Linux-Misc Digest #694, Volume #20 Sat, 19 Jun 99 04:13:54 EDT
Contents:
Slackware 4.0 + IBM Etherjet ISA PnP card ("Peter Letkeman")
Re: Linux vs Linux? (Jeremiah)
Re: INFORMIX ODBC CLIENT FOR LINUX ? (Milton)
Midnight Commander error messgs..in RH6.0....... (Daniel in Oregon)
Gnome vs. XWin (Brad McBride)
Strange problem with diald. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netscape and Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in: solved ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help with GLIBC fails test make check (Barry Phease)
Re: editorial: Stupid Linux Tricks ("Brian")
modprobe: can't locate char-major-4 what did i do wrong (Yorkshire)
Re: Midnight Commander error messgs..in RH6.0....... (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Re: How to start two X servers? (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Jeff Szarka)
sendmail timedelay ("Ken Farmer")
Can't paste in FVWM2: (Pat Masterson)
Re: making linux go away ("J Chan")
Re: Unlimited Kernel updates? ("jeff")
Re: Netscape problem w/Apache (Jeremy Lunn)
Re: checking if variable exists (Thomas Glanzmann)
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From: "Peter Letkeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Slackware 4.0 + IBM Etherjet ISA PnP card
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:29:38 -0400
First I am sorry for cross post. I can not seem to get my network card with
Slackware 4.0. I have been able to use ISAPNP and PNPDUMP to get my soud
card to work and tried the same for the network card. I know that the card
is functional, it works in windows 98. I looked for linux drivers but could
not find any. Here is what linux says about the card
# Card 2: (serial identifier f4 00 05 90 71 10 10 4d 24)
# Vendor Id IBM1010, Serial Number 364657, checksum 0xF4.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0
# ANSI string -->IBM EtherJet ISA Adapter<--
#
# Logical device id IBM1010
# Device support I/O range check register
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x38
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3d
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed
if required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE IBM1010/364657 (LD 0
# IRQ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 15.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
# (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E)))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0200
# Maximum IO base address 0x0360
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 16
# (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0200) (CHECK))
(NAME "IBM1010/364657[0]{IBM EtherJet ISA Adapter}")
# (ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
# Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
(WAITFORKEY)
and this is what windows 98 says
# IBM EtherJet Adapter
# Interrupt Request 11
# Input/Output Range 0210-021F
Any help would be nice,
Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: Linux vs Linux?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:38:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Persell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly:
> My question is...I have SuSE 6.1 installed and I'm doing okay but still
> feel like I could do more with the more popular distributions like RH
> and
> Mandrake. I tried once to install RH6 and it won't find any of my NICs,
> an
> IBM Etherjet, a Netgear FA310TX or a 3COM 3c900.
I'm using a 3c900B right now with RH5.2. I haven't had
any problems with it at all. I added it after my system was installed,
so I don't know about auto-detection problems, but the card itself
appears to be quite well supported by the 3c59x drivers.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Milton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: INFORMIX ODBC CLIENT FOR LINUX ?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:14:35 GMT
Once upon a time, Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:12:27 -0400,
hidden in the post of<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Art S. Kagel proclaimed:
>
>Informix was the FIRST commercial relational database to deliver a
>WORKING relational database, Informix SE, and the FIRST to DELIVER a
>working, current version, QA tested and supported, enterprise quality
>relational database server, Informix Dynamic Server. Informix SE is
>available for free download and Informix IDS is available for $99.
>Both are full featured, production, versions and full Informix tech
>support is available for both. And Informix is not resting on those
>laurels. More products are promised in the near future. Informix has
>already delivered ALL of its development tools on Linux! They have
>even release bug fix releases fixing all reported Linux specific bugs.
Art:
Have you seen the free CD offer of INFORMIX-4GL, INFORMIX-4GL Rapid
Development System, INFORMIX-4GL Interactive Debugger and
INFORMIX-SQL for Linux at:
http://www.jbsi.com/informix/cdfree.asp ?
P.S.
Hurry, the offer expires June 30, 1999.
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From: Daniel in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Midnight Commander error messgs..in RH6.0.......
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:22:39 -0700
Since I have changed to RH60...I keep getting this annoying message
whenever I close down MC.
"Subshell.c: couldn't open masetersid of pty..
pty_open_master: Badfile descriptor"
Any Ideas...?
Thanks in advance...
Daniel
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:20:35 -0400
From: Brad McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome vs. XWin
I'm getting ready to install Linux on my computer and am trying to plan
out what packages I will install (I am a little limited on space). I was
wondering what oppinions existed regarding Gnome and XWindows. Which is
better or in what situations would I want to use one over the other.
This system will only act as a dialup workstation. Thanks for any
information that anyone has.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Strange problem with diald.
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:59:21 GMT
I have diald setup and configured but I am having some strange problems.
When the connection times out it will rediald and stay connected for a
few minutes and then disconnect and stay off line. At the time that is
redialing tcpdump shows no activity. Next, when I use Windows 95 the
modem will not hangup until Windows is shutdown. tcpdump shows no
activity when Windows is running. Is there an option in Windows that is
doing that or is it something with diald? Am am running names and Samba
on the Linux server. Is there something I am missing. Thanks for any
help with this problem.
Eric Hesselberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape and Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in: solved
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 03:17:36 GMT
I'm sharing the results of my labors in the hope that I may spare
someone else the agony of getting the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in to
work with Netscape on RedHat 5.2.
As others have noted previously, the problem is that RedHat's Netscape
script sets the LD_PRELOAD to /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 in order to fix
some conflict between libc6 and Motif. Unfortunately, libBrokenLocale
doesn't play nice with libc5 plug-ins like Acrobat Reader.
To work around the problem, I just hacked the /usr/bin/netscape script
by changing the line
if [ -n "$locale_load" ] ; then
to read
if [ ! -n "$locale_load" ] ; then
This prevents the LD_PRELOAD from being set. So far, it hasn't caused
any problems on my setup. Hopefully someone can enlighten us if this is
incorrect.
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From: Barry Phease <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with GLIBC fails test make check
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:26:59 +1200
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I have compiled Glibc2.0.112 under kernel 2.2.1 but get a problem when I
run make check.
the failure is in the function fdim.
Anybody know what causes this?
What does fdim do anyway?
enclosed is the test output.
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name="test-float.out"
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filename="test-float.out"
testing float (without inline functions)
Fail: fdim (9, 0) = 9
Fail: fdim (0, -9) = 9
Fail: fdim (+inf, 9) = +inf
Fail: fdim (+inf, -9) = +inf
Fail: fdim (+9, -inf) = +inf
Fail: fdim (-9, -inf) = +inf
Test suite completed:
2158 test cases plus 2146 tests for exception flags executed.
6 errors occured.
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: editorial: Stupid Linux Tricks
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 04:59:57 GMT
Hey William:
<snip>
>>processors, broke the dBase monopoly and broke the Adobe
>>monopoly on quality scalable screen/print fonts.
>Broke the monopoly of web browsers....
Absolutely - forgot about that.
<snip>
>Topview was real. Dunno if it ever went retail though, it
was
>supposedly horribly slow and clunky. A company by the name
of
>Quarterdeck picked up rights to Topview, integrated it with
their DESQ
>product and came out with that Windex to Windows --
DESQview.
I remember DESQview/X, was that TopView?
>Maybe if they had released DESQview/X on time, the general
public might
>know what X is, maybe.
Agreed.
>>technology! The problem with Apple is the Apple Marketing
>>Department and Apple's frenzied supporters. The problem
with
>>Microsoft? Maybe they have just gotten too big!
>The problem with Apple is their top management, the
directors. Jobs has
>been like a breath of fresh air to an otherwise dying
company.
I wish Steve the best. Apple has had some difficult times
and the low point can only be imagined as when Jobs was
addressing the faithful with the smiling visage of Bill
Gates projected on the backscreen announcing his financial
and application (MS Office) support.
I am not a OS or hardware fanatic like many Mac owners but
I'll bet that some of them saw smoking horns on Bill's head
and saw gold pieces in Steve's hand. True Drama, at it's
most Tragic.
What have you decided to do with your Atari? Recieved any
interesting offers?
Best regards,
Brian
>--
>William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
>Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
> ~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yorkshire)
Subject: modprobe: can't locate char-major-4 what did i do wrong
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 04:56:05 GMT
ok, what did i do wrong?
i'm learning fast but i'm still pretty much a newbie at this stuff
i get this message a load of times on startup now, since i made a
2.2.10 kernel.
anyone help?
email to ix (at) doxx (dot) net
thanks in advance
Dave
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From: Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Midnight Commander error messgs..in RH6.0.......
Date: 19 Jun 1999 05:05:01 GMT
Since I have changed to RH60...I keep getting this annoying message
whenever I close down MC.
"Subshell.c: couldn't open masetersid of pty..
pty_open_master: Badfile descriptor"
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No, but the difference is that RedHat 6.0 uses Unix 98 ptys (Glibc 2.1.X).
Get the latest version (5.4.33) and compile yourself. It it fails, the best
is to go to http://www.gnome.org/mc/ and report this "bug".
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From: Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to start two X servers?
Date: 19 Jun 1999 05:09:57 GMT
Hello, let's say another person has logged into tty1 in a linux box and started
X, now I switch to another virtual console(say tty2) and want to startx also,
what environment variable should I specify or what display should be used? I
remember seeing someone posting the solution before but can't seem to find it.
Thanx for your help.
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Hmm. Try startx -- -bpp 16 :1. I'm not sure it it's right, but I remember that
you need the to invoke startx with :1 (or :2, :3 for others).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Szarka)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 05:15:57 GMT
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:22:10 +1200, "Stuart Fox"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> This would be easy to program, but would never work, because
:> Unix users just *don't* set up their software to
:> automatically execute e-mail attachments.
Wow, this was a beautiful piece of FUD I missed.
:Neither do MS apps. Outlook prompts to run or save when you double click on
:it.
Much of the blame for the current worm/virus attacks can be blamed on
Windows yet at least half has to be put on the user. My copy of OE
(with Win2k Beta3) requires me to do the following:
-Get e-mail with a *.exe file attached
-Open attached exe after getting a warning that it may contain viruses
and cause harm to my system
If you choose to ignore warnings and open any file you get sent you're
asking for it no matter what OS you use.
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From: "Ken Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail timedelay
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:31:15 -0500
Just a question as a newbie. When I install a stand alone system (although
it has networking installed which I plan to learn later), the boot process
stops at
Starting sendmail: sendmail
for about 3 minutes. Obviously it is trying to connect with a mail server
or name server or whatever (I guess). Once it times out the machine
continues to come up normally.
Can anyone clue me in as to what it is looking for?
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pat Masterson)
Subject: Can't paste in FVWM2:
Date: 18 Jun 1999 15:26:43 -0400
I'm running fvwm2 with a 2 button microsoft mouse. I can drag
it across text, and that text becomes highlighted. But clicking
the right button doesn't do a paste. How can I fix this? -pat
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From: "J Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:47:26 -0700
YOu guys are great. The info here is priceless.
I've actually given up (for now, no time) on installing any variant of
linux, (Caldera 2.2, Red Hat 6.0, Mandrake, debian, etc.)
I've tried the various recommendations in the list, but my equipment, a
Compaq LTE 5000 laptop and a Compaq 486/66SX won't cooperate.
SOmeday, Linux will be simpler.
J CHan
John Sowden wrote in message <7k3p9g$3s5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I read the responses, just flames. The problem is you are asking a valid
>question. I also need to know how to remove Linux from a hard drive, as I
>am installing a new copy (caldera) and it doen't discuss in the newbie part
>about installing over an existing linux os.
>
>Can someone please take our requests seriously.
>
>
>
>adam howard wrote in message <7iv13k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>talk about a waste of bandwidth....do we really need a few dozen people to
>>give the same answer?
>>
>>
>>> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
>>> is) once and for all?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Unlimited Kernel updates?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:23:11 -0700
I concur with the Elf!
Buy the box set this time out it won't be a waste, and what other full
blown server could you purchase for $80.00
jeff
Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7kebqq$sb4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Personally I am disgusted with new RH pricing, and I am going to buy
> myself that 35$ pack with only the CDs, but since you are a newbye, you
> shouldn't do that. There are quite a few different libraries ( not all
> of them backward compatible ) which were updated from 5.2 to 6.0 in
> particular the 6.0 is all compiled against the new glibc 2.1 which is
> not backward compatible with 2.0. Upgrading is possible but is such a
> pain that I would not recomend it to a person who doesn;t know exactly
> what is he getting himself into :)
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, this may sound like a stupid question, but I just want to make
> > sure I don't waste $80 when I buy RH 6.0 (I know, I know, but I need a
> > good Linux book and don't have a good home connection to download
> apps).
> >
> > Is it possible for me to just buy an older version of RH (say, 5.2)
> and
> > then just update the kernel to 2.2.10? I assume that all kernels are
> > backwards-compatible, so what are the advantages to buying newer
> > versions of distros when you can update from older (and cheaper)
> > versions?
> >
> > If it's just that newer versions come with more apps, that's
> > understandable. Are there major apps that only work on 2.2.x kernels?
> > Just wondering.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > --
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> > Millersville, MD 21108
> >
> > Tel: (410) 923-1300 x3430
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> >
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From: Jeremy Lunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netscape problem w/Apache
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 16:46:14 +1000
Chris Harshman wrote:
>
> Brent Davies wrote:
> > the web site with HotMetal Pro. I don't know if a WYSIWYG editor in Linux.
>
> Netscape Communicator's Composer module. I do 95% of my layout
> and editing in there, and then fire up Emacs for final tweaks.
That's what I used to use in Winbloze, but I found that the syntax that
it used to be a pain to edit afterwards.
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From: Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: checking if variable exists
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:56:13 +0200
Hi,
if you are using bash try this three comands to check your environment variables
by typing this three commands:
export
set
env
--tg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i want to check if a certain environment variable exists, if it
> doesn't,perform some commands,if it does exist, go on as if nothing had
> happened. i want to put this in the .cshrc file.
> how ?
> thanks in advance
>
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