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Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: CHIP CDs and regd meeting at dinesh's place
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> The 'sometimes pinging' is funny. It is easier if it 'pinged' consistently
> or did not ping at all.
DEBIAN pc pinged sometimes !!!
The mandrake one did not at all .. Well see the setup yourself if you like
.. maybe u will be able to shed some light on this wierd situation ..
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> Isnt the linksys card an ne2000 compatible ? If so, maybe u could try ne.o
> or the pci equivalent ne2k-pci.o
Yes the same was done .. ne2k-pci did not work and ne.o .. hmmm an io port
of 0x6000 cannot belong to an 'ne' category
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> Just my Re 0.02 :-)
> ciao,
> Amit
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> "Sandesh Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20-10-99 10:02:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: CHIP CDs and regd meeting at dinesh's place
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> First I do not have the CHIP CD's ;-)
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> Well .. extremely sorry about not briefing the LUG about what happened at
> dinesh's place
> The part I enjoyed the best were the snacks .. Cutlets , samosas ,
> sandwitches and some drinks .. oops pepsi/coke
> Well we had 2 PC's for installing linux on .. The first PC had a 6G HDD
and
> was a P166 with 64M Ram
> After some speculation we decided to install Mandrake .. looks just like
> redhat .. Well I guess it was redhat
> The complete installation went through smoothly(except the n/w card
> glitches
> which was a linksys card 10/100Mbps) and the system was rebooted .. We
> thought that we would configure the card after the system came up ..the
> linksys driver diskette had a linux driver !!!!
> It was a .c file .. which we compiled but alas the n/w would not come up
> !!!
> inspite of the module being loaded and routes properly set up ..
> We tried all stunts from changing the cable / card and switching it to the
> 100Mb switch and also the 10M hub
> But in vain .. it won;t ping any other PC on the segment
> Well we decided to install debian on the second PC which was a PIII
> The installation was ok (except n/w) however the debian PC fared better ..
> sometimes it successfully pinged the other windows PC and sometimes it
> didn't :-(
> Well eventually I guess the conclusion was linksys sucks .. (Apparently
> there was no other reason )
> More till the next sunday I guess ..
> Well anyone on the list has comments regd this .. Has anyone faced
anything
> like this before ..
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> Regards
> Sandesh
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> > ....but pls see to it that its returned immediately, after yr
> installation,
> > to Nagarjuna. Its important that one person keeps the cd's or the LUG
> would
> > lose track ...
> >
> > Cheerio,
> > Sagar.
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> > P.S: Im curious to know if ya guys met up at Dinesh's on Sunday and what
> > happened .
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nagarjuna G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Linux Mumbai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 6:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: CHIP CDs
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> > > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Aditya Deshpande wrote:
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> > > ->Hi does anyone have the chip special cds on linux.
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> > > Do you need it for RH 6.0, then I have original distro, LUG copy with
> me.
> > > You can come to the centre and collect it. As I said in my earlier
> mail,
> > I
> > > also have the chip CDs.
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> > > Nagarjuna
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