Linux-Hardware Digest #214, Volume #9 Mon, 18 Jan 99 23:13:52 EST
Contents:
Re: My partition choice (Christopher Browne)
Any TV/Video combo cards supported? ("Matt Vrablik")
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Darin Johnson)
Re: WinDriver supports Linux!! (Grant Leslie)
"Did not find valid FSINFO signature" (Manolo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa?=)
LPX/NLX Motherboards and Linux (Chris Heller)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Darin Johnson)
tar file portability (Dave Lamb)
Re: Linux + X11 + Millenium AGP (Michael Meissner)
Re: My partition choice (Michael Meissner)
Air Filters: making your own... (Ray Eads)
Re: Total newbie hardware questions for Linux on 486 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Large disk SCSI in old machine? (Bill Goffe)
Re: which distribution package do you recommend? (Gary)
Re: linux modem/ppp dramas...still ("Ronald BAL")
DIGITAL AM7990 ethernet card (Georg Schwarz)
Re: My partition choice (DaZZa)
Re: Printing Epson C500 (Frank Hahn)
3com 3c905b card loses Mac address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound in Linux?!? (Chris)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:16:37 GMT
On 18 Jan 1999 11:17:10 -0500, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radovan Brako) writes:
>
>> 1. Separate partitions are really necessary on multiuser or server
>> machines, where there is a serious risk that a vital service will
>> be starved of disk space while the machine is unattended. For
>> personal workstations, it is often best to leave everything as
>> a single partition, except, of course, swap.
>
>It is still useful for system data to be separated from user data (so that when
>you run out of space in your home directory storing all of those gif/jpeg/mp3
>files, it doesn't effect the normal running of the system.
More reasons; later...
>> 2. I think that the most recent stable kernel (2.0.36) still has the
>> limit of 128 k swap partition. You can make two or more swap
>> partitions though.
>
>Yep for 2.0.xx, but 2.2.0 is coming.
>
>> 3. /proc doesn't need disk space.
>>
>> 4. If you still decide to make several partitions, the /usr partition
>> you propose is huge, /var large, /tmp and /home smallish. Note
>> that user data for all applications will reside in /home, temporary
>> runtime data in /tmp or /usr/tmp.
>
>/usr tends to be static once you load stuff (and in fact can be mounted
>read-only if paranoid), /var has all of the files that change at runtime,
>including the log files (which must be pruned every so often, see something
>like logrotate or concot your own). /tmp is used by various programs,
>including the compiler (unless you use the -pipe option) to hold intermediate
>files. On some of the systems at work, I have found that the initial 16 meg
>/tmp size sysadmin provided is not enough, and I needed to set TMPDIR to point
>to a different location (but then I compile big apps all of the time, you might
>not). Right now, my system looks like:
My preference is to make sure that:
a) /usr/local is on its own partition, and
b) /home is on its own partition.
Having these things separable from the rest of the system is really
attractive in that it means that if, for *whatever* reason, you conclude
that your system is pretty messed up, and want to reinstall, you can do
so without any need to disturb the data and configuration that you've
set up yourself.
This also gives the option of trying out different distributions. When
I changed over from Slackware to Caldera, and then to Red Hat, my "user"
information never got disturbed, because it was on partitions that the
install process didn't touch.
--
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: "Matt Vrablik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any TV/Video combo cards supported?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:00:31 -0800
I'm building up a pc machine, and was originally planning on getting a
basic diamond video card, but had seen an ad for a combo tv/video card: is
there any such device supported in linux, or am I completely dreaming? If
not, is something such as a diamond speedstar 8meg a good choice? Any
advice appreciated.
-matt
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From: Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: 18 Jan 1999 13:47:23 -0800
"Andy Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've found that watching Apple is often a good way to tell where the PC
> world is going, and Apple isn't putting serial ports on the iMacs or the new
> Blue G3s.
Apple is also gambling too. If there aren't a lot of peripherals
available at prices close to normal prices, the technology will take a
long time to catch on. This is the Mac world remember, where people
don't upgrade just because they've changed the calendar on the wall
again. Maybe in the PC world where you have a significant minority of
users who upgrade with each new game purchase, then you can foist
replacement technology (instead of alternate side-by-side technology).
Of course, for new buyers, they may not see anything wrong. They may
assume an internal modem is better than an external serial one. They
may just accept what the salesperson says and buy the more expensive
USB printer.
> Oh yeah, and no floppies.
This I think is stupid. New users won't care, but why would an
existing Mac user, with a box full of software they already have on
floppy, want to upgrade? Sure, they can buy an external floppy drive,
but that's rubbing salt into the wound. Basically, this was a Steve
Jobs directive. Maybe for an iMac it makes more sense, those are
designed for people not used to doing a lot of computing and thus
won't notice it's missing and won't have existing software they need
to transfer (and they won't know to backup that important document
onto floppy either, so they won't miss it there).
--
Darin Johnson
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the
Frobozz Magic Hacking Company, or any other Frobozz affiliates.
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From: Grant Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WinDriver supports Linux!!
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:27:51 -0400
Free 30 Day Evaluation?
*sigh*.. not quite there yet....
Are they trying to say you need to pay even more to use the hardware in
Linux? And at the very least, there no hope of getting the driver in the
Linux kernel this way.......
> For a free 30 day evaluation download and for more information, please visit
> our website at http://www.krftech.com.
>
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From: Manolo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Did not find valid FSINFO signature"
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:30:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all.
I have a strange problem with a disk I recently installed in my Red Hat
5.2.
When I try to mount a vfat (FAT32) partition, the system mounts it OK,
but it prints the message:
fat_clusters_flush: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. Found
0x534f4453. offset 0x1e0
fat_read_super: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. Found 0x534f4453
Everything seems OK, but the "df" command tells me there is no space
left on the volume:
# df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdc1 1314761 882106 364718 71% /
/dev/hda2 2020364 476590 1439352 25% /opt
/dev/hdc3 183479 26560 147444 15% /home
/dev/hda1 4224484 4224484 0 100% /dosc
And, of course, I can only read the volume.
If it helps, the systems prints the following messages on boot time:
Partition check:
hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
I tried to do an "fdisk /MBR" on Win95; and I even altered the files
/usr/src/linux/fs/fat/inode.c and /usr/src/linux/fs/fat/misc.c to force
the system accept my signature, but that was no solution at all (in
fact, "df" told me that I had 12 Tbytes free in a volume of -126526566
bytes, or something like that).
The disk is a Seagate "hda:ST36531A, 6204MB w/128kB Cache,
CHS=790/255/63, UDMA".
Can anyone help me?.
Thanks in advance.
==========================================
Jayr Al-Dyn
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (without 0)
http://personal.redestb.es/magaral
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From: Chris Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPX/NLX Motherboards and Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:40:41 -0500
Does anyone have any experience running Linux on an NLX or LPX
form-factor motherboard? Does Linux really care about the form-factor of
a MoBo?
-Chris
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From: Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: 18 Jan 1999 13:34:13 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Stewart) writes:
> I should think that these devices would work just fine on USB.
Well, you did imply it was FireWire that would cause serial devices to
vanish, not USB. But...
How will USB work (given there is little actual support for it
presently)? Ie, will we be forced to daisy chain everything, or will
there by several USB ports on the back of the computer?
> If you're even in the middle of the
> technology curve, a lack of ISA slots is not terribly
> depressing--you've had several years to buy PCI cards.
It is depressing. To get a computer without ISA slots, I have to
upgrade several cards. Maybe it's a good idea on a brand new
computer, but it doesn't prevent me as a consumer from asking for
motherboards that have ISA slots. PCI, like Fireware, is overkill for
many things (ie, my modem, my soundcard, etc).
> I wouldn't
> expect USB and 1394 to completely supplant plain-old serial and
> parallel for a similar time period from the point where both new buses
> are generally supported in hardware and software (meaning,
> realistically, whatever the current flavor of Windows is).
Meaning 10-20 years. DOS isn't even dead yet. The idiotic PC
architecture shows no sign of dying out.
--
Darin Johnson
Luxury! In MY day, we had to make do with 5 bytes of swap...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Lamb)
Subject: tar file portability
Date: 18 Jan 1999 21:35:53 GMT
I am trying to make dat tapes using tar on a Redhat 5.2 release.
I am using an old HP dds1 tape drive. I can make tapes that can
be read on the Redhat system but when I try to read them on a
HPUX system they can't be read. The tape drive acts like it can't
find the beginning of the tape. The same behavior is seen if a tape
is made on the HPUX system and I try to read it on the Redhat system.
Can someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Dave Lamb
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux + X11 + Millenium AGP
Date: 18 Jan 1999 13:41:12 -0500
"Dennis Duggen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I make a Matrox Millenium II G200 AGP work under X11?
> It doesn't seem to be working with any standard-server and so it only uses a
> resolution of 320x200.
Download and install at least revision 3.3.3 of XFree86 (3.3.3.1 is the current
revision, and it has some Matrox fixes in it). Use the SVGA server, and use
xf86config to configure the XF86Config file. RedHat has updated rpms in
updates.redhat.com for 3.3.3.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: 18 Jan 1999 11:17:10 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radovan Brako) writes:
> 1. Separate partitions are really necessary on multiuser or server
> machines, where there is a serious risk that a vital service will
> be starved of disk space while the machine is unattended. For
> personal workstations, it is often best to leave everything as
> a single partition, except, of course, swap.
It is still useful for system data to be separated from user data (so that when
you run out of space in your home directory storing all of those gif/jpeg/mp3
files, it doesn't effect the normal running of the system.
> 2. I think that the most recent stable kernel (2.0.36) still has the
> limit of 128 k swap partition. You can make two or more swap
> partitions though.
Yep for 2.0.xx, but 2.2.0 is coming.
> 3. /proc doesn't need disk space.
>
> 4. If you still decide to make several partitions, the /usr partition
> you propose is huge, /var large, /tmp and /home smallish. Note
> that user data for all applications will reside in /home, temporary
> runtime data in /tmp or /usr/tmp.
/usr tends to be static once you load stuff (and in fact can be mounted
read-only if paranoid), /var has all of the files that change at runtime,
including the log files (which must be pruned every so often, see something
like logrotate or concot your own). /tmp is used by various programs,
including the compiler (unless you use the -pipe option) to hold intermediate
files. On some of the systems at work, I have found that the initial 16 meg
/tmp size sysadmin provided is not enough, and I needed to set TMPDIR to point
to a different location (but then I compile big apps all of the time, you might
not). Right now, my system looks like:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
========== ==== ========= ==== ========= ======== ==========
/dev/sdb2 ext2 852,343 625,362 182,949 77% /
/dev/sda1 vfat 785,596 443,900 341,696 57% /mnt/msdos
/dev/sdb1 ext2 14,855 9,951 4,137 71% /boot
/dev/sda2 ext2 1,267,216 485,359 729,486 40% /mhome
/dev/sdc3 ext2 3,362,046 2,944,120 244,023 92% /toto
/dev/sdc4 ext2 784,872 623,106 121,202 84% /alt-root
/dev/sdc1 ext2 23,300 8,770 13,327 40% /alt-boot
where /dev/sda1 is a 2 gig disk, /dev/sda2 is a 1 gig disk and /dev/sda3 is a 4
gig removable disk that I use to transfer stuff between home and work. /
contains all of the system files (/usr, /var, /tmp, /sbin, /etc), but not the
locally installed programs which are in /mhome. Now that the removable disk is
disk #3, I can't use the /alt-boot partition any more as a boot partition,
since the bios will only boot off of the first two disks.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: Ray Eads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Air Filters: making your own...
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:49:15 -0800
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bulk filter material designed for home AC/Heating floor vents which
looked about right. I'm thinking of covering the holes in the
computer case with this kind of material to keep dust out.
Has anyone had good experiences making homemade air filters.
My concern of course is 1) Heat, and also 2) chemical residue
from the filter.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Total newbie hardware questions for Linux on 486
Date: 18 Jan 1999 16:01:09 GMT
In his obvious haste, Jacaranda Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: I recently bought a new pc and want to turn the old 486dx280 into a linux
: system if at all possible..
: Problems: two hard drives, one 256mb, one 540mb (both IDE) and I can't
: afford anything more as the rest if going towards a 3d accel..
: Also, only 16mb ram.
: 5.25 and 3.5 floppies working fine plus one 2x cdrom
: This won't run Redhat obviously...
Why not? Plenty of space there.
You might have to pick and choose your packages a little though.
: Is there ANY version of Linux you know of (doesn't matter if old) that this
: system will accept as I'm hell bent on learning a Unix version if it's the
: last bloody thing I do...If you know of an online directory I'd be grateful
: but i'm on a 56k so don't go ape on the bandwidth :)
Any distro should work fine with that.
(Hell, I've only got 200Meg HD and 8 meg of RAM, and mines managed to get X
working fine...)
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Goffe)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Large disk SCSI in old machine?
Date: 19 Jan 1999 02:15:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to put a 9 gig SCSI hard disk in my 2.5 year old Dell
(specifically, a Dimension XPS 133c -- a 133 Mhz Pentium). I'll only be
running Linux on this disk, and I plan to getting a BusLogic/Mylex 958
as the SCSI adapter. The BIOS was updated last summer. From reading the
"Large Disk" Mini-HOWTO, it seems the only issue is that the kernel must
be in the first 1024 cylinders. Are there any other issues that I should
be concerned with? Might I be missing something else?
--
.---. Bill Goffe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
( | Dept. of Econ. and International Business office: (601) 266-4484
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From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: which distribution package do you recommend?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:49:24 -0500
In my very humble opinion, as a newbie, Ive tried REDHAT and had
difficulty, I recently installed SUSE 5.3, with KDE Desktop and YAST to
configure the system, Ive had some problems but have had much better
success with SUSE. Its also very popular in Europe. Plan on spending
alot of time in Newsgroups and webpages, no matter which distribution
you choose..good luck.
--
Gary Pagliaro RN
ICQ#1405727
http://www.idsi.net/nurseman/index.htm
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From: "Ronald BAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: linux modem/ppp dramas...still
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:28:14 +0100
ochre small wrote in message ...
>have been using minicom, and I now have the following problem:
>
>Although it responds to AT commands such as ATDT xxxxxx
>th emodem does not send strings back to minicom as far as I can tell.
>
>even when I tell it to dial and it does, it doesn't send back anything
except a much delayed
>(~10 sec) echo of my keystrokes.
>Minicom also seems to get a <lf> every few seconds. when I get the modem
to
>dial my ISP minicom shows apparently random groups of characters, a few
>every 10 or so seconds.
>
>The modem appears to handshake ok (I'm not really sure, but it sounds the
>same as a successful connect under W95), but once its connected I just get
>these seemingly corrupt strings.
>
>Why aren't I getting even the OK messages?
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Hello,
I got the same problem.... and solved it! I noticed u have a pnp
(Plug-and-Pray :=) ) modem so probably your modem IRQ is wrong. U have to
modify the IRQ setting in the serial ports configuration file ( I forgot the
name,it's in /etc/). the linefeed can be caused by a configuration error of
minicom (try ALT-A) or by a linefeed signal meant for the printer. So test
the IRQ of the printerport too. If in conflict, u can change it most easily
by booting win95 and using the control panel. U can use this panel to check
the IRQ of your modem too! If u want to change the IRQ of your modem, I
suggest u use the software with your modem. U could use isapnp under Linux
but I never used it myself. Good Luck !!!
Greetings,
Ronald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: DIGITAL AM7990 ethernet card
Date: 18 Jan 1999 20:58:08 GMT
I've got a very old 8 bit ISA ethernet card (at least I hope so :-)) from
DIGITAL whose most pronounced chip reads AM7990DC/80. Judging from the
Howto it should be a DEC LANCE, supported by Linux. Is this correct?
Does anybody happen to know a source for the jumper settings? Also, what
kind of throughput can I expect from it? Thanks
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:48:42 +1100
On 18 Jan 1999, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > So, if you're having 256 Mb of RAM, then 512 Mb of swap is OK - however,
> > as others have stated, you'll need to do it over several partitions - 127
> > Mb is the largest swap partition size Linux will allow.
>
> Actually this is old information. I believe the latest 2.2.0-prex kernels and
> latest e2fs tools will now allow you to create swap partitions > 128 megabytes.
They're not exactly the stable ones a good percentage of Linux users run,
are they though?
Sure - I shoulda said "for pre 2.2.x kernels, 128 MB is the largest swap
file permitted".
There, I said it now. :-)
DaZZa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Printing Epson C500
Date: 19 Jan 1999 03:15:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:25:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Can anyone tell me where I can find a printer driver for the Epson
>Stylus Color 500, which will work with WordPerfect 8 for Linux??
>
>I really need to print in something other than ASCII text mode..
>
You need to install Ghostscript and a magic filter. You also need
to read the Printing HOW-TO.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:41:55 GMT
I'm setting up Linux on a friend's computer here at college and I'm running
into trouble with his 3c905b Ethernet card. I installed from a CD of the
Linux-Mandrake distribution (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/) which is
basically RedHat 5.2 with KDE. I used the ISO image that they have available
for download and burned a few CD's with it, and it was one of those CD's I
was using for the installation. It's got kernel version 2.0.36. Well, all
went well until the post-installation boot. The *first* time, the boot
messages said "eth0: 3c59x.c [yada yada yada] MAC address" (Sorry, I don't
remember what the MAC address was.) It was the correct MAC address, too. But
the DHCP request failed, so we were unable to connect to the local network
and thus out to the Internet. We rebooted into Windows 98 to test the card
and all was fine: Win98's DHCP client properly obtained a valid IP address
and Internet connectivity was there. So I rebooted into Linux again, and THIS
time the MAC address reported by the 3c59x driver was "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"!
Multiple reboots produced the same result each time: Win 98 got the right MAC
address and was able to obtain an IP and talk to the network, Linux continued
to see ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as the MAC address. :-(
This is the first person I've managed to persuade to try Linux, so naturally
I want to make it work, or Linux might get a bad name on my dorm floor. And I
don't want that... :-) So: does anyone have any prior experience with 3Com
cards behaving in this way? Should I upgrade to a development kernel, give
him a different distribution, or tell him to change network cards? Any and
all advice appreciated.
TIA.
--
Robin Munn (Legal name: Robert A. Munn)
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound in Linux?!?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:35:21 +0000
how do i get sound in linux? i cant listen to any MP3s or CDs! i have
the Mandrake 5.2 distro. running on a K6-2 300Mhz with a generic Sound
card....
Chris
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