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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 23:13:11 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #257
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Linux-Development Digest #257, Volume #2 Sun, 2 Oct 94 23:13:11 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: 3Com 509 Driver Problems - Any fixes - Help (Brian Kramer)
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Re: Shared Libs: working toward a permanent solution? (David Holland)
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Re: PCnet32 ("LANCE") PCI ethernet card with Linux. (Jochen Roth)
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Re: IF YOU HAVE A MAGNETO-OPTICAL DRIVE... (Asad Khan)
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Re: Linux Mud (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Suggestion: comp.os.linux.channelecho.* (Rafal Maszkowski)
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Ip Adrress probs (Jim Williams)
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Re: a bug in gcc 2.6.0/Linux (H.J. Lu)
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Text modes? (Riku Saikkonen)
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1.1.29 kernel fails on mount rw! (Gregory P. Smith)
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Re: Text modes? (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
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Re: buffer.c & mounting disks (Uwe Bonnes)
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Re: i486 Word length, anyone? (Thomas Koenig)
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terminfo: color vs BW : was COLORFUL PKGTOOL (Carlos Dominguez)
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Re: DIP with auto-redial? (Andreas Bagge)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Ralph Sims)
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Re: PROBLEM: Adaptec 1542 with SMC-Ultra (Juha Virtanen)
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Re: PROBLEM: Adaptec 1542 with SMC-Ultra (Juha Virtanen)
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Re: Status of Mac Linux & PPC Linux? (Wade Maxfield)
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Badblocks program buggy? (Chris Wells)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com (Brian Kramer)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: 3Com 509 Driver Problems - Any fixes - Help
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 21:43:08 -0400
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Brian Kramer (bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com) wrote:
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: I get the following error which pretty much disables my system. Is there
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: a fix? Or can someone recommend a ethernet card that works flawlessly
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: with linux?
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I forgot to mention I am running 1.1.35. I do have quota and shadow
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patched in, but nothing else.
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--
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Brian Kramer - Owner/Systems Administrator - bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com
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New Jersey Computer Connection - Public Access Unix Site - pluto.njcc.com
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Voice: 609-896-2799 - Fax: 609-896-2994 - Dialups: 609-896-3191
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Dialup or Telnet to pluto.njcc.com and log in as guest for more information.
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------------------------------
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Subject: Re: Shared Libs: working toward a permanent solution?
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From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
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Date: 29 Sep 94 15:05:45
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becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 20 Sep 1994 23:37:35 -0400 said:
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> The previous poster was talking about doing real relocation/linking/loading,
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> not PIC ELF libraries. I was pointing out that that kind of linking would
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> involve modifying just about every page, rendering it unsharable. Although
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> it would ultimately generate fast code, sharing pages is far more important
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> for overall system performance.
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There's a solution to this.
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You can only relocate the library to one address, for the reason you
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cite. However, there's no reason this should be done at link time,
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when you build the library.
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How about dynamically relocating the library when it's loaded - once.
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Then the address it appears at can be determined at run time; that way
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it cannot possibly conflict with any other libraries; the library
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loading mechanism would pick addresses so that doesn't happen. Then
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when other processes add it, it would appear at the same address in
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every process.
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This gives fast non-PIC code without the primary problem associated
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with having non-PIC code, the fixed addresses.
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Far as the jump table/data area: the Amiga Exec solved this problem by
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having the jump table grow in one direction, and the data in the
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other, from the library base pointer.
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--
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- David A. Holland | -- "Do you have a moment?" -- "Yes.
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dholland@husc.harvard.edu | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."
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From: jochen@netcom.com (Jochen Roth)
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Subject: Re: PCnet32 ("LANCE") PCI ethernet card with Linux.
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 07:11:24 GMT
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Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
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: 3. Configure your PCI slot for *edge triggered* interrupts. On the ASUS
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: SP3G this means moving the jumpers rather than just changing the BIOS.
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: If you don't do this you machine *will* hang when autoIRQ is done. With
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: level-triggered interrupts you must clear the interrupt line or disable the
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: interrupt. The current autoIRQ code doesn't do this.
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Is someone working on implementing shared (level triggered) interrupt
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handing for linux ? Writing real PCI drivers is impossible, and most
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motherboards will require sharing interrupts.
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BTW, edge-triggered interrupts are not PCI-compliant and will prohibit
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the use of e.g. multiport adapters with bridge chips, some multi-
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function adapters, etc.
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--
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Jochen Roth
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jochen@znyx.com
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From: asad@max.tiac.net (Asad Khan)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: IF YOU HAVE A MAGNETO-OPTICAL DRIVE...
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 19:35:37 GMT
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maenner@pvwayne.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
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: James Jurach (phaedrus@arlut.utexas.edu) wrote:
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: : Help.
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: : If you have a SCSI magneto-optical drive or have seen one that "works"
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...
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I am using a Fujitsu M2512A (230MB, 3.5") with an Adaptec 1522A and
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Slackware 2.0 (kernel 1.0.9). Has been working fine.
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Performance is as the last poster noted, like an older HD for reads and
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about 1/10 as fast on writes.
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asad@max.tiac.net
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Linux Mud
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 18:48:55 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.05.9410021311.A23684-a100000@violet.uthscsa.edu>,
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Scott Francis <francis@VIOLET.uthscsa.edu> wrote:
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>Is there a mud developed for Linux and if so is it possible for me to get
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>the source or compiler version of it?
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>
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>
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>Please respond to francis@violet.uthscsa.edu
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>
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>Thanks is advance
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>
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>Scott
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I've recompiled and run both LambdaMOO and ColdMUD successfulyl under linux.
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:)
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Jeff kesselman
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>
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>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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>// //
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>// Scott Francis - UT Health Science Center //
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>// San Antonio, Texas //
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>// //
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>// e-mail: francis@violet.uthscsa.edu //
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>// sfrancis@janus1.cs.trinity.edu //
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>// //
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>// voice: (210)829-5501 //
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>// //
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>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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>
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>
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------------------------------
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From: rzm@dain.oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion: comp.os.linux.channelecho.*
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 19:29:19 GMT
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Thomas E Zerucha (zerucha@shell.portal.com) wrote:
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> Apparently the only way to communicate with the real developers is via one
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> of the "channels", e.g. SCSI, LAPTOSP, NET, and others. Is there any easy
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> way to have the messages echoed in "readonly" newsgroups?
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There are linux.act.* groups but you have to ask your News administrator
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to establish a feed. Ask him to contact hpa@nwu.edu. I think they are
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read-write but I haven't tried yet. Maybe next week (:
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R.
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--
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Rafal Maszkowski rzm@oso.chalmers.se http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~rzm
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Opinia publiczna powinna byc zaalarmowana swoim nieistnieniem - St. J. Lec
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From: jim@iceworld.org (Jim Williams)
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Subject: Ip Adrress probs
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 02:26:35 GMT
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Well I seem to have a problem here. I just got a full block of Ip
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address from my provider. What the problem is that I cant seem to get the
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other Linux box on the etho to see me when I use the ip address they gave
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me. Here is the set up Linux 1.1.50 compiled with Ip forwarding enabled.
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-------
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- - Internet Provider
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------- 199.86.32.100
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| PPP Connect Modem
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| The Block I was assigned was
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------- 199.199.16.*
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| |
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| | 199.86.32.182
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| | Iceworld.org
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_______
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| etho
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______
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- - other linux box
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------ 199.199.16.50
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Now Is there any way that he can go out to the outside world without
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telneting to my machine? At this point he cant get to me. I was told that
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there had to be a router in between the etho and my machine so that the 2
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different address could see each other. Because they should be on the
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same block showing that they are on a local net. All I want to do is be
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able to go to the out side world with out telneting from the other box to
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the one that has the modem on it. Then I will work on the dial up service
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for the slip and ppp connects. Any help would be appriceated..
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Jim Williams jim@iceworld.org
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From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
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Subject: Re: a bug in gcc 2.6.0/Linux
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 02:38:22 GMT
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BARTHOLDI Laurent (lbartho@scsun.unige.ch) wrote:
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: Hi folks,
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: I got a weird problem with gcc 2.6.0:
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: main( int c ) { return c % 15; }
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: does not compile (gcc fills up all available memory and exits with a
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: 'out of virtual memory' message). The simlilar program compiles fine:
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That is one reason why I didn't make binaries for gcc 2.6.0 :-(.
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: const in xv = 15; main( int c ) { return c % xv; }
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: I suppose I should post this to some gcc group; I suppose it worked with
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: previous releases though I can't say.
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gcc ss-940927 is fine.
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H.J.
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------------------------------
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Subject: Text modes?
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From: riku.saikkonen@compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen)
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 21:36:00 +0200
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Hmm... I've been wondering about the text mode sync frequencies. Can
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they be changed like the XFree86 graphics modes? It just seems somewhat
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of a waste to use normal VGA frequencies (what's it, 60 Hz?) with a much
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better monitor...
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Oh yes, I have a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426 (1 Mb) ISA card.
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Also, would it be theoretically possible to use, say, a 12*30-sized font
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(80x25 on a 1024*768 resolution) in text mode? From what I know of
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display adapters, it seems that they only support 8-dot-wide (or in some
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cases (Hercules) 9) characters. Is this right?
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Of course I could switch in to graphics mode, but then I could as well
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just use X (graphics mode is always a bit slower though)...
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-=- Rjs -=- riku.saikkonen@compart.fi - IRC: Rjs
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"From cavern pale the moist moon eyes / the white mists that from earth
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arise / to hide the morrow's sun and drip / all the grey day from each
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twig's tip." - J. R. R. Tolkien
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------------------------------
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From: smithgr@cs.colorado.edu (Gregory P. Smith)
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Subject: 1.1.29 kernel fails on mount rw!
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 20:24:12 GMT
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I have been running the 1.1.29 kernel for a while now. Today when I tried to
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boot into Linux it gave me the message "maximum mounts reached on my / and
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/usr partitions check forced" (or something to that effect). After the fschk
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was complete the system locked up when it tried to mount /dev/sda4 (/usr) as
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(rw). I tried my boot floppy but it appears to have the infamous floppy
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drive problem(s) and won't boot properly (same kernel that I have on the HDD).
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I have an Adaptec 1542CF SCSI-2 controller and am booting linux from a 540mb
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SCSI-2 drive in partition /dev/sda3.
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help!
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--
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Gregory P. Smith -- [Team OS/2]
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smithgr@cs.Colorado.EDU, FidoNet: 1:104/332, RIME ->914
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Happy OS/2 and Linux user. (Finger for a PGP public key)
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------------------------------
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From: agulbra@nvg.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
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Subject: Re: Text modes?
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 19:58:07 GMT
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In article <1f.9972.1566.0NC9AA03@compart.fi>,
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Riku Saikkonen <riku.saikkonen@compart.fi> wrote:
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>Hmm... I've been wondering about the text mode sync frequencies. Can
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>they be changed like the XFree86 graphics modes?
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Yes; I've done it. Not under linux though. If I don't like the
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mode I just find a better mode in the VGA-card manual and adapt the
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kernel, in my experience there's always a good one in there.
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>Also, would it be theoretically possible to use, say, a 12*30-sized font
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>(80x25 on a 1024*768 resolution) in text mode?
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I think more or less any height can be programmed, but the width
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must be 8 pixels, optionally with the last pixel duplicated.
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(All this is for VGA and EGA, btw.)
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--Arnt
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From: bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes)
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Subject: Re: buffer.c & mounting disks
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 20:49:16 GMT
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Carlo Hamalainen (carlo@ozspace.brisnet.org.au) wrote:
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> OK, this is what happened to me.
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> I had been running Slackware 1.2.0 for a while, until I compiled/patched the
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> kernel up to 1.1.51. This is where the problems started.
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> I often got "Warning: bdflush not running". I commented this out of
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> buffer.c, and it seems to look OK so far....
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Good gracious! Get sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/kernel/v1.1/bdflush-1.4.tar.gz
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--
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Uwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
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Subject: Re: i486 Word length, anyone?
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 21:14:08 GMT
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Reply-To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de
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Andrew F. Lee (74673.2153@CompuServe.COM) wrote in comp.os.linux.development,
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article <36f8f9$75c$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>:
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>A Word in ANSI C is 16 bits (specifically unsigned) i.e. the same
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>size as an int.
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Nope.
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First, ANSI C doesn't define a 'Word', neither a 'word'.
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Second, an 'int' can hold at least the values from -32768 to 32767,
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but is possibly much larger. An 'int' on Linux is 32 bits, on a
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Cray it's 64.
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>A long is 32 bits. The registers of a 486DX (as
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>opposed to SX) have a 32 bit capacity
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The registers of a 486SX also have 32 bits, it't the external
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bus that's 16 bits.
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>-- but I can't see what
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>that has to do with the size of a _word_ as the OS sees it?
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The OS (Linux) doesn't have any concept of 'words'.
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--
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Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
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The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
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logarithmic diagram.
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------------------------------
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From: carlos@interport.net (Carlos Dominguez)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: terminfo: color vs BW : was COLORFUL PKGTOOL
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 16:20:45 -0400
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.. I had to reinstall hdsetup.tgz from my slackware 2.0 cdrom
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in order to get color back on pkgtool, setup, mc and other
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slack utils. But now my newer ncurses based software like aumix, is
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displaying in black and white :(
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Hints, ideas and polite rtfm's with chapter and verse are welcome.
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--
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__ __ __ | .__. __. :::: Carlos Dominguez - proprietor - sysadmin
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| __| | | | | |__ :::: carlos@basselope.com
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|__ |__| | | |__| .__| :::: Basselope *nix systems
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--------------------------- Internet services consulting is our forte
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------------------------------
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From: Andreas_Bagge@h2.maus.de (Andreas Bagge)
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Subject: Re: DIP with auto-redial?
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 18:51:00 GMT
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dip-3.3.7i-uri ha a modified dial command.
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With it you should be able to check for the BUSY message from your modem
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and start a goto loop.
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------------------------------
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From: ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 19:45:01 GMT
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root@jaguar.tigerden.com (System Administrator) writes:
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>Trevor Lampre (trevor@xanax.apana.org.au) wrote:
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>: As the admin of a public access system it is of great concern to me, I've
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>: had sendmail die for about 2 days before I noticed as well as the other
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>: problems described. I spend more time now checking/killing/rebooting
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>: my network stuff than I do giving more value to my users. I might just
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>: switch to *BSD, at least the network code works.
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>Thank WHATEVER that others are seeing this problem! And thanks to
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...
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>for confirming what we've been seeing! I suggest we keep this thread
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>open and fill it with additional information until the problem gets the
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>attention it needs. I'm not a programmer, much less a kernel hacker, so
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>I can only voice frustration with the situation.
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And what about those of us that DON'T see it? Basic setup is a
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dedicated PPP link on a 14.4 dialup, NET-3 stuff, ppd 2.1.2a,
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etc., with an InfoMagic/TransAmeritech CD-ROM combined install.
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I move many megabytes of files around via FTP daily, and another
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many megs around with mosaic and lynx. Sendmail+IDA's been
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rock-solid.
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>I'm new to all this, and don't know all the avenues to pursue. I'd
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>appreciate any help in getting this problem hilighted and information
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>flowing to the *someone* who understands how the net interfaces really
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>work and who can really and *finally* *fix* it! How do we proceed?
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The AMPR code is still beta-stuff, I think. Do you really need it?
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Also, are your users using ncftp or 'stock' ftp? Aside from the X25
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stuff in your kernel, and the fact your dialin users are seeing/causing
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this, there probably isn't much difference in the way we do things.
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I have no dialup users. So, if that's any help, there might be
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something in the way your getty handles buffering (if there is
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such as thing); I use agetty.
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From: Juha.Virtanen@iguana.hut.fi (Juha Virtanen)
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Adaptec 1542 with SMC-Ultra
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Date: 02 Oct 1994 11:06:46 GMT
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Reply-To: jiivee@hut.fi
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>>>>> On 30 Sep 1994 11:51:36 GMT,
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c4289@rphc2.physik.uni-regensburg.de (Olaf Jaeger) said:
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:> problem:
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:> I am using an ISA-Adaptec-1542c and a SCSI-2-HD with an
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:> ext2-filesystem V. 0.5a on it. From the time that i put a
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:> SMC-Ultra into the machine, the filesystem on the HD begins to vanish.
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I have similar setup but without any problems with it.
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:> The distribution of I/O-Ports and IRQ's are definitely unique and ok.
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:> Using others, even if not necessary, gives no improvement.
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:> Care has been taken upon ram-addresses and dis/enabled ROM.
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:> The adaptec as i know, has no memory-area, and BIOS on it is disabled.
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Hmm. I don't remember for sure if it does. But in any case make
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sure that BIOS area does not overlap with other cards memory
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requirements. And I have my AHA1542C BIOS enabled without
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problems (for accidental DOS use).
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:> The effect is independent of adapter-rom-shadowing.
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ROM shadowing really shouldn't affect the behaviour in any way.
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:> Apart from that,the SMC-ULTRA works fine.
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:> "Configuring Adaptec at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5"
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:> "eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x240, 00 00 C0 F2 D3 A1, IRQ 10 memory 0xcc000-0xcffff."
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:> "smc-ultra.c:v0.07 3/1/94 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)"
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My kernel says this:
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: Configuring Adaptec at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: scsi : 1 hosts.
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: Vendor: HP Model: C2247-300 Rev: 0BA4
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 0, lun 0
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
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...
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x340, 00 00 C0 1A 23 A2, IRQ 10 memory 0xc8000-0xcbfff.
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Oct 1 15:51:03 iguana kernel: smc-ultra.c:v0.07 3/1/94 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
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I have AHA-1542C BIOS at addresses 0xdc000-0xdcfff. Installing SMC
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Ultra were very simple plug-and-play task in my case, that is, I
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simply plugged the card in and began to use it.
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Hope this helps
|
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Juha
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--
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Pl<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>h. En m<> k<>yt<79> .signaturea.
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------------------------------
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|
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From: Juha.Virtanen@iguana.hut.fi (Juha Virtanen)
|
||
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Adaptec 1542 with SMC-Ultra
|
||
Date: 02 Oct 1994 11:34:26 GMT
|
||
Reply-To: jiivee@hut.fi
|
||
|
||
>>>>> On 02 Oct 1994 11:06:46 GMT, Juha.Virtanen@iguana.hut.fi
|
||
(Juha Virtanen) said:
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:> I have AHA-1542C BIOS at addresses 0xdc000-0xdcfff. Installing SMC
|
||
^^^^^^^
|
||
Oops. I meant 0xdffff.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Juha
|
||
--
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||
Pl<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>h. En m<> k<>yt<79> .signaturea.
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||
|
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------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: maxfield@ix.netcom.com (Wade Maxfield)
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
||
Subject: Re: Status of Mac Linux & PPC Linux?
|
||
Date: 2 Oct 1994 20:28:56 GMT
|
||
|
||
In <zackCx07Ay.IKM@netcom.com> zack@netcom.com (Zack T. Smith) writes:
|
||
|
||
>
|
||
>In article <michaels-200994221552@slip-199-234-235-56.voicenet.com> michaels@omni.voicenet.com (Michael Sullivan) writes:
|
||
>>In article <msouth.780038622@BIX.com>, msouth@BIX.com (msouth on BIX)
|
||
>>wrote:
|
||
>>
|
||
>>Actually, the mac world is very well behaved if you follow the rules....
|
||
>>Direct access to i/o ports is strongly discouraged. There are i/o routines
|
||
>>documented in "Inside Mac" that perform the proper i/o redirection and
|
||
>>location so that the programmer really doesn't have to know the low level
|
||
>>details. There are low level traps defined that permit access at even lower
|
||
>>levels...if needed. There is a very large quantity of information available
|
||
>>from apple and others on the mac and its programming environment that is
|
||
>>availble so there is really no truth to the assertion that mac programming
|
||
>>data is hard to get or obscure. Visit the local bookstore ... various
|
||
>>volumes of "Inside Mac" (and other books) are usually available......
|
||
>>---- Mike
|
||
>
|
||
>A few problems with this.
|
||
>
|
||
>1. Inside Mac is not accurate all of the time.
|
||
true
|
||
|
||
>2. Inside Mac is deficient in many ways.
|
||
usually more like obscure
|
||
|
||
>3. Inside Mac is written so as to hide important details in obscure
|
||
> parts of the manuals.
|
||
no, it was thrown together. This has partly been allieviated by the
|
||
Mac CD Rom series. You can now electronically search the IM, and their Tech Notes.
|
||
|
||
>3. Mac OS calls are incredibly convoluted; they force the programmer
|
||
> to do additional work to write a normal, straightforwad, healthy interface.
|
||
*IMHO*, not more convoluted than Win for MSDog, MSDos, OS/2,
|
||
VRTX, pSOS, unix, or any of the other systems I may have written to. The world
|
||
now revolves around real time OS's, even if it is cooperative multitasking.
|
||
|
||
>4. If you want as to why Inside Mac's suggestions don't work or about
|
||
> manual deficiencies, you have to pay Apple for developer support.
|
||
That has always been my biggest gripe. However, their developers and
|
||
others usually pay attention to and answer the usenet groups. The latest versions
|
||
of the C compilers and development environments for the Mac usually handle a lot
|
||
of that stuff.
|
||
|
||
>5. To get Linux running you can't use high level Mac OS calls; doing so
|
||
> would alleviate the need for the Linux OS.
|
||
|
||
*IMHO*, not really. I ported CP/M 68K to the Mac (the product didn't sell,
|
||
but that is what my boss paid me to do.), within the first 4 months of its release.
|
||
Currently, all 68K
|
||
Mac programs run in supervisory mode. You could actually run linux as a task under
|
||
the Mac OS. You could take over several interrupts to service linux. Once that
|
||
was done, you could conceivably run the mac code that provides a mac shell to their
|
||
AIX unix platform, with a lot of work.
|
||
|
||
In order to preserve the ability to be a Mac as well as a linux box (I know,
|
||
heresy!), you can put the linux fs inside a Mac compatible file. That is how the
|
||
2nd port to CP/M worked. An interface can then be written to mount the external
|
||
Mac file system, and move files around, since the Mac OS is almost all inside the
|
||
ROM.
|
||
|
||
Of course, none of this is (or was in the case of CP/M) easy.
|
||
|
||
Wade
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cjw1@crispi.demon.co.uk (Chris Wells)
|
||
Subject: Badblocks program buggy?
|
||
Date: 29 Sep 1994 22:12:03 GMT
|
||
|
||
Has anyone else noticed that badblocks (used by mke2fs) doesn't seem to
|
||
detect the first bad block in a contiguous block of bad blocks? I
|
||
found the bug in badblocks which meant it only found one bad block ever. That
|
||
was due to a misplaced 'continue' statement, if I remember.
|
||
|
||
Perhaps this is a gate-post error?
|
||
|
||
Chris
|
||
|
||
--
|
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Running on Linux version 1.1.51
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