Linux-Misc Digest #530, Volume #20 Mon, 7 Jun 99 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Zip Code Dealer Locator software available (Aubrey Soper)
Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output... ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Very,very slow KDE (Rod Roark)
Re: Will a SupraExpress 56i modem run under linux? ("esoteric")
pci driver ("ciprut ethan")
Re: Alpha, PowerPC, Intel, and Sparc (Philip Brown)
Re: Unstable Netscape (garv)
Re: Third-party e-mail notification (gus)
Re: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps ("Kerry J. Cox")
DRiver for a WebCam II? ("Daniel Castro")
help: ibcs does not compile on sparc linux
Redhat 6.0 finger problem (Bryan Caudle)
ANN: GNU Nana 2.4 released. (Phil Maker)
Re: Unstable Netscape ("Jakup Michaelsen")
Re: Backup recommendations? (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
newsgroups autom. anmelden ?? (dl6dbh)
Mandrake and unmounting partitions ("Lord Byron")
can't detect soundcard at boot time (Benjamin HERZOG)
Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me (KevCo)
How do i know if i'm running the new kernel?????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Any advantage to using chip specific optimizations? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Aubrey Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip Code Dealer Locator software available
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:06:43 -0400
Bud Jay wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> Jay Computer Services is progressing in porting their Zip Code/Area code/Zip
> Proximity calcualtion software to Linux. This new version is written in "C"
> and is lightning fast. No database software required.
hello
this description (and the heading) strike me as very misleading as the
software isn't available. and if the software isn't available, it doesn't
matter what language it's written in.
regards
aubrey
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Date: 07 Jun 99 09:36:02 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output...
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to DonJr ;
[... to the chase]
>> Jun 4 19:19:21 PC pppd[456]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap
>80> <magic 0x7d7f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
This is probably the killer line. Under 99% of the situations, you have
to at least escape the xon/xoff characters in the character set in use.
Set an option that tells pppd to use the 'asyncmap 0x000a0000' which
will escape those two characters in the data stream.
>> Jun 4 19:19:21 PC pppd[456]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap
>80> <magic 0x7d7f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
I see it did acknowledge it, so did mine, but then it hung up just like
yours is doing.
This is good info I think, so I'll leave it. But there should be a
window someplace to allow adding that option 'asyncmap 0x000a0000'
(without the quotes)
> Basicaly put "kppp" is not written for the Red Hat Dastro and will not
> work without major configuration changes.
> The easiest way I've found to setup pppd under RH 5.2 or RH 6.0 is:
> # linuxconf { either under X or text mode take you pick}
> - Networking
> - Client tasks
> Select PPP/SLIP/PLIP
> Click the ADD button
> Make sure PPP is selected
> Click the Accept button
> Fill in the following fields
> Phone Number
> Modem Port
> Click the use PAP check button if using pap
> { Or try PAP even if the ISP says use CHAP
> Because the may support it for there
> MS-Windows users. And Not realize that pppd
> under Linux can do the same thing.
> }
> Login Name
> Password
> Click the Customize button
> Select Allow any user (de)activate the interface
> Study the other pages
> Click the Accept button
> Click the quit button on the PPP/SLIP/PLIP page
> Select Name server specification (DNS)
> Fill in the Name Server Information asked by this page.
> Click the Accept button
> Click the Quit button
> Press enter on the next screen to apply the updates.
> Now at the command prompt
> $ /sbin/ifup ppp0 will bring up the connection
> $ /sbin/ifdown ppp0 will bring down the connection
Cheers, Gene
--
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|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Very,very slow KDE
Date: 7 Jun 1999 15:33:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have Pentium II Mendocino - 300Mhz, HD Quantum 6.4MB with Ultra DMA
>33, 32MB SDRam, BX chipset, Rendition Verite 2200 videocard with 4MB
>Ram. I use Mandrake Linux 5.3 and KDE. My swap partition is 100MB. My
>KDE is so slow that sometimes I have to wait 15 sec just to open a menu.
>It seems that every time it needs something it searches the whole disk
>for it, and it does this in such a way that the whole computer shakes. I
>do not know what the problem is, and I would be very obligied to anyone
>who could help.
You need more memory. 32M is about the minimum just for KDE, but is
not enough when you start running large apps.
-- Rod
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http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: "esoteric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Will a SupraExpress 56i modem run under linux?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:37:22 -0700
This modem will work fine. It is a true hardware based modem using the
RC56KDPF chipset. The only "winmodem" diamond makes is the SupraMax (stay
away from that piece of #$%#$^)
a good init for this modem is AT&F2 (set's autoreliable mode) to set v.34
just put +ms=11,1,300,33600 (or desired max speed)
Ozzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:2A523.14487$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
>
> Anybody running this modem under linux?
> successfully?
>
>
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From: "ciprut ethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pci driver
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:38:29 +0200
Hi all,
Im writing pci driver, can anyone explain when to use
vremap/ioremap and when to user memcpy_toio/fromio writel/readl ...?
Can i write to device from user space ?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Alpha, PowerPC, Intel, and Sparc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 May 1999 23:53:43 GMT
On 24 May 1999 12:58:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>Sorry, I don't know anything about the SPARC architecture.
great FP support. so-so integer performance. true 64-bit support, like alpha.
great multi-cpu support.
> Probably the
>best architecture to invest in based on future potential, speed, and power
>efficiency is the PowerPC.
not.
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unstable Netscape
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:38:27 -0700
Jakup Michaelsen wrote:
> Greets.
> One of Linux's strengths is allegeldy it's stability. I hear that, but non
If this is Java-loading, add XFree86-100dpi fonts and try again.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Third-party e-mail notification
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 16:43:42 +0100
Bill K. wrote:
>
> Does anybody know of any software or how to set up existing standard
> Linux software to send notification of new mail to a third party without
> actually sending its content? This would be quite useful for those who
> rarely check their mail to have a third person notify them of mail
> receipt without compromising any privacy.
>
> --
> Bill K. ( b i l l y @ c a f e . n e t )
Just seen this mail now, and it intrigued me ...
I would perhaps use cron, calling a simple script, every "x" minutes.
This script will scan all the update times of the files in
/var/spool/mail/ and anything which has been updated in the last "x"
minutes means that the user with the same name has new mail.
Working from memory ....
find /var/spool/mail -mmin -5 -exec "notifyuser {}" \;
will find all the users who received mail in last 5 minutes ... and call
a script "notifyuser" with the name of the mailbox with new mail.
This can be run as "nobody", I think... no chance of data security
issues.
just a thought .... ;-)
gus
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:35:52 +0000
Kees,
Thanks for the info. That is exactly what it was. I simply checked that file
and commented out the offending line. Thanks for the pointer.
KJ
Kees de Bruin wrote:
> "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Since upgrading to RedHat 6.0 and now to Window Maker 0.60 I have had
> > trouble running any of my dockable apps, i.e. wminet, wmmon, wmifs, and
> > wmtime. I think it's either the DISPLAY variable (I've seen other
> > comments from people about this) or else Window Maker itself, more
> > likely. I went back to WM 0.53.0 but to no avail so I've resigned
> > myself to 0.60.
> > Has anyone else has problems? Please email me directly.
> > KJ
>
> You probably have something like
>
> "*" = {NoAppIcon = Yes;};
>
> in your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes file. Remove this line (or
> just the "NoAppIcon = Yes;" if more is defined) and restart Window Maker.
>
> --
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From: "Daniel Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DRiver for a WebCam II?
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:32:56 +0100
Hi,
I have a WebCam II (parallel port).
Could you tell me where to get a driver linux for the webcam II.
Thanks.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: ibcs does not compile on sparc linux
Date: 7 Jun 1999 14:56:52 GMT
I have recently installed Debian 2.1 distribution on SparcStation IPX.
I need to run Solaris binaries on that box so I downloaded
ibcs-2.1-981105.tar.gz source package but no matter how I try I can
not get it to compile. Looking for answers on the Net did not help much.
Has anyone successfully compiled ibcs under Linux on sparc architecture at
all? If so, please let me know how it can be done.
Thanks,
Martins
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From: Bryan Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.0 finger problem
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:05:16 -0400
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Since upgrading from rh5.2 to 6.0, finger no longer displays the status
of the users mailbox. Even if the user has mail, fingering the userid
always produces the output:
<p>$ finger root
<br>Login:
root
Name: root
<br>Directory:
/root
Shell: /bin/bash
<br>Never logged in.
<br>No mail.
<br>No Plan.
<p>If I login as that user, using elm or pine I am able to read new mail
messages. This symptom seems consistent across multiple rh6.0 machines
that were upgraded from 5.2, and this feature worked correctly under 5.2.
Any insight is appreciated, and please copy your response to my email address.
Thank you.</html>
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From: Phil Maker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,alt.sources.d
Subject: ANN: GNU Nana 2.4 released.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 17:25:55 +0200 (MET DST)
GNU Nana 2.4 has been released and is available from:
<ftp://ftp.cs.ntu.edu.au/pub/nana/nana-2.4.tar.gz>
Who might be interested?
GNU C/C++ programmers including those who build reliable or
real time systems. If you know what Design By Contract is
you might be interested.
What does it do?
Assertion checking, logging and various other strange
activities concerned with making programs work correctly.
See <http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home>
for more details etc. [Note: this page refers to nana-2.3 but
is mostly correct, I hope to have a home page set up
shortly elsewhere at <http://www.quoll.com.au/~pjm/nana>].
What is new in this release?
A few more fixes and a new test system. Its been out for a
few weeks with about 5 downloads/day without any major
complaints so it may be stable.
--
Phil Maker, Quoll Systems, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Without freedom of choice
16 Bougainvillia St, Nightcliff, Darwin there is no creativity."
+61 8 89854 939 work/home number. James T. Kirk.
<http://www.quoll.com/systems/>
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From: "Jakup Michaelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unstable Netscape
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 04:08:28 +0100
Thanks for your help!
I'll try 4.6 and see how it goes.
Jakup
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup recommendations?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:30:02 +0300
Hi,
Since high volume backup solutions are expensive, and low volume ones
are proprietary and have bad cost/benefit, my strategy is simply using
CD-RW for backups up to around 5 GB (uncompressed).
If my needs exceed several CD's per backup run, I can upgrade to a 24MB
DDS-3 drive.
This is what I can work out for a reasonably cost/benefit balanced
backup strategy. I'm also interested in other opinions.
Regards.
Aaron Dershem wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there have a recommendation for a good, cheap, IDE tape
> backup solution for Linux? I have a little server at home that I'd like to
> keep backed up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron Dershem
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu ( aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr )
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From: dl6dbh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newsgroups autom. anmelden ??
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:08:49 +0200
hallo
folgende frage :
meine user haben immer wieder schwiergkeiten die newsgroups
die auf dem server sind im netscape anzumelden.
zugegeben eigentlich nicht schwierig , doch ich habe die arbeit damit.
gibt es eine moeglichkeit , das ein user per http link oder cgi script
durch anklicken sofort alle newsgroups bekommt ?
meinolf
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From: "Lord Byron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake and unmounting partitions
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:34:22 -0500
I recently upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to Mandrake 6.0. After the initial
install, every time when I reboot, it is unable to unmount my /, /root, and
/tmp partitions. Then, when it boots again, it does an fsck every time, and
it usually finds a deleted inode or two with a zero dtime. The partitions
pass the test every time, but it gets annoying waiting for 5 minutes to boot
the machine. Is anyone else suffering from the same problem? Can anybody
suggest a fix? Thanks.
--
Byron
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't detect soundcard at boot time
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:22:29 +0200
Hi,
i try to have an Ensoniq audio pci sndcard to work on Linux RH 5.1
Kernel 2.2.4
i have compiled the kernel with the Ensoniq options marked to 'y' but at
the boot time, i have the message:
soundscape: Card not detected.
i checked the irq and i/o stuff under windows, and don't know if my
settings are good.
for example, i read midi-irq = 7 and audio-irq = 7. But i see irq = 9 in
/proc/pci
how do i select the good settings for kernel compilation ?
else, i saw es1370 in irq=9 that is supposed to be the soundcard
according to /proc/pci .... ?
Note: i have RH 5.1 < 5.2 so sndconfig doesn't work !
Thanks you for helping.
Benjamin
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From: KevCo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:42:41 -0400
Daniel Bruce Lynes wrote:
> Now, if only I could figure out how to setup the Linux console to use 132x43 text
>mode, or 80x60 text mode, I'd be set. :)) Hell, even 80x50 could be tolerated at
>this point. :))
Recompile your kernel to enable the frame buffer device. This will
allow you to boot to a graphical text mode. I don't really know the
details as far as the different modes available but I beleive there is a
HOWTO at the LDP with details.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How do i know if i'm running the new kernel??????
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:46:13 GMT
hi there
i dont know if i succeded in installing my new kernel how can you
tell?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Any advantage to using chip specific optimizations?
Date: 7 Jun 1999 16:19:11 GMT
Just wondering....
It there any "real" advantage to recompiling the kernel (or any of the
GNU utilities or X) using the processor specific optimzation flags?
If so, what portions of the GNU/Linux software suite would benefit most?
Simeon
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