Linux-Misc Digest #166, Volume #26 Sat, 28 Oct 00 23:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: install from Network ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Star office accesses my hard drive every few seconds!? (Robert Kiesling)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Joe Schaefer)
Re: problem with rpm installs (Rick)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Tim Haynes)
Re: Changing my profile/user name. (Mark Post)
Re: Modem Setup ("Bagpuss")
Re: Linux PDA (IX Corp)
Re: problem with rpm installs (Steve)
Re: How to gauge Linux stability? (Robert Jones)
Re: viewing Chinese. (* Tong *)
Re: Emulation and writing to the code segment (Robert Kiesling)
USB modem support? (Saurabh Mohan)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (John Hasler)
Re: Faulty disks with cdrecord? (MH)
Re: USB modem support? (E J)
Re: Why does my clock keeps loosing time? (E J)
How to recover a deleted (rm -fr) directory and files ("Philip Wang")
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP (softrat`)
Red Hat on Sparc - Questions (Jabes123)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 28 Oct 2000 22:01:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On linux you can make the system effectively single-user, by olcnffvat gur
: abezny vavg naq trggl & ybtva cebprffrf naq fgnegvat lbhe cebprffrf
: frcnengryl sebz gura bajneqf, but you'd be a prize moron for bothering.
Wonderful! Now HOW did you do that? Is there a rot13 command somewhere
...
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install from Network
Date: 28 Oct 2000 22:09:43 GMT
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:05:54 +0200, Bastian Becker wrote:
:>I would like to install Suse Linux 7.0 from an FTP server.
:>
:>Unfortunally there is no driver for my D-Link DFE-530TX Ethernet Adapter on
:>any of the two modules disks. I found a file called via-rhine.c but what can
:>I do with it?
The via-rhine driver is on the modules disk (or indeed, may be on the
main disk, it was certianly there by the time I selected my network
driver). I know. I just installed SuSE 7.0 by ftp. It was clearly
visible. The premise is FALSE. And no,, I don't know if that's the
driver for the DFE-530TX:
This driver is designed for the VIA VT86c100A Rhine-II PCI Fast
Ethernet controller. It also works with the older 3043 Rhine-I
chip.
I would have guessed the de4x5 driver was the one. Go check.
: I'd be tempted to get a dos boot disk that'll go onto the network
: and put FTP on the boot disk, and take it from there.
Also perfectly workable, but he doesn't have to. SuSE have every
network driver on the planet on the modules disk, and at least a dozen
of the most common on the main disk.
Peter
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Subject: Re: Star office accesses my hard drive every few seconds!?
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:18:40 GMT
Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You don't have enough memory and SO has to access the swap file more often.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Bruce wrote:
> >This happens to me too. I have 48 meg of ram and a 133 mhz pentium. Not much
> >of a machine huh?
> >SO does seem to use a lot of memory.
> >
> >In article <8siqja$ktm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Anyone know what causes Star Office to access my hard drive every
> >>few seconds and how to make it stop that?
> >>
> >>The older Star Office doesn't do this but now that I have a newer
> >>version it's acting up with this.
Have you installed Motif separately and is StarOffice loading the
Motif libs, libMwm, etc., dynamically... ldd <path to soffice
program> should tell you.
--
WHAT three-volume saga about a movie star named "Owlbreath?"
--
Robert Kiesling
Linux FAQ Maintainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
From: Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Oct 2000 18:25:25 -0400
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : On linux you can make the system effectively single-user, by olcnffvat gur
> : abezny vavg naq trggl & ybtva cebprffrf naq fgnegvat lbhe cebprffrf
> : frcnengryl sebz gura bajneqf, but you'd be a prize moron for bothering.
>
V pbhyq gryy lbh, ohg gura V'q unir gb xvyy lbh...
--
Joe Schaefer
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: problem with rpm installs
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:29:58 -0400
Steve wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:03:04 -0400, Rick wrote:
> >When I try to install qt-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm, I get the following message:
> >
> >[root@localhost Linux]# rpm -Uvh qt-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm
> >only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> >RPM
>
> Had exactly the same problem last week, I got the update for
> RH6.2 from an ftp site and dir rpm --frephen rpm.n.n.rpm
> and it solved the problem.
>
Could you please explain the last part.... dir rpm --frephen rpm.n.n.rpm
Thanks
--
Rick
* To email me remove NOSPAM from my address *
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 28 Oct 2000 23:35:13 +0100
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : On linux you can make the system effectively single-user, by olcnffvat gur
> : abezny vavg naq trggl & ybtva cebprffrf naq fgnegvat lbhe cebprffrf
> : frcnengryl sebz gura bajneqf, but you'd be a prize moron for bothering.
>
> Wonderful! Now HOW did you do that? Is there a rot13 command somewhere
> ...
Of course there is. Nothing to it. You just have to ybbx va frpgvba 6 bs
gur znacntrf, that is all ;)
~Tim
--
Gabrielle and Madelene were just dolls. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| http://piglet.is.dreaming.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: Changing my profile/user name.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:42:22 GMT
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 04:33:07 GMT, "mordak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>When I installed SuSE 7.0 Pro, I had to enter a name "Kenneth M. Gutkowski"
>in Yast2 when I put the user name and password in. My question is how do I
>change my name "Kenneth M. Gutkowski" to just "Ken G."? I have notice under
>Netscape 4.73 when you view the source of a message you send to yourself,
>that it uses your initial profile name not the one entered in Netscape under
>the Preferences/Mail & News Groups/Identity. I have searched the net with
>Google for any discussion threads that might have anything to do with this
>but alas, I have come up empty handed. Any help you all might shed on this
>subject is appreciated.
Well, you could always directly edit the /etc/passwd file, since you're the
system administrator.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: "Bagpuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem Setup
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:50:01 +0100
Try everything these guys have been saying but if that still does not work,
try going into your BIOS and looking for a setting similar to "PlugnPlay OS"
or "PNP OS". My modem never worked under Linux until I set that to "No", the
same applied to some Win95 machines at work for some reason :�|
Hope this helps
--
Bagpuss
Your friendly cloth cat
Linux user 192745
Take the rubbish out before replying
"Cosmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a 3com USR Sportster 56k pnp ISA internal modem I have been trying
to
> get working under Redhat 6.0. Can anyone give me some direction on how to
> accomplish this? I have been through all the HOWTO's without any success.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: Linux PDA
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IX Corp)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:04:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 26 Oct 2000 23:08:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter da Silva) wrote:
>
>>I would buy EPOC for my iPaq. Would that make it an ePaq?
>
>I would have thought with Psion apps perhaps it would be pPaq?
>Or since EPOC comes from Symbian perhaps sPaq?
>Then the Linux port could be l'Paq
>
>However as you point out, there have to be a bunch of people
>wanting that sort of unit, and EPOC seems almost unknown
>in the USA. I would have thought a few more of the hobby
>computer people would be interested, given EPOC is the only
>pocket O/S that already comes with a built in language
>right out of the box (except for the Revo model).
OPL isn't a very exciting development tool, though it is somewhat better
than nothing. Even Symbian realizes this; they seem to be going with Java.
I recently bought a high end WinCE machine to replace my HP100. Much as I
hate M$, EPOC was useless to me, due to an utter lack of useful
applications (symbolic math, CAD, color picture viewer, mapping software
for the U.S. etc etc). The hardware is pretty chinsey as well. All the
ones I saw in stores as demo models were broken. Maybee this will
change once "Quartz" takes off. While the WinCE machine (an HP Jornada
430) was actually somewhat useful, the UI was horrid, and in the end it
wasn't useful enough to justify the price tag, so it went back to the
factory on the lemon-offer.
As a power user, I have yet to find a machine more useful than my HP100LX.
I'd have a look at the "Casio Computer Extender" if I knew of a single
person who has used it. And I'd certainly be willing to entertain the idea
of using a Linux PDA, once they have a useful distribution and hardware
configuration. Sadly, the "transvirtual" efforts do not look ultimately
particularly useful, excepting as job-creation for Java weenies. Maybee
Agenda will do better.
-Lupo
"To the engineering mind, a state will probably appear decadent in just
the degree that there are numbers of inhibitory or uselessly tabulative
persons employed to interfere with, and inquire into the actions of
others" -Ezra Pound, Machine Art <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: problem with rpm installs
Date: 29 Oct 2000 00:41:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:29:58 -0400, Rick wrote:
>
>Could you please explain the last part.... dir rpm --frephen rpm.n.n.rpm
>
Oops, some bad typing there sorry. I did:
# rpm --freshen rpm.n.n.n.rpm
as root where "n" just represents the vearious version numbers.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
12:22am up 18 days, 1:43, 3 users, load average: 1.65, 1.57, 1.31
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to gauge Linux stability?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:41:09 -0500
Steve wrote:
<snip>
> I only ever boot when there's been a power failure, gotta get me a UPS.
>
> In some places where I've worked rebooting a machine can take a whole
> day which means a whole days down time for the customers, a days worth
> of time for one of the network technicians, mainly due to the fact
> that they insisted on using NT and the servers were in remote locations
> and these machines would lock up so badly thet there was no way of
> booting them remotely.
NTs? Not unlike owning about 4 acres of junk Yugos and trying to get 'em
all running at the same time.
--
If you're carrying a torch, put it down. The Olympics are over.
6:30pm up 14 days, 11:55, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: viewing Chinese.
Date: 28 Oct 2000 21:26:30 -0300
�L�W�p�l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to view chinese text, not print chinese text.
Want the solution from the kernal?
http://www.bluepoint.com.cn/
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
- All free contribution & collection & music from the heavens
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Subject: Re: Emulation and writing to the code segment
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:54:12 GMT
Mihai Cartoaje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have heard of a technique which is supposed to make emulators
> three times faster. The emulator takes a piece of code without
> branches and translates it into native code. Then executes it. If at
> a later time, the emulation comes back to a translated piece of
> code, all the emulator has to do is to run it again.
>
> But this needs to be able to write to the code segment (or to
> execute the data segment.) Under Linux and gcc, an instruction like,
>
> goto L2;
> L1:
> a = 2.718281828;
> L2:
> p = &&L1;
> *(int *) p = 2;
>
> Gives a SIGINT.
>
> Is there any way?
>
> Should I ask this in another of the Linux newsgroups?
Nope, probably in a microprocessor related group.
--
Robert Kiesling
Linux FAQ Maintainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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From: Saurabh Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB modem support?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:13:41 -0500
Hi all,
I am thinking of buying a Boca 56k v.90 USB external modem and was
just wondering if USB devices & specifically the above modem are supported
under linux.
(if not which modem will be the best bet to buy so that its supported
under linux!)
Thanks for all the help!!
-Saurabh.
Please email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:36:03 GMT
Peter T. Breuer writes:
> Wonderful! Now HOW did you do that? Is there a rot13 command somewhere
In emacs, of course.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Faulty disks with cdrecord?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:29:19 -0700
Chris Ripp wrote:
>
> Try mounting the iso image as a filesystem like such:
>
> mount <your iso file> /mnt/<mount point> -o loop -t iso9660
>
> If it won't mount or you have problems looking at parts of it, then it's the
> image. I do this when I DL iso images to see if there's any problems.
> Haven't had a bad one yet, so either it doesn't matter much, I haven't had a
> bad iso image file, or I'm just lucky.
>
> Judging from what you're saying it sounds like the ISO image is probably
> toasty-fried in places. (Errors in the same places and all.)
>
That's exactly what it was. I downloaded the iso again, burned it to CD,
booted, and all was well.
=========
Don't waste your vote, vote Green or don't vote at all.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB modem support?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:53:20 -0700
No USB is supported except for some USB mice for Redhat 7.0. I don't know
about other Linux.
Full USB support will be available when Kernel 2.4 is released.
If you can't wait, you can use the development Kernel 2.4.
Saurabh Mohan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am thinking of buying a Boca 56k v.90 USB external modem and was
> just wondering if USB devices & specifically the above modem are supported
> under linux.
> (if not which modem will be the best bet to buy so that its supported
> under linux!)
>
> Thanks for all the help!!
>
> -Saurabh.
> Please email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does my clock keeps loosing time?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:09:30 -0700
I have Compaq Presario. I had lost time too when I went into power save.
It would go into GMT minus one day.
Linux would update its time every 11 minutes from your Real Time Clock.
Llnux clock would get messed up by the power save.
When it gets to the 11 minute mark, Linux will update itself with the time
from the Real Time Clock.
1) Go into the BIOS and disable the Power Saving mode include hard disk
and screen power save.
or
2) Set your Linux clock setting to GMT and leave it to GMT.
or
3) recompile time.c with a update time less than 11 minutes
or
4) Upgrade to RedHat 7.0 (problem shows up but less frequently)
Roy Smith wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 6.2 on a Compaq Deskpro. The clock runs fine
> most of the time, but when I go away from the machine for a while and
> come back to it, I often find the clock has lost a lot of time (like
> many hours). I am not running NTP.
>
> I suspect it's related to some sort of idle-time auto-power-down
> process, but don't know enough about the PC hardware (I'm a traditional
> unix guy, and a Mac fanatic on the side) to really understand what's
> going on in that department.
>
> Any ideas?
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From: "Philip Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to recover a deleted (rm -fr) directory and files
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:28:11 -0400
Hi,
I have accidentally deleted a directory with a lot of files in my RedHat 6.1
machine.
Does anyone know anyway to get the files back?
Thanks,
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From: softrat` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:35:37 -0700
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.help D. Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I have the 8338....in Windows it works fine. In Linux...suffice to say
> : I have pulled out the remaining 4 hairs left on my bald head! I went
> : to CMedia's website, downloaded the Linux drivers, and followed
> : the insructions to use "make" and "menuconfig".......only to be stymied
> : by a "missing rules" error! I'm installing my old T-Beach Tropez,
>
> Why are you stymied by this? A missing rule error either means the rule
> isn't there or the file in which the rule would be found isn't
> there. Which is it? You don't tell us. But it sounds like you don't
> have the kernel sources installed (or haven't configured them), and
> the missing rule comes from there.
>
> Let us know when you feel like giving us sufficient info to help you.
> The command line and the error output it evokes should be fine.
>
> Peter
Mr Breuer has done his standard job of being abusive and unhelpful.
CMedia's documentation is erroneous and their instructions are very much
oversimplified. I finally got my CMedia sound card to work, but it took
weeks of experimentation. You actually are taking the best and simplest
approach: flush CMedia!
George D. Freeman IV
the softrat
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
The opulence of the front office door varies inversely with the
fundamental
solvency of the firm.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jabes123)
Subject: Red Hat on Sparc - Questions
Date: 29 Oct 2000 02:58:55 GMT
Well I understand that Red Hat is NOT releasing a version of RH Linux 7.0 for
SPARC... So I guess I'll just have to stay with my 6.2 version...
My question is this - are there any office suites (or any applications for that
matter) available for RH Linux running on a Sun SPARC? This seems to be a no
win situation... I am thinking of wiping out my hard drives and installing
Solaris and StarOffice and being done with it... This is frustrasting!!!
Thanks in advance...
J
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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