Linux-Misc Digest #440, Volume #21 Tue, 17 Aug 99 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Unable to remove LINUX (Bryan Woody)
Re: Looking for comparable apps in Linux from OS/2 (Reinout van Schouwen)
Modem and linuxconfig (Gill Bates)
Re: ppp compression missing
Re: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 (Vilmos Soti)
partition problems ("Christopher Lu")
Cracks for Linux? (Sean)
Re: mem leak in 2.2.11 (William Burrow)
Re: RH 6.0 and NUMLOCK?? ("T.E.Dickey")
PPP and Ethernet connection. (Frederik Likaj)
Re: How does one read a CDROM in Linux? (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: Unable to remove LINUX (root)
ppp compression missing ("Aaron")
Re: Red Hat Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I remove a hard drive? (Jayan M)
Re: Comparing HPFS to ext2fs... (J. Otto Tennant)
Re: premature end of script headers???? (Bo Berglund)
Re: Can I switch from OS/2 to Linux and be happy? (Reinout van Schouwen)
tn3270 questions; need help (J. Otto Tennant)
Re: Cracks for Linux? (Daniel Robert Franklin)
Re: Any Support for PCI Modems? (Eric Y. Chang)
Red Hat Linux (MarkW)
Re: Any suggestion Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can I switch from OS/2 to Linux and be happy? ("Donald E. Stidwell")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Woody)
Subject: Re: Unable to remove LINUX
Date: 17 Aug 1999 23:00:53 GMT
>Hi,
>
>Hopefully this is an easy question. I attempting remove LINUX from my PC.
>I've formatted the drive numerous times using fdisk and Windows NT.
>However,
>each time I boot the system, the the system halts with a LI and does not
>precede.
It's not Linux that hasn't been removed, it's LILO, the Linux Boot loader. To
remove it, run fdisk /mbr. This will overwrite the Master Boot Record of your
HD,
where LILO is stored, and replace it with DOS/WIN Boot loader.
The solution to this problem could have been easily found by using
www.deja.com.
Maybe in the future you'll want to check that site out first.
Have fun!
>
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>Mike Bixler
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reinout van Schouwen)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for comparable apps in Linux from OS/2
Date: 17 Aug 1999 22:22:57 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:38:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zephyr Q)
wrote:
> I'm making the switch from OS/2 to Linux, and *really*
> would like some similar functionality with the following
> apps:
[snip]
Sounds like you actually really want to stick with OS/2... ;-))
--
Groeten / Regards,
-=-Reinout
[ visit my homepage at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rmvschou/ ]
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From: Gill Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem and linuxconfig
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:12:27 GMT
I am running RedHat 6.0 in a custom 450mhz AMD computer with a 56k Dual
Mode Zoom External Modem. It is the Lucent tech. Chipset. My question is
this:
I set up my modem in linuxconf and after saving it, tried to use the
modem. Linux conf has taken the first six digits of the phone number and
inserted it into the line above it asking for the command to dial.
It look like this :
dial command: ATDT425-805
phone number: -4507
or something very similar to that. I re-installed the os since I hadn't
had it installed for more than 5 minutes but it did the same thing. I
can't use LINUX if I can't get onto the internet with it.Any ideas as to
what happened and how to fix it? I also used Mandrake 6.0 and Root could
use the modem but any user the phone number defaults to the same
thing????? HELP Please.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp compression missing
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:58:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:42:58 +1000, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been dialing in to my ISP as well as my univ server thru Linux & found
>in /var/log/messages some lines that go :
>
>can't locate module ppp-compress-#
>
>where # is some number.
>I was not able to log on to my ISP (which uses PAP), but could with my univ
>(uses txt script).
>does anybody know what module is it reporting about? I'm using RH6.0 with
>pppd 2.3. I've neva come across such errors when using RH5.2
Presumably it's refering to: ppp_deflate.o
* ppp_deflate.c - interface the zlib procedures for Deflate compression
* and decompression (as used by gzip) to the PPP code.
* This version is for use with Linux kernel 1.3.X.
This is the only other ppp-ish module I have in my config. This corresponds
to the "deflate nr,nt" option in your ppp options.
Interesting note in the Makefile:
# if anything built-in uses ppp_deflate, then build it into the kernel also.
# If not, but a module uses it, build as a module.
# ... NO!!! ppp_deflate.o does not work as resident;
# it works only as a module!
R. Marc
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 05:49:06 GMT
davedude wrote:
>
> Vilmos Soti wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sig 11 usually refers to flaky hardware. Take a look at
> > http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 and decide. This info can be found in
> > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help file.
> >
> > Vilmos
> >
> > --
> > Looking for a job in British Columbia.
> > http://members.home.net/vilmossoti/resume.html
>
> Thanks for the info, was very helpfull. That link i've seen in the howto
> also. DOH!
>
> I'm still havin the same problem after swappin memory and cpu's. Didnt seem
> to effect anything.
> I'm startin to wonder about the VIA chipset now :/ Have you heard of any
> bugs regarding the FIC VA-503+ board? This board was highly recommened to me
> and im startin to wonder why. Any suggestions as where to look next would be
> great. Ug yet another roadblock.
Hello,
It is still possible your motherboard has problem around the memory bus.
You might try to install another free OS and check how it works. *BSD
also puts your hardware to thee limits.
Vilmos
--
Looking for a job in British Columbia.
http://members.home.net/vilmossoti/resume.html
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From: "Christopher Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,athome.users-unix,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: partition problems
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 06:02:26 GMT
ok i have 2 hard drives:
drive 1) windows 98, chinese windows 98, windows nt
drive 2)RH 5.2, windows 95
I used Boot Magic to manage the different OS's
recently i decided to delete my win 95 and chinese 98 partitions (using
partition magic)
in doing so, i forgot to reconfigure Boot Magic prior to rebooting and
subsequently had problems booting, accessing partitions, etc
now i went thru and reformatted/reinstalled my first drive
but my second hard drive can't be accessed.
the partition that orginally held linux is now a "Bad Partition" under
partition magic and I can't do anything to remove/modify it. I've tried
partition magic and fdisk to no avail. the space that originally had win95
is accessible but it's only about a third of the drive and i want to use the
whole drive (drive 2) for linux.
Does anyone have any advice on the situation? I want to reclaim that space
that linux was occupying.
Apologize if post seems incoherent
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Cracks for Linux?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:31:15 GMT
Hi I think free software is the best. Especially Open Source Software.
Linux is supposed to be fre isn't it. So why do I have to pay 20$ to get
sound? I have the OSS/Linux demo. That stops working after 20 minutes.
Does anyone have a crack for this? Or does anyone know of a crack page
that has cracks for linux (like OSS/Linux maybe). Astalaviata.box.sk
doesn't have it and I don't know where to look. If so e-mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: redhat.kernel.general,redhat.general
Subject: Re: mem leak in 2.2.11
Date: 17 Aug 1999 23:25:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:30:52 GMT,
Steven Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>has anyone had any problems with getting out of mem errors and machine
>crashing with kernel 2.2.11, if so is there a known fix or is the fix not
>using 2.2.11 :)!!
What is it with ^M at the end of people's messages nowadays?
Anyway, yes, there is a severe memory leak with 2.2.11 for some people.
Best to back down to an earlier version until 2.2.12 comes out.
See the Linux Threads page for info:
http://www.kt.opensrc.org/
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 and NUMLOCK??
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:10:22 GMT
Sean Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do
> setleds -D +num < $tty
> done
this probably applies only to the console - not X.
> I added it to the end before the output to dmesg, but when I reboot - it
> doesn't work :( Has anybody gotten the numlock to stay on wehn they
> boot into KDE or GNOME?
why do you want to force numlock on?
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: Frederik Likaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PPP and Ethernet connection.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:31:15 GMT
Hej Guys.
I run RedHat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5 which follows with the distribution.I
had to compile the kernel to get my network card working.I have a
RealTek8019 PnP Lan network card.I used the linux documentation i got from
RealTek's homepage.So i compiled the kernel /usr/src/linux 1.Make mrproper
2.Make xconfig 3.The only thing I changed was to set NE2000/NE1000 (Y)
instead of (M) into network devices. 4.Make dep 5.Make clean 6.Make bzdisk
(I use a floppy disk to boot to linux) 7.Make modules. 8.Make
modules_install.Then i used the reset8019.exe in DOS to set the network
card in jumperless mode instead of plug and play.Now when i boot with the
new kernel (same version) after compiling it i get my eth0 working just
fine but my ppp0 connection to internet cannot be activated from usrnet and
remains yellow.I get no messages.When i boot with the floppy from
installation (kernel before compiling)I have ppp0 connection as i used to
but have no eth0 connections.It remains yellow when i try to activate it
from usernet and no messages commes.Another thing i am just experiencing
now as i am writing this message is that my ppp0 to internet get down and
get activated again by itselfs???????
Help is appreciated from people who knows about those problems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: Re: How does one read a CDROM in Linux?
Date: 17 Aug 1999 23:20:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vilmos Soti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...
: Also be sure you have enabled support for the CD-ROM and for the iso9660
: filesystem in your kernel. If not, then you have to recompile it. Do you
: try it as root or as a user? If your /etc/fstab (man fstab) is not
: configured correctly, then only root can mount the cdrom.
: Vilmos
RedHat 5.1 has a bug. You can do the setup on CD-ROM, but the CD-ROM is
unmountable after the install. It does not mount at boot, even though
there is an entry in the /etc/fstab.
Workaround:
cd /lib/modules/*/fs
insmod isofs.o
You can now mount the CD-ROM.
Eric
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to remove LINUX
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:49:42 -0400
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Mike Bixler wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Hopefully this is an easy question. I attempting remove LINUX from my
>PC.
>I've formatted the drive numerous times using fdisk and Windows NT.
>However,
>each time I boot the system, the the system halts with a LI and does not
>precede.
>
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>Mike Bixler
Insert MS-DOS disken type FDISK /MBR
Done!
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From: "Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ppp compression missing
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:42:58 +1000
I've been dialing in to my ISP as well as my univ server thru Linux & found
in /var/log/messages some lines that go :
can't locate module ppp-compress-#
where # is some number.
I was not able to log on to my ISP (which uses PAP), but could with my univ
(uses txt script).
does anybody know what module is it reporting about? I'm using RH6.0 with
pppd 2.3. I've neva come across such errors when using RH5.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux
Date: 18 Aug 1999 00:19:40 GMT
MarkW wrote:
>
> I have wanted to try Linux for some time and if I'm right Red Hat Linux is a
> good one to go with and 6.0 is the newest version. I have seen this in stores
> but I have a option to buy it from someone and I just want to make sure I'm
> getting the correct version. The CD says Red Hat 6.0 and below in parenthesis
> says (Hedwig-i386 ver.a). I wasn't sure what that means. It is made bya place
> called Cheap Bytes. That's what it says on it and there is a 3.5" disk also
> with some .msg files. Is that what I'd want to get? Also, I am completely new
> to Linux and Unix and am interested in a good book to learn it. I know nothing
> about it and will be using it on a 2nd computer for training and learning to use
> it, both as a workstation and may set it up as a server as well. Thanks for any
> suggestions and help.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://pages.prodigy.net/markw1
You can order a copy of RedHat 6.0 from http://www.cheapbytes.com. Last time
I ordered it it was $1.99 and $5 for shipping and handling.
If you have installed Linux before, this is an inexpensive way to go.
If you decide to go this route you may also want to pick up a manual somewhere.
If money isn't too tight you might consider the $80 RedHat 6.0 the first time
around. You will then have a manual that describes how to recompile the kernel,
etc. You will also get a CDROM of commercial software. Some teasers, but
some useful.
Stick with Linux. The road is up hill for quite a while. But when you hit
the flat, you can leave commercial OS's behind in a hurry. The overall cost
of ownership is fantastically low compared with commerical OS's. And the
reliability has to be experienced to be appreciated.
Have fun...
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I remove a hard drive?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:34:40 GMT
<<snip>>
> First, make sure you have some working linux boot
> diskettes. When you removed hdb, what was hdc became hdb
That should not happen.. hda would be the first drive on the
first IDE controller, hdb the second, and
hdc would be the first drive on the second IDE controller
AFAIK, removing hdb will not reassign hdc to hdb..
So that should not ba an issue..
>
> and lilo was not able to find your kernel anymore. That's
> why it craps out when you try to reboot. So, boot from your
> linux boot floppies and edit /etc/fstab to change references
> to hdc to hdb instead, edit /etc/lilo.conf to tell lilo to
> look for the kernel on hdb instead of hdc. Re-run lilo to
> write the changes and reboot.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Comparing HPFS to ext2fs...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:05:11 GMT
I don't really have anything to add, but I thought I'd emphasize
some things Teonanacatl (?) said.
Teonanacatl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I had installed Warp 4 first, and then Linux, and when mounting the
>paritions at Linux install time, I specified that I wanted access to the
>hpfs partitions on the drives. This has been very handy, as I have
>address books, bookmark files in Netscape, which I can access from
>Warp4, and also many files, especially on my Warp desktop. I can access
>them by merely changing to my /hpfs directory in Linux.
I may be a bit out of date, but I had thought that the Linux hpfs
was r/o. It would be nice if I were out of date.
There is an OS/2 ext2fs driver. I found that it did odd things to my
Warp 4 system and removed it. (That is strange, since it was rock-solid
under Warp 3.)
On the other hand, it has been so long since I've used my OS/2 system
for anything but recovering old DeScribe documents that my memory may
have failed (an increasingly common occurance.)
[...]
>I'm finding that I use Warp 4 less and less. Linux for me has become
>more and more attractive, but I haven't reached the point of giving away
>my CD install disks for Warp, nor "wiping" my hpfs partitions. I do
>own, among others, an NEC Windows laser printer. Until I replace this
>printer, I will undoubtedly own some iteration of win. And as I'm still
>learning this OS, it's comforting to know that Ican always boot into
>something more familiar in a pinch.
I'm about ready to wipe my OS/2 partition. I'm embarassed to admit
that I have a W98 system. I run Parsons Technology Money Counts on
it. Personal checkbook software is the *only* reason I retain
either OS/2 or Windows. The Linux stuff isn't ready yet.
Sometime, I may take a Saturday off from my usual reading/drinking
and convert all of my old DeScribe files to something Linux
friendly (Word Perfect 8 comes to mind.) And *then* I'll delete
OS/2.
(This is really sad, since OS/2 is a fine system.)
>After owning and using several Red Hat versions for Intel and Alpha, I
>recently bought a killer version of SuSE 6.1 at a local Hasting's for
>29.00. Not only did I get a GREAT manual, but 5 cds worth of programs,
>boot disks. The install/ maintenance of the system via YaST is smooth,
>and the KDE environment is spectacular. I'm sold. It'll take a
>bulldozer to get me back to Red Hat.
Bingo! I'd like to endorse this preference for SuSE 6.1.
(On the other hand, I also have RedHat for a Sun workstation,
and it seems to work OK for my purposes. The thing is just
used as a file server on my home network. It seems to me that
it boots up with GNOME (KDE?) as its desktop. My primary
objection to prior releases of RedHat was that I could not figure
out how to change desktops.)
YaST is very easy to use.
I think SuSE 6.2 will be released in a week or two.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: premature end of script headers????
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:40:17 GMT
To keep a long story short:
The error message "premature end of script headers" is misleading! The
real problem was that since I wrote the scripts in Windows NT using an
NT text editor the files wound up with <CR><LF> line ends. This is
what caused the problem as I found by running the script through perl
on a Telnet login prompt. Perl issued an error message about the extra
<CR>:s.
After making a DOS->UNIX file conversion the scripts started working.
/Bo
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:47:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
wrote:
>I have a script /home/httpd/html/agiusa/cgi/registrera.cgi which won't
>run on my Linux RH5.1 system for some reason. When I call it from a
>form on my html page it returns an error and the errorlog shows this:
>
>[Sun Aug 15 23:17:55 1999] access to
>/home/httpd/html/agiusa/cgi/registrera.cgi failed for 192.168.0.30,
>reason: Premature end of script headers
>exec of /home/httpd/html/agiusa/cgi/registrera.cgi failed, reason: No
>such file or directory (errno = 2)
>
Bo Berglund
Software developer in Sweden
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP: My public key is available at the following locations:
Idap://certserver.pgp.com
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reinout van Schouwen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Can I switch from OS/2 to Linux and be happy?
Date: 17 Aug 1999 22:25:19 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:33:50, Christian Hennecke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You'll need a complete Desktop to do that, i.e. either KDE or GNOME w/
> Enlightenment. I've had a look at Linux with those a short time ago
GNOME with icewm is nice too. You can even have the Warp4 look (but
you'd miss X-it). icewm also has a nice GUI config tool, icepref, but
you need Python, PyGTK and GTK for that to run.
--
Groeten / Regards,
-=-Reinout
[ visit my homepage at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rmvschou/ ]
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: tn3270 questions; need help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:11:52 GMT
This is a question about tn3270 in general, not about the particular
operating system it is running on.
There is a central computer and several remote terminals. (They
happen to be IBM 3101s, but they could be anything, even an ADM-3a.)
The remote terminals are connected to a "terminal server" which
has an IP address (192.168.10.2, just to be definite.) The several
remote terminals respond to ports 2000, 2001, 2002, and so on as
telnet sessions.
When I boot up the central computer, I want to treat these remote
terminals as 3270s and splash a legacy logon screen to them.
I also need to hook them up to a daemon which receives requests,
processes them, and responds to them.
I have exhausted my knowledge of networking, although I'm fairly
certain the solution must be straightforward.
In principle, if I could write:
tn3270 host port <192.168.10.2:2000 >192.168.10.2:2000
it would work like magic (I think).
What I need to do is associate a pty with the remote IP/port.
(The terminal server also provides ports 3000, 3001, etc. which
are more "raw" than a telnet port, but I've forgotten the name
of the service.)
I'm not certain I have explained the problem well enough for
anyone to comment.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Robert Franklin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cracks for Linux?
Date: 17 Aug 99 23:44:27 GMT
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi I think free software is the best. Especially Open Source Software.
>Linux is supposed to be fre isn't it. So why do I have to pay 20$ to get
>sound?
You don't. OSS/Lite is included in the Linux kernel, or you can get the
ALSA drivers as a patch (which will go in the kernel proper at some
point).
Download a kernel and recompile it to include support for your card. Read
the HOWTOs on metalab to find out how to do this. Alternatively, if you
are running RedHat it's even easier - just type sndconfig, it will figure
out what module to load. You should not need the commercial version of OSS
to use your sound card.
>I have the OSS/Linux demo. That stops working after 20 minutes.
>Does anyone have a crack for this? Or does anyone know of a crack page
>that has cracks for linux (like OSS/Linux maybe). Astalaviata.box.sk
>doesn't have it and I don't know where to look. If so e-mail me at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You don't seem to get this whole Linux/Free Software/Open Source thing, do
you... we don't need cracks, we don't need warez... we don't need to steal
from software companies, because here, if it doesn't exist, we make it
ourselves.
Oh yes, and cross posting questions about "cracking" to every Linux
newsgroup on the planet is *not* the best way to win friends and influence
people.
- Daniel
--
******************************************************************************
* Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: Re: Any Support for PCI Modems?
Date: 17 Aug 1999 23:08:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doug DeJulio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...
: 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/
Hi Doug. I had a problem with a "Winmodem" which does not call itself
a "Winmodem." It calls itself "HSP", which stands for "host software
processing." Unfortunately, you cannot read this on the box or see it
inside on the manual, since the manual is on CD-ROM. You can only tell
that there is a problem when you pop the CD-ROM into the drive and look
at the HTML with lynx. By the way, the outside of the box will fool
most Linux users with the feature "16550A compatible". This fools one
into thinking that the card will appear as a serial interface.
When you attempt to set this card up, isapnp fails with a "Bad PNP string"
message. Then, you look at the CD-ROM manual and find out what "HSP"
means. There should be some kind of requirement about labelling. By
the way, I bought this modem at Fry's and will return it. The company
was no use for support (broken model). Somebody familiar with marketing
at Fry's told me that this modem will show up back on the shelf with
a label that it was returned, but no discount. When a sufficiently large
proportion of the boxes on the shelf say "returned," Fry's will
discontinue that line.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MarkW)
Subject: Red Hat Linux
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:28:53 GMT
I have wanted to try Linux for some time and if I'm right Red Hat Linux is a
good one to go with and 6.0 is the newest version. I have seen this in stores
but I have a option to buy it from someone and I just want to make sure I'm
getting the correct version. The CD says Red Hat 6.0 and below in parenthesis
says (Hedwig-i386 ver.a). I wasn't sure what that means. It is made bya place
called Cheap Bytes. That's what it says on it and there is a 3.5" disk also
with some .msg files. Is that what I'd want to get? Also, I am completely new
to Linux and Unix and am interested in a good book to learn it. I know nothing
about it and will be using it on a 2nd computer for training and learning to use
it, both as a workstation and may set it up as a server as well. Thanks for any
suggestions and help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://pages.prodigy.net/markw1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any suggestion Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:03:00 GMT
I didn't think so either until the other day. I made a boot disk from
an image online 1.7.x kernel, had fat32 support. Though this was a
heavily modified kernel.
Eric
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"George P. Staplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Unknown wrote in message <5Tos3.55$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Any suggestion if it is wrong command mount -t
vfat /dev/hda1
> >/mnt
> >I tred to mount to different directories SAME massage
> >"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> > or too many mounted file systems"
> >Yes it is massage, to be exact
>
> What kernel version are you using? I believe that kernels before
2.0.35
> don't have FAT32 support, i.e. Win98.
>
>
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I switch from OS/2 to Linux and be happy?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:29:52 GMT
Zephyr Q wrote:
> Or, more importantly, how can I make the switch with as
> little grief as possible?
>
> For example, I'm already playing with RH 5.2 (waiting for
> SuSe 6.2 to come out) and have been playing with AfterStep.
> I'm looking for a WM or Xserver (am I showing my newbiness?)
> that most approximates the Work Place Shell on OS/2.
I'm an OS/2 refugee, having used Linux for almost 2 years after having
used OS/2 for about the same period. I don't think you're going to find
anything in Linux that really comes close to the WPS - this is a unique
environment that I've never seen duplicated on any other OS. That said,
I find KDE to be quite usable and with proper configuration, quite
satisfying.
Programs galore - it seems to me that Linux has many more productivity
apps and other goodies than OS/2 ever had during the 2 years I used (and
loved) it.
Don
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