Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #224
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 05:13:04 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #224, Volume #6           Mon, 13 Sep 93 05:13:04 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Defrag'ers and SZ prob's (Jim Segrave)
  Linux's HD.C -- good idea to modify to allow >16h? (David Savlin)
  Slackware: Some more things to fix (Peter Berger)
  MCC hole. (sysop)
  Re: How to make "magic"(VLSI CAD TOOL) for Linux ? (Michael A. Irons)
  printcap entry for EPSON LX-400 (Surasak Pubuanak)
  How to make a bootable root on floppy? (David Savlin)
  S3 Video Chipset/Swapping Problems (John "Mr_Muppet" Gonyo)
  Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
  HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST ([email-masked])
  Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? (Maximilian Ibel)

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Segrave)
Subject: Re: Defrag'ers and SZ prob's
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 22:31:38 +0000

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>
>|>     Also, sometimes when uses try to use sz and download, they encounter
>|>     lots off errors. I am gettying the port the modem is on at
>|>     19.2 baud [using a HS 14.4k]. I have CTS/RTS one, but regardless
>|>     of the callers speed, I still encounter problems. Actually, I 
>|>     have had this same problem on other Unix machines as well
>|>     [SunOS, Ultrix, etc].... Thank!
>|> 
>
>  I have experienced the same problem - I have noticed that the error occurs
>when the comm program writes what it has to disk.  it may be just a 
>coincidence, but wouldn't that mean that the incoming data is overflowing?
>I dunno....just a wild stab.  I would appreciate a real answer, though, if
>anyone knows whats going on.
>
The hard disc driver disables interrupts while it transfers a sector's
worth of data to the disc controller, using a rep outsb instruction. If
your hard disc controller is on the ISA bus (as most of them are), this
can cause overruns on machines without 16550 serial chips. The best fix
is to replace your serial chip with a 16550. If you can't do this (I can't
since my machine is a notebook with no expansion slots and an VLSI do-it-all 
chip that emulates 16450s).
Disc writes, particularly sync calls, seem to cause overruns more than
reads do. If you are feeling brave, you can modify the source of hd.c
to enable interrupts during the transfer (further disc interrupts are
already disabled in the 8259). Find the occurences of port_read() and
port_write() in linux/kernel/blk_drv/hd.c. Add an sti() call before
each one, and for those calls which are not immediately followed by
an sti(), add a cli() call just after the port_read/port_write.

Warning:
I've been using these patches for a few months now without incident.
However, Linus posted the following comment in re. these patches:
> Yes, interrupts are disabled in hd.c a bit too much, but there is
> actually a reason for this: anything else seems to result in corruption
> on some machines.  I was playing around with interrupt latency a year
> ago (how time flies), and there were terrible problems for some people
> when I enabled interrupts a bit more in the actual transfer routines. 
> It worked for almost everybody, but the people it broke for got fs
> corruption almost constantly, so...  The solution for speeds over 9600
> bps is probably still to get a 16550, I'm afraid, although you can try
> to enable interrupts in your personal kernel, of course. 
> 
>               Linus
So if you want to try this, *back up your system* and be sure you
are running e2fsck on bootup, using bootutils etc.

-- 
Jim Segrave        (Segrave Software Services [email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (David Savlin)
Subject: Linux's HD.C -- good idea to modify to allow >16h?
Date: 13 Sep 93 00:42:43 GMT

Hello, Everyone!

I'm having a *very* annoying problem.  I'm rather tired of having to search for
& boot off of a floppy every time I want to start Linux.  (My hard drive
geometry disallows LILO, and nothing better has come along, including bootlin).
When I set my translation (ESDI ctrllr) to full translation, I can only get one
option: 64 heads.  HD.C chokes on this.  Someone a while back said that I ought
to just modify HD.C to recognize >16h.  Okay -- but will it work?  I rather
dislike the idea of backing up 400mb of DOS partitions to reformat the drive
and finding that it don't work. :-(

Any comments?

--dave
-- 

* PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms!
---
   "The segment of our population most visibly susceptible to myth and most
    productive in this regard are those who are `coming of age,' the young."
   ..............................
   David Savlin                  '.                Michael Benedikt,

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Berger)
Subject: Slackware: Some more things to fix
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 08:32:04 +0200

[email-masked] (Patrick J. Volkerding) answered to
[email-masked] (Stephen Ritter):

 >>I recently attempted to install slackware (1.02) via nfs using the
 >> [...description of NFS bug deleted...]

Yup. Did encounter this bug and fixed it myself.. :-)

 > This problem has been fixed. Thanks for the bug report (and
 > 'scuze the nasty bug :^)

Hope you did change "mke2fs" to "mke2fs -c" while editing your script, too!
(btw e2fsck on the boot disk won't be bad, too).

Ah. And if you're already in work to fix some bugs/misconfigured things you
can change the /etc/groups that root is not in more than 8 groups (otherwise
there are problems with NFS-mounting on at least a dos-box running SOSS).

Further. I don't think it is a good way to remove the /bin/mount in your
script for the bootutils while _this_ mount is able to "mount -t nfs ....".
The /etc/ mount which is left does NOT.

Ah, and setting up the path's in login.defs (or suchlike) to directories that
exist would be nice, too.

Again. Excuse my english and, well, "happy-fixing" :-)) (seems, there are
still some "steps" left to get a "real" difference to SLS, but, I
think/hope/guess you're on the right way. Go on!)

m2c
    Peter

E-Mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (sysop)
Subject: MCC hole.
Date: 13 Sep 93 13:24:45 GMT

I'm not certain if it was from my mcc distribution,
but /usr/bin/man runs ( or rather ran ) sgid info
, from which a shell was possible.

Whilst not a huge hole, it was upsetting to see a user
running around with gid info..

Thanks to [email-masked] for pointing this out.

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From: [email-masked] (Michael A. Irons)
Subject: Re: How to make "magic"(VLSI CAD TOOL) for Linux ?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 01:11:54 GMT

        Hi;

  I would have sent you email, but your posting only has a mal-formed address so...

There is, or atleast was, a version of magic on sunsite. I couldn't
get it to work so I went and compiled it myself. There was very little
effort involved (remember to -DBSD -lbsd and _doprnt() was
missing). If you can't get sunsites package to work, I could bundle up
mine and send it to you.

-- 

                                Mike Irons

                        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Surasak Pubuanak)
Subject: printcap entry for EPSON LX-400
Date: 13 Sep 1993 15:56:34 +1000

The subject says it all.
        I have a 486 linux box and an EPSON LX-400 but I can't figure out 
the printcap entry for it in the /etc/printcap.
        Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Surasak Pubuanak

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From: [email-masked] (David Savlin)
Subject: How to make a bootable root on floppy?
Date: 13 Sep 93 04:56:26 GMT

Okay.  So I want to try making some changes to HD.C (so >16heads is allowed)
and compile a new kernal image.  I want to throw that onto a bootable
floppy and put the basic utils to set up Linux on my hard drive (fdisk,
mke2fs, gzip, tar, and so forth).  See, I can't use LILO unless I have full
translation on my controller enabled, but then HD.C won't recognize my hard
drive because it says it has 64 heads.

How do I do this?

I scanned through the Linux FAQs but I didn't see much besides making a boot
disk ... to boot to the HD.  Nothing about making a boot disk *and* making it
root.  I tried making a fs on a floppy (ext2) and copying the zImage to it,
with its root set to /dev/fd0, but it wouldn't boot.  So now what?

Thanks for any help!

--dave
-- 

* PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms!
---
   "The segment of our population most visibly susceptible to myth and most
    productive in this regard are those who are `coming of age,' the young."
   ..............................
   David Savlin                  '.                Michael Benedikt,

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From: [email-masked] (John "Mr_Muppet" Gonyo)
Subject: S3 Video Chipset/Swapping Problems
Date: 13 Sep 1993 06:09:17 GMT

I just recently installed Linux and am enjoying it's use very
much!
However, I'm having a hell of a time with getting X to run like
I want it to.

I understand that X does not suppor the S3 video card, but is there
someone out there with a "driver" for this video card (for color)
Also, xterm allways quits out with a segmentation fault!
Any ideas?

And for the swapping problem:
I've got a 486-66 w/ 16mb RAM and a 5mb SWAP partition.  I had a background
script logging the /proc/meminfo every 5 seconds while I ran X and
loaded it up with those goofy games and whatnot. Eventually, no more windows
could be opened, and upon returning to the shell, I noticed that
ram used was near 16mb, while swap used was 0!!  It says that there is
5megs of swap, 0 used, 5megs free!  Why doesn't it use the swap device?
(Yes, it's mounted from fstab)

Any ideas or helpful hints would be greatly appreciated...
e-mail to [email-masked]

John M. Gonyo

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From: [email-masked] (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Subject: Re: Mathmatica like package for linux?
Date: 13 Sep 93 02:28:20 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jeff Stern) writes:
>If you get any responses to this, I'd be interested.  I know there is
>something online which you might try compiling, called maxima-4-155
>which you might be interested in.  

It's on sunsite and tsx-11, as maxima.tar.z.  It runs under clisp.  It is
only accidentally publically available -- you were supposed to send in a fee
(a hefty one) to a company.  Said company having closed its doors, the
software becomes available...

But it might not do everything
>you're looking for. 

I don't know what that might be, except graphics.  For that, use gnuplot.  But
maxima is a complete CAS package.  It has more on-line help than Mma (not that
that is saying much), and is at places more mathematically careful than Mma.
It is as easy to use as a non-gui Mathematica or Maple, is quite fast, and is
extensible (this may require considerable knowledge of lisp, though).

 I myself have sent e-mail to Wolfram asking them
>whether they'd be interested in a port to Linux or 386bsd, and they
>haven't responded.  

That is SOP

However, in my latest edition of the Mathematica
>Newsletter they mentioned they are porting to several new
>architectures /systems, including NextStep for Intel.  This version is
>currently in the testing stage, which is a far cry from the 'planning'
>stages of some of the other architectures...
>
Someone told me that NeXT executables would run on Intel/NS?  There has 
been a NeXT Mma for years.  Will this not run under Intel/NS?

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for linux Mathematica.  We have a much better
chance of seeing Maple.  They have a generic X11 interface, which Mma does not,
that is something akin to Mma's notebooks.  WRI has been promising notebooks
for Sun for a year or so.  Are they out?  But Maple has a nice gui for X.
Current one is Motif, though...

-- 

David L. Johnson                             ID:  [email-masked]
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015       Telephone: 215-758-3759 (office)
                                                        215-282-3708 (home)
#include <std/disclaimer.h>

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 07:00:27 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

                    LINUX HARDWARE COMPATIBLITY LIST

VERSION: 0.6                                               DATE: 01 Aug 93

Note:  This list was originally posted by who-knows?  I don't remember, and
I haven't seen it in a while, so I'll take the responsibility of maintaining
this list.  Please send your hardware (in)compatibility lists to [email-masked].
PLEASE put the word "HARDWARE" in your subject line IN CAPS!
================================= cut here ===================================
     Welcome to the Linux Hardware Compatibility List.  It is my hope that
this will be of help to people and that it will do away with a lot of the
"Will XXX work with my System?" questions.  I also hope that this will help
people who want to buy a system to run Linux or are in the process of
upgrading their system and want to make sure that the hardware they buy is
compatible with Linux (especially for item's such as SCSI controller's and
CD-ROM's, and video cards for X).
        Please be aware that the list NO LONGER contains X hardware
specifics.  These will be posted as a seperate listing.(along with 
clocks, settings, etc.)
        People who have emailed me ([email-masked]) about specific pieces
of hardware that they've gotten to work have their name and email address
printed alongside.  This is to help others who are having difficulty get
help directly from the guilty party. ;)

     If you are wondering about a specific piece of Hardware and you don't
find it in this list all I can say is I don't know at this time but as soon
as I find out it will be in the next list.  If you find out that it work's
from some other source, i.e. a friend or trying it out, PLEASE let me know.
Also even though a piece of equipment is on this system doesn't mean that I
know how to get it to work with Linux, it is on this list because someone
has told me that it works on THEIR system. So if it is on the list and
you can't make it work, it sounds like a good time to, in order, do:

        1) read ALL the faq's
        2) read comp.os.linux, and scan the subjects for your XXX
        3) email the person listed here who says it works (if any)
        3) post AFTER READING comp.os.linux and c.o.l.announce.

    Thanks to everyone that has helped and sent info this list,it  is a lot 
better because of their help!

NOTEBOOKS:
====================
 Altima 486DX/33        Linux/with X11
 Compaq LTE386s/20 (Notebook) (using XFree 1.2)
 Compaq Contura 3/25 (25 MHZ 386 SL notebook with VGA type grayscale 
                        screen and 120 MB hd.
 Leading Edge 386/25 SLC ([email-masked])
 NEC UltraLite Versa ([email-masked])
 Packard Bell 386SX20 laptop 
 Compudyne 4DX/33 486 notebook with greyscale CCFT lcd screen---
        Phoenix bios 1.01, trackball (ps2 mouse compatible)
        486 processor & 130 mb  toshiba 3.5" drive.
        Linux 99.5 with X 
        (Runs 386bsd 0.1---you need to bang on the keyboard while it boots,
                 otherwise the keyboard comes up locked)
 Twinhead(? rumored to be a Alitima/CompuDyne clone)

BRAND NAME COMPUTERS
====================
 ACER 1200
 Bitwise
 Compaq Deskpro 386/20
 Comtrade
 Comtrade Local Bus
 Comtrade EISA/VLB ([email-masked])
 Dell 486P (486DX2/50) (William Perry, [email-masked])
 Diamond Flower Industries DFI 386-20
 DTK
 EDGE Technology, 486/33DX
 Hewlett Packard HP QS20
 Highscreen Tower 386
 Hi Tech USA 486/33 ISA
 Gateway 2000 33Mhz 386DX
 Gateway 486 DX2 66V
 Gateway 486/33V ([email-masked])
 Gecko 486-50
 Insight 486DX/25
 Insight 486DX-50 ISA and EISA
 IPC 38633
 Laser 386SX/2E
 Microlink 486dx/50 localbus
 Osborne Computers (Australia) 486/33 EISA
 Paradise
 Packard Bell Legend 520 SX
 Toshiba 1850 laptop
 Trigem 386v
 Tyan Pro-EISA, Opti EISA Chip-set
 PACOMP 486/33
 Tandy 4000
 Viglen Gene
 Vobis Highscreen 486DX/33
 Xpand 386/40
 Zenon 486/33 Local Bus
 Zeos 486DX2/50 VL-Bus

CPU
---
 Intel 80386
 Intel 80386SX
 Intel 80386SLC
 Intel 80386DX
 Intel 80486SX
 Intel 80486DX
 AMD AM386SX 
 AMD AM386DX
 AMD AM386DXL 
 Cyrix 486DLC

FPU
---
 Cyrix FasMath 387/40
 IIT 387 (all speeds)
 Intel 387 (all speeds)
 ULSI MathCo 387/33
        (rumored to have some problems with some versions due to chip bug)

MOTHERBOARD
===========
 386 AWP
 AMI EISA Enterprise II
 AMI Series 50 Super Voyager 486/33 DX
 AVM 486DX-50
 C386 PEAK-DM
 CONTAQ-386 Upgradable System Board
 DTK
 DTK PEM-2530
 ECS EM486/50 (EISA)
 ECS UL-486
 ETEQ G486EB
 G486PLB
 G486SLC The Symphony Mainboard - Companion (BIOS AMI 1991)
 GS3486
 HOT-307H 386-33/40 (OPTI chipset)
 HM386sx
 ISA486S
 M407 PC Chips motherboard
 Magitronic/VLSI V386SX-25Mhz
 Micronics 80386DX ASIC (Brian Hook, [email-masked])
 Micronics 80486 ASIC EISA
 Micronics EISA-II motherboard w/8 EISA slots and 64KB cache RAM standard
 Micronics Gemini 80486DX, Rev. E (Brian Hook, [email-masked])
 MST-386
 MST 486A (Armas Inc. ROC)
 Mylex EISA mae486
 Oktec Trout 386
 OCTECK 386-33 64K cm
 PLB-486/50
 ST 486 VESA Localbus (OPTI Chipset) ([email-masked])
 SUPER 486-33C
 Symphony 80486 PC/AT chipset
 T/B, UNICHIP chipset, 386DX25 upgradeable to 486DX50
 UMC 386
 UMC 80486
 Viglen
 ZIDA 386/33DX-128C

BIOS
----
 AMI
 AMI 9-25-88
 AMI 07/12/90
 AMI (Dated 08/30/90)
 AMI (Dated 05/05/91)
 AMI (Dated 7/7/91)
 AMI 486 ISA  (dated 12/12/91)
 AMI 486/50
 Award
 Microid 1.43 ([email-masked])
 Mylex 6.15.92
 Phoenix
 Phoenix Technologies V D.02.05 QS/20
 Pheonix 80486 Ver 1.01.22-2
 Phoenix 80486/EISA ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.01.22-2
 Phoenix C3.04e
 Quadtel

CONTROLLERS (Multifunction)
===========================
 Buslogic 742a
 Future Domain TMC950 based SCSI/IDE controller + 4 floppies
 HP Multifunction
 IDE-PLUS-V3 multi i/o board
 ISFP multiple IO-card
 IODE-3290U (IDE/FD/2S/1P/1G)
 Kouwell KW-556D (2S/1P/game/IDE/floppy)
 Laser Multi-IO/IDE Card
 MCT-AIO Serial/Parallel/Game (16550AFN)
 MIO-16 Multi IO Card
 PTI-227B Super I/O Card (serial, parallel, IDE)
 SUPER IDE I/O CARD, model PT-604
 Super IDE/FDC MULTI I/O card Modem 827 Version 11
 Super I/O MP57

CONTROLLERS (I/O)
=================
 Accent ASYNC-4 4 port serial card
 BOCA ATI0
 Gw2760 EX SUPER IO CARD
 GW232c mini serial card
 PC-COMM 4-port card with 16550 uarts
 ShineCom Multi-User catd LCS-8880 (AST 4-port clone)

CONTROLLERS (Floppy)
====================

 Adaptec 1542B (built-in) (but see INCOMPATIBILITIES)

CONTROLLERS (Hard Drive)
========================
 Note: Linux should work with all IDE, MFM, and RLL controllers, pretty much
       regardless of the version of Linux.

 RLL
 ---
  Mitsubishi 65MB (Brian Hook, [email-masked])
  Seagate ST-11R
  Seagate ST- 277R (Brian Hook, [email-masked])
  WD 1006V-SR2

 MFM
 ---
  DTC150x XT (8-bit) MFM HD
  Seagate ST11M
  Seagate ST22M MFM controller w/floppy
  Western Digital WD1003

 IDE
 ---
  DC600 Caching IDE controller (4Mb RAM) (BIOS Dated 01/24/92 (c) Tekram Tech.)
  DC 680T

 ESDI
 ----
  6280-15TX
  DTC-6180
  DTC-6180-15T
  Western Digital  1007A-WA2

CONTROLLERS (SCSI)
==================
 Adaptec AHA1542B (but see INCOMPATIBILITIES)
 Adaptec AHA-1742A, BIOS version 1.34 (in enhanced mode)
 Adaptec AHA1740
 Adaptec AHA-1740 SCSI-2 controller (BIOS v1.34) in Enhanced Mode
 Buslogic 445s
 Future Domain SCSI Model 1680
 Future Domain SCSI card, TMC-850 (works with kernel 0.99p4+)
 Future Domain SCSI card, TMC-950 chip
 MYLEX DCE376 EISA SCSI controller (in WD emulation mode only)
 Seagate ST-02
 UltraStor SCSI
 7000FASST SCSI
 WD7000fasst SCSI Card, firmware rev 5.0 (only works with .99+)

SOUND BOARDS
============
 ATI Stero F/X
 ProAudio Spectrum-16 (but see INCOMPATIBILITIES)
 SoundBlaster
 SoundBlaster PRO

HARD DRIVES (RLL)
=================
 CDC Wren II
 Micropolis 1325 (108MB)
 Toshiba ((105MB) used as 68MB MFM)

HARD DRIVES (MFM)
=================
 CDC Wren II
 Computer Memories Inc. 6426-S  (20 MB, Full-height)
 Maxtor (68MB)
 Seagate 251-1
 Seagate ST225
 Seagate ST296N
 Tandon 262 (20 MB)

HARD DRIVES (IDE)
=================
 All should work and the following have been verified.
 ** PLEASE DON'T EMAIL ME WITH IDE HD'S UNLESS THEY DON'T WORK! **

 Alps DR312C (202MB)
 Conner CP3204F
 Conner (210MB)
 Fujitsu (520MB)
 Fujitsu 2652S
 Fujitsu M2624-T (490meg)
 Maxtor 7120A (120MB)
 Maxtor 7213A (213MB)
 Maxtor LXT340AT (340MB)
 Maxtor XT 1140 (140MB)
 Maxtor (340MB)
 Miniscribe 8051A
 Miniscribe 8380
 Seagate (44MB)
 Seagate ST125A
 Seagate ST1102A (85MB)
 Seagate ST1144A (124Mb)
 Seagate ST1239A (211MB)
 Seagate ST3120A
 Seagate ST3144A (120/130MB IDE) 
 Seagate ST351A/X (44MB)
 Seagate ST157AT
 Seagate ST3283A (245Mb)
 Quantum ELS 170AT (170MB)
 Quantum LPS120AT (120 MB)
 Quantum Prodrive LPS 240 AT
 Quantum Prodrive 80AT
 Quantum (240MB)
 Western Digital AC280 (80MB)
 Western Digital AP-4200 (200 MB)
 Western Digital (120MB)
 Western Digital AC2200 (210MB)
 Western Digital WDAC3400 (340MB)

HARD DRIVES (ESDI)
==================
 Fujitsu M2249E (320MB)
 Imprimis (300MB)
 Imprimis (360MB)
 NEC ESDI (350MB)

HARD DRIVES (SCSI)
==================
 All should work and the following have been verified.
 CDC WREN VI (700MB)
 Fujitsu M2614
 Fujitsu M2624 (520Mb SCSI)
 Maxtor 7120SCS
 Maxtor LXT-200S
 Maxtor LXT-340-SY (324MB)
 Maxtor XT8380S
 Maxtor XT8760S
 Maxtor PO-12S (1.2GB)
 Micropolis 1542 (330MB)
 Micropolis 1664 (340MB)
 Seagate ST277N (60MB)
 Seagate ST296N
 Seagate ST41200 (1000MB)
 Seagate ST41650 (1400MB, but only 1000MB accessible)
 Quantum ProDrive P80S
 Quantum ProDrive 105s
 Quantum ProDrive 80s
  
TAPE DRIVES (SCSI)
==================
 Archive Viper 150MB ([email-masked])
 Caliper CP-150 (QIC) (aka Commodore A4070) ([email-masked])
 Exabyte EXB-4200 (2GB DAT) ([email-masked])
 Sankyo CP150SE tapestreamer
 Sankyo CP525
 TANDBERG 3600 streamer, using 250MB DC6250 cardriges
 Wangtek 5525ES
 Wangtek 5150ES
 Wangtek PC36 adapter/5099EN 60MB drive

CD-ROM DRIVES
====================
 All SCSI should work and the following have been verified.
 ** PLEASE DON'T EMAIL ME WITH SCSI CD-ROM'S UNLESS THEY DON'T WORK! **

 Matsushita/Kotobuki/Panasonic CR-5xx series
 *Mitsumi/Radio Shack
 NEC CDR-74
 *Sony CDU-541
 *Sony CDU-535 ([email-masked])
 Soundblaster CD-ROM
 Texel DM-3024
 Toshiba 3401 ([email-masked])
 *Internal Sony CDU-31a CD ROM drive and proprietary Sony interface card
 DEC RRD42 (Michael Griffith, [email-masked])

 * = Some require drivers not in the stock kernel - see the Linux Software
 Map - sunsite:/pub/Linux/docs/LSM for those drivers.

NETWORK CARDS
=============
 wd8013         \
 wd8003          >--These will work by default with the kernel
 SMC Elite 16   /

 Novell/Eagle NE2000
 ne1000
 3com503 EtherlinkII
 3c503 EtherlinkII/16
 Cnet UTP 10baseT (NE 2000 emulation)
 PE-8013 (WD-8013 Compatible)
 SIIG Inc E-Lan/200 (NE 2000 comp.)
 SMC Plus Elite
 Compex ENET16-COMBO (Michael Griffith, [email-masked])

PRINTERS
========
 Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR
 Brother HL-4PS
 Brother HJ100
 BJ200(Cannon?)
 Canon BJ 10e
 Canon LPB4+
 Citizen Swift 24
 Dec Writer III
 Diablo 630
 Epson Action Laser II
 Epson LQ 400
 Epson LQ-570
 EPSON LX800
 Epson RX-80
 HP Deskjet 500
 HP Laserjet II ([email-masked])
 HP Laserjet III w/Postscript
 HP Laserjet III w/Pacific Page PE/XL PS Cartidge
 HP Laserjet IIIp
 HP Think Jet
 Infoscribe 1000
 Kodak Diconix 150 ink jet
 Kodak Diconix 150 plus
 KX-P1124
 NEC Pinwriter P6
 NEC P2200XE
 NEC P5300 dot matrix
 NEC SilentWriter 95
 Olivetti DM290
 Panasonic KXP-P1091
 Panasonic KX-P2124
 Panasonic 1624
 Seikosha SL-80AI
 Star LC10 colour
 STAR LC 24/10
 Tandy TRS-80 Printer

MODEMS
======
 ATI 9600etc
 CASE Quattro 2400
 Dallas Fax 9696
 Digicom Scout+ (internal 14.4kbps v32bis/v42bis/MNP2-5)
 Discovery 2400C
 Everex (2400) MNP5
 FasTalk 2400 II
 Galaxy UFO
 Gateway 2000 TelePath Data/Fax Modem (only with 0.99.10+) (Daniel Quinlan, [email-masked])
 GVC 9600 v.42bis
 Logicode Technology- QuickTel 9600 V.32/V.42bis
 Maestro Data Optimizer
 Maestro 2400XR
 MegaHertz C424FM (internal Compaq-compatable modem)
 Multitech v.32 external
 Packard Bell internal 1200
 P.C. Logic 144I, V32bis & V42bis
 Practical Peripherals PM14400FXSA V.32BIS
 Quikkomm (2400)
 SEL Panther 4 (2400bps)
 Smartlink 9614AV - 14.400 highspeed modem from Archteck
 Supra Faxmodem V.32bis
 Supramodem 2400
 Swan 2400 baud
 Telebit T2500 (19.2k)
 Turbo modem (v.32, v.42, v.42bis)
 US Robotics Courier (2400)
 US Robotics - Courier HST Dual Standard
 US Robotics v.32bis
 US Robotics Sportster (newer model) v.32bis (Ed Carp, [email-masked])
 Zoom 2400 Internal
 Zoom 2400 External w/SendFax
 Zoom FaxModem 14.4k
 Zoom 14.4k raw 
 ZyXEL 1496-E
 ZyXEL U-1496E (v.32bis/v.42bis/FOX external modem)

MICE
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 A-Tech serial (switch set to Mouse Systems emulation)
 A4TECH (Taiwan) Serial emulates MS-Mouse w/2 Buttons
 Agiler (Microsoft/Mouse System)
 ATI Busmouse
 Artec M-22 (3-button)
 Artec serial optical (mouse systems/microsoft)
 Genius GM-F303
 Genius GM-6 (microsoft compat)
 Genius GM-6000 2/3 buttons serial mouse
 Laser Microsoft/MouseSystem compatible
 Logictech Dexxa mouse (acts like a Microsoft mouse)
 Logitech FirstMouse serial version
 Logitech MouseMan
 Logitech Pilot Serial (3 buttons)
 Logitech series 9
 Logitech Series 14, 2 Button
 Logitech Trackman 3Button (flakey at best)
 Keen three button serial
 Kensington Expert Mouse (trackball)
 Inland Mouse Plus (emulates MicroSoft or Mouse Systems)
 MicroSoft Serial
 Microsoft Ballpoint mouse
 Mouse Systems Serial
 M-O-U-S-E mouse (taiwan)
 Osborne (Microsoft Compat.)
 PC accessorys MCST
 Primax three buttoned mouse (Microsoft/MouseSystems)
 Qtronix
 Quickshot QS-159
 Viglen mouse, 3 buttons, can't get the middle button to work in X
 Z-Nix (Microsoft Compatible)

OTHER
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 vt320 terminal (IRQ 10 from HP multi-function card)
 vt220 terminal on COM2
 tvi-925 terminal

INCOMPATIBILITIES
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From: [email-masked]

The ProAudio Spectrum 16 does not work properly in combination
with the Adaptec 1542B. This is due to both card's busmastering
feature. NeXTSTEP/Intel even crashes with this configuration.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                  [email-masked]                   510/659-9560
                            [email-masked]
If you want magic, let go of your armor.  Magic is so much stronger than
steel!        -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

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From: [email-masked] (Maximilian Ibel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mathmatica like package for linux?
Date: 13 Sep 1993 08:57:09 GMT

Daniel Garcia ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Hiya alls.  Like the title says, i'm looking for a Mathmatica like package
: for linux.  Right now, i have to log into my system at school to use 
: mathmatica, but since we only have one phone line in the dorm room, i would
: like to try to avoid tying up a line like that.

Hi There!

There's a Program called muPAD from the university of Paderborn
in Germany which does not only behave (roughly) as a MAPLE clone,
but is intended to be used either on parallel machines (sequent, I think),
or to simulate parallel network topologies on sequential machines.
It is available for SunOS/OW, for Linux and for Macintoshes.
It is distributed *for free* to educational institutions.

As far as I know, you can ask for a registration form from:
[email-masked].

Hope this helps,

Maximilian
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