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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:16:50 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #160
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Linux-Admin Digest #160, Volume #2 Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:16:50 EDT
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Contents:
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Philips LMS-206 CD-ROM Drive ? (Economopoulos)
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Re: [Q]: Linux on HP PC? (Donald Becker)
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WANTED: Xconfig for Midwest Micro laptop (Howard A. Gutowitz)
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Re: AGETTY and Modems (Arnoud Martens)
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Re: Xfig (John Gotts)
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Re: /etc/utmp not writable by xterm's. Why? (John Gotts)
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The Linux Filesystem Standard. Where? (Nick Kralevich)
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Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux (Craig Groeschel)
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Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Mark Curtis)
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SCSI Problems (Philip L Miles)
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Re: linux C++ class browser?? (Michael Nicolai)
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Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45- (Greck Cannon)
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Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected (Mark Curtis)
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Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Randy Cope)
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NFS works but then... (Darko Krizic)
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Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Paul Smith)
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Re: [Q] HP JetDirect Support on Linux??? (Michael Garvin)
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From: raven@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Economopoulos)
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Subject: Philips LMS-206 CD-ROM Drive ?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:50:26 GMT
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From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
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Subject: Re: [Q]: Linux on HP PC?
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 14:59:54 -0400
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In article <dtran.347.2E91B17E@emelnitz.ucla.edu>,
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Daniel Tran <dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu> wrote:
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>I installed Slackware distribution of Linux on a HP Vectra 486/66 XM before.
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>The XM model has built-in ethernet which uses the AMD chipset. I was unable
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>to get eth0 to work, so I disabled the built-in ethernet and installed a
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>NE2000. The machine has a S3 928 chipset with a BrookTree RAMDAC, X worked
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>with S3 server in 640x480 and 800x600
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The HP built-in ethernet should work "out-of-the-box" in a few weeks. Look
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for the updates in 1.1.52 or 1.1.53.
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--
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Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
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Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
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301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
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From: hag@alife.santafe.edu (Howard A. Gutowitz)
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Subject: WANTED: Xconfig for Midwest Micro laptop
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:30:33 GMT
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Hello:
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I have a Midwest Micro (DX2 66, 8 meg ram, 520 meg disk)
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Dual-Scan Color. I can get X to work with the VGA16 driver
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but not vga256.
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This machine has 1 meg vram and 256 colors works fine under dos.
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It seems that chipset is by Chips and Technology (the dos files
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go by the name Chips655XX)
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Superprobe hangs the machineine and produces nothing useful.
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ConfigXF86 doesn't help either.
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So: Do you have an Xconfig that will work??!!!
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If so, many thanks in advance.
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Howard Gutowitz (hag@santafe.edu)
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From: arnoud@ijssel.xs4all.nl (Arnoud Martens)
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Subject: Re: AGETTY and Modems
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:50:59 GMT
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Reply-To: arnoudm@ijssel.xs4all.nl
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Michael R. McAleese writes in newsgroup comp.os.linux.admin:
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> In article <NEWTNews.24295.781293018.gandalf@radagget.slip.crl.com>,
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> <gandalf@radagget.slip.crl.com> wrote:
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> >
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> >I'm trying to allow login to my Linux 1.1.45 system through the modem,
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> >but when I start agetty for the modem port, it goes right into the login
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> >prompt. Is there a way to make this work? My previous experience under
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> >SCO Unix was simply to spawn a getty for the modem port during the init
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> >phase, and it took care of itself from there.
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> Dialup logins seem to be a real headache under Linux. After a lot
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> of experimenting I would have to suggest that you use getty_ps, not
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> agetty. As a further tip, some modems seem to barf on the configuration
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> files (either /etc/conf.uugetty or /etc/default/uugetty, depending on
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> how you compiled getty_ps). I've had some success with commenting out
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> the INIT line in the file and letting the default compiled in work.
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Better still mgetty from Gert Doering is even more easy to
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install and comes with excellent docs. Look for mgetty+sendfax.
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Gtx:
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--
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Name: Arnoud Martens, Utrecht, the Netherlands, tel: +31-30-732679
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E-mail: arnoudm@ijssel.xs4all.nl, IBM: nlibm2wq (nlibm2wq@ibmmail.com)
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From: john@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu (John Gotts)
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Subject: Re: Xfig
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 18:58:37 GMT
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dietmar mueller (muellerd@eos.informatik.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
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: A friend of mine has installed Linux V.1.0.9.
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: His problem appears while starting Xfig. On loading the program the whole
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: Main Memory is allocated for the needs of swapping until the lower bound of
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: 80 K is reached, without starting Xfig. The Failure Message : "Font Type
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: ... not found" is being displayed and because of the lack of memory space
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: the Xserver shuts down with error message.
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: Does anyone have an idea why this can happen and how this phenomen can be
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: prevented?
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--
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cd /var/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults
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ln -s Fig-color Fig
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--
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John Gotts (jgotts@umich.edu) 73 de N8QDW URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts
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GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M--
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V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? <Linux rules!>
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From: john@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu (John Gotts)
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Subject: Re: /etc/utmp not writable by xterm's. Why?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:04:26 GMT
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If you read the Makefile that comes with rxvt, it will tell you how to enable
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utmp support. If that is compiled in, you must execute the following two
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command to make it suid root:
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chown root.root rxvt
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chmod u+s rxvt
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--
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John Gotts (jgotts@umich.edu) 73 de N8QDW URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts
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GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M--
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V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? <Linux rules!>
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From: nickkral@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
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Subject: The Linux Filesystem Standard. Where?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 04:32:30 GMT
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Where can I get a copy of the Linux file system standard? It
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is suppose to be the document that describes the appropriate place
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to put files, and describes the root directory structure for /etc,
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/bin, /sbin, /usr, etc....
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Any pointers are appreciated.
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Take care,
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-- Nick Kralevich
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nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
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--
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Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
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"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than
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a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute,
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it is longer than any hour. That's relativity." -- Einstein
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From: craig@metrolink.com (Craig Groeschel)
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Subject: Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 11:51:45 -0400
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In article <36ruin$ob@sparc.uccb.ns.ca>,
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Mark Johnson <mjohnson@sparc.uccb.ns.ca> wrote:
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>>Jan Mario Stankovsky (jan@ifs.univie.ac.at) wrote:
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>>: Is there a list of commercial software...available for Linux?
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>Try:
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>http://www.linux.org.uk/LxCommercial.html Fri Sep 30 12:58:29 1994
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>Linux Commercial Software Index
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Hmmmm. It looks like there might be a duplication of effort here.
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There is also the Commercial-HOWTO:
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ftp://ftp.ix.de/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html
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Alan Cox <alan.cox@linux.org> maintains the [Linux] Commercial S/W Index
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Harald Milz <hm@ix.de> maintains the Commercial-HOWTO
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Comments?
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--
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Craig E. Groeschel <craig@metrolink.com> Not speaking for my employer.
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"Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play Ragtime fast." Joplin
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GCS/E g+ s+/- au* v+ C+ P->+ L+++ U@ u+++ E---(+) N+ !W Y+ t++ b+ e- n++ h* f
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From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis)
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Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:12:59 GMT
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I just tried to install linux on my Dell 466/T, but I ran into a
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real problem. It looks like the driver for AHA-1542 SCSI controllers
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only looks at the default address of 330. Mine controller is at 230
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because my MIDI card is at 330. That is the default address that
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all MIDI software will look for the MIDI card at so I don't want to
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change it. All my other software works find with the SCSI controller
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at 230.
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Is there a way to tell the kernel to look at the alternate address of
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230 for the 1542CF? I'm using the CD in the "Internet CD" book.
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I beleive that release is the 1.2 Slackware release.
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I've built the two floppies (Boot, Root) and they work except the
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kernel probes never find my SCSI controller or it's devices.
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Any ideas?
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Thanks,
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Mark
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From: pmiles@ug.cs.dal.ca (Philip L Miles)
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Subject: SCSI Problems
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:08:21 GMT
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Hi there. I'm new to linux ('bout three days now) and think it's
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FANTASTIC! I am, however, experiencing a problem. I have a multimedia kit
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installed (ATi Sound Dimension CD) consisting of an ATi Sound FX sound card
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and a Mitsumi cdrom. Linux boots just fine from my boot disk when I pull the sound
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card out of it's slot. But when it's in, say I'm doing something in DOS,
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and I decide to go to linux, it won't boot.
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This is what I get when I boot linux from the boot disk with my soundcard
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in place:
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Loading......................................................
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Uncompressing Linux.................
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Probing 82C710 mouse port device
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mcd: Init failed no mcd driver at 0x300 irq 11
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Calbrating delay loop...ok -16.61 BogoMips
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aha152x: Probing: BIOS test failed
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scsi5 : interrupts not enabled. for better interactive performance,
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scsi5 : please jumper the board for free IRQ.
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scsi0 : at 0x038c interrupts disabled options CAN_QUEUE=32 CMD_PER_LUN=2
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release=1 generic options AUTO PROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE PSEUDO DMA
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generic release=4
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scsi0 : Pro Audio Spectrum-16 SCSI
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scsi : 1 host
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scsi0 : warning: SCSI command probably completed successfully before
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abortion
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At this point, the system will just sit there. I've reconfigured
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the board in all possible configurations, as well as selecting different
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IRQ combinations for the soundcard and cdrom in the software setup.
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I have also rebuilt the kernel several times, saying no to all of the
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prompts concerning scsi support, cdroms, soundcards and sound support, yet
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I still get this if my card is plugged in.
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Some might say just take it out. As wonderful as I think linux is, I
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still use many DOS programs that require my cdrom and soundcard. It's a
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real pain the have to take the case apart and install the card everytime
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I want to use it in DOS!!!!!!
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HELP!!!!!!!!
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Please email responses to pmiles@ug.cs.dal.ca
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Thanks.
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--
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| Philip Miles (Dbl.Adv.Major) | Any facts, that do not conform |
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| Physics / Computing Science | to the theory, must be disposed |
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| Dalhousie University | of..... |
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| pmiles@ug.cs.dal.ca | .....immediately! |
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***************************************************************************
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From: nic@hmss.de (Michael Nicolai)
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Subject: Re: linux C++ class browser??
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 07:35:41 GMT
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amancini@bmerh9f7.bnr.ca (Adrian Mancini) writes:
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>Hello,
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> Anyone be so kind as to tell where I can get
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>a C++ class browser & a solid class hierarchy that
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>works under linux/XFree386???????
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Look for 'iclass' in the InterViews package. It's a simple class browser.
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--
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'''''''''' Michael Nicolai '''''''''''' Email: nicolai@hmss.de '''''''
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,,,,,,, H. M. Stein Sohn GmbH ,,,,,,,,, D-24217 Schoenberg/Holstein ,,,
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From: greck@scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu (Greck Cannon)
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Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 02:12:20 GMT
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I have a question relating to the hostname thing.
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If I make the reference in /etc/hosts for my machine look like this:
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152.1.43.22 scaredy scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu
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so that the short form is used for what and other stuff, then dnsdomainname
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cannot resolve the domain name, nor can anything else. If I take out the
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short form, it works fine. Is there a way around this?
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-greck
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Greck S. Cannon \ [He's] only bitter on the outside--inside
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sophomore CSC major \ he's got creamy nougat.
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greck@ \ -Slappy Squirrel
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scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu \
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set your URL to http://www.catt.ncsu.edu
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From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis)
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Subject: Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:28:43 GMT
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Zeos Technical Support account for Internet (support@zeos.com) wrote:
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: You need to have a boot disk that gives you the LILO boot: prompt. At that
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: prompt, type:
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: ramdisk aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
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I'm using an aha1542CF at port 230, IRQ 11, and DMA 7. Would I use
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ramdisk aha152x=0x230,11,7,1, or isn't this correct? What does the
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1 at the end of this option do? I'm trying to install the Slackware
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1.2 release off the CD included with the book "Internet CD". I just
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haven't been able to get the kernel to see my AHA-1542CF SCSI
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controller when it boots so I can't complete the installation.
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: Then, when you get Linux installed, you will have to install LILO and
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: add the following line to the /etc/lilo.conf file:
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: APPEND='aha152x=0x340,11,7,1'
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I take it this becomes:
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APPEND='aha152x=0x230,11,7,1 <- whats this 1 for?
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From: randyc@dorite.use.com (Randy Cope)
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Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 01:34:39 GMT
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fryeb@comix.uni-muenster.de (Bernhard Frye) writes:
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>I want to install LINUX for the first time. I have a NEC 3xp-CD-ROM connected
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>to the PC over a parallel-SCSI-Adapter (Trantor 338) and SCSIWorks-Software.
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>Linux does not seem to recognize the CD-ROM-reader, I think. I have tried
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>a PCMCIA-SCSI-Adapter (Bus Toaster from New Media with CorelSCSI II-Software)
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>without success. So I think I have to buy a "real" SCSI-adapter for my ISA-
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>Board and want to try the ADAPTEC 1542 CF. Do I need their software (EZ-SCSI),
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>too or just the card? Can I use the Corel-Software? Any further problems to be
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>expected caused by the NEC-MultiSpin3xp in this combination?
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>Thank you in advance for your help for a Linux beginner
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I couldn't get Linux to recognize my 3xi cdrom until I changed the scsi
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address from 0 to 2. I am running a adaptec 6360 adapter, so your problem
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may be different. Hope it helps, though.
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Randy Cope
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randyc@dorite.use.com
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From: dekay@xtac.tg.sub.org (Darko Krizic)
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Subject: NFS works but then...
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 12:29:32 GMT
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I have a Problem with NFS. I have three computers:
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- IBM ValuePoint running Linux SlackWare 2.0, Kernel 1.1.13
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- Macintosh Quadra 950 running System 7 and NFS/Share (NFS-Client)
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- PC-Clone running DOS and Windows and Lan WorkPlace (NFS-Client)
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The Mac mounts three mount points from the Linux-Box:
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/
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/home/ftp/pub
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/home/dekay
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as drives onto the Mac Desktop. Linux runs these tasks
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USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
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dekay 6889 1.2 3.8 157 268 con S 23:03 10:29 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
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postgres 6968 0.0 0.7 1144 52 con S 23:05 0:00 postmaster
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root 1 0.0 0.8 48 56 con S Oct 5 0:07 init auto
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root 6 0.0 0.7 24 52 con S Oct 5 0:06 (update)
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root 7 0.0 1.0 24 76 con S Oct 5 0:04 update (bdflush)
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root 20 0.0 2.3 60 164 con S Oct 5 0:39 /usr/sbin/crond
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-l10
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root 42 0.0 1.6 61 116 con S Oct 5 0:05 /usr/sbin/syslogd
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root 44 0.0 0.0 36 0 con SW Oct 5 0:00 (klogd)
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root 46 0.0 1.4 64 104 con S Oct 5 0:00
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/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap
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root 48 0.0 0.9 68 68 con S Oct 5 0:06 /usr/sbin/inetd
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root 50 0.0 2.2 113 156 con S Oct 5 0:05 /usr/sbin/named
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root 53 0.0 1.7 53 124 con S Oct 5 0:02 /usr/sbin/rwhod -t
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-s
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root 55 0.0 0.0 64 0 con SW Oct 5 0:00 (lpd)
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root 57 0.0 0.0 60 0 con SW Oct 5 0:00 (rpc.ugidd)
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root 60 0.0 2.7 100 192 con S Oct 5 0:00
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/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
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root 67 0.0 5.0 96 352 con S Oct 5 0:01
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/usr/sbin/rpc.bwnfsd
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root 82 0.0 0.0 88 0 p 6 SW Oct 5 0:00 (getty)
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root 84 0.0 0.0 84 0 pS0 SW Oct 5 0:00 (getty)
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root 86 0.0 4.1 140 288 con S Oct 5 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xdm
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root 9720 0.0 3.6 108 256 pS1 S 13:11 0:00 /sbin/uugetty
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ttyS1 1
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root 5729 0.0 0.0 88 0 p 5 SW 18:05 0:00 (getty)
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root 6887 0.0 0.9 117 64 con S 23:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
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root 9738 0.3 4.5 114 316 con S 13:20 0:01 in.nntpd
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Usually NFS works fine, but after a while the Mac shows an alert box
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showing "The Drive XXX cannot be accessed, because it cannot be found." I
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am not able to mount the drive again, I get the same alert.
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I use to kill the two /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd and start them again. After that:
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Everything works fine. I presume that the problem resides in the rpc.nfsd
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on the Linux-Box, but how and why...
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Darko Krizic Langweidenstrasse 37 60488 Frankfurt 49 69 7893687
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dekay@xtac.tg.sub.org MIME 4e71 "Powered by Motorola"
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From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul Smith)
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Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
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Date: 04 Oct 1994 19:12:29 GMT
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Reply-To: psmith@wellfleet.com
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%% Regarding Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!;
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%% vinberg@cc.Helsinki.FI (Olli Vinberg) writes:
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>> Michael_Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote:
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>> : I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-(
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ov> If you have a card that is supported for 16bpp oar 32bpp and
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ov> enough video-memory, then go for it!
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ov> But if your card is not one of the supported cards or if you are
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ov> not interested in TruoColor, etc. and use X mainly for xterms,
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ov> stick with 2.11.
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Unless you use Linux/X over a SLIP or PPP or other modem line into work
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to telecommute, like I do... in that case, XFree86 3.1 has LBX support
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which will be well worth it once you get it going.
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Caveats: LBX is not an official part of X11R6 quite yet, and you'll need
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to get the lbxproxy from the X11R6 distribution compiled for whatever
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system you're running clients on.
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--
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Paul D. Smith | That's the thing about being a boxer:
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<psmith@wellfleet.com> | even when you're at the top of your field,
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Wellfleet Communications, Inc. | people still hit you in the head.
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Network Management Development | -- Paula Poundstone
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===============================================================================
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<Expressed above are my opinions. Wellfleet takes no responsibility for them.>
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From: garvin@jupiter8.mae.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
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Subject: Re: [Q] HP JetDirect Support on Linux???
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 15:37:42 GMT
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>schmittl@cc.memphis.edu (Larry Schmitt) writes:
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>
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>>Hi All - We are considering placing our HP Laser Printers directly on the
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>>network using the HP Jet Direct interface. Has anyone been able to configure
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>>one of these printers in a Linux environment. The perferred method is to use
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>>a bootp server. Any help will be appreciated greatly.
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>
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>the plp replacement printing system (on ftp.iona.ie) is a reverse-engineered
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>version of Berkeley's system, with many enhancements, including support of
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>printers with their own TCP/IP interfaces.
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>
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>it compiles and runs under linux.
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>
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>linux bootp/tftp should be sufficient to boot these printers. the only problem
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>you will run into is that HP only distributes binaries for its printer
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>utlities, so their "JetAdmin" config program will not work under Linux (they
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>only give out Sun & HP versions)... however with plp, you can still communicate
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>with the printers, so you'd just have to send the postscript commands yourself
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>to configure it remotely.
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I've just installed a 4M+ and here's what I learned. Bootp/tftp will
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work, but I had problems getting bootp to work. My arp cache isn't working
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properly, but manually dropping static entries in for the printer fixed that.
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Tftp transfers enabled for one subdirectory to send the SNMP config files also
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works. I'm just using lpr/lpd right now, which works fine. Following the
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suggestions above I'm going to look into plp.
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If you look on 'ftp-boi.external.hp.com' (192.6.71.2) you'll find
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copies of the JetAdmin software for the Sun and HP (see the license info, but
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it's free). I used the example config files from there as templates for our
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setup.
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Michael Garvin - Systems Programmer garvin@mmrc.ncsu.edu
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Mars Mission Research Center (919) 515-5250 [Voice]
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North Carolina State University (919) 515-7968 [Fax]
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