Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #93
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Linux-Admin Digest #93, Volume #2                Fri, 23 Sep 94 06:13:24 EDT

Contents:
  Re: lp polling driver = no irq? (olav woelfelschneider)
  Re: Can't login, no shell... (root)
  Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Pete Kruckenberg)
  driver for NE3200 (EtherExpress 32 EISA)? (Stefan (SAM Muenzel))
  LINUX WANTED !!! (Franck)
  Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How? (Alan Cox)
  Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ??? (Peter Dalgaard SFE)
  Re: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!! (david patterson)
  Dosemu and long file names (Bryan Wright)
  Re: going back to DOS -- hard disk problems (Jay Ashworth)
  Re: Intel Saturn chipset for 486 (w linux) ??? (Jay Ashworth)
  Re: Install without repartitioning?? (Martin Ehring)
  CLOS for Linux (Iain J. Bryson)
  Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How? (Mark Evans)
  Re: Disappearing Keyboard (Bao Chau Ha)
  Re: Large SCSI Harddisks (Tom Griffing)
  Re: AutoMount For Linux (Tim W. Janes)
  Re: Printers on the parallel port (Alex R. Moon)
  Where is insmod (Robert Broughton)
  [DOSEMU] dosemu throws my clock off.  Why??? (Joel M. Hoffman)
  Seyon with local echo (Janusz Smolak)

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From: [email-masked] (olav woelfelschneider)
Subject: Re: lp polling driver = no irq?
Date: 22 Sep 1994 08:50:46 GMT

Uwe Bonnes ([email-masked]) wrote:
: You could, but I would use "tunelp /dev/lp? -i 7" to use the interrupt for
: printing again (performance).

Hmmm.... the only performance penalty I got when printing without irq was
that it always took about 2 seconds to resume printing when the printer was
out of paper or had another error. Printing itself was fast.

But anyway, it is surely possible that the cpu may get loaded with the polling
driver. That didn't hurt me, personally, even on the slow 386/40 8MB.
I would prefer using the interrupt for another serial port, since it is more
needed there.

You should be fine by leaving the interrupt jumpered on both the serial and
the printer port. If Linux uses the lp-polling driver, it should not enable
printer interrupts in the hardware (is that true folx?), so there is no
interfering with the com port.

I got no problems with an interruptless printer on dos, note that the first
printerport on monochrome adapters didn't have an interrupt, so dos still
does not use it, and windows should still have drivers which don't use it.

Just my few ...
  Olav

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From: [email-masked] (root)
Subject: Re: Can't login, no shell...
Date: 22 Sep 1994 08:47:21 GMT

   Also check the permissions on / haven't got screwed somehow... It happens,
trust me (yes I am referring to YOU Mark *8-P)

-Neil

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Kruckenberg)
Crossposted-To: utah.linux
Subject: Has anyone gotten ftape to work?
Date: 21 Sep 1994 22:26:53 GMT

I'm going to be setting up some kind of backup system on my Linux box,
and I'm wondering if anyone has gotten ftape to work. I haven't really
tried, but I heard some comments that it didn't work or was difficult
to set up. Are they true?

Also, any recommendations on what to get to back-up a 1GB drive (all
Linux ext2)? I was thinking about using a Colorado Jumbo 250, but
that'll take several tapes to backup. Are there any Linux-compatible
tape drives (SCSI or proprietary bus, since I don't have IDE in this
machine) that are pretty affordable (under $500) that are close to
1GB?

Thanks.
Pete.

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From: [email-masked] (Stefan (SAM) Muenzel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.os.linux
Subject: driver for NE3200 (EtherExpress 32 EISA)?
Date: 22 Sep 94 15:49:22 GMT

Hi folks,

I have the following problem:
my current employer has an EISA-machine with an (for me) unknown
ethernet-card. It's a 
        Intel EtherExpress 32Bit ( NE3200 ) / EISA
I'm not sure this is the correct name, but i hope some guru on
the net will recognize it.

I looked through the kernel-sources (1.1.50), but couldn't find a
driver for this card (or is it the ac3200 in drivers/net?).

Does anybody know of this card, or is there already someone writing
the driver?

It's fairly important for us to get them working (the
destination-machine will have 3 of them).

Any information would be of great value ;-)

ciao
        SAM

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From: [email-masked] (Franck )
Subject: LINUX WANTED !!!
Date: 22 Sep 1994 09:27:21 GMT

        Hello, everybody !

        I want to install Linux on my PC.
        I have some very simple questions :

        - What's the last version of Linux ?
        - Where can I find it ? (ftp site...)
          Is documentation about installation, administration be complete and
          clear ?

        Thanks a lot for any contribution.

         _____/    _____/     
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       /_        /        Franck Charlemagne. 
      __/       /        Projet Rodin.
     /         /       e-mail : [email-masked]
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  "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
   Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

                                 Goethe.

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 09:14:14 GMT

In theory using the kernel IPX support instead of the DOSemu packet driver
should have the desired effect too as each client will allocate a different
IPX socket number.

Alan
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From: [email-masked] (Peter Dalgaard SFE)
Subject: Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ???
Date: 22 Sep 1994 18:58:20 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Christian Jachmann) writes:

>NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: Hello,

>: I want to print out online manpages
>: (e.g. man cd | lpr -Pxxx ) but I have
>: problems because I get always ugly
>: control characters (, , etc.).

>: How can I use nroff (groff, troff, etc.)
>: and the man-macros to avoid these control
>: characters and my 
>: GREATEST PROBLEM: how can I print
>: out preformated man pages without
>: these ugly control characters on my printer?

>If u've got a Postscript-Printer, try to get a2ps. It converts ASCII to 
>PostScript, prints 2 or more pages on one converts all control characters.

Actually, it is a bit of a "verschlimmbesserung" that the
distribution tend to carry the formatted man pages only.
Granted, you get faster lookup times, but you lose the ability
to pretty-print them with 'man -t'. For some of the larger
"pages", this can actually be the difference between readable
and not. The slackware contrib directory has a rather extensive
set of manual sources.

BTW: Can you have the *sources* in compressed form and still
have 'man' working?
--
   O_   ---- Peter Dalgaard
  c/ /'  --- Dept. of Biostatistics 
 ( ) \( ) -- University of Copenhagen
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From: [email-masked] (david patterson)
Subject: Re: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!!
Date: 22 Sep 1994 20:35:09 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (Larry Slane) writes:
>I recently installed Linux from CD on to a 300MB drive.  
>Running a 50Mhz 486slc with 8Meg RAM, but Xwindows is 
>too slow to use, moving from one window to another it 
>takes the system up to 30 seconds to catch up.  
>The hard drive seems to thrash a bit and the CD is 
>accessed at least once during this process. 
>Would like to hear any ideas on this topic. 

Hrm, sounds like you don't have enough swap space set up.  I have 8 megs of 
ram and 20 megs of swap set up which seems to do okay.  You can see if this 
is a problem by typing "free" and seeing if all your memory and swap is consumed.

---
Dave Patterson
[email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Bryan Wright)
Subject: Dosemu and long file names
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 17:31:51 GMT

Hi Folks,

        Is there a way to get Dosemu to see linux files whose names 
don't fit the DOS limitations?  In many cases, long names could be truncated 
unambiguously.  Where truncation would result in ambiguity,
the file name could be encoded in some way which would create a unique name
fitting the DOS limitations.  Is this already implemented in Dosemu and, if
so, how do I turn it on?

                                        Thanks in advance,
                                        Bryan

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Physics Department          | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes 
University of Virginia      | than rhubarb does."  --  Groucho 
Charlottesville, VA  22901  |                   
(804) 924-6814              |         [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: going back to DOS -- hard disk problems
Date: 20 Sep 1994 01:25:42 -0400

[email-masked] writes:
>Well, I'm not sure if you mentioned the type of 270M disk, but-
>you cannot format an IDE drive. Low level, that is.  Forget the
>DEBUG format, that is low level format.

Well...

You can low level format an IDE drive, but you have to have the right
software.

It's no longer the $3500 it was when IDE first happened; I gather Disk
Manager either 5.x or 6.x can do it for a lot of drives.  But I do _hate_
drives that lie to the operating system about their geometry.  Blows my
elevator seek algorithms all to hell...

Cheers,
-- jr 'avg. seek time: 20 minutes. The kids are too smart for me...' a
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                                                       Ashworth
Designer                                                          & Associates
ka1fjx/4              High Technology Systems Consulting
[email-masked]                                                +1 813 790 7592

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Intel Saturn chipset for 486 (w linux) ???
Date: 20 Sep 1994 01:28:49 -0400

[email-masked] (Dave Platt) writes:
[ glad to see you got a new gig, Dave... ]
>problems, no unexplainable hangs or crashes or data corruption.  Runs
>like a bat out of hell, too - FTP'ing a big file from a SparcStation-10
>yielded between 820 and 870 kbytes/second, sustained throughput all the
>way up through the Linux filesystem and SCSI driver.

Good ghod... that's better than half the channel capacity, isn't it?  I
don't suppose you can bench a _pair_ of identical machines, can you?  I'd
purely _love_ to know how much of a hit your taking running Polaris
instead of Linux at the other end...

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                       Ashworth
Designer                                                          & Associates
ka1fjx/4              High Technology Systems Consulting
[email-masked]                                                +1 813 790 7592

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Ehring)
Subject: Re: Install without repartitioning??
Date: 22 Sep 1994 10:02:55 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Alexander A Durzy) writes:
| Does anyone know if there is a way to install linux 
| without repartitioning a DOS formatted drive?
| 
you may try fips.exe. It is an interactive partition splitter. I used it without problems and
_really_ recommend it. fips .exe can be found e.g. on sunsite.
Martin

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From: [email-masked] (Iain J. Bryson)
Subject: CLOS for Linux
Date: 23 Sep 1994 00:16:51 GMT

Is there an implementation of CLOS for Linux?
the clisp included with slackware 2.0 doesn't
seem to have the extensions.

Thanks.

--
[email-masked] (Iain Bryson)  "I have detailed files."
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada - Computer Engr.
"Now we're cooking with evil gas!" - Kids in the Hall.

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 15:29:39 GMT

Alan Cox ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In theory using the kernel IPX support instead of the DOSemu packet driver
: should have the desired effect too as each client will allocate a different
: IPX socket number.

There is still the problem with the workstation shell holding onto the
RIP socket, unless a workarround has been applied in the latest version of
the dosemu code.

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From: [email-masked] (Bao Chau Ha)
Subject: Re: Disappearing Keyboard
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 15:30:30 GMT

In article <wpp.780052252@marie> [email-masked] (Kai Petzke) writes:
>
>>Does anyone have an idea why after boot up my keyboard would suddenly act 
>>as if it's not getting any power? Everything worked fine as I set things 
>>up using the root and boot disks.
>
>Did you accidently press Ctrl-Q?  That stops any further screen output,
>including, what you type.
>
>Press Ctrl-S for remedy.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?  I always thought Ctrl-S locks
the screen scrolling and Ctrl-Q releases the scroll lock.

Bao

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Griffing)
Subject: Re: Large SCSI Harddisks
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 03:33:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Oystein Homelien <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I'm just about to install a 2.1GB SCSI disk.  But I've had problems with
>disks larger than 1023 sectors (?) earlier.  I'm going to use Slackware 2,
>but I fear it is not going to install smoothly.  What can I do to make it
>work?  Please answer by email ([email-masked]), I'll repost a summary
>of the information I get.

I've got two machines with disks greater than 1023 
Cylinders ... and ESDI and a SCSI.  The problem is
not with Linux recognizing the higher cylinders, but
in booting.

LILO won't install properly for me on my ESDI
machine with 1630 cylinders, since the Linux primary
partition has some cylinders > 1023.  But, I routinely
that machine from a floppy and it runs fine.

When I installed my SCSI machine, I created the 
primary Linux partition with all cylinders below
1024 cylinders.  I have created a secondary partition
for the rest of the disk and mounted it separately.

My SCSI controller (Ultrastor 34F) has a jumper 
that can be set to re-map the disk geometry and make
it appear to have half the cylinders.  I haven't tried
this feature, but a friend has, and said that it
didn't work with Linux.  I suspect that it is something
specific to Ultrastor/Linux.  Your mileage may vary.

Hope this helps,

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From: [email-masked] (Tim W. Janes)
Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux
Date: 22 Sep 1994 16:49:15 +0100

In article <[email-masked]>, Jake Colman <[email-masked]> wrote:
>SethMeister G. ([email-masked]) wrote:
>

>There is a version of amd (AutoMounter) for Linus that works like a charm
>for autmounting remote directories.  It does not automatically mount
>diskettes.  I would be interested in such a beastie as well.
>

We run amd on DEC OSF/1 to automount CD-ROM's very happily - I would
think it should work for floppies on Linux. If I get a chance I will try on
our linux amd setup.

here is the entry in the auto.mnt for a machine with a cdrom

sappho/iso_cdrom  host==sappho;type:=cdfs;dev:=/dev/rz4c;opts:=noversion \
                  host!=sappho;type:=nfs;rhost:=sappho

Unless you wait for the timeout period you have to do a amq -u before
removing the cd-rom.

Tim.

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From: [email-masked] (Alex R. Moon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Printers on the parallel port
Date: 21 Sep 1994 22:21:10 GMT

In article <[email-masked]: ,
Heike C. Zimmerer <[email-masked]:  wrote:
: [email-masked] (George Photakis) writes:
: 
: >In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Stephen E. Farlow) 
: >writes:
: 
: >>George Photakis ([email-masked]) wrote:
: >>: LPT1 in DOS is /dev/lp0 under Linux.... 
: >>*****************************************************************
: >>WRONG!!! A laser printer in Linux is /dev/lp1 !!! Becareful here!
: >>*****************************************************************
: 
: Linux can't detect what kind of printer you are running, be
: it laser or not (how should it - parallel printer interfaces are
: unidirectional?).

Well, not always, but most of the time.

At any rate, as I recall, if you have an old bus, lpt1 == /dev/lp0
if you have a newer bus lpt1 == /dev/lp1

: 
: There is a Linux Printing-HOWTO. Look for Chapter 2.13 (Printer device
: names).
: 
: -- 
: Heike C. Zimmerer                                    [email-masked]

--Alex
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From: [email-masked] (Robert Broughton)
Subject: Where is insmod
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 22:07:27 -0800

I'm trying to get ftape working, and it says that you need something called
/sbin/insmod to install it. Does anyone know where I can find this program?
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From: [email-masked] (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: [DOSEMU] dosemu throws my clock off.  Why???
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 01:08:44 GMT

I just upgraded to a recent version of dosemu (0.52) and now I find
that my system clock is running VERY VERY VERY fast (when dosemu is
running).  For example, after using dosemu for a while today, I find
that the clock is 11 hours fast!!

What's going on?  Is this a known bug?  Is there a fix?

-Joel
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From: [email-masked] (Janusz Smolak)
Subject: Seyon with local echo
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 23:56:49 GMT

Does anyone have an idea how to enable local echo
in Seyon. 
I'd really appreciate any help on that.

regards.

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