Linux-Hardware Digest #296
Linux-Hardware Digest #296, Volume #10 Sat, 22 May 99 01:14:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Graphics Problem on SiS 6326. ("Gene Heskett")
Linux & SuperMicro P6-SBM on-board sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 4 port pci serial card recommendation (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Millennium Man)
Re: High speed serial board (Cokey de Percin)
Re: SB PCI64V (Legacy driver) (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Diamond Media Stealth II AGP problems (Ryan Stawarz)
Re: DEC depca ethernet card recognized by Linux? (John Oliver)
Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP (Paul Harris)
Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly ? ("Robert M. Taylor")
Re: PC/104 DAQ ("Robert M. Taylor")
Awe64 PCI ("multisoft")
Acer Pentium-3 systems - any known problems? (D. J. Birchall)
Re: USB Scanner, Whare do I start? (Usenet groupie)
Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem ("Edward W. Nowak")
Re: Hard Disk Oddness-Help me!! (Rod Roark)
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (Dae)
Re: Lost LILO ("Lee Sharp")
*BSD or Linux Based Computer Telephony development Products (Gong Wei)
Re: Hard Disk Oddness-Help me!! ("Tom Barnes-Lawrence")
MP3's Play To Fast ("Derek Schmidt")
Re: SCSI Controller Peformance (Johan Kullstam)
Date: 21 May 99 20:59:01 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics Problem on SiS 6326.
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Mac Team;
MT> This video card isn't supported previous to RedHat 6.0. I have
MT> that card and there wasn't a driver in RH5.1,2,3. I now have
MT> RH6.0 and it was a choice in Xconfigurator.
MT> bjarnecarstensen wrote:
>> Hi.
>> I´m a newbie in Linux, got a problem setting up my PC ith a
>> graphics card from SiS. The processor is a SiS 6326, and it´s got 8
>> MB of Ram. What do I do. Please revert to
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Thanx
Ahh, maybe so. But OTOH, one can send your browser over to ftp.x.org
and pick up the latest 3.3.3.1 and 3.3.3.2 versions of the xserver SVGA
stuffs, and its support pieces, and your sis6326 will suddenly work just
fine.
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux & SuperMicro P6-SBM on-board sound
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:00:48 GMT
I have a SuperMicro P6-SBM motherboard system. This board
includes Ensoniq ESS Solo on-board sound. I'm having a
horrible time trying to get it running under Linux.
Can anybody give me a hint which sound options I should
compile into the kernel, or if modules, what kind of parameters
I should be using? (I'm running RH6.)
Under Windows the autoexec.bat file says I'm using IRQ 5
and PCI IO Base EF00. Not too sure what that means, but
hopefully it's helpful information.
I've read through the sound how-to docs but that didn't
seem to help.
Sound support is the last thing I need to get working to
have a fully-supported system under Linux. Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.
Greg
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 port pci serial card recommendation
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:17:19 +
Brian Servis wrote:
>
> Brian wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian:
> >
> > I have to go along with Bryan on this point.
> >
> > RocketPort PCI Quad/DB25 4 ports with RS-232 fan-out cables;
> > DB25 male 95860-4 $445
> >
>
> Yikes, way more than I wan't to spend. Time to look at other
> options.
>
> > I use an old BOCA IOAT66 six port ISA card that appears to
> > function nicely in Linux kernel 2.0.36 with a little
> > hand-holding from some nice folks on the Linux newsgroups. I
> > bought that at auction at eBay for $30 including 4
> > cable-sets (4 modem and 4 terminal).
>
> That is more like it. Sounds like you got a great deal.
>
> >
> > By the way, what is your application?
> >
>
> Well, I just got a PalmIIIx and need another serial port for it.
>
> I currently have an internal isa 56k modem(ttyS3), isa sb16, and
> isa ne2000 10base2 clone. And on my two on board serial ports I
> have a second pointing device(my main is a ps2 mouse) on ttyS0
> and a UPS on ttyS1. I could probably find a cheap 10base2 pci
> card. I really only need one more serial port.
>
> -
Well, just for the record, ByteRunner sells a 4 port serial PCI card
for less than $100. I think that it's around $70. Look at
www.byterunner.com. I've got a 4S+2P (ISA) that I've been running for
several years and works great. Note
Linux-Hardware Digest #295
Linux-Hardware Digest #295, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 22:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Bootable Zip 100 or LS120 + PCI IDE Controller (Bruce Bigby)
Caldera 2.2 installation fails to mount disk ("vancaf")
Re: i'm killed 3 cd-rom drives!!! (Nicole Abrams)
Re: XF86Config.. XSiS 530 Video Card! (Nick Sopkovich)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Osvaldo
Pinali Doederlein")
Re: USB support under linux (elmer smeckert)
Dual motherboard PCChips M750i (The Network Wizard)
Re: Cloning a Linux box ("Millennium Man")
zip disk problem (Jonathon)
STB nVIDIA TNT (Arthur Tswei)
Re: 3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP (Jonathon)
TNT2 and X (was: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines) (Vlad Karpinsky)
Re: Help with modem setup (CodeWright)
Re: KDE or Gnome (Robert Brown-Bayliss)
Re: How do I move linux? ("Millennium Man")
Yamaha DS-XG ("Gnork")
Re: AMD K6-2 Problems ("robinHood")
Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset) ("Gene Heskett")
Lost LILO (Ken Whines)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW PCI problem (Archie Lamb)
bttv+realserver+broadcast (Christian Hahn)
Linux and DVD Decoder Cards! ("Jay Paulson")
From: Bruce Bigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bootable Zip 100 or LS120 + PCI IDE Controller
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:10:09 -0400
Reply-To: "Bigby, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I need a larger bootable floppy drive. Basically, I'm leaning towards
getting an IDE-based LS120, since it can also accept the older 3-1/2"
floppies. I have a Tyan Tomcat 3 Dual P5-200 motherboard. Will I need a
BIOS upgrade to use the large floppies for Linux or Windows?
--
Bruce W. Bigby/Technical Specialist (Software Engineer)
Xerox Corporation - 300-12S/145, 800 Phillips Road, Webster, NY 14580
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], (716) 422-5978
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explicitly stated so.
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I need a larger bootable floppy drive. Basically, I'm leaning towards getting
an IDE-based LS120, since it can also accept the older 3-1/2" floppies.
I have a Tyan Tomcat 3 Dual P5-200 motherboard. Will I need a
BIOS upgrade to use the large floppies for Linux or Windows?
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Bruce W. Bigby/Technical Specialist (Software Engineer)
Xerox Corporation - 300-12S/145, 800 Phillips Road, Webster, NY 14580
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], (716)
422-5978
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represent the opinions or policies of my employer, unless I have
explicitly stated so.
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Reply-To: "vancaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "vancaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Caldera 2.2 installation fails to mount disk
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:36:34 -0700
After successful installation(Caldera 2.2), it fails to boot up
properly(mounting HDD) displaying following message.
"hda:ST39140A, 8693MB w/448kb Cache, CHS=1108/255163, UDMA
hdc:Castlewood ORB2-E, 2103MB w/0KB Cache, CHS=4273/16/63,
DMA
Partition Check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hdc: [PTBL] [1068/64/63] hdc1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:0b: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
EXT2-fs:unable to read superblock
03:0b: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
FAT bread failed
kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:0b
I'm sure the primary(root) partition ends on cylinder 1022, so I shouldn't
be "1024 prob." After disconnecting 2nd HDD(hdc), I get the same thing.
More info: 4000MB NTFS partition. 4000MB Linux primary partition. 128MB
SWAP. all on hda Dual booting using LILO.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you.
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From: Nicole Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: i'm killed 3 cd-rom drives!!!
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:36:23 GMT
I fried a 44x and a 40x the same way!
Jeremy Prellwitz wrote:
> does anyone know why i keep destroying cd-rom drives while trying to install
> Linux. i can install Linux (Redhat 5.1 or 5.2) just fine when using my old
> 4x cd-rom drive. but when ever i've tried installing Linux using one of
> those new UDMA drives i've killed it. i've wrecked a 24x, a 32x and a 36x
> cd-rom drives.
>
> why is this happ
Linux-Hardware Digest #294
Linux-Hardware Digest #294, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 20:13:27 EDT
Contents:
IBM ServRaid and Adaptec 294x (Richard Ellerbrock)
Re: First install - LILO prompt doesn't appear ("Phivos")
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (bryan)
3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP (DB7654321)
Re: AHA1542CF very slow ("William B. Cattell")
Re: ISDN (Once more) (Dirk Groot)
Re: MediaGX Motherboard (Herwig Bogaert)
Building a Virtual Comport ("Jim D.")
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset) (Peter Stein)
Re: G200 or TNT? (damn, I hate asking questions like this) ("Todd")
Re: accurate timer - HELP! (Mike McCarty)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Red Hat 5.1 crashed Western Digital IDE Hard Drives (Kerry Panchoo)
Re: Red Hat installer can't find my hard-disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SB64 PCI (Simone Piccardi)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Dave Harris)
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Ken Arromdee)
From: Richard Ellerbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM ServRaid and Adaptec 294x
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:13:06 +0200
Has anybody been able to RedHat 6.0 or 5.2 installed on an IBM 704 box.
When I autoprobe, the two Adaptec 2940 controllers are discovered, but
no devices are seen. How do I activate the ServRaid controller? Novell
and NT use a driver called ISP if this is of help.
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From: "Phivos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: First install - LILO prompt doesn't appear
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:48:33 +0300
> Installed for first time RH 5.1 and when finished and rebooted just got LI
> instead of LILO prompt and it was stuck there!
>
I had the same problem , [i just got L ;-)]
and i had forgot to make win98 (the 2nd option in LILO ) bootable during
install (adding a * there solved the problem).
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:41:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware sven the hairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is linux inferior in its handling of multiple processors than other OSs?
: Somebody at work trashed linux in this area, but I couldn't object to his
: comments because I don't know much about multi-processor systems. Is he full
: of S**t?
yes.
you can get real close to a 2x improvement in the right situation. but not everyday.
then again, NT isn't an everyday 2x improvement either. I'm told its more like 25%.
: Swietanowski Artur wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
: >mumford wrote:
: >> You're requesting info about building a number crunching system... I'm
: >> almost positive that you could expect a significant performance hit be-
: >> cause of the decreased cache size if you chose celerons instead of true
: >> P-II's (celerons have 128K cache, true P-II's have 512K).
: >
: >All evidence to the contrary so far (in the number crunching field).
: >There is a noticable-to-big performance hit if you have *no* L2 chache,
: >as it was the case with older Celerons (prior to 300A and 333 models,
: >I think). Blocking methods in numerical linear algebra asymptotically
: >reach towards the achieveable peak performance with the cache growth,
: >but at 128KB cache they are pretty damn close.
: >
: >Also, L2 cache of Celerons works at twice the speed of PII L2 cache.
: >Depending on your examples, you may sometimes even get a better
: >performance from a Celeron! (I take this info from previous
: >discussions on the PII vs. Celeron -- search Dejanews for the
: >original posts).
: >
: >Regards,
: >-
: >Artur Swietanowskimailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: >Institut für Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
: >Universität Wien, Universitätsstr. 5,A-1010 Wien, Austria
: >tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
: >-
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Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DB7654321)
Subject: 3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP
Date: 21 May 1999 21:10:28 GMT
Does the 3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP work well with Red Hat 5.2? I looked in
the hardware compatibility list and could find 3C509 but not 3C509TP is there a
difference?
David Bell
Please don't email me just reply on the board.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AHA1542CF very slow
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:11:57 GMT
Eric Wick wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> the AHA1542CF on the following machine won't give me more than 1.5MB/s
> troughput, is there any trick to get more performance?
>
> D4/100 32Mb
Linux-Hardware Digest #293
Linux-Hardware Digest #293, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 17:13:36 EDT
Contents:
How to mount a mo drive? (Cheuk Wai TAI)
Re: Star Office and Office 97 ... ("93")
First install - LILO prompt doesn't appear ("mikez")
Re: Linux on: IBM Thinkpad 755 (Robert Wiegand)
[Fwd: LINUX vs. External Ditto Drive] (Steve Elmore)
Dual SCSI Adapter device assignment help? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
removing cooling fans--how dangerous? < dumb move :P ("KeroPPi")
Re: Problems - ATI Xpert@Play and XFree86 3.3.3.1-1.1 (J O'Connor)
Riva TNT (nVidia) ("Ray")
3DNow instructions and Linux kernel? ("Piers B.")
Re: STB nVIDIA TNT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sb soundmodule fails to load ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape 5.0 and libstdc++ 2.8 (Daniele Bernardini)
Re: Driver request ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
sb soundmodule fails to load ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hard Disk Oddness-Help me!! ("Tom Barnes-Lawrence")
Red Hat Linux on Sun Sparc IPX? (James Seymour)
Re: Netscape 5.0 and libstdc++ 2.8 (Johan Kullstam)
Can't communicate through 2nd NIC ("Steve Snyder")
Re: Graphics Problem on SiS 6326. (Mac Team)
Re: Riva TNT (nVidia) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: G200 or TNT? (damn, I hate asking questions like this) (Clarence Riddle)
From: Cheuk Wai TAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to mount a mo drive?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 18:58:40 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does anyone know how to mount fujitsu mo since I can't mount the
MO although the kernel included the scsi generic device? On the other
hand, my scsi zip drive can run perfectly.
thanks.
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From: "93" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office and Office 97 ...
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:26:57 +0100
Manfred Becker (and others) wrote in various messages
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SNIP] Star Office and MS Office compatibilities.
Just use HTML and PDF - both OSes can produce and read these. Drop Office
Suites and use browser technology. It's all just "information" in the end.
The trick is to use a common front-end.
Compatibilities between various versions of MS Office just proves the need
for a common format. IMO HTML is the *ONLY* way forward through all this
incompatibility.
93
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From: "mikez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: First install - LILO prompt doesn't appear
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 06:42:13 -0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Installed for first time RH 5.1 and when finished and rebooted just got LI
instead of LILO prompt and it was stuck there!
Can I reload LILO loader on the MBR without going through the complete
install again? Or is the best attack to go ahead and reinstall again?
I have AHA1542 w/QuantumSCSI HD and Toshiba SCSI CDROM. Maybe I should have
passed some parameters onto the drive for bootup?
Please provide some direction and excuse cross posting.
Thanks,
Mike Zemina
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on: IBM Thinkpad 755
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:48:35 -0500
Mircea wrote:
>
> One thing that I can tell is they have the Mwave sound card/modem combo,
> that isn't supported...yet.
Actually, it depends on which 755 model. They don't all have the Mwave.
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Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: [Fwd: LINUX vs. External Ditto Drive]
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:26:31 -0700
>
> Anyone have any experience installing/configuring an external Ditto Max
> (paralell) under RH6.0 (Red Hat 6)? I have found a couple of links that
> vaguly describe how to to it, but before I undertake this task I was
> hoping for some pointers from anyone that may have done this already.
>
> From www.linuxberg.com I have discovered it can indeed be done with the
> newest version of fTape, but the directions are not the best. I hope it
> is easier than the time I tried to get my Winmodem configured only to
> later discover that it physically cannot be done (ROFL)OY.
>
> I am running RH6.0 on my now windows free HP 8380.
>
> Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dual SCSI Adapter device assignment help?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:48:49 GMT
I have two SCSI Adapters in my Dell 410 Wkstn. One is an onboard
aic7890/7880 and the other is an Adaptect 2940UW. I'd like to be able
to reverse the sequence in which the system assigns device names to
these two adapters. As is, my hardisks are being assigned /dev/sdc and
/dev/sdd while my removable media scsi's are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
I would prefer to leave the high speed disks on the high speed adapter.
I'd like to get aic7890/aic7880 detected as /dev/scsi0 instead of
/dev/scsi1. I believe this would put my hard drives back in the BIOS
detection range (first two drives) so that LILO can be used to bo
Linux-Hardware Digest #292
Linux-Hardware Digest #292, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 15:13:52 EDT
Contents:
Re: New cable modem means I have a lot to learn (ByteMe)
Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant (Rob Walsh)
Is emachine's 400i good for Linux (Dean Pan)
Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant ("Tony")
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (Jeff McWilliams)
Re: WinPrinter OKI Page 4W ("Lee Sharp")
Problems using CD-RW with cdwrite (Mark Janssen)
bttv+realserver+broadcasting (Christian Hahn)
UDMA DOESN'T WORK !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: ByteMe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: New cable modem means I have a lot to learn
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:48:46 -0700
Steve Snyder wrote:
> The good news: after years of dithering my cable TV provider is providing
> Internet access. The bad news: I need to quickly get up to speed on
> everything needed to provide Internet access to my whole LAN via the cable
> modem.
>
> My simple LAN consists of a server running RedHat v5.2 (updated to kernel
> v2.2.x and glibc v2.1) and 10 clients (running Win95, Win98 and OS/2) all
> running on the same subnet. Name resolution is done via an identical hosts
> file on each system. The server does not provide Internet access to the
> clients.
>
> I do not intend to run any additional local services (mail, Web, news, etc.)
> at this time. I just want my LANs server to pass packets between the client
> machines and the cable modem.
>
> With the imminent arrival of my cable modem I quickly need info on:
>
> 0. My ISP will provide a dynamically-allocated IP address. Does that mean I
> need to configure my server for DHCP? All the client system will continue
> to have static addresses.
>
> 1. Supporting a 2nd NIC in my server. Having Linux recognize both NICs is
> a no-brainer, but how do I configure it to communicate only with the cable
> modem? (The 1st NIC will remain connected to the hub, of course.)
>
> 2. IP Masquerading?
>
> 3. Firewall? Up to now I haven't had to think much about security, since
> the LAN doesn't have direct Internet access. Now that we'll be constantly
> connected, I'm wondering if I need a firewall. I have an older machine that
> I could use solely as a firewall if needed.
>
> Any information, or pointers to info, on these topics would be gratefully
> received.
>
> Thank you.
>
> * Steve Snyder *
Be extremely concerned about security when connected via a cable modem.
do not run telnetd if you don't need it.
set up a dedicated firewal/GW and or Proxy machine and use ip_masq.
strip the machine down to as few services as posible to start ( it's called
bastion host )
no ftp, http ,telnet, tty , finger , netstat, whois or ping services.
( crond even has a hole )
some important files to pay attention too are /etc/hosts.deny, hosts.allow,
hosts
take complete control over these files and others , such as chmod , su , chgrp,
chown , login ,
passwd , etc.
if you strip the services (and know how to maintain the box manualy ) you can
take control of the /bin , /etc dir's so that no one else can see or execute
them ( the machine will still run just fine ) to do this( chmod -R
o-rwx,g-rwx /bin /etc ) check your documentation befor you do this for the
correct syntax for your machine & MAKE A BACKUP first on these directories
somewhere else on the hard drive , if you screw it up you'll be locked
completely out of the machine ( hense the security aspect of doing this ) and
you will probably have to rebuild you system.
do some reading befor you go nuts on your machine , But I promise you , you
will be hacked through the cable modem if you don't pay attention to security
!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Walsh)
Subject: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 May 99 04:08:18 GMT
The shop I work in has been using SCO Unix and Compaq server class
hardware for several years. I would like to try and convince my boss
to switch to Linux where we can. (I have been using Debian Linux on
my workstation for the last 2.5 years, and have gotten rather
spoiled. :-)
In all my digging through FAQs, HOWTOs, source code, and web sites, I
have not been able to find any reference to using Compaq server
hardware with Linux. Specifically whether any of the Compaq SCSI
controllers or Ethernet cards (NetFlex) are supported. I am
completely puzzled that there is no mention of them, one way or the
other.
Has anyone had any success running Linux on Compaq ProLiant (2000,
2500, and 4500, I think) or ProSignia (300) hardware? If so, where
can I find info on what drivers to use?
Thanks,
Rob.
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From: Dean Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is emachine's 400i good for Linux
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:14:43 GMT
I consider buying a emachine's 400i (intel celeron 400MHz) to run linux.
It seems to be
Linux-Hardware Digest #291
Linux-Hardware Digest #291, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 14:13:46 EDT
Contents:
WinPrinter OKI Page 4W (Jean-Yves Pignier)
Re: Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller, Is it possible to use this card? (Kent Saxin
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Hammarstr=F6m?=)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't install Linux5.2 on Presario 5660 'Help'! (Glenn)
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (Lyn A Headley)
zoltrix just tv drivers? specs to write one? (David Borowski)
-> Folkert Meeuw: Starting RH 5.2 Installation from bootdisk, hang on Calibrating
delay loop .. ("Folkert Meeuw")
Re: How to mount a mo drive? ("Gary Maltzen")
RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP (Dan Finn)
Help with 3com 56k Faxmodem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant ("Lee Sharp")
Re: changing hard drive's serial number (elmer smeckert)
Re: MAKEDEV don't know how ... ("Gary Maltzen")
Re: Turtle Beach Montego, anybody make it work? (John Coiner)
Re: Help! Sound Loop Error with Crystal CS34232 Sound Card! (Matt Willis)
Alton M748 motherboard ("Yip, emily")
Re: ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, 2x AGP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: what is bus master? (Michael Powe)
KDE or Gnome (Dharmesh Patel)
Cannon BJC210 inkjet (please help) (Brian B.)
From: Jean-Yves Pignier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WinPrinter OKI Page 4W
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:57:18 +0200
Is there a way to use a OKI Page 4W under linux ?
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From: Kent Saxin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hammarstr=F6m?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller, Is it possible to use this card?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:21:36 +0200
That method worked fine for me, except that I still haven't been able to
get LILO to work for booting off a hard disk (not even the old IDE-drive
I plunked in as hda). Boots just fine off a floppy though.
>-Kent->
dave wrote:
>
> trying to install RH6 but, the boot disk does not recognize my hard drive
> which is attached to a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller.
>
> I found the following web site which explains how to install Linux using
> with a Promise Ultra33 :
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html
> will this method also work with the Ultra66? I'd hate to screw something
> up.
>
> Has anyone successfully used this card before? or does anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance for any usefully info.
>
> --dave
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: 21 May 1999 13:33:38 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware sven the hairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is linux inferior in its handling of multiple processors than other OSs?
: Somebody at work trashed linux in this area, but I couldn't object to his
: comments because I don't know much about multi-processor systems. Is he full
: of S**t?
with kernel-2.0.x only the BootStrap-Processor was able to handle
interrupts, and only one processor was able to be in kernel mode
at a time. With high I/O-traffic (server), that had slightly negative
effects on the performance.
But it didn't affect user-space programms, such as number-crunching.
Today (Kernel 2.2.x) everything is better :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can't install Linux5.2 on Presario 5660 'Help'!
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:00:35 GMT
On Thu, 20 May 1999 21:21:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn)
wrote:
>I have a Compaq Presario 5660: Pent.II, 128meg ram, 12gig HD. I used
>FIPS after doing a defrag, and split my HD into 8gig for my M.S. and
>have about 4gig I want for Linux. All went smooth until I went into
>Disk Druid, put my cursor on Mount Point, selected hda2 the 4gig and
>followed the instruction: "Press F1 to add partition. Enter / for
>Mount Point. Select Linux Native, leave default 1 for size and
>selected "Growable". I click Ok and get the following:
>
>"There are currently unallocated partition(s) present in the list of
>requested partition(s). The unallocated partition(s) are shown below
>with the reason they were not allocated.
>
>/... boot partition too big"
>
>I tried using the supplemental floppy with my CDRom still to no avail.
>I am a 'newbie' working from Linux for Dummies and the Red Hat 5.2
>included in that CD. Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
>Compaq was of NO hel
Linux-Hardware Digest #290
Linux-Hardware Digest #290, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 10:13:31 EDT
Contents:
TNT flickering: do I need a bigger Powersupply? (Norbert Goebel)
Re: Build or buy? (David Fox)
Red Hat installer can't find my hard-disk ("Alex Conway")
Spacewalker Shuttle HOT-591P motherboard, VIA MVP3 (Alastair Jenkins)
FS: sun systems & hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (Ralph Wesseling)
Sony PRD-650WN and a Linux portable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Alton M748 motherboard (SK Lim)
Re: Dual SCSI Adapter device assignment help? ("Matt Goheen")
Diamond 336i modem woes (continued) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
changing hard drive's serial number (Igor Schein)
Re: SOUND: SB screwed up my modem? (Peter Greenwood)
Re: HELP!! X problems:ATI Rage LT Pro on Compaq 1675 Laptop (Barry Flanagan)
Searching a backup device > 4 GByte (uncompressed) (Roman =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bl=F6th?=)
Diamond Media Stealth II AGP problems ("Meglathery, Ryan D.")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
From: Norbert Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TNT flickering: do I need a bigger Powersupply?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:37:14 +0200
I am running Suse6.1 (KDE as default) with SMP-Kernel and have the
following problem:
If I am rapidly raising CPU-usage from idle to 60+% some screenlines
(about 0,5cm in hight) jump (for a short period of time) about 0,5cm to
the left and than get back to normal. Which lines begin hopping seems to
be random.
At the moment I am asking myself, if this could be a problem of my
powersupply (technical data see bottom of text), like voltage drops at
the "consumption peaks" of the CPUs (my system specs are also at the
bottom) going from idle to high usage.
What I did:
Tried an older xserver for the TNT (from Suse6.0) - no change
Tried olvwm and fvwm2 instead of kde - nothing changed
Took out one of the CPUs - problem seems to have vanished
Clocked both CPUs to 300 MHz instead of 450 MHz - problem gone
Tried out WinNT with both CPUs at 450 - no problems at all, but CPUs get
about 4-5 degrees C warmer when idling than with linux, so probably they
do not idle this "deep" into powersaving and the peeks are not that high
than.
My system:
Tyan Thunder 100 S1836 DLU Dual PII Mainboard with onboard Dual UW-SCSI
2 x Celeron 300 PPGA (in MSI slockets) overclocked to 450 MHz and
running very stable (no hangups at all)
2 x 128 MB PC100 SD-RAM
--- AGP, PCI and ISA-devices
Creative Riva TNT (AGP)
SB 128 PCI
Digi 32 (PCI, another Soundcard with digital connectors)
WinTV Primio (PCI)
10/100 MBit NIC (PCI)
AVM Fritz-Card (ISA)
Dual UW-SCSI (adaptec aic-7895 (I thinks that's the number)) onboard
---SCSI-Bus 0
Plextor 40max CD-ROM on ID 5
ZIP-Drive 100MB ond ID 4
---SCSI-Bus 1
IBM DGHS LVD (running in SE-mode) 9,1 GB ID0
IBM DCAS UW 4,3 GB ID1
My Powersupply:
235W ATX PS
+3,3V14A
+5Vsb0,8A
+5V22A
-5V0,3A
+12V8A
-12V0,8A
Is onyone else running a similar system?
Any other ideas than changing the powersupply (I am also thinking of
putting in a condensator of high capacity between ground and 3,3V and
one for ground and 5V to compensate the peeks)?
Many thanks for your answers (and/or for readings through this long
posting).
Norbert Goebel
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Build or buy?
Date: 20 May 1999 17:16:20 -0700
"Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <7hrrfo$8lo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > In article <7hrdho$vun$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > In article <7hq79m$6pa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > > NOW (which is why I was instructed to go out and buy a new machine).
> > > > What if I bought a bunch of parts and it took me 2-3 weeks to
> > > > get them all working right? Such a delay would be _EXPENSIVE_.
>
> > > For an experienced person, a couple of hours should be
> > > sufficient to assemble a PC. But if you are not experienced
> > > and get into problems, you
> > > may require weeks to correct it.
>
> > Not trying to start a flame ware here... but the first estimate (2-3
> > weeks) sounds WAY high, and the second estimate (2 hours) sounds WAY
> > low.
>
>I just built a friend a box. It took 1 hour and 30 minutes from
> cardboard to first Windows desktop. The trick is good companents. I only
> use InWin cases, because the assemble easily. I like the IBM drives for
> IDE, and you don't need SCSI unless you have over 2 drives.
>That said, I also started a box for my self last night. Defective video
> card. Defective CD-Rom. open> Defective heat sink.
I can also tell that you have a lot of experience (as do I.) That
cuts down the time a lot. You have to take that into account when
giving people advice.
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Linux-Hardware Digest #289
Linux-Hardware Digest #289, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 08:13:26 EDT
Contents:
fasttrak raid controler (Ted)
Re: KDE or Gnome (John Hong)
ISDN (Once more) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: <$500US Linux Box ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Dirk Traenapp)
Re: accurate timer - HELP! (Robert Kaiser)
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Swietanowski Artur)
ISP MODEM SPEED Q. ("Matt")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Guest)
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (bryan)
From: (Ted)
Subject: fasttrak raid controler
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:01:38 GMT
Reply-To: *paree*@usa.net
Does anybody know if Linux supports this EIDE raid controler?
regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: KDE or Gnome
Date: 21 May 1999 10:08:01 GMT
Dharmesh Patel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm already using KDE but have heard Gnome has some better
: additional features.Can some onr guide me as how I should go about the
: installation .
Gnome is an extension of a (any) window manager for Linux, think
Object Desktop for Windows & OS/2. KDE on the otherhand is basically
like its own enviornment. That's really the only difference. Both are
really good, eitherway.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ISDN (Once more)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:24:14 GMT
Hi people,
Dows anyone knows how to configure an ISDN PCBIT-D card?
If so, I would appreciate some help to install mine.
Thanks
Luis
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <$500US Linux Box
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:06:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm a poor college student and a linux newbie interested in building a
> machine (w/o monitor) for *less than $500*. I am interested in any
> suggestions anyone would make regarding main boards, processors,
> sound/video/network cards, etc that they have had postive experiences
> with, running linux and XFree86. I am still undecided between a slot 1,
> socket 370, or socket 7 system, and I want to know how safe it is to
> overclock chips like the celeron 300a and the AMD K6-2 266, 300 or 350.
>
> Thanks,
> Omar
>
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I just built a killer (IMHO) Linux box. The motherboard is an FIC 2013,
AMD K6-2/350Mhx CPU, 128Mg RAM and a tower case. I had a svga card, 15"
monitor and a couple 2Gb hard drives on hand but all in all this system
cost about $600 all said. The monitor and video card are capable of
1024x768x16bpp color.
Take a look at CNET or BUYCOMP.COM - you can search out some pretty good
pricing through those sites.
Good luck,
Bill
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From: Dirk Traenapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:35:00 +0200
"Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING" wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, HAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | If you happen to have a bad block, dd will bite you bigtime. Much safer
> | to put the new drive in the system you are cloning, run "badblocks -w
> | /dev/hdx", then partition and create your swap and filesystems. The
> | passthrough mode of cpio works well for duplicating filesystems.
> [...]
> | I did run into a cpio that was really pax - it mangled permissions on
> | symbolic links. Check first.
>
> I've done something like this by booting from a rescue disk type setup
> (actually a scaled down Slackware install onto a Zip disk), mounting
> both partitions, then running 'cp -a /mnt/old /mnt/new' (or similar depending
> on mount point).
>
> What's the big advantage to using cpio?
cp -a doesn't copy SUID and SGID flags! So it's better to use cpio or
tar for cloning!
cu
Dirk Traenapp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kaiser)
Crossposted-To: comp.realtime,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.hardware
Subject: Re: accurate timer - HELP!
Date: 20 May 1999 22:42:51 GMT
In article <7i1s39$h6p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In artic
Linux-Hardware Digest #288
Linux-Hardware Digest #288, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 06:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: what is a voice/fax modem exactly? (elmer smeckert)
Linux on Thinkpad 560 and Y2K (Robin Jackson)
USB Scanner, Whare do I start? (elmer smeckert)
Re: How to load modules for new hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (Rod Roark)
Re: accurate timer - HELP! ("Vladimir G. Stanishev")
Re: AGP only at 8bpp?! (Bill Hatter)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines ("sven the hairy")
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? ("sven the hairy")
Re: Alternative to OSS for Sound Blaster PCI128? ("Micheal MacCana")
Re: IrDA connectors on motherboard? ("Dave Perrow")
Re: accurate timer - HELP! (killbill)
Help! Sound Loop Error with Crystal CS34232 Sound Card! (Chris Wilson)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:26:08 -0700
From: elmer smeckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is a voice/fax modem exactly?
No such luck.
A Voice/Fax/Data modem is a Digital Signal Processer.
The Voice part lets you use your modme/computer as an answering machine
(with the correct software)
If you want to be able to use phone and the modem at the same time then
you will need to get a different kind of phone line.
The two best candidates are ADSL (fast but limited areas)
and ISDN. Call your phone company and ask.
Walter Tautz wrote:
> My apologies for asking this here, but I couldn't find
> an explanation in the current howto on modems (the author
> says it will appear in the next version). Is it correct
> to assume that a voice modem allows one to use the phone
> for ordinary phone calls while remaining connected? Similarly
> for fax?? Anyone have experience using this type of modem under
>
> --
>
> ===
>
> Walter Tautz
> Office: MC5136A, x6895
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> Faculty of Mathematics
> University of Waterloo
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Subject: Linux on Thinkpad 560 and Y2K
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:14:45 +0100
Hi
I am running Linux 5.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 560.
Will I have problems come Y2K???
Anyway to find out?
Robin
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:05:59 -0700
From: elmer smeckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB Scanner, Whare do I start?
I checked through all my /doc using recursive grep,
but I don't see anything helpful on getting my USB
supported. I did get referred to USB.org, but that
was less than useless.
Could someone give me a hint on where to start so I
can use my Umax USB Scanner inder Linux?
I hate having to boot into that lesser operating system.
Don't reply by mail. As an antispam measure I am
feeding autospam bastards to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe if we all do it, someone will do something about spam.
Thanks
Duane Elmer Smeckert.
By the way, is it true that because users spend so much
time looking at it, Microsoft is going to sell ad space
on the "blue screen of death?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to load modules for new hardware
Date: 21 May 1999 05:44:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in comp.os.linux.hardware:
cll> Hi,
cll> I posted earlier about a 3com509b card not being recognized at bootup.
cll>Note that this is a piece of hardware added to an already installed system.
cll>I have used the utilities (DOS/windoze) that come with the card to set the IRQ,
cll>base address, and turn off PnP. Also, 1 of the machines into which I want
cll>to install the card does not have a PnP BIOS (so there is nothing to do there).
cll>The other machine does have a PnP BIOS, but I turned the proper IRQ to "legacy ISA"
cll>as per some suggestions-still nothing. According to the /proc/ioports there should
cll>be no conflict with the 3com card's base address. There are 2 possibilties
cll>1) The kernel cannot find the card
cll>2) The kernel is not trying to find the card
cll>I feel it has to do with loading the modules. I am using an out of the box
(prebuilt) kernel from Redhat 5.2 I used the Kernel daemon configurator as root from
X windows to set up the /etc/conf.modules with
cll>alias eth0 3c509
cll>options eth0 io=0x300 irq=7
cll>Is there something else necessary to do so that the kernel will load that module
cll>at bootup? (I use kerneld-so no need for all that depmod, insmod, etc..)
cll> Everything I read just seems to say set up the /etc/conf.modules.
You need to run mkinitrd program to create a new initrd image. If you bought Official
RH 5.2,
this is on page 200 of the ma
