Linux-Networking Digest #769, Volume #9 Sun, 3 Jan 99 23:13:34 EST
Contents:
NFS and Win98 (Jonathan "@sprintmail.com>)
mgetty and connect speed ("John E.P. Hynes" botnaybay.com>)
Re: Minicom-Connect tone-How2ShutItOff? (Miles Thompson)
Re: Dial-up Setup frustration (Howard Mann)
Re: Problem with 2.2.0-pre4? (Ryan Stapleton)
Re: Help! 2 NICs, 1 router - can ping external NIC from net, can't ping router
("Mark Vandersteen")
Re: kernel 2.2-pre4 route problem (Clifford Kite)
Re: Minicom-Connect tone-How2ShutItOff? ("Jack J. Woehr")
Re: Dial-up Setup frustration ("Stephen J. Lawrence Jr.")
incoming mail question (Mark Worsdall)
Re: Wireless LAN?? (Maurie Daly)
problems with intel EtherExpress Pro 10 ISA (Mike Furr)
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From: Jonathan <"jfondow<no spam>"@sprintmail.com>
Subject: NFS and Win98
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 20:36:40 -0500
I am new, so please bear with me. I have SuSE 5.3 installed on one box
and win98 on another box, on a home network. I want to be able to mount
a directory that is on the win98 box so that I can run a cron job to
back up the directory and write off to tape on the Linux box. I am
running Samba with no problem. Any help/ideas would be greatly
appreciated. TIA
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From: "John E.P. Hynes" <jehynes@<nospam>botnaybay.com>
Subject: mgetty and connect speed
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:45:18 -0500
Hello all.
I've just set up mgetty and ppp for AutoPPP, and all works well, except that
when I dial in, I can only connect at 33.6. The modems at both ends are 56k
USR Sportsters. I have the port speed set at 57600 in mgetty's config file,
and setserial is set to 56k as well.
Any ideas?
-John
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From: Miles Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minicom-Connect tone-How2ShutItOff?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 22:23:32 -0400
Thanks Jack, and that could be, but I only spent $US110 on the beastie, so it
has to live with its faults. After I posted the message I checked Minicom's
setup again and under "screen and desktop" there is an option to shut off the
alarm.
Now that pleasant little tune didn't sound like the alarm, but it was.
Problem resolved.
/miles
"Jack J. Woehr" wrote:
> Miles Thompson wrote:
> >
> > When I connect to my local library Minicom plays a little tune through
> > the PC's speaker. This is fine, except that it doesn't shut the speaker
> > off after the last note and the tone continues until I reboot the
> > system.
>
> Sound like the 8259 in your machine, or 8259 subsystem on the integrated
> chip set, is bogus or dying.
>
> --
> Jack J. Woehr # The Drug War is Race War
> PO Box 51, Golden, CO 80402 # The Drug War is Class War.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] # The Drug War is Civil War.
> http://www.well.com/~jax/rcfb # Arrest the War on Drugs.
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dial-up Setup frustration
Date: 3 Jan 1999 22:37:41 GMT
In article <76op1q$5ra$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been exposing myself to Linux for about 10 days now. Spent my entire
> winter break on it, and I am largely frustrated. I have ordered RedHat 5.2
> from Cheapbytes in planning to learn how a computer can operate w/o GUI.
>
> Alright, installation of RH is really simple and took me about 20 min. the
> first time. I'm not newbie to computing, so partitioning and device
> management are not a problem.
Kudos to you and the developers of the Red Hat distribution:-)
>
> BUT since I installed RH on my 2 'puters (PII and 486), I haven't been able
> to do anything with it exept for launching XWindow and fooling with its
> applications, of wich I got sick after a day. Alright I installed KDE hoping
> for a smoother operation, but wasn't too thrilled with it either.
>
> Anyways, the most important thing that I was looking for in Linux was
> networking. But for a week I have been trying to configure a PPP connection
> to my ISP, and all in vain. All the beloved FAQs, Howto's and Mini-Howto's
> have different information. "Running Linux" from O'Reilly wasn't of much
> help because it contains some old info. ALL THESE SOURCES OF INFO REFER TO
> DIFFERENT CONFIGURATION FILES!!! I am greatly confused by now and ready to
> give up.
There are many sources of information on the 'net besides the
HOWTO,s , including, of course, this newsgroup. Perhaps you should have
come here sooner. You _might_ have saved yourself a lot of time.
You could, for example , peruse the " connecting to the 'net " section
on my website. I provide links to other helpful sites.
Another example : Here is a URL for an outstanding website on
configuring a home LAN : http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux
There are others, of course.
( edit)
>
> That's it, I'm done venting steam. But after all it were you guys who made
> me try Linux in the first place, so I thought I would let you know about my
> dissatisfaction.
O.K. But we didn't really _make_ you try it, did we ? :-)
Regards,
--
Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xmission.com/~howardm
(a LINUX website for newbies)
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From: Ryan Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with 2.2.0-pre4?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:53:46 +0000
Ryan Stapleton wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have just ftp'd 2.2.0-pre4 wanted to see how much better it was
> seems ok all except for my network card, I have an Intel
> EtherExpress 16. It works great under 2.0.36, but
It seems to work, my net-tools appear to be out of date,
Thanks for understanding my stupidity, I just didnt want
something wacky to happen, since this is the test period.
Thanks again for all the help.
-Ryan
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From: "Mark Vandersteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! 2 NICs, 1 router - can ping external NIC from net, can't ping router
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:26:06 +1030
Neil Robinson wrote in message <76olvo$dv6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am running RH5.2 and have set up a firewall machine with all of the
>essential options enabled and then recompiled the kernel. I have an inside
>network on eth0 (192.168.2.0) and my external connection to the router is
on
>eth1 (193.123.234.146). The router is at 193.123.234.145. From the in-house
>192 network I can ping both of the ethernet cards on the firewall machine,
>but I can't ping the router. The current rules are (just to try and get it
>to work) accept as default on the -F -I and -O areas.
>
>Has anyone got any pointers they can throw at me before I completely tear
>out my hair <g> ?
The IP address 192.168.2.0 is a network address and cant be assigned to eth0
except with route. You need to use a number 192.168.0.x where x is a number
from 1 to 254 as 0 is the network number and 255 is the broadcast number
assuming you are using 255.255.255.0 as the netmask for your internal
network have a look at the Net-3 howto and ip-subnetworking mini-howto for
more info on this :)
Mark Vandersteen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Powered by Linux ! Obsessed with women !
The thoughts here are not necessariy mine !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2-pre4 route problem
Date: 3 Jan 1999 20:02:18 -0600
Ben Bergen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am unable to add or delete routes while running 2.2.0-pre4. I know
: that interface routes are automatically added as of 2.1.xx-2.2.xx,
: however I still need to do stuff manually sometimes. Any clue?
Well here's a clip from 2.1.131 Changes that might apply.
If for some reason you need to override this automatic default
routing, you have to specify the complete route specification (netmask,
device, etc.) for the kernel to accept it. Consequently, you need to
either remove interface routes from your init scripts or add missing
information to them if you need to replace the automatic routes.
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Microsoft is a great marketing organization.
* It _has_ to be */
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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:01:21 -0700
From: "Jack J. Woehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Minicom-Connect tone-How2ShutItOff?
Miles Thompson wrote:
>
> When I connect to my local library Minicom plays a little tune through
> the PC's speaker. This is fine, except that it doesn't shut the speaker
> off after the last note and the tone continues until I reboot the
> system.
Sound like the 8259 in your machine, or 8259 subsystem on the integrated
chip set, is bogus or dying.
--
Jack J. Woehr # The Drug War is Race War
PO Box 51, Golden, CO 80402 # The Drug War is Class War.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] # The Drug War is Civil War.
http://www.well.com/~jax/rcfb # Arrest the War on Drugs.
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From: "Stephen J. Lawrence Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Dial-up Setup frustration
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 03:27:31 GMT
I have had success making a PPP connection using Kppp (Which comes with KDE)
and also, as of recently, I have been using wvdial. If you know about
"./configure", and "make" then you could probably get wvdial up easily. Try
the KDE Kppp first. Also, is your kernel compiled for PPP support? It may
not be. Read the kernel how to and re-compile your kernel for PPP support.
Hope this helps.
Stephen J. Lawrence Jr.
Logical Arts Web Manufacturing Co.
http://logart.awwm.com/
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A.G. wrote in message <76op1q$5ra$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have been exposing myself to Linux for about 10 days now. Spent my entire
>winter break on it, and I am largely frustrated. I have ordered RedHat 5.2
>from Cheapbytes in planning to learn how a computer can operate w/o GUI.
>
>Alright, installation of RH is really simple and took me about 20 min. the
>first time. I'm not newbie to computing, so partitioning and device
>management are not a problem.
>
>BUT since I installed RH on my 2 'puters (PII and 486), I haven't been able
>to do anything with it exept for launching XWindow and fooling with its
>applications, of wich I got sick after a day. Alright I installed KDE
hoping
>for a smoother operation, but wasn't too thrilled with it either.
>
>Anyways, the most important thing that I was looking for in Linux was
>networking. But for a week I have been trying to configure a PPP connection
>to my ISP, and all in vain. All the beloved FAQs, Howto's and Mini-Howto's
>have different information. "Running Linux" from O'Reilly wasn't of much
>help because it contains some old info. ALL THESE SOURCES OF INFO REFER TO
>DIFFERENT CONFIGURATION FILES!!! I am greatly confused by now and ready to
>give up.
>
>Here you have it: MSWin's advantage of having ONE way to configure smth
>right, and not a million. True, I am new to Linux and ignorant in many of
>its aspects. But I was willing to compare it to Win, and so far - forget
it!
>My NT runs v. well on my 96Meg of RAM. I don't have to spend dozens of
hours
>trying to configure it. Now that I am going back to college I simply won't
>have the time for this. I haven't tried yet, but I am sure that it won't
>take me more than a couple of hours to get my little home LAN going under
>windows.
>
>What Linux will be able to deliver for me, is practicing in UNIX-like
shells
>at home, which is not bad after all - found *some* use for it.
>
>It seems to me that you guys prefer Linux over Windows because it is cool
to
>do so. I have all respect in the world for the people envolved in Linux
>development - maybe it will be an alternative I will seriously consider
some
>day. But with all MS's bugs and problems (and believe me I am not their fan
>at all, talking of Gates' business practices), it lets me do my work of C++
>and Java programming plus all the publishing features in the world (and
FAST
>printing -- Linux's drivers for my good old HP DJ500C made it print at a
>rate of 1 page in 4 minutes in graphical mode).
>
>That's it, I'm done venting steam. But after all it were you guys who made
>me try Linux in the first place, so I thought I would let you know about my
>dissatisfaction.
>
>Sincerely
>A.G.
>
>
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From: Mark Worsdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: incoming mail question
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 03:27:14 +0000
Before I totally migrate my Internet access to the linux box I need to
know the answer to this.
I have 30+ email names all at 1 ISP SMTP/POP3 servers such as linux
FreeBSD jaydee shadow
If linux is allowed to collect my mail where will it all end up?
I ideally wish all email names from worsdall.demon.co.uk to be left on
the linux box intact, apart from certain email names that match users on
the system such as simon NOT shadow or worsdall which I would want to
wait until my win98 box logs onto the linux box using my current package
Turnpike, which would then retrieve all the mail.
Linux would not alter who the mail is addressed to would it?
M.
--
Mark Worsdall - Oh no, I've run out of underpants :(
Home:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB site:- http://www.worsdall.demon.co.uk
Shadow:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB site:- http://www.shadow.org.uk
Work:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB site:- http://www.hinwick.demon.co.uk
TCP/IP gatewaying http://www.hinwick.demon.co.uk/computerDept/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maurie Daly)
Subject: Re: Wireless LAN??
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 03:37:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(John at WinSkil) writes:
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John at WinSkil)
>Subject: Re: Wireless LAN??
>Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 06:51:14 GMT
>On 7 Dec 1998 04:05:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron
>Craddock) wrote:
>>There are many faster alternatives to the Diamond Wireless lan cards.
>>Specifically aironet has an 11mbps card, Lucent has a 2Mbps card,
>>radioLan goes about 8mbps. The major differences between these cards
>>is that the lucent and aironet comply with the ieee 802.11 standard,
>>which specifies wireless ethernet. The predecessor to lucents 802.11
>>wavelan card does 2mbps as well and their are Linux drivers for it in
>>the pcmcia s/w bundle. All three of the above are capable of doing
>>"ad hoc networking" which means that they can talk directly to each
>>other and do not need any sort of proxy or wireless hub. btw Lucents
>>card can be seen at
>>http://www.wavelan.com.
>>
I have a complete Network of 12 machines running on Lucents older style
wavelan cards , using a mixture of 95 / NT and Linux .
You dont notice the speed differance between 10 Mbits/sec and the 2 Mbits/sec
with only 12 computers.
There are also a number of laptops with pcmcia Wavelan cards in there as well .
The whole thing hangs together quite nicely.
One of the Linux boxes is hardwired to the Net via PPP to the local ISP.
The beauty of the whole system is that no rewiring is needed to move computers
around the place .
cheers
Maurie Daly
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From: Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: problems with intel EtherExpress Pro 10 ISA
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 03:40:17 GMT
I can't get redhat to recognize my ethernet card. I have a Intel
EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA card which is listed as a Tier 2 supported card
on redhats page. I tried installing rh 5.1 from cd rom and the 5.2 ftp
disk images, both install programs won't detect my card on autoprobe or
when i specify settings. Although I don't know the exact format for the
settings. I've tried using both
io=0x230, irq=3
and
ether=3,0x230,eth0
and neither worked.
Any suggestions?
thanx,
-Mike
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