Linux-Setup Digest #339, Volume #20 Thu, 4 Jan 01 01:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: kernel modules headache (J. Roe)
Re: 4 partitions for dualboot (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Recover deleted files (Jean-Michel Grimaldi)
Re: Linux finds only 64 of my 98 Mbytes of memory ... (Bit Twister)
weird network problem - help? (Chandrashekhar Shetty)
Re: weird network problem - help? (Bit Twister)
partionless installation? (newbie question) ("LadyHawke")
rplay and realplayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
rplay and realplayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start (Tom Voltaggio)
Help: Adatec ava-1505/1515 IRQ problems (David. E. Goble)
Travan Tape Drive, trouble writing files (John Orren Battle)
Netgear FA410TXC and Red Hat 7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: partionless installation? (newbie question) (mpulliam)
Re: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start ("Napat Kantanon")
Re: Help Video Problem (Linux User)
Re: public_html directory permissions (Mark Post)
site hosting (Timothy Washington)
Re: Kernel compiling errors (Linux User)
Re: Newbie Request for help on DNS - it's disablement(?) (Jason Courville)
Re: weird network problem - help? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel modules headache
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:05:46 GMT
> It's not as bad or uncommon as everyone is making it out to be.
> J. Roe needs to use kgcc when compiling.
okay, I'll do anything to get it to work. Where might I pick up kgcc?
But I have to say that I have learned my lesson on major version
changes.
--
Janine Roe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...the more i learn, the less i know about before
the less i know, the more i want to look around...
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 partitions for dualboot
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:39:58 +1100
HP Staber wrote:
> Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> > HP Staber wrote:
> >
> > > Question : will a split of F: into a Win and a Linux part create
> > > problems since the MBR is only able to handle 4 primary partitions ?
> > >
> > > HP Staber/Salzburg
> >
> > Hi winter dweller, from boiling summer!
>
> :)
> Winter here is in the form of ice rain. Snow only in the mountains.
>
> > Had the same problem, and after few re-installs, arrived at this
> > solution:
> > 1 cylinder partition (primary) /boot type 83 (on my disk it is 8Mb)
> #####READ AGAIN******
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > primary partition fat32 for windows (1.5G as programms are installed on
> > drive D:)
> > extended partition for Linux type 85 and in it /(root), swap /usr /home
> > /opt (all logical partitions)
> > extended partition for Windows drives D: and E:
> > Till now no complains from both OS's.
>
> I'm not sure I understood :
>
> 1st primary partition is type 83 and 8Gig size >>>>>>>>>>SEE
> ABOVE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> 2nd primary partition is fat 32 and 1.5Gig ||
> 3rd extended partition type 85 for linux ||
Those two are in the 8Gb(1023 cylinder) boundary so the / (root) partition of
Linux, beying the first logical partition, sits as ordered, and behaves. The
other logical partitions can spill over this limit.
>
> 4th extended partition fat32 for Win
>
> Shouldn't you have a problem with a Linux or Win boot instalation above
> cylinder 1024 = 8 Gig ?
>
> HP Staber/Salzburg
With Linux fdisk a partition was created starting AND ending on cylinder 1.
The size of disk gave this partition a volume of ~8Mb, on different disk it
will have another size.
The winter must be severe in Nothern hemisphere;^))
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
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From: Jean-Michel Grimaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recover deleted files
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:33:31 +0100
Jim Harkins wrote:
>
> > I've deleted files in / directory as root.
>
> Does anyone know where I saw this article, and which packages were
> recommended? Sounds like the kinda thing I want installed, just in
> case.
Maybe this is what you are looking for :
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-08/desktop_01.html
--
JM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Linux finds only 64 of my 98 Mbytes of memory ...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:38:11 GMT
Helps if you provide what distro and release level you are using
when you post questions to the news groups. Different distros
have different commands, files, and links to files.
On 04 Jan 2001 00:19:05 +0000, Philip Lijnzaad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>this is prolly a very silly question (See subject line) ... BIOS and Windows
>both 'see' 98 Mbyte. Did I stick the memory module in the wrong socket (PCI
>or ISA or whaterver?)
NO.
Read the last 4 lines of this post, I'll wait. . . . . . . . . . . . .
The examples here are for 128M. Change 128 to your memory value.
================= If using lilo ===========================
edit /etc/lilo.conf and add
append="mem=128M"
save changes, exit the editor, then
/sbin/lilo to install the change into the mbr.
Next boot should have the change
example:
timeout=50
append="mem=128M"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
or
append="mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi" if you already have an append cmd
================ if using grub ===========================
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add
mem=128M
Next boot should have the change
example:
title linux
kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 mem=128M
============== to replace lilo with grub ====================
cd /boot/grub
sh install.sh
============== Still having problems ===========================
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ramdetect.html
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: Chandrashekhar Shetty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: weird network problem - help?
Date: 4 Jan 2001 02:10:23 GMT
Just installed a couple of machines in our lan - hp netserver lpr
models with redhat 6.2. Let's say machines X and Y. Now ping on X/Y
gives no response. But I can telnet from X/Y given a fixed IP. DNS
and ping is not working on X/Y.
>From other machines I can ping/telnet to X/Y. Telnet takes a long time.
any idea what is happening? I spent hours trying to figure this one
out with no luck. Searched on websites and deja for this also.
thanks
Chandra
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: weird network problem - help?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:16:10 GMT
Is x/y in /etc/hosts
On 4 Jan 2001 02:10:23 GMT, Chandrashekhar Shetty
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just installed a couple of machines in our lan - hp netserver lpr
>models with redhat 6.2. Let's say machines X and Y. Now ping on X/Y
>gives no response. But I can telnet from X/Y given a fixed IP. DNS
>and ping is not working on X/Y.
>
>From other machines I can ping/telnet to X/Y. Telnet takes a long time.
>
>any idea what is happening? I spent hours trying to figure this one
>out with no luck. Searched on websites and deja for this also.
--
The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: "LadyHawke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: partionless installation? (newbie question)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:23:51 -0600
I finally got my copy of RH 7 box from UPS, and note that it is possible to
do a partionless installation of RH 7 from the documention. The
instructions say that this is a good choice for a newcomer to Linux, is this
in fact the truth? I just wanted to find out peoples experience with this
before deciding what to do, any thoughts are appreciated.
LadyHawke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: rplay and realplayer
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:34:42 GMT
Hello,
Apologies if this post appears twice. I'm posting from deja since a
posting from my ISP hasn't appeared on the list after 36 hours.
I recently installed rplay and rplayd on my server and can hear mp3's
and wav files on the client.
I'm wondering if anyone has set up realplayer to work with rplay?
Following the devrplay.so documentation, I call realplayer with
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/devrplay.so but the sound plays on the server
rather than on the client. Is there any way to include the --host=client
option when launching realplayer? Or is it possible to include the
realplayer information in the rplay.helpers file? I'm running rplay
version 3.3.2 and realplayer 7.0.
When playing wavs or mp3s I *always* have to pass the --host=client
option to rplay even if rplayd is running with --forward=client
enabled. I suspect that if I could launch rplay without having to pass
the --host option that realplayer might also play on the client.
Any pointers or suggestions? I've searched deja news, geocrawler, and
google but haven't come up with any solutions.
Thanks.
Jesse
jmcdonneATnbDOTnet (Please correct AT DOT if replying directly)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rplay and realplayer
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:37:43 GMT
Hello,
Apologies if this post appears twice. I'm posting from deja since a
posting from my ISP hasn't appeared on the list after 36 hours.
I recently installed rplay and rplayd on my server and can hear mp3's
and wav files on the client.
I'm wondering if anyone has set up realplayer to work with rplay?
Following the devrplay.so documentation, I call realplayer with
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/devrplay.so but the sound plays on the server
rather than on the client. Is there any way to include the --host=client
option when launching realplayer? Or is it possible to include the
realplayer information in the rplay.helpers file? I'm running rplay
version 3.3.2 and realplayer 7.0.
When playing wavs or mp3s I *always* have to pass the --host=client
option to rplay even if rplayd is running with --forward=client
enabled. I suspect that if I could launch rplay without having to pass
the --host option that realplayer might also play on the client.
Any pointers or suggestions? I've searched deja news, geocrawler, and
google but haven't come up with any solutions.
Thanks.
Jesse
jmcdonneATnbDOTnet (Please correct AT DOT if replying directly)
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From: Tom Voltaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:53:04 GMT
Please let me know if you find the solution. Redhat support
just punted saying the G450 is not supported.
I did see a post a month ago from Robert Nation who says he
got it to work. He referenced an article at the
Anandtech.com website. I tried doing what they did, but
can't get my x started. I keep getting strange errors when
startx tried to start. I'm stumped.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm getting the same problem with a Sony TFT CPD-L181A - it locks up
> the Xconfigurator although I did see Xwindows mode start at 800x600 8-
> bit color. the machine froze,but at least I saw blue. the forums at
> matrox have been talking about it, but not sure how to recompile 4.01
> even if that's necessary..
>
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Help: Adatec ava-1505/1515 IRQ problems
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 03:31:57 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi all;
I have just spent the just 24 hours building faster computer for my
linux/win95 system.
I have verything working, excetp this damn SCSI card.
The card itself has the following jumper on;
BEN, AS1, AS0, I09, DN: for I-O 140-015f IRQ 9
Win95 has then assumed IRQ 12 when I try adding new hardware.
When I rebbot win95 says there is a problem.
Under General:Device status;
to see hardware documentation (code 10).
Problem is IU have no documentation.
Under Resources: Conflicting devices list;
no conflicts.
Can anyone help, please :<
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From: John Orren Battle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Travan Tape Drive, trouble writing files
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 03:30:41 GMT
I am running Red Hat Kernel 2.2.12-20 and have installed an HP 4-8Gig
Travan IDE Tape Drive for backup purposes. I have a Windows-95 boot on
the machine as well, and I am able to use the drive perfectly using the
Windows App supplied by the manufacturer. Under Linux, I set the
environment variable TAPE=/dev/nht0 and also made a link from
/dev/tape->/dev/nht0 and then tried to use mt to rewind and retension
the tape successfully. I was even able to write single files and small
directories to it using the command tar -cvf /dev/tape * or by copying
the file to /dev/tape. However, when I attempt larger directories, it
writes a few files and then gives me the message: tar: Cannot write
to /dev/tape followed by tar: Error is not recoverable, exiting now.
The files it writes are on the tape and can be copied back to the hard
disk, but it seems to be overrunning a buffer or something and
choaking. Any help will be greatly appreciated. If anyone can suggest
any appropriate experiments to get further information I will happily
try them. Thanks in advance.
John Battle (N4OE)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netgear FA410TXC and Red Hat 7
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 03:27:54 GMT
I installed Red Hat Linux 7 on a Dell Latitude CPx successfully, but my
Netgear FA410TXC PCMCIA card wasn't detected. I upgraded to pcmcia-cs
3.1.23, but that didn't seem to fix the problem.
When I insert the card into the slot I hear a high beep and a low beep,
which should indicate that the card is identified, but the configuration
fails. Running ifconfig eth0 brings back good results and KDE's PCMCIA
utility shows "NetGear FA410TXC Fast Ethernet" under Card 0, but
unfortuately I can't use it for some reason.
Brett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: partionless installation? (newbie question)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 03:52:26 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:23:51 -0600, LadyHawke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I finally got my copy of RH 7 box from
UPS, and note that it is possible to
>do a partionless installation of
RH 7 from the documention. The
>instructions say that this is a good
choice for a newcomer to Linux, is this
>in fact the truth?
I have had no problems with a partitionless
install. Actually, you will end up with at
least two Linux partitions (one swap) in this method.
Red Hat will figure them out for you.
Purists say you should have more partitions so you
can update one part of your Linux without
destroying other parts (like, you could go from RH 7
to 7.4 sometime in the future without wiping
out your email records).
I don't care, I install new Linuxes all the
time and just wipe everything out with no
regrets. How do you feel about it?
You will need separate partitions for Linux
and for Windows if you keep them on the same
hard drive.
Mary P.
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From: "Napat Kantanon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:07:43 +1300
Unfortunately, Xfree86 4.02 hasn't support G450 yet (only G400). You better wait for
the new version.
Nat
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tom Voltaggio"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please let me know if you find the solution. Redhat support just punted
> saying the G450 is not supported. I did see a post a month ago from
> Robert Nation who says he got it to work. He referenced an article at
> the Anandtech.com website. I tried doing what they did, but can't get my
> x started. I keep getting strange errors when startx tried to start.
> I'm stumped.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting the same problem with a Sony TFT CPD-L181A - it locks up
>> the Xconfigurator although I did see Xwindows mode start at 800x600 8-
>> bit color. the machine froze,but at least I saw blue. the forums at
>> matrox have been talking about it, but not sure how to recompile 4.01
>> even if that's necessary..
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Video Problem
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:51:32 -0800
Hello,
According to the hardware compatibility list for RH 7 the Rage Fury Maxx is
not supported. The latest readme for XFree 4.02 also doesn't list a driver
for this card either. The only listed Rage Fury card was the AGP 32mb.
Unfortunately it looks like your card isn't supported.
Regards,
Jim H
Jeanice Albertoe wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Anybody know how to configure a Rage Fury Maxx 64mb video card using
> redhat 7.0
> Thanx.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: public_html directory permissions
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 04:56:55 GMT
On 3 Jan 2001 15:49:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn) wrote:
-snip-
>If you increase the
>permission level of the public_html to 0705 the visitors will able to
>get a directory listing when there is no index.html
This is a setting that can be controlled by the httpd.conf file. It can be
set so that no directory listings will be obtained even if there is no
'default' html file in the directory.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Timothy Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: site hosting
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:07:33 GMT
hello, I want to know if there is a newsgroups or resource I can go
to to get information on how to register and host a site. In my
case I have a machine that runs almost 24/7, but is at the mercy of a
dhcp server. So I would want a provider to forward all requests for my
site
to my ip address. I'm fairly new at this so the more detailed the
resources, the better.
I've already tried to register a name, but found that I needed a 1st
and 2nd nameserver and was not too sure why this was. Thanks in
advance for any help.
Timothy Washington
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel compiling errors
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:21:02 -0800
Hello,
When compiling kernels on RH 7 you must use kgcc not gcc. Edit the top
level Makefile and replace this line:
HOSTCC = gcc
with this line:
HOSTCC = kgcc
Or from the command line use
make CC='kgcc'
Regards,
Jim H
Jason Courville wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm fairly new too Linux and need some help with the following:
>
> I'm trying to compile 2.2.16-22 and am getting the following error:
>
> make -C arch/i386/lib
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> make all_targets
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__ASSEMBLY__ -traditional
> -c checksum.S -o checksum.o
> checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> checksum.S:237: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
>
> I've been running 2.2.16-22 for sometime now with no issues but would
> like to slim it down a bit.
> It seems to compile fine until this point. My Configuration is:
>
> Red Hat 7.0 running 2.2.16-22
> AMD ATHLON 750MHz w/ 128M
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Cruyff777 (newbie)
>
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From: Jason Courville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Newbie Request for help on DNS - it's disablement(?)
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:41:13 -0600
Harry Broom wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Brief History: Having used commercial systems since the early 1970's
> and like most people being sucked into the MS-Windows hype, I thought
> I'd give Linux a try. Bought a cheap package with Linux Mandrake 6.5
> plus some other bits - worked after a fashion. Then bought a book to
> learn about the Mandrake distribution and this had v7.0 - the
> difference was startling! Everything now seems to work - except for
> Internet access (I regret to say that this post is under Win98 but at
> least using an effective mail and news reader in the form of Forte's
> Agent - full version and paid for!- & not MS Outlook.)
>
> I can connect with my ISP and logged on using Kppp. When I fire up
> Netscape it just can't find anything. I think this is because DNS by
> default is running whereas under Win98 all that happens is TCP/IP &
> DHCP run - no mention of DNS, because of course all UK ISP's are
> geared to MS and they don't support connection under DNS just DHCP.
>
> Can anyone point me to an article/manual that a Win98/NT semi techie
> will understand?
>
> Thanks
>
> Harry Broom
> Hampshire,UK
> www.broomhc.freeserve.co.uk
Place an entry in the resolv.conf file. This file is found in /etc. The
format should be as follows:
domain domainname
nameserver #.#.#.#
nameserver #.#.#.#
A good book to get is DNS & BIND. Let me know how it goes.
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: weird network problem - help?
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:45:14 GMT
In article <930m2f$1ab$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chandrashekhar Shetty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just installed a couple of machines in our lan - hp netserver lpr
> models with redhat 6.2. Let's say machines X and Y. Now ping on X/Y
> gives no response. But I can telnet from X/Y given a fixed IP. DNS
> and ping is not working on X/Y.
>
> From other machines I can ping/telnet to X/Y. Telnet takes a long
> time.
>
> any idea what is happening? I spent hours trying to figure this one
> out with no luck. Searched on websites and deja for this also.
...
Look at the output of "ifconfig -a". Are there numerous RX and TX packet
errors? If so, you may have some interface configuration or equipment
problems, such as attempted full-duplex on a half-duplex-only network
segment, 100Mbps traffic on non-CAT5 cabling and the like.
- tony
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