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From: Digestifier <Linux-Activists-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 12:13:07 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #261
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Linux-Activists Digest #261, Volume #6 Sat, 25 Sep 93 12:13:07 EDT
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Contents:
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Serial HOWTO - Where? (Jim Nicholson)
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Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Gregory Gulik)
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Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform? (David Jeske)
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Re: running X appl. by modem ? (Karl Runge)
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Where can I get LINUX (Axel Roselius)
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find src for time (BARRY TITMARSH)
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Re: running X appl. by modem ? (Tim Cutts (Zoology))
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Re: School Science Club may distribute Linux...interested? (James Olsen)
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Re: A DOS partition question... (Camillo D'Aleo)
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Memory and swap errors on pl13 (C.A. Peskin)
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Backing up my Linux FS to reinst later (Greg Corteville)
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More cheap serial ports! (Mark A. Horton)
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More cheap serial ports! (Mark A. Horton)
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LINUX on IBM microchannel ? (rdeiriar)
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Re: Internal modem on COM3 problems (Mark A. Horton)
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Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform? (rdeiriar)
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From: jnicholson@bowker.com (Jim Nicholson)
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Subject: Serial HOWTO - Where?
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 02:04:06 EDT
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Several messages have pointed to a serial HOWTO file. I checked the HOWTO
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archives in the META-FAQ, but cannot find a trace. I'm looking for info
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on sharing irqs, getty, slip - in short, things regarding ttySx.
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Can someone point me to the file, or better yet, post it?
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- Jim
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Jim Nicholson Internet: jnicholson@bowker.com
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Manager, Technical Support CompuServe: 73370,44
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Reed Reference Electronic Publishing Voice : 908-665-2864
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121 Chanlon Rd 800-323-3288 (North America)
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New Providence, NJ 07205
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From: greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
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Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 03:11:20 GMT
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In article <149406@netnews.upenn.edu> sjt@enlil.museum.upenn.edu (Steve Tinney) writes:
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>Unless I'm much mistaken I noticed a package in the X disks of Slackware
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>which was described as a word-processor that writes TeX output, so you
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>might want to look into that. I didn't install it, but I seem to remember
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>it was called `doc1'.
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>
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>Has anyone actually used this?
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There is a program called 'doc' in /usr/bin/X11 in SLS 1.03.
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I've tried it very briefly, but I was very disappointed with
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the performance. I had top running in another window, and doc
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was using over 80% of the CPU, even when I wasn't doing anything.
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I once saw another package that seemed to generate nroff.
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I think it came with InterViews or something. Has that been
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ported to Linux yet?
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-greg
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--
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Gregory A. Gulik Call Gagme, a public access
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greg@serveme.chi.il.us UNIX system at 312-282-8606
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|| gulik@rtsg.mot.com For information, drop a note
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to info@gagme.chi.il.us
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From: djeske@chameleon.uiuc.edu (David Jeske)
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Subject: Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform?
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Date: 25 Sep 1993 08:46:04 GMT
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Reply-To: jeske@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
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In article <DWSMITH.93Sep24213809@uncle-sam.llnl.gov>
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dwsmith@uncle-sam.llnl.gov (David W. Smith) writes:
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>>
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>> I've just recently read about the new IBM company called AMBRA. They
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>> are manufacturing some new machines based on an IBM manufactured Intel
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>> processor called the 486 Blue Lighting. I believe they also produce a
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>> machine with a model number D466E/VL with is an Intel 486DX2 66
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>> EISA/VESA LB system.
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Keep in mind that the Blue Lightning does NOT have a math co-processor
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>> their models they are the D466BL/CD and the D466E/VL machines. The
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>> first is a 5 slot ISA system with 2 VESA LB slots and built in SCSI
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>> and 10BaseT ethnet. The second model is 7 slot EISA/2 VESA LB and a S3
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the SCSI is a Adaptec 1522 compatible (something) so I don't know what
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that means for Linux.. it "might" work with the linux 1522 drivers,
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it might not.
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I would be suprised if Linux had a problem running on the AMBRA computers
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in general though. Most decent-quality motherboards have no problem
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running it. (notice, not decent PRICE, but decent QUALITY)
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From: runge@physics.llnl.gov (Karl Runge)
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Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
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Date: 25 Sep 1993 08:41:27 GMT
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Reply-To: runge@physics.llnl.gov (Karl Runge)
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vgough@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Valiant Gough) wrote:
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.
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>X-windows runs alright under it on a 9600 baud modem - as long as you don't
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>want to view pictures. Not everything is fast enough to be useable, but
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>many things are, and don't forget that term can let you have as many
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>windows open to the server as you want.
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Well, they told me "patience is a virtue" and I'm finally putting that
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to use when running Xmosaic with term via 14.4 Kbps USR Sportster modem.
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It takes 1.5 - 2.0min for a 640x480 weather satellite photo to come up,
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which ain't too bad considering what you're getting! If you have something
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else to do (e.g. browse text in another Xmosaic window :-) so much the
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better!
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Karl
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From: AXEL@PONTON.hanse.de (Axel Roselius)
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Subject: Where can I get LINUX
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 16:47:39 +0200
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I want to get LINUX on floppys or on cd-rom.
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Who can mail me where i can get it and how much it is?
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Thank you
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axel
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--
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Axel Roselius VAN GOGH TV
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PONTON European Media Art Lab Piazza virtuale
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Koppel 66 fax: +49-40-24.05.11
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D-20099 Hamburg phone: +49-40-24.14.04
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Germany axel@ponton.hanse.de
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 13:38:45 CET
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From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: find src for time
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Hi i need to recompile the /usr/bin/time util but so far i have not found
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the correct src for this util.. my nntp/cnews is useing it. and the kernel
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is reporting old stat() is used recompile your binaries.
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so im wanting to recompile my time binary but where the heck to find the
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src code for it..
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its not time-1.4 settime from sunsite.
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any idears please..
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the binary is sept 1992 and in the current SLS-1.03
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Help to me direct btitmars@esoc.bitnet not via the nntp groups
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Thanks.
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Barry.
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From: tjrc1@mbfs.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts (Zoology))
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Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 12:12:25 GMT
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a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) writes:
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>g9wayne@eddie> txconn # start up remote X server.
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Being pedantic, txconn does not start a remote X server. All it does is make
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the remote system think that your Linux X server is a server running on the
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remote host's display (ie hostname:9.0)
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Tim.
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--
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===============================================================================
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Tim Cutts: tjrc1@mbfs.bio.cam.ac.uk | Refs 6.32 the academic reference
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CRC Mammalian Cell DNA Repair Research Group | database for Windows 3.1 is now
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Please support the Cancer Research Campaign! | on ftp.cica.indiana.edu
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From: olsen@HING.LCS.MIT.EDU (James Olsen)
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Subject: Re: School Science Club may distribute Linux...interested?
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Date: 25 Sep 1993 12:30:50 GMT
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In article <1993Sep25.053319.20752@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu> u1086aa@unx.ucc.okstate.edu (11086) writes:
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>And by the way, I have no reason believe your interpretation of the
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>"spirit" of the GPL is the correct one, based on information given in
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>your post.
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As far as the 'spirit' of the GPL goes, the only opinion that really
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matters is that of the author who put the software under it. Linus
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has said in the past that he has no objection to profit-making
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distribution of Linux.
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--
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Jim Olsen - olsen@cag.lcs.mit.edu
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From: builder@mindvox.phantom.com (Camillo D'Aleo)
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Subject: Re: A DOS partition question...
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 14:25:17 GMT
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>
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> > Also, is there a way to partition my drive without having to delete
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> > everything on it in the process?
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>
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> No.
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> --
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> Paul J. Mantyla
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Actually, the install guide I 'got' says you can repartition your HD with
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something called "...FIPS. Look on sunsite.unc.edu in the directory
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/pub/Linux/system/Install."
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From: cap2624@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.A. Peskin)
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Subject: Memory and swap errors on pl13
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Date: 25 Sep 93 14:11:19 GMT
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Ok, I just installed Linux Slackware pl13.
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I get the following errors while the system is running, and then the
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whole thing locks up.
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"unable to handle paging request at address c0000012"
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"trying to free non existant swap page"
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"bad page table [00cf902c]=00000400"
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"NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue."
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These errors have been received durring various tasks. I loged in last
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night, and left it on. When I woke, I had a few of these errors on
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the screen, and the VC was locked up.
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I do not receive all these errors at the same time, with the same memory
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addresses. I get combinations of these erorrs, but I feel they are all
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linked with one another.
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I have a 486dx2/66 with 20 mb or ram. Linux is installed on an
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XT-2190 maxtor MFM, with 1224 cyls. This is over 1024, but I have kept
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all partitions, including the swap, to under the 1024 barrier. This
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was for testing purpouses. now that I know it is not the problem, I
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will use the extended portion of the hard disk.
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Please help!
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Btw, thanks to all who helped me witht he ultrastor 34f! It works quite
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well now!
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--
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+------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Rochester Institute of Technology Chris A. Peskin |
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| Electrical Engineering |
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+------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: gcortevi@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Corteville)
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Subject: Backing up my Linux FS to reinst later
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 15:04:58 GMT
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Hello. I need to readjust my partition sizes to give MS-DOG some more
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space on my HD. This means I have to reinstall Linux. However, I just
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got everything customized the way I want it. I'd hate to lost all of my
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changes by reinstalling from the SLS installation disks. Is there another
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way of baucking up my Linux system. To floppy? I don't have a tape
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drive. I know tar will do it, but I'd like to have something that is
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automated.
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From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton)
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Subject: More cheap serial ports!
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Date: 25 Sep 1993 08:16:03 -0700
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These lines must be added to rc.local or somewhere in system
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initialization (as early as possible to prevent problems later)
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Note that I specified ALL the serial ports, even the two standard
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ones on the el-cheapo i/o & ide board as well as 0x3e8 and 0x2e8
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which don't exist, just to avoid problems. When I get another one
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of these STB 4-COM boards, I plan on disabling both uarts on the
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i/o board, assigning IRQ 4 to the first STB card and IRQ 3 to the
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second one and thus gain back 3 IRQs for more productive use :)
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(such as another SCSI HA and another parallel printer)
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If STB comes up with a way to alter the base ports address (say to 100)
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then I'd probably get another two of these cards also! (are you listening,
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STB???) In the meantime I might reverse-engineer the circuit and get
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out the ole soldering iron myself!
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yan (yet another note) - you MUST use setserial-2.01 to pull this off.
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(it can be found at tsx-11.mit.edu I believe)
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I don't think the stock one allows specification of the uart which is
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critical to making this whole thing work!
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# now set up the serial ports (put this in rc.local or wherever)
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua0 uart 16450 port 0x3f8 irq 4
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua1 uart 16450 port 0x2f8 irq 3
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua2 uart 16450 port 0x3e8 irq 12
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua3 uart 16450 port 0x2e8 irq 5
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua4 uart 16550A port 0x1f8 irq 15
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua5 uart 16550A port 0x1e8 irq 15
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua6 uart 16550A port 0x2a8 irq 15
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua7 uart 16550A port 0x1a8 irq 15
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Note the last four ports at different addresses sharing the same IRQ.
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The key thing here is that only ONE of the IRQ blocks must
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be jumpered - in this case I chose B (Why? Just because.)
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On the P0 block (port IRQ Block select) which maps the physical
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ports to the proper IRQ block, set them all to the same one you
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chose - in my case B which is: down,up,down,up,down,up,down,up
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Pictorially this looks like :
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P4 --u-----
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P4 --d-----
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P2 ---ud--- <=== this one gets the IRQ (blockB)
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P1 ---d----
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P0 dudududu <=== (blockB,blockB,blockB,blockB)
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( - == no connect, u == top two pins on, d == bottom two pins on )
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# and these are the results : (issue a /etc/setserial -a /dev/cua(n)
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# where (n) is the number of the port)
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/dev/cua0, Line 0, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua1, Line 1, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua2, Line 2, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 12
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua3, Line 3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 5
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua4, Line 4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x01f8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua5, Line 5, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x01e8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua6, Line 6, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02a8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua7, Line 7, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x01a8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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That's it! It works great for me - have only run speeds up to
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38400, so haven't played about with the hi_speed options and
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cannot speak to them. 38400 is all my terminals and lines
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will go to anyways.
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This is a very reasonable 4-port solution requiring no driver
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software additions. I think you can get the board for about
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$110.00 (us) - at least I did. Some company was mentioned here
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on the net as selling them. If you need their phone number and
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or address and exact price, leave me email here and I'll send it
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to you -- don't want this to become a "home internet shopper's channel"
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now do we!
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Hope this helps those who, like me, are IRQ-challenged!
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, Mark
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--
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================================================================================
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Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (soon)
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Mark Horton Associates | Voice: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Strategic Planning | Fax: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Performance Tuning | Data: +1 (404) 378 7046 (Linux bbs)
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"The opionions expressed here | Snail: P.O.Box 747, Decatur, GA US 30031-0747
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DO represent those of myself." | ICBM: 33 45 N / 084 16 W
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| Cruise: 33 45 30 N / 084 16 50 W
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"We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol
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"=" has the meaning "may be confused with."
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From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton)
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Subject: More cheap serial ports!
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Date: 25 Sep 1993 08:25:00 -0700
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Need more cheap serial ports but short on IRQs ?
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This works for me:
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How to use one IRQ with the STB 4-COM card:
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These lines must be added to rc.local or somewhere in system
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initialization (as early as possible to prevent problems later)
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Note that I specified ALL the serial ports, even the two standard
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ones on the el-cheapo i/o & ide board as well as 0x3e8 and 0x2e8
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which don't exist, just to avoid problems. When I get another one
|
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of these STB 4-COM boards, I plan on disabling both uarts on the
|
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i/o board, assigning IRQ 4 to the first STB card and IRQ 3 to the
|
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second one and thus gain back 3 IRQs for more productive use :)
|
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(such as another SCSI HA and another parallel printer)
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If STB comes up with a way to alter the base ports address (say to 100)
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then I'd probably get another two of these cards also! (are you listening,
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STB???) In the meantime I might reverse-engineer the circuit and get
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out the ole soldering iron myself!
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yan (yet another note) - you MUST use setserial-2.01 to pull this off.
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I don't think the stock one allows specification of the uart which is
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critical to making this whole thing work!
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# now set up the serial ports (put this in rc.local or wherever)
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua0 uart 16450 port 0x3f8 irq 4
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua1 uart 16450 port 0x2f8 irq 3
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua2 uart 16450 port 0x3e8 irq 12
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua3 uart 16450 port 0x2e8 irq 5
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua4 uart 16550A port 0x1f8 irq 15
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua5 uart 16550A port 0x1e8 irq 15
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua6 uart 16550A port 0x2a8 irq 15
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/etc/setserial -b /dev/cua7 uart 16550A port 0x1a8 irq 15
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Note the last four ports at different addresses sharing the same IRQ.
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The key thing here is that only ONE of the IRQ blocks must
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be jumpered - in this case I chose B (Why? Just because.)
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On the P0 block (port IRQ Block select) which maps the physical
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ports to the proper IRQ block, set them all to the same one you
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chose - in my case B which is: down,up,down,up,down,up,down,up
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Pictorially this looks like :
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P4 --u-----
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P4 --d-----
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P2 ---ud--- <=== this one gets the IRQ (blockB)
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P1 ---d----
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P0 dudududu <=== (blockB,blockB,blockB,blockB)
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( - == no connect, u == top two pins on, d == bottom two pins on )
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# and these are the results : (issue a /etc/setserial -a /dev/cua(n)
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# where (n) is the number of the port)
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/dev/cua0, Line 0, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua1, Line 1, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua2, Line 2, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 12
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua3, Line 3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 5
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua4, Line 4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x01f8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua5, Line 5, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x01e8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua6, Line 6, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02a8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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/dev/cua7, Line 7, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x01a8, IRQ: 15
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Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
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Flags: spd_normal
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That's it! It works great for me - have only run speeds up to
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38400, so haven't played about with the hi_speed options and
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cannot speak to them. 38400 is all my terminals and lines
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will go to anyways.
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This is a very reasonable 4-port solution requiring no driver
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software additions. I think you can get the board for about
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$110.00 (us) - at least I did. Some company was mentioned here
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on the net as selling them. If you need their phone number and
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or address and exact price, leave me email here and I'll send it
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to you -- don't want this to become a "home internet shopper's channel"
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now do we!
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Hope this is of help to those who, like myself, are "IRQ-challenged"
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;-) Mark
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Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (soon)
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Mark Horton Associates | Voice: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Strategic Planning | Fax: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Performance Tuning | Data: +1 (404) 378 7046 (Linux bbs)
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"The opinions expressed here | Snail: P.O.Box 747, Decatur, GA US 30031-0747
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DO represent those of myself." | ICBM: 33 45 N / 084 16 W
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| Cruise: 33 45 30 N / 084 16 50 W
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"We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol
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"=" has the meaning "may be confused with."
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From: rdeiriar@ing.puc.cl (rdeiriar)
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Subject: LINUX on IBM microchannel ?
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 15:37:26 GMT
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I am very interested on finding out why this wonerful OS does
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not work on IBM mirochannel machines. The FAQ says something about
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lack of progamming data on the HD controller and that it might work
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if used with an SCSI controller and drive. My question is , is this
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the only problem ?. As far as i know , the microchannel bus is
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invisible to the software that operates on it, but this could
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depend on how deep one reprogramms a system.
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The main interest of me would be getting LINUX running on a
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ps/2 model 77 (486 dx) which has a standard SCSI controller
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8 mb of RAM and 212 mb HD.
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Cause my current test setup is a 386dx ISA clone which has a
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rather small IDE HD and only 4 mb ram. Any info, comment,
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or pointer to information will be welcome
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BTW it would be interesting to make LINUX run on a Thinkpad
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laptop due to their big screen.
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Email or post here, i`ll check both.
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Thanks in advance.
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Roberto.
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*******************************************************************************
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* Roberto de Iriarte Kirsinger *
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* Civil Engineering School , Catholic University, Santiago Chile *
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* email to rdeiriar@malloco.ing.puc.cl *
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*******************************************************************************
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From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton)
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Subject: Re: Internal modem on COM3 problems
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Date: 25 Sep 1993 08:30:34 -0700
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CAM PROCTOR (bcp1@cc.msstate.edu) wrote:
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: I have an Infotel 14.4K baud modem (internal) set at com3 (irq4). When trying
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: to access the modem with anything (kermit, minicom, pcomm) I get the reply
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: "can't open /dev/modem. Device busy." I've also tried setting the programs
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: to look directly at /dev/cua2 and /dev/ttyS2, but still the same results. A
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: local person suggested re-linking the /dev/modem to each /dev/cuaX (where X is
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: 0 - 3) and seeing what happened. I still got the same results on cua2, but on
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: cua1 i would get nothing (no negative response) since this is my mouse, cua0
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: would say it was busy also.
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: Does anyone have another suggestion to try?
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You might have a getty active to it - check inittab. If this is
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the case, your comm programs will not be allowed to snatch it. Use
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uugetty instead (but check doc for right parameters!)
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If this is the case, you can call it whatever you wish and getty will
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still own it and not let go!
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- Mark
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: Please email me at one of the following addresses.
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: bcp1@ra.msstate.edu
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: bcp1@cc.msstate.edu
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: bcp1@pcmail.cc.msstate.edu
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--
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================================================================================
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Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (soon)
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Mark Horton Associates | Voice: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
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Strategic Planning | Fax: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office)
|
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Performance Tuning | Data: +1 (404) 378 7046 (Linux bbs)
|
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"The opinions expressed here | Snail: P.O.Box 747, Decatur, GA US 30031-0747
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DO represent those of myself." | ICBM: 33 45 N / 084 16 W
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| Cruise: 33 45 30 N / 084 16 50 W
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================================================================================
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"We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol
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"=" has the meaning "may be confused with."
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================================================================================
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help
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From: rdeiriar@ing.puc.cl (rdeiriar)
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Subject: Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform?
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 15:47:37 GMT
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David W. Smith (dwsmith@uncle-sam.llnl.gov) wrote:
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> I've just recently read about the new IBM company called AMBRA. They
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> are manufacturing some new machines based on an IBM manufactured Intel
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> processor called the 486 Blue Lighting. I believe they also produce a
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> machine with a model number D466E/VL with is an Intel 486DX2 66
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> EISA/VESA LB system.
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> Now the my question -- Does any one know or have tried to get NetBSD,
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> FreeBSD, or Linux running on this machine? I am interested in two of
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> their models they are the D466BL/CD and the D466E/VL machines. The
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> first is a 5 slot ISA system with 2 VESA LB slots and built in SCSI
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> and 10BaseT ethnet. The second model is 7 slot EISA/2 VESA LB and a S3
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> video accelerator. There was no mention of a SCSI controller or of
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> ethernet.
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> I know these are new machines so there is probably not a good chance someone
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> has tested this configuration yet, but I thought I would ask anyways.
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> What about AIX? Does IBM have a Intel port?
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Since the ambra line seems to be a very standard `clone` linux and/
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386bsd will probably run fine (! I haven`t tried it out cause there
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are no ambras out here...) , youl better wait till somenoe does
|
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the experiment for you.
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About AIX , there is an intel port (version 1.3 i`think) that runs
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on microchannel and ISA (EISA) machines. The AIX for isa / eisa
|
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acesses the hardware (video , HD and so on) trough a V86 task
|
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making it compatible with almost anything. THE BIG PROBLEM IS $$$
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If you have the money you`ll be better of with solarisX86 2.1
|
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or with he very cheap (U$ 166) Unix from Unix system Laboratories
|
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(the inventors of unix) now on the hands of Novell.
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Hope it helps.
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--
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*******************************************************************************
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* Roberto de Iriarte Kirsinger *
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* Civil Engineering School , Catholic University, Santiago Chile *
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* email to rdeiriar@malloco.ing.puc.cl *
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