From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sat, 18 Sep 93 16:13:08 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #240 Linux-Activists Digest #240, Volume #6 Sat, 18 Sep 93 16:13:08 EDT Contents: Re: Fourport support for PL12 (Theodore Ts'o) Re: .openwin-init doesn't work (David E. Wexelblat) Can't open tty error on serial login (Thomas J Bilan) Re: Port respawning too fast (Simon J Ferrett) Re: strange unix socket behaviour (term gurus read too pls) (Simon J Ferrett) Linux, BUS Mouse, IRQ problem...Help??? (Kwasi Mireku) FTP (Charles E Newman) Re: Firewall FAQ? (GU) ET4000/W32 drivers for Linux? (MACCOL@DELPHI.COM) Spreadsheet (Massimo Boninsegni) Wanted: Simple Term for Linux (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu) Re: Spreadsheet (Jon Hamilton) Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? (David Maxwell) I need HP LJ III filter (Tony Cifelli) I need a Xserver and Xconfig for ATI Graphics Ultra Plus (Tony Cifelli) Re: Wanted: Simple Term for Linux (Rich Mulvey) Re: FTP (Toby Chappell) Re: Teac CD-ROM recognition (Gregg Brekke) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: Fourport support for PL12 Date: 18 Sep 1993 01:02:18 -0400 Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) From: ackad@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Claude Ackad) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 13:28:22 GMT Does the fourport support (AST fourport card) exist for the kernel 099PL12? What are the right settings for the kernel? Thanx for any hints. Yes; from the INFO-SHEET: 0.3.3 Supported hardware: Other hardware: SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum 16, Gravis Ultrasound, AST Fourport cards (with 4 serial ports), several models of Boca serial boards, the Usenet Serial Card II, several flavours of bus mice (Microsoft, Logitech, PS/2). You will need the setserial version 2.01 to get the AST Fourport serial ports to be configured (in /linux/sources/sbin on tsx-11.mit.edu). Configure the AST Fourport cards in enhanced mode, not in compatible mode, and use separate IRQ's if you have two Fourport cards --- although the Fourport docs claims that two Fourport cards can share an IRQ, I've never seen it work. I generally use IRQ 5 and IRQ 2 for my two AST Fourport cards. - Ted ------------------------------ From: dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com (David E. Wexelblat) Subject: Re: .openwin-init doesn't work Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 03:32:42 GMT In article <1993Sep17.175648.19475@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes: > "XFreeB: twice the performance, only requires one extra meg > of RAM instead of four, installs as smoothly as basic Linux." > "Wow, where do I get it?" > "You don't, it's just a nice fantasy." To which my response is a plain and simple "Eat shit and die." XFree86 is worth what you paid for it. When you start coughing up some money, then, and only then, do you have any right to bitch. Don't take our work and heap ridicule on us because it doesn't meet your standards. If you don't like it, do something about it. Anyone wanna guess how much of my time and money is spent on doing XFree86 things that are of absolutely no use to me personally? I've spent at least a couple thousand dollars on equipment, software, databooks, etc. I spend 30-50 hours a week, on top of my job, on XFree86. Most of it fixing other people's problems, documenting things I already know how to do, and worrying about configurations I will never see. On top of this, I'm in the process of changing jobs, moving, AND trying to keep XFree86 2.0 on track so it actually ships. I DON'T need this bullshit. > -- > Vaughan Pratt > (FTPables: boole.stanford.edu:/pub/ABSTRACTS.) Yes, I know, there are a lot considerate people who are grateful for what we do. But this kind of bullshit on top of all the other stress this project has put me under is NOT something I need to deal with. -- David Wexelblat (908) 957-5871 Fax: (908) 957-5305 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 XFree86 requests should be addressed to "Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are." Yes, "Yours Is No Disgrace" ------------------------------ From: bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) Subject: Can't open tty error on serial login Date: 18 Sep 1993 05:26:18 GMT I'm getting this error: 'Can't open tty' when I try to use joe. It processes the keymap ok and then when it should draw the screen it produces the above error. This is on a direct serial link. My TERM variable is set to vt100. Any Clues? Thanks, Tom Bilan -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ $ Department of Death by Engineering ^ Surgeon General's Warning: $ $ Michigan State University ^ Graduate School may cause brain $ $ bilan@cps.msu.edu ^ damage and sporadic loss of hair $ ------------------------------ From: c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) Subject: Re: Port respawning too fast Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 06:24:25 GMT iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >In article c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) writes: >>levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes: >>>I can log on, work, then log off, however on my consople I get the message: >>>Respawning too fast. Port disabled for 5 minutes >>>And then 5 minutes later it says the same thine. >>>Anyone know how I can fix this? I am using .99pl12. >>yes I had this exact problem, which is caused when the serial port >>is hung up by getty, it drops the DTR (which, since its a null modem), >>drops carrier) and gived getty a HUP causing it to quit. >>I got around this my slightly modifying serial.c so that it didnt ever >>hang up a serial port. (no hardware of mine needs it) >Don't do this! All you need to do is to include CLOCAL in your gettydefs. >This turns off the carrier detect and hangups in software. Much easier - >and it works for other Unices too. yes well I just wish someone had tole me that when I posteed to news with this same problem ages ago - would have saved me quite some time and avoided direct modification of the kernel source... saved me from misguiding poor souls with the same problem.. but not to worry I suppose.. -- c9108932@cs.newcastle.edu.au - Simon Ferrett Due to technical difficuties, we are unable to bring you your regularly scheduled .signature - normal transmission will resume as soon as possible... ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) Subject: Re: strange unix socket behaviour (term gurus read too pls) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 06:27:06 GMT iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >In article c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) writes: >>Hello - I just set up the alpha 13 kernel to see if it would >>fix up my unix socket weirdness, and it does - but only for a while? >ALPHA13 now uses NET2E4 which is a pity cos thats even worse than the old >NET code. >>just after a reboot I can 'netstat -x' and see the status of all the >>af_unix connections, however, eventually (after running some term clients >>usually) doing a 'netstat -x' produces a segmentation fault and a register >>dump. The seg fault happens in unix_get_info (from memory). >Yep I've seen this too. It seems to be once too many sockets build up. I guess >it passed the 4K internal limit on a /proc file. But it _should_ trap it. >>The reason Im concerned is that Im trying to modify the ftpd-diku >>sources to work over a term connection. It works fine, except that >>exenually (sooner or later) the 'connect' system call in terms >>'open_unix' function catches a SIGCHLD, gets interrupted and the >>program segfaults. Under pl13 it takes lonmger for this to happen, >>but it still does. >When term spawns a program and that program exits term gets a signal saying >it has exited. This interrupts the connect and then term breaks. Putting >a signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN) before the connect sort of seems to work with 0.99.12 yeah i tried all sorts of signal fidling with signal and sigaction, all with no luck, so eventually I had a hard look at the source and found where there was a chance the child would exit before the connect completed and made it so it wouldnt exit until the connect was completed - seems to work fine now.. >I can't get the 0.99.13ALPHA up for over 3 minutes so I can't test with that >(It is an alpha so ...) >>also - if I put a loop around the connect, so that if it fails, it tries again, >>it just loops indefinately, trying. >Once a connect is interrupted the socket seems to end up broken. I've been >chasing this with little success. thats a bit of a worry, cause quite often, my syslogd decides not to work and I have to restart it, maybe its got a similar sort of problem... >ALan thanks for your followup... -- c9108932@cs.newcastle.edu.au - Simon Ferrett Due to technical difficuties, we are unable to bring you your regularly scheduled .signature - normal transmission will resume as soon as possible... ------------------------------ From: kmireku@ic.sunysb.edu (Kwasi Mireku) Subject: Linux, BUS Mouse, IRQ problem...Help??? Date: 18 Sep 1993 06:26:25 GMT I have a slight problem and short of installing SLS all over again I am seeking suggestions on how to address this problem. I installed SLS 1.02 on my gateway VLB-33 a few months ago. I got everything up and running after a few agonizing weeks of troubleshooting (finding a Xconfig that worked with my ATI GUP). At the time, I had a bus mouse installed using IRQ 5. I recently upgraded my system with an additional hard drive, a fax/modem (int, IRQ-3) and a sound card (IRQ 5). My bus mouse has now been relocated to IRQ 4. I have been able to get Linux up and running again even though the physical drive it was on became drive #2. But Xwindows crashes when I call it up and it appears the hardware change (from IRQ 5 to IRQ 4 on the bus mouse) is the cause. I do not want to reinstall the whole package if there is a better way. *** How do I update the kernel to reflect the hardware change described above? *** ================================================================================= * Name: Kwasi Mireku | Once you have flown, you will walk the * * E-mail: kmireku@ic.sunysb.edu | earth with your eyes turned skyward, for * * kmireku@ccmail.sunysb.edu | there you have been, and there you long * * 72627,1643 (Compuserve) | to return to." * * GPCM38A (Prodigy) | * * | - Leonardo da Vinci * ================================================================================= ------------------------------ From: chuck@espuma.citrus.sac.ca.us (Charles E Newman) Subject: FTP Date: 16 Sep 93 01:16:02 GMT Where is the FTP site at where I can get Linux from? -Charles E Newman ....well!unicom!moon!uunet!unify!sactoh0!espuma!chuck ============================================================== | "Opossites Attract" | SnailMail : C. Newman | | | Box 214681 | ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc From: gu_jc3@uxmail.ust.hk (GU) Subject: Re: Firewall FAQ? Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 03:51:36 GMT Mathias Koerber (mathias@solomon.technet.sg) wrote: : Should that happen, I'd like to put a PC-Type machine (Linux?) to handle : What software would I need to set up such a thing on a PC running You only need MS-DOS :-) Try the following product: drawbridge-1.1/ Drawbridge is a copyrighted but freely distributable bridging filter. It uses a PC with two ethernet cards to perform the filtering. It is composed of three different tools: Filter, Filter Compiler and Filter Manager. This distribution is version 1.1 which fixes some bugs in the beta test version 1.0. Drawbridge is available via anonymous ftp from sc.tamu.edu (128.194.3.57) in pub/security/drawbridge as two packages: drawbridge-1.1.tar.Z and drawbridge-1.1-des.tar.Z Samson Luk ------------------------------ From: maccol@news.delphi.com (MACCOL@DELPHI.COM) Subject: ET4000/W32 drivers for Linux? Date: 18 Sep 1993 10:13:39 -0400 I've been thinking about picking up an ET4000/W32-based video card. Will the existing ET4000 support from X86Free work, or is there/will there be/ specific support for such boards? Mike Colvin ------------------------------ From: massimob@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Massimo Boninsegni) Subject: Spreadsheet Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 15:57:35 GMT Hi! Has Oleo or any other good spreadsheet (by good I mean better than Xspread) been ported to Linux ? If so, could anyone tell me where I can find it ? TIA Massimo Boninsegni National Center for Supercomputing Applications Beckman Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ------------------------------ Subject: Wanted: Simple Term for Linux From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 18 Sep 93 09:16:46 -0800 Is there a simple terminal program for Linux? I don't have X, nor do I wish to install it. Something simple with X modem, Zmodem and Ymodem (G preferred) would be a plus. Please leave ftp site and dir name if such an animal exists. -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696 ------------------------------ From: jdh@iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Subject: Re: Spreadsheet Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 18:09:29 GMT In article <1993Sep18.155735.5310@ncsa.uiuc.edu> massimob@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Massimo Boninsegni) writes: >Hi! Has Oleo or any other good spreadsheet (by good I mean better than >Xspread) been ported to Linux ? If so, could anyone tell me where I can find >it ? >TIA The most recent version of oleo compiled straight out of the box for me. it's available from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu/oleo*. > > >Massimo Boninsegni > >National Center for Supercomputing Applications >Beckman Institute >University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > -- ==================================================================== = Jon Hamilton | "I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes" = = jdh@iastate.edu | -- Airplane = ==================================================================== ------------------------------ From: damaxwel@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (David Maxwell) Subject: Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 18:21:50 GMT This topic came up during the summer on sci.math.symbolic and the following was posted from the Maple support department: >In article <1uvpvm$19uv@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> zrzm0370@helpdesk.rus.uni-st >>Is there a students version of Maple for LINUX available ? > >There is currently no version of Maple available for LINUX, >although we are investigating producing a version. > >For information about availibility, please contact Waterloo >Maple Software at info@maplesoft.on.ca > >Kate >Waterloo Maple Software Technical Support >support@maplesoft.on.ca The more people they know are interested, the more likely they are to do a port. Besides, IMHO, Maple is a better package than Mma. Let them know you want a port for Linux! David Maxwell ------------------------------ From: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Subject: I need HP LJ III filter Reply-To: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 18:52:57 GMT Thanks to those that have helped me out so far. After I finally got the daemon to to send files to my line printer, I realized it was sending stuff to my printer that it can't understand. I have a NEC Silentwriter Model 97 (its only silent when powered off, trust me!). It does Postscript and HP LJ III emulation plus it speaks its own language. Does anyone have and know what to specify as a filter in my /etc/printcap file? regards, Tony. -- [ Tony Cifelli, B.C.S., M.Math. ag794@freenet.carleton.ca ] [ President Bus: 613-723-7218 ] [ cifelli systems & software inc. Fax: 613-723-7472 ] [ 6 Gurdwara Rd. Suite 200 - Nepean, Ontario - K2E 8A3 - CANADA ] ------------------------------ From: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Subject: I need a Xserver and Xconfig for ATI Graphics Ultra Plus Reply-To: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 19:05:37 GMT Thanks to those who have helped so far. Still no luck. I want to get something to download or ftp at best. I've heard that people are having trouble re-compiling the Xserver. I would like to avoid that if possible. Does anyone out there actually have Linux working with the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus? Regardless of whether it takes full advantage of the hardware support it offers. I wish I could e-mail beer to those who help ... but if you're ever in Ottawa, ... cheers, Tony. -- [ Tony Cifelli, B.C.S., M.Math. ag794@freenet.carleton.ca ] [ President Bus: 613-723-7218 ] [ cifelli systems & software inc. Fax: 613-723-7472 ] [ 6 Gurdwara Rd. Suite 200 - Nepean, Ontario - K2E 8A3 - CANADA ] ------------------------------ From: rich@mulvey.com (Rich Mulvey) Subject: Re: Wanted: Simple Term for Linux Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 15:21:49 EDT levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes: > Is there a simple terminal program for Linux? I don't have X, nor do I wish > to > install it. Something simple with X modem, Zmodem and Ymodem (G preferred) > would be a plus. > > Please leave ftp site and dir name if such an animal exists. I believe minicom comes standard with all of the major Linux distributions. - Rich -- Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS 787 Elmwood Terrace rich@mulvey.com "Ignorance should be painful." Rochester, NY 14620 ------------------------------ From: gt2584a@prism.gatech.EDU (Toby Chappell) Subject: Re: FTP Date: 18 Sep 93 19:41:11 GMT chuck@espuma.citrus.sac.ca.us (Charles E Newman) writes: > > Where is the FTP site at where I can get Linux from? > sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/SLS -- DISCLAIMER: The opinions contained herein are not mine, but belong to my cat who has been reprogramming my brain while I sleep. ------------------------------ From: greggb@tazz.fred.org (Gregg Brekke) Subject: Re: Teac CD-ROM recognition Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 12:53:30 GMT Gregg Brekke (greggb@tazz.fred.org) wrote: : Is there a way to disable the CD-ROM seek at Linux startup? OR has : anyone gotten a Teac CD-ROM to work with Linux? Ok, here is more info from my original post. I have a TEAC CD-50 CD-ROM drive attached to a Future Domain 168 SCSI card and am running SLS 1.03. (p12) I found the kernel config option to disable SCSI CD-ROM recognition and recompiled and installed this new kernel with that option off. Now when Linux starts up with the CD-ROM drive _DISCONNECTED_ it reported the following SCSI verification: scsi0: detected 1 hard disk, 1 tape drive When I started up with the _original_ kernel and the CD-ROM drive _DISCONNECTED_ it reported this SCSI verification: scsi0: dected 1 hard disk, 1 tape drive, 0 CD-ROM drive Now the kicker... Under EITHER kernel with the CD-ROM attached, I get the following error sequence. NOTE: this happens even in the kernel that has SCSI CD-ROM recognition disabled! ===== begin startup report ===== Future Domain IRQ 10 requested from kernel scsi0: Future Domain TMC-16x0 Future Domain: TMC 16x0 SCSI driver, version 3.18 scsi: 1 hosts. Vendor: IMPRIMIS Model: 94241-7 Rev: 1275 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS Detected scsi disk sd0 at scsi2, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM Cd-50 Rev: 1.06 Teype: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi2, id 4, lun 0 scsi2: target 4, lun 1, request sense failed, performing reset Future Domain: SCSI Bus Reset Future Domain: TMC-16x0 SCSI driver, version 3.18 Future Domain: BIOS Version 3.2, TMC-18C50 Future Domain: BIOS at ca000; port base at 140; using IRQ 10 other (8), target = 4 cmd = 0x03 pieces = 0 size = 16 sent command = 6, have_data_in = 0, timeout = 50 in_interrupt_flag = 1 IMR = 0xdff8 (masked), IRR = 0x0400, ISK = 0x0000 SCSI Status = 0x00 TMC Status = 0x40 Interrupt Status = 0x02 FIFO Status = 0xf8 Interrupt Condition = 0x00 Configuration1 = 0x44 Configuration2 = 0x04 Unable to reset SCSI host 2 Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing ===== end startup report ===== Why does this happen even when I have SCSI CD-ROM verification turned off in the kernel? Shouldn't the generic SCSI CD driver at least let it pass through, even if it can't work with this device? Any assistance will be appreciated. I need to run my internal CD with OS/2 and DOS. It isn't really needed under Linux, so if I can totally disable it, that's OK. I do have the CD option set to 'n' in the config.in kernel file, so what's up? Thanks, Gregg -- =========================================================================== Gregg D. Brekke Director of Network Operations, Global SchoolNet Fdn. greggb@fred.org FrEdMail - The K-12 link to the InterNet ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via: Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993 End of Linux-Activists Digest ******************************