Re: Promise Ultra33 troubles

The info you need is in Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel source tree, or you can get it at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/ The mknod commands would be: mknod /dev/hde b 33 0 mknod /dev/hde1 b 33 1 and so on... - Andy On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 05:07:40PM -0500, Carey

Re: Network card seizes! suggestions?

Are you running kernel 2.2? I have had several bizarre freezes of network cards on a machine running kernel 2.2.10 (haven't tried others). The freezes occur under high load after large amounts of traffic have passed through the card. (I would estimate at least several GB over a few days). This

Redhat mutt with xterm-debian

I have a problem running a RedHat compiled mutt on a terminal set to xterm-debian. It fails with the message Error initializing terminal. and leaves the terminal in a broken state (staircase effect with prompt, no echo of what I type). It is possible to work around this with: export TERM=nxterm

Dhcpcd startup order

Yesterday I installed slink on a computer which needed to get its IP address with DHCP and was also a NIS and NFS client. What I found out was that the DHCP client in slink immediately returned, and the NIS startup script wouldn't work because there was no IP address yet. NFS was even worse,