Linux-Hardware Digest #334, Volume #9 Tue, 2 Feb 99 08:14:23 EST
Contents:
Re: ESS Sound Card Problem (Sean Harper)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring ("Bill W")
Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 - winmodem? (arozhkov)
Re: Dual Processor Support ("Peter Kott")
Curious? (Jamie Wallingford)
Re: Cheapest Linux "Hardmodem"? Less than $55.95? (David Fox)
Re: Amazing Intel i740 display card ! Please help !! ("Keet")
Re: PCI MODEMS & LINUX are there any ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
zoom 56k pci dualmode modem (model 2925) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Install second network card (Stephen Carville)
SCSI ZIP drive help please :-) ("Natali Giuliano (Diaolin)")
Problems with PS/2 Mouse driver (Guido Grosso)
Problems with Microsoft Mouse (eagle)
3com officeconnect sugestions (Matt Zagni)
Re: good, cheap PCI serial card? (Cokey de Percin)
Rockwell chip ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Winmodems (Michael Wilson)
USB Modem under Linux? ("Jaime A. Cruz, Jr.")
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (Richard Steiner)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (Richard Steiner)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Jerry James)
Re: Hard Drive install for Red Hat 5.2 won't WORK!!! (David Starke)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) ("Jon Etkins")
Re: bt848 tv capture card help please. (Cliff Bradshaw)
Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Harper)
Subject: Re: ESS Sound Card Problem
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 21:41:04 -0600
> > Sndconfig detects the card fine, but when it tries to play the sample sound,
> > it quits because the 'device or resource busy'. Grrr.
sndconfig is broke.
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From: "Bill W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 01:48:48 -0600
Somewhere along the line you have to balance the importance of the data you
wish to save with the cost of doing so.
Also the media loses its "magnetism" (ok, so I can't think of the right
word right now --it's 2:00am.) after a few (3-5?) years. So if you make
copies and just store them, eventually they won't be any good either. And
since RAID supposedly stands for Redundant Array of Independent (or
Inexpensive) Disks, trying to implement it on one disk seems to be
defeating the purpose.
Malcolm Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
s.net...
>On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:03:09 -0800, Jim Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> caused to
>appear as if it was written:
>
>>Data loss, yes. But time loss can be large.I have ZIPs, LS120s, JAZ, and
tape, now adding CDR.
>>Tape is by far the cheapest, in monetary terms.
>>CDR is close on the heals of QIC for cost.
>>If volume is high enough, DAT and DLT are still cheaper.
>>JAZ is by far the cheapest in time lost.
>>I considered adding SPARQ (at 1/3 the cost of JAZ),
>>and there's some new tech on the horizon that will have
>>good cost numbers before long, but I redid the calculations
>>and came to a surprising conclusion.
>>
>>The cheapest, not counting serial-only devices, is now
>>
>> _________! (anyone else done the math?)
>>
>>(Hint: you can still beat it with MO if your volume is high enough)
>
>Hmmm... the cheapest for what? If you exclude tape as being "serial only",
>it appears that CD-R costs around $2.00 / GB these days, once you've paid
>for your drive. Amortizing the burner across 100GB, you get a cost of
>roughly $5/GB. SPARQ costs $40 / GB, JAZ and SYJET rather more.
>
>And regular PC disk drives cost $21 / GB... and come in sizes an order of
>magnitude better than the other disk technologies!
>
>>-jim
>
>Malc.
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From: arozhkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 - winmodem?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:55:09 -0800
Eternal question: If Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 is winmodem or it can
work with Linux?
Alex Rozhkov.
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From: "Peter Kott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processor Support
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 03:11:28 -0500
ZDNet just posted this article on the 2.2.0 SMP kernel:
http://www.pcweek.com/a/pcwt9902011/387766/
HTH,
Peter Kott PAK Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (732)805-9213
Ron Liddle - Tactics wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can anyone tell me how well Linux scales with dual processors.
<snip>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Ron Liddle Tactics Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (803)278-5657
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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From: Jamie Wallingford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Curious?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:55:56 GMT
Just curious, not that it matters much, but if you had $100,000 dollars
(US) to spend on building a server or cluster of them.
What would you build/buy and why?
Your going for overall performance, no special tasks dedicated, just
overall performance.
Just curious
please email comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Jamie Wallingford
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Cheapest Linux "Hardmodem"? Less than $55.95?
Date: 28 Jan 1999 10:55:12 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> >
> >Can anyone find a better price than $55.95 on a modem listed as
> >working with Linux on http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, or
> >otherwise known to be compatible? At www.buycomp.com I found the Best
> >Data #56SF for $55.95. Its not "V.90", is that important? Test your
> >surfing/shopping skills!
>
> Do yourself a real favor and check around your local office supply stores
> and such before buying a modem via the WWW. You'll find out that the prices
> aren't all that different once you add in the WWW site's S&H fees, and
> you'll won't run into problems with returning the modem if you buy it local.
What's the best price you've seen at an office supply store for
a Linux compatible modem?
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Keet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Amazing Intel i740 display card ! Please help !!
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:11:55 -0800
Chris-
Not enough info to feel really confident, but here is what I found...
The xf86config file had all other resolutions commented out. I edited the
file to represent the display characteristic I wanted and then, viola,
everything worked beautifully. I know plenty of people who run Linux on AGP
i740 cards successfully. Keep hacking and you'll get it.
dave
Chris wrote in message <78q1q5$fv5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am a new user of redhat linux 5.2, I have a intel i740 display and setup
>as instruction which provide by redhat in ftp. I can display in 320*200
>resolution only (type startx to enter into X Windows), however I have
>1600*1024 resolution only when I enter X window by command "xdm". If who
>have any ideas, please email me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Chris Leung
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCI MODEMS & LINUX are there any ?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:24:57 GMT
If I can get my modem to run on a bare MS-DOS system talking directly to the
COM ports there should be no reason why I couldn't get it to work on Linux
should there?
If the worst thing the driver under windows if finish of the compression I
should be able to tack on an LZW decompression to the output from the UART. I
shall have a try tonight and see what I get under MS-DOS. It does still leave
the problem about getting linux to see it but I'll have a go at doing it if
MSDOS works.
Alex.
In article <795k3p$1og$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen) wrote:
> Somehow, I think your modem is actually a "soft" modem, or a "host
> controlled" modem, as you mention a PCI modem enumerator, and that is
> , I believe the crux of the problem of most of the other PCI modems we
> will have problems with under Linux -- You see, the PCI modem
> enumerator is actually a software emulator for a UART, and the
> manufacturers (so far) have only provided that software for the mass
> market/high volume/high potential profit OS's sold by Bill Gates. I
> haven't heard yet of Rockwell releasing any other info on their
> chipsets, or modem emulator software for any other OS yet, and they
> probably don't think they have much financial incentive to do so,
> since they are making money as things are, and we don't collectively
> seem to be enough of a market for them to pay a programmer to write or
> debug the same for us, and once the cat is out of the bag, then they
> would loose some or all of the control over the software, and possible
> the market too, maybe for the microsoft market too?
>
> Some of the Rockwell chipset modems merely use a software scheme to
> handle the compression, and can be made to work with Linux by turning
> compression off, but like you, I'm looking for a good modem too, and
> found out too late that both of my new modems won't work on anything
> but Winslop.
>
> On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:05:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >In article <78sclp$ea2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Greg Smyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> looking for a PCI modem 56K which is not a win or software modem. Has
anyone
> >> used or has one which works well
> >
> >I'm sure my PCI modem (a rockwell FM65-RW) is not a winmodem (aka software
> >modem) as you can directly talk to it on Hyperterminal and obtain a
connection
> >that way. It even has modes for working under DOS. The problem I have found
> >however is it conflicting a) with my 3Com Ethernet Card, b) Not being able to
> >find out which IO port the card wants on Linux (I know it is using IRQ 10
> >rather tha 3 or 4).
> >
> >Is their a version of isapnp for pci buses that allows you to setup PNP PCI
> >cards?
> >
> >Should PNP OS / Auto settings be set up in the BIOS?
> >
> >Are the settings as last set in a working Win95 machine going to be the same
> >when you transplant the card into a linux box? My modem had two devices (The
> >Modem, IRQ 10, IO 0x3E8 and a PCI Modem Enumerator, IRQ 10, some meory
> >address in the 0xe00000 range). I've tried variations on these numbers using
> >setserial but have yet to have success on the linux box. BTW I'm testing by
> >listining for a result to echo ATH > /dev/cuan. Is their a better way of
> >talking to the COM ports? A direct terminal that is eas(ish) to setup?
> >
> >Anyway more questions than answers.. sorry ;)
> >
> >Alex.
> >
> >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
>
Alex.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: zoom 56k pci dualmode modem (model 2925)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 09:19:04 GMT
Anybody had any luck getting this sucker to work? I don't %believe%
it's a winmodem, but linux doesn't seem willing to recognize it as a
serial port. Any hints, based on experience or otherwise, will be
greatly appreciated.
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Install second network card
Date: 2 Feb 1999 05:23:31 GMT
Patrick Doran wrote:
>
> Here is my problem,
>
> I want to share my cable modem to all the the PC's in my house.
>
> I have a Redhat(5.2) box attached to my ISP's cable modem running DHCP.
> This ISA card is working fine. But it always renames my machine to
> whatever the DHCP server says (this is real anoying, can I change this,
> and just let what the ISP gives me be a alias?) I want to install my
> second (PCI) ethernet card and put this on my home's local subnet.
You can edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup. Look for the line that
calls dhcpcd and edit to look something like:
/sbin/dhcpcd -h $HOSTNAME -c /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdhcpc-done
${DEVICE}
This tells the dhcp client to add the hostname in the options field of the
packet.
A warning: Your ISP may have pre-assigned IP addresses to the funny names
it hands out (no Dynamic DNS :-) so your machine name may not be the same
as the canonical name on the ISP's nameservers.
> However I can NOT get Linux to notice my second networking card (D-LINK
> 530TX PCI PNP)! I was able to get the the ISA non-PNP to work, but the
> second card just will not install.
> I have tried :
Add the card to /etc/conf.modules. I have two Addtron PCI cards and all I
did as add the following lines to the file:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
One problem is that, if your driver is he same for both cards, you cannot
always control which card will be eth0, eth1, etc. It will always be the
same card that get eth0, etc each time you boot but be warned that your
current eth0 might get changed to eth1. Yhis happened to me when I
installed the second Addtron card -- I swapped ethernet cables and all is
happy. This probably doesn't apply if your cards require different
drivers.
--
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
====================================================
Management: The art of hiring intelligent, skilled individuals and then
ignoring their advice.
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From: "Natali Giuliano (Diaolin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI ZIP drive help please :-)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:48:07 +0100
Does anyone know the exact (default) addresses of a Zoom SCSI Zip adapter??????
Tx
Diaolin
Please reply via email
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Guido Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with PS/2 Mouse driver
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:46:09 +0100
I have an Epson ActionNote notebook with a touchpad using PS/2 protocol.
I installed RedHat 5.2 with 2.0.36 kernel and recompiled with module
support for PS/2 Mouse. It all worked fine until I tried to play some
SVGALIB card game. After exiting one of these games, I noticed a
keyboard lock; the only thing I could do was to reboot the machine.
After lots of trials I have found a procedure which can reproduce well
the problem: I disable the autoloading of gpm so that no mouse driver is
loaded at boot time, from the console I execute 'insmod psaux; gpm -t
ps2', use the mouse as like as I want, and then 'gpm -k' leaving the
module in memory, after a couple of seconds, I get the keyboard lock. In
order to regain keyboard control, I login to the notebook from another
host, execute 'rmmod psaux; insmod psaux' and all the keys that I
pressed during the lock-up appear on the notebook screen.
Can anyone help me to resolve this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Guido Grosso
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
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From: eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with Microsoft Mouse
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:41:47 -0600
I have installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 on my machine.
I have set the configuration for the mouse correctly using
/usr/sbin/mouseconfig.
I am not able to get my mouse to work in X windows. I am using a
Microsoft Intellipoint PS/2 compatible mouse. The mouse works fine in
Win98.
I would appreciate any help .
Thanks
-Ravi
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From: Matt Zagni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: 3com officeconnect sugestions
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:01:51 +0000
Hi,
I wish to create a network it must be, easy to maintain,
rubust, connect both linux (suse glib2.0.7) -
windows and NT, fast and modestly cheap (4 PCs).
I have seen 3com office connect it looks like it may fit
my ideas, does anyone else have any other sugestions.
Many thanks
Matt
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good, cheap PCI serial card?
Date: 2 Feb 1999 02:34:04 GMT
Peter W wrote:
>
> I could really use another one or two serial ports. It would cost me about $90
> to replace one of my ISA cards with a PCI version and buy a cheap "paddle card",
> but I'd prefer to leave that old ISA card in place (especially since the drivers
> are installed and configured) and buy a cheap PCI serial port card. Preferably
> one that would work in Win95 and OS/2 but that's not critical.
>
Try www.byterunner.com. I'm using one of their 4S+2P and it works great
but it's an ISA card. They're now selling PCI serial cards and the price
is pretty good
Best
Cokey
--
==================================================================
Cokey de Percin, DBA Email:
Policy Management Systems Corp. Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Rockwell chip
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:16:43 GMT
Hello!
I just managed to set up a connection to the internet from Linux. However,
the connection i very slow. I read that this could be due to the fact that my
modem contains a Rockwell chip.
Does anybody know if there is a way to get my modem running with Linux?
Thanks for your help!
Nick
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From: Michael Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:00:14 +0000
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Otto Bruggeman wrote:
>Can anybody tell me EXACTLY why winmodems don't work under Linux ??? That's
>all i want to know, nothing else. So don't start a discussion about why
>winmodems suck and stuff like that....
>Please !!!!
They rely on windows software to essentially work, similar to the win printers
which were sold a few years ago, the printer/modem is essentially software
based, thats all.
Rgds
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From: "Jaime A. Cruz, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 07:14:05 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "Jaime A. Cruz, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Modem under Linux?
Can it be done?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:24:53 -0600
Here in comp.os.os2.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brush)
spake unto us, saying:
>**"We don't make internal modems for legacy systems any longer. All of
>**our internal products are of the Winmodem type.
>
>And people went nuts when I advocated ditching USR as a viable product
>source :-)
Internal modems make no sense to me. :-) I save my slots for things
that actually need that type of bus throughput like network cards and
3D accelerators, and I put the modem on top of my monitor and plug it
into the same 6-outlet IsoBar that the PC and monitor go into.
>I wonder if its USR or 3Com that is driving drunk?
Yes. :-)
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Your E-Mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:20:43 -0600
Here in comp.os.os2.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brush)
spake unto us, saying:
>If your present ISP does fail to jump on the latest as quick as you
>like, will you dump them?
I've just done so in the past few months because my old ISP (Skypoint)
had no plans to support ADSL. For me, the tenfold increase in my raw
connection speed over V.90 was worth it.
There's a certain amount of pain which is associated with the movement
of an e-mail address and web pages (mailing lists need to be changed in
an orderly manner, etc.), which is why I'll likely be keeping parallel
accounts here for the next few months.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Who is John Galt?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry James)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 01 Feb 1999 13:29:09 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry James)
I'm replying to a week-old article. I hate it when my news server does
this to me (which is often).
On 24 Jan 1999 at 20:11:13 +0000, Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but to answer the question: as long as you know that the word is not a
> proper noun, you can change the case of the first letter however much you
> like. if you downcase a proper noun, you destroy its quality as a proper
> noun. if you fail to downcase a word that should be downcased, it will
> gain qualities as a proper noun. thus, you will have to answer the
> question "should this particular _word_ be downcased" when going from
> sentence-initial capitalization to the real meaning. when going from the
> meaning to sentence-initial capitalization, nothing is lost or gained.
I can't quite bring myself to break a lifelong habit of capitalizing
first words (sorry Erik). However, this discussion has brought up some
interesting points. For example, the automatic text conversions that
Erik mentioned in another article are complicated by the loss of
information discussed above. But that is not the only place where
information is lost in English writing. For example, does an apostrophe
indicate a contraction or a possessive? Does a period indicate the end
of a sentence or an abbreviation?
Has anybody studied the problem of automatically converting text in the
ways Erik described in the face of such information loss? In some
cases, one can establish additional rules to sort things out (e.g.,
don't use contractions [*], put one space after an abbreviation and two
after a sentence), but I doubt that it is possible to fully recover the
lost information.
Ironically, while typing this message, the announcement for Pterodactyl
Gnus v0.75 arrived. This version contains, in part:
(gnus-treat-capitalize-sentences): New variable.
(article-capitalize-sentences): New command and keystroke.
[*] Yes, as a matter of fact, I *did* do that on purpose.
--
Jerry James
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jerry/
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From: David Starke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive install for Red Hat 5.2 won't WORK!!!
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 07:31:48 -0500
Kyle Gonzales wrote:
>
> I tried to do a hard drive install for RH5.2, following every
> instruction in my manuals and on the Red Hat web site. I get to where
> it asks for the location of the RedHat/RPMS & RedHat/base directories.
> No matter where I put it, it says, "Location [whatever] does not appear
> to contain a Red Hat installation tree." Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kyle Gonzales
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried this also. Eventually went out and bought the CD. Maybe
its a ploy to sell more RH5.2. I was disappointed to have to explain to
my son why this "free" OS was costing us.
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comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc
From: "Jon Etkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Jon Etkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice
capable/fax modem software for use in warp4?))
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:06:40 GMT
On 29 Jan 1999 00:25:42 GMT, Spencer Lu wrote:
>I bought a Courier, because I thought it'd be more reliable than a
>Sportster. However, if someone just picks up and then hangs up a
>phone (on the same line as the Courier) while I'm online, the Courier
>ALWAYS drops the connection. I thought it'd be able to deal with
>line noise better than that. I probably should have just bought the
>less expensive Sportster.
My company did quite a bit of testing in this area a couple of years ago.
What we found was that the USR Couriers were the fastest things around, but
only when used in pairs, and only under optimal line conditions. Try getting
a Courier to connect to a non-USR modem, or introduce any line noise or
signal deterioration, and they dropped like flies. We wound up standardising
on Hayes Optimas, FWIW.
==========================================================================
Jon Etkins | The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck
(Team OS/2) | is the day they start selling vacuum cleaners.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cliff Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: bt848 tv capture card help please.
Date: 2 Feb 1999 12:38:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
karlo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Could someone please direct me somewhere I can get the drivers and software
>for the bt848 based tv capture card to work under linux.
Hi Karlo
Get hold of linux kernel 2.2.1 - it has bt848 drivers built in.
--
Cliff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 02:14:20 GMT
BTW, Microchannel buses ARE supported by several strands of Linux - Redhat,
Debian, and Slackware, and possibly others that I am not aware of.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eoin) wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:45:48 -0500, "Charles Sullivan"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >If memory serves, the IBM PS/2 uses the microchannel bus, which is
> >not supported by Linux.
> >
>
> Model 30s are not Microchannel.
>
> --Eoin
>
>
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