RH 6.2 & installed a ISA Ether16 LAN card after we
>already installed the OS. We turned off Plug & Play via the card's
>setup utility, which says it is i/o base address: 300 and interrupt
>number 3. When we re-boot the machine, we can not even ping: bash:
>ping: command not found
That has nothing to do with the card; you don't have ping installed/in your
path if that's the case. Though it is a bit strange to not have it
installed as part of a default.
>When we do ifconfig -a we get:
>lo Link encap: Local Loopback
>inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:3924 Metric:1
>RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>When the system is shutting down, it says:
>ne.c no PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" value for ISA cards
>How do we designate the io="0xNNN"?
You should be able to use modconf (modconf is a standard Linux utility,
isn't it?) to create the correct entries for your Ethernet card.
>When the system is starting up, it says:
>Bringing up interface lo
>Bringing up eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2..(too fast to read)..
>Delaying eth0 initialization
run `dmesg | less' to read all of this stuff after boot time.
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dialpad-like site that is Linux friendly?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:01:28 GMT
In article <8hmob8$ppr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuko Liang) wrote:
>
> Are there any sites like dialpad.com which can deal with Linux?
> --
Dialpad will work with Linux. Use Netscape to access it. It just loads
a java applet in your browser.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.1 and /etc/cron.daily question
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:05:17 +0200
Reply-To: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andreas Kahari wrote:
> >
> >In this file I have :
> >
> >02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> >
> >But this job was executed at 10:OO AM ??? :-(
> >
> >I'm not understand :-)
> >Q.
>
> If you are also running anacron (a random anacron URL is
> <URL:http://lwn.net/lwn/980226/a/anacron.html>), then the daily
> scripts will probably be started as soon as your computer is booted
> (or, as in my case, 5 mins after). Anacron will affect the time when
> the daily/weekly/monthly scripts are executed depending on when you
> booted your computer.
No, I'm not use this programme because my PC works 24/24 & 7/7 (server).
Q.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Sound Spikes
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:14:03 GMT
Hi all,
I'm running Red Hat 6.2 and Gnome/WindowMaker. I've successfully set-up
my sound card. However, a peculiar thing is happening. Whenever a
sound is emitted after a period of silence, the speakers "spike" at the
beginning of the sound. By this, I mean that they emitting a short
cracking sound. If sounds are immediately emitted afterwards, no
cracking sound is observed. Once a period of silence (on the order of
seconds) has elapsed, emitting a sound once again causes this spike at
the beginning.
Any ideas? I have a similar set-up at home which doesn't do this, so
I'm thinking that perhaps it's just the speakers.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:23:00 GMT
On 7 Jun 2000 20:37:50 -0700, Dowe Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My pet peave is when some clueless newbie refers to a newsgroup as a
>"site"(O.K. I'll admit HTML and various other unreadable detritus is
Unfortunately the vast majority of today's Internet "point-n-click"
lusers will be forever clueless newbies who believe "thuh web" is the
whole ball of wax.
Only a fraction even know about Usenet (or other services for that matter),
and most of those that do have absolutely no concept of how anything works.
Since these rocket scientists access everything through their web browsers,
they "think" that a newsgroup is a "site," post HTML crap, quote hundreds
of lines of text to add a one-line comment (can't expect 'em to master
a simple text editor now, can we?), etc. Feh.
In the good old days one needed a certain level of technical expertise
just to participate either in Usenet or the Internet. Today both pretty
much belong to the clueless simply by virtue of their crushing numbers.
You want these people to understand the difference between "web" and
"Usenet?" Hell, many of them have worked with personal computers for years,
even a decade or more, but still can't handle basic operations such as
copying a file even *with* the point-and-click crutches provided for
them. Forever clueless is the watchword here.
Frankly if I didn't need it as a technical resource for work I wouldn't
bother with the Net at all at this point. Here's to the days when every
Net user knew what "send it to /dev/null" means...
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Where to get Java Compiler
Date: 8 Jun 2000 14:30:29 +0100
Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anyone have VisualAge Java 3.0 for Linux ?? I've managed to
>download the winblows version (and it's impressive!), but I can't for
>the life of me navigate ibm's website to get the Linux version.
I think if you start at http://www.software.ibm.com/ and follow the links
it is fairly straightforward.
Nb it is very large (37MB).
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:28:44 -0400
Donald K Knepshield wrote:
(deletia)
> I heard Corel doesn't support ISA cards well, if at all(..)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh?!? How can a specific distribution *not* support ISA cards? It's
just like saying some distro doesn't support the CPU, or memory, or
serial ports.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: newbie ? for suse 6.2
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:43:41 +0530
Maybe you need to modify the rcapache (or rchttpd) script and /etc/httpd.conf (and any
other configuration files) to point to the place where apache resides. Also you might
need to modify PATH variables. Then mount your 2nd HDD wherever you want and put
apache there. (first put apache there and then modify the scripts) Also maybe a tarred
package might be better than deb or rpm.
Mike_the_poopball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have two hdd's in my linux server. I was wondering how i can (or if)
> mount the second hdd. I want to mount it and then point apache to it so
> I can run the webserver off of the second hdd.
> --
> if ($name eq "Mike"); {
> print "laters, Mike";
> }else{
> print "who are you and how did you get in here? ";
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> Before you buy.
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From: Stan Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftape 4.02 make error RH 6.2 (2.2.14)
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 06:41:21 -0700
I am a newbie to Linux, ftape, etal ... so please bear with me.
I have installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14) from the box and
included the sources to be installed in the /usr/src/linux directory.
In this directory I ran the make and make dep inorder to create the
dependencies needed by ftape (according to the ftape README, ftape
requires the .config file and dependencies before in can be built).
Note: I used the all the defaults in the linux make utility to create
the .config file in /usr/src/linux as it looked to me like the MCONFIG
file was only going to look in this file to determine my CPU processor
information).
I then tried to run "make" in /var/local/ftape-4.02 and received the
following:
fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_interrupt_wait':
fdc-io.c:433: structure has no member named `timeout'
fdc-io.c:454: structure has no member named `timeout'
make[2]: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/local/ftape-4.02/ftape/lowlevel'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/local/ftape-4.02/ftape'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Can anyone tell me what this means and what I need to do to correct it?
I'm installing ftape to use with an Iomega Ditto EZ, parallel port on a
Pentium 586 MMX (233mhz).
Did I forget anything?
Thanks in advance for any assistance ANY one can provide,
Regards,
Jeanne
Please also send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this isn't my computer
that I'm using)
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From: "fm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:00:46 +0800
there is one more site I tried that someone told me runs fully on Linux -
www.silk.net.my - looks like Net Meeting , ICQ and Hotmail rolled into one -
browser based but don't know if it is stable.
Oshuma (Christopher Campbell) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:8hkqjv$cod$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <PHa%4.1425$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Zbigniew Sienkiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree that email is the worst part of freewwweb but they're getting
(most
> > likely) enough money from advertising to fix it. They claim to have
> > membership growing by 10000 per day! I'm sure that's the perfect
opportunity
> > for advertisers. It would be nice to have less busy signals during prime
> > time.
> > But - as far as I know - that's the only free ISP without banners. You
can't
> > beat that!
> > Zbigniew
> >
>
> It is a great deal, but here in Tampa, FL I've been getting busy signals
for
> around two weeks. Not sure if it's their rapid growth that's slowing them
up
> or what. -- Oshuma Christopher Dale Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ - 62720935
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: re: hda: Lost Interrupt
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:02:38 GMT
Hello, all. The following is a message posted by a friend of mine, and he's
indesperate neede of assistance. We're looking for any solutions, any
pointers to reference materials, or anybody else who's experienced a similar
problems (specifically; what chipet you're using, what kernel, and what
happens when the problem occurs).
Thanks greatly in advance!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: hda: lost interrupt hangs SuSE box
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:43:17 GMT
I recently got a new computer with an ALI chipset, and I'm running SuSE as my
only OS; I have been able to resolve all hardware support issues with the
machine except for one, and it's a biggy;
During periods of high CPU activity and uncached disk access, a message will
appear on the tty to the effect of:
hda: lost interrupt
at this stage, the machine is locked up tight - I have to use the reset switch
to reboot it.
I am using kernel 2.2.14, with and without DMA support, and with and without
DMA set in the BIOS; there is a 6.4GB Fujitsu (UDMA 66) on the primary IDE
controller as master, and an ATAPI CD-ROM as secondary master. This chipset is
an ALI ALADDIN M1543C/1542 on a 100MHz bus.
As I mentioned, the lockup occurs during heavy activity, or alternatively, at
a random interval of about every 17 - 20 hours. It's quite imperative that I
find a solution to this problem quickly, any assistance would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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