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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail39.html#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</font></H3></center>
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Answers to these questions should be sent directly to the e-mail address of
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the inquirer with or without a copy to gazette@ssc.com. Answers that are
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:08:48 -0800<BR>
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From: Abdul Rauf, <A HREF="mailto:arauf@lums.edu.pk">
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arauf@lums.edu.pk</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Intel NIC</font>
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I have a problem while I am trying to implement firewall on a Linux box.
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Problem is that I have installed two Intel NIC's in the system and gave
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them two IPs with the same subnet, when I ping them from the other
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machines both of them reply but when I ping to each other they don't.
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What could be the reason?
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Thanks
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--<BR>
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Abdul Rauf
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 15:44:28 -0800<BR>
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From: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan, <A HREF="mailto:thaths@netscape.com">
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thaths@netscape.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">DSL Access</font>
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<P>
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My telephone carrier slashed the prices on DSL access
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http://public.pacbell.net/dedicated/dsl/dsl_basic.html. I am currently
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on the waiting list to get connected via DSL. The PacBell page lists the
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following under the "Hardware Requirements" section -
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* Alcatel 1000 DSL Modem<BR>
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* POTS Spliter<BR>
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* Kingston KNE 40T Network Interface Card
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I have a dual-boot (Debian GNU/)Linux - Win '95 machine at home. How is
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the support for the above hardware under Linux?
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--<BR>
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Sudhakar
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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 23:06:49 +0000<BR>
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From: "graham.drake", <A HREF="mailto:graham.drake@virgin.net">
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graham.drake@virgin.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">video card</font>
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<P>
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The Linux desktops running under X do not fit my monitor, I suppose I
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have not got the resolution correct. I have a Compaq Presario 2110 but
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have not got any video card details. If anybody out there has set up on
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the same computer please would you send me details.
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Thanks,
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--<BR>
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Graham
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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 20:15:23 +0000<BR>
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From: Huub van Niekerk, <A HREF="mailto:niekerk@igr.nl">
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niekerk@igr.nl</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">E-mail</font>
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I'm looking for an email program that equals Windows' Eudora. Who can do
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a suggestion?
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Thanks.
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--<BR>
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Huub
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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 02:57:15 +0000<BR>
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From: DanBarnes, <A HREF="mailto:DanBarnes@worldnet.att.net">
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DanBarnes@worldnet.att.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Joystick Article</font>
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I've been puttering around off and on with getting a joystick working
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with Linux and I realize that I can't recall coming across an article
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anywhere on this, this might be a good article idea for Linux Gazette.
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--<BR>
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Dan
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:39:55 -0600<BR>
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From: Mark Forstneger, <A HREF="mailto:mark@advancenet.net">
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mark@advancenet.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">new kernel</font>
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I am looking for information on what differentiates kernel 2.2.x from
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2.0.x. Perhaps you could do an article on it? There were many articles
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on the Windows98 release and how it different from Windows95, whether
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one should upgrade, etc. Jump on the bandwagon. Thank you very much.
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--
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Mark
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Check out the article by Joseph Pranevich, <A HREF="../issue37/pranevich.html">"The Wonderful World of Linux
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2.2."</A> in our February issue. --Editor)
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</I> </blockquote>
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:31:00 -0800<BR>
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From: "Michel A. Lim", <A HREF="mailto:support@whl-international.com">
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support@whl-international.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Does Linux like WINS?</font>
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Hello all. Now that my network card is working, I am trying to connect my
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Linux box (Red Hat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36-0.7) to my Windows network. After
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some struggling, the Linux machine now appears and is accessible in the
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Network Neighborhoods of all my Win 9x/NT4 workstations. Furthermore, I can
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ping and telnet from each workstation to the Linux server by its host name
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(WHL31) and by its static IP address (192.168.34.6).
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However, I can only ping from the Linux box to the workstations by their
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respective IP address. Since the workstations receive IP addresses
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dynamically from the DHCP service on my NT3.51 server, I cannot simply add
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the host names for all workstations to /etc/hosts. Therefore, my NT3.51
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server (192.168.34.1) also acts as the WINS server for my network. I have
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configured Samba (1.9.18p10) with the following entries in /etc/smb.conf:
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<PRE>
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wins server = 192.168.34.1
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name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast
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</PRE>
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but the Linux machine does not seem to be querying the WINS database.
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What am I missing here? Is there another way to direct Linux to the WINS
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database? I was hoping to try things this way first, before trying to set
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up the Linux server as the WINS and/or DNS-caching server for my network.
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<P>
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Thank you for your attention in this matter. Any suggestions and ideas
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would be most welcome. However, please bear in mind that I am not very
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network savvy. For that matter, I'm also do not have any formal IS
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training.
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Regards,
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--<BR>
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Michel A. Lim
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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 16:14:27 -0300<BR>
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From: "AcidBrain", <A HREF="mailto:AcidBrain@ThePentagon.com">
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AcidBrain@ThePentagon.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Linux to Netware Problem</font>
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Hi, I liked your zine very much.
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I'm mailing you, because it appears that no one knows how to solve my
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problem ( at least here, in Brazil).
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The problem appears when I try to connect ( dialing ) to my ISP, that is
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a Novell Netware. Look at the logs.
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First, I tried to connect with minicom :
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CONNECT 33600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
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[ after some time: ]
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Connected to NetWare CONNECT 2.0.30 Service Selector on port AIO_111913000.
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Sorry, there are no services available at this time.
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Ok, I thought. Minicom is not the best way to connect. So, someone
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said that connecting with pppd would be the solution. The result was the
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same. Then, I read about ezppp in one home page that said it works works
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with Win NT. The result was the same. My modem is an USR Sportster 33.6 -
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Slack 3.5 and I can connect normally in other ISPs.
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Would you know the solution ? If so, please help-me.
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Thanks,
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AcidBrain
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<blockquote> <I>
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(The best guide I know of for connecting to the Internet using PPP is
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an article by Terry Dawson "The 10-Minute Guide for Using PPP to Connect
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Linux to the Internet" found at <A
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HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue36/ppp.html">
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue36/ppp.html</A>. --Editor)
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</I> </blockquote>
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:45:41 -0000<BR>
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From: Robert Karlsson, <A HREF="mailto:rknna98@robertsfors.se">
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rknna98@robertsfors.se</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Problem with the proxy</font>
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I am running Slackware 3.4 with the kernel 2.0.36. I am trying to get my Linux
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to work with our schools proxy. I need some kind of proxy client that can
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handle SOCKS5. We tried some clients for SOCKS4 (homemade) but they don't
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work so it got to SOCKS5. What should I do?? I have no idea how to make it
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work. I don't know so much about SOCKS5 so I cant program my own program. Is
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there some program for SOCKS5? Please answer. (I want to throw W95 in the
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wall) /SiD_V
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Robert
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:50:03 +0000<BR>
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From: Michael Wilson, <A HREF="mailto:michael.wilson5@virgin.net">
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michael.wilson5@virgin.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Dodgy Hard Drive</font>
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Before I start, excellent resource, keep up the good work... to my problem now.
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I have 3 HD's two on the master and slave on the primary controller and the
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last on the primary of the secondary controller.
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The dodgy drive is a Segate Medallist ST34321A. I have included a part of the
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boot.msg so as you can so what I mean...
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<4>PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 11
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<4>PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
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<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
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<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
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<4>hda: SAMSUNG SV0644A, ATA DISK drive
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<4>hdb: FUJITSU MPC3064AT, ATA DISK drive
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<4>hdc: ST34321A, ATA DISK drive
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<4>hdd: CR-2801TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
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<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
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<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
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<6>hda: SAMSUNG SV0644A, 6105MB w/490kB Cache, CHS=778/255/63, UDMA
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<6>hdb: FUJITSU MPC3064AT, 6187MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=838/240/63, UDMA
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<6>hdc: ST34321A, 4103MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=8894/15/63, UDMA
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<4>hdd: ATAPI 8X CDROM CD-R drive, 512kB Cache
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<6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.51
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<4>Partition check:
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<4> hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > hda2
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<4> hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 >
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<4> hdc:hdc: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
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<4>hdc: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
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<4> [PTBL] [523/255/63] hdc1 < hdc5 >
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</PRE>
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As you can see the drive is detected as CHS 8894/15/63 I originally used this
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as my primary boot drive but had to install Linux on another drive and not
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mount the then hda2 hda5 etc as Linux it would corrupt the files on reboot or
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shutdown with an error message such as can't find fs signature. I have
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subsequently purchased a replacement primary drive and have changed the
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settings in the bios to reflect LBA for the Segate so as you can see the CHS is
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re-interpreted as CHS 523/255/63 but that is showing an error.
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Any ideas, or the scrap heap for it ??
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--<BR>
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Michael
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:47:23 +0000<BR>
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From: "Rod King", <A HREF="mailto:kingr@mervbak.nex.net.au">
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kingr@mervbak.nex.net.au</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Uninstalling Software</font>
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<P>
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Have you had any articles on uninstalling application software in Linux. I am having some trouble finding
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information on this subject.
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Thanks
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--<BR>
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Rod King
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:35:34 +0000<BR>
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From: Ben, <A HREF="mailto:ben.metcalfe@ntli.net">
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ben.metcalfe@ntli.net</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">retrieving Win9x / NT user names with Linux.</font>
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<P>
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I've searched high and low for info on how to do this - something like an nbtstat on a win32 box from a UNIX server.
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I just need a way to allow a Linux server to retrieve the user name that a win9x / NT user is logged in to a hot-desking machine with.
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<P>
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So if I log in to a Win95 box as fubaruser / password, then try and open a local intranet page on the Linux server, it will allow me to log in with my own personal profile for the intranet site - and this profile will follow me from Win9x machine to Win9x machine.
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Because of the unclean nature of these machines, and the multiplicity of browsers in use, cookies are impractical.
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help me pleeeeease?
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--<BR>
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Ben
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:03:52 -0800<BR>
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From: David Gardner<A HREF="mailto:gardner@transport.com">
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gardner@transport.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Advice on Linux Internet gateway box...</font>
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I'm using an old i486-66 box (16 MB RAM, 250 MB HD) running Linux 2.0.32
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kernel with Diald, pppd, routed and other assorted daemons. I also use
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masquerading to allow all workstations on my home network to get onto
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and use the Internet. It works okay but the syslogd tends to get stuck
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and blocks any additional dial-out sessions. Once I kill the syslogd
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process, everything goes fine again but ... nothing is logged. Can you
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make recommendations on how to solve this problem?
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I'm also considering ADSL to replace my POTS connection. Do you have any
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specific recommendations for converting the Internet gateway system?
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--<BR>
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David
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:20:04 -0000<BR>
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From: Brian Lycett, <A HREF="mailto:BrianLycett@Regis-intl.com">
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BrianLycett@Regis-intl.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">PC CHIPS Problem</font>
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<P>
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I recently bought a brand spanking new PC-CHIPS motherboard, model
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598, with a SiS530 onboard AGP 3D graphics card.
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I was quite eager to run Linux on this, but imagine my disappointment when I
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started X and got a corrupted, garbled screen.
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When I came out of X, the fonts were also all messed up.
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<P>
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I tried the latest XFree86 release, which is supposed to support the
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PC-Chips mainboard, but it still didn't work.
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Does anyone know of any fixes for this?
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The VGA uses shared system memory - could this be a problem?
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This is the first problem in Linux I've come across that I can't find help
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for anywhere.
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So if anyone out there could help me get X Windows up and running on my new
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box, I'd be very, very happy.
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Thank you.
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--<BR>
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Brian
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 14:44:06 -0600<BR>
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From: Mark Zolton, <A HREF="mailto:mcz@wheat.ksu.edu">
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mcz@wheat.ksu.edu</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">Linux, PalmIII, and Email</font>
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I just purchased a PalmIII and I am interested in using it to compose
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and send email. The Pilot utilities for Linux contain a pilot-mail
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program which is capable of retrieving email from a POP client and
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sending it to the PlamIII. It sends email from the PalmIII via sendmail.
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I have no trouble getting email from the POP client, however, I have not
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played around with sendmail enough to know how to set it up to send
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email to my service providers SMTP host. What I would really like to
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find is an application which would allow me to use the PalmIII's serial
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connection to send email to an SMTP host so I don't have to mess with
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sendmail. If that isn't possible, can anyone recommend a good tutorial
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on setting up sendmail for personal use?
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-- <BR>
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Mark
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:49:26 PST<BR>
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From: "Ar San", <A HREF="mailto:san_hk@hotmail.com">
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san_hk@hotmail.com</A> <BR>
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Subject: <font color="navy">TACACS is year 2000 compliance</font>
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<P>
|
|
I would like to know that TACACS/TACACS PLUS is/are year 2000
|
|
compliance?? (NetWare Server)
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|
Thanks!!
|
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--<BR>
|
|
San
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:40:52 +0100<BR>
|
|
From: "Wojtek Pêkala", <A HREF="mailto:wojtekp@infonet.wroc.pl">
|
|
wojtekp@infonet.wroc.pl</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Scanner Mustek Cp 600</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
The CP 600 scanners are really cheap, and that's the reason why my
|
|
employer has equipped me with one. Right now the scanner is the only
|
|
reason why I still have a Windows partition on my disk, as the lpt
|
|
scanners lack generally support under Linux. I tried to use the Win3.1
|
|
software for the scanner under Wine but to no avail. The failure
|
|
surprised me since Wine generally handles the old small W3.1 progs quite
|
|
well. Here is what I got:
|
|
<PRE>
|
|
Unexpected Windows program segfault - opcode = 8b
|
|
Page fault in 32-bit code (0x0809ddfc).
|
|
Fault address is 0x03780345
|
|
Loading symbols: wine /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
|
|
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
|
|
/usr/lib/libMesaGL.so.3 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
|
|
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
|
|
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 /lib/libdl.so.2 /lib/libm.so.6
|
|
/lib/libc.so.6
|
|
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libnss_files.so.1
|
|
TOOLHELP SHELL COMMDLG KEYBOARD WIN87EM LEAD52 PANEL USER GDI KERNEL
|
|
WINEPS WPROCS DISPLAY SYSTEM USER32 GDI32 KERNEL32
|
|
In 32 bit mode.
|
|
Register dump:
|
|
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:03b7 GS:002b
|
|
EIP:0809ddfc ESP:40a6f5b8 EBP:40a6f61c EFLAGS:00010246( R- 00 I Z-
|
|
-P1 )
|
|
EAX:03780345 EBX:000003ff ECX:0000037c EDX:03780345
|
|
ESI:03780345 EDI:000008d4
|
|
Stack dump:
|
|
0x40a6f5b8 (USER32..code+0x33e090): 00000000 40307818 000008d4 01c004b1
|
|
08abd96 0 00000001 00000413 00000081
|
|
0x40a6f5d8 (USER32..code+0x33e0b0): 00000413 402e2598 00000000 00000413
|
|
0000000 1 00000000 00000001 00000000
|
|
0x40a6f5f8 (USER32..code+0x33e0d0): 00000000 00000001 00000000 4031754c
|
|
40a6f62 8 080c33f8 402e2598 00000081
|
|
0x40a6f618 (USER32..code+0x33e0f0):
|
|
|
|
Backtrace:
|
|
=>0 0x0809ddfc (MENU_SetItemData+0x15c [menu.c])
|
|
1 0x0809e6e8 (MENU_ExecFocusedItem+0x5c [menu.c])
|
|
2 0x081c7862 (TOOLBAR_SetMaxTextRows+0x22 [toolbar.c])
|
|
3 0x081c7d53 (TOOLBAR_LButtonDown+0x47 [toolbar.c])
|
|
4 0x081b419a (TSXFree+0x2e)
|
|
5 0x081b4a81 (TSXMapWindow+0x65)
|
|
6 0x0807d3a0 (CallFrom16_p_long_tp+0x8 [callfrom16.s])
|
|
7 0x08067e87 (BUILTIN_Init+0x6b)
|
|
...
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
Seems like some bug in user interface to me ? Is there any workaround ?
|
|
(I enabled the lpt's for WINE to write)
|
|
Regards
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Wojtek
|
|
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 06:23:44 -0800 (PST)<BR>
|
|
From: Jonathan Markevich, <A HREF="mailto:jmarkevich@yahoo.com">
|
|
jmarkevich@yahoo.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Mac client over LocalTalk</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Does anyone know if it is possible to do file sharing over a simple
|
|
LocalTalk (serial) connection? I had a modem cable so I could plug
|
|
into a RS232 modem, and a null modem cable. Sounds good so far...
|
|
<P>
|
|
Getting netatalk to use the serial connection instead of the Ethernet
|
|
one was another issue... SuSE 5.2-6.0 doesn't include slattach and the
|
|
HOWTOs claim that's what I need.
|
|
<P>
|
|
This machine is a Mac Plus and it really really needs some storage
|
|
space. It would be an awesome client otherwise; I should be able to
|
|
run MacTCP, Eudora and Mosaic! Except... I can't LOAD them on the
|
|
machine without some sort of networking. Incompatible floppies, you
|
|
know.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Any ideas? I've also read the netatalk HOWTO and it says "First you
|
|
need TCP/IP running" and doesn't seem to include the thought of a
|
|
SERIAL connection.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Thanks for your help!
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Jonathan
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:31:13 +0100<BR>
|
|
From: tuezney, <A HREF="mailto:tuezney@mailserv.oma.be">
|
|
tuezney@mailserv.oma.be</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">opengl accelerated?</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Are there already free accelerated opengl1.1 compliant drivers for e.g.
|
|
riva TNT based cards for Linux? Is there anybody working on this?
|
|
Xi-graphics do make them but than they are commercial!
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
tuezney
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:46:02 -0700<BR>
|
|
From: "K.A. Steensma", <A HREF="mailto:steensma@flash.net">
|
|
steensma@flash.net</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">What is a *.ajr file?</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I had kind of forgotten that your message about issue #38 had come in
|
|
via email. So last night (on my desktop computer), I went over to you
|
|
home page and found the "Linux Gazette Downloading Information" section,
|
|
pointed at the "here" in "Linux Gazette can be downloaded by clicking
|
|
here" and went to download issue #38. As my pointer went over the
|
|
"here", my status line (in Netscape) indicated that I would be
|
|
downloading "ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue38.tar.gz". But when I
|
|
clicked on the "here" and the dialog box game up for me to decide where
|
|
I wanted to put the file, the file name was "lg-issue38_tar.arj". (I
|
|
should have said earlier that I use Win98/Netscapte on my desktop.) And
|
|
that is exactly what I downloaded; a "ajr" file.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Supper was on the table, so I left it as that and (later) sat in the
|
|
bedroom (with my laptop that has the same combination of software) and
|
|
(since I still hadn't read you issue) downloaded another copy of the
|
|
issue. That copy was downloaded as a 'gz' file which I then
|
|
decompressed, stored and read. It didn't come to me that (earlier) I
|
|
had downloaded a 'ajr' file before. Now this morning, using the deaktop
|
|
computer, I downloaded another copy and that copy was (again) a 'ajr'
|
|
file.
|
|
<P>
|
|
What is a 'ajr' compressed file? Do you have any idea why (with my
|
|
desktop computer) I download a 'ajr' file but with my laptop, download a
|
|
'gz' file. I really don't think that I have made some 'silly' mistake
|
|
or that I have different versions of the OS or Netscape (as far as I can
|
|
remember, both machines were derived from the same CD/disk file (Win98
|
|
from the CD; Netscape from a downloaded installation file).
|
|
<P>
|
|
I just started to download the base files (from the next 'here' in the
|
|
web page) and the same thing happened again. The status bar for
|
|
Netscape indicated that I would be accessing a 'gz' file, but the
|
|
'Download To' dialog file indicated that I would be receiving a 'ajr'
|
|
file.
|
|
<P>
|
|
I've been around computers and the Internet long enough that I am
|
|
considered an 'expert'. But this one kind of flips me out.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
TIA - KAS
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:18:25 -0000<BR>
|
|
From: "Monaghan Consultants Ltd", <A HREF="mailto:alex@monaghan.co.uk">
|
|
alex@monaghan.co.uk</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">fdisk</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
My fdisk (Debian 1.3) does not recognize my SCSI drive correctly. I'm using
|
|
a Future Domain TMC8xx card using the ST01 setting in the kernel config,
|
|
this is fine on my current small SCSI drives, but I'm wanting to replace
|
|
these with a couple of HP C2247's.
|
|
<P>
|
|
When running fdisk the initial message (and also at boot time) is showing
|
|
>64 heads, but fdisk will only allow me to set 64 heads.
|
|
<P>
|
|
How can I create a partition to use all of the disk ?
|
|
<P>
|
|
Is this a limitation of fdisk, the kernel or the SCSI card ?
|
|
Thanks
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Alex Monaghan
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:34:08 -0000<BR>
|
|
From: "Victor Gibson", <A HREF="mailto:victor.gibson@onlinemagic.com">
|
|
victor.gibson@onlinemagic.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">winmodems</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Being a complete newbie where Linux is concerned and working for a company
|
|
that has few Unix servers running WINS and DHCP and hosting a few websites.
|
|
I was asked if I would be interested in learning Unix to cover sysadmin. I
|
|
jumped at the chance, although the training is not for a few months I
|
|
decided to ditch my win98 system at home and go head long into a Linux
|
|
install(Red Hat 5.1)
|
|
<P>
|
|
It has taken me all weekend to get it up and running, with the X Window
|
|
System configured, now this is not a long time as I like to read all the
|
|
instructions, learn from past mistakes and many hair pulling moments that
|
|
manuals and HOWTOs and FAQ are there for a reason. My next step along the
|
|
Linux path is to get my modem working............It's a winmodem so I appear
|
|
to be stuck, I do not really want to spend any more money on a modem; is
|
|
there anyway I can get a winmodem (internal) to work under Linux, I read somewhere
|
|
this is not possible as the CPU does most of the modem's work (driven by
|
|
software.
|
|
<P>
|
|
Can anyone point me in the direction of any info on getting winmodems to
|
|
work under Linux?
|
|
Thanks,
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Victor
|
|
<blockquote> <I>
|
|
(To my knowledge, there's no way to get a winmodem to work with Linux.
|
|
Anyone out there have a different answer? --Editor)
|
|
</I> </blockquote>
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:14:04 +0600
|
|
From: "sujon", <A HREF="mailto:sujon@ncll.com">sujon@ncll.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Red Hat and sendmail</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I installed Red Hat 4.2 and sendmail 8.5.Recently I upgraded to Red Hat 5.1 and
|
|
sendmail 8.9.Sendmail is working on server. But when other user (work
|
|
station/dialup line) send a mail it does not work and give a message
|
|
recipient must be change.......<BR>
|
|
Please help......................
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Sujon
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:26:53 -0000<BR>
|
|
From: "Matthew Pearson", <A
|
|
HREF="mailto:matthew.pearson@infomatrix.ltd.uk">
|
|
matthew.pearson@infomatrix.ltd.uk</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Article ideas for you...</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I've only just discovered your site, and it looks very useful.
|
|
<P>
|
|
A decent collection of how to set up and use a DAT drive with Linux would
|
|
have made my life a lot easier recently. There are bits about it all over
|
|
the place, but they really are all over the place.
|
|
<P>
|
|
I'd like to be able to centrally administer my Linux boxes (we now have 6 in
|
|
the office). The boxes are used for file serving, mail, and anything else to
|
|
software development (we've got about 10 engineers here). I know that one
|
|
way of centrally administering Unix is to centralize the /usr partition and
|
|
NFS mount it. It doesn't look like RPM will allow that very easily. I don't
|
|
need to be able to boot via the network, but it would be useful to have a
|
|
more centralized system, than a whole bunch of boxes that have to be updated
|
|
with every new fix or application to be added. Do you have any
|
|
ideas/inspiration on this?
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Matt Pearson
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:23:19 +0600<BR>
|
|
From: "sujon", <A HREF="mailto:sujon@ncll.com">sujon@ncll.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Multi-login protect</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I am looking for a software multi-login protect for (RED HAT 5.1)
|
|
Thanks
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
sujon
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:43:02 -0600<BR>
|
|
From: "Jonathan", <A HREF="mailto:flymolo@eatel.net">
|
|
flymolo@eatel.net</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">ext2fs problems</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I recently bought a copy of partition magic 4. I used it to steal more
|
|
space from windows and add it to my / ext2 partition .... apparently it
|
|
resized the partition but not the file system. Is there any way I can tell
|
|
the file system to non-destructively rebuild itself using more space?
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Jonathan
|
|
|
|
|
|
<a name="gen"></a>
|
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
|
<center><H3><font color="maroon">General Mail</font></H3></center>
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:56:46 -0000 <BR>
|
|
From: "Thorp, Alexander", <A HREF="mailto:athorp@lucent.com">
|
|
athorp@lucent.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Own domain over part-time dial-up (article, issue 36)</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Interesting article. Just a couple of comments about the script:
|
|
<P>
|
|
First, the comment "for some reason this didn't work". It's not altogether
|
|
clear what you expected it to do, but the exit 0 is entirely superfluous.
|
|
If you hoped to exit from the entire script, this cannot be done from within
|
|
a sub-shell. Is there any reason for executing such a phenomenal number of
|
|
sub-shells? It is not as if you are doing the sorts of things which
|
|
sub-shells make easier, such as localizing changes to the environment or to
|
|
the current working directory.
|
|
<P>
|
|
If one assumes that really you wanted to exit from your script here, then
|
|
you would be better off writing:
|
|
<PRE>
|
|
if [ -f /var/lock/LCK..modem ] ; then
|
|
echo "modem not available" 1>&2 # redirect stdout to stderr
|
|
exit 1 # error exits should not exit 0
|
|
else
|
|
/etc/ppp/ppp-on
|
|
sleep 45
|
|
fi
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
Second, test -e is bash-specific syntax. The habitual use of bash-specific
|
|
syntax results in scripts that are non-portable. All versions of test (and
|
|
of /bin/sh that have test as an in-built) that I know of support test -f;
|
|
this is standard syntax for this operation. For example, HP-UX /bin/sh
|
|
does, as it happens, support test -e, but on Solaris this doesn't work. For
|
|
/bin/ksh the situation is reversed, with the Solaris version accepting test
|
|
-e but the HP-UX version not. All Linux distributions come with a /bin/sh
|
|
(sometimes just a symlink to /bin/bash), so better to use /bin/sh for shell
|
|
programming, as per Unix convention, and to stick to the standard part of
|
|
the shell programming language.
|
|
<P>
|
|
It is not altogether clear whether you think that the line #!/bin/bash half
|
|
way down the script as the first line of a sub-shell section will have an
|
|
effect, but this could be confusing to a reader less familiar with shell
|
|
programming.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Alex Thorp
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:26:07 -0500<BR>
|
|
From: Siddharth Kashyap, <A HREF="mailto:skashya@cs.concordia.ca">
|
|
skashya@cs.concordia.ca</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Wharf</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
I am using Red Hat Linux 5.2. In FVWM95 I start Wharf. From this Wharf I click
|
|
at xterm icon I get a blank xterm window. This is because the person who wrote
|
|
the code in the file fvem2rc.modules.m4 is calling xterm as :
|
|
<PRE>
|
|
xterm -bg black -fg black
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
Now, what annoys me is how come such a big company would do something as stupid as this.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Siddharth Kashyap
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:34:16 +0000BR
|
|
From: Paul Dunne, <A HREF="mailto:paul@DUNNP.CIX.CO.UK">
|
|
paul@DUNNP.CIX.CO.UK</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">Linux & the impeachment -- is there a link I'm missing?</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Sorry to gripe, but just browsing through the Linux Gazette mail bag,
|
|
and... what are all those letters about the US President and his, er,
|
|
"recent problems" doing there? The title is `Linux Gazette', right?
|
|
Please, let's keep this sort of irrelevant material out of LG.
|
|
<P>
|
|
--<BR>
|
|
Paul
|
|
<blockquote> <I>
|
|
(Sorry Paul -- they are there because I wrote about it in the "Not Linux"
|
|
section and felt they had a right to reply to my remarks. Guess I should
|
|
have put the responses in the "Not Linux" section too. Just didn't think of
|
|
it at the time. --Editor)
|
|
</I> </blockquote>
|
|
|
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
|
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|
|
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
|
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:11:55 -0600<BR>
|
|
From: "Louis C. Lohman", <A HREF="mailto:llohman@kissane.com">
|
|
llohman@kissane.com</A> <BR>
|
|
Subject: <font color="navy">KDE - so what?</font>
|
|
<P>
|
|
Am I just being obtuse, or does KDE feel like a heavy, bloated,
|
|
resource-intensive desktop environment? If that's what I wanted, I
|
|
would stay with M(I'm sorry, I can't say the word)t. Features and
|
|
benefits be damned, FVWM2 comes real close to the type of responsiveness
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I feel should be expected of the desktop ... KDE doesn't even come
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close.
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And WHY hasn't anyone else complained? At least, not in a forum that
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I've been aware of. Is it that everyone is so enamored of the
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acceptance that Linux has been getting that they are afraid to rock the
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boat?
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On the other hand, I suppose that we (the Linux user community) feel
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like we can pass this KDE thing off as a ready replacement for W(I'm
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sorry, but I can't say that word, either)s, given that it is so slow and
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bloated that W(you know)s users will feel right at home.
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Yeah, that's the ticket, we'll make 'em feel right at home.
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--<BR>
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Lou Lohman
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