Linux-Networking Digest #577, Volume #10 Sun, 21 Mar 99 10:14:38 EST
Contents:
Re: newbie: to hub or not to hub? (Rudolf Potucek)
dual network connection to the internet ("Hayden Lau")
Re: 3C590B not recognized in 5.2 (Larry Benoit)
Re: In need of VT320 terminal emulation on Linux (Rafael Moreno)
Re: Problem with windows telnet ("Robert J. Hansen")
network (Olle Soderqvist)
Network design tool? (Luis Marqueta)
Re: ne.o & 3c509.o compiled ??? (Delson Hung)
Problems with network printing (John Darrington)
Re: Automatically starting dialup connection when starting Netscape? (Graham Murray)
Yet another firewall question (nobody)
Q: how to change queuing discipline on eth device on linux2.2.3 (Sim IJskes)
Re: Need help with dsl (3rd request) ("Ben Goble, Lakewood Colorado")
Re: token ring sniffer ("Gary")
Routing Problem with 3 NICs ("berndm")
WYSE terminal connection to linux box ("rastus")
Help: nslookup fails on IP address (WARGY)
Unable to logon at console after kernel 2.2.3-2 upgrade! ("John Q. Public")
Re: diald (Villy Kruse)
Re: Can't ping localhost(127.0.0.1) and own host name from Linuxbox ("Roger
Helgesen")
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (:P)
3c905B NIC driver compile problem--gcc guru help please! ("Bill Parker")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rudolf Potucek)
Subject: Re: newbie: to hub or not to hub?
Date: 21 Mar 1999 07:45:57 GMT
[snip]
: >pair, why not just opt for a coax network cable between the two machines?
[snip]
: A 2-3 computer network is certainly not complicated enough to warrant
: the extra price,unless you're constantly moving the computers around
: and don't want to disrupt the rest of the traffic.
Generally agreed. I would like to add though that even moving computers
around isn'tmuch of a problem ... unless you want to constantly CHANGE
the number of computers in one room. I've had no trouble at all taking a
machine off a T in a 5 machine coax network ... as long as the lines stay
terminated it seems to work fine.
Rudolf
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From: "Hayden Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual network connection to the internet
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 08:47:39 GMT
Good day,
I and my neighbour both have rogers wave cable connection to the internet.
We each have several computers and the two networks are connected via coxial
cable. We have been able to access each other's cable connection, and the
natural question arised...... is it possible to connection to the internet
with both these connections like you connection two serial modems together?
We have talked about it and we've reached the conclusion that we probably
have to write our own code and to get the packets from both connections and
then merge it before they are recieved. I am not too strong in network
theories and low level programming so it's best if there's stuff readily
available........any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Hayden
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From: Larry Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3C590B not recognized in 5.2
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:06:14 -0500
3Com does not include a 3C590B on its product list -- is this actually a 3C509B
(Etherlink III)? Redhat doesn't probe correctly for this card.
If this is a 3C509B try the following:
Run the Redhat kernel configurator from the Control Panel and set up eth0 using
the 3C509 driver. Depending on what you have in your box, set the IRQ=10 or
perhaps IRQ=5. Don't set the memory address. Also, you might want to reset the
card to ISA PNP, although I am not sure that matters. After configuring, verify
that eth0, the driver and the IRQ option is written to /etc/modules.conf
See ethernet howto for more details.
Reboot and watch the boot-up messages to see if the driver loads successfully.
You can review the boot messages in /var/log/messages
I use both Linux and SCO Unix. The latter does not have a DHCP client, so I had
to find an alternate method for my connection to Road Runner. I have used the
same method for Linux.. If your ISP provides long term IP address leases (I've
had the same address for three months), you can configure your Linux box for a
static address. In order to get the necessary IP address info, run Win98 and
connect to Road Runner. Get an MS-DOS prompt and run:
ipconfig /all | more
Write down the IP addresses assigned to your machine: static IP for your
machine, DNS, the netmask and gateway. Also, note your Win98 machine name and
your ISP's full domain name. Run Linux and use the Redhat Network configurator
from the Control Panel to set up eth0 using these addresses. Be sure the DNS
shows up in /etc/resolv.conf
Because the network address will likely be reassigned and thereby create an
address conflict, you should really use DHCP. There is a specific Road Runner
HOWTO at :http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/linux.html and some others are out
there too.
good luck.
Nfamous wrote:
> I am trying to get my ethernet card working with Roadrunner cable modem
> service. This is setup as far as I'm concerned since that's all I use Linux
> for. I disabled the PNP but DHCP still fails and the kernel doesn't see the
> card. I matched up the win98 settings. Don't know what else to try. I did
> get sound working so I deserve some credit. Ths iis way too hard and Linux
> has a long way to go but I know this can work. It's an ISA card and I set it
> up for ISA instead of PCI PNP. Any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafael Moreno)
Subject: Re: In need of VT320 terminal emulation on Linux
Date: 21 Mar 1999 11:22:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: I am building a system of Linux machines for a local school to run on donated
>: 486's and interface with a card catalog stored on a VAX system running VMS.
>: Basically I need to interface with the VAX across the network using telnet or
>: something similar, which in itself is easy, but I'm having difficulty getting
>: VT320 terminal emulation. Does anyone know of a VT320 terminal emulator for
>: Linux or a good method of emulating VT320? Setting TERM=vt320 does not work,
>: BTW.
>
>Are you sure that you need a VT320 emulator? Most software of this ilk is
>happy with a VT200 emulator, or even a VT100 emulator. The VT320 is a
>superset of the VT100/200, but most software on VMS is geared toward the 100
>or 200. Actually, most software on VMS is geared toward ANSI compilant
>terminals, which the 100/200/300 are.
>
>If you're using the X Window System, then "xterm" is probably sufficient for
>your needs. Just start up an xterm, and telnet from there. I believe that
>the Linux console is also sufficient.
>
Take a look at http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html
If what you need is to configure the cursor and delete keys you can
use expect trick that comes in this page. I am done this to access
AIX (VT320) from linux.
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From: "Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with windows telnet
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:02:36 -0600
> I'm having telnetting to my linux box with MS telnet (from 95). It's
> kinda bizzare in that it connects to the linux box but doesn't show any
Edit the 'Preferences' to 'Local echo ON'. Alt-T, p, e will toggle it.
Or better yet, avoid Windows Telnet altogether. It's an abhorrently bad
piece of crap. HyperTerminal Private Edition is available for free to
Win95 users and is considerably better. Then again, a boiled rutabaga
thrown violently in your face is considerably better than generic
Windows Telnet, too, so that may not be saying much.
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From: Olle Soderqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:18:40 +0100
HI!
I'm wonder if anyone could give the absoluotly easiest way to
confgiure/install a ISA PnP network card!
Regards, Olle
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From: Luis Marqueta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network design tool?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:05:46 +0100
Is there any network design tool for Linux, maybe like Visio?
Luis Marqueta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Madrid, Spain
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:05:24 +0800
From: Delson Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,hk.comp.pc
Subject: Re: ne.o & 3c509.o compiled ???
JeFF wrote:
> i use "mv -r 2.x.x-123 2.x.x" to do that
> and i want the kernel read 2.x.x
> but it ONLY read 2.x.x-123
>
> Delson Hung wrote:
>
> > JeFF wrote:
> >
> > > >insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.3/net/3c59x.o: kernel module version mismatch
> > > have u "make modules_install" ?
> > > All modules have to use with right version of kernel
> > >
> > > And anybody know how to move "/lib/modules/2.x.x-123" to "/lib/modules/2.x.x"
> > > what step should i do?
> >
> > what do u mean by "move"?? relocate or rename?
> > also, are they files or directory structure?
?? seems odd, when you do make modules, it should only create the kernel version
directory and stuff.
what other thing you can do is, ln -s /lib/modules/2.x.x-123 /lib/modules/2.x.x
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From: John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with network printing
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:50:27 +0800
Can someone help me.
I can't manage to get any remote print services going.
I have read the man pages and howto's dozens of times,
and as far as I can tell, I'm doing everything right.
I'm getting very frustrated now, and I don't want to
have to resort to the source code if I can help it.
Yes I have got the /etc/hosts.equiv right.
On the local machine ( the one without the printer ),
lpq says something like `waiting for printer to become
available'.
Here's what happens when I telnet to port 515,
it doesn't look right to me.
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
lpd: ps: Malformed from address
The /etc/printcap file looks like this:
lp|lp: \
:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/laser: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/laser/errs: \
:of=/usr/spool/lpd/laser/output_filter: \
:mx#0: \
:sh:
lj3|lj3: \
:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lj3_plain: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/lj3_plain/errs: \
:of=/usr/spool/lpd/lj3_plain/output_filter: \
:mx#0: \
:sh:
lp|lp: \
:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/laser: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/laser/errs: \
:of=/usr/spool/lpd/laser/output_filter: \
:mx#0: \
:sh:
lj3|lj3: \
:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lj3_plain: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/lj3_plain/errs: \
:of=/usr/spool/lpd/lj3_plain/output_filter: \
:mx#0: \
:sh:
ps|postscript: \
:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/pscript: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/pscript/errs: \
:of=/usr/spool/lpd/pscript/output_filter: \
:mx#0: \
:sh:
ps|postscript: \
:lp=/dev/lp1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/pscript: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/pscript/errs: \
:of=/usr/spool/lpd/pscript/output_filter: \
:mx#0: \
:sh:
What's going on here?
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From: Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: worldonline.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Automatically starting dialup connection when starting Netscape?
Date: 21 Mar 1999 10:12:03 +0000
In comp.os.linux.networking, MIBO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to startup the dialup connection automatically when
> Netscape is started?
Yes, you have to either use diald or pppd 2.3.5 or later. Diald gives
more control of which packets will bring up the link, which ones keep
it up and when it drops.
Suse 6.0 comes with both diald (though not the latest version) and
pppd 2.3.5.
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From: nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yet another firewall question
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:19:18 -0800
Alas, from the frequency of posts on this topic it seems this is a
very confusing issue. I'm trying to set up the old localnet->PPP->isp
firewall with RH 5.1 (upgraded kernel 2.0.36). I've followed the HOWTO
and a Linux Network Toolkit book, and everything seems right. Without
listing the full config, here's what I can do:
1) Ping the internet from the firewall
2) Ping the ethernet card from the firewall
3) Ping the Win95 box from the firewall
4) Ping the firewall's ethernet card from the Win95 box.
What I can't do:
1) Ping the internet from the Win95 box
2) Ping the the PPP interface from the Win95 box
The PPP interface IP address shows up in the routing table as the ISP
router number instead of the dynamically allocated IP address, which
seems confusing to me.
My question is this: does this functionality point to a standard
mistake (bad routing table?) when people set up firewalls? In the many
linuxconfig dialogs there seems to be many things to tweak, and I
suspect that it's something there that'll make it all happen.
Thanks in advance...
Jim
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From: Sim IJskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: how to change queuing discipline on eth device on linux2.2.3
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:31:05 +0100
Hi,
i'm setting up a javastation (nc), which boots via NFS. It requests 8192
byte size packets. These are send fragmented on my ethernet. I looked at
them with a sniffer, and the last fragment is send out first.
I'm using linux 2.2.3 and Universal NFS Server 2.2beta37.
Suppose i would like to change this queuing discipline, how do i do
this? patching (where to look?), ioctl?
Thanks,
Sim
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From: "Ben Goble, Lakewood Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with dsl (3rd request)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:41:52 -0700
Howard Mann wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Ben Goble, Lakewood Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> (edit)
> > My software:
> > Redhat 5.2 with kernel ungraded to ver 2.2.2
>
> > I am using version 0.70 of dhcpcd.
>
> You need to upgrade to dhcpcd-1.3.16-0.i386.rpm
>
> See :
>http://www2.portal.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade-5.html#ss5.1
>
> ( edit)
Thank you for taking the time to read through my long message and detecting the
probable
cause of my problem. I will upgrade my dhcpcd right away.
--
Ben Goble Lakewood, Colorado USA
bgoble at uswest dot net bgoble at nyx dot net bgoble at chisp dot net
A Stranger and a Pilgrim on the Earth
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From: "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: token ring sniffer
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 99 13:32:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes, but you may find a problem getting a token ring adapter for linux -
bear in mind that if you're sniffing networks, your adapter should run in
promiscuous mode, or you'll miss a lot of the traffic.
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From: "berndm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Routing Problem with 3 NICs
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 14:35:23 +0100
Hi together,
we have a machine with 3 NICs.
eth0 - IP 192.168.101.1
eth0:1 - IP 192.168.102.1
etho:2 - IP 192.168.103.1
eht1 - IP 195.a.b.5
eth2 - IP 195.a.b.6
eth2 is connected to our ISP. eth1 is a connectin to our mail and web server
(IP 195.a.b.7). eth0 is connected to a LAN with 3 Subnets. On the machine
with the 3 NICS which should work as firewall we can ping the mail server
and vice versa. Moreover we can ping a machine in the LAN from both firewall
and mailserver. Internet connection can be established from firewall.
Our problem: we aren't able to ping any machine in the internet from the LAN
and from mail server.
We think that we have no problem concerning route. That means we tried
nearly everything with the route command. And much more recommanded in the
HowTo's????
With a packet counter we ensured that equests for foreign IPs reached the
correct NIC, but were not transported to eth2.
Our kernel includes
IP forwarding
IP masquerading ...
Questions:
1.) How can we transport IP packest from one card (eth0, eth1) to another
(eth2)?
2.) how active is ipfwadm? This means that we don't know whether pfwadm
pushes packets?
thanks in advance
bernd
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From: "rastus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WYSE terminal connection to linux box
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:42:58 +1000
I salvaged a WYSE dumb terminal from our local dump today :)
I have a null cable (25pin and 9 pin connectors @ both ends), and have
connected the 25pin to the terminal, and the 9 pin to a comm port. (tty1) of
the linux box.
I tried following the how-to serial doc., but i still get no login
prompt on the terminal...
Am I being naive in connecting different connectors with the null cable (ie.
9 pin --> 25 pin) or should this work just fine ?
Regards,
Mike / Rastus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] send me no junk (mail) and I'll send you no e-mail
dictionaries :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WARGY)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Help: nslookup fails on IP address
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:46:45 GMT
When I run 'nslookup ns1.<domain name> 195.xxx.xxx.x, I get the
following error message.
*** Can't find server name for address 195.xxx.xxx.x: Server failed
*** Default servers are not available
nslookup brings back the correct info when I do 'nslookup ns1.<domain
name> but fails if looking up the IP address of that name.
It seems to be fine right now but occasionally I get the above error
message.
WARGY
p.s. yep, I'm a newbie. :-)
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From: "John Q. Public" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Unable to logon at console after kernel 2.2.3-2 upgrade!
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 09:16:12 -0500
I upgraded our RedHat Linux 5.2 system kernel 2.0.36-7 to 2.2.3-2. Things
appeared to go quite smoothly.
After a system restart Linux appeared to boot without problems. When the
logon prompt appeared, I attempted to logon (as root). Unfortunately, after
entering the username and pressing Enter the username disappears and I am
not prompted for a password - I'm back at the username prompt!
Other than that, the system appears to be running fine.Apache and Samba are
running fine, without incidence.
I would appreciate any help in this matter.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: diald
Date: 21 Mar 1999 15:27:36 +0100
>On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Marco Fonseca wrote:
>
>> Is this "script", if that's what it is, what enables on-demand dial to PPP?
>> If so, where can I find it under RH52 and how can I configure it to respond
>> to Netscape, StarOffice, etc.?
It is unsupported by redhat but available from contrib.redhat.com
Villy
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From: "Roger Helgesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't ping localhost(127.0.0.1) and own host name from Linuxbox
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:26:36 +0100
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>Roger Helgesen wrote in message <7cteiv$46v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I'v knew that, but not what to do with it !!
>
>
>>>You don't have a loopback device:
>>># ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
>>># route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo
>>>
>>># /etc/hosts:
>>>127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
>>>192.168.0.1 blabla
>>>
>>>s. NET-3-HOWTO-5.html
>>>
>
>
>I don't know which distribution you are using, but on mine (SuSE) the
>loopback device gets setup in /etc/rc.d/boot by:
>
># ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up
># route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
>
>It is after filesystem mounting & timezone and before setting hostname.
>
>And make sure you have a line in /etc/hosts:
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost
I made it !!
tnx.
Roger
>
>leo
>
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From: :P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:26:37 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
we use flower name here (using local flower name)
Toth Henrik wrote:
>
> > Character names (tom, jerry, moe, larry...)
>
> I used characters from the Simpsons, choosing the right one
> depending on the task of that PC.
> So Homer is not working 24hours, in spite of Flanders, who
> is my mailserver. The last one is Lisa, but I'm too supersticious
> to use Bart for the next.
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From: "Bill Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c905B NIC driver compile problem--gcc guru help please!
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 09:43:32 -0500
Hello:
I am trying to compile the Linux 3Com network adapter driver, 3c59x.c,
version 0.99H without success. The distribution is SuSE 5.2 with standard
kernel 2.0.33. The compiler is gcc version 2.7.2.1.
Driver 3c59x.c, version 0.49J, 2/7/98--the driver native to this
distribution-- compiles without difficulty. Version 0.99H, 11/17/98, of the
driver always fails to compile.
This is the compile command I am using. Verbose mode is on. Can anyone
interpret these messages and give me a clue where the problem may be?
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -v -o6 -c 3c59x.c
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/specs
gcc version 2.7.2.1
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/cpp -lang-c -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__G
NUC_MINOR__=7 -D__ELF__ -Dunix -Di386 -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__i386_
_ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__i386 -D__linux -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(posix) -Ac
pu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -D__i486__ -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ 3c59x.c
/tmp/cca00400.i
GNU CPP version 2.7.2.1 (i386 Linux/ELF)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
/usr/local/include
/usr/i486-linux/include
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/include
/usr/include
End of search list.
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/cc1
/tmp/cca00400.i -fno-strength-reduce -quiet -dumpbase 3c59x.c -version -o
/tmp/cca00400.s
GNU C version 2.7.2.1 (i386 Linux/ELF) compiled by GNU C version 2.7.2.1.
3c59x.c:94: parse error before `<'
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -v -o6 -c
3c59x.cgcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -v -o6 -c 3c59x.c: In function
`vortex_probe1':
3c59x.c:879: stray '\' in program
3c59x.c:879: parse error before `;'
3c59x.c:926: `mii_preamble_required' undeclared (first use this function)
3c59x.c:926: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
3c59x.c:926: for each function it appears in.)
3c59x.c: In function `mdio_read':
3c59x.c:2047: `mii_preamble_required' undeclared (first use this function)
3c59x.c: In function `mdio_write':
3c59x.c:2079: `mii_preamble_required' undeclared (first use this function)
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