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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #215
From: Digestifier <Linux-Activists-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 20:13:09 EDT
Linux-Activists Digest #215, Volume #6 Thu, 9 Sep 93 20:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Network problem on SLS .99pl12 (Network is unreachable) (Thomas Gusset)
(Kernel Paging) crash during installation (pham)
'ls' doesn't work on net-2 in.ftpd for shadow passwords (Bob Crosson)
Re: xlock under pl12 (Jason Scott Cash)
Re: WHERE can I obtaine the LATEST complete LINUX version (Mark Brady)
D-link ethernet card and et 4000 (horng ming tai)
mitsumi, root login and other stuff (chuck fletcher)
Xircom pocket adapter (Russell Nelson)
Gateway and Diamond 24X (Erik Collin)
Re: Xircom pocket adapter (Frank Lofaro)
informations (Alexandre MICU P16A)
Several Quesitions (Bill Ehrendreich)
Re: Xircom pocket adapter (Eric Johnson)
OS-9 (ws Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator?) (Ulrich Dessauer)
Are there any SVGA drivers for ATI boards? (Mike Young)
trouble compliing term on HP-UX (Timothy Schlie)
bug in XFree 1.3 (XDrawArc) (Joerg Czeranski)
Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator? (Rick)
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From: gusset@sparc1.ntb.ch (Thomas Gusset)
Subject: Network problem on SLS .99pl12 (Network is unreachable)
Reply-To: gusset@sparc1.ntb.ch
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 16:12:54 GMT
Hello Linuxers,
I try to install networking in SLS .99pl12. I've installed packages a + b1 (that includes tcpip). I then modified the file /etc/hosts like this:
146.136.1.99 modem1
146.136.1.0 network
I set /etc/host to modem1
and /etc/domain to ntb.ch
the I did a reboot:
by executing /etc/rc.net there is the following error message:
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
if I do a /etc/ifconfig all seems to look proper.
I tried to start networking without /etc/rc.net by first installing loopback device and the device eth0.
ifconfig eth0 146.136.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 146.136.1.255
(netmask is correct)
route add 146.136.1.99 ----> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
the ethernet card is a WD8003 and is correctly detected at boot time.
What's Wrong ???
Please send e-mail
thanks thomas
---
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ *******************************************************
@ @ @@ @@@@@ Thomas Gusset, Neu-Technikum Buchs, CH-9470 BUCHS
@@ @ @@ @ @ Abteilung Informatik Switzerland
@ @ @ @@ @@@@@ phone: ++41 81 755 33 86 fax: ++41 81 756 54 34
@ @@ @@ @ @ E-Mail: Gusset@ntb.ch
@ @ @@ @@@@@ *******************************************************
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From: pham@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (pham)
Subject: (Kernel Paging) crash during installation
Date: 9 Sep 1993 17:29:03 GMT
Linux SLS packages download from sunsite.unc.edu
with a1 in 1.2 Mbytes FD and a2-x10 in 1.4 MBytes FD
Machine: 486DX 50Mhz, 8 Mbytes RAM
Drive A: 1.2 MBytes
Drive B: 1.44 MBytes
1st IDE drive: Western Digital 340 MBytes
2nd IDE drive: Corner 170 MBytes
Local Bus IDE Controller (DC2000) (for FDs, HDs, 2 serial ports,
1 parallel port)
2MB Spider SVGA card (CL-GD5426 chip)
Ethernet: NE2000 (Novell-Eagle), IRQ5 , IO-Base: 0x320
Partitions: 1st IDE: 1 - 20 Mbytes DOS
2 - 125 Mbytes Linux/MINIX mounted to /
3 - 150 Mbytes Linux/MINIX mounted to /user
4 - 30 Mbytes Linux/MINIX for swapper
2nd IDE: all DOS
Be able to boot up from a1 floppy disk, recognize the hardware including
serial ports, parallel port, 2 IDE drives, vga, and NE2000 ethernet card
(at IRQ5 base 0x320). Allow to login (as 'root' or 'install'). Be able
to make swapper area (mkswap -c /dev/hda4 30690, swapon with 16Mbytes).
Be able to make filesystems (mk2fs -c /dev/hda2 128040, mk2fs -c /dev/hda3
153780). Be able to run 'doinstall /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /user' and select
for FULL installation from 1.44 Mbytes floppy drive.
PROBLEMS: in the process of installation, I keep getting get the message:
VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/29
after put in the new disk that doinstall asks for. Even worse, that after
it reads in few disks it crashes and give out the following message:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at address cda7f12c
Oops: 0000
EIP: 0008:0010C813
EFLAGS: 00010206
fs: 0017
base: C0000000, limit: 00200000
Pid: 0, process nr:0
00 bf 90 90 90 0d 8b 07 8b 00
task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
Kernel panic: Trying to free up swapper memory space
In swapper task - not syncing
I did retry the whole installation process (start from begining with repartion,
reboot, reinstall) several more times (at least 5) but I keep getting the same
problem. Although when it crashes, it does not crash at the same address or
same disk or file. The most I got so far is be able to read in up to disk b3
then it crashes. Sometimes it crashes right at disk a2.
If anyone have any idea what causes the problem and how to fix it, I would
be appreciated.
Peter Pham,
email: pham@ucssun1.sdsu.edu
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From: crosson@cam.nist.gov (Bob Crosson)
Subject: 'ls' doesn't work on net-2 in.ftpd for shadow passwords
Date: 9 Sep 93 15:49:09 GMT
Could somebody please point out what I'm doing wrong? Ever since
I installed linux-0.99.10 and got net-2 working, the ftp daemon
has not allowed connections to my machine. I found out that it
was because I was using shadow passwords and ftpd couldn't handle
that. So, when the new net-2 faq came out and said to retrieve
the shadow-enabled programs, I got net2-shadow-bin.tgz and tried
ftpd.
I was finally able to connect, using ftp, to my machine and actually
log in. But the 'ls' command wouldn't work. The client and server
programs both thought everything had succeeded, but no listing of
files was produced. The normal status messages were generated,
like
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
but no files were listed. Ftping to any other machine worked
correctly. And the 'nlist', 'bin', 'get', 'status', and 'rstatus'
commands all worked correctly when connected to my machine.
So I retrieved the ftpd source (ftpd.c says it's version 5.40 but
vers.c says it's version 5.60) and modified it to use shadow
passwords. It has the same problem.
Can anybody tell me how to get an ftpd that works with shadow
passwords, either in binary form or the patches to the source? I'd
really appreciate any help.
Bob Crosson
crosson@cam.nist.gov
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From: cash@calvin.ee.udel.edu (Jason Scott Cash)
Subject: Re: xlock under pl12
Date: 9 Sep 1993 17:42:11 GMT
In article <26nfbm$2i1@balsam.unca.edu> fauerbac@clyde.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach) writes:
>I upgrade to pl12 from Slackware and my xlock will not work right. It
>keeps givien me an invaild password when I enter my password. Any ideas?
>John Fauerbach
You might want to check the permissions on xlock... It must be able to read
the /etc/shadow file to get the encrypted passwords. It should probably be
owned root.shadow and setgid for shadow.
Jason Cash
/* Jason S. Cash Computer & Information Science
cash@ee.udel.edu University of Delaware */
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From: mbrady@cs.uct.ac.za (Mark Brady)
Subject: Re: WHERE can I obtaine the LATEST complete LINUX version
Date: 9 Sep 93 14:10:34 GMT
In <DJcP3B5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> edimg@willard.atl.ga.us (Ed pimentel) writes:
>I am looking for the latest version of linux.
>Does anyone know where I may be able to get it.
>
>
> IMG (Inter-Multimedia Group) | Internet: epimntl@world.std.com
>
> P.O. Box 95901 | ed.pimentel@gisatl.fidonet.org
>
> Atlanta, Georgia, US | CIS : 70611,3703
>
> | FidoNet : 1:133/407
>
> | BBS : +1-404-985-1198 zyxel 14.4k
>
>--
>edimg@willard.atl.ga.us (Ed pimentel)
>gatech!kd4nc!vdbsan!willard!edimg
>emory!uumind!willard!edimg
>Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
me too.
Also where can I get this (comp.os.linux) groups FAQ?
PLease (Mail and post) or mail replies.
thanks
mark
--
_________________________________
Mark 'Peanut' Brady mbrady@cs.uct.ac.za
'I'm stronger than those garbage bags
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From: ming@engin.umich.edu (horng ming tai)
Subject: D-link ethernet card and et 4000
Date: 9 Sep 1993 18:02:11 GMT
Is there anyone has such problems? I have a sound blaster pro card and a
Dlink ether net card on my machine. Each time I boot linux from the floopy
disk, the linux will stop when it is checking the sound cards and CD-ROM
drives. If I take the Dlink network card out, the linux runs very well.
Are there anybody know what the problem is?
I have a ET4000 vedio card. If I want to have a 1024x768 x-windows, what
should I do on the Xconfigaration. TKS.
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From: revar@mindvox.phantom.com (chuck fletcher)
Subject: mitsumi, root login and other stuff
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 18:16:53 GMT
hi all, i have installed slackware on both my 486/66 and my zeo's notebook
which is a 486/? somebody was talking about bogomips, my 486 gets 33
while my notebook gets 1.75 could it really be that much slower or is
something wrong?
slackware's setup program set up a login that it automatically does upon
startup, so i cant seem to get out of it and login as root, it tells me i
have to login from lowest level 'sh' how do i do this?
how do install a mitsumi(non-scsi) drive under linux??
then how do i mount it?
thanks for all your help
revar@phantom.com
revar@phantom.com
mac/os2/novell/linux/rave/snowboarding/techno/rollerblading
finger for public pgp 2.2 key
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From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Subject: Xircom pocket adapter
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 93 17:30:34 GMT
In article <26m8ll$9e9@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> bilan@cps.msu.edu writes:
I am running .99p12 kernel and I see that it's looking for a
d-link pocked adapter on the parallel port. I have a Xircom
parallel port eth. adapter that I would like (love) to use.
Does anyone know of a patch to get this little creature
running?
Problem is that Xircom doesn't document their hardware, and prohibits
reverse engineering. Sell your Xircom to a DOS luser and buy a D-Link.
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice | LPF member - ask me about
Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX | the harm software patents do.
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From: cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin)
Subject: Gateway and Diamond 24X
Date: 9 Sep 1993 18:45:07 GMT
Could someone who has a Gateway 1572FS and a Diamond 24X card post or send
me a copy of their Xconfig? X just isn't working for me even after trying
various "fixes". I'd rather not have to buy a new video card.
No flames about my card, please, I've heard them all.
Thanks.
--
=============================================================================
-- Erik Collin cougar@hermes.acm.rpi.edu --
=============================================================================
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From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
Subject: Re: Xircom pocket adapter
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 19:03:29 GMT
In article <747595834snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>In article <26m8ll$9e9@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> bilan@cps.msu.edu writes:
>
> I am running .99p12 kernel and I see that it's looking for a
> d-link pocked adapter on the parallel port. I have a Xircom
> parallel port eth. adapter that I would like (love) to use.
>
> Does anyone know of a patch to get this little creature
> running?
>
>Problem is that Xircom doesn't document their hardware, and prohibits
^^^^^^^^^
>reverse engineering. Sell your Xircom to a DOS luser and buy a D-Link.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
>Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
>11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice | LPF member - ask me about
>Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX | the harm software patents do.
Is that legal? I thought the law always allowed reverse engineering
as long as code isn't stolen/ I even think there was a lawsuit whose result
proved that (could be wrong here though). Or is this another area where the
ever so wonderful U.S legal system (barf) allows one to get sued even
though what they are doing is perfectly legal?
as long as code isn'y stolen.
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From: Alexandre MICU P16A <alex@baruch.saclay.cea.fr>
Subject: informations
Date: 9 Sep 1993 15:58:21 -0400
Reply-To: alex@baruch.saclay.cea.fr
Hi,
I am almost sure that this is not the right address to ask for help but
I do not have any other address. My requests are :
1- Where can I get some help concerning linux ( I'm a real beginner ) ?
2- Is the fahrenheit 1280+ VLB card supported by X11 ( I REALLY need this information cause I've ordered this kind of card and tomorrow it might be to
o late to change it )
I apologize if this is not the right place for such requests and thank you
in advance
alex
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From: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Bill Ehrendreich)
Subject: Several Quesitions
Date: 9 Sep 1993 20:27:06 GMT
I am looking for a way to remap my term chars so that the backspace key
apropriately generates a ^H.
Anyone have a termcap entry for a vt52 terminal. We have two of them that are
not well supported.
Lastly, are there any cirus logic drivers for the X11 system. VGA256. Currently
we can only run it in mono.
THanks.
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From: ejohnson@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu (Eric Johnson)
Subject: Re: Xircom pocket adapter
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 20:52:07 GMT
In article <CD2n3L.1Aq@unix.portal.com>,
Karl Paul Mueller <karl@shell.portal.com> wrote:
>bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) writes:
>
>>I am running .99p12 kernel and I see that it's looking for a
>>d-link pocked adapter on the parallel port. I have a Xircom
>>parallel port eth. adapter that I would like (love) to use.
>
[...]
>
>Is it just that Xircom adaptors are too lame to work? We've had
>routing problems with pl12 with other cards too..
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Karl Mueller
Xircom considers infomation necessary to program them to be proprietary.
I would not look for any Xircom drivers soon, if ever. D-Link is probably
your best bet.
I am in the same boat, as Xircom (PE2) is supported under BSDi; I
therefore assumed that drivers would be forthcoming under Linux, et.al.
Found out after purchase that the BSDi drivers were produced under
non-disclosure, (_and_ that the PE3 is unsupported; that of course is the
adapter _I_ have :-(
---
Eric Johnson Maricopa Community Colleges
ejohnson@pmip.maricopa.edu Tempe, AZ USA 602-731-8919
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From: ud@salyko.cube.net (Ulrich Dessauer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os9
Subject: OS-9 (ws Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator?)
Date: 9 Sep 1993 14:41:13 GMT
Jack Coats (zjoc01@hou.amoco.com) wrote:
[..]
~ It may not be Linux, but even the vernible COCO from Radio $hark has run
~ OS9 (a Unix clone) for years...
OS-9 is also available for the Atari ST, btw. BUT it's not a
real Unix clone, it has just some features cloned from Unix and the rest
had been written from scratch. OS-9 (well I'm speaking of OS-9/68000 not
of the one for the COCO) is mainly a real-time operating system, but you
can also use such a system as a complete developing enviroment for
nearly any application (mmh, yes, I like OS-9 ;-). Okay, it's a bit
offtopic, so move any further discussion to comp.os.os9.
-- U//i
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From: youngmd@wam.umd.edu (Mike Young)
Subject: Are there any SVGA drivers for ATI boards?
Date: 9 Sep 1993 22:45:49 GMT
Are there any svga libs for ATI boards. I'm thinking
along the lines of svgalib, not X.
(I already know there is a driver for X.)
Please mail me at:
youngmd@eng.umd.edu
Thank you very much!
--
Michael Dennis Young
"I have a solution to any problem ... some aren't even violent!"
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From: tps1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Timothy Schlie)
Subject: trouble compliing term on HP-UX
Date: 9 Sep 93 23:20:04 GMT
I am having a bear of a time getting term 1.07 to compile on our
HP-UX system. I've set it up for HP-UX, but the compiler complains
about an include file: /usr/include/netinet/in.h. What have I done wrong?
- TIm Schlie
tpschlie@icaen.uiowa.edu
--
Timothy P. Schlie <TPS1@Ra.MsState.Edu> | Sorry, I'm fresh out of incredibly
Mississippi State University (Thumper) | witty sayings. Try fortune.
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From: injc@verleihnix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Joerg Czeranski)
Subject: bug in XFree 1.3 (XDrawArc)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 21:47:38 GMT
I have found a bug in the XDrawArc-routine of XFree 1.3.
Whenever I draw an arc of some specific size (and position?),
the X server freezes - for 45 seconds on a 386-40, only a short time
on a 486-33. Even the mouse pointer cannot be moved.
The problem appears on a Hercules card as well as on VGA.
This is a short (and dirty) program, that demonstrates the bug:
=================== bite here ===================
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
int main()
{
Display *display;
int screen, xid;
display = XOpenDisplay("");
screen = DefaultScreen(display);
xid = XCreateWindow(display, RootWindow(display, screen),
0, 0, 300, 170, 0, DefaultDepth(display, screen),
InputOutput, CopyFromParent, 0, 0);
XDrawArc(display, xid, XCreateGC(display, xid, 0, 0),
-409, -1113, 3576, 2358, 0, 64 * 360);
XFlush(display);
return 0;
}
=================== bite here ===================
If is too fast, just add a for(i=0;i<20;i++) around the
XDrawArc :-).
BTW, I have the slight feeling, that the circle is not drawn exactly
with the specified width/height but maybe one pixel too wide.
(But I will have to test around a bit further.)
joerg
--
Joerg Czeranski EMail czeranski@rz.tu-clausthal.de
Osteroeder Strasse 55 SMTP injc@[139.174.2.10]
D38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Voice (at work) +49-5323-72-3896
Germany Voice (at home) +49-5323-78858
To obtain PGP public key, finger injc@sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de, or email me.
At any given site for any given application or feature, there's someone
who knows more about it than the support staff. Finding that person is
the first step to take to diagnose any given problem.
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From: pclink@qus102.qld.tne.oz.au (Rick)
Subject: Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 23:24:38 GMT
quinlan@rose.cs.bucknell.edu (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
>If anyone knows where I can find someone else wanting to port Linux to
>refrigerators, please mail me so we can start work right away!
There's no need to port it to the fridge - wait till uSoft releases
WinFRIDGE, and then run it under WINE.
Rick.
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