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From: aml@surf.Berkeley.EDU (Arlindo Oliveira)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help: no keyboard input on a PS/2 laptop
Date: 18 Dec 1992 22:57:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: surf.berkeley.edu


  I tried to install linux (several versions, like 0.97, 0.98 and 
using Hlu boot/root) in a PS/2 L40SX IBM laptop and in all cases the 
thing stops dead the first time it needs keyboard input. 
Actually, it reads the keyboard when it asks for the VGA/SVGA mode, 
but that's it. With HLU boot/root, it goes all the way and gives me 
a login prompt, but will not take anything from the keyboard.

 I have no idea what to do now. I have linux up and running in a 486
desk-top with great results, but my knowledge of PC hardware is 
(very) limited and I don't know that to look for. I could probably 
try some modifications in the Kernel, if I knew what the problem was.

 Thank's for any help (by e-mail, please)

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From: kevin@cyber.net (Kevin R. Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: uucp chat script ok on terminal, not on modem
Date: 15 Dec 1992 23:13:41 GMT
Organization: The Cyberspace Station
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cyber.net
Keywords: uucp kermit serial

I am having a problem with getting uucico to successfully log into
another machine.  It is timing out in the chat script, according to
the log.  I tried redirecting the I/O to an unused pseudo-terminal,
and was able to fake the remote system's prompts by hand.  When
I did this, uucico successfully "logged in".

When using the modem, uucico gets as far as dialing the system but
seems unable to read the port.  Yes, permissions are correct.  Also,
kermit works fine.

Any ideas?
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From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 3c501 cards
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:47:01 -0800

 > It's a first generation 8 bit ethernet card using the
 > SEEQ 8001 chip.

 > I would not recommend using a 3c501 for several
 > reasons:

Thanks for the reply.

 * Origin: Intermittent Connection, Eugene OR 503-344-9838 (1:152/35)
From: operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TCP/IP Question: Disallow remote logins
Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:55:27 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

I know it is possible via securetty to prohibit anyone from logging in as
root via telnet.  Is there a way to prohibit an arbitrary user from 
logging in remotely via telnet?

Jeffrey Little
operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: Serial communications problems
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:34:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.021248.3074@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
> It would be possible to write a serial driver that did not use
> interrupts --- by hooking something to the timer interrupt and having it
> check 100 times a second to see if there's anything on the serial port;
> but it would ruin your system performance, and it wouldn't really work
> unless you had a 16550A UART, or if you aren't doing anything faster
> than 600 bps.  (And even if you had a 16550A, you wouldn't be able to do
> anything faster than 9600.)

You're a bit too pessimistic here. I'm using such a driver to run all
four COM ports and it does 2400 bps with a 16450 and 19200 bps with a
16550A. 19200 bps gets a bit unreliable under load, but it's still
acceptable for Zmodem. I'm polling at 300 Hz and it doesn't lower
system performance very noticeably.

- Werner
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: network over modem...
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:07:14 GMT

In article <a8j21+b@rpi.edu> russed@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Russell) writes:
>mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>
>>It's called SLIP (Single Line IP), and it's currently in development for
>	     Oops (Serial Line IP)


Yeah. I guess "Single Line" doesn't make a lot of sense. :)

mdw

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tlhilde@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Troy Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: lpr with SLS
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:32:12 GMT

wmitchel@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>Can someone help me get lpr and friends running?
>I have the SLS 0.98pl2 distribution, and lpr.tar.Z from sunsite on 12/9.
>The printer is a 24 pin Epson dot matrix on /dev/lp1.
>I followed the instructions in lpr.README.  I can lpr a file (but only
>as root), and lpq shows it in the queue (with the "no daemon" message),
>but it never goes to the printer.  I tried a few things with lpc, but
>they didn't seem to help.  lpd is started in /etc/rc and shows up with
>ps -aux.
>Are there other daemons that need to be running?  Are there other programs
>and/or files I need that are not in SLS or lpr.tar.Z?  Are there any
>permission bits that may be wrong?

I also have a printer on /dev/lp1 which fits the description above.  
My princap follows.  I can do 'cat file > /dev/lp1 &' just fine...
lpr puts a file  in the queue, but it never goes.  lpd is running,
lpc cannot force the file to go to the printer.

lp|panasonic:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/usr/spool/lp/panasonic:lf=/usr/bin/mail:mc#1:\
             ft=$$c$$p$$r$$f:hl#2:fl#3:ht=$$c$$n$$r$$t:sh:

Help.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: How to put new Image on boot disk (?)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:16:39 GMT

jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine) writes:

>I have the sources for 0.99 and I plan to make the new kernel soon.
>The question is: When I make the new kernel, do I have to put it on
>the boot floppy?  I currently have 0.98 pl1 kernel and boot disk from
>the SLS dist.  If I do in fact need to put the new Image on the boot
>disk, how do I do this?  i.e. How do I make a new boot disk with the
>newly created kernel?

If you're just booting off a disk, get another disk (ie. keep the old one
just in case...) that has been formatted, and do
cat Image > /dev/fd0
(if the disk is in drive A: in MSDOS terms...)
(Image is the kernel Image produced once you compile the kernel)

Enjoy !

Cos !
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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: EXT fs
Date: 15 Dec 1992 07:47:23 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec14.135116.13411@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> ellmenre@homer.uni-passau.de (Nils Ellmenreich) writes:
>
>I use MINIX fs again and wait until extfs is reported stable.

I've had big problems with the minix fs; fsck will tell me that a bunch
of blocks aren't used in any file, then trash the files that (I suppose)
used those blocks.  Nor does this one damage fix the problem; the only
thing that helps is reformatting the partition.

I'd like to see the new extfs as soon as possible, with an fsck guaranteed
to fix any and all accidental power-off corruptions.  You can't really
trust a system for real work until it has a working filesystem.

c
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: a pointless post
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 20:06:52 GMT

Well I am going to ask that whenever someone posts a "split c.o.l"
request, that people flame them exclusively via email, not via followup.
It seems the most anoying thing about these posts, are not the initial
note itself, but rather the flames that follow, which are numerous.

I myself, personally contacted the individual via email, the second that
I read his request, to warn him to expect mucho flamos, and why.  Still
one must wonder how people can just walk into a newsgroup and starting
firing with both barrels.

Peter.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: heilbron@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephen Heilbronner)
Subject: Is XDR / RPC available for Linux ?
Keywords: XDR Sun RPC 
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:11:14 GMT

Hello !

I'm looking for an XDR/RPC implementation for Linux.

Has XDR (Sun's External Data Representation standard) been
ported to Linux ? Or, is there maybe a PD source for the Intel
architecture available.

Pls reply directly by email. If there is more interest on this
issue, I will post a summary.

Thx very much,
Stephen Heilbronner			heilbron@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: what comm package do YOU use?
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:02:01 GMT

I'm interested in people's war stories concerning linux-able communications
packages.  At this time I have the following list:

	xcomm - I like it and use it
	minicomm - I hate it
	pcomm - I hate it
	xseyon - too early to tell, right ?
	kermit - does ANYBODY like using it ?

no flames please...the above are only my opinions...my point is that there
is a need for a non-unix-weenie terminal emulator/communications package for
unix (linux in this case) that has the ease-of-use of something like 
ProcommPlus or Telix under DOS.

Regarding kermit, I know it works...but I've always felt it's too hard to
configure for most people. I'm looking for something that you define the
serial port device and speed, set up a dialing directory, and go.

Any feedback would be appreciated and I'd be happy to summarize for c.o.l.
or one of the parts of the FAQ...
  
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From: hsavolai@cs.Helsinki.FI (Hannu Savolainen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Sound for Linux 0.99 (Sound driver v 0.4)
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:08:12 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: kypros.helsinki.fi
Keywords: SOUND

The version 0.4 of the Sound Card Driver is available at nic.funet.fi
(pub/OS/Linux/xtra/snd-kit/snd-driv-0.4.tar.Z)

This version contains support for the ProAudioSpectrum 16 card in
addition to the previously supported cards (AdLib, SoundBlaster and SB
Pro). Other ProAudioSpectrum models are not supported yet. File
snd-kit/snd-util-0.4.tar.Z contains additional utilities to be used with
the driver. 

Installation:

- Install linux 0.99 sources.
- Install files in the snd-driv-0.4.tar.Z
- If you are using nonstandard IRQ setting for the card, you have to
edit the line containing macro SOUND_SUPPORT in the linux/Makefile.
Standard settings are IRQ7 for SoundBlaster (SBC_IRQ) and 
IRQ5 for ProAudioSpectrum (PAS_IRQ).
- Continue installation as for standard Linux 0.99.

It is also possible to use the version 0.3 of the sound -driver with
Linux 0.99. Just follow the instructions above and don't try to apply
any patches provided with the driver. You have to make manually the
following change to the linux/kernel/chr_drv/sound/Makefile before
compiling the kernel. NOTE! The following is not necessary for the
version 0.4.

---- Manual patch for version 0.3 ---
.c.o:
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(SOUND_SUPPORT) -c $<
                               ^
                               |
			Insert this macro
-----------

Completion:

The AdLib and SoundBlaster part is almost unchanged from the previous
version. It is in late beta or early production phase.

The ProAudioSpectrum part is in early alpha state. 

Best regards,
Hannu Savolainen
hsavolai@cs.helsinki.fi
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From: jars@carson.u.washington.edu (Juan Rodriguez-Sero)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PS, top, vs. linux-0.99
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:59:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec17.135924.25515
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Dec17.050443.8319@csd.uwe.ac.uk> p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk writes:
>it isn't perfact but until (dave black?) or whoever releases a new version
>specifically for 0.99 we'll all be making alternitive perl/c ps commands

Last night I managed to compile the whole thing, including fstat (finally!)
The fix to get fstat to compile is to remove mmap.c and mmap.o from the
lists of files in the Makefile; after that, the whole things proceeds to com-
pletion without any problem.  Now, all of them work for me (using the patched
version of 0.99).




Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero; jars@u.washington.edu
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From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: uucp and seg fault in write()
Date: 13 Dec 92 16:05:00 GMT
Organization: Not Very Ltd.

Although Taylor UUCP 1.04gamma compiles fine, there is the same problem
of seg faults in write() as others have said with 1.03 and 0.98pl5.

No ideas?

ralf
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From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
Keywords: extfs
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:26:22 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: jon@lucrece.robots

In article <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu> kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
>
>    So does anyone have a summary of how it's going? What's your suggestion?
>On a related topic, if I decide to go all 213 megs Linux, I'll still have some
>space left over on my other hard drive (the 55 megs I'm using now). Would you
>suggest going extfs with that too, or keeping some as the old style? Reasons?
>
>    Thanks heaps.

Since patch 0.98-pl6 (I think) the extfs has been pretty solid. I punish it
pretty hard and my problems stoped with the extfs10.1 patch. The downside is
the performance. I have the XS3 and XFree86 source tree in the same extfs,
and after a few compiles I get about 50kb per second read/write performance
It noticably kills performance, and the first sync after linking the X server
can go on for minutes...  

BTW I have dosfs and minix fss on the same disk and they get about 600kb/s
and 500kb/s reliably but I guess a dosfs isn't an option :-)

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From: stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram)
Subject: [Q][X11] A.C.M. without ethernet possible?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:27:27 GMT

Hi All,


Does any one know if it is possible to run acm on a linux box without
an ethernet card?
I believe that 0.98 sources are compiled with tcp/ip as default,
and when booting, I do get the message that the Internet sockets
are being initialized.

I read in the linux network faq that there is a loopback option
that enables your machine to talk to itself.
I think that's the very thing that can make the acm process
talk to the acms process which is running on the same machine, but how?

Do I need to give a special kind of inet addr in order to
have the loopback option take effect?

If ya are able to spread some light on this matter, please drop me a line,

	Thanks in advance,

		Bram Stolk

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From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP: ethernet card configuration. 
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:15:25 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <1992Dec16.114657.19648@cicb.fr> lebailli@cicb.fr writes:

   I have a little question concerning an DEC EtherWORKS LC/TP card.

   I have the linux from SLS 98p5 and the ethernet card mentioned
   before. What is must do to make it work under linux ???? In
   other words, what configuration files should I edit and so on.
   If you had already done something like that, I would be pleased to
   know what did you do.

There is no Linux driver for any DEPCA cards as yet.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: Re: Prob. with xdvi and installing xview3.  Help!!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:55:55 GMT

For the XView 3 installation, the dummmyrpc.c program will not compile because
of some kernel changes I believe.  I got around this by get the sunrpc libs
from tsx-11.mit.edu inn the /pub/linux/ALPHA/NFS directory.  Install that
first, and the XView installation will work correctly.

Jaime Jofre
From: clave@frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Olivier Clave)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problem with mount command LINUX 0.97
Keywords: LINUX
Date: 13 Dec 92 14:56:59 GMT
Organization: Minix User Group France

I got Linux boot 0.98 and root 0.97 and i have a problem with the mount command when i try to install LINUX on my hardrive. Everything is fine until the mount command. My computer is 386/33 PC clone with hard disk WESTERN ENERGY 210MGS, bus is 16 bits, disk controller is IDE. Fdisk works fine and find 4 primary partitions on my drive, mkfs works fine too on /dev/hda1 whom size is 13MGS, but mount aborts with "Segmentation default" message and there is a core dump. I tried on others partitions but result is
 the same.                                       Any help ?
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS Installed, But Wont Boot
Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:14:39 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
NNTP-Posting-Host: bugatti.meaddata.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Michael Brennan (mebrenna@vela.acs.oakland.edu) wrote:
: Hello,
: 
: I have installed the newest SLS disks (A, B, C) onto my system.  I put
: it (Linux) on /dev/hdb and it seems to have installed correctly.  It 
: wrote the boot disk and all!  But now when I try to boot it, it 
: initalizes all the way to the floppy drive line (it is recognized) 
: then it just hangs there and doesn't get to recognizing the HDs.  
: The A1 disk recognized them, obviously.
: 
: What needs to be done next.  I have done the installation twice now,
: redoing the FDISK and mkfs each time.  I have even tried to change the
: Bootimage with norton's diskedit to change offset 508 as listed in the
: documentation. 
: 
: 386sx 20Mhz, 6.5mg RAM
: 2 X 42 Meg HD IDE (C is DOS, D is Linux/Minix)
: 3.5" A Drive
: VGA ATI Wonder (Old)
: 
: Anyone, please help.
: 
Unfortunately, I'm having a similar problem.

Also, it zips past the VGA selection menu and makes a choice but
can't set it up right (I have a laptop with a Cirrus chip).  It stays
in 80x25 but thinks it has more lines.  To see what the last lines
are after it hangs, I have to ctrl-break it...

Also, I was using 98.pl4 just fine, booting from the HD.

210MB IDE 60MB linux, 3.5 flop, 8MB ram, 2 ser, par port 2.

sdw
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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: additional features for linux
Keywords: virtual serial consoles, tcpip bootrom, streams, isdn-driver
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:40:51 GMT

Tobias Erichsen writes:
>1) Virtual consoles for the serial ports

It would be possible to implement this in the kernel, but much more
difficult than for a the console.  The console has a screen buffer
that is accessible to the kernel, which the terminals don't.
Therefore, the kernel would have to keep track of what is currently on
the screen.  This requires knowledge of the terminal type, and
interpreting everything that goes to the terminal.  And it has to know
when something isn't supposed to be interpreted, e.g. if the terminal
isn't a terminal but a terminal emulator program and the user just
started a download...

This gets messy real soon.  It'd be better to avoid it, I think.

But all is not lost.  There is a program called `screen' that does
exactly this.  Since it is a user-level program, it can be much more
messy than if it were in the kernel (if a user-level program is messy
and has a bug, you might loose some data, if the kernel is messy and
has a bug, you might loose everything you have on the computer).

Screen should be available for Linux.  Can somebody confirm?

>    It would also be very nice if I could boot some kind of diskless
>    Workstation with Linux.

This might be doable with a bootable root-floppy.  Most PCs require a
floppy anyway, and it is easier to do than burning ROMs.

>3) Streams
>4) ISDN

These are missing, I think.

>5) X-Support for the ATI Ultra Pro 2

Of this I know nothing.

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