Rick Jones writes:
New BIOS may support cylinders higher than 1023, but old BIOS doesn't.
Lilo may not make a distinction. I think you should check again what
cylinder hda2 starts on. The important fact is where the disk blocks for
your *kernel* are. With a large disk people often
Douglas Bates writes:
It appears that the 2.1.3x series of kernels are indeed development
versions. I think I will stay with the 2.0.3x series for a while.
2.1.29 seems pretty stable. From what I gather, for later ones you
are better off not using modules and then I think you're safe.
Dave Cinege writes:
On 21 Apr 1997 03:58:51 -, Richard Sharman wrote:
Dave Cinege writes:
...
Aaaa! And you are using this with linux? Are you sure it is opening
the
16650 at 230K?
Well, I *think* so. How can I tell? I use setserial with spd_cust
and a divisor of 1
Dave Cinege writes:
Until recently I just used the built-in serial ports, which are 16650a
limited to 115000 bps. I have recently bought a Byte Runner card and
am talking to the Bitsurfr at 230400 bps. Have I noticed a big
Aaaa! And you are using this with linux? Are you sure
Kevin Traas writes:
I have a Motorola Bitsurfr Pro (external). It works fine under Linux;
it looks like a modem. (It has a zillion AT commands.)
Thanks for the info. Just a couple of questions grin
What type of serial port do you have? 16550? How fast are you running the
Oops! I wrote
The Linux Journal usually has an ad for an internal ISDN board
with drivers for Linux; Spellcaster - http://spellcast.com .
That should have been http://www.spellcast.com/
I don't know anything about the card, but they do support Linux:
From their web page:
November
Kevin Traas writes:
Are other ISDN TA's supported by Linux? i.e. USR Sportster ISDN, Motorola
Bitsurfer Pro, etc.
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said in a reply
|
| Any external should work as long as it supports PPP Sync-to-Async
| conversion. You just set up a dial script and
Geoff R Deasey writes:
Thanks for all the help, I did recompile the kernel and made the modules.
however I ran into a little problem, cc1 was not found in the path. I
manually added it to the path (strange that it was not in the path).
Do you mean cc1 as in the compliler's cc1? It
Andreas Tille writes:
I've done some key bindings in my .emacs (more detailed in an
*.el file called from .emacs but this is not the point):
(global-set-key [C-left] 'backward-word)
(global-set-key [C-right] 'forward-word)
(global-set-key [C-prior]
François Gouget writes:
robert havoc pennington wrote:
When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to
install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
don't do)
Jason Ish writes:
I connect to the internet using my school PPP account which gives me a
user name not very close to my real name and chose to use my first name to
logon to my personal linux box. I would like to send email but have it
come from my school email name and not my localhost
Regarding the wish list for the dselect replacement:
1 A what if command: Tell me what you would do if I said do it.
I found with dselect I'd somehow told it to remove lots of
things I hand't meant to, so recently I've been using dpkg directly
rather than trying to figure out dselect.
2 A
Paul Wade writes:
...
Manoj is outlining a specification that would be great for the above
method. Standardized components could be tied into mc and similar
interfaces easily. I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc
on a .deb file and get a nice summary of control info
Jason Costomiris writes:
On 11 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
Teco.
Bwah. Real men edit with cat, sed, awk, head and tail. Better yet, they
write directly to the disk with a hex sector editor.
sed, head AND tail? Isn't that a bit
I'm not familiar with Xplaycd but a couple of things struck me
as possible problems.
1. Did you xrdb your .Xresources file after the change?
2. Are you sure that xplaycd understands the ~ notation?
Try putting the full path name in and see if that makes a
difference. I mean, something
It took me quite a while to get the power-saving blanking to work
under X. Here's what I did (for a Number Nine (S3-based) card).
I don't know if it is necessary, but it seemed to me that I had
to make 2 changes; one in the Device section and one in the
Screen section. I put both changes at
There have been various mailings here along the lines of
/dev/cua* names are deprepcated in favour of /dev/ttyS*.
I was just wondering why the change (and when). I thought it used to
be that ttyS* was dial-in and cua* was dial-out (or possibly
vice-versa).
I looked in
Lawrence Chim writes:
In a previous message Lawrence Chim said:
These are the files in modules_2.1.23-1.deb. It seems that all
binaries and manpages are missing.
modules_2.1.23-1 is a dummy package used when upgrading from modules to
the newer modutils. Unfortunately modutils has
Richard Morin writes:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know what the forcing timeout box means in dctrl? dctrl
doesn't run every time, but when it does, it has a countdown going on in
the forcing timeout box. To me, this means it is forcing the link down,
but how do I stop it from doing this?
Thought writes:
Hey, what do you guys think is better, zsh or bash?
I prefer zsh, I find it easier to work with. For a while it had
several features missing from bash (and most shells), but bash has
caught up on many of them. It still has some features which don't
seem to be in bash
Lawrence Chim writes:
Does anyone know how to check a directory is empty
in bash script?
lawrence,
This seems to work for me.
--- dir_is_empty ---
#! /bin/bash
# syntax dir_is_empty [optional_directory]
# return 0 if it is empty
#1 if
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