Re: Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with Windows & 56K modem
no no - downloads are fast, navigation is painful DCHP is set on the router & also on Linux (I believe at least, because Linux installed itself from Debian's FTP server using the automatic DHCP routine of the installer ... ) Lou - Original Message - From: "James Ireson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Luca Zampetti'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: RE: Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with Windows & 56K modem > A good guess will be that you have dhcp turned on in the router and on > your machine > > However you say that your connection is like a 56k modem (or slower), > not sure why dns would matter on this one You should find with most > adsl/ cable modems that using their build in dns is fine, they will have > got your isp's dns server address' via dhcp and will be using those to > respond to your machine. > > I'm assuming your problem is more that when using the web for example > that downloads go slow rather than you not being able to get to sites? > > -Original Message- > From: Luca Zampetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 January 2003 23:58 > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fw: Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with > Windows & 56K modem > Importance: High > > > It is a real pain there is a program for setting the pppoe > connection that shows up in some kde menu, running it leads the OS to > discover it has a eth0 (which it already knows) and to nothing else > because apparently the interface is already in use by some connection > (wonder which one, I have only one ...) ... ifconfig does not help > either ... > > Why does the OS overwrite the resolv.conf file with the settings it > "invented" automatically during the installation instead of accepting my > ISP provider IP address for the DNS server? > > Lou > > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Luca Zampetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:13 AM > Subject: Re: Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with > Windows & 56K modem > > > > I guess your network interface settings are inconsistent with the > > router's port (assuming you have connected to it directly). On an > > Ultra use `ethtool' to view and adjust the settings, but that doesn't > > seem to work on sparc32. [I'd actually be interested if anyone else > > can say what to use on sparc32.] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Fw: Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with Windows & 56K modem
It is a real pain there is a program for setting the pppoe connection that shows up in some kde menu, running it leads the OS to discover it has a eth0 (which it already knows) and to nothing else because apparently the interface is already in use by some connection (wonder which one, I have only one ...) ... ifconfig does not help either ... Why does the OS overwrite the resolv.conf file with the settings it "invented" automatically during the installation instead of accepting my ISP provider IP address for the DNS server? Lou - Original Message - From: "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Luca Zampetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with Windows & 56K modem > I guess your network interface settings are inconsistent with the > router's port (assuming you have connected to it directly). On an > Ultra use `ethtool' to view and adjust the settings, but that doesn't > seem to work on sparc32. [I'd actually be interested if anyone else > can say what to use on sparc32.] >
Internet with Debian & Cayman 3220 router slower than with Windows & 56K modem
Dear Debians, I am connecting to internet with Debian for SPARC and a Cayman 3220H router. I tested the line for the n-th time today and it is slower that with a 56K modem (!!!) under Windows 98 ... how is it possible? The resolv.conf file contains the IP address of my router as DNS nameserver - I presume this is wrong, it was configured automatically during installation of the OS in this way. I tried to edit the resolv.conf with the ISP data, but when I reboot the computer the edited file gets overwritten with the old configuration data - or what? Is it possible to tune this thing better to internet? Thanks for your attention. Lou
32 MB RAM memory module for SPARC 5
Hello all, I have a 32 MB RAM memory module for SPARC 5 to sell for 10 dollars ... anybody interested? Best regards - Lou
Re: cd boot fails: kernel can't find root fs
Hello all, Reading Marc's message I took out 128 MB from my SPARC 5, with which I have been struggling to install Debian Linux from CDROM. The installation went well - it was the 12th attempt -, although I was not able to use consistently the CDROM during the whole process, only the first part until DHCP to the FTP server ... dbootstrap generates error messages about corrupt files while attempting to download from the CDROM all the time, sometimes even from some Debian FTP mirrors ... can Debian Linux handle at all more than 128 of RAM? I wanted to install Linux in order to learn Oracle and I believe that Oracle will not work with less than 256 MB of RAM ... Best regards, Lou - Original Message - From: "Dietmar Schurr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marc Horowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: Re: cd boot fails: kernel can't find root fs > Hi list, hi Marc > > since a while I follow this thread because I have an old SS20 with 128 MB > running. The installation (woody) went well with no problems. I used an old > external SCSI-CDROM-Drive (with Caddy). > Later on I tried to install a second SS20 with the same set of CD's and I got > also the same error as you did. First I thought the CD-Drive would be the > problem (a newer one). I used the same old one as on the other SS20. But the > problem was still there. Later I managed to install the SS20 with boot > floppies. > > The Boot-PROM version of both SS20's is exactly the same! The only difference > is, that in the first installed SS20 I have 128 MB and one the later one only > 118 MB (I don't even know if this is possible). I didn't open the machines to > check, I just believe what the system tells me. > > So it looks like this is a confirmation of your theorie. Your error is > reproducible. > > If your solution is reproducible I don't know, because I finished the > installation with floppies. > > Dietmar (Debian newbie) > > Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 04:24 schrieb Marc Horowitz: > > I got my ss20 to boot the install cdrom! > > > > I had 4x32mb memory modules in the machine. On a lark, I pulled two > > of them out, hoping to affect the memory allocation algorithm, and it > > worked. > > > > If anybody else out there has an ss20 they've been unable to boot off > > cdrom, try pulling memory until it's got only 64mb, or perhaps > > anywhere than 128mb. I'm curious if my solution is reproducible. > > > > There's still a bug here, but this is a sufficient workaround for me. > > When I'm done installing, I'll put the memory back in. > > > > Marc > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: CD install (was Re: SS20 2.4 SMP)
It is an old SPARC 5 with original Sun CD ROM device & hard disks ... supposed to be used as a torture instrument for learning unix & linux ... that does not help ... hello mr. Adam Di Carlo, aren't you the burner of this thing? What do you think about it? Did you cook it too fast? br - lz - Original Message - From: "Dave Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Luca Zampetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: RE: CD install (was Re: SS20 2.4 SMP) > On 12/4/02 at 4:10 PM, Luca Zampetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I know that this has nothing to do with you - but I am installing > > debian linux for sparc on a SPARC machine and I am getting all the time > > during the decompression of the files from the CDROM error messages about > > "corrupt files" like this > > > > file: /instmnt/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.21.sparc.deb was corrupt > > > > and if you hit enter > > > > cannot dowload dpkg > > > > and then the installation program breaks up. > > I'm having the same problem installing woody on my SS20, except my messgae is > about libc. So far, I've tried pulling ISOs from different servers, > net-installs, jigdo, swapping drives, to no avail. I know it can be done, since > a buch of other people have Deb on SS20s. My next try is to install the base > floppies and then move to CD as was suggested earlier. > > Out of curiosity, what machine are you trying to install onto? > > -dave > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults
Yes, I know that this has nothing to do with you - but I am installing debian linux for sparc on a SPARC machine and I am getting all the time during the decompression of the files from the CDROM error messages about "corrupt files" like this file: /instmnt/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.21.sparc.deb was corrupt and if you hit enter cannot dowload dpkg and then the installation program breaks up. Suggestions? Thank you. Best regards, Luca Zampetti - Original Message - From: "Bill Meahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:58 PM Subject: Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:49:28 +0100 > Emanuel Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > i know the problem... but nearly nothing more. > > > > > > > > only thing i've found out: with memory below about 80MB the system > > > > runs fine (or i just could not provoke the crash). > > > > can you test if your ss20 behaves the same? > > > > > > I have 128-MB. I'll remove half of that and see how it behaves. > > > > thanks. > > > > > It's not an ovious crash though. It just freezes on startup after > > I'd be suspicious of the Ross processors. > > I have an SS20 with dual SM81's and 192MB of RAM with (2) 2.5GB Seagate > 7200RPM disks. No problem installing (after learning the "tell it it's > really a rescue boot" trick) with 2.2.20bf or upgrading to 2.2.20-smp. > It's solid as a rock > with no hangs. > > Just another data point for comparison. > > -- > Bill Meahan WA8TZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Never ascribe to mailce what can be adequately explained >by stupidity." -- Robert Heinlein > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
