Linux-Misc Digest #289, Volume #25 Sun, 30 Jul 00 23:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Install of New Kernel (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Boot disk (Martha H Adams)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Re: Which IDE linux C programers use? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Troutman)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: I/O question (James Alan Brown)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (David Rysdam)
Come to my Linux's Website! ("Sam Tang")
Re: gnutella client ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Alex)
Re: Inittab and Cron (David Efflandt)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: mail server routing info (David Efflandt)
Re: help needed with a pcmpci modem (David Efflandt)
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Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:13:09 GMT
"Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I thought that I would share this little piece of news with you
> all, as I could not believe it myself. I am a Slackware user, and
> recently decided to try Mandrake 7.1. I have noticed some bugs
> but this one is just too much:
>
> [anm@hawk ~] file /etc/passwd
> /etc/passwd: ASCII test
>
> ASCII test? I mean really. This, to me, is indicative of the haphazard
> way in which RH/Mandrake is thrown together. There are of course other
> bugs, too numerous to mention here.... This is very dissappointing, as
> one would think that they test thier RPMs before distributing them.
> Sadly, I guess this is not the case, and I am now reminded why I like
> Slackware (or Debian) so much. Attention to detail.
<snip>
What should it say instead? Anyway, what makes this a bug? Is it noted
in a standard somewhere that it should be something else or is it just
different from what you had in Slackware?
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:13:34 GMT
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:50:46 -0500, Andrew N. McGuire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I thought that I would share this little piece of news with you
>all, as I could not believe it myself. I am a Slackware user, and
>recently decided to try Mandrake 7.1. I have noticed some bugs
>but this one is just too much:
>
>[anm@hawk ~] file /etc/passwd
>/etc/passwd: ASCII test
>
>ASCII test? I mean really. This, to me, is indicative of the
>haphazard way in which RH/Mandrake is thrown together. There are of
>course other bugs, too numerous to mention here.... This is very
>dissappointing, as one would think that they test thier RPMs before
>distributing them. Sadly, I guess this is not the case, and I am now
>reminded why I like Slackware (or Debian) so much. Attention to
>detail.
>
>[ Thank you for listening to my rant! ]
Wake up, bozo. Did you even bother to look at the file? They both use
shadow passwords, which means they aren't really even in this file.
Further, they are encrypted, even though they are contained in plain
text files. When you rant, please base it on something resembling
factual, credible information.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Install of New Kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:14:29 GMT
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:56:41 -0500, Andrew N. McGuire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 30 Jul 2000, Dances With Crows quoth:
>
>$$ On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:54:31 GMT, wizard2 wrote:
>$$ >Everything goes well untill i go and try to compile I do bzImage
>$$ >and have tried zImage It runs the compile fine untill the end where
>$$ >i get a msg that it is leaving usr/src/linux/i386/boot/ it says it
>$$ >cannt find something like (AS86) and gives me 2 error codes 127 and
>$$
>$$ There's a package on your Mandrake CD called "dev86-something-.rpm".
>$$ Install that package.
>$$
>$$ As an aside, why in seven hells doesn't the kernel source package depend
>$$ on this package? Since you need as86 to build a kernel, shouldn't the
>$$ kernel source require the presence of as86?
>
>Because Mandrake does not pay attention to detail.
Based on your other post, you don't either.
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Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martha H Adams)
Subject: Re: Boot disk
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:14:46 GMT
I don't know what Linux you are using; but my Slackware Linux comes with a
very useful feature. From a bootdisks subdirectory I have a 'bare.i' boot
file copied onto a 1.44M floppy. From a rootdisks subdirectory I have a
'rescue.gz' file copied onto another floppy.
I have chosen the option in my bios setup that my Linux machine at boot
time looks first at my a: drive; then at my CDROM; then at my c: drive.
Yes, for normal work it does take a few seconds longer to pass over the
first two options and then do a normal boot off the c: drive where it
finds my /dev/hda1. But if there is any sort of a problem I can simply
start with my bare.i floppy in the a: drive; followup with my rescue.gz
disk and I can move into trouble shooting without resetting anything.
Anyhow. This rescue.gz disk when loaded installs a small Linux system
into about 4 MB of memory; and it does this without attempting any
automatic repair work on the HD. This small Linux includes a vi and a
surprisingly large collection of utility tools, the kind of things you
want at hand when your machine hiccups.
Then, when you have your small Linux started, you can look into your
big Linux, very carefully, so that you don't make maybe a small problem
into maybe a very large one; and choose what to do, from a small distance
and outside your normal operating environment.
The point of all this is, my Slackware rescue disk includes *network
tools* apparently adequate to start a network connection and then go on
from there. I'd be surprised if, whatever Linux you are using, some
utility software isn't almost at your hand already.
If it's not, you can check around the various Linux sites for resources
and how to use them. For instance, http://crashrecovery.org/ for starters,
and I have seen single-floppy recovery disk resources. But my Slackware
two-disk kit seems adequate for me.
(I can remove the rescue.gz disk after booting, and mount another floppy
there, if I want.)
So seeing as you really want a boot / rescue disk pair by your machine
anyhow, if you don't have any yet, why don't you work up one and then
practice with it by working on your network problem?
Cheers -- Martha Adams
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:46:57 -0700
"Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
IHBT aside,
> [anm@hawk ~] file /etc/passwd
> /etc/passwd: ASCII test
>
> ASCII test? I mean really. This, to me, is indicative of the haphazard
> way in which RH/Mandrake is thrown together. There are of course other
> bugs, too numerous to mention here.... This is very dissappointing, as
> one would think that they test thier RPMs before distributing them.
> Sadly, I guess this is not the case, and I am now reminded why I like
> Slackware (or Debian) so much. Attention to detail.
[dcs@frankenstein news]$ file /etc/passwd
/etc/passwd: ASCII text
Your problem with this is????
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which IDE linux C programers use?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:47:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Luis Yanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:03:23 +0200, wrote :
>
> LY> On 27 Jul 2000 00:02:06 +0100 Bruce Stephens
> LY> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LY>
> LY> >Luis Yanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> LY> >
> LY> >> Which are the IDE used by the linux C programmers? Free or not.
> LY> >> 73's de Luis
> LY> >
> LY> >XEmacs mostly. For debugging, I like Insight, and Source
Navigator
> LY> >(only recently released as free software) is superb. Insight and
> LY> >Source Navigator can be found at
<URL:http://sources.redhat.com/>.
> LY>
> LY> After reading all the replies, seems that most linux C programmers
code
> LY> much better than me, since I always have to debug at least some
small part
> LY> of my code. And just syntax highlighting isn't enougth for me. vi,
mc,
> LY> pico... aren't IDEs, as are KDevelop, xwpe, gIDE, rhide and
wxStudio.
> LY>
> LY> Certainly syntax highlighting is very desirable, as is a friendly
debbuging
> LY> frontend. Althought I'm comfortable with line mode debugging, is
much
> LY> faster for me with a tidier environment in text mode. Nothingh
fancy nor
> LY> graphical. May be I've been with DOS TC++ for many years now :-).
> LY>
> LY> Right now I'm using xwpe, that resembles TC and have a nice
looking.
> LY> I tried rhide before, but was unable to compile it.
> LY>
> LY> Links to KDevelop, xwpe, gIDE, rhide and wxStudio IDEs can be
found at:
> LY> http://www.identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/idelinks.html
> LY>
> LY> I'll be glad to knowabout others. It's strange that this topic
can't be
> LY> found in the FAQ. Isn't?
>
> Most *serious* Linux/UNIX C programmers don't use a Microsoft,
Borland, or
> CodeWarrior type of 'IDE'. Almost all Linux/UNIX C programmers just
use
> command like tools: some sort of editor and a shell window to use
make,
> etc. *Some* programmers use GnuEmacs or XEmacs -- both of these have
> syntax highlighting and 'electric C' modes. There is also an
interface
> where you can run make as a sub-process of Emacs and Emacs will parse
> gcc/g++'s error messages and bring up the section of code in another
> editor window. There is also a gdb interface for Emacs as well.
These
> two interfaces give GnuEmacs or XEmacs *some* of the features and
> functionality that you are looking for, except generally the GnuEmacs
> or XEmacs 'IDE's are heavily keyboard-based with only small use of the
> mouse.
>
> *I* have found that using a point-and-click programming interfaces
tend
> to slow down code production -- the point-and-click interface has too
> much interface overhead (lots of excess hand movement, distracting
'eye
> candy', etc.).
I tend to agree with this view, I use mostly gvim for editing in Linux
as well as other Unix's because of it's simularity to vi and it provides
systax highlightly, and in Linux I use the ddd front end to gdb which
works very well.
Carson
>
> LY>
> LY> I haven't notice about Source Navigator. Will take a look. Thanks.
> LY>
> LY> 73's de Luis
> LY>
> LY> mail: melus0(@)teleline(.)es
> LY> Ampr: eb7gwl.ampr.org
> LY> http://www.terra.es/personal2/melus0/ <- PCBs for Homebrewed
Hardware
> LY>
>
> --
> \/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Troutman)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 30 Jul 2000 21:09:21 -0500
.. (blowfish) graced us with the following:
>SuSE have Palm Pilot support built-in. Amongst tons (6 CDs or one DVD
>packed)of other goodies.
Not support - they have Linux running on a palm pilot.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:45:24 GMT
Alex writes:
> Why I bash Slashdot?
Because you get some sort of twisted pleasure out of it, I presume. You
certainly aren't enlightening anyone by doing so.
> Because Slashdot is advocating a lot of unethical stuff by twisting the
> real definition of Freedom of Speech; and its point men Jon Katz and Del
> Taco are super hypocrites in my book.
I wouldn't know: I don't read Slashdot. I find reading anything on the Web
awkward and inconvenient and use it only when I need to. I don't need
Slashdot, and I need your attacks on it even less.
> And the GNU-GPL is what exactly what keeps a lot of big corp away from
> using Linux.
I doubt that, but if true, so what? Why should I condition my choice of
license on the preferences of a pack of "Chief Information Officers" who
think sticking some VB in a Word doc is programming?
> I want Linux and *BSD to success. But in the money circle.
Linux is a succes, but I see no reason why it has to be "in the money
circle".
> Why would they want to give RHat a fat support contract when they can
> have plenty of supports, who understand the local culture, language and
> business need for less!!!???
Beats me. Perhaps someday everyone will get OS's on $2.00 Cheap Bytes CD's
and purchase support locally. I would like that just fine. Why should I
object if the coming changes in the software economy fail to create any new
billionaires?
> RHat's ventures into the Asia market is highly risky. If not downright
> hopeless.
Whatever. I own no Red Hat stock, so I see no need to follow the company.
--
John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: James Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I/O question
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:30:03 GMT
Steve Riskus wrote:
>
>
> im trying to configure sound on a linux box but i do not understand how
to
> figure out the I/O address of the sound card. Any help?
>
>
>
>
Steve,
You really need to provide even the basic details like the following:-
What Linux Destro are you using?
What sound card is it?
The IO and IRQ should be handled by the sound driver or isapnp.conf once we
know what it is and what Destro your running.
First start with the full info then I am sure one of use will be able to
tell you how to sort it out.
Regards,
James
JAB Computers Bristol UK
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: 30 Jul 2000 21:45:53 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) writes:
> What should it say instead?
It should print ASCII TeXt, not ASCII TeSt
^ ^
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From: David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: 30 Jul 2000 20:50:28 -0400
"Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I thought that I would share this little piece of news with you
> all, as I could not believe it myself. I am a Slackware user, and
> recently decided to try Mandrake 7.1. I have noticed some bugs
> but this one is just too much:
>
> [anm@hawk ~] file /etc/passwd
> /etc/passwd: ASCII test
>
I'm running RH 6.1 with file 3.27 and it correctly says "ASCII text".
What version of file are you running on Mandrake and what version do
you have on Slackware?
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From: "Sam Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,alt.nl.comp.os.ms-windows,alt.nl.comp.os.ms-windows.nt,alt.nl.comp.os.netware,alt.uu.comp.os
Subject: Come to my Linux's Website!
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:05:04 +0800
Come to my Linux's Website!
http://www.asia-comp.net/linuxcity/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: gnutella client
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:03:31 GMT
In article <8m1nng$9sg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't find a Gnutella client that works (under RH6.2). Windows
> Gnutella and Napster (on both platforms) work just fine. Did anyone
get
> ANY Linux Gnutellas to work?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wroot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Did you try the ones listed at http://www.gnutelliums.com/linux_unix/ ?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:15:10 -0400
Robert Krawitz wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) writes:
>
> > What should it say instead?
>
> It should print ASCII TeXt, not ASCII TeSt
I am running RH 6.1
The print out is as follow:
/etc/passwd: ASCII text
^^^^
It is TEST all right...
Alex.
>
> ^ ^
> --
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>
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> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
>
> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
> --Eric Crampton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Inittab and Cron
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:16:33 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, William R. Mattil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <8m1gdn$17u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have insert a new script which is executed when I press CTRL-ATL-DEL in
>>/etc/inittab, but now I have the problem that it works only 1 time. The
>>second time I press this buttons there does happen nothing. Does somebody
>>know why?
If you want to run something when doing a reboot, add a script to
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d or in /etc/rd.d/init.d with a symlink to the rc6.d dir.
>>My second questions is if somebody know how I can prevent to get an e-mail
>>after cron has executed the script, but it's only a particular script I
>>don't want to get a mail from, not all.
>
>59 * * * * /path/some_program 1> /path/sendmail "your options here" 2>&1
>
>Note: man sendmail will provide you the proper options and you may need
>to use some double quotes but you should get the idea ......
The question was how NOT to get mail notification about 1 particular
cron script. For that he would end the crontab line more like:
59 * * * * /path/some_program > /dev/null 2>&1
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:19:22 -0500
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, D. C. & M. V. Sessions quoth:
$$ "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
$$
$$ IHBT aside,
$$
$$ > [anm@hawk ~] file /etc/passwd
$$ > /etc/passwd: ASCII test
$$ >
$$ > ASCII test? I mean really. This, to me, is indicative of the haphazard
$$ > way in which RH/Mandrake is thrown together. There are of course other
$$ > bugs, too numerous to mention here.... This is very dissappointing, as
$$ > one would think that they test thier RPMs before distributing them.
$$ > Sadly, I guess this is not the case, and I am now reminded why I like
$$ > Slackware (or Debian) so much. Attention to detail.
$$
$$ [dcs@frankenstein news]$ file /etc/passwd
$$ /etc/passwd: ASCII text
$$
$$ Your problem with this is????
Nothing, but that is not what I posted!!! Using default Mandrake 7.1,
downloaded from http://www.mandrake.com and burned to CD, I get
'ASCII test', but then I already posted that. Then again, if you use
bash or tcsh with $TERM set to xterm you get a 'c' before your prompt
every time you use vim. Set $TERM to vt100 and it goes away, probably a
/etc/termcap error. This happens in konsole, not xterm. Then again, I
could also mention some heinous grammar errors during the installation
process. There is also the fact that a SCSI zip drive does not work
correctly, etc, etc.... Needless to say I have had none of these
problems on Slackware. There are many other things that I could point
out that leads me to believe that Madrake/RH distributions are of a
lesser quality, than say Debian or Slackware. For a more compete list
of discrepencies read the archive for this group, or contact me by
email.
Regards,
anm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: alt.2600
Subject: Re: mail server routing info
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:28:12 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:13:36 GMT, Clon^Hanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>use traceroute to to trace the servername or ip address. type tracert
>servername.com in the command promt
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse
>news:8lv0vs$i1n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> hi,
>> I have received a mail from a site can I find out from which
>> servers/routers it has passed through. I have all the header info.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sandy
The mail header tells which mail servers it has passed through, but the
only one you can believe is reverse lookup of the last one before it got
to a known mail server (you or your ISP) because others before that could
be forged.
/usr/sbin/traceroute is a Linux (Unix) program and tracert is a Windows
program that can trace the route to an IP or hostname. But that is no
guaranty that the route was the same at the time it was sent or that the
source is the same box that sent it (spammers often use their own server
on a dynamic IP). A real tough nut to crack is oriental spam with so many
IP's and no reverse lookup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: help needed with a pcmpci modem
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:47:01 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:36:45 GMT, michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to install Linux on my Dell Latitude CPx laptop.
>Everything is fine except that I can't get the modem to work.
>The modem is a "RealPort 2 CardBus Modem 56 Win-GlobalACCESS"
>and when the pcmpci support gets loaded during the boot the modem
>gets locked up (red light on and "modem is busy" message from
>kppp if you try to use it).
>
>Any idea about how to set it up?
> Thanks in advance for your time
> Michele
Make sure that your pcmcia-cs is version 3.1.10 or newer. Older versions
do not set modem irq properly with newer kernels (something is different
in the serial configuration).
Make sure that there are no irq conflicts and lock out any possible
conflicting irqs in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.
If you have an older pcmcia version you could try temporarily setting the
irq to zero with setserial and then possibly back to what cardmgr set it
to originally. If that does not work, try setting irq 0 with setserial
and leave it there until you have a chance to upgrade pcmcia-cs. Speed
will be slower with irq 0 (V.34 speed on V.90 connection).
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