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Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Hi,
I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering
d
lcome to them if you want
them.
Wayne
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/24/2001 09:32:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
On Saturday 23 June
Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first exposure to
Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those weird-sized RT AIX
manuals around somewhere...
Wayne
John Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/23/2001 07:49:42 PM
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Jagdis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/23/2001 12:57:37 PM
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cc: "Rob Landley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (bcc: Wayne
Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: RE: Microsoft and Xenix.
> I hope the follow
On 06/20/2001 at 05:33:45 PM Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You can scream all you want that "it isn't free software" but the fact
>of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for
>your Linux talks in PowerPoint.
Not I. The slides for my last meeting were don
2.4.5-ac7 fixes the cs46xx problems I had with my ThinkPad 600X in
2.4.5-ac[456]. It works great now. Many thanks to Frank Davis and Alan Cox!
Wayne
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Sean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/02/2001 01:17:15 PM
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Subject: Warning in ac6
>Also the file /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc seems to be missing on my
>machine. How would I r
The oops problem with the cs46xx in my ThinkPad 600X under -ac4 and -ac5 has
changed now. It no longer gives an oops; instead the program trying to access
the sound card hangs (until I kill it). Subsequent attempts to access the sound
card get a "Device or resource busy" error. There are no m
This problem is still present in 2.4.5-ac5. Here's the latest oops:
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.5-ac5. Options used
-v /usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac5/vmlinux (specified)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac5/ (default)
-m /usr/src/linu
Since upgrading to 2.4.5-ac4 the Crystal Soundfusion card in my Thinkpad 600X
has stopped working. Trying to play an audio file (with /usr/bin/play from sox
12.16) gives me an oops. Here is the init stuff from dmesg for the sound card:
Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.27.32, 13:05:58
It really ought to be Linus and/or Alan who answers this, but from my own
observations, here's the way I think it goes:
Alan and Linus don't always agree on what should be in the kernel; and even when
they do, they sometimes disagree on when something is ready to be included.
Alan may think a p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/23/2001 08:34:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] struct char_device
>> But I don't want an initrd.
>
>Don't be afraid of words. You wouldnt no
On 05/21/2001 at 12:58:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>CML2 drops its configuration results in the same place, in the same
>formats, as CML1. So you should in fact be able to type `make menuconfig'
>and `make oldconfig' with good results. Have you actually tried this?
No, I haven't tried it yet
On 05/21/2001 at 05:04:40 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>See, I've already written off the chronic bellyachers. Since I can't
>please them without scrapping the whole plan, I'm going to ignore
>them. In particular, anybody who repeated "fsck Python..." after Linus
>ruled that Python is not an i
On 05/18/2001 at 03:56:50 PM Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:04:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 1. Some of us are perfectly satisfied with the existing tools and don't want
>> them to be yanked out from under us.
>
>Then stay with 2.4.x
>
Since
On 05/18/2001 at 11:45:40 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I hereby volunteer to maintain at least make oldconfig and make config,
>and perhaps make menuconfig.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I'm quite happy with the current form of
oldconfig and menuconfig, and will continue to use them as lon
On 05/13/2001 at 08:03:30 PM Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The old C compiler/old Unix linker guaranteed 6 chars in an external symbol
>name only, and C functions got an underscore prepended: _creat. I guess
>this is the reason for this wart. As to why 6 chars only, I'd guess some
On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I pro
This fixed the problem with unresolved symbols in nfs.o.
Wayne
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My modules/filemap.ver has the same in it as yours.
Wayne
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/11/2001 01:52:18 PM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek P
ętlicki),
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4
001 12:53:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek P
ętlicki)
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc:
Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac7
> is the EXTRAVERSION set properly in Makefile? I use the http://www.bzim=
> age.org
> intermedia
On 05/11/2001 at 12:03:43 PM Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>it's not clear to me that that textsearch is a more accurate description
>than Get Regular ExPression
It's not more accurate. But Hacksaw's original point was that a new user would
not know what "not a typewriter" meant.
On 05/10/2001 at 06:20:34 PM Hacksaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Heaven help us when tradition is more important than clarity.
>
If clarity is the most important consideration, then other things should be
changed as well. For instance, the command we use to search for text strings in
files sh
On 05/10/2001 at 05:38:32 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote:
>Sounds like someone has just clarified what the heck it means. "tty"
>and "typewriter" aren't exactly the same thing (even though "tty"
>stands for "teletypewriter" it has come to mean something completely
>different in a
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/07/2001 03:58:00 AM
To: "Martin.Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc:
Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: [Solved ?] Re: pcmcia problems after upgrading from 2.4.3-ac7 to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>thank you very much :-)
>
>is it going to become the default in future kernel releases?
You're welcome.
It's been that way in the -ac kernels for a while now, but Linus hasn't put it
into his kernels yet. Perhaps he's waiting until work begins on 2.5, rather
than
Marek P
ętlicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The directory /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ exists, but nothing in it.
Try this:
mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
In the recent -ac versions, binfmt_misc must be mounted separately. I have the
following in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local so
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Subject: Re: compile error 2.4.4pre6: inconsistent operand constraints in an
> after having had trouble with compilation due to old gcc version, i have
> updated to gcc 3.0 and received the following error:
2.4.4pre6 only builds with gcc
Thanks to all who offered suggestions, both on the list and privately. Rather
than answer them all individually, I'm going to respond in this one message.
Unfortunately the upgrade is not going to be done by me, but by our PC support
team. Our laptops originally were set up with two FAT32 par
Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me
because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop
is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000. Of course,
Since upgrading to 2.4.4-pre5 my PCMCIA wireless network card no longer works.
Here's a snippet of the dmesg output from 2.4.4-pre5:
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
However, it works fine in both 2.4
Drat, I just noticed my #$@%&$ email program word-wrapped some of the long
lines. The four lines that contain just while(0) should be appended (preceded
by a space) to the lines just previous to them.
Wayne
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/12/2001 03:16:38 PM
To: W
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So the /* old gcc */ part should probably be enabled based on a define for the
>old compiler. The right ifdef seems to be:
>
> #if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 95
>
>Could you test it this way?
Yes, that works for me. Is this the sort of
When compiling 2.4.3-ac5 (and also 2.4.4-pre2) I get this:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac5/include/asm/rwsem.h:26: badly punctuated parameter list
in `#define'
This appears to be due to some code in rwsem.h that is written for a different
version of gcc. (I'm still using gcc-2.91.66 as specified in
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"self-appointed"
>
>Are you implying that the people who run ORBS and the other RBL lists
>actually hacked into vger.kernel.org and changed the MTA configuration to
>use those lists? I was of the opinion that it was a free choice made by the
>adminis
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Let's see, ORBS takes out the ISP route, DUL takes out the direct one. Is
>it any wonder people are hostile toward those two lists?
Exactly. I hate spam, but I hate ORBS and DUL even more. If I'm going to get
the shaft, I'd rather it be from the "ba
Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes: Let "mknod /dev/foo [bc] x y" die!
I hope this never happens. Improving the major/minor device scheme is
reasonable; abandoning it would be a sad occurrence. It would make Linux too
"un-UNIXish" (how's THAT for an an ugly neologism!) for my tastes
I hope you were using a scratch monkey...
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Virtually all users of Linux (and all other
>forms of Un*x) are unkempt, longhaired, beast-bearded dirty GNU hippies, and
>I am sick and tired of having to deal with them.
I just wish you'd bothered to make all this public sooner. Here I am, having
spent the last couple
Try http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ for the Lucent Winmodem driver.
Wayne
JorgP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/23/2001 03:33:30 PM
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Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/16/2001 09:37:49 AM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The release notes specify this:
>
> mount -t binfmt_mi
OK, I've been struggling with this (off and on) since Tuesday, and I give up.
Since going from 2.4.3-pre4 to 2.4.2-ac20 I have been unable to use binfmt_misc.
Thanks to a hint from Michael Meissner, I found a mention in the release notes
for 2.4.2-ac12 that binfmt_misc should be mounted separate
I've just noticed with 2.4.2-ac20 that /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is no longer
being created. I have CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y in my .config. This was working
fine in 2.4.3-pre4.
Wayne
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from the Linux way of doing things as you can get.
Wayne
Venkatesh Ramamurthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/08/2001 10:04:25 AM
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Subject: RE: Microsoft begining to open source Windows
; on 03/05/2001 05:41:47 AM
To: "Holluby IstvBetan [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: mke2fs /dev/loop0]
On 5 Mar 01 at 12:27, Holluby Istv
ßn istvan.holluby
Actually, in today's "User Friendly" comic strip (http://www.userfriendly.org)
one of the characters asks exactly that same question.
Wayne
"Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/16/2001 08:25:20 AM
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"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is right:
>
>1) not putting the thing in the subject from the list side
>2) If an end user wants it in the subject, they can set up a mail
>filter to PUT it in the subject.
>
>:0 fwh
>* ^Sender:.*owner-linux-kernel
>| sed -e 's/^Subject: /Subject
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jeremy M. Dolan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:19:56 +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > The thing that struck me mos
01/15/2001 08:20:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: linmodem
Does anyone have any success in using Lucent winmodem under Linux 2.4.0?
There's a binary at http://www.linmodems.org/linux568.zip but it
only works under 2.2
Thanks,
wrong about this one. :-)
Wayne
David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/08/2001 05:07:08 AM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec
cc: Nick Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions
You know, there are
spread your message to anyone else.
Matt Beland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/07/2001 11:07:30 PM
To: Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John O'Donnell"
<[EMAI
been hoping that now that 2.4.0 is out, maybe future patches will go
back to the x.y.z format so I could just let patch-kernel do everything.
Wayne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Holloway) on 01/06/2001 04:15:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Change
l /usr/src/linux /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test-kernels
but the test-2 and following patches are not applied. All I get is "Current
kernel version is 2.4.0." What am I missing?
Wayne
"Matthew D. Pitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/05/2001 12:50:26 PM
To: Wayne Brow
ing back to the standard x.y.z numbering scheme? Or is
this another thing that's changed for good? I really miss being able to apply
all the patches at once with linux/scripts/patchkernel.
Wayne
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/05/2001 11:15:36 AM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Al
we have to test them anyway.
Wayne
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/05/2001 06:52:00 AM
To: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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cc:(bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions
Mark Hah
OK, mystery (partially) solved. I have the Gnome CD Player applet running in my
panel. (Yeah, I know, if I'm running Gnome, I deserve whatever I get. :-)
Anyway, the CD player can be added to the panel in two forms: a launcher that
just launches the application window, and an applet that has
If I mount and unmount a CD on my ThinkPad 600X under 2.4.0-prerelease, the
drive never unlocks and I can't eject the CD. It doesn't matter whether I read
any data from it or not before the umount command. Subsequent attempts to
access the drive in any way -- mount, dd, etc. -- hang and the pr
The files in drivers/net/pcmcia are skipped when configured to compile as
modules. Here's a patch (against test13-pre4) for the Makefile:
--- linux.old/drivers/net/Makefile Thu Dec 21 22:14:46 2000
+++ linux/drivers/net/Makefile Thu Dec 21 23:38:20 2000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
obj-n :=
on that it's only happening locally.
Wayne
Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/13/2000 09:25:33 AM
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Subject: Re: strange directory problem
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:13:51PM +0100, Gabor Lenart wrote:
> Hi,
>
an Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dr. Kelsey Hudson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Fasttrak100 questions...
Hi!
> > You are w
My Crystal CS4624 PCI Audio card in my Thinkpad 600X, which works fine in
2.4.0-test11, doesn't work under test12-pre2 or -pre3. (I haven't tried -pre1.)
The relevant lines from dmesg show the following: for test11:
Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.09, 22:14:35 Nov 28 2000
cs461x: Car
David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Please turn this off.
>>
>My vcard size is the same or smaller than the average signature. Using mime,
you
>have the option of easily filtering vcards. Signatures aren't as easily
>identified for filtering.
I think the complaint was due not to the siz
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Subject: Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So autoload
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/02/2000 06:40:58 AM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:46:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I've been following this kgcc discussion with int
I've been following this kgcc discussion with interest for weeks now and there's
one thing that still puzzles me. Everyone on both sides of the issue seems to
be saying that kgcc (AKA egcs 1.1.2) is used because the gcc versions shipped by
several vendors don't compile the kernel correctly. Wh
I have a simple solution for your problem. Just call the police and have them
arrest whoever is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use Linux and
this mailing list. (That *is* the only reason you're here, right?) Then you
can spend your time writing a wonderful OS of your own to tak
e
this a number of times before on other systems with no problem at all, but it
seems the probability of failure increases in direct proportion to the
importance of the consequences.)
Wayne
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/14/2000 09:33:08 AM
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Lucent driver it's
the best I've found so far.
Wayne
Chuck Radcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/16/2000 09:55:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: ppp support in kernel
Hello all,
I am trying to work out a problem that I will run
Apologies in advance if this is a known problem. I've been away from kernel
hacking for about three years and just re-subscribed to lkml a couple of weeks
ago, so I may have missed something about this. But I haven't been able to find
anything in the documentation or on lkml about it. If it's
x27;m just an old reactionary who still isn't sure ANSI C was such a big
improvement over K&R...
Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/27/2000 03:35:19 PM
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