4Mb RAM is sufficient for just shell use. You can even make X work with
4 Mb though I would not recommend it. It gets as bad as Win95 on 4 Mb of
RAM (which is saying something!). I have made X work with only 8 Mb
before, so it's possible, though it *is* sluggish. I agree, the best
thing to do is make sure you've got plenty of RAM for X.
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From: Erik Corry
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 9:49 AM
To: LKLawson; Ruzsinszky Attila; 'LINUX-DI@SMTP
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
Cc: 'ISDN4@SMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
Subject: Re: ISDN and diald
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:19:55PM +0100, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote:
> 486DX4, 4MB RAM (but it is expandable), HST Saphire ISA ISDN card,
1,44MB
^^^^^^^
Really called Saphir
> floppy, NE2000, no HDD. Is this config enough for an ISDN router or
not?
It's powerful enough, but I think you have too little RAM.
You will probably not be able to install Linux unless you
have at least 12MB (8 might work, but you should check your
distribution). Once it is installed, you can certainly
run with 8MB, I am not sure whether 4MB will work. If you
want to use the GUI-based administration tools (which is
probably easier if you are new to Linux) then you should
not have less than 16MB under any circumstances.
Also, the ISDN card might be a problem. It is not on the
list of supported cards by ISDN4Linux:
Supported cards
---------------
Teles 8.0/16.0/16.3 and compatible ones
Teles 16.3c
Teles S0/PCMCIA
Teles PCI
Teles S0Box
Creatix S0Box
Creatix PnP S0
Compaq ISDN S0 ISA card
AVM A1 (Fritz, Teledat 150)
AVM Fritz PCMCIA
AVM Fritz PnP
AVM Fritz PCI
ELSA Microlink PCC-16, PCF, PCF-Pro, PCC-8
ELSA Quickstep 1000
ELSA Quickstep 1000PCI
ELSA Quickstep 3000 (same settings as QS1000)
ELSA Quickstep 3000PCI
ELSA PCMCIA
ITK ix1-micro Rev.2
Eicon.Diehl Diva 2.0 ISA and PCI (S0 and U interface, no PRO version)
Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola
ASUSCOM NETWORK INC. ISDNLink 128K PC adapter (order code I-IN100-ST-D)
Dynalink IS64PH (OEM version of ASUSCOM NETWORK INC. ISDNLink 128K
adapter)
PCBIT-DP (OEM version of ASUSCOM NETWORK INC. ISDNLink)
HFC-2BS0 based cards (TeleInt SA1)
Sedlbauer Speed Card (Speed Win, Teledat 100, PCI, Fax+)
Sedlbauer Speed Star/Speed Star2 (PCMCIA)
Sedlbauer ISDN-Controller PC/104
USR Sportster internal TA (compatible Stollmann tina-pp V3)
ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH MIC 16 ISA card
Traverse Technologie NETjet PCI S0 card
Dr. Neuhaus Niccy PnP/PCI
Siemens I-Surf
Note: PCF, PCF-Pro: up to now, only the ISDN part is supported
PCC-8: not tested yet
Teles PCMCIA is EXPERIMENTAL
Teles 16.3c is EXPERIMENTAL
Teles PCI is EXPERIMENTAL
Teles S0Box is EXPERIMENTAL
Eicon.Diehl Diva U interface not tested
According to http://x12.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=241724157 it
might be compatible with the Solis-S card, but that isn't on
the list either. From http://www.high-soft-tech.de/
> You can ask why I want to use diald insted of isdnctrl. The answer:
> filtering the packets!
You can do this simply if your Internet provider lets you
use Asynchronous PPP over ISDN. This is ISDN over an X.75
connection. You simply use your normal setup, but run it
on /dev/ttyI0, which works rather like a standard AT-command
modem, but runs digitally at 64kbit/s.
It is also possible to use diald with synchronous PPP, (normal
PPP for ISDN, controlled with isdnctrl), but it is not a very
popular solution, and I don't know how difficult it is. I think
there is some info on http://www.ursusmaj.demon.co.uk
If you have more questions on ISDN4Linux, which is the software
for internal ISDN cards on Linux, you should probably look at the
newsgroup de.alt.comm.isdn4linux, which is a German or English
newsgroup, also available on www.dejanews.com or as the mailing
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