Linux-Setup Digest #193, Volume #21 Wed, 9 May 01 10:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: "dhcpd-isc" (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: 2.2.18 -> 2.2.19 panic (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: ATI Rage 128+ AGP Installation (Marc D. Williams)
Re: compiling kernel .... (Steve Martin)
Sendmail ? ("Taihung")
Help I have a winmodem ("Deanne Maree Fowke")
Shutdown for non root users ("Harald Schneider")
Re: Compiling 2.4.4 kernel
Re: Linux under this PC? ("George G. Triana")
Recompiled kernel nearly twice as fast, but no sound! ("Joel")
Re: Shutdown for non root users ("Wayne Osborn")
SOLVED: Shutdown for non root users ("Harald Schneider")
Re: Moved HD, Now can't boot (bill g)
Re: Moved HD, Now can't boot (bill g)
PB Boot linux ("Thierry")
Re: Mandrake 8 freezes during install (NEWBIE) (Matthias)
Re: PB Boot linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.1 and filesystem > 1 Tbyte ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Recompiled kernel nearly twice as fast, but no sound! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "dhcpd-isc"
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:55:21 +0200
On 9 May 2001, it was written:
> I want to set up a DHCP server with the program "dhcpd-isc" so as to
> configure my LAN machines (including Linux, WIN98 and WIN NT)
> automatically. Now, I can successfully start it but my NT machine
> connected to it cannot receive an IP address. By checking the log
> message, I get the following information:
>
> dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0pl3
2.0 is pretty old. 3.0rc4 is out and pretty stable.
> dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
> dhcpd: All rights reserved.
> dhcpd:
> dhcpd: Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
> dhcpd:
> dhcpd: Listening on Socket/eth0/192.168.2.0
> dhcpd: Sending on Socket/eth0/192.168.2.0
> dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 216.110.115.142 from 00:80:5f:f9:e8:c3 via eth0
> dhcpd: DHCPNAK on 216.110.115.142 to 00:80:5f:f9:e8:c3 via eth0
> dhcpd: send_packet_sock: Invalid argument
> dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:80:5f:f9:e8:c3 via eth0
> dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.2.150 to 00:80:5f:f9:e8:c3 via eth0
> dhcpd: send_packet_sock: Invalid argument
Make sure you have socket filtering (i think) compiled in. Perhaps you
need packet socket too...
Could you be running on a 2.0 kernel? If so you must add the
255.255.255.255 static route as described in the dhcp documents (INSTALL
I think).
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.18 -> 2.2.19 panic
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:58:19 +0200
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Dirk Emmermacher wrote:
> > Did you include IDE support?
>
>
> IDE/ATA disk support?
>
> Yes.
/* SNIP - alot of other sounds-like-correct config */
That's strange. What is your root device? Is it hda1 or what. Try
booting the kernel (I assume lilo) with 'linux root=/dev/hd??' (without
quotes of course and your root device in place). Also check your
lilo.conf to check, that the root device is set to the same as the
2.2.17 kernel.
Rasmus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128+ AGP Installation
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 11:23:33 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 5 May 2001 03:21:44 -0500, Andrew Chalk wrote:
> I am having a devil of a job getting X to work on TurboLinux v6.0.2 with an
> ATI card. I have installed XFree86 v4.0.2.
>
Another place to check is http://dri.sourceforge.net/
The Rage 128 seems to work fine.
Do you have the correct driver listed in XF86Config?
Something like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Rage128"
Driver "r128"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Rage 128 RF"
VideoRam 32768
The resources page of the DRI site has a sample XF86Config file
you can look at.
Marc
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: compiling kernel ....
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:40:12 -0400
Pun Kuan Tou wrote:
>
> when I recompile my custom kernel,
> it have many warnig...
> like the following...
> /tmp/ccp3pr09.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccp3pr09.s:109: Warning: using `%eax' instead of `%ax' due to `l' suffix
> /tmp/ccp3pr09.s:110: Warning: using `%eax' instead of `%ax' due to `l' suffix
> but I success to compile...
> is that any problem??
Which distribution of Linux are you using, and what version compiler?
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From: "Taihung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail ?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 19:49:03 +0800
I want to try hotmail's mail title.
like this ex:
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Let it auto into the mail
It about 'sendmail.cf'?? or what ??
Let me know!!
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From: "Deanne Maree Fowke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help I have a winmodem
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:13:59 +1000
Hi all,
I have a winmodem, from windoze control panel (Conexant HCF V90 56K Data Fax
PCI) So I can't get it set up with red hat 7.0
I looked up http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html which is where I
worked out that the modem is the problem but it didn't go into enough detail
about how to fix the problem. Can someone point me to an easy how-to so I
can work out what I am doing wrong.
thanks for any help
Mal
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From: "Harald Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Shutdown for non root users
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:12:13 +0200
HI,
how can I allow shutdown for non root users via remote (telnet) access?
I know, this is VERY insecure, but in my special case (not connected to
internet, admin user
must not know the root pwd) I need this feature.
All the best,
Harald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Compiling 2.4.4 kernel
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:21:55 GMT
On Wed, 9 May 2001 10:35:50 +0200, Rasmus B�g Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Wed, 9 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I get a fatal error on arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.
>>
>> Oh, well. I my jump will be from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 instead of 2.4.4.
>
>2.4.4 compiles fine here without 'fatal errors'. But then again -
>without knowing what error, it is _quite_ difficult to help...
it was a bunch of assembly language syntax errors for vmlinux.lds. I'll try it
again tonight and post URLS's to a copy of the makefile output and the
config.in file.
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From: "George G. Triana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux under this PC?
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:17:46 GMT
I have done this many times with RedHat, and my recommendation is to get a
2nd or 3rd drive on which to install Linux. I say 3rd because you may wish
to have an exact image (drive#2) of your main drive# 1. Linux goes on the
3rd drive. MAXBLAST or DATAGARD and some of those other utilities that come
with new hd's work very well for making image copies and backing your boot
sector (track-zero).
I anticipate that until you get linux working, your system will be
physically opened (case opened)
for this MASTER/SLAVE hd's swapping process.
So, the first thing you do is back-up your current system obviously! YOU
KNOW THIS!!!
Also very important, you may already know this but, back-up track-zero of
your bootable drive (windows98/2k....) before you start anything. Because
when you
go through the installation process is very easy to do something you MAY NOT
wish to do and that is: installing LILO in track-zero of the main (MASTER)
hard-drive. You
can always install a boot-manager (lilo) later, after you have successfully
installed LINUX.
Then proceed to install the NEW, EMPTY DRIVE (for linux) and LINUX Os.
Buy a good book (~$30-$35 usd) if you do not have one! They tipically come
with cd's (OS and utilities). They are worth the money!!
Hope it helps and get it working!
George
"Mike Buckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:SxYJ6.766$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Your best bet is to check out the web sites of the individual
distributions
> (Mandarke, Caldera, Red Hat, etc). Each of these have lists showing the
> compatible hardware that the particular distribution will work with. Then,
> if you want to use two operating systems (which I would reccomend until
you
> get used to Linux) back-up your hard drive and then prtition it into
halves
> and insall Linux on the other partition. Though I have never done it from
> what I have read running Linux from within Windows is very slow and not an
> exact representation of the function of the operating system. This is what
I
> did with my system and when I turn it on I can chose which operating
system
> I would like to boot.
> Hope this helps
> Mike Buckley
>
> Tim ... <usenet_bounce@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:9d9ec2$tjf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a dual boot Windows 98 / 2000 pro non-networked system :
> >
> > Soyo 6CVA system board with VIA chipset
> > 20GB HDD
> > PCI ISDN adapter (AVC?)
> > ATI 128 Rage AGP card
> > On board sound (VIA audio)
> > HP 9100 series CD-RW
> > HP Deskjet 840C printer
> > Mouse & Keyboard.
> >
> > Complete beginner with Linux.
> > Very concerned about screwing up my current set-up, which is proving to
be
> > very reliable.
> > Will my hardware work under Linux?
> > I'm more concerned about learning Linux than the non-essential hardware
> > (like CD-RW) not working.
> >
> > I understand Mandrake installs within Windows?
> > So you would boot into Windows, and then 'into' Mandrake?
> >
> > Any help/advice would be very welcome.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recompiled kernel nearly twice as fast, but no sound!
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 07:35:36 -0500
Hi. I have Redhat 7.1. I recompiled the kernel with the 100% Sound Blaster
Compatible module built in with the kernel (note the xconfig program never
asked me for any irqs, or ios, or dmas). Now when the kernel boots, it says
something like:
No ISAPnP Sound Blaster found, trying standard IRQ, IO, and DMA.
IRQ, IO, DMA required.
Those aren't the exact words, but something similar. How can I tell the
kernel what irq, etc to use? Will I need to recompile the kernel?
I also have the NE2000 module compiled with the kernel, and that loads
automaticaly (I never told the kernel what irq, etc to use).
Thanks
-Joel Sanderson
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shutdown for non root users
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 20:52:57 +0800
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
In article <9dbc12$mqf$03$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harald Schneider"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI,
>
> how can I allow shutdown for non root users via remote (telnet) access?
>
> I know, this is VERY insecure, but in my special case (not connected to
> internet, admin user
> must not know the root pwd) I need this feature.
>
> All the best,
> Harald
>
>
man halt
man reboot
man poweroff
man shutdown
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Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
8:50pm up 2 days, 22:41, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.08, 1.08
...1: No code table for op: ++post
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From: "Harald Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SOLVED: Shutdown for non root users
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:05:45 +0200
man sudo
man sudoer
solved my problem. Thanks anyway.
bye,
Harald
"Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <9dbc12$mqf$03$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harald Schneider"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > how can I allow shutdown for non root users via remote (telnet) access?
> >
> > I know, this is VERY insecure, but in my special case (not connected to
> > internet, admin user
> > must not know the root pwd) I need this feature.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Harald
> >
> >
>
> man halt
> man reboot
> man poweroff
> man shutdown
>
> --
> Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
> Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
> 8:50pm up 2 days, 22:41, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.08, 1.08
> ...1: No code table for op: ++post
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From: bill g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved HD, Now can't boot
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 08:06:06 -0500
Eric,
Thanks. I'm pretty green at this.
bg
Eric wrote:
> > I added a HD and switched my linux drive from being a slave on the ide1
> > cable to ide2 cable as a slave. Now, of course, my boot floppy won't
> > work. The linux drive shows up in the boot as hdd hdd1 hdd2 <hdd5> but I
> > get the kernel panic thing. Is there a way to fix this w/o reinstalling
> > linux?
> >
>
> put the bootfloppy in and at the liloprompt enter:
> linux root=/dev/hdd5
> Now your system is up again, alter fstab and lilo.conf to match
> the changed setup.
>
> Eric
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From: bill g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved HD, Now can't boot
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 08:10:10 -0500
Davide,
Thanks. I was unaware of how to tell which Linux partition was which,
well except for the swap, just by looking at the fdisk output.
bill g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> bill g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How does one know where the /root is? It's somewhere on hdd.
>
> When you installed the system you choosed where to put your root
> partition. If you already had an OS on your system that's probabily
> in /dev/hda1 (first partition of the first disk), your root
> partition can be /dev/hda2 (second partition on the first disk) or
> /dev/hda5 (first logical partition on the first disk). If you moved
> the disk from the first to the second the root is in /dev/hdb?.
>
> Now, to locate the partition you can use fdisk. Boot from a
> 'rescue' disk or from the CD of your distribution and fire fdisk.
>
> This is the partition table of my system:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1754 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 277 2094088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 278 832 4195800 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3 833 900 514080 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 901 1754 6456240 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 901 1171 2048728+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 1172 1442 2048728+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 1443 1483 309928+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 1484 1518 264568+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda9 1519 1532 105808+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda10 1533 1754 1678319+ 83 Linux
>
> As you can see there is a partition /dev/hda3 that (probabily)
> is the root partition, /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 are too big.
> /dev/hda7 is possible, but it's a lot far (over cyl. 1024).
>
> Davide
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From: "Thierry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PB Boot linux
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:09:01 +0200
Hi,
I have a linux box ( unknown distrib. )
When I boot it, I have the following messages:
INIT: version 2.78 booting
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit"
INIT: entering runlevel: 3
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc"
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
The kernel seems good
when I boot with a diskette I have the same messages
LILO: linux single
go to runlevel 3 ?? whith the same messages
Any Ideas ??
Thanks
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From: Matthias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8 freezes during install (NEWBIE)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:14:17 +0200
Orest Zarowsky wrote:
> Linux does not presently support DVD drives. Unfortunately. This will
> change in the near future, but for now you will have to replace the DVD
> drive with a CD-ROM.
>
> Cold Fusion wrote:
>
>> Trying to install Mandrake 8 on a separate, clean drive. The install
>> always
>> locks up at the 30% mark, regardless of which package. Tried graph,
>> low-res graph, AND text install, same thing. HELP!
>>
>> PII 233
>> 64MB RAM
>> 2 x 6GB Quantum Bigfoot hard drives
>> Hitachi GVD-2000 2x DVD drive
>
>
I'm sure Linux supports DVD drives. Why would the SCSI driver detect
CD-ROM/DVD and the IDE cdrom driver too? And why would SuSE deliver a DVD.
Yes, Linux supports DVD drives!
Ciao, Matthias
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by an U.S. Navy submarine piloted by rich civilians.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PB Boot linux
Date: 9 May 2001 13:43:56 GMT
Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a linux box ( unknown distrib. )
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
> INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit"
I think that your /etc/rc.d is pretty gone... try to boot
from a rescue disk and check your root partition.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 and filesystem > 1 Tbyte
Date: 9 May 2001 13:42:16 GMT
In git.unix.linux Mark Keever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> alleged:
-> I am having problems with RedHat 7.1 and the creation of a filesystem
-> greater than 1 Terabyte. I recall reading that the 2.4 kernel had
-> support changed from 1 to 4 Terabytes for filesystems, but I can't
-> create one that large without erroring out. Here are the messages that
-> I get when I try:
-> mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
I have to ask one obvious question - are you sure you want to put a
multi-terabyte filesystem together using ext2? I cannot imagine how
long it would take to fsck a volume that size? People are reporting
that fsck'ing 64 GB filesystems can take hours. For a filesystem
of this size, journalling is practically a requirement.
I actually was looking at a web site yesterday that compared ReiserFS,
XFS (I think the guy who wrote it worked with SGIs and thus had a
slight bias toward XFS), JFS, Ext3 and Ext2. After half an hour of
searching today using Google, I cannot find that site. The reason
I was looking for it is that it had tables comparing maximum file
sizes and maximum filesystem sizes.
In any event, from what I gathered, ReiserFS is pretty stable but
there are some reports of problems if you will be NFS mounting
the volume. XFS is a real contender, as it is fairly stable,
has a long history of success with SGI, and works extremely well
with multiple threads/processes accessing the volumes simultaneously
(ie works well on SMP systems). My experience with journalled filesystems
using Solaris shows that with only a single process hitting the journalled
volume heavily, journalled UFS had a performance advantage over standard
Solaris UFS, but when you had dozens of threads hitting the disk, journalled
UFS performance lagged badly - for something like that on Solaris, it
is worth it to shell out the bucks for Veritas VxFS. JFS was not ready
for prime time, and most folks don't seem to be going with Ext3, although
RPMfind uses it for the web site. All of the journalled filesystems
can use larger file sizes and larger filesystem sizes.
Things to consider when choosing a journalled filesystem:
1) How do you back it up?
Ext2 has dump/restore, which uses the raw filesystem. There is
no equivalent for ReiserFS I am aware of, meaning tar or cpio or
something like that will have to be used, which is slower. I
believe there are dump/restore utilities for XFS. I don't know
about Ext3, it is quite possible the Ext2 utilities might work.
2) Will it be NFS mounted?
As I mentioned, there are reports of some problems with ReiserFS
and NFS. Don't know whether that is a problem with ReiserFS or
with NFS.
3) How stable is it?
ReiserFS has been used with Linux more than the other journalling
file systems. Ext3 is very similar to Ext2, and Stephen Tweedie
worked on both, so there is reason to believe it will be stable.
XFS has been used by SGI for years, and of the recent ports from
other OS's (ie compared to JFS from IBM), this project seems to
have gone remarkably well.
If it was me, I would figure out what I am trying to do (which you
probably have already done) and then investigate ReiserFS, XFS,
and Ext3 and figure out which of those suits my needs best. I really
can't see using Ext2 on a terabyte filesystem. The three filesystems
I mentioned are all alleged to support multi-petabyte filesystem sizes.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recompiled kernel nearly twice as fast, but no sound!
Date: 9 May 2001 13:45:42 GMT
Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No ISAPnP Sound Blaster found, trying standard IRQ, IO, and DMA.
> IRQ, IO, DMA required.
> Those aren't the exact words, but something similar. How can I tell the
> kernel what irq, etc to use? Will I need to recompile the kernel?
If you have compiled the SB like a module you should be able to use
modprobe to pass to it the required parameter. See the documentation
in /usr/src/linux/Documentation.
Davide
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