Linux-Hardware Digest #682, Volume #13 Fri, 6 Oct 00 15:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Maxtor 40.9Gb 7200RPM at $235 a piece shipped ("Nisi")
Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux ("Adam Short")
Re: parallel port scanners status ("Adam Short")
Re: Installing on HPT370/KT7! ("Adam Short")
Re: Lexmark Z11 (Grant Taylor)
Re: can someone suggest a network hub? (John)
Re: IBM DecStar (John)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 777 ?? (Grant Taylor)
Adaptec 1520 and RH7.0? ("Norbert Burger")
Re: Voodoo 3 2000 Setup (Neil Watson)
Re: can someone suggest a network hub? ("David S. DeWitt")
Re: Promise UltraATA/100 ("Cazic Thule")
onboard AGP ? (Willem van Veelen)
Pinout for a serial-cabel for apc smart ups and powercute (S.Wirth)
Re: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model (Adam Shrader)
Re: kodak DC215 zoom ("Ali Moodie")
Re: Adaptec 29160N problem (Ant Sims)
Re: Adaptec 29160N problem (Ant Sims)
Re: *SLOW* cable modem connection (Henrik Carlqvist)
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From: "Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.forsale.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Maxtor 40.9Gb 7200RPM at $235 a piece shipped
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:29:52 -0400
Funny, CompUSA was selling them for $179????....and www.dirtcheapdrives.com
has it for $209......so does
http://www.accubyte.com/HardDrives/Maxtor-UDMA.htm#40GB ...
Nisi
www.mindlessmayhem.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message ...
>I am selling Maxtor 40.9Gb 7200RPM at $235 a piece shipped. You may buy
one
>piece or as much as you like. Secured credit card transaction through
>www.Paypal.com . VISA, MASTERCARD accepted. If interested, please reply
>and I will send you a credit card link for you to pay direct or if you like
>you could go to www.Paypal.com ,sign up, and pay directly to email address:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Thanks,
>Henry
>
>
>
>
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:02:33 GMT
OK. Lets see...My motherboard is an ABIT KT7 that supports ATA/100 but only
on the RAID channels, in order to get it to work you have to plug the drive
into the primary RAID channed (IDE3 on mine) and then set up the boot
sequence to boot from the RAID controller. It won't use the RAID functions
but it will allow you to use the drive at its full speed. Of course if you
had two or more of the drives you could set them up as true RAID devices
which would make full use of the system.
The only IDE controllers I know of at the moment that support ATA/100 are
RAID controllers. I haven't seen any normal ones yet, there may be a reason
for that but if so I'm not enough of a hardware buff to know it.
I don't think the comment about the cylinders applies anymore. My drive is
partitioned into two 10Gb partitions with Linux on the second one and I've
never had a problem. Although I have to admit I'm not entirely sure how many
cylinders that amounts to. I'll have to check.
In short, an ATA/100 drive won't cause you any significant headaches and
even if you can't get it to work at full speed all is not lost because you
can still run it as a UDMA66 device (not as speedy but still pretty good).
HTH
Adam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8raojb$5cb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thanks Adam. It would be great to know if you can use the
> ATA/100 drive as your primary (boot) drive, and if you had to do
> anything special to get things to work (at all/at full speed/at full
> capacity/etc). Also, what drive are you using?
>
> Thanks for the help -> Nick
>
> In article <DqXB5.590$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > An ATA/100 drive shouldn't pose a problem. Mine is ATA/100
> (although
> > admittedly it is currently sitting on an older IDE channel which
> doesn't
> > support the improvements). I'm going to try it on one of the RAID
> channels
> > on my machine (which do support ATA/100). I'll let you know how
> it goes.
> >
> > Adam
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel port scanners status
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:04:19 GMT
I think my scanner is a Mustek as well. Its one of those that doesn't really
tell you. Its called a "Plug 'n' scan 1200CP" IIRC, anyone know anything
about those?
Adam
hamradio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Adam Short wrote:
> >
> > Is there support for parallel port scanners yet (or will there ever be)?
I
> > know of the sane project but last I heard it only supported scsi
scanners.
>
> Yes, sane 1.0.3 *should* support parallel port scanners. I've installed
> it but I'm still fighting to see my Mustek SEP600 to work.....
> If anybody know where's a guide on that matter I'd like to know it.
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing on HPT370/KT7!
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:12:08 GMT
Don't know about RH7 but Mandrake 7.1 seems to support the Highpoint
controller straight from the box. I'm currently working myself up to trying
to get my ATA/100 drive running at full speed by putting it on the Highpoint
controller. I've managed to boot Linux from the Highpoint controller before
but I had some of the settings wrong and it all went a little pear shaped.
When I have the courage I'll try again (probably this weekend).
Adam
The Smoking Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all, I'd like to install RedHat to a 30gb IBM 75GXP connected to
> HPT370 controller... RedHat 6.2 doesn't recognize the hpt370 during
> installation...
>
> Is there any way for Redhat 6.2 to detect the hpt370?
>
> If not, does RH 7.0 support HPT370 out of the box?
>
> Thanks guys.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Z11
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:19:47 GMT
"christophe.verdeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Who knows how to install a Z11 on Red Hat?
> try driver for lexmark5700 or buy an HP!
Use the cZ11 driver. See
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=122048
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor<at>picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
News, Discussion Forums, Support Database, Software, and more...
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can someone suggest a network hub?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Date: 6 Oct 2000 22:31:36 +0800
In comp.os.linux.hardware Typhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to network my Win2000 box and my RH7.0 box.
> Has anyone ever done this? Can you give me some pointers?
> Specifically, I am wondering what network hubs are useful for networking
> computers with these disparate operating systems.
> Very grateful for any ideas.
You don't need any hub.
Two 100 Mbit NICs, one crossover Cat 5 cable. You deal is likely to make it up
on the spot.
I had two machines wired that way for years, with more computers on coax cable
and cobo NICs (still no hub - the coax daisy-chains).
Now I have three machines on 100 Mbits; I got a Kingmax 4 port 100 Mbit (does NOT do
10 Mbit) hub. It's cheap, does the job.
If you want to go Internetting with both machines, do it from Linux;-)
Read up on ipchains - the docs with the package are probably enough.
Load up all the masq modules so ftp etc go through transparently.
Run squid to cache HTTP. Maybe run BIND as well (caches DNS lookups).
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM DecStar
Date: 6 Oct 2000 22:35:16 +0800
Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, there,
> Is there anybody knows whether IBM DecStar hard disk (10G) works under
> RH Linux?
I'm using a IBM-DTLA-307030 (Deskstar 75. 30 Gbyte) and a IBM-DJNA-370910 (slower
Deskstar, 9.1 Gbyte).
They're good.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 777 ??
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:22:36 GMT
"Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has anyone written or found a driver for this printer to run under
> Red Hat Linux 7 yet ???
There are no drivers specifically for Red Hat; the same drivers apply
across all free Unix.
> I bought this printer because my old HP LaserJet 5L died and I did
> not have the cash to buy the HP Laserjet 2100 printer ($ 699 is hard
> to swallow) but when I bought the printer I also bought a new
> monitor that works great under Linux..
This printer will probably work with the final 4.0 release of the
gimp-print/stp driver. 777 support isn't actually in there yet, but
it's on the short list of stuff to go in before the end of beta. In
the meantime it may work servicably with one of the other epson
drivers in the betas.
See http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor<at>picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
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From: "Norbert Burger" <nburger at csaatl dot com>
Subject: Adaptec 1520 and RH7.0?
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:56:22 -0400
For the last day, I have been trying to get an Adaptec 1520 recognized =
under RH7.0 (2.2.16-22). My system is a Dell P200, 64MB. SCSI support =
was compiled into to the kernel during installation. Can anyone give me =
some hints as to what I'm doing wrong? I've double-checked the jumpers, =
the card is at 0x340, 11, 7...
When I run "insmod ./aha152x.o", I get:
=20
./aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
/var/log/messages reports:
Oct 6 10:43:04 backup kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, auto =
configuration: ok,
detected 1 controller(s)
Oct 6 10:43:04 backup kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=3D0x340, =
IRQ=3D11, SCSI
ID=3D7, reconnect=3Denabled, parity=3Denabled, synchronous=3Ddisabled, =
delay=3D100, extended
translation=3Ddisabled
Oct 6 10:43:04 backup kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
Oct 6 10:43:04 backup kernel: aha152x: IRQ 11 possibly wrong. Please =
verify.
Oct 6 10:43:04 backup kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Thanks for any help.
Norbert
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From: Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 2000 Setup
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:42:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neil Watson wrote:
> Hi,
> What do I need to change in XF86Config to use an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 for Mesa
> acceleration? Currently X won't start. XF86Config and XFreee86.0.log are
> attached. Thanks.
> Neil.
>
> Name: XF86Config.dat
> XF86Config.dat Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> Encoding: x-uuencode
>
> Name: XFree86.0.log
> XFree86.0.log Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> Encoding: x-uuencode
P.S. I'm using the DRI based drivers
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From: "David S. DeWitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can someone suggest a network hub?
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:02:10 -0500
*********Responce below each question below***********
"Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9H7D5.8177$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bill, I checked out the SMC7004BR Barricade router. It looks viable and
it's
> in my price range. ($179 on Pricewatch.) I have some (rather basic)
> questions about it:
>
> 1. Have you used the SMC7004BR Barricade to network, specifically, a
Win2000
> box and a Linux box? (Really, my question is, will the SMC7004BR Barricade
> work with Win2000 and Linux?)
I have been using the smc7004br since it came out and not had any
problems. I have used it with a Red Hat 6.1 and 2 win98 machines. Win 2000
or me so\hould not be any poblems either. I can surf, email , gaming .
internal or out to the internet without a hitch.
>
> 2. Besides the SMC7004BR Barricade and some CAT5 cabling, do you need any
> other hardware, like a hub? If so, is there a particular hub that you use?
>
No hub needed the smc7004br has 4 10/100 ports for the lan side and a 10 meg
port for the wan side. If you are going to be using more than four machines
from this equipment then the hubs come into play.
> 3. I have bellatlantic.net DSL connection, and I do not have a static IP.
Do
> you speculate that I would be able to share my DSL connection with my
Linux
> box using the SMC7004BR Barricade?
>
I currently use a cable modem connection from at&t @home. I do have a
static ip. But set up the smc7004br to use dhcp to get info on wan side.
On the lan side I use dhcp also. No more thinking .
> 4. Question for the group: Does anyone have experience setting up a DSL
> connection, with a dynamic IP, using RH7.0?
>
Nope
> Thanks again for any light you can shed.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Eric
>
>
> "Bill Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:cRZC5.5143$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:46:07 GMT, Typhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I want to network my Win2000 box and my RH7.0 box.
> > >
> > > Has anyone ever done this? Can you give me some pointers?
> > >
> > > Specifically, I am wondering what network hubs are useful for
networking
> > > computers with these disparate operating systems.
> > >
> > > Very grateful for any ideas.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > >
> >
> > If you also have the need for accessing the 'net from each of those
> > systems through a single ISP, I recommend the SMC7004BR Barricade. This
> > is much more than a hub although it serves that purpose.
> >
> > http://www.smc.com
> >
> > I am not affiliated with SMC in any way other than as a VERY satisfied
> > customer. I have one installed in my home network, supporting a Windows
> > system, a Linux box, and an old NeXT. It work beautifully, sharing my
> > single ISP among all three simultaneously while giving me complete
> > connectivity across all of my systems.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill Lee
> >
> > --
> >
> > (Remove the anti-spam X to reply via e-mail.)
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Cazic Thule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise UltraATA/100
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:41:14 -0700
Hello,
Extreme linux newbie here....I have an ASUS K7V w/ Promise ATA100. I
want to learn linux but i can't install Mandrake or SuSE on my machine due
to them not seeing the drive at install on the ATA100. I also have FreeBSD
which I actually found a page that had a patch (typed) to get BSD to
recognize the drive. I unfortunately don't have the expertise it would take
to figure out how to apply the patch. I have check mandrakes site, they say
it wont work under 7.1 but may under thier "Cooker". SuSE's site does
reference the trouble but kind of blows it off as probably being a BIOS
issue and to update to the newest BIOS. I have updated the Award BIOS to
1004a but SuSE still doesn't see it. I have found one page that had a
mini-how-to that told how to get linux to work with UDMA33 & UDMA66 (kind
of) but I don't know enough about linux to figure out how to apply that to
the ATA100. And since I can't get linux installed, I'm not sure how I will
get that knowledge. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks!!
"Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:F7TC5.27787$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to install Redhat 7 on my brand spanking new machine which has an
> Asus A7V mobo and my HDD is hooked up to the Promise UltraATA100
connectors.
> Does RedHat 7 support this offhand? And If not where can I download
drivers
> so that I can install it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Willem van Veelen)
Subject: onboard AGP ?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:45:30 GMT
My onboard SiS 620 8 mb shared AGP videocard does not work properly in
FreeBSD.... I have the driver (for Linux, but it should work though)
but I do not know how to install it.
Does someone can explane me what to do?...
thanks.
--
willem van veelen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.Wirth)
Subject: Pinout for a serial-cabel for apc smart ups and powercute
Date: 6 Oct 2000 17:50:49 GMT
hallo ...
I look for a pinout for a cabel, so I can use the smart-ups 420 with linux
and powercute plus. apc says, the ups works with the cabel #940-0024c. If you
can help me, send the pinout for this cabel to my mailaddress.
thank's s. wirth
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From: Adam Shrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:00:51 -0400
Not sure but I'll check that out. Were you able to find any work around this
problem? I'll let you know what I find out about mine.
Scott Nied wrote:
> I had the same problem, same disk but I used 6.2. Came to find out I had a
> bad cluster. Disk Manager that comes with these drives, downloadable at
> Seagate, could zero fill the drive, low level format but could not pass the
> surface test at 91% completion.
>
> Do you have the same problem?
>
> Scott
>
> "Adam Shrader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Can anybody tell me why I keep getting an abnormal installation error
> > either when I try to partition my hard drive w/ disk druid or fdisk or
> > when the RPM's are installing. Would a more up to date version of
> > RedHat solve this? Any suggestions would be helpful.
> >
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From: "Ali Moodie" <cracker@$$$$redhotant.com>
Subject: Re: kodak DC215 zoom
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 19:12:10 +0000
In article <wSNC5.5122$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Ali" <cracker@$$$$redhotant.com> writes:
>> has anyone managed to get a Kodak DC 215 zoom digital camera to work in
>> linux. What is needed for twain support?
>
> You don't use TWAIN to access digital cameras (or anything else) in
> Linux. For digital cameras, the usual method is to use gPhoto
> (http://www.gphoto.org), although you can also mount a CF or similar
> media using an appropriate reader or occasionally use some
> camera-specific package. According to the gPhoto web site, the DC215 is
> supported. I use it with a DC240, and it works fairly well, given that
> it's beta software, so some features are flaky or just plain broken. It
> does work well enough to transfer images. I can manipulate them further
> in the GIMP, xv, or whatever.
>
I tried the version that comes with mandrake 7.1, but it does`nt want to
do anything I tried to set it up but when you save the configuration it
exits the program Any ideas?
TIA
Ali
--
Better to share a corner of an attic Than a house with a nagging woman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ant Sims)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160N problem
Date: 6 Oct 2000 16:35:53 GMT
On 5 Oct 2000 15:10:52 GMT, I wrote:
>On 4 Oct 2000 21:05:04 GMT, I wrote:
>>I've got major problems getting an Adaptec 29160N to work under
>>Linux.
An interesting thing I noticed about the PERR bit being set on the
host bridge - it seems to get set during IDE hard drive access. If I
write the contents host bridge Status register to itself, it stays
unset until there is a large hard drive access. Is it possible that a
bad hard drive could cause this data to be written incorrectly onto
the PCI bus by the IDE controller and this is recognized by the host
bridge?
The Adaptec card OTOH, sets PERR after a couple of seconds regardless
of hard drive access. Presumably, something is writing to the card at
a regular interval. Is this normal, bearing in mind that the scsi
driver is not inserted? If not is it possible some other device is
mistakenly writing to the card?
Also, when inserting the aic7xxx module with extra negotiation
debugging messages enabled, it reports:
(scsi0) LVD/Primary Low byte termination Enabled
(scsi0) LVD/Primary High byte termination Enabled
(scsi0) Secondary Low byte termination Enabled
No mention of termination on the SE high byte is made, even when
explicitly requesting it as a module parameter. The 29160N does not
support wide SE devices, so this might be OK, but who knows?
Next, there is a jumper on the card labeled LVD-TRM or something
similar. This jumper does not seem to be documented anywhere. Dare I
try connecting it?
The SCSISelect BIOS has an unchangeable menu option described as "SE
termination level", set to 1. This is also undocumented. Could it
relate the the mystery jumper?
Lastly, I probably should have mentioned this before, but after
detecting all the relevant devices, the SCSI BIOS gives the error
"SCSI BIOS Not Installed!". What is this supposed to signify? Surely,
the SCSI card's BIOS exists since it gives the error. I wondered if it
might mean a motherboard BIOS with SCSI support, but my motherboard
BIOS claims to support booting from SCSI devices and so on.
Oh yeah, before anyone asks the SCSI card came with the latest BIOS
(2.57.2 IIRC).
Anyone got any suggestions ... or care to answer any of my questions
... please ...
--
I apologize if most of what I have written is total rubbish
Ant Sims
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ant Sims)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160N problem
Date: 6 Oct 2000 17:11:18 GMT
On 6 Oct 2000 16:35:53 GMT, I wrote:
>On 5 Oct 2000 15:10:52 GMT, I wrote:
>>On 4 Oct 2000 21:05:04 GMT, I wrote:
>>>I've got major problems getting an Adaptec 29160N to work under
>>>Linux.
I've just noticed that both the SCSI card and the video card are on
interrupt pin A. Is this normal? If not how the hell do I change it?
Move the card to a different PCI slot?
--
I apologize if most of what I have written is total rubbish
Ant Sims
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: *SLOW* cable modem connection
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:18:39 +0200
"Andrew P. Billyard" wrote:
> Okay....here is the output from my /sbin/ifconfig
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:F1:F8:7E
> inet addr:24.150.5.61 Bcast:255.255.255.255
> Mask:255.255.252.0
Your broadcast should probably be 24.150.5.255 instead.
> P.S.: Again, my /etc/hosts looks like
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain Mintaka
> 130.15.26.39 lola lola.phy.queensu.ca
> 130.15.28.14 fisher.phy.queensu.ca fisher
Do you have some other nic to connect to the 130.15. network? Why isn't
24.150.5.61 listed in /etc/hosts, do you get that address from dhcp?
regards Henrik
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