hi i have 2 problems ( that u guys may be able to help w/ anyway) the 1st is today i installed mandrake 7 i chose expert mode and after it had done all the usual things instlling ,networking printers etc it asked if i would like to set either and http and/or ftp proxy. the question = is there a function/file etc that allows proxyeing of everything w/o the program such as lynx knowing.. like everything sent to ***:80 would be forwarded to myproxy:8080 then forwarded on or is this just another nt fully implemented tip bit??? the sencond is once i installed mandrake 7 i restarted etc and logged in as root and left to have a shower when i got back there were thousends of message fly across the screen saying eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 8000 and every five of so it would add : temporaly dissabling function on the end of the first message... i couldent do anything ctrl-C,D,X etc didnt work and i couldent change consoles ctrl-f2 and numlock wouldent work which is interesting --maybe some kind of hardware lockup /????? i did a cold reboot (shudder) and everything seemed AOK below is an extract from my /var/log/messages i think i got all the needed info if there is more needed pls let me know... thanks alex btw the eth0 NIC is a 3c900b tpo Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.14. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Loaded 51 symbols from 5 modules. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Linux version 2.2.14-1mdklinus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 21:39:25 CET 2000 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Detected 233864864 Hz processor. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Memory: 30712k/32768k available (1036k kernel code, 412k reserved, 548k data, 60k init) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Dentry hash table entries: 4096 (order 3, 32k) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Page cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9ee Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 32768 bhash 32768) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xec90-0xec97, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xec98-0xec9f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: hda: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: hdc: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: hda: WDC AC418000D, 17206MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2330/240/63 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: scsi : 0 hosts. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: scsi : detected total. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Partition check: Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 > Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Adding Swap: 249440k swap-space (priority -1) Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: eth0: 3Com 3Com Boomerang (unknown version) at 0xec00, 00:10:5a:7c:1f:28, IRQ 5 Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 0000. Mar 17 18:51:48 vila last message repeated 20 times Mar 17 18:51:48 vila kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status 8003. Temporarily disabling functions (7ffc). Mar 17 18:51:12 vila rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem succeeded Mar 17 18:51:12 vila date: Fri Mar 17 18:51:11 EST 2000 Mar 17 18:51:12 vila rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Fri Mar 17 18:51:11 EST 2000 succeeded If everything in life is coming your way Your in the wrong lane. ;-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
