I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520 thinking
it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got it it is not a
prisim2 but rather a realtek.
No problem they seem to have drivers.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?software=Truecompamod
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src wget
The docs are under /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src and
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-src.
It tends to work well the only problem I've ever had is having to reset some
permissions on a couple of files afterwards. You will have to recompile
, August 21, 2003 10:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCI Wireless NIC question.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:03:50 -0700,
Percival, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520
..'DWL-520' or 'DWL-520
...
Regards,
Jeremy
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:03:50AM -0700, Percival, Ray wrote:
I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520
thinking
it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got it it is not
a
prisim2 but rather a realtek.
No problem
I'm having problems with Nvidia drivers it would appear from their docs
that I need to make PAM not reset permissions on a device. The two files
they refer to in their docs do not exist under Debian. So how do I keep
pam from resetting permissions on a given device?
Thanks
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE,
After setting up exim I can send mail using Mutt it appears to
send fine and there are no errors in the logs. When I send to one
of my addresses from my ISP it sends it I can go out and look at
the mail on the ISP's server. But no messages are getting sent to
3rd parties. I set up exim as a
Having dealt with Lusers for far longer than I care to think about
I'm going to go ahead and give some opnions on the subject.
Other important questions are:
* Specifically, _what_ are people entitled to? Are they entitled
to
demand that I spend my time catering to their needs? Are they
I can not get this to compile I have xmms-dev but it is still
complaing about missing files. I'm trying it with .95 and am going
to try .94. If any one has it working or better yet know where to
get debs for it please let me know how. Thanks Ray.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I decided to go to kernel 2.4.2 on my testing box. Did a apt-get
install to get the source. Got my old config file from /boot
and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a
make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and
a.out
I don't know about the lilo isssue but yes the X issue is a well
known problem. Do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients
(that one might be xclients-base) xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-100dpi and run xf86config to create a xf86config file and
you should be fine.
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Use modconf to add it.
-- Original Message --
From: Jake R. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:38:12 -0600 (CST)
I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my
latitude
lm sound support. Is there a way that I can add
If you installed from the tarballs just do a quick make install
agian and it should work fine. Before the last one when was the
last time you did a upgrade? In the past month or so it has broken
twice on me but a quick reinstall has fixed it.
-- Original Message
I've always said that a little research before a purchase will
save one grief. In any case. I have a BJC 4400 (which also
emulates a 600) working fine. What I did is grab pdq and xpdq. I
got the debs from unstable but I'm running woody. Install them
then go to www.linuxprinting.org and get the pdq
Go to www.debianplanet.org look at the unofficial apt sources list
and search on ximian. It will give you all the lines.
-- Original Message --
From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:04:09 -0600
Hello,
Someone knows
Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of
deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks.
Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.6.0
Not knowing about *BSD's jails I'm not sure if you want to
restrict a user to only one part of the filesystem why not use
chroot?
-- Original Message --
From: Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:03:16 +0300
Hi,
I'm interested if there is
I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm
hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in
short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh into my
Debian box on a DSL line setting behind a floppyfw based firewall.
When I am at home I can SSH into that
Go to the package search page and do a search it will give you
the righ name. apt-get install netscape will work but might
give you more than you want.
-- Original Message --
From: Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:16:46 -0700
I've noticed this also looks like a bug to me.
-- Original Message --
From: David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:19:46 +1030 (CST)
Hi, ever since I upgraded to woody, licq hasn't worked. I'm using
gnomeicu, but I don't like it as
When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this
has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered
about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much.
Well first of all IMHO most of the defaults make sense.
The problem here is you trade off power for ease of use. And I
have yet to see a really good way around this. Maybe the best
way would be to make levels of install like RH has. Novice-Deity
or something like that but I can see how that would
I have noticed that with .7 that when you closed one Mozilla
window (be it a browser or mail client window) that it would close
all of the other Mozilla windows open. I think this is what you
are talking about. This seems to have been fixed in .8 which I
have been using for about a week now.
Don't use XF86Setup to setup X 4. Use xf86config instead. The
graphical tools have never worked very well with X 4. You might
want to take a look at
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/RELNOTES1.html#1. While they no
longer say that the graphical tools won't work you will notice
that XF86setup is *not*
Does anybody know of a deb for Mozilla .8 or failing that how
easy is it to create one that just works using alien? What I
am looking for here is something that works as well as the
Progeny .7 debs. I installed it a entry showed up under Debian
and net in my menus it launche ran and does what
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never
able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things
etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy
with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has
broken and it is in terms of
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never
able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things
etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy
with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has
broken and it is in terms of performance
Have you created a new config file XF86Config-4 should be its name
if not I would suggest that you run through xf86config one time.
I got *much* better modlines this way.
-- Original Message --
From: David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001
I assume you mean Linux :). DSL is easy. Get a external DSL router
(The Cisco 675 works *very* well) Your provider may want to push a
internal card on you don't go there. The external is worth the
extra money. Get a good supported NIC. (Most providers will give
you one insist on PCI and a good
I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get
dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today?
Thanks very much for any info.
Where would one get boot/driver disks for testing on the ftp sites
there does not appear to be anything under disksi386 under
testing.
Thanks much for any info.
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going
to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated
note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the
Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed
them? Thanks much.
--
of packages.
-- Original Message --
From: Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:52:28 -0700
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is
going
to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work
And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke
toys... :)
-- Original Message --
From: Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote:
Setting up
I agree the ,helixcode stuff needs to be unstable, for everything
else you will be much better in the long run if you track one
thing and going by stable testing or unstable is better IMHO
because when a new version goes stable you will then get that
without having to mess with your sources. Also
apt-get install netscape Also works well and get all the depends
right. I do agree though that three or four installs are about
right for learning. I would suggest that you try to apt-get
everything you can things IMHO just work better that way.
-- Original Message
IMHO, If you have the knowledge and are doing the certs to impress
employers do the Red Hat cert. I say this because that is the name
most of them are going to know. Then get the job and do whatever
you want to because most of them won't know a Debian box from a
Red Hat box. At work now I have
When I try to launch a X application as root it tells me the
client can not connect to the server. It is a stock 2.2 X install
does anyone have any thoughts on the subject? Thanks Ray
My Logitech trackball also works like a dream. THis was the doc that got me
over the hump.
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html
-- Original Message --
From: Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:00:50 -0600
On Wednesday 10 January
It was a hacked kernel that VA put together. This is the only O'Reilly book
I've ever been sorry for buying. Read the online version buy Running Linux and
get a cd from someplace else.
-- Original Message --
From: Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To:
This is a general question for some of you who may
be lucky enough to be able to use Linux in your
jobs. Besides coding what skillsets would really
set someone apart as a person looking for
a Linux job? I'm currently thinking about what to
start learning next and thought I'd ask.
Sorry if this
Wine works well with some of them use the cvs builds.
-- Original Message --
From: Gary Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:08:48 +0100
On 5 Jan 2001, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from
If you are printing locally I would suggest pdq and xpdq. Read about them on
www.linuxprinting.org You can apt-get them from unstable and I think testing.
If you just make a sym link called lpd pointing to pdq alot of things work very
well.
-- Original Message
I just noticed the Glibc 2.2 is now in testing. As I understood it
this was one of the things that needed to happen before X 4.x
went in. Does anyone know how soon this might happen?
Thanks for any info.
I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but basically
it is Microshaft's fault. It seems that had Intel used the same
versioning for cpuid that they have used up untill now it would
have broken NT/2000 in a very bad way. (All the details are in
the linux.com article I can't seem to
I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should
see it in Woody in the pretty near future. No the next version
of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version number till
Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about it a
new major version of X and a new major version
From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give
you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad- till you get to
the resolution that you want to be at. Odds are it will still
look bad not to worry. From the xterm run xvidtune click OK on the scary
message.
I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but
it would make sense to do it that way.
-- Original Message --
From: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:26:51 +1100
At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
I have
This is the only O'Reilly book I regret having bought but the full text is
online and has helped me a couple of times. All in all though a copy of Running
Linux and a 2.2r2 cd would be the ideal solution.
-- Original Message --
From: Michael P. Soulier
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went
away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in.
-- Original Message --
From: Barry Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 + (GMT)
I have a
Me again, try www.cheapbytes.com for the cds they also have a book pack
at the moment. Also for sure check out the online version of the
O'Reilly Debian book but spend your money on Running Linux.
-- Original Message --
From: Holp, John Mr. [EMAIL
It would be quite a wait for Woody as they are now talking about it
going frozen about May and then several months after that before it
goes stable.
-- Original Message --
From: D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:26:12 -0500
Potato is the
I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online
the website not worth buying. There are a couple of books on the kernel
one has all the source and comments (INAC so I have not looked at it)
I also noticed that O'Reilly has a kernel book.
-- Original Message
Does anybody have a logitech Trackman Marble wheel working under X?
And if so what do the xf86config entry look like for it? Thanks very
much. (It is USB and it looks like the kernel is finding it right any advice
please?
I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian way to do
the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find it. Could any of you
please point me towards it and also anybody run into anything to be aware of
with this one. I'm doing it mostly for the USB backports
You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after that your best
hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they have it right now.
-- Original Message --
From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:44:25
Hi all,
Does anybody have a nice recipe for ssh to a machine behind a ipchains firewall
with ipmasq? (It is floppyfw) I only have two machines behind the firewall and
only want to connect to one of them. Also I can use xvidtune to fix my
rolling problem (modline stuff) now how do I get X to use
Not a very free license. Have you thought about using something like the Open
Publication License with perhaps one of the optional clauses? I would
contribute to something like that as it is I can't really see myself or alot of
Debian users helping. Or am I just being anal?
--
What soundcard?
-- Original Message --
From: Clayton Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:38:19 -0700
Yes! Debian is not for me. It does not recognize my sound card even though
two other OS do (Win98 and
It sounds odd but tweaking my HD with hdparm made alot of my mp3 problems go
away to understand why try playing a mp3 off of a parallel port zip drive. :)
-- Original Message --
From: Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun,
Have you checked Woody? With many,but not all, packages it is really easy to
just add unstable line to your apt sources run apt-get update and then grab the
package take the line out run update again and you should be on your way. It
has worked for me for a couple of packages that I just could
On any newer machine you should be able to just boot from the CD.
-- Original Message --
From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:54:02 -0200
Hi
Now, I`m using Windows 95 (with MSDOS), but I yet have the Debian2.2 CD for
instalation.
But I
I'm going to be getting a new mouse/trackball for xmas. Before I start
telling people what I want though I thought I'd check with you all.
So have any of you used the logitech Trackman Marble Wheel and in particular
does it work with USB under a straight up 2.2 install? Thanks
for any info.
This is not a flame but it is strongly worded. First of all
Why in the world are you trying to run Netscape as root security matters
and that is very insecure that is why by default you can not do it.
Now seems like you are pretty new so a few security pointers.
First of all DO NOT log in as root
IMHO the SoundBlaster Live is a great card and very easy to set up.
-- Original Message --
From: Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 01 Dec 2000 15:55:23 -0600
Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the
With the sblive you go to creative.opensource.com get the latest source
snapshot compile and install like you would any other module the readme
has good Debian instructions (read the *whole* thing first :)) Very easy
and a very sweet card.
-- Original Message
Go to www.creative.com and search on those numbers (You might also try
google) This will give you a card name at that point the best source
of info for Linux drivers is opensource.creative.com.
-- Original Message --
From: Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help
of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable
setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no
problems and a great increase in performance) but now I want to
add it to a startup script so my question is
xwinvid
-- Original Message --
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard)
Date: 30 Nov 2000 17:26:02 -0500
Is there a command available in Debian to determine what
resolution is being used in an X session?
Please Cc: me on any replies.
Bob
--
Good luck :) Ahh how I hate spammers.
-- Original Message --
From: Frodo Baggins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:36:07 +0100 (MET)
urbanyon scripsit:
isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really
complaining...
On Mon,
Does anyone know of a larger X monitor database or source of info rather than
the list that install with X? I'm looking for info on a proview monitor that is
rolling in X. Right now I have it running at 1280X1024 at 60? Any hints or
suggestions please?
Do this and be very carefull.
Take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list add a line for unstable. Do a apt-get
update then do a apt-get install sndconfig. Then do not wait do not pass go do
not collect $200 comment out the unstable line from your sources. Then do a
apt-get update and press on.
The SBLive is a great card with *really* good support. I got mine well over a
year ago I have no idea what they cost now but they are sweet cards.
-- Original Message --
From: Kevin Krafthefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:56:42 -0600
Hello,
Just get the latest source snapshot off of opensource.creative.com it is
towards the bottom of the page should work fine.
-- Original Message --
From: Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:47:19 -0800 (PST)
Hi, all...
I'm trying to
Try opensource.creative.com for drivers.
-- Original Message --
From: Fran Argiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:09:20 +0100
I am unable to configure my soundblaster pci 128. With make
modules I select sound suport- ensoniq pci97 (es1371) and
opensource.creative.com
-- Original Message --
From: Michael Epting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:21:19 -0800
In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have
heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is also
When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp color depth
but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have tried commenting out
everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get errors. I think the problem is
the x server. I am using the SVGA server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is
Try www.microimages.com/mix . It is pretty good and of course free. Then IMHO
once you get them to the point they want to pay for a pretty darned sweet
package look at exceed.
-- Original Message --
From: Dominic Blythe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 16
He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant
basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over
again.
-- Original Message --
From: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000
What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse?
-- Original Message --
From: Virginie-ML [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:04:31 +0100
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I looked in the archives and
The Ensoniq message refers to the chipset for the SBLive. Looks like your
driver has gone the way of all the world.
-- Original Message --
From: Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:44:08 -0500
I
Tyr opensource.creative.com. The drivers are IMHO really good and although it
is a bit hard to get them to work with Debian once you get them set up they
work great.
-- Original Message --
From: Danny Lathouwers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000
Or if you don't want to rebuild your kernel go to opensource.creative.com.
-- Original Message --
From: S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:45:53 -0500
RM == Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course since the .debs are apt-getable now would someone please explain to
me the advantage of doing it by hand?
-- Original Message --
From: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:16:59 -0800
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if
Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it.
-- Original Message --
From: guran remberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:05:25 +
Hi
I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was
mainly about
Since installing a theme just consists of copying files into the right spots
there is no need to have .debs just go to www.themes.org and find something you
like and do what it says.
-- Original Message --
From: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To:
Go to debian.org/~branden
Or if you are up with netscape under Debian go to the Debian entry in netscape
and the X page it has all the info you need.
-- Original Message --
From: Tom Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:19:02 +0100
Hi,
i'm
I think the reason it is doing this is because XDM is running and putting you
right into X Try ctrlaltf10 that should drop you out to a command prompt. My
suggestion would be to remove XDM which you could do my running apt-get remove
xdm. This is will let you play with various configs and boot
I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it looks
like to me.
-- Original Message --
From: Janos Kramar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:52:14 -0400
After installing Debian without any apparent problems and
I have the same problem after installing the Sblive drivers. depmod -a does not
work though. Any other thought please?
-- Original Message --
From: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:58:32 -0700
Philipp Schulte wrote:
On Wed, Oct
Add deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distiributions/debian unstable main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
run apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
This will grab the helix stuff for you and leave everything else alone just to
make sure read what packages it is going to upgrade before you say yes.
I am trying to change my background in E. The .jpg does not show up in the e
background panel. I can change it with the gnome controls but when I switch
desktops it reverts back to the background that is under the e panel. Any
thoughts on how to solve this. Thanks. BTW to everyone who helped me
What kind of mouse is it?
-- Original Message --
From: Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Original Message -
From: Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday,
When trying to create a new pgp key using pgp -kg it goes through the process
and then tries to create the key I get the error.
Can't create output file '/home/ray/.pgp/secring.pgp
Keygen error.
Any thoughts?
Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel sources on 2.2.
Thanks very much
apt-get remove xdm should do the job.
-- Original Message --
From: Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:40:17 -0400
Hi,
How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to
that.
Thanks
Eileen Orbell
apt-get remove xdm will work and you should not lose anything at least I have
not noticed.
-- Original Message --
From: Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:13:07 -0400
Hi,
I have been trying to configure XF86 setup. Some how I
I'm looking for a good command line tool to encrypt /home with I need something
that can handle large (4096 bit) keys. Any suggestions? Thanks very much.
I have not looked in the recent past but have they cleared up the buffer
overflow problems with Pine? If not you might be better off with something
else. To try and answer the question have you tried
apt-get install pine ?
Should work like a charm.
-- Original Message
Does anybody have a good working config for a pro-900 series monitior.
Thanks much for any help.
Either one CPU should work well. Just pick your mobo well. What I have done in
the past is look at the system specs on VA's and penguincomputing's pages and
try to find out what they put in their systems. I have also emailed their sales
people and have been given the mobos that they use that
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