Linux-Hardware Digest #297, Volume #14 Sun, 4 Feb 01 16:13:05 EST
Contents:
add hard drive for linux installation ("john c bailey")
Guillemot Maxisound Fortissimo (Niklas Rauchenberger)
Re: XBox - a Linux port ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mounting Win 2000 in Linux. (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Redhat 7.0 (Mark Bratcher)
Re: add hard drive for linux installation (Mark Bratcher)
Re: add hard drive for linux installation ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: Cluster SIZE for ext2... (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: CT5880 Sound chipset ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Recommendations for ethernet cards and other hardware wanted... (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: installation problems ("bz")
What ALSA Compatible Soundcard would you recommend? ("Andy Moore")
Re: USB to Serial converter question... (John Thompson)
Light + long battery life ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cluster SIZE for ext2... ("Peter T. Breuer")
SE440BX-2 on-board sound (Ephraim Gadsby)
smc-ultra network card (Jochen Henneberg)
Re: cannot dial modem through ttySx (Darren Davison)
Re: Light + long battery life ? (Paul Rubin)
Reading serial port demands statserial? (Giles Morant)
Re: wireless network hub ("Juergen Seyffer")
Re: Recommendations for ethernet cards and other hardware wanted... (Craig Orsinger)
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From: "john c bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: add hard drive for linux installation
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 09:16:11 -0800
Just bought 30GB HD to install in my PC to run (and learn) Linux. Where can
I get specific installation instructions for the drive. Western Digital
install guide only covered master/slave install.
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From: Niklas Rauchenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Guillemot Maxisound Fortissimo
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:22:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
have this card; red hat 7.0 and this prob:
sndconfig says correctly ymf-744b and in /etc/modules.conf also
appears ymf-744b, but
i can't hear the example any any other wavs
any hints out there????
niklas rauchenberger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XBox - a Linux port ?
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:13:36 GMT
>
> John Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > After looking recently at the h/w specs on the Microsoft XBox gaming
> > station it seems like this would be a GREAT Linux box ... and if it
> > has a price tag like most game stations it would be a 'good buy'.
> >
> > So ... does this seem like a good target for a Linux port ?
> >
> > JohnS
>
>
Someone PLEASE do it, you'd be a hero!!!
John W
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Mounting Win 2000 in Linux.
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:24:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Bratcher wrote:
>On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 21:42:23 GMT, Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hello, I have windows 2000 Prof. Edition and My hard drive is shared, I
>>would like to know if I can mount the file system (FAT 32 I didn't change it
>>to NTFS (At least not yet) ) onto my linux computer running RH 6.2. If you
>>can provide me with this information I would greatly appreciate it....
>>Thanks
>>
>>Ahmed
>>
>
>Ahmed,
>
>I think you have two choices:
>
>1) Run Samba on the Linux box and mount the shared drive as an smbfs file
>system drive on the Linux box, or
>
>2) Run PCNFS or equivalent on the Windows 2000 box and mount the share as
>an nfs mount on the Linux box.
>
>I believe choice #1 is the most popular.
>
>HTH
>
Ahmed,
Sorry, I misunderstood you to be saying that you wanted to access it remotely.
The other posts in reply to yours give you the correct answer. :-)
--
Mark Bratcher
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:29:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pierre wrote:
>Anybory knows if Redhat 7.0 work properly with IBM ServeRaid SCSI
>Controller with firmware 4.30 or if this controller work with Linux
>Kernel 2.2.16 ?
>
>Thanks.
>Pierre.
>
Pierre,
If you don't hear any direct experiences here, try looking up your
controller on www.linhardware.com and see what they have. I know
I've seen an IBM ServeRAID 3L there and they marked it 5 out of 5
for compatibility.
HTH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: add hard drive for linux installation
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:31:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, john c bailey wrote:
>Just bought 30GB HD to install in my PC to run (and learn) Linux. Where can
>I get specific installation instructions for the drive. Western Digital
>install guide only covered master/slave install.
John,
Can you explain a little further what you plan to do?
Is this the only drive in the PC? If not, is it master or slave?
Do you plan to have only Linux running, or both Windows and Linux?
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: add hard drive for linux installation
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 12:52:01 -0500
john c bailey wrote:
>
> Just bought 30GB HD to install in my PC to run (and learn) Linux. Where can
> I get specific installation instructions for the drive. Western Digital
> install guide only covered master/slave install.
What info do you need? Do we need to start at "remove case cover" or
are we further along than that :-)
I use WD exclusively (no it's not religion, they've always been good for
me). Normally I plug in the power cable, plug in the ribbon, power up
and boot.
Between the booklet, quick install guide, and the floppy it comes with
you can do most anything except make an ext2 file system and swap
partition.
Are you using an onboard or offboard udma 33/66/100 controller?
Do you have an existing linux install or are you starting from scratch?
--
Rinaldi]$
Nothing left to say.
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Subject: Re: Cluster SIZE for ext2...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 04 Feb 2001 13:03:56 -0500
"Radix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know the cluster size for the ext2 filesystem...???
ext2 doesn't use clusters. It uses blocks (and apparently fragments,
although for the life of me I can't find the code that does it).
Basically, ext2 filesystems are split into block groups, each of which
has a duplicate copy of the superblock (very roughly equivalent to a
boot sector). Each block group has a bunch of inode blocks and data
blocks. Each inode (which is a file, directory, or other) contains 12
direct block pointers to represent the first 12 data blocks of a
file. There's also an indirect block pointer, which is a pointer to a
data block: that block is full of direct block pointers. Inodes also
contain double- and triple-indirect block pointers, which point to
data blocks full of indirect or double-indirect block pointers,
respectively.
> Does it depend on the size of the partition that is being used?
A little bit, yes. I've got a 50MB partition here that uses a 1KB
block size, and a 60GB one that uses a 4KB block size. You'll note
that it doesn't grow as quickly as you might expect.
> For instance, 8GB partitions under FAT32 use 4KB clusters. Anything
> greater than an 8GB partition under FAT32 would use 16KB or
> greater... This all equals a great drive waste...
I don't understand how fragments are used, but theoretically (based on
BSD's FFS documentation) blocks can also be split up into smaller
fragments, further reducing drive waste. (The example BSD uses is a
4KB block size with a 1KB fragment size, so I'll use that.) Basically,
files which don't use an entire 4KB block may only use, for example,
two 1KB fragments in the last block. The next file being allocated
can use those two fragments for some of its data before moving onto a
full block.
In this way, the paper claims, FFS (and presumably ext2) can reduce FS
space overhead almost to what 1KB-block FSes use.
> Someone said that you could select your own partition size in linux! Is
> this true? If so, how???
I assume you mean "block size." The value mke2fs picks for you is
almost always the best one, and you should stick with it unless you
have a compelling reason to do so. But yes, you can pick the block
size when you create the filesystem; `man mke2fs'.
You can also get the values in your filesystem's superblock using
tune2fs. This includes the block size and a bunch of other
interesting (to hackers) information. `tune2fs -l
/dev/your-root-fs-dev'.
There's a terse, high-level explanation of some of this crap, if
you're interested, at:
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html
That being said, this topic isn't really appropriate for this
newsgroup.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CT5880 Sound chipset
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:56:19 GMT
thanks for your help.
My soundconfig still can't work.
I built a new kernel with es1371 driver but doesn't work.
if i run lspci I see ensoniq: unknow device.
i'm running red hat 6.1, not sure which version of kernel.
May the problem be inside include/linux/pci.h, where the chipset is not
listed?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 with the same chipset on and can't
make
> > it work.
> > sndconfig recognizes it as 1274:5880 (???).
> > Any help appreciated!
> >
> > In article <9GYe6.191469$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Richard Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have a Duron 600 system with a Gigabyte GA-7ZX motherboard. It
has
> > a
> > > CT5880 chipset on board for sound support. Anyone have any luck
> > getting
> > > sound to work on this configuration? (yes, I have enabled the
sound
> > card
> > > in bios, I tried the drivers from opensource.creative.com)
> > >
> > > Any help is appreciated.
> > >
> > > Rich
>
> This soundchip works with a newer es1371.o module. A guy at work has
the
> Sound Blaster PCI128 running under SuSE 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16, modified
by
> SuSE). I have exactly the same hardware configuration in the office,
but
> running SuSE 6.3 (2.2.13 based, IIRC). No sound with this
configuration
> (time to upgrade...). My home system has 5880 based on board sound.
> Works fine with unmodified 2.2.18 Kernel.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Recommendations for ethernet cards and other hardware wanted...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 04 Feb 2001 13:17:12 -0500
Followups set to colh.
"Dr. Ram Samudrala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Most of these machines will be used for heavy computing. So for these
> machines I need a cheap video card,
At Staples, a Voodoo3 was actually the cheapest card - with the $20
mail-in rebate, it was only something like $55.
You can probably find cheaper if you work at it, though.
> a fast ethernet card (currently we use the Intel Etherexpress Pro
> ones which we're fairly happy with) priced around $50-$100,
EEPros are expensive, but, IMO, worth the money.
Only ever had one problem with them, and I suspect that it's
motherboard-related (card has been living happily in a different slot
for two weeks now with zero problems).
> large disks (what is the largest IDE disk supported by Linux today -
> can I get the Maxtor 80 GB drives?),
I dunno, but if necessary you can get several "small" drives (like,
40GB) and tack them together using software RAID or LVM.
> and dual processors (right now I'm looking at 1 GHz PIIIs -- how
> reliable are the 1.2 GHz ones?).
No idea, just stay away from the i840 chipset for the time being.
Which sucks, because it's significantly easier to find (and thus
usually cheaper) than comparable ServerWorks boards.
> A few of these machines will be used for desktop work which will
> involve extensive graphics. So for these, what's a good video card
> that'll work well under Linux (up to, say $200-300)?
Never had any problems with my TNT2, which ought to cost less than half
your maximum by now. A Linux hacker friend of mine warns me that some
older TNT2s have problems (which are not Linux-related), but that's
the first I'd heard of it.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "bz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installation problems
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:14:14 GMT
>> What do you mean by "find"? You mean the results of a bios scan for
devices?
Yes, that was what I was referring to.
In any case, I fixed it. I replaced one of the cables, and it works. I have
my harddrive as the primary master and my cdrom as the secondary master.
But I have run into another problem: I can't get Redhat6.2 to boot off the
CD. Now I have tried booting it on another computer, and that worked fine.
So it's not the CD itself. Next I tried using a floppy boot disk image, and
while it booted up, it couldn't "find" my harddrive nor cdrom (although when
it booted, it recognized the harddrive on hda and the cdrom on hdc, which is
where they're suppose to be). However, the installation program refused to
take notice of them and I was stuck.
Oh, and I tryed booting Win98 via a CD, and it booted fine. So booting via
CD does work...
Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it....
Regards,
-Marc
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> bz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > think its just the motherboard. Any time I hook either one or both up
to
> > the the primary master/slave, the BIOS doesn't even bother to boot - I
just
>
> Then that's a hardware error, full stop.
>
> Remember that some drives need jumpering in funny ways. Conner drives
> in particular nneded to be jumpered differently according to what drive
> tehy shared with.
>
> > get a blank screen when I power up. However, if I put either one on the
> > secondary master/slave, it will find it correctly. And if I put them
both on
> > the secondary, it will only find the cdrom. So the only thing I can
think of
>
> What do you mean by "find"? You mean the results of a bios scan for
> devices?
>
> Peter
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From: "Andy Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What ALSA Compatible Soundcard would you recommend?
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:27:25 -0000
Hello All,
I'm planning to get my home music studio back up and running, but this time
with my PC as part of the rig. I'm also planning on doing some programming
project work to do with software synthesis and effects, under Linux, mainly
because the tools and the docs are readily available. I've currently got an
old SoundBlaster 16 ISA card, but it's not really up to the job (high CPU
overhead, can't handle 16 bit full duplex, noisy preamps etc), so I'm
looking for a PCI card to replace it with.
What card would you guys recommend? I was hoping to get a SoundBlaster Live
Platinum once the price came down a bit, but the 'lovely' people at Creative
in the UK decided to add a load of Dolby Digital stuff to it (which is of no
use to the semi-pro music types that were buying it), and put the price UP!
I now cannot find anywhere in the UK selling this card, and I can't really
afford its replacement.
I'm looking for any card supported by ALSA for at least MIDI interface and
PCM (yes I know that's a moving target, but lets just say the drivers
available as of today). It must be PCI (not tough), handle 16 bit full
duplex, have a low noise rating (I don't want any snap, crackle and pop!),
and a low signal latency.
Useful but not essential stuff would be on board MIDI 5 pin DIN sockets,
Optical SP/DIF (or the option of an upgrade daughterboard) so I can master
to my MiniDisc, and a decent sounding on board synth unit.
Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks in advance,
Andy
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB to Serial converter question...
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 12:12:12 -0600
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> MadCat13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Here's my problem. My system has one of those crappy winmodems built onto
> > the motherboard and no serial port.
>
> > I've already got a serial port modem (Best Data 56K)from another comp.
>
> > I'm going to use the 2.4.1 kernel. Will I have any problems using one of
> > the Keyspan USB to serial converters to use this modem, or do I need to just
> > get a USB modem. Or am I just screwed.
> Uh .. I am not sure what you mean. If you have a serial port modem,
> then just use it! Oh, I seee ... No serial port. That's amazing! OK,
> yes you will have to try a usb to serial converter. Belkin ones seem to
> be supported by the kernel, but check on www.linux-usb.org.
Or you could get a cheap I/O card with a couple serial ports on
it and plug it into an open slot.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Light + long battery life ?
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 19:58:08 GMT
Speed is not important (i.e., pentium-200 class is ok). Light weight
(<3lbs) and battery life (>=8hours) is, as is the ability to run emacs
(25*80), perl, and C. Naturally, this requires keyboard connectivity or
a keyboard. Either floppy disk or ethernet connectivity is a must.
Modem would be nice. Serial connectivity (especially the non-USB
variety) is a pain, to say the least.
Does this exist?
/iaw
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cluster SIZE for ext2...
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 20:25:52 GMT
Eric P. McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Radix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's a terse, high-level explanation of some of this crap, if
> you're interested, at:
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html
Do you happen to know what the ext2 changes are between 2.2.17 and
2.2.18? They seem to have introduced "generations".
I have just failed in two different ways to port e2compr 0.37 forward
from my working 2.2.15 code up to 2.2.18. I get it into 2.2.17 no
trouble. The visible problem is in inode.c, which has been beaten
on badly. But there must be semantic changes that I need to know about
elsewhere.
> That being said, this topic isn't really appropriate for this
> newsgroup.
Peter
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From: Ephraim Gadsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SE440BX-2 on-board sound
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 20:25:31 GMT
Did anyone ever work-out how to access the on-board yamaha sound on
the intel SE440BX-2 motherboard?
I am using Redhat 7 and it is not working at all.
I have searched online, but mostly turned-up questions. The only thing
I found was 'Open Sound System' which is not free, and if I have to
spend money, I would rather spend it on a new sound card.
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From: Jochen Henneberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smc-ultra network card
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:25:31 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to run a smc-ultra network card, the modprobe command on
the jumper configured card (io=0x300, irq=10) works without error messages
and the modules:
smc-ultra
8390 [used by smc-ultra]
are installed. After that I mount the card using ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.3
and try a ping on another computer, but nothing happens!!!
How could that be, another network card in the same computer works
fine (using the ne module)!!!!
Thanks for help,
Bye,
Jochen Henneberg
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From: Darren Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot dial modem through ttySx
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 20:35:07 +0000
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> > suggest a method, and typing commands directly into the main part of
> > minicom's screen produced no result either. Of course this could very
>
> Then your modem does not work. End of story.
>
the modem definately works, I can use it on a windoze box.
> > reset/hangup/initialize, I see the modem lights flicker or light up
> > suggesting that *something* is getting through.
>
> Yep, but apparently not enough. Looks like your wiring is messed, or
> the port is, or the modem is. Your move.
>
ok, thanks. As long as I know I'm operating minicom correctly which I
wasn't sure about then it must be the port.
> At least you confirmed that you started minicom on the right port!
> (Did you check what the serial port was set to in minicom?)
yes, it is the correct one.
>
> Peter
Thanks for the response,
D
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From: Paul Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Light + long battery life ?
Date: 04 Feb 2001 12:38:29 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Speed is not important (i.e., pentium-200 class is ok). Light weight
> (<3lbs) and battery life (>=8hours) is, as is the ability to run emacs
> (25*80), perl, and C. Naturally, this requires keyboard connectivity or
> a keyboard. Either floppy disk or ethernet connectivity is a must.
> Modem would be nice. Serial connectivity (especially the non-USB
> variety) is a pain, to say the least.
>
> Does this exist?
No, not really. The closest you'll come is probably a WinCE-class unit.
Anything with a hard disk or a continuously backlit screen will need more
than 3 pounds of batteries to run for 8 hours.
Try something like an IBM Workpad Z50 and a PocketLinux port.
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From: Giles Morant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reading serial port demands statserial?
Date: 4 Feb 2001 20:41:40 GMT
I'm trying to write a program which makes an mp3 player remote control
by having a keypad connecting to the serial port. It all works very well
using simple bash scripts and checking /proc/tty/drivers/serial for the
various lines being on. The problem is that it only works when statserial
is running as root on the same port. Even though I have full rw
privileges to /dev/ttyS0 it still doesn't like me!!! Does statserial open
the port in some way?? How do I do it? I can't seem to find the source
for statserial anywhere?
Can anybody help?
--
--
Giles RC Morant
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From: "Juergen Seyffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wireless network hub
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:59:17 +0100
Hello Bernd
I have read about this Apple Airport. Is there a way to configure this Hub
with Linux or any other OS then Mac OS.
Regards
Juergen
"Bernd Huebenett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I am using an Apple Airport Basestation as a Bridge between the wired
> and the wireless LAN. Shure, it could act as an Internet Router but i
> don't use this function, cause I have a seperate ISDN Router for this.
>
> Bye,
> Bernd
>
> kellyboy wrote:
> >
> > I was looking around the Internet to find a solution to wireless...
> >
> > I'm supposed to receive laptop soon (from my sister...she's decided to
keep
> > it or give it to me ...anyway ) and it's more realistic to use wireless
than
> > retrofitting my house with cat 5 cable all over the attic where phone
line
> > runs to each room...
> >
> > I have a small network at home with cable modem "behind" my linux
firewall
> > server
> >
> > wireless is better...so what product the world have to offer for
> > wireless...???
> >
> > to my dismay... almost every single one are either MSwindow dependent or
> > access point (that has router to provide internet sharing).
> >
> > I have this one linuxbox that act as firewall where my cable modem is
> > connecting to it... and that firewall is then connected to switching hub
> > where all computer are connected to it... now I want wireless but I
rather
> > keep my linux firewall because it has far more functionality than those
> > wireless access point...
> >
> > ...when will that stupid idiot at networking product company get around
to
> > building a wireless 'hub' that function just like a ethernet hub...that
has
> > "uplink port" and an antenna..."without" router/firewall built in (which
are
> > not really that customizable and flexible as home brew linux firewall)
> >
> > sheesh...why can't they build one without router.....???????????
> >
> > kellyboy
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From: Craig Orsinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Recommendations for ethernet cards and other hardware wanted...
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:00:19 GMT
Robert Bunn wrote:
>
[snip]
> I've got a couple-year old BIOS, Slackware 7.1, home-built 2.2.16 kernel, AMD
> K-2 400MHz. I bought one of those Maxtor 81GB HD's in a fit of optimism, and
> almost gave up on getting it to work in a fit of pessimism, but turns out it
> works just fine with my setup. I d/l'ed the partitioning software that Maxtor
> provides, and created all the partitions I was going to use: an 8GB (as the
> first) for Win98, a 128 (maybe slightly more) MB to be used as swap, another
> 8GB for linux root and main storage, and the rest on a fat32 for storage use
> shared by both OSes.
Nice to see that this software's Linux-compatible (or perhaps,
"not Linux-incompatible" would be a better way of putting it).
> One caveat: I didn't have much success with getting linux to work with it with
> the first partition over about 8GB. I'm not sure exactly why, or if it would've
> worked if I had played with it a little more, but now that I've got it working,
> I'm not trashing my disk just to figure it out. ;)
Some versions of Linux don't seem to like having more than
1024 cylinders in the boot partition - IOW, the partition containing
the kernel - on IDE disks. RedHat insists on you setting up a separate
partition for the /boot directory under these circumstances. If your
current setup ever becomes untenable, you may want to try this.
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