Linux-Misc Digest #365, Volume #21 Wed, 11 Aug 99 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Any Support for PCI Modems? (Doug DeJulio)
Re: What format to burn an Install CD? ("Kamau Wanguhu")
Re: Anybody use PostgreSQL with Redhat 6.0 ?? (William Burkett)
Re: quick Perl Question (William Burkett)
Any hope for an HP 712C? (Steve Gage)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Norman Levin)
Grand Prix Legends / Linux: Very last call for signatures ;-) (Uwe Schuerkamp)
Re: CIA assassinations
Re: what NIC + Hub do you pros use? ("Cliff")
What is Applixware? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems compiling kernel 2.2.11 (Julius Longauer)
Booting Linux or DOS/Win3x (Martin R. Green)
instaling GCC (Jonathan C Busey)
double-sided printing queue (Kuang-chun Cheng)
X Windows and low resolution problem(jet another...) (Tom)
recording using cdrecord (Al Smith)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Subject: Re: Any Support for PCI Modems?
Date: 11 Aug 1999 11:30:57 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I Just got a PCI Modem and found out that they are not supported at all
> in Linux.
PCI modems that are actual full-blooded modems *do* work on Linux. We
test our Linux software on the "Chase Research PCI-RAS4" PCI modem all
the time -- it's a PCI card that actually contains *four* real modems.
(Our software makes heavy use of some fairly obscure modem features,
so we like to perform thorough tests.)
Almost all PCI modems are winmodems, though, whether they say so or
not. PCI modems that are "real modems" tend to be very expensive.
They're not very popular, except for certain very specialized needs
(eg. attaching a large set of modems directly to a rack-mounted Linux
system in a service provider's machine room, without taking up much
space or using a network-based modem rack).
Under Linux, you can sometimes identify a PCI "real" modem by looking
in "/proc/pci". A real modem can show up as a serial controller (the
PCI-RAS4 board does). I have never tried to install a winmodem in a
Linux box, so I can't tell how how it would identify itself. Could
anyone else post this info?
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: "Kamau Wanguhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What format to burn an Install CD?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:18:22 -0400
Reply-To: "Kamau Wanguhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you are still having problems get the ISO Redhat disk image from:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-6.0.iso
and burn it to your CD.
---
Kamau Wanguhu
BORGcube Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1.617.629.2674
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From: William Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anybody use PostgreSQL with Redhat 6.0 ??
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:49:20 -0500
libpq is a development library for postgreSQL. It's part of your
postgresql-devel RPM package. The perl rpm required the new libs, but you
still had the old ones in there.
To understand why things aren't working, you need to understand
dependencies for RPM packages (and tar.gz files, for that matter). Some
of the packages in your collection, such as postgresql-clients, will need
the actual postgresql base program and its libraries in order to
function. If you don't have them on your computer, RPM will complain. In
your case, you have them on your computer, but they're old versions.
Here's what happened: when you typed in rpm -Uvh *.rpm, the shell took a
look at the * and ran your command on all of the packages in the way it
saw fit (probably alphabetically). Apparently, this meant it tried to
update your client before updating the base program, and the new client
just isn't compatible with the old base. In cases like this (another
example is KDE or Gnome), you need to install the rpm's in order. How do
you know the order? If it tells you that what you're currently installing
depends on something else, get the something else on there first.
-Liam
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From: William Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: quick Perl Question
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:56:25 -0500
> I have looked in about EVERY O'Reilly book out there trying to find out
> if there is a PERL function that convers an integer (decimal) value to a
> Hex value. I would appreciate any help.
Use the following:
sprintf "%lx", $decimal_number; # (That's an ell, not a one.)
I found this after about 20 seconds of searching through Programming Perl,
2nd Edition, published by O'Reilly. Look on page 179 under the hex
command.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you weren't
aware that there is a very active Perl newsgroup. Questions of this nature
really should be posted there instead.
-Liam
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any hope for an HP 712C?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:29:16 GMT
Hello folks,
I have an HP Deskjet 712C. Is there any hope of getting any output out
of this rig under Linux (RH 6.0)? I've tried a couple of the Deskjet
filters to no avail - is there some secret?
TIA,
Steve
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:05:59 -0400
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Considering some of the idiotic posts I've seen in the linux groups,
this post is reasonably lucid. I like seeing words like "prowess".
It shows a >8th grade education. On the other hand, for a person
whose native language is not English, your append also reads
very well.
Maybe we all just got up on the wrong side of the bed.
(and probably with the same person we went to sleep with).
Rene Grothmann wrote:
>
> > Those who lack the prowess well beyond that of their "normal" (read:
> > "merely competent") peers to create and to innovate have no basis to
> > claim to be hackers. Your usage of the word is incorrect and performs
> > a disservice to a community to which you should be showing a great
> > deal of veneration.
> >
> > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html
> >
> > I cannot help but wonder if my words will have any effect on your
> > usage, since the one paragraph I quoted includes at least two
> > additional counts of insufficient English mastery:
>
> Sorry, but English is not my native language. So, what does "prowess"
> mean? I could not find it in my dictionary. And besides, to which
> category of hackers in the cited text are you counting yourself. Maybe
> to the crackers?
>
> I too "cannot help but wonder" what kind of personality would ever want
> to write such a post here.
>
> Rene.
--
Norman Levin
vm/dynAmIX inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Schuerkamp)
Crossposted-To: rec.autos.simulators,alt.3dfx.linux.games,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Grand Prix Legends / Linux: Very last call for signatures ;-)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:06:18 GMT
Hi,
I would like to issue the very last call for signatures in order
to support the Grand Prix Legends Linux Port petition. My goal
is 200 sigs, and we're only like 40 or so short of it, so once
I've got the magic number I'll print the tables and send them
off to both Sierra U.S. and Sierra Germany (maybe Papy gets
their copy, too ;-)
In case you don't know, Grand Prix Legends is considered the
best racing simulation to date by many and would make a great
title on the Linux platform as more and more games are coming
out for our operating system of choice.
Please show you support for this title by signing here:
http://www.schuerkamp.de/cgi-bin/sign.cgi?function=add
Thanks in advance for your time,
Uwe
--
Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/
uwe.schuerkamp at telemedia.de for direct mail (from: is spambox)
PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 11 Aug 1999 11:38:18 -0600
On 10 Aug 1999 18:20:49 +0200, Ottavio G. Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mumbled:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MK) writes:
>> >The advantage of a nationalized health care system is the elimination
>> >of bureaucracy, elimination of competition and redundancy, elimination
>> >of much profiteering by corporations, doctors and hospitals.
>>
>> ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL
>>
>> Maybe you talk about planet Xyzzy, but definitely not about planet
>> Earth! On planet Earth, precisely proliferation of bureaucracy and
>> poor and expensive management of health care is what is hallmark of
>> nationalized healthcare.
>
>I suppose you've never had any health problem in the States: fill in
>this form, fill in this other form, talk with two other people that
>will fill in other forms in order to decide if you should really see a
>physician, fill in other forms, and finally argue with the insurance
>company that doesn't want to foot the whole bill (possibly with the
>difference being $2.12, which is way less that the cost of getting
>that money from me).
When I need health care, I go to the doctor and pay them my $5.00 co-pay and
see the doctor. I fill out no forms whatosever. My prescriptions are the
same, a $5.00 co-pay. No forms, no people to talk to just drive up and go.
Same at the Hospital, with operations. I had a hernia operation a while
back. No forms, no talking to a bunch of people, just the $10.00 co-pay for
the hospital. That also includes a private room.
In the 11 years I have had health insurance, I have not one time had to
argue over whether a condition was covered. The insurance company has never
refused to pay for anything.
If you're having all that trouble with your socialized medicine, I would
move to a country where you can buy insurance instead. In the long run it's
a hell of a lot easier and cheaper. Socialized medicine cost you upwards of
50% of your income in taxes. Whereas I pay approx $200.00 per month for
health care, you are paying half your income for it. You may think you're
getting socialized medicine for free but look at the difference in taxes
between countries that are socialized and those that are not. BIG
difference.
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From: "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: what NIC + Hub do you pros use?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:45:35 GMT
I'll second that. The OfficeConnect product line is real easy to use.
--
-Cliff
Views expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer
Concordia Net, Inc. When replying via email please use; cwheat at concordia
dot net not
root@localhost
Greg Leblanc wrote in message <7or6sl$mr1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>At work we use almost exclusively Intel and 3Com nics. We have a large
>number of 3com managed hubs. We like their products, they seem to
>perform well, and they have VERY good support.
> Greg
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What is Applixware?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:04:47 GMT
I just installed Red hat 6.0 and I need to know if Applixware comes w/
RH6.0 applications CD and/or where can I Download it?
Can anyone help? Thanks!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Julius Longauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel 2.2.11
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:47:08 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Why can't I compile 2.2.11? I downloaded the patch, applied it
>
> successfully, did a make dep; make clean; make bzlilo; make modules; make
>
> modules_install.
>
> It blows up when it starts compiling. The message is below. I've tried
>
> gcc-2.7.2.3 and gcc-2.95 with the same error.
>
> ------------- OUTPUT -------------------
>
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>
> -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2
>
> -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -c -o dummy.o
>
> dummy.c
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `get_pgd_slow':
>
> In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/linux/vmalloc.h:7,
>
> from /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h:101,
>
> from dummy.c:48:
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h:408: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW'
>
> undeclared (first use this function)
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h:408: (Each undeclared
>
> identifier is reported only once
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h:408: for each function it
>
> appears in.)
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function
>
> `pte_alloc_kernel':
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h:497: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW'
>
> undeclared (first use this function)
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `pte_alloc':
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/pgtable.h:515: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW'
>
> undeclared (first use this function)
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h: In function `virt_to_phys':
>
> In file included from dummy.c:48:
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h:112: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared
>
> (first use this function)
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h: In function `phys_to_virt':
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h:117: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared
>
> (first use this function)
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h: In function `check_signature':
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.11/include/asm/io.h:175: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared
>
> (first use this function)
>
> make[2]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1
>
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.11/drivers/net'
>
> make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_net] Error 2
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.11/drivers'
>
> make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
>
> nt6 (/usr/src/linux-2.2.11): gcc -v
>
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux/2.7.2.3/specs
>
> gcc version 2.7.2.3
>
AFAIK there are new config options in 2.2.11 allowing you to choose
the maximal physical memory supported by the kernel (CONFIG_1GB,
CONFIG 2_GB and CONFIG_3GB). I suppose that in your case none of
the options is set. Try to run "make oldconfig" first and then continue
whith the normal compilation procedure. "make oldconfig" is a
line-oriented interface, that re-uses old config values and asks you
for new ones missing in the .config-file.
Julius
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin R. Green)
Subject: Booting Linux or DOS/Win3x
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:08:43 GMT
I am currently running RH6.0 on an old 486SX PC with a 1.2G hard
drive, but I have found that I don't really have room to play with
Linux properly in the space I have allocated for the Linux main
partition. As a solution I am going to add an older Quantum 720M
drive, setting up DOS on the 720M and Linux on the 1.2G drive.
I need to be able to boot with LILO into either Linux or DOS with
Win3x, but I believe only partitions on the primary drive can be made
bootable, which means I probably need to do one of the following:
1. Make the 720M the primary drive and install DOS on it. Make the
1.2G the secondary drive, and install Linux on it. Let LILO be
installed on the primary boot drive, and let it handle booting Linux
from the secondary drive. I don't think this will work.
2. Make the 720M the primary drive, create a large DOS partition and a
a small Linux boot partition on it, and install the rest of Linux on
the secondary 1.2G drive. I *think* this is the way to go. "/" would
be on the secondary 1.2G drive and "/boot" would be on the primary
720M drive.
Has anyone done something like this before? Any suggestions or
caveats?
Also, should I allocate the Linux swap partition on the same drive as
the rest of Linux, or will Linux run quicker if I place the swap
partition on the 720M and the rest of Linux on the 1.2G? (both drives
are about equally fast).
CIAO and thanks - Martin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan C Busey)
Subject: instaling GCC
Date: 11 Aug 1999 15:43:39 GMT
I cannot compile. every 'make' ends in (g)cc : command not found
but I can't install the pgcc rpm package from my dist cd (mandrake 6.0)
because I always get the message
cannot find header lookup at 577....
When I download the souce from ftp.gnu.org or go.cygnus.com I cannot
compile it because my compiler doesn't work. A vicious circle. ANy
ideas?
Jon
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From: Kuang-chun Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: double-sided printing queue
Date: 11 Aug 1999 17:38:43 GMT
Hi,
How to setup a double-sided printing queue for a network
postscript printer (for example, HP 4050). Using printtool or linuxconf
can only setup single-sided printing queue and Printing-HOWTO doesn't
help neither. Thanks.
Kuang-chun Cheng
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: X Windows and low resolution problem(jet another...)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:30:45 GMT
So, Debian is 2.1
XFree is 3.3.3.x
Card is Cyrix GX
...and here�s the output after starting X:
(--) SVGA: chipset: generic
(--) SVGA: videoram: 2048 K
(--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18
(--) SVGA: using 8 bpp, depth 8, Color weight: 666
(--) SVGA: using built in driver modes
(--) SVGA: built in Mode: 320*200
(--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320*204
(--) SVGA: Speedup code selection modified because virtual lx != 1024
Because Cyrix chipset was recognized as "generic"
I had to add manualy RAM ammount, clock amd ramdac,
however,
tunning through xf86config and xwidtune didn�t help at all.
and resolution stays proudly at 320*204 (:-(
Some suggestions I�ve been told so far:
1. Install XFree 3.3.4 or some commercial X-server that
supports Cyrix chipsets
2. By yourself another card.
If anyone already encountered and fixed
this kind of XFree/Cyrix problem,
please tell me how you did it.
I already went through Debian and XFree howto-s,
FAQ��s etc.
Any suggestions are welcomed.
:-)
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From: Al Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: recording using cdrecord
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:35:38 -0400
Greetings folks,
I am looking for some assistance maybe you can help. I am using
cdrecord to master some cd's. I want to use the multi option. But once I
do I can only see the first track and can't fixate the cd. This is the
command I am running:
cdrecord -multi speed=2 dev=0,0 /file.iso
Like I said I can only see the first track that gets written. Should I
use the nofixate option as well?
Any assitance would be grealty appreciated.
Al Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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