Linux-Misc Digest #839, Volume #23 Mon, 13 Mar 00 18:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Toshiba 1605CDS (Goofy root)
Re: ALSA sound driver noisy? (Robie Basak)
Re: iso image question (Bastian)
wanted: port of rcs or sccs for Windows (bmlam)
Filesystem problem (Ivo Jansch)
.kshrc & .profile (Dav)
Slow modem connection ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO MBR Failure/Virus? ("Greg Crutcher")
Re: LILO MBR Failure/Virus? (John in SD)
Re: Window manager hell (Ewan Dunbar)
Re: How to connect to ISP (John Ledesma)
Re: Database "viewer" for Linux? (Steve)
Re: video player (Steve)
Re: lilo failed? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Redhat booting & 386/387 Coupling problem ("Eric Hankinson")
Re: lilo.c (Cameron L. Spitzer)
How to redirect bootup messages to a serial terminal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mouse problem (Joydeep Roy Chowdhury)
Compiling kernel with NFS (Andy9701)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:56:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> basiaclly how do i get the darned thing working? i have Redhat 6.1
> Standard and a full installation. any and all help would be greatly
> appreciated. thanks in advance.
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
>
I have the same modem, so I'll probably be able to help.
The modem has two modes PNP and non-PNP. (set with a jumper on
the card) which mode are you using. The first step is dependant on
that.
Josh
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From: Goofy root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba 1605CDS
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:02:34 GMT
He's probably lying because it didn't work for me, too. I tried it in
a desktop with WinModem, Linux neither work.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I tried Rod's suggestion and it didn't work for me.
>
> The ./ltinst command returned and error, and the
> boot-up sequence produced an error message
> when trying to load the driver.
>
> -Bob
>
> Rod Smith wrote:
>
> > [Posted and mailed]
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Bob Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > Linux does not recognize the internal modem (if you get
> > > it to do so, I would appreciate help in this area).
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, the Toshiba laptop line uses Lucent software
modems.
> > There are drivers for this; check at http://www.linmodems.org. I
got the
> > one that came on my Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 working without too
much
> > difficulty.
> >
> > --
> > Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com
> > Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: ALSA sound driver noisy?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Mar 2000 05:14:34 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:33:13 -0800, Craig Drummond wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using the ALSA (v0.52) cs461x sound driver, and whenver I
>play an MP3 using either xmms, kmp3, mpg123, alsaplayer, etc. I
>get a noise burst sometimes when the program reads some MP3 data
>from the disk. Has anybody else experienced this - if so ho do I
>fix this as it's very annoying.
>
>
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You could try mpg123 -b 2048 which puts a 2 Mb buffer on sound output
(adjust according to what you need). Does this burst happen every time
the HD is accessed or only for MP3 data? If the former, then check
that the volume on your soundcard isn't set really low and the amps on
your speakers really high - otherwise (for me at least) I hear my
computer working away...
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: iso image question
Date: 13 Mar 2000 21:24:48 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:23:46 -0600, Duy Duong wrote:
>hi,
>
>Is is possible to open a iso image file without burning it to a CD?
>I'd like to do a HD install.
>
If you can access a loop device and the program "losetup" during the
installation: yes. Try
losetup image.file /dev/loop0
mount -rt iso9660 /dev/loop0 /my-mount-point
Bastian.
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From: bmlam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wanted: port of rcs or sccs for Windows
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:32:19 +0100
I know this is not really the right forum to post this question. But
then there seems to be no proper forum to address this kind of question
to the right experts. What I am looking for is a pure command line port
of the classical source code version control tools, no GUI gimmicks.
I am using CYGWIN for Windows NT, but that unfortunately does not
include rcs or sccs.
Thanks for any hints or pointers
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:34:21 +0100
From: Ivo Jansch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Filesystem problem
Hello,
I have a weird problem with my harddisk. When I do fdisk, and print the
partition table, I get this:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 154 1236973+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 155 773 4972117+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 774 1018 1967962+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1019 1023 40162+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda5 155 307 1228941 6 FAT16
/dev/hda6 461 613 1228941 6 FAT16
/dev/hda7 614 740 1020096 6 FAT16
/dev/hda8 741 773 265041 6 FAT16
However, when I do mount, I get this:
/dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /win95/c type vfat (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /mp3 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /usr/local/games type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /opt type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /home type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
First of all, hda9 does not appear in the partition table, but it *is*
there. (my home dirs work fine..)
Second, the types are inconsistent. hda5 to hda8 *used* to be FAT16, but
I mke2fs'ed them a long time ago. Apperently, the partition table does
not reflect this. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Greetings,
Ivo
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From: Dav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: .kshrc & .profile
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:30:08 GMT
I just installed the ksh
I can get to it when i enter [bash%]ksh
it brings me to a # prompt
but i cant find the .profile or .kshrc to make changes
ALSO I would like this to be my default...
If this isnt a super huge task I would love some
input, also thanks to all who helped w/ the install
and the .tar Q's
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:05:07 +0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux
Subject: Slow modem connection
My 30kbps modem whizzes along at 3-4kBytes/second as expected
under windows, and crawls along at about 1kByte/second under
Redhat Linux 6.0, with kppp setting at 31000bps.
Any suggestions why this might be? Thanks in advance.
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From: "Greg Crutcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO MBR Failure/Virus?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:09:51 -0500
When LILO loads itself, it displays the word ``LILO''. Each letter is
printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at
some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem.
(nothing)
No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the
partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active.
L
The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load
the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of
problem. (See also section ``Disk error codes''.) This condition usually
indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters)
LI
The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader,
but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry
mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.
LIL
The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load the
descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a media
failure or by a geometry mismatch.
LIL?
The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect address. This
is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b
without running the map installer.
LIL-
The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry
mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer.
LILO
All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded.
If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the
respective error code is displayed. These codes range from 0x00 through
0xbb. See the LILO User Guide for an explanation of these.
This is from the bootdisk how-to site:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html#toc11
Hope it helps.
No Spam wrote in message <8ajh5s$6a2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a dual-boot Linux/Win95 system with LILO on the MBR.
>One day LILO stops working and all I get is LI. I reboot
>using a kernel floppy and reinstall LILO, hit reset, and
>still get LI. I put LILO onto a floppy, hit reset and
>still get LI. The only way I can get into Linux is with
>a kernel floppy, I can't get to Win95 at all. Any ideas
>what the problem is?
>
>--
>nospam
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO MBR Failure/Virus?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:16:49 GMT
If you seriously want help, how about a lot more information about
your system. What disks? How are they partitioned. MB, CPU?
--John
On 13 Mar 2000 19:56:44 GMT, No Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a dual-boot Linux/Win95 system with LILO on the MBR.
>One day LILO stops working and all I get is LI. I reboot
>using a kernel floppy and reinstall LILO, hit reset, and
>still get LI. I put LILO onto a floppy, hit reset and
>still get LI. The only way I can get into Linux is with
>a kernel floppy, I can't get to Win95 at all. Any ideas
>what the problem is?
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Window manager hell
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:21:07 -0500
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Diego Berge wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > I think sawmill might be what you are looking for.
> > >> >
> > >> > > I'm using AfterStep (of the afterstep.org site) with RH6.0 and it's
> > >> > > working great. Personalize? I cannot think of a thing I CANNOT
> > >> > > personalize with it.
> > >> >
> > >> > That's sawmill, boys and girls.
> >
> > Nah, AfterStep rules! :)
> >
>
> Sure AS rules - but I found WindowMaker to be at least as good!
>
AS kicks a good deal of ass. I used it for a long time, but I got tired of
spending days (on and off) configuring it. Of course, that was fun, otherwise
I wouldn't have been doing it, but it got boring after a while. That was
the first window manager I ever settled on, IIRC. At first, it was 1.0, which
is now called AS-classic. Then I upgraded to... err.. 1.2, I think. (Gather
round children, looks like I'm going to be telling my life story here...)
Then, after a long rant to the AS mailing list about how stability was on a
downward spiral, the important things weren't being fixed, and only neat little
features were being added, I switched to fvwm2. My .fvwm2rc was, as they say,
"l33t". Too bad I lost it. I think I still have a screenshot kicking around
somewhere. Anyhoo, eventually I got a slightly faster machine and switched
to KDE. Now I have a *much* faster machine and I'm running E. And it's pretty
dang schweet. Oh, and at some point I finally got around to getting accustomed
to WindowMaker. It's not bad. Much slicker than AS. But I still like AS better,
I think. Anyway, perhaps that helped, perhaps not. I just like to hear myself
talk. Er, well, see myself type, I suppose...
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Ewan Dunbar
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From: John Ledesma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to connect to ISP
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:26:56 -0600
> I'm using freewwweb.com right now. It has clear instructions for
linux users. I just started using this ISP so I can't comment on
the service. My machine is setup with Mandrake 7.0
> Haven't tried the Coral distribution of Linux, but if it
> uses the KDE windows manager, I might be able to help. Under
> KDE, there is an app called "kppp". It is a lot like the old
> Dial-up Network (DUN) program under Win9x, except a bit
> easier to use. Alternately, you might want to check out any
> reference to ppp or PPP in your Coral manual. In any event,
> I don't believe NetZero is aware of Linux, or even Mac's for
> that matter. So, you may have a problem just finding which
> DNS server to go searching for -- let alone a finding a
> domain name. Might email the netzero folks, and ask for all
> the revenant ip's and stuff.
> ---
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I just installed Corel Linux. And I have no clue how to connect to my ISP.
> > I have been using Netzero on Windows box. How can I connect to Netzero or
> > any other free ISP's from Linux?
> >
> > --
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> > http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Database "viewer" for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2000 22:34:15 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:40:45 -0500, Charles Sullivan wrote:
>I have a number of historical databases saved in
>comma-delimited ASCII format which I'd like to be
>able to view under X in a spreadsheet type display.
>
>I'd like to be able to sort by one or more columns,
>perform string search on a particular column, or just
>scroll through the entire database. I don't need any
>capability for modifying the databases. (Any minor
>corrections can be made to the ASCII file.)
>
>Some of these databases contain several hundred thousand
>entries and are tens of Megs in size as the ASCII file.
>
>So far I've been making do with vi, grep, sort, etc.,
>but am looking for something a little more convenient.
>I tried the Star Office spreadsheet, but that is limited
>to 32,000 entries, and as I recall wouldn't directly
>accept a comma-delimited ASCII file as input.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions? Something free or very
>low cost would be nice.
>
>Regards,
>Charles Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Try Gnumeric the Gnome Spreadsheet, I've pasted the following text
from the manual.
The default file format an Gnumeric's native format is a xml based
file. The file format is a ascii text based xml format. It is
however, typically written and read in a gzip compressed form.
The uncompressed format is human readable and designed to be easily
parsed. It is very extensible.
Have a look at http://www.gnome.org/gnumeric
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%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
5:06pm up 3:44, 5 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: video player
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2000 22:34:16 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:46:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello
>
>I didn't find any good video player. Do you know
>a good one which plays all kind of avi, mov, mpeg ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sacha
Xanim seems to work well with most stuff that I do, havn't
found anything else. Xanim came with my distro, I only
found it on the HD by accident so you might have it tucked
away somewhere.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: lilo failed?
Date: 11 Mar 2000 07:02:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Peter Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I was trying to install Redhat 6.1's lilo to boot linux and win98.
>> However, i couldn't make lilo work because it complained about the
>> amount of cylinders on my HD (13GB) are too large.
>
>I've been out of the Linux newsgroups for several months. I got tired
>of seeing the same questions over and over.
> I thought I'd drop in and
>see how things are going. Nothing seems to have changed - same old
>questions.
That's the nature of the free software community. It't been this way
since I started using Linux in '92. The folks who write the stuff imagine
the users are either going to do a *lot* of research to use it, or hire
consultants who are going to do a lot of research and then set
things up for them. Some of the most important packages have remained
very difficult to install and use for many years as a result.
TeX and LaTeX, and Lilo, for example. I've never been
able to reproduce the setup Werner Almesberger uses to produce
the Lilo User Guide .ps file from its source code.
The LaTeX docs always say to consult a "local guru" when your installation
behaves differently than someone else's.
It's a real shame, because if ordinary users could obtain and install the
complete LaTeX+Transfig it would be a really great system for producing
technical documentation. But none of these packages are completely
finished, so we remain dependent on gurus and luck.
There are exceptions. Taylor UUCP is completely finished.
Qmail is completely finished, but its myriad addons, including
the patches and hacks to make it work with programs that
do things binmail/sendmail's way, aren't.
Anything that says "this manpage is obsolete, go look at the texinfo"
is unfinished IMHO. That's most of GNU.
>I think we in comp.os.linux.* could learn a lesson from the folks
>over in comp.lang.perl.misc. Over there every time someone asks a FAQ
>they get told to read the FAQ. They don't usually get the answer -
>they are actually forced for their own good to read the FAQ.
It's a much larger community, big enough to attract FAQ maintainers.
It's also, I think, a much friendlier community.
>Has anthing significant about the 1024 cylinder limit of boot loaders
>using PC BIOS changed in the last few years?
Maybe. See ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo/
or ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/.
Is 21.3 the current production Lilo source, or an experimental
side branch? The LSM file says "Updated for disks > 1024 cylinders."
Does that mean it needs the recent Int13 BIOS extension?
Or can it make do without, as Microsoft has figured out how to do?
I think that would require kernel changes, but 21.3 says it only
requires "Linux 0.99pl12 or newer."
Cameron
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From: "Eric Hankinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat booting & 386/387 Coupling problem
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:59:31 -0500
I just recently upgraded my computer, and decided to use my smaller hard
drive to install RedHat Linux 6.1. I tried to use the general install (just
press <Enter> when the initial screen appears) however, right after Linux
probes for my processor, it then checks for 386/387 Coupling. It replys '
Failed: Trying to reset' and goes into an endless loop because it keeps on
failing. I got around this by telling the installer to go into 'Expert mode'
It then installed correctly, but now that it's installed, it tries to do
that same check. What gives? I'm guessing there might be a hardware problem,
or possibly a bug, but it's agravating since I don't recall ever seeing this
particular check before on other Linux machines I've setup. Then again, this
is the first PIII Linux box I've setup.
My hardware is as follows:
- Pentium III 550e (overclocked to 733MHz)
- Abit VA6 VIA chipset motherboard
- 128MB PC133 SDRAM
- 20.4GB HDD
- 6.4GB HDD
- SB PCI128 sound card
- Adaptec 2930 SCSI Controller
- 3com 3C905b Ethernet Adapter
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: lilo.c
Date: 11 Mar 2000 06:27:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GarbMan wrote:
>Allan Adler wrote:
>>
>> Where can I find the source code for lilo?
>
>ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/lilo/
There is a newer one at
ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo/.
It's not clear to me whether 21.3 is on the way to lilo-22
or a side branch. It mentions John Coffman for "lba32 extensions"
and "Updated for disks > 1024 cylinders."
Werner's MX refuses mail from me, so I can't ask him.
I guess that means I'm not maintaining LILO mini-HOWTO any more.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to redirect bootup messages to a serial terminal
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:41:55 GMT
Hi, folks,
I had a Linux box without video card. I used a serial terminal connected
to the serial port (COM1/ttyS0) of the box. The 'getty' program works
fine for this serial terminal.
However, I want to see the bootup messages generated by rc.sysvinit,
rc.3/S* and rc.local on my serial terminal. Of course it's impossible
to see the messages generated by the kernel itself when it loads.
But I think process 1 'init' reads /etc/inittab after the kernel boots
up and it forks 'getty' prcess according to the entry I specified
in /etc/inittab. The executions of those rc files such as rc.sysvinit
should be after the running of 'getty' process, but I couldn't see
the messages generated by those rc files before I saw the login
prompt.
I wonder if it's possible to see those mesages generated by the
rc files on the serial terminal.
Thanks in advance.
-Song
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From: Joydeep Roy Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: at.linux
Subject: mouse problem
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:50:56 -0800
i installed linux on a motherboard which supports serial port mouse. now
i want to move the linux harddisk to another motherboard which supports
seperate mouseport. linux does not recognize the mouse, nor it recognize
if i attach a serial mouse there. seems like i cannot move the hard
disk.
please help hoe can i make it working other than reloading the whole
system again.
linux version is 6.1 (red hat).
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Tel. # : (650) 933 - 6183
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From: Andy9701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling kernel with NFS
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:52:56 GMT
I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.5-15 (Red Hat 6.0) to 2.2.14. I ran
make xconfig to configure the modules compiled into my kernel, but
apparently I missed something with NFS. At boot up, most of the NFS
tests pass ok, but the last one doesn't, with the following error
message:
nfsstv: function not implemented
Could you tell me where in xconfig the option is to include this in the
kernel, or how I can fix this error?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
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