Linux-Hardware Digest #758, Volume #12 Thu, 27 Apr 00 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: help: Can't print to 2nd port of HP JetDirect EX Plus3 ("PG")
UFS on CD-R under linux? (John Rowe)
3c509b problems ("Jeffrey")
Re: ethernet card questions. (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: fatal server error (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Trio S3 3D/2D card: <ctrl>+<alt>+ <-/+> don't work,HELP! (iffy)
Can't print postscript (Thaddeus)
Re: HSP56 Micromodem is a Linmodem ("Larry")
Re: Adaptec 29160N controller (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Can't print postscript (Gerald Willmann)
Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_gesplittete_Partition_wieder_zu_einer_zusammenf=FCgen?=
(Gabriele Neukam)
Re: What is an ATHLON? (Andreas Sittig)
Re: Sound driver error. ("Thomas J. Canich")
Rage Fury 32Mb / Red Hat 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Recommendations for 3-button mouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 6.1 install says not enough memory (Svend Garnaes)
Re: ati xpert128 video card problem ("Mike S. Nowostawsky")
Re: What is an ATHLON?
Laptop,Notebook,Red Hat,Zip Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3c509b problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is an ATHLON? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Modem Recomendations (Alexis Bilodeau)
Linux NIC ("Mark Willits")
Re: UFS on CD-R under linux? (Jim McDonald)
Re: Linux NIC ("Gerry Cockram")
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From: "PG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help: Can't print to 2nd port of HP JetDirect EX Plus3
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:10:49 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8e8u8j$9qm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >
>
> try \\hpnetbox\raw2
>
>
===========
Yes....
"raw2" or "raw3" are the names of the 2nd, and 3rd print queues on the HP
Jetdirect box. ( you can also use "text" queues...)
pg
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From: John Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UFS on CD-R under linux?
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:12:19 +0000
We're looking for some removable media under linux. CD-R or CD-RW
seems to be the obvious way to go.
We're not looking to "make CDs" but to store files. If I buy the
appropriate CD drive, can we just mount a CD-R and write to it using
cp, etc? My understanding is that UFS is meant to do this but I'm not
quite sure of its status under linux.
Thanks
John
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From: "Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c509b problems
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:15:38 -0400
I cannot find the correct drivers for this network card and Mandrake 7.0.
Can anyone help me?
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card questions.
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:46:51 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First, I'm running Slackware 7.0 on a 500mhz machine, 32mb RAM.
Such a fast CPU would deserve more RAM.
> 1. I bought a generic ethernet card with a RealTek 8913 chipset.
> Slackware can't see it.
Did you try to boot with the NFS installation boot floppy (net.i)? That
kernel is able to autodetect most network cards.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fatal server error
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:50:41 +0200
yosh-puppy wrote:
> there is a "fatal server error, signal 11." Does anyone know what
> this means, or is it even a problem?
Signal 11 means segmentation violation. This could be because of a buggy
program which is trying to access a part of the memory which it doesn't
own. In your case however, I would guess that you have a broken SIMM.
Try to replace or remove each of your SIMMs and see if it helps.
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (iffy)
Subject: Re: Trio S3 3D/2D card: <ctrl>+<alt>+ <-/+> don't work,HELP!
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:38:40 GMT
Got I the savage4 working in windows now. I to do a bios update of the
S3 savage4 which is now located at VIA's website.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:17:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (iffy) wrote:
>The S3 Trio 3d is junk. I did this to get 800x600. Type Xconfigurator
>at the Prompt. When asked for video card pick S3 Trio3D from list(not
>the one with the number XXc365). Pick your monitor. You can have it
>probe but it won't do any good cause the screen resolution it picks
>won't work. Pick the 24bit 800x600 resolution. This is the only
> one I found that works. There many be others that work but 800x600 is
>good enough for me so I stopped trying at that point.
>
>I got got sick of the S3 trio3d because it really didn't even look
>steady in windows. I picked up a another card and it has the S3
>Savage4. This was easier to get working in Linux using XF86Setup. My
>problem now is the damn savage4 keeps locking up my computer when I
>run windows. It is working in Linux. I'll never buy any S3 shit again.
>
>
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:02:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Just installed RH6.1 and can't get the right video configs in it.
>>I've tried different settings with different X severs but it's still the
>>same thing: A large desktop with huge mouse pointer and
>><ctrl>+<alt>+ <-/+> don't work. Am I doing something wrong?
>>Do I need an updated xf86 server? What script can I edit to get it to
>>use different pixel configs like 800x600?
>>Please Help!
>>
>>Thanks in Advance!
>>
>>
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From: Thaddeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't print postscript
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:40:26 GMT
I have a TI Microlaser Plus postscript printer. It used to work fine on
my old computer under Mandrake 7.0 using the generic postscript printer
driver. On my new computer, I tried to set it up the same way but now it
won't work. Using printtool, I am able to configure it properly and both
ASCII and postscript test pages print fine. When I try to print from an
application that sends it anything other than ASCII, it doesn't work.
The application doesn't give any error messages and the display on the
printer flashes that it's processing the file. When it's done
processing, i.e. the time when it should normally print the document,
the printer goes back to its online idle state. I've tried printing to a
file and using lpr, but the same thing happens. I've also tired fiddling
around with the EOF switch in the printer configuration; it won't
process the file with it set, just sits there "Waiting". ASCII files
print fine using both lpr and from inside applications. It's set up
exactly the same as it was on my old computer. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. TIA.
-Thadd Selden
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From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HSP56 Micromodem is a Linmodem
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:50:42 -1000
So you are saying that you got your winmodem online? I notice that you
posted using Microsoft Outlook Express.. Can you post here with your freebie
version of Netscape Linux ver?
"Coutal Fancois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8e94u6$n8b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Internal card badly named « Host Signal Processor »according to the
> modem-HOWTO, requiring 16 MB and Win95/98/NT according to my motherboard's
> manual, composed of an analogic DAA module (Direct Access Arrangement) and
> sharing the capabilities of an onboard modem/sound ASIC (C-media cmi8738),
> HSP56 Micromodem is running under Linux after a recompilation of the
kernel
> with the files of the archiv cmpci-2.41.tar and AMR pctel.o driver's
> installation (see site www of paragraph 4.4 modem-HOWTO)
>
>
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160N controller
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:57:15 +0200
Anthony White wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use the new Adaptec 29160N SCSI controller
> card. Has anyone here tried this card with RedHat 6.x
> or any other distribution?
>
The current version of the aic7xxx driver supports it . To check , if
the aic7xxx drivers coming with your distribution support it, install
the kernel sources and read /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't print postscript
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:08:53 -0700
could you post your /etc/printcap file
have you tried catting a postscript file to /dev/lp0 or lp1
I installed a postscript printer yesterday and here is my printcap
##PRINTTOOL## LOCAL djet500 300x300 letter {}
#lp:\
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
# :mx#0:\
# :lp=/dev/lp1:\
# :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
# :sh:
# Optra 40
lp:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
you see that the new postscript printer doesn't even need a print filter
like the old deskjet did (the if= part).
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabriele Neukam)
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.misc,de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_gesplittete_Partition_wieder_zu_einer_zusammenf=FCgen?=
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:06:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:21:12 +0200, Ulli Rain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had
the will and imagination to describe the world as such:
>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:44:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Gabriele Neukam) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:34:43 +0200, Ulli Rain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had
>>the will and imagination to describe the world as such:
>>
>><Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8>
>> ^^^^^^
>>Koenntest Du das bitte in mime oder iso-8859-1 aendern? Es ist nahezu
>>unlesbar!
>
>Danke für den Tipp, ich hatte nicht gemerkt, dass mein Agent irgendwie
>Schaden genommen hatte. Konnte dann auch nichts mehr einstellen und
>musste neu installieren. Hoffe, dass jetzt alles besser ist.
Ja, ist es jetzt. Danke sehr.
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From: Andreas Sittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is an ATHLON?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:19:16 +0200
If you are programming BIOS updates yourself, skip this post.
David Acklam wrote:
...
> As for motherboards, the FIC SD-13 (www.fica.com) is the current best bet.
> It has the usual PCI and AGP slots, as well as a single ISA. No onboard
> sound or video on this board (better - less compatibility problems) either.
> It supports all current Athlon CPUs...
...
I have to comment on this. DON'T go for any "current best bet" before
having checked the BIOS update page of the motherboard manufacturer.
Take a close look at the BIOSes for his socket 7 motherboards with the
Intel HX chipset. (The Intel HX is somewhat more relevant than other
chipsets since there was no other socket 7 chipset supporting 512 MB of
RAM available for quite a while.) Now, if the AMD K6-3 (Model 9) is
supported, you can expect to get a BIOS update for your motherboard once
you will want to switch to AMD's Thunderbird or other future
processor(s).
>From my experience, FIC doesn't care much about motherboards it once
produced, Gigabyte is a tiny little bit better (it has much less
different models) and ASUSes support for older hardware is quite okay.
Andreas Sittig
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From: "Thomas J. Canich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound driver error.
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:14:12 -0400
Yes, looks that way. Also, why not load it as a modules, much more
flexible that way, and you can save some memory... ;)
tom
"If you can't win on the scoreboard, hit them with your fists."
--Mike, on the penguins losing to the islanders
On 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I get an odd error when my kernel (2.2.14) boots:
>
> Found OPL3-SA3 (YMF715)
> <MS Sound System (CS4231)> at 0x534 irq 5 dma 1
> ad1848: Interrupt test failed (IRQ 5)
>
> Everything else works normally. The board is a Yamaha OPL3-SAx. The
> driver is compiled into the kernel (not a module).
>
> Does this basically mean that I need to recompile the kernel so that it
> isn't looking for an MS Sound System?
>
> --J
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rage Fury 32Mb / Red Hat 6.1
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:15:53 GMT
Hi i have installed Red Hat 6.1 and upgrade xfree86 to 4.0 but it always
takes mach64 as driver, can u help me get my Xserver run.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recommendations for 3-button mouse
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:24:48 GMT
Sorry my mistake... take out :
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 100
You don't need this since the mouse has 3 buttons (the wheel is also
button #2)
With this change I get the full functionality of the wheel mouse
under Gnome (actually I tested it on a Gnome Terminal Application) :
Button #1 : Selects text (ie Cut)
Button #3 : Entends area selected
Button #2 (ie press wheel) : Paste text
Button #4 and #5 (rotate wheel up or down) : Scrolls text up or down
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:50:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >The one I am using (without any problem so far) on my Gateway 9300CX
> >Portable (which only supports PS/2 mice) under RedHat 6.1
> >is a PS/2 wheel mouse by Memorex (Part No. 3202-2363).
> >
> >Section "Pointer" in my XF86Config has the following lines:
> > Protocol "IMPS/2"
> > Device "/dev/mouse"
> > ZAxisMapping 4 5
> > Emulate3Buttons
> > Emulate3Timeout 100
>
> Hi. I have a Gateway model 550 with some unknown PS/2 Intellimouse
> clone. Does your mouse wheel work in X? Also why the emulate 3
> buttons? On mine the wheel press works fine as button 2, but rotating
> the mouse wheel is seen as mouse motion rather than a button 4 or
> button 5 click(even though I have the ZAxisMapping 4 5 as you have.)
>
> (Even running imwheel when I rotate the mouse wheel the cursor
> just moves infinitesimally up or down. Weird!)
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
> --
>
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
> -- Groucho Marx
>
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From: Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 install says not enough memory
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:30:27 +0200
Some Linux distros appear to suffer from software/resource
bloat the same as M$-Windows.
I was told Linux did particularly well on old iron, so I
resurrected an old 486DX50 with 20MB RAM, installed a
decent IDE disk and called it a fileserver. This was
back in RH5.2 days; the system installed from local
CD-ROM like a breeze. Worked flawlessly too, serving
nfs and samba for my network clients. Always up.
No X installed, just consoles.
About a year later I attempted to upgrade the fileserver
to RH6.1 - but the upgrade was painfully slow, and disk
activity inordinately high.
Turned out the #$@! python interpreter (or whatever it is)
used by the installer ate shitloads of RAM, so the poor
box ground to a halt swapping ...
I ended up doing the server upgrade from a network client.
Of course where there's Linux there's a way, but the
experience left me a little worried anyway.
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From: "Mike S. Nowostawsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ati xpert128 video card problem
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:39:31 -0400
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2000 15:10:54 GMT, Michael Borgwardt
> <<8e9l9u$anp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> shouted forth into the ether:
> >Could you please lend me your time machine? Or at least give
> >me a copy of "Linux 6.1"?
> >(Hint: Red Hat is *not* equal to Linux, the currently most recent
> >Linux is 2.5)
>
> <PEDANTIC> I think you mean 2.3.99-pre5. If you have 2.5.x, could I
> borrow *your* time machine? </PEDANTIC>
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
Yeah, that was very helpful. Any other snide comments or can we get back to the
questions at hand?
--
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: What is an ATHLON?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:45:24 GMT
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:49:09 -0500, David Acklam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>yes... Athlon is AMD's first actual success at being the worlds greatest CPU
>company (in quality, at least)...
>
>As for motherboards, the FIC SD-13 (www.fica.com) is the current best bet.
>It has the usual PCI and AGP slots, as well as a single ISA. No onboard
>sound or video on this board (better - less compatibility problems) either.
>It supports all current Athlon CPUs...
One ISA slot? Such cheapness pisses me off! Putting an ISA slot next to
a PCI slot doesn't use another slot and costs <$5.
I had a modem, pcmcia interface and a soundcard and only two isa slots on
my motherboard.
I had to do w/out the soundcard till I switched to a cable modem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Laptop,Notebook,Red Hat,Zip Drive
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:14:41 GMT
Anybody facing problems with configuring the zip drive with the
notebook ?
I have a Dell inspiron 3000 with PCMCIA and
Pentium MMX 233 with 64MB RAM.
OS is Red Hat 6.1 Workstation.
I had to load parport.o
along with parport_pc.o and parport_cs.o.
Thus...
mod probe parport.o
mod probe parport_pc.o
mod probe parport_cs.o
mod probe imm.o (or mod probe ppa.o)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3c509b problems
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:27:56 GMT
In article <8e9sgm$a47$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I cannot find the correct drivers for this network card and Mandrake
7.0.
> Can anyone help me?
>
>
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux.htm
-roosteR
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is an ATHLON?
Date: 27 Apr 2000 16:24:39 -0400
Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Toolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Just curious, why would anyone want an ISA slot anyway. In the world of
> > computing, ISA is equal to "Hard Rubber Tires". I'm not trying to be a
> > smart a--, I'm just curious. Besides, from what I've read about Linux, it
> > doesn't want to see any ISA boards either. ISA technology is too old.
>
> Three reasons -- the best one is that AFAIK there are still no ISA
> Winmodems.
this is unfortunately horribly untrue. there were winmodems (as in
software modems requiring windows not confined to usr/3com) before
there were PCI modems.
<URL:http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/20000426a.html>
many ISA modems are real modems. many are not.
nearly all PCI modems are software modems. *some* are not.
if you want to be safe, look for external modem with rs-232c interface.
> The second is that if you have an ISA board you want to
> move to your new machine, you need to have an ISA slot to put it in.
> Finally, it is still frequently the case that if somebody has an ISA
> board and a PCI board with the same functionality, the ISA board is
> cheaper.
> --
> Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
> Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
> New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
> VL 2000 Homepage: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/
>
>
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Recomendations
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:49:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a Rockwell Conexant chipset modem. Is this
> a winmodem? Also does anyone have any good
> recommendations on PCI internal modems? Which
> ones work well?
>
> David Findlay
>
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> Before you buy.
There's some US Robotics modems that are PCI and non-winmodem. (hardware
controller). You could give it a try, I'm sure you'd be well served.
The model name is CONDOR.
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Alexis Bilodeau
eMagiK Technologies
819.371.9273
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From: "Mark Willits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux NIC
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:44:29 -0500
Does anyone know where I can get a cheap NIC that works with red hat Linux?
Thanks.
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From: Jim McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UFS on CD-R under linux?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:57:06 -0700
John Rowe wrote:
>
> We're looking for some removable media under linux. CD-R or CD-RW
> seems to be the obvious way to go.
>
> We're not looking to "make CDs" but to store files. If I buy the
> appropriate CD drive, can we just mount a CD-R and write to it using
> cp, etc? My understanding is that UFS is meant to do this but I'm not
> quite sure of its status under linux.
>
> Thanks
UFS read is available via patch for 2.2.X, and in the kernel for 2.3.X,
but write is experimental under 2.3.X. I've used 2.3.99-preX read, but
not write.
--
Jim McDonald
SLAC
Group EC, M/S 95
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From: "Gerry Cockram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux NIC
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:05:48 EDT
D-Link DFE 530TX 10/100 pci card.
costs about $30 at Best Buy and works great.
"Mark Willits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ea8rg$140$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know where I can get a cheap NIC that works with red hat
Linux?
> Thanks.
>
>
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