Linux-Hardware Digest #534, Volume #12 Thu, 23 Mar 00 10:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: RTL8029 Ethernet / IRQ frustrations??? ("Thomas Mezger")
Re: US Robotics 56k faxmodem giving problems (M. Buchenrieder)
APC BackUPS 650 cable (Matija Grabnar)
Re: cdrecord problem (Steve Martin)
Re: Linux on K7 (Dave Seyster)
Re: cdrom problem (Steve Martin)
Re: accessing ntfs partition (Steve Martin)
Notebook Compaq Armada E700 ("Mario Walker")
Re: Leafnode problems with messages...
Re: ?'s Abt Using A Lucent Modem With Caldera Linux (Shrikant Joshi)
Sound Blaster PCI64 (Leonardo Giordani)
internet connections and netscape (r miller)
green newbie dial-up and modem problems (r miller)
green newbie dial-up and modem problems (r miller)
Serial Ports that don't work. (Steve Fosdick)
Re: Serial Ports that don't work. (Steve Martin)
cannot get UDMA mode2 to work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound Blaster PCI64 (Mircea)
Re: ISDN "NO DIALTONE" (Nick Kew)
Re: Installation NE2000 ISA PnP (Mircea)
Re: USR 56k Voice Win (Mircea)
Re: PCMCIA errors (Dale)
Re: Linux modem...... (Johan Kullstam)
Re: EIDE HD manufacturer for Linux (Mike Castle)
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From: "Thomas Mezger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RTL8029 Ethernet / IRQ frustrations???
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:10:06 -0000
under the directory /proc/ there are files like
interrupts
dma
and so on....
you can have a look these files. you cant change settings there.
bye
thomas
Matt Francis schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello All...
>I am trying to get a linux box up and running and communicating with the
>rest of the world, but I am having a problem with my card *I think*.
>How do I find the resource settings in Linux??? I'm using an old
>computer with lots of shared architecture crap, and I don't know where
>to start.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Matt
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: US Robotics 56k faxmodem giving problems
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:50:25 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> These settings will cause conflicts with your secondary built-in
>> serial port, unless you already manually disabled it in your system's
>> CMOS settings.
>>
>> In case you already did that, "setserial" is the tool you need.
>There is no such setting in my CMOS. I find it wierd though that there
>is a conflict becuase the howtos mentioned DOS com 2 irq 3 as pretty
>standard.
What board manufacturer is that ? All Pentium-and-above boards
should have 2 serial onboard ports, unless the manufacturer decided to
implement one of them as a built-in winmodem , which may or may not
work in Linux, depending from the availability of a driver.
If you don't know the manufactuer, write down the BIOS identification
string that shows up during system start at the bottom of the screen.
Then go to http://www.ping.be/bios and look it up there.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matija Grabnar)
Subject: APC BackUPS 650 cable
Date: 23 Mar 2000 12:11:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a APC BK-650 UPS, in part because I saw that the
company had released the control software under Linux. But the UPS came without
the RS-232 cable and the reseler here says they would have to special
order it of me (expensive).
I checked the UPS howto, but the pinout there was apparently adjusted to the
homebrew control program that is included in the howto. I want to run
teh APC supplied software, but I can't find the pinout on the APC site
(www.apcc.com) The URL that was mentioned in the UPS howto no longer works,
since APC apparently got rid of it when they reorganised their pages.
--
"My name is Not Important. Not to friends.
But you can call me mr. Important" - Not J. Important
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:25:02 -0500
Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
>
> Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Do you mean "SysV IPC"? I am using cdrecord here on kernel 2.2.5-15,
> > but do not have SysV filesystem installed, and it works like a charm.
> > I do, however, have SysV IPC compiled in.
>
> Thats just as well :-)
>
> Only difference between compiled in and module ist, that the module
> wont take up kernel space as long as it's not used (basically from a
> user point of few anyway).
>
> If you wouldn't have it compiled in *and* not as module it probably
> wouldn't work, according to some remark by Joerg Schilling.
Forgive me, I didn't make myself clear. I have SysV IPC compiled in.
I am not using SysV filesystem *at all*. Not compiled in, not as a
module, nothing. It's disabled in the kernel. Nada.
Cdrecord works like a charm. I wouldn't dream of contradicting the
author of this program, but there is some confusion somewhere, as
cdrecord apparently does *not* need SysV filesystem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Seyster)
Subject: Re: Linux on K7
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:28:19 GMT
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:47:05 -0700, Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
>------=_NextPart_000_00F6_01BF9437.665630E0
>Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="Windows-1252"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Rant mode on.
Seven lines of text along with 118 lines of junk. Both posters in this
thread need to stop using OE or learn how to configure their software.
Rant mode off.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrom problem
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:35:58 -0500
William Ng wrote:
> However, when I try to mount it as root with
> % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
> It responded:
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protectec, mounting read-only
If you'll change the "mount" command above to include the flag
-o ro
you'll get rid of this particular message. This specifies read-only
to "mount" (which is what it ends up doing anyway).
> mount: No medium found
Well, this and the following messages seem to indicate that the system
thinks there's no disc in the drive. Forgive me for asking a stupid
question, but there *is* a disc in the drive when you try to mount it,
isn't there?
> brw-r----- 1 root disk 22, 0 May 8 1995 /dev/hdc
> which looks ok to me.
Looks okay to me, too... looks pretty much like my device file here.
> Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=2x02)
This is the same message I get when booting with no disc in the drive.
Don't worry about this, it's probably normal (unless you in fact do
have a disc in the drive on bootup...)
As far as cdfs, I have never heard of that particular filesystem.
The man page for mount doesn't list it as one of the options, so
perhaps it is in fact the same as iso9660. Oh, wait... it just
occurred to me. Check to make sure you have iso9660 support in
the kernel. It must be compiled, either into the kernel statically
or as a module.
I'm afraid that's all I can come up with. Hope it helps.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: accessing ntfs partition
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:39:53 -0500
Mark Bratcher wrote:
> > I want to be able to access the NTFS partition as my normal user. I mean, I
> What does your fstab entry look like for the drive? I have something
> like this for my VFAT partition:
>
> /dev/hda1 /corinth vfat
> noexec,dev,suid,ro,uid=500,gid=100,perm=644 1 1
A minor issue with this fstab regarding NTFS is that the "perm" setting
here gives user 500 read and write permissions. However (at least in
kernel 2.2.5-15), NTFS write support is experimental and might be
dangerous. A safer bet for just accessing the data might be with a
perm setting of 444.
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From: "Mario Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Notebook Compaq Armada E700
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:38:01 +0100
Has anybody of u already successfully set up a Notebook Compaq
Armada E700 (onboard ethernet, onboard modem...)
with Linux (e.g.Suse 6.3).
Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to try, so I need
to know if there are any problems.
Thanks for every answer.
Mario
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Leafnode problems with messages...
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:37:45 -0000
FUCK YOU BRIAN.
Get a life moron
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From: Shrikant Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ?'s Abt Using A Lucent Modem With Caldera Linux
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:39:10 +0800
Mike Garber wrote:
> I would be very appreciative if any of you could answer any of the following
> questions about using a Lucent winmodem (v. 5.39_0208) with Caldera Open
> Linux 2.3 (kernel v. 2.2.10). Even though I have worked with DOS and Windows
> for a long time, I've only been using Linux for a couple of weeks now, so
> please bear with my ignorance.
>
> 1) Have any of you had any success in using a Lucent modem with Linux?
> 2) I found some "drivers" for doing so on a web site belonging to Rob Clark
> (http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html). One of the drivers was an rpm
> package, and several were zipped files. Does anyone know which of these are
> better or easier to use?
> 3) Will there be any problems using them with my version / distribution of
> Linux?
> 4) Will using one of the above "drivers" keep my modem from continuing to
> work with
> Windows when I boot into my Windows partition?
> 5) What do I need to do, after installing the rpm package or after running
> the scripts in the zipped files, to get my modem working?
>
> Thank you very much for any help you can give.
> Sincerely,
> --
> Mike
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (To reply, please remove "stopspam" from my address.)
Mike,
I am using a Lucent (win) modem in my desktop under Linux without any
problem.
Details are : 300MHz P-II / 64 MB RAM / IBM 4.3 GB / Seagate 8.4 GB /
NEC ATAPI CDROM
and the modem in question is Lucent K56Flex internal winmodem.
The driver module is provided by Lucent is in binary format (no sourc
code) and works only under Redhat 6.x
Visit www.linmodems.org for info about the driver module.
I tried it using under Caldera but no luck. Let me know if you manage
to make it work under caldera.
Cheers ....
Shrikant
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From: Leonardo Giordani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster PCI64
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:05:01 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I let Linux recognize my SB PCI64?
What are the right parameters in kernel configuration?
I'm a beginner, please explain it in a simple way!
Thanks
Leo
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From: r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linuxx.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: internet connections and netscape
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:04:28 GMT
Hi
I have Mandrake 7.0 w/KDE installed and i am trying to use Netscape 4.61
to surf the web.
My modem is a 3com US Robotics 56k Fax PCI model #5610 [not a winmodem
slag]. In Win98 SE the #5610 setting are irq 11, I/0 EC00-EC07, COM 5.
I have a regular dial-up internet account.
Two problems:
1-How do i get Linux to recognize my modem?
2-How do i configure my dial-up internet account?
3-How do i configure Netscape?
I am a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry green newbie so i need a lot of handholding
[ie. extremely detailed instructions]. Which programs do i use to do
this?
Thanks
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From: r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: green newbie dial-up and modem problems
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:49:50 GMT
Hi
I am running Mandrake 7.0 w/KDE.
I have three problems:
1-I do not know how to configure the modem
US Robotics 56k Fax PCI model #5610
IRQ 11
I/O EC00-EC07
COM 5
2-I do not know how to configure my dial-up internet acount
Which Mandrake 7.0 Linux programs do i use and how?
3.-How do i configure Netscape to surf the WWW and receive and send
email?
I am verrrrrrrrrrrrrry green newbie so i need extremely detailed
instructions.
Thanks
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From: r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: green newbie dial-up and modem problems
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:49:50 GMT
Hi
I am running Mandrake 7.0 w/KDE.
I have three problems:
1-I do not know how to configure the modem
US Robotics 56k Fax PCI model #5610
IRQ 11
I/O EC00-EC07
COM 5
2-I do not know how to configure my dial-up internet acount
Which Mandrake 7.0 Linux programs do i use and how?
3.-How do i configure Netscape to surf the WWW and receive and send
email?
I am verrrrrrrrrrrrrry green newbie so i need extremely detailed
instructions.
Thanks
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Ports that don't work.
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:33:14 +0000
A friend had recently upgraded his PC and lent me his old motherboard
and processor (an AMD K6/200). I have installed this in my existing
case in place of the old motherboard and processor but now neither of
the serial ports will work.
I have checked that the little cables that connect the 9-pin connectors
on the case to the motherboard have the stripe next to pin 1 on the
motherboard (marked) just like on the old motherboard.
The BIOS is from Award and has a menu to configure on board
peripherals. I have tried the two serial ports with each of the two
manual settings as to which is which (which I/O and interrupt) as well
as auto.
The kernal (2.2.14) detects both ports with the standard I/O and IRQs
and reports both as 16550As.
If I attach a modem to one of the ports and then try to dial into the
internet the DTR light on the modem lights but the TxD light doesn't and
the modem doesn't seem to respond in any way and doesn't grab the line.
The same result from the other port. A serial mouse doesn't work on
either port.
Looking at /proc/interrupts IRQs are logged against the port when
characters are being sent (Tx FIFO empty?) but nothing seems to get
received.
Does anyone have any sugestions as to what may be going on here please?
I don't have the machine in front of me know but if the motherboard type
or BIOS version were relavent I could find them tonight.
Thanks for your help.
Steve.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial Ports that don't work.
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:42:38 -0500
Steve Fosdick wrote:
>
> I have checked that the little cables that connect the 9-pin connectors
> on the case to the motherboard have the stripe next to pin 1 on the
> motherboard (marked) just like on the old motherboard.
It's possible (I have run into this before) that the headers on the
motherboard don't have the same pinout. In that case, the ribbon
cable extenders that run to the back chassis are wired differently.
If that is the case, you might be sol on this. See if you can get
the guy who gave you the motherboard to pull the old cables from
his case and give them to you. He should have received new ones
with his new motherboard in any case.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:00:24 GMT
Hi,
My hard drive supports UDMA mode 2, 33MBytes/sec. But hdparm says
using_dma is off.
I have an IWill motherboard that is set to UDMA mode 2. My harddrive,
Maxtor 10Gb, supports UDMA mode 2 (33MBytes/sec).
Can anyone help me get more performance from my hard drive? Thanks a
Million!!
Paul
=======================
hdparm -Tt /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc5:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 1313/255/63, sectors = 21077217, start = 16128
=======================
hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Maxtor 91080D5, FwRev=GAS54112, SerialNo=A509WERC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=20928/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=29
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=1313/255/63, CurSects=-469761727, LBA=yes
LBA CHS=656/510/63 Remapping, LBA=yes, LBAsects=21095424
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
=======================
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI64
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:39:03 -0500
Leonardo Giordani wrote:
>
> How can I let Linux recognize my SB PCI64?
> What are the right parameters in kernel configuration?
>
> I'm a beginner, please explain it in a simple way!
>
You need to load the module es1370. As root, do:
/sbin/modprobe es1370
See if it works. Then, you can load automatically the module in one of
the init scripts.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ISDN "NO DIALTONE"
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:56:55 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have configured my ISDN BT Speedway (Hi Sax Fritz!) card and all my
> network settings, but on dialling get the message "NO DIALTONE".
Um - what on earth are you doing that expects a dialtone?
--
Nick Kew
We're so advanced here ... our nearest main road is A 386
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation NE2000 ISA PnP
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:44:35 -0500
Pliev wrote:
>
> Tell me please, which module I must to load, for working a network card
> NE2000 ISA PnP. Beforehand I speak, not I know, on which chipset it is
> made.
> Thank! Dima.
Well the chipset on a NE2000 is... NE2000 :)
If it's PnP, you need to configure the hardware resources on the card
before you can use it. Use pnpdump and isapnp - see their man pages for
details. Then you have to load the appropriate module for the card -
"/sbin/modprobe ne" (as root, of course). Then configure your network,
depending on your distribution.
MST
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR 56k Voice Win
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:45:43 -0500
Scott Anderson wrote:
>
> I've heard several different things from several different sources, I
> would appreaciate it if someone could please clarify for me. I have
> RedHat 6.1 and I have a "US Robotics 56k Voice Win" modem. Is there any
> way that my modem will work under linux? Is there a place that I can
> get a driver for it?
>
> Thanks
http://linmodems.org
MST
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:48:16 -0500
From: Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: PCMCIA errors
David Hinds wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.portable Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : After a fresh Mandrake 7.0 install, pcmcia was not functioning
> : properly. In /var/log/messages I was getting
> : pcmcia: /lib/modules/2.2.14-1mdklinus/pcmcia not found. sure enouge
> : when i looked there the pcmcia directory was not there. I ran a make
> : config, make all and a make install with 3.1.8 pcmcia module. During
> : the make config I got these messages:
>
> : The kernel source tree is version 2.2.14-15mdk.
> : WARNING: the current kernel is acutally version 2.2.14-1mdklinus.
>
> Try getting the current (3.1.13) PCMCIA package. It should do a
> better job of handling these goofy kernel version strings.
>
> -- Dave
I added 2.2.14-15mdk to lilo. after booting to it I recompiled the 3.1.13
PCMCIA package. I rebooted the 2.2.14-15mdk kernel and it the PCMCIA
module loaded
Thanks
Dale
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux modem......
Date: 23 Mar 2000 09:43:23 -0500
Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just finished installing Linux on my old 486 computer.What I need is a
> modem that will work.Any ideas?
any external rs-232c serial interface modem should work just fine.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: EIDE HD manufacturer for Linux
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:20:42 -0600
In article <y3kC4.10906$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dragos-Anton-
> Not to get into a flame war over the preferences of drives... I would like
>to recommend Quantum, Maxtor, and IBM. I have used the first two
>extensively, and the third comes with heavy recommendations from many
>people.
To quote Andre Hedrick (current IDE author) from a recent linux-kernel post:
====
DEFINE -- Alphabetical (IBM, MAXTOR, QUANTUM)
These three companies are working directly with me to resolve Linux
compatabilty issues. Of course there are other drive manufactures that
have made reliable products, but they are not actively working with for
courting the Linux community............
Put your money where the support is ---
====
If you want other interesting takes on other drives (especially WD), go to
www.deja.com/usenet and do a search like:
~g fa.linux.kernel hedrick
And read many of his posts.
mrc
--
Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all
www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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