Linux-Misc Digest #188, Volume #19 Fri, 26 Feb 99 07:13:33 EST
Contents:
filter for HP directjet (Jayasuthan)
Debian - Looking for CD-ROM copy (Klaus-Juergen Wolf)
Re: Informix patches for Linux screw up laptops (Kevyn Schneider)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Zenin)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
tx97xe Motherboard caching limit ??? (Ambrose Kofi Laing)
fb modes (jik-)
Re: Redhat install help needed (Uncle Meat)
Re: Running LINUX under WIN NT????? ("Karsten M. Self")
Re: I'm baffled with these ... (Frank Hahn)
REAL COMMERCIAL SUPPORT, If that's what you really want (was: Re: Red Hat's sick
sense of humor (support)) (Irish)
Re: I'm baffled with these ... (Irish)
Re: Can someone recomend Intel computer with preinstalled Linux OS+ full accessories
(Irish)
Help: booting 2.2.1 on a Chembook laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Richard Caley)
Re: DIP script (Larry)
These newsgroups are riduculous... ("Jeraimee")
Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards ("Mark Smith")
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:09:00 -0800
From: Jayasuthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: filter for HP directjet
Hi,
Does anyone have good hp directjet mp6 filter script for printing. I
been using Ghostscript but fonts are very small.... pls distribute if
you have better scripts.
Thanks
--
#include <linux/geek.h>
<----|
I run around LAN for 10 Hours....
Surf WAN for 4 hours and........
play on localhost for 3 hours !
Is this mean I am qualify to become a GEEK !
|---->
"The sky looks blue but it is not"
---> Don't see things and believe <-----
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From: Klaus-Juergen Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian - Looking for CD-ROM copy
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:49:43 +0000
Hallo,
can anyone help me please? I am most urgently looking for a CD-ROM copy
of the current ´hamm´ i.e. Debian 2.0r5 (even maybe incomplete). If
anyone is able to burn me such a thing, please, most rapidly, she would
be welcome.
Thank you,
cu
k.j.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevyn Schneider)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.informix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Informix patches for Linux screw up laptops
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 03:09:54 GMT
I put IDS 7.3 with patches on the patched RH5.2 / Linux 2.0.36 drive
of my laptop. (Hey, it was a long flight, I needed something to do.)
It worked fine, although by main board *burned out* before I had a
chance to use the PCMCIA network card. When the board's replaced,
I'll get back with you. Wierd problem...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
;-{>
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:46:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I have installed the informix 7.3 ids on few computers and always installed
>the required patches from redhat and informix.
>
>I always got some error messages while it tried to remove a non-empty
>directory, but the computer booted and informix worked.
>
>Trying to install those patches on a laptop display the same errors, the
>computer still boots - but all the PCMCIA devices and drivers can not be seen
>or accessed any more.
>
>Does anybody have any experience with Linux and laptops??
>
>Cheers
>
>Shay Tochner
>International Systems Support Specialist
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
From: Zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 26 Feb 1999 11:03:11 GMT
Gregory L. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
: If developers didn't want to produce products that are not free, there
: wouldn't be a problem.
LOL
: And I wouldn't say developers shouldn't charge money for their software.
: I consider the GPL people something of extremists and idealists, in fact.
Good. :-)
: But I will say you shouldn't complain when other people never want money
: charged for their software.
The problem is that the GPL hides its real affect from its users.
It is nothing close to as simple as it claims to be and has a strong
hidden agenda.
If you understand what the GPL really does to your code and still
like it, go ahead and use it. If, like most GPL users, you've only
taken its motives at face value, you really should read deeper into
what you're doing to your own code.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 24 Feb 1999 17:37:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne) writes:
> On 24 Feb 1999 04:32:24 GMT, John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>>I didn't say that GPL is bad because it allows marketeers to profit from
>>free software. I said that GPL is bad because it supports the marketeers
>>at the expense (and not to the economic advantage) of the programmers who
>>produce and incrementally create the works.
>
> Which profiteering marketeers do you have in mind? The ones at Walnut
> Creek? The ones at LinuxCentral? The ones at LSL? Or the ones at
> CheapBytes?
>
Red Hat? (Mostly GPL only)
>
> Note that all of the above listed "profiteers" are marketing FreeBSD
> on a roughly equivalent basis to the basis on which Linux is
> marketed...
>
With free licenses, as opposed to GPL, developers are on a relatively
more even footing with marketeers. WC is great because they also
support free software, not-so-free software, and GPL software.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | it makes one look stupid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and it irritates the pig.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ambrose Kofi Laing)
Subject: tx97xe Motherboard caching limit ???
Date: 24 Feb 1999 14:53:40 -0000
I have an ASUS TX97-XE motherboard. At the time I bought it, I
remember there was an issue with this motherboard or something else,
which prevented the caching of RAM above 64MB. Was this caused by the
Linux/OS then or was it something caused by the motherboard. I
remember making up my mind that I would never need more than 64 MB
anyway, so I didn't care. Now I do.
In short. With Linux 2.0.36, RH5.1 and P200MMX/TX97-XE, can I use
96MB (32+64) or 128MB?
Thanks,
Ambrose
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fb modes
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:59:30 -0800
I am using the new (to ix86 anyway) kernel fb device for my console. I
can easily set it to the correct modes with a modified fbset, but here
are the problems I would like to fix.
If I change the modes with fbset in the init script, the penguin goes
away, which kinda sucks,...and it also makes this ugly jump. What I
really want, is a way to set these modes permanently.
Is there a source file I can modify, and then recompile the kernel, to
make the fb device have the right modes to begin with? Then I would
have the best of all worlds and would be one happy camper. Which file
would I need to change?
If the file is driver specific, I am using the Mach64 driver. Or, if I
don't need to make some sort of source file change, what do I do?
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From: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat install help needed
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 05:11:19 -0600
LordG wrote:
<SNIP>
> Everythings cool and I can boot linux fine but when I boot 95 explorer
> shows another drive that can't be read in addition to the primary dos
> partition that I made.
>
> My question is: what is this drive and what can I do so that I won't
> get drive read errors when I boot 95.
At a do$ prompt:
format c:
--
A man is as old as the woman he feels.
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running LINUX under WIN NT?????
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:13:00 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Baseball wrote:
> Larry Armitstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> > NT server and would like to edit data on an NT machine.
> >
> > Is there an emulator or other such program to enable me to run/edit
> > Linux on an NT machine? Or is it going to be a dedicated server and a
> > dual boot machine?
bochs is a virtual x86 software emulation package which allows you to
run one OS within another. There is a fairly severe performance
penalty, but you can run Linux from within a Windows 9x or NT session.
The FAQ gives performance at 1.5 MIPS for a 400 MHz PII. If I'm reading
this correctly, that's a 1.5 MHz emulated machine (?). Pretty slow.
I've run bochs, but ~1 year ago, emulating MS DOS. As I have little
need for DOS or windows applications, and can use dosemu for what I
need, I haven't pursued bochs.
Information: http://www.bochs.com/faq.html
Note that bochs is not free software or freeware.
Interix also offers a Linux-on-NT emulation. It is priced ~$100, though
this appears to change with some some regularity.
Personally, I'd pursue the 2nd, freestanding Linux server + X terminal
solution. Using running Samba on the Linux box, it should be
transparent to NT.
--
Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
SAS/Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html
12:01pm up 12 days, 23:29, 8 users, load average: 0.70, 0.51, 0.35
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: I'm baffled with these ...
Date: 26 Feb 1999 03:24:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:25:03 GMT, Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <7b171a$php$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I have this entry on my /etc/hosts
>>
>>127.0.0.1 localhost
>>192.168.10.1 myhost.mydomain <----my hostname
>
>route add -net 192.168.10.0 should do the job. You've to be
>root though.
>
One thing I'm curious about is the loopback device. Isn't this device
used on standalone systems without an ethernet connection?
I think this gets mentioned in the "Network Administrators Guide."
I have also seen it talked about in "Running Linux."
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Irish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: REAL COMMERCIAL SUPPORT, If that's what you really want (was: Re: Red Hat's
sick sense of humor (support))
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:19:56 -0800
Jason Clifford wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Christopher Browne wrote:
> >
> > How much service can you realistically expect to get for $5?
>
> That Red Hat choose to offer a level of support without adequately funding
> it from sales is their problem. If they really can't afford to provide the
> support at the prices they charge, they should either up the prices or
> drop the support.
Red Hats support model was probably designed with the 'average' Linux
user in mind - one person setting up a home PC or two.
If a high level of support is required (for say, a commercial venture),
buy from a vendor you can be assured has the backing to provide it - IBM
now sells Linux preloaded, is porting it to it's proprietary server
systems, and most importantly, offers third party support for most major
distributions.
Compaq also sells preloaded Linux systems that come with full support.
Support is quickly becoming a non-issue with Linux. Read the newspaper.
Get over it.
--
Irish
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From: Irish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm baffled with these ...
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:23:55 -0800
Loopback device is required for all systems, regardless of connectivity.
Frank Hahn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:25:03 GMT, Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >In article <7b171a$php$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>I have this entry on my /etc/hosts
> >>
> >>127.0.0.1 localhost
> >>192.168.10.1 myhost.mydomain <----my hostname
> >
> >route add -net 192.168.10.0 should do the job. You've to be
> >root though.
> >
> One thing I'm curious about is the loopback device. Isn't this device
> used on standalone systems without an ethernet connection?
>
> I think this gets mentioned in the "Network Administrators Guide."
> I have also seen it talked about in "Running Linux."
>
> --
> Frank Hahn
--
Irish
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From: Irish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,pl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can someone recomend Intel computer with preinstalled Linux OS+ full
accessories
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:22:02 -0800
As did Compaq.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> IBM, Dell and H-P all announced computers preinstalled with RedHat Linux
> recently.
>
> In article <7b2ipf$bhj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.misc Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > can someone recommend an Intel computer with preinstalled LinuxOS +
> > > fax/modem + CD/DVD + TVCard + remote mouse, remote keyboard
> > > J.
> >
> > Check out www.varesearch.com
> >
--
Irish
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help: booting 2.2.1 on a Chembook laptop
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:26:16 GMT
Hi
I'm running Redhat 5.2 on a chembook 9730.
I installed the latest rpm's from redhat for building
the 2.2 kernel.
make zImage went OK.
When I try to boot the new kernel (tried it from both a floppy
and using LILO) I get the following messages:
--
--
--
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DKLA-24320, ATA DISK drive
hdc: UJDA150, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
----
----
Some stuff about floppy drives/cdroms ansd PPP
----
Partition check:
request_module[ide-disk]: Root fs mounted
hda: driver not present
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
Any suggestions ??
thanks
Steve
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From: Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 26 Feb 1999 10:35:47 +0000
In article <7b5ddu$11g9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell (lm) writes:
lm> Why would you want these 'things that everybody needs' to be
lm> prohibited from being included into products that necessarily
lm> require non-GPL'd components?
For the class of things which are truely infrastructure, gcc is a good
example, some people think the need to persuade people to work on the
publicly available version and so improve the infrastructure outweighs
the advantage of having commercial derivatives. I'd rather see one
improvement to the public gcc (or egcs, sigh!) and 9 people not
touching it than 10 commercial versions of gcc each with it's own set
of small improvements.
There are other ways to arange for that involving organisation and
negotiation with commercial people and so on, but GPL is a nice way
for a small project to be tagged as in that class.
OTOH, it works much less sanely for libraries. A GPLed library is only
useful for other GPL projects and for prototyping. Everyone else,
commercial, freeware etc. will sooner or later have to reinvent that
wheel. We've done it twice now.
--
Mail me as rjc not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: DIP script
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Feb 1999 20:25:33 GMT
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:04:01 +0800, charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I am new to linux,and would like to connect to internet by dip,
> but every time after i enter my password,the moden hungup.
> It seem can not connect to ppp0, am i guess right?
> And how should i config the ppp0?
> MANY THANKS ...
>
> my dip script is below:
># Select configuration settings
>setup:
># Ask PPP to provide tje addresses
>get $local 0.0.0.0
># Select the port
>port cua1
># Set the port speed
>speed 57600
># Create a loop counter
>get $loopcntr 0
># Sets the number of data bits to 8, is recommended for ppp
>databits 8
># Sets the parity to N is recommended for ppp
>parity N
># Set timeout
>timeout 3600
># Dail the remote server
>dialin:
># Reset the modem and clear the input buffer
>reset
>flush
># Dial the PPP server and check the modem respones
>dial 7540-3298
># If busy, dial again
>if $errlvl == 3 goto redail
># If some other error, abort
>if $errlvl != 1 goto dial-error
># Otherwise rest loop counter
>get $loopcntr 0
># Give thr server 2 seconds to get ready
>sleep 2
>
>
># Login to the remote server
>login:
># Send a carriage-return to wake up the server
>send \r
># Wait for the Username> prompt and send the username
>wait login: 20
>if $errlvl != 0 goto try-again
>send kristin\r
># Wait for the password> prompt and send thr password
>wait word: 10
>if $errlvl != 0 goto server-failure
>password
># Wait for the PPP server's command line prompt
>sleep 5
>if $errlvl != 0 goto server-failure
># Send the command required by the PPP server
>send ppp enable\r
>
>
># Success! We're on-line
>connected:
># Set the interface to PPP mode
>mode PPP
># Print the IP address
>print $locip
># Exit the script
>exit
>
>
>
># Error processing routines
>
># Try dailing 3 times. Wait 5 seconds between attempts
>redial:
>inc $loopcntr
>if $loopcntr > 3 goto busy-failure
>sleep 5
>goto dialin
>
># Try a second carriage return
>try-again:
>inc $loopcntr
>if $loopcntr > 1 goto server-failure
>goto login
>
>
>dial-error:
>print Dial up of $remote failed.
>quit
>
>server-failure:
>print Dial up of $remote failed.
>quit
>
>busy-failure:
>print Remote server busy. Try later.
>quit
>
There is usually a whole bunch of un-necessary crap in these script files
that you don't need. There is generally some things left out too.
If you got this as an example script somewhere it most likely won't work for
you.
DO you have a static or dynamic addressing account? I don't see any dynamic
address calls in the above script.
The best thing for you to do is email me at the address above and I'll see
if I can help you. Dip is not a simple thing to setup if you haven't done
it before.
>
>--------------251B4464C57AACD37BC03E28
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please turn off the html.
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From: "Jeraimee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: These newsgroups are riduculous...
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:21:07 -0500
I can't believe out of the 8 questions I have posted in the above listed
newsgroups in the past 3 weeks (est.) that only 1 - ONE - has even been
responded to...
What happened here? Do you all only want to answer EASY questions? May we
should let www.linuxcare.com take over the newsgroup!
Was my question listing errors like "Gtk-CRITICAL **: filegtkbox.c : line
324..." etc... to complex for you all?
I've responded to many a newbie and never avoided a question (unless it was
asked recently and they could just re-sort their newsreader and see the
answer ala: Winmodem questions...). If they did not get an answer I
attempted to e-mail them - that is if I knew the answer... BUT
I find it hard to believe (in this example) that NO Linux users in the above
groups use GNOME on a RH system.
I would much rather pay for technical support than have to waste my time
hoping that the "news gods" would answer my pathetic little question...
<pshaw>
WHAT A JOKE
Linux is not the end-all-be-all and neither are you.
Thanks for the "help"... back to usable support and Windows I guess...
Jeraimee
--
Who says we can't all get along? Bring `em over here... I'll show them
gettin` along!
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From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:31:16 -0000
Hmmm, I'm not so sure that your qualified to answer this question ... do you
have any experience in this subject ?
;-)
Seriously though, I take it I would could just copy my program to the memory
card ie. "dd if=test.bin of=/dev/mem0c0c" or is there a nice pre-made
program that will do it for me ?
Regards
Mark
David Hinds wrote in message <7b445b$ghl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Mark Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Hello,
>:
>: With the PCMCIA drivers under Linux is it possible to write a binary to
an
>: SRAM card ?
>
>Absolutely.
>
>-- Dave Hinds
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