Linux-Misc Digest #301, Volume #20 Sat, 22 May 99 07:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Informix IDS and Kernel 2.2.x (Scott)
dummy device for SuSE 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dial-in terminal server... (Grand Poobah of PRAM)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Brandon)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Brandon)
Re: Mindcraft may be partly right about Apache ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP (Silviu D Minut)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Gareth Owen)
Re: best distribution (Bob Nelson)
Re: Linux or linux? (eloki)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Brandon)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jef Poskanzer)
Re: Can't communicate through 2nd NIC (FoT)
Re: WordPerfect 8 & Printers (Rod Smith)
Re: Linux or linux? (jane chav)
Re: Can't communicate through 2nd NIC (Harley Waagmeester)
Re: internet ("Craig A. Sharp")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott)
Subject: Re: Informix IDS and Kernel 2.2.x
Date: 22 May 1999 04:10:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Greulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know you've to apply a patch to kernel 2.0.36 if you want to run the
>Informix Dynamic Server, but I didn't found a patch for the kernel 2.2.x
>anywhere.
You need the large-fd capability. As for patch sources, it depends on
what distro you use.
Red Hat 6.0 has it built-in. SuSE 6.1 hasn't put a pertinent patch
on their site yet (they did for 6.0/2.0.36). Caldera and Debian
are mute on the subject (on their web sites, anyway). Red Hat
5.2 supplied a relevant patch set; you can get it from either Red
Hat's or Informix's web site.
It's also in the Alan Cox .ac1 patch set.
You might be able to use the ipcshm (IPC shared memory) protocol
even without the patch, but the soctcp (sockets) protocol will definitely
need the patch.
Also note: the current version of Informix OnLine and SE will gag on shadow
passwords on Linux in certain circumstances (e.g. CONNECT ... USER 'username')
where username != current username/uid will choke if the server
is on a machine with shadowed passwords -- it's a known bug.
--
Alan Denney yosemite at accesscom.com
The lyric for the Mozart piece ("Confutatis Maledictis", from his Requiem)
used in the TV ad for Microsoft's Internet Explorer translates to:
"The damned and the accursed are convicted to flames of hell."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dummy device for SuSE 6.1
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 20:03:00 +0800
Hi,
I have just upgraded to SuSE 6.1. Everything went smoothly
except that
there is a small problem that is bugging me.
During bootup, the following message appears:
Setting up dummy0 device SIOCSIFADDR:Operation not supported by device
dummy0:unknown interface : Operation not supported by device
SIOCSI FNETMASK: Operation not supported by device
dummy0: unknown interface: Operation not supported by device
To avoid this error message, I tried to turn on the support of
dummy
device in the kernel and recompile. While the message did go away, I
couldn't connect to Internet anymore as I can't dial to the ISP at all.
Only when I turn off the dummy device support and recompile can I dial
up again.
Is there somewhere I can turn off this dummy without enabling it
in the
kernel?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
TH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grand Poobah of PRAM)
Subject: Dial-in terminal server...
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 09:05:41 GMT
I'm interested in configuring my linux box (running RedHat 6) for
use as a dial-in terminal server. Can anyone point me to any howtos
on this-LDP doesn't seem to have anything on this.
--
"Somehow there's cosmic justice in the fact that movie makers can now spend
the gross national product of Romania on special effects and still wind
up with something that looks like a teenager's Web page."-Andrew O'Hehir
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Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 02:49:30 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> On 20 May 1999 21:26:08 +0200, David Kastrup
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
> >> >> You may be less likely to die, net, if you have a gun, because most
> >> >> of the time, people "defending" themselves with guns don't fire them
> >> >> - most people aren't stupid enough to wait around to be shot at.
> >>
> >> >So you would be of the opinion that a criminal armed with a gun
> >> >telling me to pass my wallet will, if I grasp at a gun as an answer,
> >> >turn his back on me and walk away?
> >>
> >> Not necessarily... But he might.
> >>
> >> Roughly speaking, if you resist with anything but a gun, you're more likely
> >> to get hurt than if you don't resist. If you resist with a gun, you're less
> >> likely to get hurt than if you don't resist.
> >
> >Don't be silly. There is no reason to shoot me if I don't resist.
>
> This doesn't stop this from, too often, happening.
>
> >If he was planning to kill me, anyway, there would be no point in asking
> >me to pass the wallet first.
>
> If the crime represents "wanting to have power over you," then what he
> wants is your *obedience,* with the wallet as a distant priority. And
> killing you may lie higher on the list than getting the wallet.
>
> >Of course, if in the act of me passing my wallet, he will notice that
> >I have a gun strapped to my side, he might consider killing me before
> >turning his back. So if I carry a gun, the option of "not resisting"
> >might be considerably more dangerous than if I don't.
>
> Carrying a gun changes the decision tree entirely, shifting the root of
> the tree fairly substantially. The decisions, once you're carrying a
> gun, are different.
>
> Carrying gun gives the option of armed resistance, and *nearly* mandates
> that option.
>
> Furthermore, in most of the jurisdictions where this is relevant (e.g.
> Texas, Florida, and the like), the gun is likely to be deliberately
> concealed, and thus shouldn't be noticed, if the carrier is competent...
>
wouldnt the competent thing to do be to show the gun off so that any
criminals would know not to target you for an attack but move on to
someone else. Unlesss you are going along the reasoning that if it is
concealed and the person attacks u have a chance of killing them and
they then would reconsider attacking their next potential victim.
Brandon
> --
> "...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two
> noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer*
> being struck by lightning." -- By Matt Welsh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 02:57:16 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
David Kastrup wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > This is contrary to the evidence. Instead, violence is escalated.
> > Violent criminals act more violently in anticipation of violent
> > responses. American's weirdly distorted perception that the way to
> > stop violence is to be even more violent gives us kids shooting up
> > their schools and a prison system bursting its seams.
>
> If every kid were allowed to carry a gun they could defend themselves
> if some black-trenchcoated jerk was trying to attack them.
>
> *That* is the proper way to stop violence in school. For example,
> this would put an effective stop to bullying.
>
killing the gunman would be a way of stopping the violence? that doenst
make sense
isnt whoever is doing the killing, whether it be the 'good' kid or the
'bad' kid still being violent?
how about not letting anyone hav a gun? that wouldnt allow either of
them to kill.....woudlnt that be the solution? whether the good kid is
killing the bad kid or the bad kid is killing the good kid u are still
killing someone and its still murder and that isnt the solution....and i
still have yet to understand how people think it is
> Of course, some regulations would have to be worked out. For example,
> a kid erroneously acting in putative self-defense more than twice in a
> week would get his ammunition rationed for a week or so.
I'm sorry but u have reached the wrong country. Please check the number
and make sure u dial Iran/Iraq next time.
>
> We need our once proud schools to introduce the children to
> responsible gunplay once again.
how about introductin them to respect for someone else's life, and
religion being put back into the schools? hmmm maybe thats better than
having EVERY kid be allowed to carry a gun. THe 'good' kids would turn
into bad kids.
>
> Oops, I can't take credit for that last one. Already taken by "Duke"
> of Doonesbury fame.
Brandon
> --
> David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-709-4209
> Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mindcraft may be partly right about Apache
Date: 22 May 1999 01:14:34 GMT
In article <7i4jnr$dde$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Mindcraft said NT was 3-4 x faster than Linux.
>Other indepedent test by Infoworld, PC Week, etc
>suggests that Linux is slower by only 25%,
>and that is serving Win9x clients, not NT clients.
>Linux beats NT when serving NT clients.
It is not Linux that is faster than NT. That's public relations
spin by the Microsoft advocates. It is IIS that is faster than Apache.
(Linux+SAMBA beats NT because Linux is more efficient than NT and
SAMBA is well designed.
But that's not what Mindcraft set out to demonstrate.)
Apache is a christmas tree of features, every feature anyone could
think of. It was designed to be modular and reliable and secure, and
to serve a constantly changing document base. It was not designed for
speed. It just turned out to be fast *enough* (a 166 MHz pentium can
saturate a 10 Mbps ethernet sending plain html and GIFs) that the
freeware servers that *were* designed for speed and simplicity (Boa?)
have been ignored.
Consider .htaccess files. If you were desiging a Web server
for speed, would you have it traverse all the directories between
DocRoot and the file to be served, looking for an .htaccess file?
That's a whole bunch of system calls, and maybe disk seeks, for each hit.
Or would you have it suck up its whole configuration at start time
(a la named) and re-read it only on a signal or semaphore?
I suspect the real reason Apache performed so badly in the Mindcraft
test is the reason revealed in their report. They enabled domain name
logging! Every HTTP request required an rDNS lookup to log the
requester's name. That is an absurd configuration. Even if you
*wanted* your visitors' domain names, in real time, would you want to
look each one up eight times because you served an HTML file containing
seven inline images?
It reflects well on the Apache team that they have not gone
benchmark-happy and put in an rDNS cache to look better in a
configuration that will only ever be used by people who care nothing
about server performance, people who want to make Apache look bad in a
benchmark, and idiots. It is to Mindcraft's shame that they cooked the
benchmark with this old trick. I'm surprised that for all the gnashing
of teeth about it in this newsgroup that nobody has pointed this out.
Cameron
http://petra.greens.org/~cls/
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From: Silviu D Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:09:52 -0400
You don't need the sndconfig if you have the correct isapnp.conf file,
right? Just isapnptools.
If you don't, I can send you mine. I can't post it right now because I'm at
school, and I have it at home. Let me know.
Silviu Mint
Dan Finn wrote:
> I recently installed RedHat 6.0. I have a sound blaster 16 PnP. I was
> able to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2 using sndconfig so I
> was hoping that RH6 would work fine. When I ran sndconfig it detected
> the card as the right card, it then told me it was going to re-write a
> couple of files, it then complains about certain lines in the
> /etc/isapnp.conf file and not knowing what to do with a certain line. I
> tried it multiple times and even tried it with a different card and the
> same exact thing happened (it also detected that card fine). I tried to
> install the isapnptools and sndconfig packages off my RH 5.2 cd and
> sndconfig complained that it needed two library files that I didn't
> have. Any help would be really appreciated,
> Thanks
> Dan Finn
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gareth Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.help,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: 22 May 1999 11:12:46 +0100
"Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Very Quickly - Doesn't the GPL say that you cannot sell the code or any code
> you used from it (or something very similar)??
No it doesn't, but it does stop you stopping those people to whom you
sell the code from giving it to whoever they like.
--
Gareth Owen
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~gowen/lisp/
"The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9."
-- Erwin Dieterich
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From: Bob Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best distribution
Date: 18 May 1999 00:45:47 -0500
Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (octet)
> spake unto us, saying:
>>1. Which distribution is the oldest?
> The first one I used was SLS (SoftLanding Software), but that isn't
> maintained anymore. Slackware might be derived from it, tho.
- Wasn't there some talk about ``witches'' being involved with SLS?
IIRC, ``satan'' was one of the users created in the home directory
for those softlandings from DOS bailouts (as they phrased it). With
the CBS presentation of Joan of Arc, mayhaps that's topical again.
- There was also the TAMU distribution from Aggieland. The A&M connection
still lives on with Tux having his roots there. Please...no Aggie
humo(u)r. That's the reason r.s.f.c. exists (besides BBQ, of course).
--
========================================================================
Bob Nelson -- Dallas, Texas, USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/open-computing.html
``Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (eloki)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Linux or linux?
Date: 22 May 1999 06:31:27 GMT
ENTERforNone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote unto us:
>The first release on Linux stated that a complete system can be made
>by using the GNU utilities. The second (I think) release had the licence
>changed to the GPL for this reason. So Linus from the start intended the
>GNU stuff to be part of the complete system.
Even if this is true (and I wouldn't know for sure), it doesn't mean that
Linux was started as a GNU project, which is the point I disagreed with
originally.
>The GNU is not there because of who wrote the utilities, it is there
>to make people aware of the philosophy behind a copylefted operating
>system. The recent comercialisation of Linux has made a lot of people
>forget that the most important feature of GNU/Linux is its freedom.
I wouldn't say they forgot.. they are probably people who never cared that
much about it in the first place..
--
eloki
eloki/at/zip.com.au
Dare I disturb the universe? You bet I do! :)
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Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 03:09:25 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
George MacDonald wrote:
>
> David Kastrup wrote:
> >
> > George MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Peter Seebach wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > > mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >In the US, if you are robbed at gun-point. They'll shoot you for fun. If
> > > > >a guy has pointed a gun at you, he intends to kill you.
> > > >
> > > > Not always; as I understand it, it's not more than about 50% likely.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Geesh people can you take this elswhere! And besides, your missing
> > > the point! It's not about what you do when a criminal is pointing a
> > > gun at you, it's about what you do when it's your own government!!
> >
> > So you would suggest pulling a gun and shooting if a police officer
> > gets fresh?
> >
>
> Sir, you are attributing to me facts, statements and or opinions that I
> have not voiced. Misrepresenting my statements and then attributing them to me
> is slander and I *DEMAND* that you apologies immediately.
>
then if u didnt voice them, what did u IMPLY?
and u should learn to spell apologize and not apologies, there is a
difference.
> We stand on the shoulders of those giants who coded before.
> Build a good layer, stand strong, and prepare for the next wave.
> Guide those who come after you, give them your shoulder, lend them your code.
> Code well and live! - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (7th Coding Battalion)
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: Jef Poskanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 21 May 1999 18:55:56 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hascall):
} Huh, applications can share memory (in the case of thttpd,
} which is what I was using, this is a moot point, since it
} is a single process).
Even in multi-process thttpd-equivalents, the processes share the
memory because they use mmap(). Your version does use mmap(), doesn't
it?
} I also wonder how to deal with keepalive effectively.
} Without keepalive, typically, only the accept socket
} a brand-newly-accepted sockets need selecting -- that
} is once you accept a connection, typically you select
} it only once, you read the request getting the whole
} request, and that's it -- you could dup2() the fd up
} out of the way for writing. With keepalive, you've
} got this wad of idle sockets bloating your select array.
Yeah. But, um, don't you still need to select on the writable sockets?
---
Jef
Jef Poskanzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acme.com/jef/
It all seemed so real...
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From: FoT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't communicate through 2nd NIC
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 12:12:33 +0200
Steve Snyder wrote:
>
> I am attempting to configure my server (RedHat v5.2 /w kernel v2.2.9) to
<snip>
> cable modem.
Does dmesg report any problems with eth1?
Why don't you try and get connection with your LAN through eth1?
Copy /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 to a temporary file, and
copy /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1.
Type "#ifup eth1" and try to acces your lan.
Succes? -> your NIC is working properly on Linux.
> Attempting to ping @Home's name server (IP = 24.4.162.33) fails. The ping
<snip>
> #cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> -----------------------
> NETWORKING=yes
> FORWARD_IPV4=yes
> HOSTNAME="corona.snydernet.lan"
> DOMAINNAME=snydernet.lan
> GATEWAY=24.4.162.173
> GATEWAYDEV=eth1
Shouldn't "GATEWAY" be the gateway of your ISP?
> #cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> ---------------------------------------
> DEVICE="eth0"
> IPADDR="192.168.0.12"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> ONBOOT="yes"
> BOOTPROTO="none"
>
> #cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> ---------------------------------------
> DEVICE="eth1"
> IPADDR="24.4.162.173"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> BOOTPROTO="none"
Both cards are assigned to the same subnet (255.255.255.0), is this
correct?
I don't know how @home or your cable modem works or should be
configured, but I do know I had about the same problems when I tried to
hook up my (com21) modem to the cable network using 2 NIC's.
Turned out to be an interrupt problem :-)
Regards,
FoT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 & Printers
Date: 22 May 1999 02:15:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong) writes:
>
>> Some people may or may not know this, but with WP8 for Linux you
>> can just use Corel's stock printer drivers housed at
>> ftp://ftp.corel.ca/pub/printdrivers/wp6x
>> There is a !index.txt there that will list all the printers their
>> drivers support. Download the necessary one, unzip it the .exe file and
>> then stick the *.all file into your /shared/wpc20 directory somewhere (I
>> think). These drivers work under any WP of any platform, for example even
>> WP5 for OS/2 can use the drivers in the wp5x directory.
>
> all platforms? really? my old man is using wp v2 on a ti xt 8088 dos
> box.
I'm not the original poster, but I suspect he meant "all recent WP
platforms." WP version 2 is truly ancient. I don't know how many times
WP's printer driver technologies have morphed between then and now, but
I'd be surprised if the drivers for WP 5.x and 6.x would work on 2.x.
The 6.x drivers DO work with WP for Linux, and for other UNIX ports of WP.
> btw how do i add fonts to wordperfect? i have purchased a copy of wp
> and have a dead tree manual but there are no instructions for adding
> fonts.
See my web page on the topic (which also covers printers):
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/wpfonts.html
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: jane chav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Linux or linux?
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:27:14 +1000
eloki wrote:
>
> Ah, so you'd say that there's lots of users running Symantec/Windows or
> who used to be running Quarterdeck/Windows? I like the GNU utils and all,
> and I'm not saying that "Linux" as a whole system could do without binutils,
> fileutils etc. But it's just not warranted as a name. People out there
> aren't running Symantec/Netscape/Winzip/Installshield/Windows 95. They're
> just running Windows 95, with various utilities.
agreed, kernel is the core of an OS, the OS provides interfaces for the
user applications. Without the utilities, the computer can still boot,
but without the kernel, no utilities can run. utilities are important
but they are not part of an OS. Linux is licensed under GNU (ie.
Copyleft), just like MS-DOS has its own Copyright, but we don't really
call it "whatevery license/Windows". So, it is suffice to call it Linux.
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From: Harley Waagmeester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't communicate through 2nd NIC
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 03:55:49 -0700
Steve Snyder wrote:
> I am attempting to configure my server (RedHat v5.2 /w kernel v2.2.9) to
> act as a gateway to @Home through a cable modem.
I read the /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem mini howto, and there are a few
different ways
that cable modem systems are designed.
You might want to read that mini howto.
You might want to tell us which cable system you are using.
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From: "Craig A. Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,jaring.pcbase,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: internet
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 06:47:20 -0400
Saravanan Govindasamy wrote:
> How do i get connected on the internet thru Linux? I tried the PPP dialup
> utility.
> My modem dials up and gets connected, a few seconds and then disconnects
> with the error message "The pppd daemon died Unexpectedly".
>
> Sara....
It has nothing to do with your ISP. I had the same problem with ppp.
When you run the ppp daemon as root it will work fine. If you try to run as
any other user, it will say that the daemon died.
If you run linuxconf and go to the network section, you will find that the
ppp device is set to not allow all other users to use the driver. As a
result, it will die immediately. Set this to allow all other users besides
root to run the daemon and it should work fine.
Craig
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