Linux-Misc Digest #903, Volume #18 Thu, 4 Feb 99 20:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Sendmail Problem (Tim)
Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux (Rob O'Connell)
KDE is my desktop. (Navindra Umanee)
Boot-up message (Yuri Niyazov)
Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux (Dave Krieps)
Re: How to check if someone is logged on from the console? (Binand Raj S.)
Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals) (Steve Wertz)
HELP! GNOME-libs make-install segfaults (MRoman)
kppp problem for non root user (JF Lucas)
Re: HElp, i can't compile (Michael Powe)
Re: 2.2.1 - modprobe won't work (Hans Wolters)
Re: ROOT DIR ????? COLORs ? (Hans Wolters)
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers (jedi)
Re: Environment variables and C ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? ("Richard Sugg")
IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting? ("Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr.")
Re: How to make it run faster? ("David A. Frantz")
pcmcia and linux (slackware OR redhat5.2) (Jeff Taylor)
Re: A delni as a hub (Doug DeJulio)
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail Problem
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:25:28 +0000
Hugues Demers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem sending mail trought sendmail. When I use elm
> to send an email it goes trought sendmail and bounce back
> saying that hugues@vega is not a valid hostname. Of course it's not
> valid,
> because I've no network at home (I'm using redhat 5.0 on my
> personal computer). Vega is just a hostname I gave to my computer. Note
> that when I use my ISP mail server to send mail all goes well.
>
> Could someone help me on this one?
>
> I've included the complete transcript of the error.
<snip>
If I remember correctly, you'll need to alias localhost as vega; ie change
the line in your /etc/hosts file from
127.0.0.1 localhost
to
127.0.0.1 localhost vega
Also, make sure that vega is the name of your host in your /etc/hostname
file.
Sorry if any of this is wrong/incomplete, I'm writing from memory, sat in
front of a Win95 box at college...
Tim
----
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From: Rob O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:43:25 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. What's the best distribution out there? Caldera or RedHat?
> Advantages/disadvantages of each? (I know it's free, but I want a commercial
> one because I'm new, and they come with documentation and support)
rehdat has the lead right now....but don't discount SuSE - both share RPM as the
package format, which is nice for once....(though I still like my tgz's! )
RedHat tries to make things easy, and for the most part this is true - there is
a lot of support for it out there and its more than likely to be there in the
future. Sometimes I think it is a bit *too* userfriendly...that may sound
weird...but to me anyways sometimes attempts to make a system "userfriendly"
make it constrictive...but it is as good as they get out there, esp. if you are
a beginner.
> 2. Is
> Linux 100% 32 bit? The main reason why I don't like Windows 9x is because it
> contains 16 bit code, which is a waste of today's Pentium II and Pentium III
> processors.
yeah, full protected mode with great multitasking
not sure about 64-bit issues though...
> 3. Does Linux support DVD drives?
check the Hardware-HOWTO - search on web will find it (or goto linux.org) or
redhat.com
support is never as fancy as for windoze...but getting better all the time, and
when it works it makes sense
4. What graphics cards, nay
> scratch that, what hardware (graphics, sound cards, zip drives, modems, etc)
> is it compatible with, and do Linux drivers exist for said hardware?
again - check the hardware howto
> 5. I've
> worked with IRIX and Solaris in the past. Is Linux anything like these?
linux is posix compliant...I use digital unix and hpux....small differences in
filesystem layout, same with solaris
> 6.
> Where are the best places to purchase/buy Linux software? 7. When Intel's 64
> bit processors are released, will Linux migrate to a completely 64 bit
> architecture?
>
download it for free 8-)
or cheapbytes.com for the $1.99 cd....
good luck
Rob
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From: Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: KDE is my desktop.
Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:20:50 GMT
Well. Finally after upgrading from bo to hamm and from 2.0.36 to
2.2.1, I decided to give KDE 1.1 beta a try. It took several hours to
download the various kde-990204 (note: snapshot) packages and compile
them but I'm rather pleased with the results.
KWM has greatly improved in configurability from the 1.0 version and
is finally replacing my tired (but extremely efficient) Fvwm2 setup.
This also means that FvwmButtons and FvwmWinList have been replaced
with kpanel. BTW, before downloading KDE I had been considering
switching to Window Maker [0.14 -- the hamm packages] but I was then
rather disappointed to find that not everything could be configured
with the wmaker gui applets (eg: focus follows mouse and autoraise).
Some things that still annoy me though: (1) In Fvwm2 I had my
WindowList at the bottom right. kcmpanel only offers me the choice of
"hidden", "top", "bottom", "top/left" for the taskbar. I haven't
bothered checking if the text configuration file has more options.
(2) I couldn't figure out how to get kpanel to replace the desktop
buttons with a swallowed kpager. (3) My mouse pointer "sticks" more
often than it used to, and finally, maybe a couple of other minor
quirks.
Things I like: My desktop rocks! KDE is really getting more polished
now. kpager's pixmap mode is rather neat. kpanel is nice and the
menus seem more organized and logical than 1.0 (only vague
recollections). Ease of configurability. Fun. Much more.
On a side note, I had apt-get download and install the 0.30 GNOME
packages (extremely outdated, but apt-get is too convenient) for me
too. It's not bad, but not as polished as KDE given that this is an
outdated alpha version. The toolbars look oversized and had weird
floating behavior but I like the feel and look of the menus and, of
course, the pixmaps (icons) are great. Panel (which is called panel
instead of gpanel for some reason) gave me a few problems and had some
weird behaviour with my WM. I'll give the updated .debs a try when
they're out.
Navin.
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< http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~navindra/editors/ >
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From: Yuri Niyazov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot-up message
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:04:34 -0500
I have 2 hard drives on Pentium 2 400. Kernel 2.2.0, on bootup, gives me
the following messag:
Partition check:
hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
should I be concerned? What does that mean? The drive seems to function
normally (mount/unmount, all files are there and accessable)
Yuri Niyazov
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Krieps)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux
Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:26:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:43:25 -0600, Rob O'Connell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> 1. What's the best distribution out there? Caldera or RedHat?
>> Advantages/disadvantages of each? (I know it's free, but I want a commercial
>> one because I'm new, and they come with documentation and support)
>
>rehdat has the lead right now....but don't discount SuSE - both share RPM as the
>package format, which is nice for once....(though I still like my tgz's! )
>RedHat tries to make things easy, and for the most part this is true - there is
>a lot of support for it out there and its more than likely to be there in the
>future. Sometimes I think it is a bit *too* userfriendly...that may sound
>weird...but to me anyways sometimes attempts to make a system "userfriendly"
>make it constrictive...but it is as good as they get out there, esp. if you are
>a beginner.
>
I think I can identify with this statement, and being a beginner
myself, making things too user friendly can sometimes bite you.
I just received a copy of Redhat 5.2. In the process of installing,
it automatically probed for the clock chip on my Diamond Stealth 3D
3000, which just locks the system up. I would rather it allowed me to
select my choices in that install process.
For whatever reason, my system would not boot with the 3.5" boot
floppy that came with the package. I got a Boot failed message every
time. I was forced to use a DOS boot, and autoboot.bat to install.
The canned install package autoprobed, and failed leaving me with an
unbootable Linux partition.
My previous version, 4.2, installed a loadable version much more
easily, if somewhat spartan.<g> I did manage to get the boot disk
loaded, and used Expert mode (which I am definitely not one) and I was
able to get it going.
User friendly is fine, but when it inhibits your ability to control
the install process, I'd wish for more configurability, and less
automatic stuff.
<snip>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binand Raj S.)
Subject: Re: How to check if someone is logged on from the console?
Date: 4 Feb 1999 16:33:04 GMT
Glen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: A nice way would be to attempt a meaningless console ioctl()
: on the file descriptor. If it fails, then it's not the
: console.
Thanks, i will try it out.
: Use an ioctl that will work across all Linuxen no matter
: how odd the hardware, like KDGKBTYPE.
: Pluses: you don't care for the length of tty names, etc.
: Minuses: non-POSIX (although I can't see a Posix way of
: doing this).
Well, all I need is something that runs on all flavors of linux.
: Why do you want to do this? You are buying a lot of
: support problems: 2.2 allows serial consoles; you
: can be on a console but have a pseudo-tty; some machines
: have multiple screens, keyboards and mice; ...
This is for a program to automate an election process, and I don't want
people to telnet to the machine from elsewhere. So, even pseudo-ttys
are no-no.
: If you need the console for a particular API call,
: then just make the call and recover from the error
: gracefully.
thanks :-)
Binand
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for(j=0;j<s(40-i,35+i);j++,p(-32));p(s(i,5-i)[l]);if(i!=s(0,5)){for(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Wertz)
Crossposted-To:
comp.terminals,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.sys.hp.hpux
Subject: Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals)
Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:39:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Vermillion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: One of the niftiest of the character terminals was the Link MC-10.
: The concept was wonderful, the implementation was about the worst
: of any I've seen.
I always like the MC line (except for the '80'). I thought the only
difference between a 5 and 10 was the fact that you could
add keyboard wedges (card swipers, bar-code readers, wands, etc).
At one point they had to expand BIOS code, and completely
get rid of the calendar and calculator, and the other utility (whatever
that was).
I've been using my MC-5 for about a decade now, but if I turn the contrast up
too high, it startes to wink and fade on me randomly. Its the only
Link I've seen ever die a natural death. It may be an MC-3, the
only difference being, what - the exclusion of the extra serial port for
switching between hosts?
The keyboards go for about $110 new, the terminal itself for about $160
or so from Ingram-Micro. You get your choice of three different keyboards.
I always went with the EPC (AT) keyboards. So for 8 bucks, I'd buy one
if you see it. Link is now owned by Wyse or was always heavily affiliated
with them anyway. When I had an occasion to take a keyboard apart, it
said Wyse all over the inside, and this way befvore Wyse really bought
them out.
What I'd *really* like is some way to use a Wyse or Link keyboard on
my PC's. Good keyboards are impossible to find anymore, wyse
and link keyboards are everywhere though. Anybody know how to do
it? It generates scan-codes I beleive... I contacted Wyse and they
said it was "impossible".
-sw
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From: MRoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: HELP! GNOME-libs make-install segfaults
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 17:39:41 -0600
This is weird. I've successfully compiled gnome-libs from the sources,
but then it gives a segmentation fault when I do a make install.
(ginstalling /usr/local/var/games and stuff)
Please help!
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From: JF Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: kppp problem for non root user
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:29:27 +0100
Hi,
I have some problems with kppp.
I already posted this to the maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
but I did not get any answer.
kppp only works with the root user.
I can't get it to work with another one.
When i try it, the file /root/.kde/share/config/kppprc becomes empty
(though the configuration was correct for root). And if i try to add
setup myself, i got a message stating that pppd cannot be launched and
that is maybe due to kppp not having suid permissions.
kppp and pppd have their setuid bit set.
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 280368 Sep 8 00:39 kppp
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 83952 Sep 7 07:45 pppd
Versions :
========
kppp version 1.3.3
Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Bernd Johannes Wuebben [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use -h for the list of valid command line options.
pppd version 2.2 patch level 0
Suse Linux 5.3 -
Linux georges 2.0.35 #9 Sun Dec 20 04:54:50 MET 1998 i586 unknown
I hope someone can help me one this one. I found kppp to be
a very useful utility and would like to keep using it, or
something equivalent.
Thanks for any advice.
JFrL_
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HElp, i can't compile
Date: 04 Feb 1999 15:17:28 -0800
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>>>>> "Jarvis" == Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jarvis> thanks!! I replaced the int and it came out fine but could
Jarvis> you please explain why it i can't use main and can i
Jarvis> change it to work with main? I have some source codes and
Jarvis> it'll be tiring to change them to int. Thanks Mk again
Jarvis> for replying and the other guys like Hhuggins too
Hmm? Did I miss something?
The correct format is
int main(void){
printf("hello world\n");
}
Note that main may also be defined by `int main() or by `int main(int
ARGC, char *ARGV[])' -- but the latter form is only necessary when you
are planning to use commandline arguments with the program.
You may want to subscribe to alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++. It's a good
place to ask Qs and pick up tips.
mp
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From: Hans Wolters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 - modprobe won't work
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:00:31 +0000
Jan Oberlaender wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> my 2.2.1 kernel on RH42 made quite a bunch of problems.
> modprobe doesn't work with it, I'm getting errors such as "modprobe: out
> of filehandle" during bootup and later on. Also, both modprobe and
> insmod fail to install some modules. Error: "kernel_version needed, but
> can't be found" - /proc/ksyms doesn't contain it. Heck. And... depmod
> reports quite a bunch of unresolved symbols for all modules, one being
> kernel_version, and another __this_module__ ... (?!?) weird... maybe a
> new gcc or so???
Have you updated all the packages? I've done an update from the 2.0.34
kernel and all things match.
Hans Wolters
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From: Hans Wolters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ROOT DIR ????? COLORs ?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:03:32 +0000
Morten Andersen wrote:
>
> How do u configure Linux REDHAT 5.2 so i make colors when u type "dir" ..
> fx. so all executeable filez are Green......
>
> PLEASE HELP ...........
Put the following in your .bashrc (if you use bash)
alias dir='dir --color'
Regards Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:08:50 -0800
On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:47:15 GMT, Cajun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You are a true moron. You actually are stupid enough to think all this
>is because he lied about sex? Get your head out of the sand you stupid
>dolt, and catch up on the news. Show me a man that lied about sex in
>front of a Grand Jury, and I'll show you one poor JAILED bastard.
Perjury in civil cases is much more common than your
delluded view of US society would permit. The ONLY
reason anyone bothered to care or scrutinize this case
was because the celebreity (not even necessarily politicial
position) status of this particular liar.
What has been excercised is not equality under the law but rather
political favoritism.
The rest of the liars only care because it dispenses with what
little pretense is remaining amongst the non-cynics and casts
them all in the appropriate light.
>
>
>On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:51:47 +0000, mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Alexander Viro wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >Personally, I don't care what other people think. Especially ones that
>>> >insult people. I have made no claim to living in the best country,
>>> >however, pride over ones clan is as old as civilization itself.
>>>
>>> He has a point
>>Thanks, I thought I did.
>>
>>>- this is blatantly offtopic for c.o.l.m.
>>
>>It is so hard to tell, what exactly is "on topic" for c.o.l.m. these
>>days anyway? It can't be Linux, almost none of the treads these days
>>even reference it ;-)
>>
>>
>>> Oh, and if your clan consists of *all* citizens of USA... <shrug>
>>> Looks like your pride extends to some pretty obnoxious bastards
>>
>>I think I can saftly say, that unless your clan is exclusively
>>non-human, then you have some pretty obnoxious bastards in yours as
>>well.
>>
>>> I happen to know personally and quite a few ones I happily never met.
>>> <cheap shot>
>>> AFAIK Bill Gates and Bill Clinton are both US citizens
>>> </cheap shot>
>>
>>I actually like Bill Clinton. Big deal, he got caught getting a blow
>>job? Show me a man that has never lied about sex, and I'll show you a
>>man that has never had any.
>>
>>As for Bill Gates, he is a troubling person. He is both so powerful and
>>insecure at the same time. This is a bad mix from any perspective.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Environment variables and C
Date: 4 Feb 1999 13:04:59 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>People,
>
>I'm writing a Linux application that needs to find certain files
>in its install directory. I've noticed that many programs (e.g.
>Netscape) solve this problem by using an environment variable.
>
>Great. So how do I access an environment variable from within C?
This is probably a pretty involved subject to address in a newsgroup
but this may help.
extern char **environ;
main(argc, argv, envp)
int argc;
char *argv[], *envp[];
then something along the lines of:
for (i=0;envion[i] != NULL; i++)
printf("%s\n",environ[i]);
blah blah blah
>I have a feeling there's some scheme similar to the argc/argv
>method of passing command line parameters, but I don't know the
>details. Can some kind person point me in the right direction?
>Does it differ depending on your shell? (please say no)
>
You might find Advanced Unix Programming by Marc J. Rochkind
to be interesting reading....
Regards
Bill
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From: "Richard Sugg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 00:45:09 GMT
I have Red Hat 5.1 running with an AMD K6-2 350, 64MB PC 100 RAM, and FIC
2013 board. I don't know about your board, but I think AMD is ok.
Javier Pulido wrote in message <79dcer$ifd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>��SOS!!
>
>Problems with the booting of linux in a computer AMD K6-2 (300 MHz) with
>i430TX (no AGP) and 128 MB, two hard drives and 1 CDROM. Can you help me?
>
>After many attempts of booting with several kernels (2.0.29, 2.0.30,
2.1.48,
>2.0.35, 2.0.36) through a boot-disk, LILO or LOADLIN (Symbol of System,
>option F8 of Windows95), I realize only procedure that was operating:
>
> 1. I Start Windows95/98 (graphic environment)
> 2. I restart in MSDOS-Mode
> 3. C:> loadlin zImage2_2 root=/dev/hdc3 mem=128M no-hlt
>
>If I don�t use option no-hlt, the system starts but is hung in little
>minutes, and it shown me all the processor registers, the stack and the
>message "idle task may not sleep".
>
>In the attempts rest of starting were remained hung when was ending the
>load kernel in report: Loading linux ....... (!!stop!!)
>
>My system crashes while it�s booting. I
>
>I only can boot linux in three steps:
>
> 1> loading Windows95
>
> 2> Restart in MSDOS MODE
> 3> loadlin kernel2.2 /dev/hdc3 no-hlt (root in /dev/hdc3)
>
>
>
>
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From: "Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:45:54 -0500
anyone know how to mount an internal IDE/ATAPI Zip Drive/Disk?
Thanks in advance.
Bob
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:33:41 -0500
How to make it run faster?
Change the oil, check the tire pressure, tune up whoops wrong news group
Here are my suggestions:
1. Find more RAM and add it to the machine. Do this first!
2. Recompile the kernel as a I486 application.
3. Do not run any more than you have to.
Do you really need sound.
Which servers do you really need.
Choose light wieght applications, vi over EMACS -- it
hurts to say that!
4. Dig up a good solid accelerator card with as much on board memory
as possible. Make sure its supported by a X accelerator. It probally
isn't worth buying new here unless you have a PCI slot.
5. Recompile all apps as I486
6. Don't forget the ram
7. Upgrade to the latest releases of RedHat. Even on my P2 I could
see that the 5.2 distribution was faster.
8. This may take some consideration but the 2.2.1 kernel an be much
faster. Consider an upgrade, but look into memory usage first.
9. If your mother board is upgradeable consider an AMD 586. I ran
one of these for the longest time, excellent!
The 486 is can bee a very good performer but you do need to team it with a
good X server/video board. As with every other operating system memory
is a key element in performance. With RedHat or any other distribution
newer is better as long as its stable. I have kernel 2.2.0 running on a
Laptop so it seems to be pretty good.
Best of Luck
DAVE
David Z. Maze wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>mcryptic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>mc> In article <7987g2$klq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>mc> "RAZOR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> r> Hey guys :-)
> r> I have my second puter that is 486/66mhz ,16 mb ram with Redhat 5.1
> r> installed. My swap partition is 65 mb, and I'm running AnotherLevel
> r> X-Windows (w95 look). So X-Windows is running kinda slow.
>
>mc> Do you have any more computers around? If you do you can cluster
>mc> multiable computer together so its like having a 120mHz
>mc> computer(or more)if you have two clustered.
>
>For a less complicated solution, I remember seeing reports that, given
>two Linux boxen, running applications and displays on opposite
>machines can be a performance win. That is, given two machines "a"
>and "b", use XDMCP or some such method to log in to b using a's
>display. Then the only thing running on a is the X server, while all
>of the applications are running on b. Even if both machines are in
>use, in theory this will still be a win, since it's unlikely that both
>users will be trying to do things at the same time, so you can split
>the load to do something across the two machines (work on one machine,
>display on the other). YMMV.
>
>--
>David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
>"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct
Button?"
>"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: Jeff Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pcmcia and linux (slackware OR redhat5.2)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:50:22 -0500
sorry for cross posting but here goes:
i need some help (if anyone can give it) with getting pcmcia to work on my
(notso)new laptop. i just obtained a ti travelmate 5300 133pentium laptop.
on it now i have dos/win3.11 and slackware. i have pcmcia networking
working with my intel extherexpress pro 16 bit (redhats web page says it's
supported) in dos and win but i can't get it to work in slackware using
the defacto pcmcia utils.
the redhat install crashes right after i put in the supp. disk and it says
starting pcmcia services or support or something simlar. it freezes the
screen and locks keybaord (a hard reboot is needed)
if anyone can help me please Email me asap.
if more info is needed i'd be more then happy to supply it.
thanks
jeff
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"Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching
for meaning in other human beings, rare are lucky are those who find it,
for although we may not be alone in universe, in our own separate ways
on this planet we are all alone." (the x files)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A delni as a hub
Date: 4 Feb 1999 14:06:03 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joe Linington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it possible to use a DELNI as a hub for a small ether net.
Yes. I've done it. It was so long ago that I won't be much help with
the particular details, but it *is* possible.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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