Linux-Networking Digest #196, Volume #12 Thu, 12 Aug 99 00:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kill -9 won't kill a process (Joe Zeff)
Re: Samba password (Dustin)
Re: Displaying X on an IP Masq'd machine (Eric deRiel)
Remote Login: Authetication failure ("mikes")
Re: smbmount (QuestionExchange)
Re: symbolic link not work in ftpd ("D.Krivitsky")
Re: linux - cable modems ("Odysseus")
Re: Remote Login: Authetication failure ("Gregory D. Horne")
Re: Can I see who is connecting?? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: PPP troubles (Chris Mahmood)
linux/ms network nameserver issue (flobro)
Re: 10baseT or 100baseT hub? (QuestionExchange)
Re: 10baseT or 100baseT hub? (Todd Knarr)
rc script problem (Patrick)
Cloning (tod)
Re: DNS question... ("D.Krivitsky")
TCP/IP Applications mysteriously stop working ("Matt")
Re: Secure FTP (Urbans)
Re: 10baseT or 100baseT hub? (Jeff Brubaker)
Random reverse ("David Vall�e")
Re: Samba Client Woes (Joshua)
Samba Printing Problem (Stephen S. Childress)
Re: Samba, Network Browsing (Terence)
SuSE 6.0 PPP-server: require setup assistance
Re: Load Balancing between 2 routers (Walter)
X protocol (Patrick)
squid problems - help ("jdm")
NIC IRQ Problem (Richard Petty)
3c900B card support? ("Derek R. Dreyer")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Zeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kill -9 won't kill a process
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:19:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Again, my solution is to kill the X server itself. This has the result in
>forcing a kill of all processes within the X server. Unfortunately it also
>leaves un-closed files that will need to be cleaned up on the next restart.
I had a weird experience the other day were that wasn't true. I
copied a file to a floppy from an xterm, but couldn't umount the drive
as it was busy. After exiting X, I ran ps and found two xterms still
running. kill -9ing them cleared things up.
--
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns
Computers work in strange and wonderful ways,
Their marvels to avoid performing.
http://www.lasfs.org http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin)
Crossposted-To: athome.users-unix
Subject: Re: Samba password
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:23:51 GMT
In article <xEms3.1151$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yousuf Khan wrote
>
>What is the format of the smbpasswd file? I'm trying to create one, and I
>don't see any documentation about it.
>
Try man smbpasswd. You may also want to check out the docs related to passwords
and encryption. It is not always necessary to have a smbpasswd file.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Displaying X on an IP Masq'd machine
From: Eric deRiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:11:35 GMT
"Sunil P. Khatri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have successfully installed IP Masquerading on my home linux box.
> The configuration is as shown below:
> _______ _______
> 192.168.0.3-------| | | |
> | | | Local |
> 192.168.0.2-------| HUB |------------------| GW |---------
> local machines | | 192.168.0.1 | | w.x.y.z
> 192.168.0.4-------|_______| |_______|
I have a similar configuration, but would like to be able to direct
traffic to any one of the internal machines, selected at client run
time. Currently my GW runs an ipmasqadm rule similar to:
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp -d 6000 7000 -h 192.168.0.4
Adding another, similar rule (-d 16000 17000 -h 192.168.0.3) is easy
enough, but is it possible to make an X client run using a
non-standard server control port?
Or is there some other, better way of doing such a thing?
Any suggestions, or even hints as to where an answer might be found,
are greatly appreciated.
eric
--
"We come and go alone, why do they need to know?"
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From: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote Login: Authetication failure
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:42:11 -0500
Reply-To: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can somebody point me to the *fine* manual that will tell me why I get an
authentication failure when I try to log in as root from my terminal (I
tried both Windows Hyper terminal and Tera Term Pro w/ secure package) on my
Windoze machine to my Samba server? I get the login prompt, put in "root",
get the password prompt, enter my password, and get "Login failed on the
Windoze term. tail -f /var/log/messages says that login for root shows an
authentication failure. Why is this?
Thanks in advance..
-Mike
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbmount
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:49:30 GMT
> 2.0.4) as follows:
> smbmount /maggot/e /mnt/maggot
> This produces an error about the netbios name being too long,
> suggesting
> I use the -c option. So, I try:
> smbmount /maggot/e /mnt/maggot -c NEWNAME
> and this generates an error: invalid argument.
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
> BTW, I can access the share without problem using smbclient.
> Thanks,
> --
> Gerald Pollack
> Dept. of Biology, McGill University
smbmount "\\server\tmp" -c '/mtn -u 123 -g 456'
this will mount the shared directory "\tmp" from the network
accesible machine "server" on your machine at /mnt/ with the
user permissions of the user with id 123 and the group
permissions of the group with id 456 . these permissions are
always the permissions as they appear on the machine "\\server"
if the directory is accesable by anyone on the network w/o
needing to supply a password, then I would suggest not
including the "-u" or "-g" options.
hope this helps.
-peter
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From: "D.Krivitsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: symbolic link not work in ftpd
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:56:01 -0400
For anonymous FTP users, chroot command is executed and they CANNOT see any
directories/files outside /home/ftp. If they try to access /mnt/cdrom,
actually, they try to see /home/ftp/mnt/cdrom.
>I'm running RH 6.0 and I want to make a vfat partition available for
>ftpd. So I make a symbolic link /mnt/dos to /home/ftp/pub/dos. It
>doesn't work while cd to that directory. I also try making a symbolic
>link /mnt/cdrom to /home/ftp/pub/cdrom and it fails too. It seems I
>cannot use other filesystem for ftpd. Am I missing anything?
>
>Regards,
>Mars
>
>
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From: "Odysseus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux - cable modems
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:11:13 +1200
Reply-To: "Odysseus" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM>COM>
You could always set up the linux box as a masquerader. That way, if you set
it up right, connections can only be intitiated one way. From inside out.
Odysseus
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ubos3.989$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I currently have cox@home cable modem service on my windows 98
computer.
> I've installed RH 5.2 on a separate partition so my computer dual boots.
> Now I plan to hook up my cable modem service to my Linux OS. What do I
need
> to protect my computer from the internet? And where should I go to find
> documentation on how to go about it? Why don't I need "protection" when
> using windows is also something I'm curious about.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
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From: "Gregory D. Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote Login: Authetication failure
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:20:09 -0400
mikes wrote:
> Can somebody point me to the *fine* manual that will tell me why I get an
> authentication failure when I try to log in as root from my terminal (I
> tried both Windows Hyper terminal and Tera Term Pro w/ secure package) on my
> Windoze machine to my Samba server? I get the login prompt, put in "root",
> get the password prompt, enter my password, and get "Login failed on the
> Windoze term. tail -f /var/log/messages says that login for root shows an
> authentication failure. Why is this?
>
> Thanks in advance..
> -Mike
Check the authentication type on the machine running Windows to ensure it is
compatible with the authentication on the machine running Linux. Clear-Text is
typically the authentication supported by Linux.
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I see who is connecting??
Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:17:33 -0700
"Paskal van Lomm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
netstat (8)
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP troubles
Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:13:53 -0700
mcj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[pppd not receiving ip address]
> What misconfiguration could possibly cause that error? I
> am at a loss.
Post your options and chat files. You may have left out 'noipdefault'.
-ckm
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From: flobro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux/ms network nameserver issue
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:31:31 -0400
I have a RH 6.0 box on a windows network which uses DHCP to get its IP
address. The problem is that normal commands like telnet, ftp, and ping
cannot get name resolution while nslookup can resolve names to IP
addresses. What am I missing here? I would love to use Linux with names
instead of having to resolve addresses on another box or using nslookup.
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 10baseT or 100baseT hub?
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:49:52 GMT
> should I buy 10baset or 100baset hub. I have three computers
> that I want to use for network. What I heard is that 100baset
> hub is
> unnessary for small network. Is it true?
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
--miked348
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 10baseT or 100baseT hub?
Date: 12 Aug 1999 01:39:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> should I buy 10baset or 100baset hub. I have three computers
> that I want to use for network. What I heard is that 100baset hub is
> unnessary for small network. Is it true?
Well, 10baseT is roughly a megabyte a second theoretical throughput,
and somewhere in the 600-800K/sec as a practical maximum. That's usually
more than enough for casual or home use, especially considering that
your connection to the outside world will probably be 26-27K/sec max
( for 256k DSL, ISDN and modems are slower, cable modems vary widely ).
If you'll only have one person using the network at a time for anything
heavy ( Web browsing, games, etc. ), 10baseT should be more than enough.
One caveat: some 100baseT network cards do _only_ 100 megabit speeds.
If you need to mix such a card with 10baseT systems, you'll need an
expensive per-port 10/100baseT hub ( eg. the Netgear DS104 or DS108 ).
These are usually labelled as 100baseT only, and omit any mention of
10baseT on the package. Any network card labelled as 10/100 or that
mentions 10baseT on the package should work fine with a 10baseT hub.
--
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jets.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick)
Subject: rc script problem
Date: 12 Aug 1999 02:12:37 GMT
in rc scripts in my redhat
i always find the word "daemon"
for example, in S80sendmail:
daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail
what is "daemon"?
I type "daemon sendmail" in command prompt but
it said command not found, why?
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From: tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cloning
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:34:15 -0400
Hi Linux users:
Please...I would be grateful for an answer to my question about cloning
an ext2 drive. After posting this question twice, I have been told;
"You don't need Ghost or DriveClone" and "Why would you want to do it
that way?"
Is it possible to use the above mentioned utilities to clone an ext2
file system using two IDE hard drives?
Thanks,
Tod
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From: "D.Krivitsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS question...
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:51:53 -0400
>I am hoping someone here can help me. I have a host name that is part
>of my registered domain that was originally mapped to an IP address, say
>1.2.3.4. I changed providers and it should now be pointing to 5.6.7.8.
>When I do nslookup on the hostname, however, it still returns 1.2.3.4
>
>The DNS entries for db.mydomain.com and the ptr record in the
>in-addr.arpa file are both correct. What could be the problem?
Have you changed the zone serial numbers when updating the A and PTR
records?
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From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TCP/IP Applications mysteriously stop working
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:14:30 +0930
I use a Linux box with RH 5.2 installed on it as a masquerading gateway for
a Linux and a Windows box. The gateway generally works fine, except often
after a few days of uptime, TCP/IP applications suddenly stop working. The
other boxen can still perform as usual across the gateway, but any
networking applications local to the gateway just timeout. For example, the
gateway runs fetchmail, and I will usually be clued in that it has failed
when mail stops coming. Performing a netstat on the box shows results like
this:
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 1 dialup-adax18465.m:2228 local1.mpx.com.au:pop SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 dialup-adax18465.m:2227 local2.mpx.com.au:pop SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 dialup-adax18465.m:2226 wcarchive.cdrom.com:ftp SYN_SENT
The only solution to this problem that I have found is to reboot, but then
it happens again after a few more days. Is this a known problem? Are there
any possible solutions I can try?
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Urbans)
Subject: Re: Secure FTP
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:50:45 -0700
In article <7n988v$hk4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is anyone aware of a Secure FTP server for Linux?
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
I remember there being something on the ssh site (www.ssh.org I think)
about something called sftp. I don't know if there is an sftpd or not.
Nick Urban
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From: Jeff Brubaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 10baseT or 100baseT hub?
Date: 12 Aug 1999 02:04:20 GMT
Bandwidth? Unnecessary? Never.. :)
Seriously though, Linksys sells a 5 port 100Mbps switch with two 10/100
PCI ethernet cards for $115 (http://www.buycomp.com/) and that will run
machines at different speeds at the same time. Nice.
Jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi
: should I buy 10baset or 100baset hub. I have three computers
: that I want to use for network. What I heard is that 100baset hub is
: unnessary for small network. Is it true?
: Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
: Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "David Vall�e" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random reverse
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:09:59 -0400
Hi, I'm trying to find how to find how to set a random reverse on an IP.
Like if I take 255.255.255.255 and I want it reverse to be bla.bla.com and
sometime, I want it to be bleh.bla.com without changing the ptr myself. If
you know how, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(David Vall�e)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(http://www.mystra.com/)
-EOF
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From: Joshua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Client Woes
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 02:30:54 GMT
Jonathon Spaeth wrote:
> root wrote:
>
<-----snip --->
I use LinNeighborhood. Its a gui frontend to smbmount and smbclient. It
will allow you to add and remove mount and view available shares.
If you go to www.freshmeat.net and search for LinNeighborhood you should
find it.
You just need to use browz as user and put in your username and password.
If not it uses the current user you are loged in as.
Joshua Curtis
http://www.curtisonline.net
Lancaster Co. Linux Users Group
http::/lclug.hypermart.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen S. Childress)
Subject: Samba Printing Problem
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:11:35 GMT
I have a Windows 98 computer connected via ethernet to a Linux
computer (Slakware distribution, kernel version 2.2.3) running Samba
2.0.3. My printer is connected to the Linux box. Printing from
Windows works fine except that a page with a couple of lines of
garbage prints before each print job, and a blank page spits out after
the print job. The relevant entry in /etc/printcap is:
# Samba printer:
smb:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/usr/spool/lp0
The entry for printers in smb.conf is:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/lp0
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
Is there some sort of identification string which gets sent to the
printer before the actual file to be printed? If so, how do I turn it
off? Any help would be appreciated, including suggestions of other
newsgroups which might be helpful. Please fogive me if this is a FAQ.
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From: Terence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba, Network Browsing
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:03:32 +0800
I also meet the same problem. please reply me when you known the answer
Sachin Doshisa wrote:
> > SEND ONLY ANSWERS ENDORIGINAL Body IS:Question #1: Set
> > yourself up as browse master if no one is. Use an OS level of
> > 65 to beat out any other clients or servers. Keep in mind that
> > being browse master means that everyone on the network (or at
> > least your subnet) will request browse lists from you. This
> > could be a performance hit, or may not be noticable. WINS
> > support doesn't really affect browsing, and all clients will
> > need to be setup to take advantage of it. Enter the following
> > in your smb.conf file. [global] browse list = Yes
> > browseable = Yes domain master = Yes os level = 65 lm
> > announce = True preferred master = Yes Question #2: Simply
> > use the smbclient command to your local server (the one running
> > Samba) and use the -L option to list shares. It will list
> > shares and any PC/servers in it's browse list. "smbclient -N -
> > L [hostname]"
>
> I've changed the smb.conf files as above. However, when I want to use
> smbclient to browse it asks for a password.
>
> eg. smbclient -N -L doshi (where doshi is my computer and also the server)
>
> but no username/password combination works. Is there a way to just allow everybody
> access to the browse list?
>
> At the moment I'm getting from the above command.
>
> session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
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Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.0 PPP-server: require setup assistance
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:20:47 GMT
Can anyone help me find all the documentation necessary to configure SuSE
6.0 as a dial-up ppp-server.
We have an i386 (P-II-333) with two Digi-boards installed (total of 16
ports) with 16 dial-up phone-lines available. Each port has the mgetty
configured already. We are using the passwd with shadow file for user
authentication. The kernel has the ppp module installed. The 16 ports are
working and are recognized.
We are having a problem between PAP and the pppd. Right now a user can
dial-up, get authenticated but then as the pppd starts up, it kicks the user
off-line (disconnects them).
How do we set up the user's shell to use the pppd?
Is there anything specific that the chat file requires?
Lots more questions, but a step by step checklist and/or guide would be
helpful.
Any help would be appreciated!
N. Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Load Balancing between 2 routers
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:06:07 +0800
Hi,
Not if these 2 routers are cable-modem-routers... both connected to the
same isp... merely doubling the bandwidth....
> John Hardin wrote:
>
> If you have two routes to the Internet you should probably be running a
> routing daemon. It will communicate with the routers and automatically
> update the routing table with the best routes.
>
Walter Klomp,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick)
Subject: X protocol
Date: 12 Aug 1999 02:29:34 GMT
http uses 80, telnet use 23
I would like to know which port does X protocol use?
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From: "jdm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: squid problems - help
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:04:35 -0500
I have SuSE 6.1 on a Pentium overdrive with 32 meg/ram. I get
"Failed" messages from the proxy squid occasionally when booting. I
can always clear it up by re-booting, but sometimes it takes 2 or 3
times. It's an aggravation I don't need.
I've tried finding documentation on squid, but haven't had much luck.
I'm not even sure I need it, because I'm not using a proxy, but if it
doesn't start successfully then Netscape won't work.
I would very much appreciate any info I could get on how to go about
troubleshooting this problem, where I could find documentation on
squid, etc.
Thanks,
John M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Petty)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: NIC IRQ Problem
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:19:52 GMT
Coming from the Mac world, I know NOTHING about IRQs. However, I'm still
working on my Frankenstein Intel box and I wish to install two network
interface cards.
They are not showing up anywhere in Red Hat 6. I suspect IRQ conflicts.
What type of tools exist in Linux to diagnose and soft this problem?
--Richard
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From: "Derek R. Dreyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: 3c900B card support?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:41:24 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does the 3c900B ethernet card work with Linux? I've been told that any
major 3Com card should be ok with linux, and this was one of two options
given by Dell (the other was the 3c905C I think). I just ordered one
with my new PC, but I also noticed it's not listed on any of the
Linux-compatible lists of ethernet cards. I see that the 3c900 card is
listed as supported, but it says on the NASA info site that the driver
doesn't function well with this card. Is this true? There must be
someone out there who has used this card with Linux and can hopefully
give me some advice. I'm worried whether it would be advisable to
exchange my new card for a different one that I know will work before I
install linux. If anyone's gotten the 3c900B to work, I'd like to know.
Thanks,
Derek R. Dreyer
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