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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TCP/IP now working - thanks everyone
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:41:12 GMT


I got plenty of email response to my problems with TCP/IP in the SLS
distribution. Everything is now working and I have moved on to the
next set of problems...

Here is what I had to do, for others in the same position...

- Edit /usr/src/linux/net/tcp/Space.c and make sure the settings for
  the eth0 device are right for your ethernet card. If not, change
  them and recompile the kernel.

- The /etc/inet/config binary is broken and needs replacing with the
  0.8.1 version, which for some reason is in the attic on tsx-11,
  whereas the packages/tcpip version is the wrong one!!!

- SLS has all the stuff in /etc/inet, but some of the binaries expect
  /usr/etc/inet, so you need a symbolic link in /usr to /etc.

- Some of the config files refer to /usr/etc/inet too, so you need to
  edit rc.net and inetd.conf and change these to /etc/inet.

That's the lot. ftp seems to want to be setuid root, although I have
other problems too (I get "bind: I/O error" when I try some remote dir
listings).

Oh yes, and if someone could drop a hint on how to build libinet.a
that would be useful :-)

Thanks for all your help,		Mark.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: S_SARKAR@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Sarkar Chandra)
Subject: X386 and Trident 8900 (again)
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:14:25 GMT
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Well, me too. I tried the Xconfig someone sent some days ago, but it did
not work either.
I use following system:

      Intel 486/33, 4 MB RAM
      Quantum 240AT-IDE Harddisk
      Trident 8900 SVGA (Bios 2.11D)
      Logitech-Mouse on Com1:

There is no problem running X in monochrome mode, but if I specify
"tvga8900" as chipset, the screen darkens. If I use startx from X running
in monochrome mode, I get XINIT: server error, then startx stops. If I
don t specify any chipset at all, then I get "trident 8900 supports only
tvga 8900c" (something about this) and "none of the above recognized".

Has anyone any idea of what to do to get that damned thing working ?
Quite a lot of people seem to have problems with that card and X386.
So, if anyone has a solution for that problem or just a running XConfig -
please mail it to me. Thanks a lot.

     Chandra
           
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From: dmuir@athena.mit.edu (Douglas H Muir)
Subject: Re: Need help setting up X
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:17:02 GMT

On the monitor timings, I have all the documentation on my moniter and card.  
I'm not really concerned with tweaking video modes.  I just want to get X 
running in 800x600 ni w/256 colors.  I have a generic Tseng ET4000 card w/1Mb
(no brand name - the manual says ET4000 Super VGA Card) and a Hyper VGA II 
color monitor.  Please reply by email.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joergw@wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de (Joerg Wesemann)
Subject: minicom broken under pl5
Organization: /u/joergw/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:42:27 GMT

Hi,

I know that this has been discussed before but i cant remember the
solution:

Kernel 0.98 pl5 breaks minicom. Who can send me the diffs to compile
a working version?

Thanks, Joerg

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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: question concerning dumb terminal and linux
Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:34:06 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Wrong answer, Matt.

mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
[...]
>I'll get a RS-232 cable to hook from the terminal to my COM2 serial port.

BZZZZT!  Nope.  You need a "null modem cable".  This is an RS-232 cable
with several connections swapped (notably the SEND and RECEIVE pins) and
others shorted together.  This allows two DTE (Data Terminal *Equipment*)
ports to talk to each other.  The standard RS-232 cable is meant to connect
a DTE port to a DCE (Data Communications Equipment) port.  The difference
between the DTE and the DCE is that the DTE is assumed to control the
communications across the line.  Thus, a PC would be a DTE and a modem
would be a DCE.

(Note that modems have two modes, ANSWER and ORIGINATE, which allow them
 to do the same SEND/RECEIVE swapping that a null-modem cable does.)

>I think the Heath kit is a VT52. any1 know if this true????

I always had to specify it to our school's system as an 'h19'.  I don't
know if it's VT52-compatible.

>Then, I'll need to know it's baud rate. I'll assume 9600 to start
>with.

	This should be settable with some DIP switches on the back.

>So to I'd simply type
>'getty /dev/ttys2 9600' to instablish a login prompt on the terminal???

It would probably be better to add a line to your /etc/inittab file:

	ttys2:vt52:/etc/getty 9600 ttys2	(for the standard getty)
	or
	ttys2:vt52:/etc/getty ttys2 9600	(for use with getty_ps)

>When I log in, would I have to set the terminal type??? Is there
>a termcap entry for the vt52??? how would I set that???

I think you would, but I'm not sure how you'd best go about it.
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From: tfoley@r-node.gts.org (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: multi-user linux games
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:14:06 GMT
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)


   Please when you get it working, upload it, and toss it over to the
Linuxnet on Squally Holler!   
   By the way, whats the diff between Chainsaw and Ksu?
 
(Please reply in the net)
 
						Tim

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From: sprave@gonzo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joachim Sprave)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Printing on a deskjet ??
Date: 23 Nov 1992 07:47:27 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gonzo

You can also use lpd/lp and set up your etc/printcap
accordingly. 

BTW: Page prolog didn't work for me, I had to (mis-)use 
the header text variable.

Happy hacking

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Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 05:47:51 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject:    ICMP / IP-header

this might look like a silly question ... Well !

Line 402 of net/tcp/ip.c says:

   buff = (unsigned char *)(skb + 1);

What is this line supposed to do ? Make buff (which is char *) point to the
byte after skb , i.e. skb = 500 ==> buff = 501 ???
What it really does is, pointing to skb + sizeof(struct skb) ... I dunno if
that is the intention of this line. In fact, when I compare the ip-header
built (some lines below) to the ip-header printed in ip_queue_xmit, it looks
(at least for an ICMP package) slighlty different. And I guess that's the
reason why ptype->func isn't called (which should then be ip_rcv), because
in dev.c the ptype is never found in the for()-loop somewhere near line 400 in
routine dev_rint, because it could be a random value ... ?

*shrug* Just curious ...
If someone want's the ping.c source (which compiles with warnings ...),
to check it out on your own machine, send me mail please.

Herp.
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:18:46 -0500 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Problem w/P4 and EMACS
	<danielce.721867340@munagin>

Also, installing the 4.2 jumplibs and linking them to libc.so.4.1 will
get the old version of Emacs 18.58 working again.

                                  -Brian

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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: BSD filesystems? Xenix FS? X11 on hercules screen?
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:12:52 GMT

In article <PATRICK.92Nov19175740@godfather.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> patrick@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Patrick Weemeeuw) writes:
>A couple of questions for which i didn't find an answer in the FAQ:
>
>Does Linux support BSD filesystems? or is anybody working on this?
>idem for Xenix...  [ I know linux supports VFS ].

	BSD: no.  Xenix: yes, there is a filesystem.  I have toyed with the
idea of writing a filesystem for linux that would understand a BSD ufs
filesystem but the differences are so great between the bsd VFS layer and the
linux VFS layer that it would be easier to hack the minix filesystem to
understand ufs than to try and port the ufs filesystem.  I have not decided if
I want to do this or not.

-Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Henry' Komarinski)
Subject: ARGH!!! (Getting X to run)
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:41:18 GMT

I have an MVGA (paradise compatable) that X recognizes as pvga1 (SLS 98p1).

I got a bunch of neat codes via the modegen.taz files, but none of them
work.  I get those 'funky video modes' that were not meant for human eyes
to see.  I think I still have a headache from that...:)

Anyone else have a similar video card and get X running in COLOR??  I have
it running in 'generic' VGA, but..well..it looks about as visually stunning
as me after working for a night trying to get it to work with no success.

Thanks.

-Mark

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From: koch@rtsg.mot.com (Clifton Koch)
Subject: ps for linux.98pl5
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:26:41 GMT

  Does anyone have ps working for linux.98pl5?  It worked fine for me on pl3,
but now it doesn't work.  I nabbed some patchs which were supposed to be for
pl4, but no help there.  When I run it I get:

# ps
  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
error reading kmem (offset = 0x44890000)

  I've tried recompiling it in original form, and with patchs.  I've tried 
running ps -U, but get the same results.

  Any know what's going on?

CVK
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim)
Subject: Updating (pl5) problems
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:59:35 GMT

I have finally gotten around to upgrading, and I am now running the
.98pl5 SLS.  (Coming from .96c) After reading my XConfig
as
I  was so stupid as to not save quite everything as far as config files
from the previous version..

Anyway, that went ok, and I am now running 1024x768x256 on XWindows
without any problems.  (ET4000).  

The problems I have been having concern compiling source code of
two programs to work with my SLS upgrade.

The two sources are xv and xload.  For xv, I do exactly what it says
in the README file, and it looks like it is going to work, except
at the end of the compilation it gets three errors about a variable being
defined too many times.  XLOAD seems to get this same problem only
closer to the beginning.

I have compiled many things successfully so far, including SEYON (awesome)
and TERM077, so the compiler seems to be working...

Anyone else have any of these problems or get either of these to
compile under pl5??  Please let me know.

Thanks

Jim

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From: Rejean.Lemire@f124.n167.z1.fidonet.org (Rejean Lemire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Conference Unix et linux
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:17:08 -0800

Yves;
 Voudrais-tu rendre accessible les conferences unix et linux par
Bluewave 
si c'est possible. Moi je pense que ma configuration est correcte, sinon
veux-tu me donner l'information pour les rendre accessibles par
bluewave.
 
 Merci.


 * Origin: TracyOpus (1:167/124.0)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dje@sspiff.cygnus.com (Doug Evans)
Subject: Re: C code porting question [?]
Organization: Cygnus Support
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 11:50:50 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

brian@telex.mn.org (Brian K. Teravskis) writes:
>Hello fellow Linuxers:
>
>I am trying to port over a BSD program to Linux (SLS 0.98), and
>I ran into a couple of modules that use the function flock and
>the LOCK_NB, LOCK_EX constants. After perusing through the
>include files I could not find any reference to flock or
>the constants. I want to know how file locking (as it is) is
>done under Linux. I would guess that it follows the POSIX lock
>file creation with the O_CREAT and O_EXCL, but I want to make
>sure that I'm following the 'correct' way of doing it.

For what it's worth, Linux has fcntl(F_SETLK) and friends (which is POSIX).

The relevant .h files say it isn't implemented, but it is.

Linus, can we update the .h's?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pitzel@ug.cs.dal.ca (brad John pitzel)
Subject: Disk de-fragmenter??
Originator: root@ug.cs.dal.ca
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:10:18 GMT

Are there any disk defragmentation utilities available for linux
(or the minix file system)??  I find these utils invaluable under dos,
and considering the amount of swapping that goes on in my machine under
Linux (need more memory :-> ), I'm sure a linux partition could benefit..

Any ideas? (besides backing up my hard drive, erasing it, reloading one
file at a time!)


Oh yeah... For anyone new to linux.. Here's a tip:  If you writing files
to floppy disks, always mount/umount EACH disk. Don't just take out one
disk and stick in another.. I learnt this lesson the hard way :-(


Thanks...

Brad Pitzel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
Subject: Re: linux and serial lines
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:55:46 GMT

In article <FCAIC.92Nov19093735@woody.wbst845e.xerox.com> fcaic@wbst845e.xerox.com (Frank Caico) writes:
>
>
>I have a 9600 baud modem at home connected to my PC, and I have dialout
>capabilities at work. There is also a SLIP line at work that I could use.
>Anyhow, I want to be able to dial-in from home and feel like I am on the
>network at work so I can do things like copy files back and forth and run
>processes on my work machine with the display coming back over the serial
>modem line.  I would also like to be able to dial out from work to my
>machine at home in cases where I forgot to bring a file in, or I want to
>transfer some files in that direction.
>
>--
>    Frank Caico                                    fcaic@wbst845e.xerox.com 

Get ka9q from tsx-11 or wherever.  It is the fastest, easiest way to
get connected.  It will give you ftp, telnet, and remote X11.  The
readme is very easy to follow.  Remote X11 is very nice over a
14.4Kbps modem with V.42 compression.

Once you are up to speed with ka9q, join the NET and SLIP mailing
lists.  Lots of changes are afoot.

- Ken

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: msdloem@cs.vu.nl (Loemban Tobing MSD)
Subject: Re: X Oak Driver
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:18:18 GMT

Karsten Gienskey (archie@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Say, has anybody out there got a X-driver for the OAK Oti 67/77 Chip?
: Ok, it is not a very good VGA, but I have it,
: so please mail me, if you know.
: Thanks.
please mail me too, if you know.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: find src for TOP 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:32:48 +0000


In article <92322.084949BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET> BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET writes:

>
>ok thanks for the replies to find PS src for 0.98
>found on sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/ps-0.98.tar.Z
>
>I now need to find the source code for TOP for 0.98
>thanks barry.
>
>

You should find the source for TOP free w and others in the ps-0.98.tar.Z
I did

anthony

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From: tex@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Stefan Tex)
Subject: Linux cross-compiler available ??
Reply-To: tex@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de
Organization: IPF, University of Karlsruhe
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:02:48 GMT

Hello Linux-programmers,

some programs are very big, but my Linux hard disk is small ...
Therefore I think it's a good idea to have a cross-compiler for
Linux on a "big" workstation (prefered Sparc-Station).
Does anybody out there run a cross-compiler on a Sun ??
Is it difficult to create one ??

Thanks Stefan
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From: fcaic@wbst845e.xerox.com (Frank Caico)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X libraries and gwm
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:30:07 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: Xerox, Webster, NY


I have been having problems with a few X programs and was wondering if it
was because these were old programs or what.

I ftp'd  GWM (from sunsite I think) and installed it on my machine. 
I took out my call to twm and added this line in its place:

	exec gwm -qf mwm

Fine.  I start up my x session by doing 'startx' and X crashes. I get this
error: 

	gwm: Can't load library '/lib/libX11.1.1'

hmmm.  
Is this an old lib file?  I believe the closest thing to this in my lib
directory was liX11.so.2.1.  So, can I still use this version of gwm? And
if not does anyone have the sources so I can compile a new version?


I Also have tried downloading xv from several places and keep having this
problem: When I try to untar it, Tar tells me it doesn't think it's a tar
file.  This is AFTER uncompressing it!




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From: lairdt@leela.cs.orst.edu (Tom Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: .98p5 and Logitech L7 bus mouse problem
Date: 22 Nov 92 07:02:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: leela.1992Nov22.070213.13782
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:

>Last night I was installing X on Linux (SLS .98p5).  I got it working with
>a serial mouse from another system but I had a problem with the bus mouse.

>It is a Logitech L7 (or was that P7, I'm here, the mouse is 6 blocks
>away).  When I brought up X, I could only move the mouse cursor left and
>down.  It also appeared that the buttons were active when up.  I ran
>the mouse test program .../mouse and it pretty much confirmed my guesses.

I had problems with previous versions with my Logitech busmouse, which is
also a P7, but SLS0.98p5 it works fine. You should check and make sure
your mouse is on IRQ5 - mine used to be on IRQ2 because and eprom
burner and scanner card wanted IRQ5.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lo@cs.unr.edu (Bok Nan Lo)
Subject: stacker
Reply-To: lo@cs.unr.edu (Bok Nan Lo)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:29:47 GMT

Can linux co-exists with stacker 2.0 software after re-partitioning the
hard drive? 

Anyone who has a solution to this, please mail to the following address as
our newsgroup are not subscribing to comp.os.linux, thanks!

lo@pyramid.unr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: PHSTUD52@nyx.uni-konstanz.de
Subject: New BBS in Germany
Organization: University of Konstanz, Germany
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:40:20 GMT

I uploaded then 0.89 SLS Disks from Aachen to this BBS
PC-ID Mailbox  W-7750 Konstanz West Germany
Tel BBS : +49-7531-22217
Actually this site is in test phase so only 2400 8N1 and a Download limit
of 2Megs a day.
No guest login yet. Simply register (no fees)
Sysops Chris Wieberneit, I.D. Werner (me myself and I)
Tel Acoustic : +49-7531-15769 to chat with Chris
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: Status of EFS-2 (was: ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 10)
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:26:26 GMT

Just out of curiosity (and anticipation): what is the status of the new
extended file system (EFS-2)?  Or is the old EFS going to remain?

	/hpa
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