Bezeq's ADSL and FreeBSD

2001-11-16 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: SMB

2001-01-20 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: external ISDN

2000-09-10 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Sound Alerts

2000-09-05 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Syslog messages to a remote machine

2000-08-28 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Syslog messages to a remote machine

2000-08-28 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: ADSL experiment

2000-08-18 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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.

Hebrew Netscape

2000-05-13 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: batch renaming

2000-02-29 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Nimrod Mesika
"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

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-20 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD

1999-12-17 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD

1999-12-15 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: Preemptive ?

1999-12-07 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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/

FreeBSD

1999-11-30 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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

Re: HPT366 UDMA66 controller

1999-11-08 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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.

EtherJet PCI

1999-09-17 Thread Nimrod Mesika
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