Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #250
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 09:13:27 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #250, Volume #6           Wed, 22 Sep 93 09:13:27 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Network Woes  [from a network newbie!] (Michael S Finger-1)
  Re: running X appl. by modem ? ([email-masked])
  Re: Fourport support for (John Will)
  Re: NFS Install and CHOWN (Nick Andrew)
  Re: minicom 4g (John Henders)
  Adding users with Slackware (Tejaswi Kasturi)
  Re: Help: EXT2-fs (Jim Graham)
  How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
  PAS-16 SCSI drivers? (Michael Brunetti)
  General protection: 0000 (Alexandre Khalil)
  Re: running X appl. by modem ? (Tim Cutts (Zoology))
  Re: Adaptec 1542B vs 1542C vs 1740 (Adrie Koolen)
  Re: PROBLEM: X386 freezing up station (Robert A Rethemeyer)
  [search] for Packard Bell/Linux users (travis jensen)
  X driver for HT216-32 (Headland Technologies VGA) (travis jensen)
  Slackware doesn't recognise my SCSI disk (Steef S.G. de Bruijn)
  [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks (Juergen Prang)
  Gateway 2000 486-33 EISA power system running Linux for sale (Bruce Varney)

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From: [email-masked] (Michael S Finger-1)
Subject: Re: Network Woes  [from a network newbie!]
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 03:57:36 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jeffrey T. Noll) writes:
>       I'm hoping this is a real simple problem that someone can
>help me fix. I'm trying to get a linux box onto the net and it isnt
>working so hot. At boot up time, the rc comes up with the error:
>       SIOCADDRT: network unreachable
>       SIOCADDRT: network unreachable
>
> [ etc ... ]

I had the same problem and all I did was to put the broadcast in the ifconfig
line before the netmask, and that seemed to fix the problem.

So instead of:
>   /usr/etc/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}

try:
    /usr/etc/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK} 

Whether that is a 'correct' solutionor not, I am not sure.  But it works.

-Mike

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
Date: 21 Sep 93 20:43:23 MDT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Pablo Redard) writes:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm wondering if I can log into my account at the university 
> from home (through modem) and run an X application?
> I have linux and I'm running openwin.
> 
> thanks.
>
Yes, you can. Don't ask me how. A friend of mine show that to me, but he
is out of town by now, and I myself trying to figure out how to do that.

Chet

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From: [email-masked] (John Will)
Subject: Re: Fourport support for
Date: 22 Sep 93 03:36:00 GMT

J > MODEL DESCRIPTION   LIST PRICE
J > I/O4 Non-intelligent, 4-port card $ 300
J >
J >These boards use 16C450 UARTs, which aren't socketed. We have a few of these
J >in stock here in the US office. I don't know if the other Specialix offices
J >have stock at the moment.

Some deal!  You can have an 8 port Digiboard with socketed UARTs for $410
from Programmer's Paradise, and I'm sure better deals can be had.  Without
socketed UARTs, that's a major ripoff.

J >Initially, contact me here ([email-masked]) for information.

I hope you don't actually think you're offering a service here...

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From: [email-masked] (Nick Andrew)
Subject: Re: NFS Install and CHOWN
Date: 20 Sep 1993 22:23:59 +1000

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:

>The problem is while the install script is running, it cannot change owner of
>any of the files (it says Operation not permitted) and as a result I don't
>think the installation is going properly.

I assume you are writing to an NFS-mounted partition.

It's because NFS maps away your root permissions from the client to some
other userid (usually 'nobody' or -2). To get root permissions you must
modify the /etc/exports file on the server such that your client machine
is allowed root access to that filesystem.

Nick.
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From: [email-masked] (John Henders)
Subject: Re: minicom 4g
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 02:43:30 GMT

[email-masked] (Danny ter Haar) writes:
>>
>I once uploaded it to sunsite and tsx-11, but I don't know where they put it.
>You'll have to search for minicom1.4g not 4g !

    It seems to not have made it onto either tsx-11 or sunsite. I
checked the listings and downloaded the one with the most recent date,
and it's not 1.4g. 
    Please send it again, and maybe leave a note asking the maintainers
to delete the other versions and there are some really obsolete versions
up there.

-- 
John Henders       GO/MU/E d* -p+ c+++ l++ t- m--- s/++ g+ w+++ -x+
                      Segments are for Worms

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From: [email-masked] (Tejaswi Kasturi)
Subject: Adding users with Slackware
Date: 22 Sep 1993 05:07:09 GMT

HELP!  I can't add users under slackware.  I have it installed and connected
to Internet okay, but I can only login as root, and I can't add users.
Useradd seems to run okay, but when I try to change the passwd from the
root account for the new user, or try to modify or delete it, it says
'user does not exist' or something to that effect.  I'm sure I'm making
some stupid mistake, but I can't find any info about it in the Install-howto
or the FAQ's.  I tried to install the user manually, as per the FAQ but
it still didn't work.  When I try to useradd the user again, without
deleting its entry in passwd and shadow, it gives me that the identifier
exists, but nothing else can find the user.

Help extremely appreciated...

Tejaswi Kasturi
-- 
Tejaswi Kasturi                                    [email-masked]
Electrical Engineering/Math Major
The California Institute of Technology
Happy user of OS/2 2.1b.

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Graham)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help: EXT2-fs
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 11:39:01 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Note the Reply-To address (and the corresponding note in my .signature)!
This is temporary, but for the next couple of weeks, it's important.

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
(Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>On 16 Sep 1993 06:39:47 GMT, Heon J. Jo ([email-masked]) wrote:

>> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked file system, running e2fsck is recommended
>
>> I ran e2fsck several times but...  I am still getting this message...

>You need versions of fsck, mount and umount that support all this, and they
>are part of the bootutils-0.1 package.

[ most of good list of stuff to do deleted for space ]

First off, I have a slight addition to the list of things you must have.

Thanks to Stephen Tweedie for helping me with this not too long ago!  All
credit for the following goes to Stephen.  Any errors in the interpretation
of his e-mail to me are mine.

Basically, versions of e2fsck before 0.3 had a bug where if a filesystem
was checked (i.e., clean flag not set), but no repairs had to be made, the
clean flag wouldn't be set.  The clean flag would only be set if there were
actually errors in the filesystem that had to be corrected.

So make sure you have at least version 0.3 of e2fsck (I don't know if there
is a more recent version---0.3 is the latest one I've seen, but I do know
it works).  If you don't have 0.3 or better, you'll end up having the root
filesystem checked every time you boot, and you'll always see the complaint
about it being unchecked.

>2) put 'read-only' in /etc/lilo/config, and rerun /etc/lilo/install.

Or if, like me, you don't run lilo (I use bootlin and switch in config.sys),
you can just use ``rdev -R Image 1'' to set the kernel itself to mount the
root partition readonly.

Later,
   --jim

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From: [email-masked] (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
Subject: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 05:31:34 GMT

It has seemed to me that my Linux system at home (X and GCC running in
a 15mb partition, on a 386-40, with room to spare) is faster than the
SUN IPC workstations I use at school.  I can only offer subjective 
speculation though, ie. time for a xterm to open, etc... 

I was wondering, if anyone has done benchmarks between the two for
various processors.  I am not saying that Linux is better, it still
has a ways to go before it can match the all around appeal of the SUN.

Thanks.

-- 
========================
[email-masked]
Bikram Dhaliwal
(416) 845-4567

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 19:59:20 EDT
From: Michael Brunetti <[email-masked]>
Subject: PAS-16 SCSI drivers?

Help!!! Are their any Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI drivers for
Linux or any Unix for that matter.  Will the Trantor drivers
work?  Thanks... I want my CD-ROM access under Linux..

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From: [email-masked] (Alexandre Khalil)
Subject: General protection: 0000
Date: 22 Sep 1993 06:26:26 GMT

  Hello 

  I booted my PC and after the line that announces:

RAMDisk: Loading 1440 blocks into RAMDisk .......

  I get a screenful of

General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
General protection: 0000
.....

  And the PC reboots on its own.  

  After seeing him cycle like that several times, I decided to ask.

  The configuration is pretty bland, 386/4meg, Maxtor 340 IDE, Trident
8900c card.  The motherboard is one of those 3/486 upgradeable types.

  Thanks

alex

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Cutts (Zoology))
Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 06:59:02 GMT

[email-masked] writes:

>In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Pablo Redard) writes:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I'm wondering if I can log into my account at the university 
>> from home (through modem) and run an X application?
>> I have linux and I'm running openwin.
>> 
>> thanks.
>>
>Yes, you can. Don't ask me how. A friend of mine show that to me, but he
>is out of town by now, and I myself trying to figure out how to do that.

Look for term 1.07, which allows you to do this.  You can get it from (if
memory serves) ftp.tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Can't remember if that's the right
machine name, but it's close).

Tim.

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Crossposted-To: misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone,comp.periphs.scsi
From: [email-masked] (Adrie Koolen)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B vs 1542C vs 1740
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 07:02:53 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] ($ Burkhard Kohl) writes:
>$ Burkhard Kohl ([email-masked]) wrote:
>
>: Well the 1542C supports SCSI-2 whereas the B does not. Furthermore 1542C allows
>: you to enter the SCSI-select program for test and configuration purposes from
>: ROM at boot time, so you don't need SCSI-select utilities :-)
>: --
>
>Sorry, but thats just wrong. Of course both adaptors are SCSI-2. Sorry again.
>To prevent being flamed I'll withdraw my stupid statement

I'll repeat it for the n-th time. The 1542B hasn't been made (I think) to be
SCSI-2 compatible, but the 1542B does implement all the mandatory SCSI-2
features that were optional in SCSI-1. These extra features are hardly worth
mentioning, because almost every contempory SCSI controller (except the old
Atari ST and perhaps the older Macs) does implement those extra features.

Note that Fast and Wide SCSI-2, Command Queuing and Asynchronous Event
Notification are optional in SCSI-2 and the 1542B does not support ANY of
the optional SCSI-2 features. Neither does the 1542C, I believe.

So the fact that the 1542B may be called SCSI-2 compatible doesn't buy you
much. Actually, I advise not to buy any SCSI device that isn't SCSI-2
compatible as a SCSI device that doesn't allow arbitration or the extended
sense data option might not work in your computer system. But don't think
that a SCSI-2 device will be faster than a SCSI-1 device, although it
certainly might be faster, but check it out first!

Adrie Koolen ([email-masked])
Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

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From: [email-masked] (Robert A Rethemeyer)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: X386 freezing up station
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 00:29:15 PDT

I had this problem also, running the XS3 server (1.3) under kernel
pl11 (SLS 1.03).  The machine would lock up when bringing up a new
xterm.

The problem went away after recompiling the kernel!  All I did was
add the Soundblaster CDROM support and rebuild the entire kernel.

For what it's worth.
--
Bob Rethemeyer

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (travis jensen)
Subject: [search] for Packard Bell/Linux users
Date: 22 Sep 93 02:14:22 MDT

I am looking for people who own and/or use Packard Bell
systems and Linux.  I would like to converse (via email)
about different topics WRT using Linux on the PB computers
(ie: configuring Xwindows, upgrading hardware, configuring
misc. software, etc).  If you would be interested, mail
me at:  [email-masked]

Travis

-- 
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[email-masked]  (preferred)
[email-masked]  (next best)
"My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck

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From: [email-masked] (travis jensen)
Subject: X driver for HT216-32 (Headland Technologies VGA)
Date: 22 Sep 93 03:17:50 MDT

Is there a driver for Xfree386/Linux for Headlands HT216?  If
not, has anybody been able to get this card (come bundles w/
the Packard Bell Legend 33-T Supreme) to work with the color
X server?  If not, has anybody been able to get the mono X
server to work in 800x600 mode?

Thanks for the info,

Travis

-- 
Travis A. Jensen                
[email-masked]  (preferred)
[email-masked]  (next best)
"My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck

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From: [email-masked] (Steef S.G. de Bruijn)
Subject: Slackware doesn't recognise my SCSI disk
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 08:50:17 GMT

Hi Linuxers,

Yesterday eve I tried to boot from the Slackware 1.0.3 bootdisk...
And what! It didn't recognise my SCSI disk.  It DOES recognise my SCSI card...

I got Slackware bootdisk from ftp.cdrom.com yesterday evening (september 21)

The weird thing is: I have SLS 1.03 running for a couple of weeks now,
SCSI disk no problem!

SCSI controller is Future Domain TMC-950
SCSI Disk is something like 150 Meg CDC 94161-9 Firmware rev. 6291 512bytes/sec

Question: WHY is my appropriate SCSI low-level driver excluded from the
Slackware distribution bootdisk! (or in't it?!?!?

Any comments to this group or to [email-masked]

Happy Linuxing!
Steef

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From: [email-masked] (Juergen Prang)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks
Date: 22 Sep 93 11:41:12 GMT

Currently a lot of work is done, to implement a driver for
QIC-80 (Floppycontroller-) Streamertapes. In the meantime I
decided to write a DOS device driver, that enables logical
access to non-DOS disks/partitions under DOS.

RAWDISK.SYS is a DOS device driver, that maps an arbitrary
portion of a harddisk (given by a start- and endcylinder) onto a
logical DOS drive. The HD area is accessed (read or written)
through a regular DOS file. Logical drive administration areas
(bootsector, FAT and rootdirectory) are totally virtual, hence
no additional HD space is required.

The primary intention for this device driver is to get logical
access to harddisks and partitions foreign to DOS, to enable the
usage of any QIC-80 streamer and its DOS based backup software
for making image backups of this HD area. The general approach
of this driver, however, makes it possible to use almost any
useful DOS utilities to manipulate the HD area.

I recommend reading the documentation carefully. This is
especially true, if you use this driver with a DOS version other
than MS-DOS 5.0 or with a partitioned disk or with a disk that
has more than 1024 cylinders or 63 sectors or 16 heads, because
some features/limitations should be taken notice of. It is easy
to destroy the contents of the whole disk misusing this driver.
The driver requires partitions laying on cylinder boundaries,
as long as you want to access a single partition only.

The driver is available from:

ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/pc/misc/rawdsk10.zip
login: anonymous,  password: e-mail address

Juergen
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   Dept. of Dataprocessing |     to the wrong conclusion with confidence

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Crossposted-To: misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone,misc.forsale.computers,purdue.forsale,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
From: [email-masked] (Bruce Varney)
Subject: Gateway 2000 486-33 EISA power system running Linux for sale
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 12:35:36 GMT

Gateway 2000 486DX-33 EISA system for sale

486-33DX
8 Meg SIMMS
Adaptec 1740A EISA SCSI controller
340 Meg Maxtor SCSI drive
External SCSI port for additional SCSI devices
EISA 32 bit bus
3.5" and 5.25" drives
Tower case
Microsoft Mouse
14" 1024NI non-interlaced monitor
ET4000 based Orchid Prodesigner video card
124 key ANY-key keyboard
I/O card w/ 2 Serial/1 Parallel/1 Game ports

The system is currently configured with a 64 meg Dos partition, and the
rest is dedicated to Linux. Linux runs extremely well - it is a complete
setup - Xwindows and all. 

Software:
        Linux (as mentioned)
        Dos 5.0 
        Windows 3.1
        Microsoft Works for Windows
        Microsoft Money for Windows
        Microsoft Publisher for Windows
        Microsoft Games for Windows
        Q/A PLUS diagnostic software
        EISA configuration software
        Cool tools for dos
        All manuals, original disks, etc.

This system is 8 months old. Remember this is an EISA machine with an
EISA SCSI setup - it really screams on disk performance. 

I am looking for something in the neighborhood of $3000 - if you are 
interested send mail to [email-masked]

I might be talked into parting the system, but I will not sell ANY parts
unless and until all parts are sold.

                        Bruce

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