Linux-Hardware Digest #528, Volume #9 Sun, 28 Feb 99 16:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem Mystery? ("Lawrence S. Lee")
Re: mem=128M hangs system (Eric Potter)
Re: Zoom modem and Linux ("Jonathan D. Oman")
Re: Printer setup (Youngser Park)
Re: AMD k6-2. Which MB? (William Deegan)
Re: Yes I have a "win"modem (Mircea)
Re: RED HAT 5.2 INSTALLATION PROBLEM (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: Micron Electronics ("Lawrence S. Lee")
Re: Printer setup (Youngser Park)
Re: AMD k6 2 350 (Joe MacDonald)
Re: AMD k6-2. Which MB? (Rod Roark)
Support for Mustek parallel scanners (Jim Howes)
Re: upgrade 286 to use Linux (Rod Roark)
x window ("hotmilk")
Re: AcerLan ALN-101 PnP ISA problems [solution] (Joe MacDonald)
Re: RED HAT 5.2 INSTALLATION PROBLEM ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E Larson))
Linux with > 64MB RAM?? (User)
Re: FREE VIRUS!!! (was Re: TERMINALS - CHEAP - over 5000 in stock) ("Michel (Mike)
Soucy")
Re: SB16 Vibra... (Led)
Watchdog cards ("Erwin Lemmers (pe1nmb)")
minicom probs, & repititive config probs ("ComFuMasta")
Re: SIS 6236 PROBLEMS WITH XWINDOWS. ("Ken McCord")
Re: Linux with > 64MB RAM?? ("Andreas Hofmann")
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From: "Lawrence S. Lee" <llee1*SPAMSPAM*@idt.net>
Subject: Re: Modem Mystery?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:08:42 -0500
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> Stephen Loewinsohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am using RedHat 5.2 and I have a 56k ISA PnP modem. I have
> >disabled PnP in the computer's bios. I can talk to the modem and even
> >get it to dial through minicom, but the response from the modem takes
> >FOREVER. It takes about a minute and a half for the studid thing to
> >respond to AT commands.
>
> IRQ conflict.
>
> Make sure that you disabled the onboard port that the internal modem
> is occupying.
Ohhh, mother of all miracles, I've found an appropriate thread for my
problems!! I, too, suffer from the "ungodly-slow-modem-response" problem with
a Diamond Supra 288i -> 336i flash upgrade. I'm already using COM1 and COM2
for other serial ports so I had configured my modem (Red Hat 5.2) as
/dev/ttyS2 at IRQ5, port 0x03e8 (and UART 16550A via setserial). I get the
same exact "minicom dials, but response is painfully slow" issue.
Now, to ask a really lame question... can you clarify "disable the onboard
port that the internal modem is occupying?" As in, check the BIOS and make
sure it isn't being used by a comm port somewhere? Or is it something else?
thanks,
larry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mem=128M hangs system
Date: 28 Feb 1999 15:17:25 GMT
Chris Menzel enlightened this group thus:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:58:03 -0600, Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> We have just upgraded a server to a PC-100 Super7 100MHz board with a
>> K6-2/350 and 128MB of RAM. There is one SCSI drive with an Adaptec
>> AHA-2940 controller. We are running Redhat 5.2. After booting, we
>> noticed that the system was only seeing 64MB of RAM. Accordingly, we
>> added append="mem=128M" to lilo.conf, ran lilo, and rebooted. However,
>> the system would then hang in the boot process at the point where it is
>> reading the RAM disk that (for reasons I haven't bothered to understand,
>> being an IDE guy) is needed as part of the boot process with a SCSI
>> drive. Removing the append line and rerunning lilo fixes the hang
>> problem, but of course Linux once again only sees 64MB. The same
>> problem arises if we simply add mem=128M as an option at the LILO
>> prompt.
>
> The answer came from a helpful soul almost immediately: SCSI bioses
> often load themselves in the last bit of memory, so start lowering
> the values of mem to avoid collisions. mem=124 did the trick.
>
> Chris Menzel
> Texas A&M University
>
A kernel upgrade would fix it too. 2.2 kernels can detect all of your memory,
and I believe that 2.0.36 can as well.
--
* ^ \ ___@
*^ / \ \ | \
/ \/ \ \__| \
/ / ^ \ \
/ \ \ Eric Potter
/ ^ ^ \ \
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From: "Jonathan D. Oman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zoom modem and Linux
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:23:00 GMT
Michael, Can you tell me the AT command you use with the Model 2949? Also,
if you could let me know how your /etc/ppp/options file, and the chat script
are set up, it would help me a lot!
Thanks, Jon Oman
Michael Faurot wrote in message <7baof2$rvn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Jonathan D. Oman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: I have two external Zoom modems. One is the V.34X Plus, and the new one
is
>: the 56k DualMode. The V.34X has worked well with Slackware 3.6 / Kernal
>: 2.0.35. The problem is the 56k DualMode modem. It never gets into 56k
mode
>: with Linux. It always drops down to V.34 mode.
>[...]
>: Has anyone successfully used this Zoom 56k modem with Linux, at high
speed?
>
>I have both a 2849 (Rockwell chipset) and 2949L (Lucent chipset) on my
>Linux system. Both connect regularly to Ascend equipment on the ISP
>side with DCE speeds of 52,000 in V.90 mode.
>
>--
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
> Michael | mfaurot | When all else fails, EAT!!!
> Faurot | phzzzt.atww.org |
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From: Youngser Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer setup
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:15:04 GMT
Admin - Northwest CTCnet wrote:
>
> Colin Day wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> > > I am having a problem setting up a printer under Slackware 3.5
> > >
> > > It is a LaserJet 6L, and I have set up the /etc/printcap and filter files, but
> > > when I print, nothing happens. lpq shows that the job is in the queue, and in
> > > lpc, stat shows that the it is "waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)"
> > >
> > > The printer is on, and plugged into lp0, and I have parallel port support
> > > compiled into the kernel. I can also print in Windoze 95 to the same printer
> > > on the same system. If I do a ps aux | grep lpd, it shows that lpd is
> > > running. What could I be forgetting??????
> >
>
> Depending on the I/O address of your LP port, Linux may think it is really on lp1
> instead of lp0. Try echoing some text to /dev/lp1 and see if it prints. If it
> does, change the port in /etc/printcap to point to lp1 instead of lp0.
>
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > Jeremy
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
> >
> > Try lpunlock (this unlocks the printer, if it is locked).
> >
> > Colin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Hi, all!
I have exactly the same setup and the same problem.
When I start the "printtool" to re-configure the printer,
it says none of the devices are configured. When I tried
"cp file /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2", it says "/dev/lp?: Device not configured".
Again, it prints fine in Win98. "lpunlock" didn't help for me.
Is there any other solution?
Thanks in advance!
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From: William Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k6-2. Which MB?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:30:55 -0800
I've a k6-2 -300 with the fic va 503+ motherboard been running
fine for months..
I did get a flaking pa-2013 board, I returned it and the next one
was fine.
If you have a bad board, exchange it.
They may have quality control problems.
but if you get a good one. no problemo.
-Bill
Jakub Chmielewski wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Heard here that fic 503+ is quite unstable for linux. Which mb should I
> choose then? I intend to build a linux only server - email, www, ftp on amd
> k6-2 300. Price is an important factor.
>
> Maybe it would be better to try celeron 300a and abit bh6?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jakub Chmielewski
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yes I have a "win"modem
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:33:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check this:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
MST
Nathan wrote:
(...)
> Please respond if you have a good working v.90 modem that work good under
> linux and winbloze, (I am a linux newbie, so I still need windows, so I can
> connect to the internet and read docs on this stuff!)
>
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RED HAT 5.2 INSTALLATION PROBLEM
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:29:20 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrus,
Sounds like it shoud not be happening but there are hardware
compatibility issues with any product and Linux is not as formal
about hardware compatibility as say Data General is when it
qualifies its Topix Unix clone for the hardware it sell it with.
That said, Linux does probably run on more diverse hardware than
most OS's.
I only have experience putting Linux on several configurations
but do swap hardware often and reinstall of various reasons (not
related to failures). I cant remember a case where I had things
just stop and I get no messages - where it was do to something
other than a hardware setup problem. Can you be more descriptive
of any messages you get or where specifically you are in the
process of the install?
Are you sure you have set bio's and disk jumpers correctly
each time? SCSI or IDE? How are you setting up your partitions
specifically and are they the same for each install? Detail
would be helpful about your use of Druid or fdisk.
How varied is the hardware - machine to machine?
d
Wrus wrote:
>
> I am having a problem installing red hat 5.2 in computer labs. Most
> machines are fine, but about 1/3 of the newer machines crash early in
> the installation (step 1 or 2 - screen goes dark and system locks
> up). Our MIS department (Novell & NT folks) say that LINUX is just
> incompatible with new hardware. That sounds like rubbish to me;
> however, only machines with Pentium II processors have a problem! Is
> there any basis for the hardware argument? We are using removable
> hard drives and have brand new drives with nothing else on them. We
> boot from floppy and install from cd. A couple machines that didn't
> work did work when we used a different hard drive. We decided that
> the drives might be bad and replaced them all... no change! Even
> though some worked, our MIS rep sticks with the compatability
> argument explaining that the ones that do work are just "lucky" to be
> on the right side of the compatability border. I'm not buying it but
> have nothing to offer in return.
>
> I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks in advance.
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Wrus Kristiansen
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Lawrence S. Lee" <llee1*SPAMSPAM*@idt.net>
Subject: Re: Micron Electronics
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:26:23 -0500
That's pretty spotty information you've provided... got any more system
info? I recently installed Red Hat 5.2 on my Micron Millenia Plus 200, I
think from 1996, with no problems except for some !$#@@$ modem config
stuff I'm sorting out.
My system came with a BusLogic SCSI adapter and since then I've tacked on
a few IDE disks to the system (what can I say, EIDE is a lot cheaper right
now and I'm on a budget! :))
larry
Francisco De La Cruz wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Linux and just got a system from this company. I
> would like to know if anyone has installed Linux on it. The system did
> not come with much information about it's peripherals, and I want to
> make sure the system is somewhat compatible.
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From: Youngser Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer setup
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:17:51 GMT
Admin - Northwest CTCnet wrote:
>
> Colin Day wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> > > I am having a problem setting up a printer under Slackware 3.5
> > >
> > > It is a LaserJet 6L, and I have set up the /etc/printcap and filter files, but
> > > when I print, nothing happens. lpq shows that the job is in the queue, and in
> > > lpc, stat shows that the it is "waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)"
> > >
> > > The printer is on, and plugged into lp0, and I have parallel port support
> > > compiled into the kernel. I can also print in Windoze 95 to the same printer
> > > on the same system. If I do a ps aux | grep lpd, it shows that lpd is
> > > running. What could I be forgetting??????
> >
>
> Depending on the I/O address of your LP port, Linux may think it is really on lp1
> instead of lp0. Try echoing some text to /dev/lp1 and see if it prints. If it
> does, change the port in /etc/printcap to point to lp1 instead of lp0.
>
> > Try lpunlock (this unlocks the printer, if it is locked).
> >
Hi, all!
I have exactly the same setup and the same problem.
When I start the "printtool" to re-configure the printer,
it says none of the devices are configured. When I tried
"cp file /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2", it says "/dev/lp?: Device not configured".
Again, it prints fine in Win98. "lpunlock" didn't help for me.
Is there any other solution?
Thanks in advance!
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From: Joe MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k6 2 350
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:37:46 GMT
Agreed. My AMD K6-2 350 works just great with my Slackware distro. A
colleague of mine has been running a Debian distro for nearly eighteen
months now on an AMD K6-233 without a single hitch.
I can't imagine what your distribution has to do with hardware problems,
but if it is causing you grief, switch distros, not hardware. It's a
lot cheaper. Hell, if $24.99 is too much for a Slackware distro, e-mail
me, I'll give you one of my older ones from my subscription . . .
- Joe.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Don't use AMDK6 if you don't want to have problems. There is many.
>
> Huh? There shouldn't be any problems. Even a very basic search of
> Dejanews will show that the AMD processors work fine with Linux. Your
> hardware is more than likely the problem here.
>
> robert
>
> --
> robert cope austin, texas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.linuxwizard.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k6-2. Which MB?
Date: 28 Feb 1999 17:27:24 GMT
Jakub Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Heard here that fic 503+ is quite unstable for linux. Which mb should I
>choose then? I intend to build a linux only server - email, www, ftp on amd
>k6-2 300. Price is an important factor.
No, the FIC motherboard is excellent, probably the best in its class.
I've sold many Linux systems with it. However there was a recent
problem where the jumper setting for the 95Mhz bus was documented
incorrectly.
>Maybe it would be better to try celeron 300a and abit bh6?
A good combination for overclocking to 450 Mhz, but beware that
it sometimes doesn't work. There's a big luck factor with the
CPU, which may be getting worse with the Celeron 400's now
available.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Howes)
Subject: Support for Mustek parallel scanners
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:08:28 GMT
Has anyone had any luck persuading a Mustek parallel scanner (specifically
a 9600P) to work with any Linux scanning application?
To be honest, I have difficulty persuading these things to work with the
windows boxes at work half the time - I'm about as impressed with them
as I am with Cyberdrive CD-ROM drives.
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrade 286 to use Linux
Date: 28 Feb 1999 17:57:12 GMT
BroadwayFan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a 286 which I would like to upgrade to use Linux; I know I need
>at least a 386. How do I go about this? Buy a new motherboard? Is
>there anyway to just change the CPU?
There's no cost-effective way to save a 286 motherboard. But the good
news is that the 486 systems are also pretty obsolete, so you should be
able to find a cheap used motherboard/CPU/RAM combination. In fact
I've got just that collecting dust in my closet right now.
However if you value your time, you'll be much happier with a new
Super 7 or Slot 1 system; they're really cheap now.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: "hotmilk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: x window
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:53:29 +0100
Does anybody knows howto install intel I740 graphic card under X
with RH5.2 ?
Which graphic card is similar to the I740 ?
Thank you
Les petits francais,r�pondez moi,svp...
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From: Joe MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: AcerLan ALN-101 PnP ISA problems [solution]
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:48:43 GMT
Just an update folks. I had a thought the other day that maybe it was
my old motherboard that had a defective BIOS. (1996-era, never
upgraded) Apparently it didn't quite implement the PnP part quite
correctly and decided to assign an IO base and IRQ to the card during
boot up. I couldn't find the details of the original settings in my
system logs, and NT refused to tell me what I wanted to know about the
card, so I d/l the latest isapnptools. After trying all the valid IRQs
and IO bases recommended by the hardware specs, I could only find one
that didn't report a conflict, 280h, but it still wouldn't initialize.
Then I thought about the floppy I got with the card. There are
supposedly SCO drivers on there for the card. So I looked around on the
floppy and eventually found a section of documentation on how to use the
card on "other" OSs. There they mentioned using the included DOS binary
acerset.exe to tell the card to operate in "jumperless" mode rather than
PnP. I did that (good thing I kept my old DOS boot floppies around),
set the default IO base and IRQ to 280h and 10 respectively and rebooted
into Linux.
Everything is working fine now. Just wanted to pass on the info to
anyone else who may have bought the same card.
- Joe.
Joe MacDonald wrote:
>
> Anyone,
>
> Here is my situation. About three months ago I purchased an AcerLan
> ALN-101 PnP ISA ethernet card. It claims to be NE2000 compatible. I
> plugged it into my motherboard, a no-name PIIX, VX chipset board with 4
> ISA and 3 PCI slots. At the time I had a Pentium classic 120 cpu and 32
> megs of EDO RAM. I compiled 2.0.35 with the NE2000 generic driver as a
> module and bang, everything was five by five.
>
> So earlier this week I finally decided to upgrade my machine. I now
> have an Asus P5A-B motherboard (still an Award BIOS). There are 2 ISA
> and 3 PCI slots on this beast. The chip is an AMD-K6-2 350 and I've
> installed 32 megs of PC100 RAM.
>
> I tried the same kernel and then tried recompiling the kernel (and
> subsequently updating to 2.0.36) trying to get my card to work again.
> Everything else is fine (no sound, mouse or video problems) and the
> network card works just fine under NT, but when I boot up linux (where I
> do 95% of my work) I get complaints that it cannot initialize my card.
> It looks almost like I don't have any ethernet support compiled into the
> kernel (either as a module or as a part of the kernel itself) with the
> warnings, but I know better.
>
> I'm not sure what I should be checking for IRQ and IObases for this card
> since it claims to be PnP. There aren't any "preferred settings" I can
> find in the (gatefold) manual that came with it, and I can't figure out
> how to get NT to tell me what I want to know about it.
>
> Can anyone suggest what my next step should be? My linux distro used to
> be Slackware 3.3, but I've upgraded quite a bit since then. I've tried
> to keep current with the Slackware distro, so it is mostly 3.6, but I
> have newer versions of some of the GNU tools.
>
> Thanks,
> -Joe.
>
> P.S. I know cross posting sucks, but I don't know if this is more a
> networking or a hardware issue. To avoid needless noise, I'll happily
> take e-mail replies and then follow up this with any success stories.
> Although if anyone wants to post to usenet, that's fine with me.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat
From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E Larson)
Subject: Re: RED HAT 5.2 INSTALLATION PROBLEM
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:20:49 GMT
In article <01be634b$a740ee60$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wrus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having a problem installing red hat 5.2 in computer labs. Most
>machines are fine, but about 1/3 of the newer machines crash early in
>the installation (step 1 or 2 - screen goes dark and system locks
>up). Our MIS department (Novell & NT folks) say that LINUX is just
>incompatible with new hardware. That sounds like rubbish to me;
It is possible, you need to do the research on the components in the PC's that
aren't working. Next, have you tried all three install methods? Booting from
CD, using the DOS utility, and creating the floppies I have had trouble on
some machines with one method and success with one of the alternatives.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (User)
Subject: Linux with > 64MB RAM??
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:21:32 GMT
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
I was running Linux with 32MB of EDO ram (4*8MB Simms)
with no problem. Then I bought 2*32MB Simms and
put those along with two of my 8MB simms in for a total
of 80MB RAM. However, Linux seems to recognize only
64MB.
has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks
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From: "Michel (Mike) Soucy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.terminals,ont.forsale,tor.forsale.computers,mtl.vendre-forsale,can.forsale,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Re: FREE VIRUS!!! (was Re: TERMINALS - CHEAP - over 5000 in stock)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:38:53 -0500
from http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html:
<------snip----->
Happy99.Worm
VirusName: Happy99.Worm
Aliases: Trojan.Happy99, I-Worm.Happy
Likelihood: Common
Region Reported: US, Europe
Keys: Trojan Horse, Worm
Description:
This is a worm program, NOT a virus. This program has reportedly been
received through email spamming and USENET newsgroup posting. The file is
usually named HAPPY99.EXE in the email or article attachment.
When being executed, the program also opens a window entitled "Happy New
Year 1999 !!" showing a firework display to disguise its other actions. The
program copies itself as SKA.EXE and extracts a DLL that it carries as
SKA.DLL into WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. It also modifies WSOCK32.DLL in
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and copies the original WSOCK32.DLL into
WSOCK32.SKA.
WSOCK32.DLL handles internet-connectivity in Windows 95 and 98. The
modification to WSOCK32.DLL allows the worm routine to be triggered when a
connect or send activity is detected. When such online activity occurs, the
modified code loads the worm's SKA.DLL. This SKA.DLL creates a new email or
a new article with UUENCODED HAPPY99.EXE inserted into the email or article.
It then sends this email or posts this article.
If WSOCK32.DLL is in use when the worm tries to modify it (i.e. a user is
online), the worm adds a registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce=SKA.EXE
The registry entry loads the worm the next time Windows start.
Removing the worm manually:
delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE
delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL
replace WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL with WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.SKA
delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE
Safe Computing:
This worm and other trojan-horse type programs demonstrate the need to
practice safe computing. One should not execute any executable-file
attachment (i.e. EXE, SHS, MS Word or MS Excel file) that comes from an
email or a newsgroup article from an unknown or a untrusted source.
Norton AntiVirus users can protect themselves from this worm by downloading
the virus definitions updates released on Jan 28, 1999 or later either
through LiveUpdate or from the following webpage:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html
Write-up by: Raul K. Elnitiarta
January 28, 1999
<----snip---->
Johan Kullstam wrote in message ...
>Stuart Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> He is a lamer in that he just made a poor posting. BUT the way the
>> HAPPY99.EXE worm works is such that the sender doesn't actually know
>> that he is sending the virus. This worm replaces WSOCK32.DLL and when
>> it detects an outbound mail message, attaches HAPPY99.EXE to it, and in
>> the process builds a spamming table and randomly sends out the mail
>> message in the same SMTP envelope.
>
>i do not seem to be able run this HAPPY99.EXE program. i don't have a
>WSOCK32.DLL. should i be worried?
>
>> The good thing is that it is VERY fixable because the worm kindly left
>> WSOCK32.DLL on the computer by naming it WSOCK32.SKA ... so delete
>> WSOCK32.DLL, rename the WSOCK32.SKA to WSOCK32.DLL, and then delete all
>> files named HAPPY99.EXE and *.SKA on your machine.
>
>damn, the WSOCK32.SKA file seems to have be clobbered too. now, what
>do i do?
>
>--
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Led <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 Vibra...
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:49:56 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tnx, I'll try this...
> According to Led <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > My sound card is a SB16 Vibra(etc.) but, It seems that it's configured
> > half...
>
> I have one of the SB16 Vibras (there are probably several versions)
> that seems to work just fine in my linux box. I had to do some hand
> tweaking, but eventually I got it to work. Here are my config files:
>
> --- /etc/isapnp.conf ---
>
> (READPORT 0x0203)
> (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 # ANSI string -->Audio<--
> (LD 0
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> #(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
> (IO 1 (BASE 0x0330))
> (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 # ANSI string -->Game<--
> (LD 1
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0201))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (WAITFORKEY)
>
> --- /etc/conf.modules ---
>
> alias sound sb
> alias midi opl3
> options opl3 io=0x388
> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330
>
> --- snip ---
>
> Best o' luck!
>
> -p.
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From: "Erwin Lemmers (pe1nmb)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Watchdog cards
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:55:26 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, thanks for reading this messages.
I'm looking for a ISA watchdog card that is supported by
Linux, the addresses from the kernel sources are old and
not reachable anymore.
Any help for addresses or usable information would be
very apreciated.
Thanks in advance
Erwin
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From: "ComFuMasta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minicom probs, & repititive config probs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:47:07 GMT
hi.
I finally got my modem to work. the only problem now is that when i
issue the ATDT command and then log in to my ISP and then try to exit
without resetting ( Ctrl-Q ) it gives me a bunch of jibberish and then gives
me NO CARRIER.
Also whenever i want to use my modem i have to reconfigure my modem with
setserial everytime.
Can you please help me ? please ....
comfumasta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanx in advance
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From: "Ken McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIS 6236 PROBLEMS WITH XWINDOWS.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:18:49 -0500
What version of XFree86 are you using. If not using 3.3.3 or 3.3.3.1, I'd
recommend upgrading to them. From there, it's like most other cards.
Ken McCord
Elton Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<7bbnjg$qjm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Has anyone got a sis 6236, and got it work with Xwindows.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>TIA.
>
>
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From: "Andreas Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with > 64MB RAM??
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:49:59 +0100
pass the argument mem=80MB to kernel at boottime or upgrade to an newer
kernel 2.2.1 should work quite well
Andreas
User schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
>I was running Linux with 32MB of EDO ram (4*8MB Simms)
>with no problem. Then I bought 2*32MB Simms and
>put those along with two of my 8MB simms in for a total
>of 80MB RAM. However, Linux seems to recognize only
>64MB.
>
>has anyone else had this problem?
>
>Thanks
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