Linux-Misc Digest #738, Volume #27 Sun, 29 Apr 01 11:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: What recent distributions for an old 486? (Kevin Croxen)
Re: What ISP can I use?? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: is this setting possible ? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: How to get zip/unzip program (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Getting network speed (bert buchholz)
Re: HP Printer special features (Jean-David Beyer)
HP5 LaserJet tray selection ("Wayne Osborn")
?Tekram 395UW on standard kernel 2.4.3 (Tobias Schenk)
Re: mouse problems with debian potato ("Jan Outhuis,,,")
Re: Linux vs Microsoft (Michael Perry)
Re: rpm use question ("DMcBee")
Re: rpm use question ("DMcBee")
Re: Linux vs Microsoft (Juergen Sauer)
Re: How to get zip/unzip program (Michael Heiming)
How to remove the hd noise? (Anders Braathen)
Re: Mapping un-used keys (Zainul)
Re: Mapping un-used keys (Ashwin R. Bharambe)
Re: Dual-boot blues ("bowman")
Writing a little script (help with sed) ("Michael Pye")
Re: Linux vs Microsoft ("bowman")
sched.h problem with kernel 2.4.3 (Shaw Carruthers)
Re: How to remove the hd noise? (William Burrow)
Re: Writing a little script (help with sed) (William Burrow)
Re: Low-cost wireless networking in Linux (Bob Hauck)
Re: Writing a little script (help with sed) (Chiefy)
Re: sched.h problem with kernel 2.4.3 ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: What recent distributions for an old 486?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:48:15 GMT
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:15:53 +0200, Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What recent distributions for an old 486 ?
>I want to revamp the old stuff still around...
>
>--
> Fabrizio Carrai
>
>
>
The current versions of Slackware or Debian will best fit your needs from
among the full distros. Depending on the 486's resources
you'll have to pick and choose among the packages,
particularly wih regard to streamlining X.
Mini-distros like Peanut will do also, of course.
--Kevin
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What ISP can I use??
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:06:01 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What dialup ISP access is available, and are there any free ISP that will
> work?? Thanks.
>
I found mine in the telephone directory. I found a whole lot,
actually, and talked with friends to see which one was best and why.
They are not free. I found that using a local ISP (rather than AT&T,
Verizon, etc.) was better because I get better service.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 7:00am up 8 days, 13:25, 4 users, load average: 3.39, 3.42, 3.34
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is this setting possible ?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:09:10 -0400
tvn wrote:
>
> Currently, I have filled my computer with 4 devices, 2 HDs and 2
> Optical drives (Cdrw & DVD). Both my channels on the IDE are full. So can
> I buy another ATA 100 card to add more devices to it ? Another hard drive
> and possibly a zip drive.
>
> Will this setting have trouble with linux ? And will most card be supported
> under linux ? thanks - I use red hat
>
> Thanks for all inputs.
At some point, you should consider getting an Ultra-2 SCSI (or better)
controller and make the upgrade to SCSI devices. It will also go a
long way in dealing with the problem of an insufficient number of IRQs
in the PC architecture.
Another possibility is to hook up stuff to the USB if you have one and
if your devices are compatible with it.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 7:05am up 8 days, 13:30, 5 users, load average: 3.16, 3.25, 3.28
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get zip/unzip program
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:11:55 -0400
Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> Dino Hsu wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > One of my CD requires unzip to uncompress a file, but I cannot find
> > zip/unzip in my Red Hat 6.2, can you tell me how to get them? Thanks
> >
> > Dino
>
> Hello,
>
> zip/unzip are pretty standard tools, they are per default installed on
> my SuSE
> box, perhaps they are not installed on your RH box, but are on the
> distro CDs.
>
> Michael Heiming
I have VA Linux Systems' version of Red Hat Linux 6.2. The following
are installed on my machine, but I do not recall if I had to install
them myself from the CD-ROM, or whether they install automatically
with the rest of the system.
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qa | grep zip
bzip2-0.9.5d-2
gzip-1.2.4a-2
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 7:10am up 8 days, 13:35, 4 users, load average: 3.19, 3.24, 3.26
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From: bert buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting network speed
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:14:42 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SammyTheSnake wrote:
>
> I use
>
> xnetload ppp0 &
>
> also look at pppstats and bing
>
Thanks for all the answers, (x)netload is exactly what I was looking for, I
needed a console app, maybe I should have told you so, but netload is just
what I wanted: small, displays only the necessary, nice ncurses-look,
thanks again.
Bert
> HTH
> Cheers & God bless
> SammyTheSnake
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Printer special features
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:16:28 -0400
Jan Felix Reuter wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a HP DeskJet 615C (yea, I know, not the best printer around :-) and
> I was wondering if it is possible to use all the features it has, like econo
> for example, under linux. The Windows driver supports all those features
> but I couldn't find a way to use them in Linux. Does anyone know?
>
I run Red Hat 6.2 and similar distributions. Their printer tool,
accessable from the "control-panel" program, allows you to set:
-dDepletion=2
as a "Extra GS options". It still puts down more ink than the machine
would using Windows 95 with EconoSave (or whatever it is called), and
does not print quite as nicely. Photographs are noticably inferior to
the Windows driver.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 7:10am up 8 days, 13:35, 4 users, load average: 3.19, 3.24, 3.26
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP5 LaserJet tray selection
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:17:08 +0800
Does anyone know how to select paper trays on multi-tray HP laser
printers?
I am using a HP 5P laser, lpr on RH7.0.
Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
7:10pm up 1 day, 5:51, 6 users, load average: 1.27, 1.15, 1.11
...Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
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From: Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ?Tekram 395UW on standard kernel 2.4.3
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:31:29 +0200
Hi,
has anybody experience installing the Tekram dc395UW driver into the
standard kernel? Im using 2.4.3 and downloaded the driver source form
Tekram directly. I followed the instructions and edited
drivers/scsi/Makefile and drivers/scsi/Config.in. The readme says to
edit hosts.c too. But I could not found the proposed position to
insert the patch text.
make menuconfig worked. Also the compilation showed no errors (or
least didnt exit with error).
I rebooted my system but no boot message hints to an existing SCSI
Controller and 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' said: 'Attached devices: none'.
How to reasure that the drivers been compiled in?
Thank you,
Tobias
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From: "Jan Outhuis,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse problems with debian potato
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:58:21 +0200
you can control your mouse under X with programs 'xset' and 'xpointer';
please read the respective manpages. To automate this, put the right
commands in one of your xinit scripts.
Jan.O.
john connolly wrote:
> I have debian potato installed and am running the SVGA Xserver
> with a SiS6326 graphics card. Everything seems to be ok except that
> I cannot control the mouse in Xwindows. It works ok in console mode.
> The settings under gpmconfig are:
> /dev/psaux -t ps2 -r 50 -Rms3 (it is a ps2 mouse).
> Changing resonsiveness alters the behavior in the console mode but
> not under Xwindows.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> JWC
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Linux vs Microsoft
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:54:13 -0000
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:28:40 -0400, Chris Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kevin wrote:
>
>> I agree. I bought my PC from a turn-key Linux hardware vendor.
>> Eventually I bought an HP printer. HP supports, Linux I thought,
>> since they sell PCs with Linux on them. But HP printers don't do
>> photo quality printing under Linux since HP hasn't released
>> enough of their printer spec's to enable Linux driver
>> development. So, I sold my HP printer and bought an Epson
>> printer. I get photo quality printing on Linux via the Gimp
>> print plug-in. The day I bought the Epson printer, I ran into an
>> HP sales rep. at Office Depot and explained the whole situation
>> to him. He seemed somewhat alarmed that he couldn't meet my
>> needs and was going to loose my business. I hope he takes this
>> info back to his superiors. Vote with your wallets folks....
>>
>
> Hear hear! There too...
>
HP's new Linux-based printing initiative for Linux. Check it out:
http://hp.sourceforge.net/
Now they have released enough of their specs to do printer drivers. But if
I wanted good laser quality, I would go with one of the new models from
Lexmark. Lexmark used to release good OS/2 drivers and now is releasing
Linux printing drivers.
As far as printing with HP's, I would have to mildly disagree. I use a
HP8000n at work which has quite good Postscript printing capabilities. We
throw a few thousand print jobs primarily from linux boxes each day at it.
Works pretty well.
As far as deskjet printing goes, check out the sourceforge link.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "DMcBee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm use question
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:38:38 -0400
Maybe you can use the -Uvh option instead of the -i option. Thats worked
for me...
D-
"Bob Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Okay how is this possible?
>
> I was trying to upgrade a library libxml.so.1 to libxml.so.2
>
> I downloaded libxml-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm and did
>
> rpm -i --test libxml-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
>
> and it returned
>
> rpm libxml-1.8.1 is newer than libxml-2.0.0-1 and is
> already installed.
>
> I have just upgraded by RH 7.0 to RH 7.1. K6/2 500 MHz with
> 128 Mb ram.
>
> This is a continuation of my question about library
> incompatabilities
>
> TIA
>
> Bob Hartung
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From: "DMcBee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm use question
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:39:50 -0400
Try using -Uvh option instead of the -i option.
- D
"Bob Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Okay how is this possible?
>
> I was trying to upgrade a library libxml.so.1 to libxml.so.2
>
> I downloaded libxml-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm and did
>
> rpm -i --test libxml-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
>
> and it returned
>
> rpm libxml-1.8.1 is newer than libxml-2.0.0-1 and is
> already installed.
>
> I have just upgraded by RH 7.0 to RH 7.1. K6/2 500 MHz with
> 128 Mb ram.
>
> This is a continuation of my question about library
> incompatabilities
>
> TIA
>
> Bob Hartung
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs Microsoft
Date: 29 Apr 2001 11:23:46 GMT
Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:14:03 -0500 in comp.os.linux.misc:
> But HP does now support printing from Linux on most of their inkjet
> printers. http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net.
> The print quality is comparable to that of the Windoze HP drivers and
> sometimes better.
That is not enough,
HP Support does not know much about this,
the Linux Drivers are not delivered on the Driver CDs,
The delivered documentation does not mention this,
... what a MS slaved junk Copmpany
No Price bonus for Linux users, which are forced to spent much
time to get the driveers from the Net ... no ay for the many hours to
get such trash working -- due no working driver disk deliverd, even
ordered.
mfG
Jojo
--
J�rgen Sauer - AutomatiX GmbH, +49-4209-4699, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.automatix.de to Mail me: remove: -not-for-spawm-
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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:20:22 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get zip/unzip program
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> Michael Heiming wrote:
> >
> > Dino Hsu wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > One of my CD requires unzip to uncompress a file, but I cannot find
> > > zip/unzip in my Red Hat 6.2, can you tell me how to get them? Thanks
> > >
> > > Dino
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > zip/unzip are pretty standard tools, they are per default installed on
> > my SuSE
> > box, perhaps they are not installed on your RH box, but are on the
> > distro CDs.
> >
> > Michael Heiming
>
> I have VA Linux Systems' version of Red Hat Linux 6.2. The following
> are installed on my machine, but I do not recall if I had to install
> them myself from the CD-ROM, or whether they install automatically
> with the rest of the system.
>
> valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qa | grep zip
> bzip2-0.9.5d-2
> gzip-1.2.4a-2
> valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
>
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
> ^^-^^ 7:10am up 8 days, 13:35, 4 users, load average: 3.19, 3.24, 3.26
mh@charon:~ > rpm -qa | grep zip
gzip-1.2.4-222
bzip-1.0.0-37
unzip-5.40-181
zip-2.3-104
ziptool-1.2-135
On SuSE 7.0, I'm not sure, but think, those are per default installed.
Perhaps, because of some nifty KDE archive tools, I don't use, need them
all.
Michael Heiming
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From: Anders Braathen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to remove the hd noise?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:19:12 GMT
It seems like, when I've got X loaded, that something seems to constantly
write to the disk and I have no idea what it could be. Frankly, it seems
to be more like a static 'vrrr' than a writeprocess. Noise intensifies
when I move the mouse, for example. This also was the case under the rh7.1
installation., and doesnt seem to happen under bash/non-X or w2k. Anything
will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Zainul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: iitb.computers
Subject: Re: Mapping un-used keys
Date: 29 Apr 2001 11:02:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Ashwin R. Bharambe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi all,
| I have a Windows compatible keyboard and I work on Linux! Is it possible
| to map the un-used 'Win-Start' Key to something useful, like using it as
| an 'Esc' in Vim, etc...
I've noticed that for Redhat 6.2.4 and Redhat 7.0+, that the left winstart
key has been mapped to change to (current tty - 1) and the right winstart
key has been mapped to (current tty + 1).
The right click key is mapped to (toggle between two recently visited ttys).
How they did it, i dont know. But would love to find out !
zainul...
| Thanks in advance,
| Ashwin.
--
Ship it.
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Crossposted-To: iitb.computers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashwin R. Bharambe)
Subject: Re: Mapping un-used keys
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:43:59 GMT
Quoth Zainul, on 29 Apr 2001 11:02:01 GMT (allegedly):
> I've noticed that for Redhat 6.2.4 and Redhat 7.0+, that the left winstart
> key has been mapped to change to (current tty - 1) and the right winstart
> key has been mapped to (current tty + 1).
> The right click key is mapped to (toggle between two recently visited ttys).
Yeah. But how to remap ? Maybe it is possible just to manage it for an X
session ? Changing the XKeymap ? How to find out what scan code the key
sends in to the Xserver ?
Any ideas, anyone ?
Ashwin
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual-boot blues
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:14:20 -0600
"japhilp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:OaNG6.733050$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Do you have any pnp cards and have set the bios to "Plug and Play OS"or
> something?
especially a NIC? If Windows is configured for a network, and can't find its
NIC, it will hang at the logon box. Where does it hang?
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From: "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Writing a little script (help with sed)
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:10:29 +0100
OK, I have a problem with a machine which likes to remember the year as 1994
when I turn it on. I am looking for a way to automate the change from 94 to
2001.
So far I have a script looking a bit like this:
date > /tmp/olddate
sed s/"1994"/"2001"/ /tmp/olddate > /tmp/today
now, that works fine, but how can I get it back into the date command?
I have tried
date -s < /tmp/today
and
sed s/"1994"/"2001"/ /tmp/olddate | date -s (instead of the above one)
but neither work. Date just complains about a lack of arguments. How can I
get date to read the date from the stdin so I can use "<" or pipe the date
into it?
Thanks
MP
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs Microsoft
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:23:14 -0600
"Juergen Sauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cgtk2$bm3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> No Price bonus for Linux users, which are forced to spent much
> time to get the driveers from the Net ... no ay for the many hours to
> get such trash working -- due no working driver disk deliverd, even
> ordered.
Yeah. Just bought a LinkSys NIC. Big Penguin on the box, and a TurboLinux CD
inside. A booklet and glossy docs for three or flavors of Windows. And
somewhere around page 60, a note that it will work on Linux, but is
completely unsupported. That little MS flag means it will work on Windows;
that little Tux means they're trying to climb on the bandwagon for free.
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From: Shaw Carruthers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sched.h problem with kernel 2.4.3
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:26:02 GMT
I have just tried to upgrade to kernel 2.4.3 and my home grown modules
won't compile e.g:
The offending line 27 is:
#include <linux/sched.h>
Could some kind kernel guru point to a source which explains the error
of my ways?
In file included from lm78.c:13:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel.h:71: parse error before `int'
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/mount.h: In function `mntput':
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/dcache.h:7,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:19,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from lm78.c:27:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/mount.h:46: warning: implicit declaration
of function `printk_R1b7d4074'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h: At top level:
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:199,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from lm78.c:27:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:99: parse error before `void'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:100: parse error before `int'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:101: parse error before `int'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:102: parse error before `void'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:104: parse error before `void'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:105: parse error before `int'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:106: parse error before `int'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/semaphore.h:107: parse error before `void'
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from lm78.c:27:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:962: parse error before `long'
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:963: parse error before `long'
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:10,
from lm78.c:27:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/personality.h:66: parse error before
`long'
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:25,
from lm78.c:27:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sem.h:124: parse error before `long'
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sem.h:125: parse error before `long'
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sem.h:126: parse error before `long'
In file included from lm78.c:27:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:152: parse error before `void'
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:569: parse error before `long'
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h: In function `vmalloc':
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:108,
from lm78.c:31:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:35: `boot_cpu_data_R0657d037'
undeclared (first use this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:35: (Each undeclared identifier
is reported only once
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:35: for each function it
appears in.)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h: In function `vmalloc_dma':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:44: `boot_cpu_data_R0657d037'
undeclared (first use this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h: In function `vmalloc_32':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:53: `boot_cpu_data_R0657d037'
undeclared (first use this function)
lm78.c: At top level:
lm78.c:49: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
lm78.c: In function `lm78_get_info':
lm78.c:68: warning: implicit declaration of function
`sprintf_R3c2c5af5'
lm78.c: In function `init_module':
lm78.c:156: warning: implicit declaration of function `proc_register'
lm78.c: In function `cleanup_module':
lm78.c:195: warning: implicit declaration of function
`proc_unregister'
make: *** [lm78.o] Error 1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: How to remove the hd noise?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:27:13 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:19:12 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc,
Anders Braathen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It seems like, when I've got X loaded, that something seems to constantly
>write to the disk and I have no idea what it could be. Frankly, it seems
>to be more like a static 'vrrr' than a writeprocess. Noise intensifies
>when I move the mouse, for example. This also was the case under the rh7.1
>installation., and doesnt seem to happen under bash/non-X or w2k. Anything
>will be greatly appreciated.
Is this coming from your speakers or is the hard disk light on? Try
rerouting the speaker wires away from the monitor if the former. If the
latter, run free to check how much memory you have available. You may
be using swap, though I doubt it on modern machines.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
Y1.99K compliant message. ~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Writing a little script (help with sed)
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:33:48 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:10:29 +0100 in comp.os.linux.misc,
Michael Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>sed s/"1994"/"2001"/ /tmp/olddate | date -s (instead of the above one)
>
>but neither work. Date just complains about a lack of arguments. How can I
>get date to read the date from the stdin so I can use "<" or pipe the date
>into it?
Haven't tested it, but try:
date -s "`date | sed s/1994/2001/`"
The single quotes are back ticks, found above the TAB key.
BTW, I think there is a fix for broken BIOSes out there, search
Google.com for it.
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William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Low-cost wireless networking in Linux
Reply-To: bobh = haucks dot org
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:43:51 GMT
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:57:57 -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install a mini-LAN in my home with three computers. I
> would prefer a wireless LAN, but the solutions I've found either don't
> work with Linux or are very expensive for me
Yes, wireless is a lot more expensive than a wired LAN. There doesn't
seem to be any way around that.
802.11 wireless cards are going for around US $139, plus $69 for the PCI
adapter for a desktop PC. Most of those work with Linux even though
only a few companies make note of this. You can use them in ad-hoc
mode without an access point, but OTOH you can get an access point from
LinkSys for $269 that also has an Internet firewall built in.
Proxim "Symphony" wireless cards are slightly less expensive and also
work with Linux, but are slower. They don't need an access point (I
have three PC's networked this way).
For more information about wireless LAN and Linux, try reading this:
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/>
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-| Bob Hauck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Writing a little script (help with sed)
Date: 29 Apr 2001 14:47:10 GMT
29 Apr 2001 14:10 GMT, Michael Pye did say to the dudes:
> OK, I have a problem with a machine which likes to remember the year as 1994
> when I turn it on. I am looking for a way to automate the change from 94 to
> 2001.
Not sure if this is of use to you, but it's possible to make the date
command add or subtract a prescribed amount of time.
date --date='7 years' would give the correct date on your box.
Not sure if you can put that data back into the date command, but it
saves you having to invoke sed via script.
Aliasing date to the above may be a possibility.
--
Chiefy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We are Micro$oft. Unix is irrelevant. Openness is futile.
Prepare to be assimilated.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sched.h problem with kernel 2.4.3
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:49:18 GMT
Shaw Carruthers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just tried to upgrade to kernel 2.4.3 and my home grown modules
> won't compile e.g:
They compile for everyone else! Are you using pristine sources, or
a distro patched version?
> In file included from lm78.c:13:
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel.h:71: parse error before `int'
Yes ... apparently your compilation does not understand the word
"asmlinkage"! Which "compiler" is it? Please compile with -v in the
compiler flags, and look at what heppens.
71: asmlinkage int printk(const char * fmt, ...)
As far as I can see, asmlinkage is defined in linkage.h, so please
check if it is correctly included. If it isn't, then you'll have to
investigate. If it is, then you'll also have to investigate:
#if defined __i386__
#define asmlinkage CPP_ASMLINKAGE __attribute__((regparm(0)))
#elif defined __ia64__
#define asmlinkage CPP_ASMLINKAGE __attribute__((syscall_linkage))
#else
#define asmlinkage CPP_ASMLINKAGE
#endif
it might simply see that you have some missing files, or corrupted ones.
Try compiling without MODVERSIONS also.
Peter
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