Bezeq's ADSL and FreeBSD
Did anyone have any success making FreeBSD work with Bezeq's ADSL service? -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMB
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:00:30PM +0200, Oren Held wrote: Hi, I have SMB installed and configured successfully in my Linux box, but, when want to get in the shared directories from my windows computer ( I can see the shared directories) but I cant get into them. windows asking for password and when Im typing the password for the User that shared his directories, smb gives me error: "The password is incorrect. Try again". In the smb.conf file I did encrypted passwords = no and security = share ( I know its not secure but this is for the test). and its still not working. this smb.conf file worked for me last time on another computer. I just copied this file and there shouldnt be problems. what can I do, please? Not sure about your Windows version, but if you use NT or 2000 you need to update its registry to use plaintext passwords. Setting 'encrypted passwords=no' in smb.conf is not enough. The necessary registry files (for NT4 and 2000) are available as part of the Samba distribution. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: external ISDN
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:55:50PM +0200, Mike Almogy wrote: Hi list. Do i need any drivers for external ISDN device ? I'm connecting it to the com1/com2 port. I do not need any driver for regular modem, right ? Well, you have to send some init string to your terminal adaptor (that's how an 'external ISDN device' is called). It sets various line properties: sync/async, data rate, etc. If you have drivers for Windows, check the initialization string they use. Other than that - no kernel modules or anything like that is needed. Oh - and you use the standard ppp daemon not the synchronous pppd that internal ISDN adaptors need. Last advice: setting the correct parameters might be difficult and depends, of course, on the ISP configuration. Some POPs (=telephone numbers) may be configured differently. We had to connect to Bezeqint once and never could make it work with one of their numbers (640. Only 136363 worked. Go figure...) -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Alerts
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:00:42PM +, Subba Rao wrote: Now, when I tried to set off 3 alerts at the sametime, I get the following message, sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy OSS is a simple system. Only one process can open /dev/dsp at any time. So if one process sounds the alarm and you run sox again (Trying to open /dev/dsp again) you will get the error 'resource busy'. What you can do, is have one master process control /dev/dsp, and other processes asking the master to sound the alarm for them. The master can either queue or mix the sounds. I believe ESD (Enlightened Sound Daemon, aka ESounD) can mix several sources but it doesn't provide an OSS interface - you have to use a special library. You might also want to check out ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Arch. - a replacement for the OSS drivers.) ALSA is supposed to let several users open the sound device at the same time but I'm not familiar with it. Better yet, just ignore the error message and go check the machine when it sounds the alarm :) -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Syslog messages to a remote machine
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:42:03AM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Boaz Rymland wrote: I'm trying to set a server machine to send it's syslog messages to my machine. just for general info: remote syslog is done by sending messages using UDP, without any packet received acknowledgement or retransmission. thus, if a logging packet is lost - the log message will be lost without any sign for that. this is not recommended for a production system, if the logs are important. How about setting an ssh tunnel? You get both reliability and encryption. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Syslog messages to a remote machine
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:21:29PM +0300, guy keren wrote: ssh tunnel between whome and what? you'll need a very strange setup, since, as far as i know, ssh does not support forwarding of UDP ports/packets... Ok. Missed that one ;) So just add a "udp over tcp" tunnel. Should be pretty easy to write one yourself but I'm sure someone already did that. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL experiment
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:09:33PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other possibility would be to hook up a WIN98 machine on my home network. I assume it shouldn't be to difficult to then share the INTERNET connection with my LINUX box (using SAMBA ???) but I have no idea of how it's done. You might want to check out a Windows software by the name of 'WinGate': http://WinGate.deerfield.com/ Never tried it myself, though. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hebrew Netscape
This may be old news to some of the people reading this list, but still... IBM has released a version of Netscape 4.61 that supports logical hebrew: http://news.netking.com/News/Year2000/Month5/N753.asp That specific page refers to the Windows version. Anyone knows if a Linux version is expected soon? (or not expected at all...) -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: batch renaming
What is the simplest way to do such renaming ? I have many file with the same preceding string in their name. I want to remove that. You might want to check 'mmv' (you can find the package on redhat's contrib archive). mmv lets you write: mmv '*.yyy.*' '#2.xxx.#1' You can probably guess what that means. Just a small and useful package. --Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interface status detection
"Muli B.Y." wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Nimrod, I have implemented the online/offline thing this way. Shame on me for not having read the FAQ (where this stuff is mentioned) for quite some time. Nevertheless, it was a good excersize and my original question stands: Windows has RasConnectionNotification(). What does linux have except constant polling? Oh well.. seems like I have to correct myself again ;) Linux *does* support such notifications. Kernel 2.2 introduced Netlink sockets and routing messages (these are compile-time options - look at the networking options when you compile your kernel). Your process will be notified of any routing table changes, interface up/down events, etc. I believe you can ask to be notified of certain events only. Not sure, though. It looks a bit complicated, and definitely lacks good documentation but have a look at the 'iproute2' package for an example. Get it from: ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/ build it and try (as root): /ip monitor all now try on another terminal: '/sbin/ifconfig lo down' and look at the monitor's output. Still, it's a complicated solution and the process has to have NET_ADMIN capabilities or root uid. Seems like this interface was designed primarily for routing daemons. -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interface status detection
Gaal Yahas wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:47:14PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.local What happens when licq isn't running and reading the pipe? Unless I'm mistaken, your ip-*.local scripts would block, which is probably not what you want. True. It's a bug. KDE fires up licq automatically so I have never noticed this bug. Now how do we fix it (without checking for a process named 'licq' or anything like that. How do you make sure a fifo has someone on the other end?) Also, what does putting the data on a pipe get you? The process would still have to poll the pipe, wouldn't it? Not quite. The process will block on read() and will not use the cpu until data is available. Licq is a threaded app, so blocking one thread will leave the others running. -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interface status detection
Alex Shnitman wrote: As to your first suggestion, maybe there's even a better way -- have licq install signal handlers for e.g. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2, switching it online in the former and offline in the latter, and then have the ip-up script killall -USR1 licq and the ip-down script killall -USR2 licq. It should be pretty easy to implement, and although it won't be very robust, it'll work. nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.local #!/bin/sh echo 'status online' /home/nimrodm/.licq/licq_fifo nimrodm:~$ nimrodm:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local #!/bin/sh echo 'status offline' /home/nimrodm/.licq/licq_fifo nimrodm:~$ That's how it's done for Licq ($HOME/.licq/licq_fifo is a named pipe). As for having the kernel notify the process about a NETDEV_UP and NETDEV_DOWN events - I don't think Linux can do that (at leat not kernel 2.2) but it might be worth posting to the kernel mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Might be a worthy addition to raw packet(4) sockets. -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD
Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: As far as performance is considered, it's not RPM that usually matters (inspite of a big hype), but the amount of cache on disk. Until recently (1-2 years), the maximum cache on IDE disks was 128KB, while about each SCSI disk had 0.5MB. How come? The OS cache is much bigger (at least several MB). I thought that a level-2 cache has to be bigger to have any effect? If the block was not found in the OS cache, how can you expect to find it in the drive's cache? mmm.. maybe it's the read ahead and write back buffers that make the difference? A drive with a large buffer can get much more work done by itself without involving the OS.. maybe. -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD
Boaz Rymland wrote: I have a WD 9.GB disk with a Promise PCI controller (the HD brand is irrelevant, I believe as its the controller and it's driver that matters). Ah.. I wish that was true. ATA/66 (as most new standards) still has some compatibility problems. Some controllers will only work with certain drives. My onboard HPT366 controller (ABIT's BP6 board) wouldn't work with a Fujitsu drive I had. I got a Maxtor and everything is working fine (well.. almost. Linux SMP implementation is still not 100%). Anyway, the point is you have to patch the kernel to support ATA/66 controllers (and I'm sure not all are supported.. better check it out yourself). This makes installation much more difficult of course. As for speed... hdparm -t /dev/hde gives me about 22MB/sec with UDMA66 enabled (this is a cheap 5400 rpm drive). When disabled, speed drops to about 10MB/sec. Note that I have seen UDMA33 drives that go as high as 15MB/sec. Go figure... How much of that advantage will you see in real applications? I guess it depends on your usage pattern. -- Nimrod. p.s. The current drive is 8GB. Logical geometry: 1024/255/63. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Preemptive ?
Iftach Hyams wrote: Is Linux preemptive ? Does anyone know about a site about Linux and embeded systems ? Linux is just starting to shake the embedded systems market... You might want to look at: http://www.linuxdevices.com/ http://www.prosa.it/embedded/etlinux/ http://www.embedlinux.net/ http://www.emlab.org/ and of course, Cygnus (www.cygnus.com) has some interesting stuff too. -- Nimrod. p.s. What do you mean by preemptive? Linux has, of course, preemptive scheduling (as opposed to cooperative scheduling). What you may be looking for is a 'hard' real-time scheduler. 'Official' Linux kernel does not support hard real time but there is RT-linux (www.rtlinux.org). Cygnus' ecos (a gpl'ed realtime microkernel) may support a subset of the Linux API too (one day :-) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD
I'm interesting in comparing FreeBSD's SMP performance to Linux. Anyone has a FreeBSD 3.3 CD that I can duplicate (or willing to do that for me)? -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HPT366 UDMA66 controller
I am using the HPT366 controller with Linux 2.2.13pre17 right now without problems. Patches for the final 2.2.13 have been available for a long time already -- almost 24 hours ;-) Get them at: ftp://ftp.il.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide.2.2.13.19991102.patch.gz Gavrie. Thanks - the patch works. I'm sending this to the list to share my experience with this rather new(?) technology. BEWARE! UDMA66 still has some compatibility problems. I had a Fujitsu 8GB UDMA/66 disk that was correctly detected as UDMA/66 by the HPT366 controller (on Abit's BP6 board), but failed all DMA tests. Now I'm using a Maxtor 90871U2 which performs 10x better! -- Nimrod. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EtherJet PCI
Anyone had any luck with IBM's EtherJet PCI NIC? This nic is using the Intel chipset supported by the eepro100 driver... In fact, it is possible to load the module and configure the interface, but when/if one make any attempt to send some data, the system hangs! No OOPS, no messages in any log file... just dead. This card is installed in an IBM PC-300PL, Celeron 333 with RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5). I will try 2.2.12 soon, but thought I'd ask first... well? -- Nimrod. P.S. The above machine uses S3-Trio3D which is not currently supported by XFree86 3.3.5 or any one of the SuSE X-servers. Any pointers towards making X work on this machine will be appreciated. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
