Configuring Motorola SB4200 on USB to connect on debian

2003-06-15 Thread Baruch Shpirer
Title: Configuring Motorola SB4200 on USB to connect on debian Hi, Anyone had any luck doing this ? Baruch Shpirer Windows/*nix System & Network Admin. Mobile +972-67-777167 Email   [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN    [EMAIL PROTECTED] " Beyond redemption and beneath contempt "

PPPoE on Linux - timeout waiting for PADO/PADS packets

2003-06-15 Thread linux_il
Hello, I've followed the instructions of enabling PPPoE on Linux as described at http://www.isoc.org.il/~doron/PPPoE.html and it worked at first but now after a reboot it stopped. I get multiple messages like "Timeout waiting for PADO packets" and some "Timeout waiting for PADS packets". I tried

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:13:47PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about "Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response > during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)": > > Another question: "fork bomb"s. I think this was much worse a few > > years

[OT] A note about internet zahav customer care.

2003-06-15 Thread Stiven Andre
May be the post is OT but some weeks ago i wrote a latter about problems connecting to rh8 httpd server that was connected by internet zahav ADSL service. The problem was that some people simply unable to get any response from the server. After calling the technician support and explaining the prob

Re: Protecting from fork bombs

2003-06-15 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sunday 15 June 2003 21:22, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:01:07PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > the system gets completely stuck for a few seconds. Increasing the > > number increases the stuck time. Isn't a unix suppossed to protect > > users from such DOS attacks in

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Nadav Har'El wrote on 2003-06-15: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about "Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response > during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)": > > > Perhaps it does: curiously enough, after doing this a dozen times, it > > seems that linux has "learn

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote on 2003-06-15: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:01:07PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > the system gets completely stuck for a few seconds. Increasing the > > number increases the stuck time. Isn't a unix suppossed to protect > > users from such DOS attacks in some way (ju

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about "Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)": > Another question: "fork bomb"s. I think this was much worse a few > years ago but still, when I do:: > > perl -e 'for $i (1..15) { fork();

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:01:07PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > the system gets completely stuck for a few seconds. Increasing the > number increases the stuck time. Isn't a unix suppossed to protect > users from such DOS attacks in some way (just checked, executing it > from another user ha

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On my system (RedHat 9): $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.20-8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 # hdparm -d /dev/hda /dev/hda: using_dma= 1 (on) When I did ``cat /dev/zero > junk``, the system did become half-irre

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > and (at least on redhat) take a look at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks , to > avoid re-running it manually. Don't enable DMA using hdparm on 865/875 Intel chipsets when using the SATALink buses, the drives stop responding and the system hangs. --Ariel > > --

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Ely Levy
if he was running it manually they it wouldn't have mattered;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:06:01PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > > Hello All. > > > > Bottom line: If you haven't done it yet, beco

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:06:01PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello All. > > Bottom line: If you haven't done it yet, become root on your computer > and go: > > hdparm /dev/hda > > or whatever hdX you have as your hard disk. and (at least on redhat) take a look at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks ,

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
As one can understand from my previous posting, I like my Linux box running steadily, so I'm not so happy doing these tests, unless it's really critical for someone. Besides, the sound interface is now recognized too, which is a nice bonus ;). Eli Guy Baruch wrote: Just out of curiosity:

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations

2003-06-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:18:42PM +0300, Guy Baruch wrote: > > Just out of curiosity: can you run the same test with 2.4.18.3 and > preemptive-kernel patch ? > IIRC it was incorporated in 2.4.20 (+-1) , which may explain the change > from 2.4.18 to 2.4.21. No, it wasn't. In vanilla kernels,

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations

2003-06-15 Thread Guy Baruch
Just out of curiosity: can you run the same test with 2.4.18.3 and preemptive-kernel patch ? IIRC it was incorporated in 2.4.20 (+-1) , which may explain the change from 2.4.18 to 2.4.21. -- -- regards +--- + Guy Baruch , Plas

SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. Bottom line: If you haven't done it yet, become root on your computer and go: hdparm /dev/hda or whatever hdX you have as your hard disk. You'll have a line saying "using_dma = 1 (on)". But if the line says that your DMA is off, I suggest start thinking about doing something about

Re: keymap switching

2003-06-15 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Dittigas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In KDE I've noticed that when Keyboard is fixed on Hebrew (e.g. with > Alt+Ctrl+K) you can switch back and forth with Alt+Shift, if enabled in > XF86Config. If fixed on US, it will not work. Guess this might indicate > something. I don't know about you all,

eLaTeX and utf-8

2003-06-15 Thread Dittigas
Can I feed elatex utf-8 encoded text files to use with babel's hebrew support? Seems to work for me with iso-8859-8, but can't find any refrences for utf-8. thanks, = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "un