Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #129
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 94 12:13:30 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #129, Volume #2                Sat, 1 Oct 94 12:13:30 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Mark Bolzern)
  Re: Major Slip problems (Thomas Pfau)
  Sound Blaster dev
  Re: router/gateway question (Daniel Tran)
  ftape, Mountain drive, Mach2 controller ([email-masked])
  Re: help on patching kernel source (Matthew S. Crocker)
  Window managers
  Re: PCMIA support? (Volker Heun)
  Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
  Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Mihail S. Iotov)
  Re: Enabling Dial-In to my Linux system. ([email-masked])
  Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B (Christian Linhart)
  Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE??? (David Fox)
  Re: How to make Linux see my Dos partition (Jay Schlieske)
  Re: 16 Port Board: Which model and where?? (Pete Kruckenberg)
  Compiling a SLIP FAQ List (Josh Wilmes)
  Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Jeff Kesselman)
  Is there a way to make SYS V (na8530b00-Rivera)
  Ncurses signals broken? (Joseph J Gebis)
  Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Steve Whorwood)
  Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Edward F. Munro)

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Bolzern)
Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 22:22:06 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jason Asbahr <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>I'd like to use a Linux box as the central fileserver for a
>set of DOS boxes (and other unix-ish boxes, but that's no
>problem).  
>
>Can anyone recommend DOS-based NFS solutions that will allow
>command-line level remote file access as well as Windows remote
>access?  I don't need to netboot, I just need to share files.
>
>Thanks!
>

Very happy with Century Software's TinyTerm Plus/NFS.  Not too expensive
and TCP/IP stack is from wollongong.... uses only 50K of my low ram...

-- 
Mark Bolzern :  [email-masked]    USA Tel: (303) 699-7470  Fax: (303) 699-2793 
WorkGroup Solutions, Inc.    The FlagShip "CA-Clipper and XBase on Unix" People
  FlagShip is a 4GL Database Development System & XBase Porting Tool for Unix
No Runtime Fees   Info at ftp.wgs.com : /pub2/wgs/Filelist OR mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Pfau)
Subject: Re: Major Slip problems
Date: 29 Sep 1994 01:11:02 GMT

Keith Scott ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 5) After 3 to 5 minutes of waiting it gives me a message saying,
: "unknown host"

'unknown host' sounds like a name server problem.  Is your resolver set
up properly?  Check the file /etc/resolv.conf.

To confirm this, try connecting to the system by specifying it's IP
address instead of it's name.

--
tom_p                   | I could get a new lease on life
[email-masked]      | if only I didn't need the first
                        | and last month in advance.

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Sound Blaster dev
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 01:27:43 GMT

I have a Sound Blaster 16 ASP in my system.  How do I set up Linux to
use it?  I have kernal 1.1.18

Thanks

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel Tran)
Subject: Re: router/gateway question
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 18:32:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Mr. J.P. Gregory) writes:

>I have access to a workstation which is connected to network A. I want to set
>up a small linux pc ethernet, with each PC having a local address, but also 
>being able to access network A via the workstation.  The workstation has its
>own IP address on network A. (and uses ethernet)

>Q1. Is this possible?

>Q2. If so, how?

>If possible, could you e-mail any answers.

>Thanks in advance,
>Jason.

I don't understand your question at all.
- You have network A with a workstation - (a PC????)
- You want to setup a small linux pc with ethernet card in it ????
- This PC running linux and the other workstation have different IP address

Now is the part that's confusing - "being able to access network A via the 
workstation".  Do you mean can the Linux box access network A through the 
workstation"?.

Yes, just attach your linux box directly to network A. Configure the network 
interface.  That's it.  Your linux box doesn't go through workstation A.

Daniel 

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: ftape, Mountain drive, Mach2 controller
Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:19:58 GMT

I have a Mountain 250MB tape drive with a Summit Mach2, high speed compression controller. It uses a normal FDC chipset, but has selectable I/O address, IRQ and DMA channels. This controller, when used with Mountain Filesafe tm. Software, allows me to store 330+ MB on a TD2120 tape and increases DTR from 2MB per min. to 6-8MB per min. Under Dos it also allows formatting on the fly. I know most of this will never work under Linux, but if I could just get the higher DTR Id be happy.

Has anyone else out there tried/been successful in getting ftape to talk to this configuration?

If so, please let me know where I could get an archive of your sorce directory and a mini-howto of how you got things working.

Thanks!

-- 
    Eric Kimminau  [email-masked]  Ford Motor Co.
    (313)845-55361      "I am not an official Ford spokesperson"

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Subject: Re: help on patching kernel source
Date: 1 Oct 1994 12:41:29 GMT

Anton de Wet ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I'm trying to get the newest kernel to compile (think it is 1.1.51)
: To work with I have : linux-1.1.45.tar.gz
:                       patch46..51

: To patch the kernel I'm doing the following:
: 1) remove link to current kernel src
: 2) pwd=/usr/src
: 3) tar -xzf linux-1.1.45.tar.gz
: 4) patch < patch46
: 5) strain eyes at text flashing by @ 1000 mph (everything seems to say 
:      ........ succeeded)
: 6) patch < patch47 ......... etc

its patch -p0 < patch46
    patch -p0 < patch47 

if you want to get fancy you can `patch -p0 < patch46 > patch46.out

 then you can look at the output at your own pace...

-Matt

--
-Matthew S Crocker               "The mask, given time, comes
[email-masked]              to be the face itself."  -anonymous
*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*
 *linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Window managers
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 09:59:25 GMT

I'm using xdm to boot into Xwindows.  I finally got it so it loads Motif
as the windows manager.  However, if a user wants to user another
manager, they can't.  If they kill the Motifwm process, the system goes
back to the login screen.  You can't simply run another wm, since one's
already running.  If you tell Motif to quit, it does just that, and
you're placed at the login screen again.

I'd like some suggestions on allowing the user to switch managers.
I am already aware that they can edit the $HOME/.Xsession file to set
whichever manager they want.  But, I would like to be able to switch 'on
the fly'.

Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Volker Heun)
Subject: Re: PCMIA support?
Date: 29 Sep 1994 10:04:37 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] writes:
|> 
|> I'm looking on information about PCMCIA support for Linux.
|> 
|> I am mostly interested in network and modems,
|> 
|> Does anyone working on PCMCIA drivers for Linux?
|> 

Try tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/laptops/pcmcia/drivers,

or cb-iris.stanford.edu in /pub/pcmcia.

See also http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mef/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
if you have access to WWW.

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Volker Heun                     v       Email: [email-masked]
Institut f"ur Informatik                              Phone: +49-89-2105-2686
Technische Universit"at M"unchen                        Fax: +49-89-2105-5297
Arcisstr. 21                                                Room: (SB2) S2238
D-80290 M"unchen               WWW: http://hpmayr1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/
Germany                                                    personen/heun.html
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From: [email-masked] (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
Subject: Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66?
Date: 1 Oct 1994 13:19:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
H Visage <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Mark Bolzern ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: In article <[email-masked]>,
>: Jinwoo Shin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>: >[email-masked] (Greg Cisko) writes:
>: >
>: >>In most cases, with 256K cache (essential in a DX2) the DX2 66 will be faster
>: >>than the DX50. DX2's acheive the "clock-doubling" via CPU cache hits. I gained
>: >>huge performance increases (in norton sysinfo and 3dbench) by going from 0K
>: >>external cache to 256K. Generaly, when the CPU is excercised, a DX2 66 CPU will
>: >>be faster than a DX50.
>: >
>: >Agreed. Not only is dx66 internally faster, since it combines MMU, internal
>: >cache, FPU, CPU in one chip at its native package, it should beat dx50 in
>: >most cases.
>
>: When benchmarked with FlagShip, CPU operations that are small enough to work
>: in the cache are faster on the DX2/66, but many operations are actually faster
>: on the DX/50.... especially when set up with a caching disk controller.
>
>IMHO: if you're doing some real CPU intensive stuff (Like engineering
>simulations, raytracing etc) go for the DX2/66 (especially with a 256k ext cache)
>but for most huge block moves (Like X & fileserver apps) the DX/50 should
>trash DX2/66 with PCI/VLB display & HD controllers
>

That's IF (big if) all your VLB slots support 50Mhz, as well as all your VLB
cards.  Most only support up to 40Mhz for two slots, 33Mhz for three.  The
optimal is to overclock a DX2/66 to a DX2/80 (which I do).  This smokes both
and gives optimal VLB performance for my three VLB controllers (all bus-master).
Even if you don't overclock, since the bus speeds are limited to 8Mhz/ISA and
33-40Mhz for VLB (and even 12Mhz for EISA), then the speed of the cpu will not 
affect performance on the bus as much as you think.  A faster interal speed
seems to increase performance for everything.

>--
>
>
>Good Bye
>
>Hendrik Visage
>=============================================
>One satisfied LINUX user,
> VIVA SLACKWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>=============================================
> EMail:
>   [email-masked]
>   [email-masked]
>

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Michigan State University, Computer Lab  email:[email-masked]
 Campus Park&Planning:MTuWF 1p-5p    Statistics&Probability:TuTh 9a-12p

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From: [email-masked] (Mihail S. Iotov)
Crossposted-To: utah.linux
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work?
Date: 29 Sep 1994 02:33:27 GMT

[email-masked] (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:

>[who wrote what deleted]
>>>Yes, FTAPE works, when it is configured and installed correctly.
>>
>>This is definitely NOT true, in my experience.
>>Most if not all earlier versions of ftape did not work,
>>however you configured them.
>>
>>To get ftape to work, you must upgrade to Linux 1.1.50.
>>You must then get the latest version of ftape, ftape-1.13b,

>Hmm.  I'm about to purchase a tape drive for use w/ Linux.  But I'm
>running version 1.0.9 (and I'm very happy with it).  Can someone
>confirm that ftape works with 1.0.9 or thereabouts?

>Thanks.
i
Yes, it works very well with 1.0.9. It was somewhere around 1.1.2x that it got
broken.

>-Joel
>([email-masked])
>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>|_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1943.    "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters,
>__|~| 16 Million DEAD.           and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
>                                meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded. 
> cnc  Bosnia, Europe. 1993.     And around these, in a larger circle of  pain
> cnc  HOW MANY MORE?          and time,  are scattered two  hospitals and one
>                          cemetery.   But the young woman who was  buried  in
>                    the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
>             than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably.   And the 
>      lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant  country incorporates
>into the circle the whole world.  And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
>that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Enabling Dial-In to my Linux system.
Date: 29 Sep 1994 02:11:33 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Kurt Schafer) says:
>
>I am trying to enable dial in access to my linux box here at home. I printed
>out the README for getty_ps and as per the file I changed my inittab and
>gettydefs as I felt appropriate.
>
>The verdict ? I try calling from my other line and it doesn't pick up.
>

Aha - an easy one :)

Set the modem to Auto Answer using DIP switch 5.

After that, read the Serial-HOWTO. There is a section in it just
for you.

Mail me if you can't find the HOWTO and I will send it to you, (its
not very big)

Bob

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From: [email-masked] (Christian Linhart)
Subject: Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 01:07:29 GMT

Christian Jachmann ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi!
: I've got some probs with my PAS16 and 1542B:
: If I try to play a MOD-File, following msg is displayed:  
:   -> Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

I have a 1542B and a ProAudioBasic 16 (PAS16 without SCSI) and
had the same Problem. I fixed it by reducing the BUSON-time
and increasuing the BUSOFF time of the 1542B (this was suggested
in the Sound HOWTO). This can e.g. be done in the kernel
in the file drivers/scsi/aha1542.c in the following part:

            /* Set the Bus on/off-times as not to ruin floppy performance */
    {
            unchar oncmd[] = {CMD_BUSON_TIME, 7};
            unchar offcmd[] = {CMD_BUSOFF_TIME, 5};

You have to experiment which values are working well for your system.
The suggested modification will slow down the IO-Performance 
between the 1542B and the system. 

Hope this helps,
Chris

--
Christian Linhart ([email-masked]), 
Student of Computer Science & Math at Salzburg University (Austria, Europe)
"Linux is a movement, a philosophy, where programmers and technical people
take control of their own destiny." Tim Bass in comp.os.linux.misc

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From: [email-masked] (David Fox)
Subject: Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE???
Date: 29 Sep 1994 01:10:32 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Gertjan van Noord) writes:

] UMSDOS is _much_ slower than e.g. ext2fs. I'd recommend FIPS. It is
] not difficult to use and contains good documentation.

Does FIPS work with 1 gig IDE drives?
--
David Fox                                               xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab                     baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Schlieske)
Subject: Re: How to make Linux see my Dos partition
Date: 1 Oct 1994 13:39:31 GMT

Keith Scott ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Awful thing happen to me the other day.  I was trying to see something
: from my dos partition (hda2) and I ended up destroying my file allocation
: table on dos.  Does anyone know how to safely retrieve files from a 
: dos partition ?

Hmmm...

Wondering how you did that. All my dos & os/2 partitions have always
been mounted from the very beginning, some read/write, and I've never
had a problem (knock on wood). I've copied to, moved to, use DOSEMU,
Wine, etc.

Anyway, if you want to automatically mount them on boot, add to your
/etc/fstab  "/dev/hda2    /somename     msdos     defaults " or instead
of defaults, ro for read-only.

--
                                        [email-masked] 
  - Jay                     o
         Jay Schlieske    <#<         " Above all.... have fun. " 
  +*+ Credits: smartmail__>^>__by * Linux+Pine3.90+Smail+Term-2.1.4+PoP +*+
==========   #include  <std/disclaimer.h>   ===============================

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Kruckenberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 16 Port Board: Which model and where??
Date: 29 Sep 1994 02:39:24 GMT

Bart Kindt ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi! I have to set up a 16 port Dial-In terminal server. For this, I need a 
: Linux compatible 16 (serial) Port PC board.  I have read about boards with the 
: name BOCA, but is this the only one I can use?

: And more important, where can I buy one, as cheap as possible? I am in New 
: Zealand, and they are *not* available here.

: Any info and suggestions would be very much appreciated!
: Please reply be E-Mail !

Digiboard will be releasing a Linux driver (1.1.50 kernel) for their PC/Xe
board in about two weeks. I don't know if theirs is 16-port or not. You
probably don't want to run 16 ports without using an intelligent I/O
product such as Digiboards. There is also the Cyclades Cyclom, which is
being advertised in Linux Journal. The driver is on sunsite in pub/Linux
/kernel/misc, I think, with the name cyclad*. I believe they have an 8-port
and 16-port version, and they are co-processed boards.

Pete.

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  Pete Kruckenberg                       School: [email-masked]
  University of Utah                       Work: [email-masked]
  Computer Engineering    For even more addresses, "finger [email-masked]"

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From: [email-masked] (Josh Wilmes)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Compiling a SLIP FAQ List
Date: 29 Sep 1994 03:05:20 GMT

I am willing to begin compiling a SLIP/PPP FAQ.  I would appreciate it
if people could send me any of their dip scripts or insight.  I have had
a fair amount of experience in getting SLIP up and running with my Linux
box and the campus network, and personally found the lack of information
somewhat frustrating.  It is for that reason that I am volunteering to do
this.  Thanks for any contributions!

--jw

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 00:23:22 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mark A. Horton KA4YBR <[email-masked]> wrote:
>OK!  OK!  I'm sorry!  I didn't realise the importance to Linux of PC
>games!  I apologise!  :)   (I wasn't criticising the game or playing it,
>I was just commenting on the presence of DOOM or DOMM postings in every 
>single unmoderated Linux group instead of in help or misc.)   No sweat!
>I just didn't see the planetary significance of DOOM postings in c.o.l.admin,
>c.o.l.development, etc.          
>
>Please accept my most profuse aplogies for misunderstanding the cosmic    
>significance of this port of a PC game to the Linux operating system.
>
>:)
>       -- Mark
>

Not to prolong the war, but suprisingly I DO agree with Mark's basic 
sentiment, even if I suggested he coudl be a little more laid back about it
(the 2001 quote.)

Games are fine, but continual postings all over ALL of the linux groups 
gets to be rather annoying.  It is NOT a development issue, nor is it an 
OS issue (unless someone is plannign on writing a DOOM-kernel;) )

Postings about this or any other game should really be kept in the help, 
misc or game-specific topics.

Nuff said.

Jeff Kesselman

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From: [email-masked] (na8530b00-Rivera)
Subject: Is there a way to make SYS V
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:57:15 GMT

Is there a way to make a SYS V filesystem???

Miguel A. Rivera
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph J Gebis)
Subject: Ncurses signals broken?
Date: 30 Sep 1994 19:27:22 GMT

        I compiled ncurses 1.8, and it seems to work fine, except
when you try to suspend a process that uses the ncurses library.
When you do this, the process simply hangs there; you can only
^C it.
        Here's parts of the signal handling code:

static int creceived;
 
void tstp()
{
struct sigaction act, oact;
        sigprocmask(0, NULL, &act.sa_mask);
        act.sa_handler = cont;
        act.sa_flags = 0;
        sigaction(SIGCONT, &act, &oact);
        sigdelset(&act.sa_mask, SIGCONT);
        creceived = 0;
/* This is the problem */
        while (!creceived)
                {
                sigsuspend(&act.sa_mask);
                }
        sigaction(SIGCONT, &oact, NULL);
}

static void cont(int signo)
{
        creceived = 1;
}

        See the line marked /* This is the problem */?  It gets
to that point and hangs.
        What's going on here?  I can't see why it's not working...
any help appreciated.  Thanks.

--
Joseph Gebis   [email-masked]   http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~jg11772/home.html

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Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs
From: [email-masked] (Steve Whorwood)
Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 19:23:30 +0000

In article <[email-masked]>
           [email-masked] "Bernd Wiegmann" writes:

> Patrick Killourhy ([email-masked]) wrote:
> 
> : [.....]
> 
> : An even better method would be to calculate the average throughput by
> : measuring the time it takes to transmit a system banner or motd (or
> : whatever). That way the user is getting useful text instead of a blinking
> : cursor.. 
> 
> The problem with this method is compression. The system banner or motd can
> be transmitted much faster than a normal *.zip program. The best thing ist
> the method you suggested first. Transmit one file and measure the time for
> it.

If you can get the connect string, what about using "file" on what the
punter's after to see if it's ascii or a zip/whatever? It should be
relatively easy to to make a guesstimate of how long a file will take
to transmit based on the connect string and size/type of file.

-- 
Steve Whorwood                     :Resurgam
E-Mail                              [email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Edward F. Munro)
Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 00:49:07 GMT

Herbert Rosmanith ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Aka Zodiac ([email-masked]) wrote:
: : In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Anek Vorapanya) writes:
: : > Dear all,
[snip]
: : > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
: : > PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NET02D OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
: : > TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
: : > PPP line discipline registered.
: : > SLIP: version 0.7.5 (4 channels)
: : > CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
: : > Net2Debugged PLIP 1.01 (from plip.c:v0.15 for 0.99pl12+, 8/11/93)
: : > plip1: configured for parallel port at 0x378, IRQ 7.
: : > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
: : > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.
: : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: : >  * Autoprobing found the first (and my only) Ethernet card.  Fine..

: : yes....but merely DETECTING THE CARD Does *NOT* mean it is fine...it just means
: : it has found the card...

:   In this case, it *DOES INDEED* mean the card is fine.

: : > ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94 Donald Becker ([email-masked])
: : > Linux version 1.0.9 (root@fuzzy) #3 Fri Jul 8 21:01:56 CDT 1994
: : >   ...
: : > 
: : > Sep 7 10:48:44 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
: : > Going multiuser...

======>   : : > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable  <=====
[snip]
: : > eth0      Link encap UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
: : >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I had this same problem, the answer for me was to upgrade ifconfig.
After all, the kernel probe found the currect HWaddr, it only makes sense 
that there is a problem with ifconfig.

BTW, I too was using a NE2000 clone.

[email-masked]

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