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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:48:15 MDT
From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with linux tcp/ip...
Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)


I have had some problems getting tcp/ip to work on my 386-25.  This is what  
happens:  I make all the patches, compile the kernel and restart.  Everything  
seems to be working fine, then when I try to run telnet or ftp, I get  
Segmentation fault (core dumped).  What causes this?  Also, I'm not sure how  
to configure Space.c.  It askes for memory start and end (no problems there)  
and also recv memory start and end.  recv memory?  I'm not sure.  EZSETUP (in  
ms-dos) doesn't talk about recv memory at all.  I'm using an WD8013 card.   
What should I be using.  The card is starting at address C8000 and has 16K of  
memory.  I also increased the system size in the files that the readme  
mentions (was 5000 now is 6000).

One subject of confusion is probably because I am using the MCC stuff.  It  
makes different directories (the source isn't in the place that the diffs  
file for tcp/ip expects it).  Is there going to be a problem with the patches  
that MCC has made and tcp/ip patches?

One more problem, I can't run gdb.  It always says:  Illegal instruction  
(core dumped).  I thought for sure I should be able to run that, but no dice.   
Can anyone help me?  I would really love to have Linux running tcp/ip since  
that is what I do here (network support).  MS-DOS just doesn't cut it.

--
Sean Eckton

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From: m.will@link-hh.comlink.de (Michael Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: exec - how use it?
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 22:02:00 MET
Organization: Freies Telekommunikations-Zentrum Hamburg e.V.
X-Z-Path: LINK-HH!SHLINK
X-Gateway: US SHLINK [shgate V1.91]

Hello,

I am trying to write some little information-program to allow users calling
my linix from the outside and not yet having an account to read the linux.FAQ,
send me a message etc.

I thought pretty easiest to show textfiles would be to use the /usr/bin/more,
and so I thought about exec - with grep I found it in /usr/include/unistd.h,
the names I must admit to have forgotten - I am writing from my dos yet.

I did something like

        execvp ("/usr/bin/more", "whatsthisfor", "txt/login.txt", NULL);
        puts("finished");

It did put off the text but never returned to puts("finished");

I do not have any manpages for the libc, so would someone be so kind to
enlighten me about the different versions of exec, how to use them and
what the second argument is for?

Maybe you'd better send me an eMail instead of follow up, since this is not
a linux-specific question...

Awaiting your answers, Michael Will from Hamburg, West-Germany.
--
linux - Ein Unix mit COPYLEFT-Lizenz - X11R5 - staendige Entwicklung - linux 0.97
Hamburger Supportboxnummer: 040-7355349 - weitere Folgen?       ## Crosspoint ##
  

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Medvezhonok)
Subject: Orchid Prodesigner IIs funky X performance
Originator: lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 00:48:58 EDT

Does anyone else have a problem with X386 not refreshing screens completely?
i.e. leaving little pixels behind when menus and windows are closed, moved, etc
?   Is there a way to fix it?  The release 1.2E was horribly messy with the
speedup on, but only slightly messy without speedup.  This is certainly not a
big problem, but it makes such programs as xlock useless, because they leave 
pixels behind, until the whole screen is a multicolored mess.  
    Also, has anyone else had problems with parse errors in Xlib.h and Xutil.h?
It only occurs in compiling some programs like xflick and xv.  I've already
got a binary for xv, but I would like xflick.
   Overall though, I am quite impressed with waht I've been playing with over
the last 6 months.  Great work guys!

-Louis Ruppert

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Re: Minor Mgr Problem
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 18:24:04 +0100

In article <1992Sep11.174322.9610@news2.cis.umn.edu>, erik@dexter.psych.umn.edu (Erik J. Arthur) writes:
> I recently compiled MGR, and am having a problem with the tty in the new windows.
> The error message reads something like:
> 
> tty not available (Invalid argument)
> no job control in shell

Hmm.  I am not familiar with ptys, process groups, sessions etc, and the
README states since a few versions that someone who is a wizard in that
area should please have a look at it.

> Also the blitlib.h file that is called from vga.c is missing but all of
> the functions are defined in bitmap.h as well.  Is this a problem?  MGR
> runs fine.

?!?!???? What version do you have?  (mgr -v or mgr -V tells you).  There is
no working vga support right now in the current version.

I *highly* recommend joining the MGR channel on the mailing list:

Send mail to linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi, with a line
"X-Mn-Admin: join MGR" in either the header or as first line of the
body.  When you are fed up, just do same with "leave MGR".

For writing to the list, just send an article with "X-Mn-Key: MGR" to
linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: genie@netcom.com (The Genie)
Subject: Binary locations
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 03:32:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


Hi Linuxers.

I've been using Linux for about 2 weeks now, and have found
a small nit-picky problem.  When I compile something
or move a executable binary into a directory, Linux refuses
to recognize the existence of the binary unless
1) I source my .cshrc which includes paths
2) The new binary must be located in the binary path.

Is there a way for Linux to automatically recognize binaries
and execute them in any directory besides those listed
in the path + to recognize a new binary when placed in
a directory (in essence, I have to source the .cshrc to
tell Linux to check all the paths for all binaries).
Isn't automatically recognizing binaries a normal feature
of SunOS, Ultrix, and Dynix?  Or is there something I
must set correctly for this feature to work?

Thanks in advance.

Gene
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: AST fourport
Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:36:29 GMT


Hi Linuxers,
 Does anyone know of a cheap source for the AST fourport
card that Ted T'so has written driver for? I can only 
find one from Hedaka Kaka in Tx. for $95 ... which seems
a little high.

Denise
tree@midget.towson.edu
From: Thomas_Backhaus@hb.maus.de (Thomas Backhaus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X11 <-> Linux
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 09:39:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.11

Hello,

dU> This post is simply to summarize my status with linux, X and my
dU> ATI Ultra card. I have the "standard" (actually it is a Standard)
dU> ATI configuration with the built in mouse port.  For a while, it
dU> was a little rough getting all the pieces together but here's
dU> what I now have ...
dU>
dU> Running Linux .97 (pl2) with
dU> Orst's current X (1.1) with
dU> Martin's 8514 driver with
dU> Rantanen's MS bus mouse patches
dU>
dU> EVERYTHING FINALLY WORKS JUST FINE!

dU> If I can supply additional information or help on any of these
dU> particular items just drop me mail.  And, thanks to everyone
dU> that dropped me pointers along the way.

Ok, here are my questions (I'm an absolute beginner):
My configuration includes an ATI-Vantage, which ist nearly the same as
an ATI-Ultra (it is only a little slower and much cheaper...). Until now
I am not able to start X11 with the softland (SLS) Version
(0.96-kernel). I suppose, the problem is the missing 8514-driver and
perhaps the bus mouse patches.
Where can I get the stuff? How is it installed? Is it possible using the
0.96 kernel? ...

Thanx in advance
Thomas Backhaus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mrex@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Martin Rex)
Subject: msdos-fs impaired under 0.97pl4
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 10:12:11 GMT
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Last night I acquired some more experiences with 0.97pl4,
and during recoving of my corrupted Filesystem because of
using strip from the gcc-2.2.2d distribution (Linus said
this is a probable cause of FS-corruption under 0.97pl1),
I tarred parts of the contents of a minix partition on
my msdos partition.

Under 0.97pl4 I noticed a BIG LOSS of access speed of the
msdos filesystem by a factor of about 8 !!!!
This first happend to me when checking an archive with
"tar -vtf" and I'v verified the problem with a simple "cp".
Under 0.97pl1 there's no real difference in access speed
between minix and msdos partitions, but under 0.97pl4
there is a factor of 8.  When checking with "ps", all
the time is accounted to the "cp" process.

To me it looks like a problem in buffer handling; when I
"tar -vtf" off the msdos-partition, the screen output
starts off with the same speed as from a minix partition,
but it slows down after some 100Kbytes.

When copying under 0.97pl1 or only between minix filesystems,
there is a permanent and fast harddisk access, but under pl4
when reading off an msdos partition, the harddisk seems to be
pausing every few seconds. :-(

My setup: i486/33/20MB/200MB AT-Bus
 (+ ATI Graphics Ultra where Xlinux.8514 has some problems under pl4,
    and I must admit, I measured from within an xterm, but I don't
    think this is the reason for the pl4 slowdown for msdos partitions)


-Martin

--
 Martin Rex                              |  "Have the courage to take
 Rechenzentrum                           |   your own thoughts seriously,
 Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim    |   for they will shape you."
 E-Mail:  mrex@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de  |             -- Albert Einstein
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Subject: Re: Getting /Image for .97
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:14:03 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

In article <715885824.F00023@remote.halcyon.com> Joe.Klemmer@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Klemmer) writes:
>JB=>From: jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw)
>
>        I, too, have OS/2 2.0 and would love to boot directly into
>Linux
>using BOOTMAN.  There has got to be a way to load Linux onto the HD so
>it can boot from there.  If you find anything out please pass it on.

Well, you're in luck. I run OS/2's Boot Manager to boot from Linux and 
DOS+OS/2 (Dual Boot). What you need is the Boot Manager, the OS/2 FDISK (yo
change the Boot Manager options), and either LILO or Shoelace. (I couldn't
figure out how to make LILO work second to the Boot Manager, but, since
Shoelace worked fine, I didn't really try all that hard...:-) If anyone
knows how to make LILO run nicely from the Boot Manager, I'd be glad to
switch to it.)
First, you install Shoelace (or LILO, I assume), following the instructions.
It's been a long time since I did it, and I've slept once or twice since then,
so I don't recall the exact steps, but they're well laid out in the Shoelace
docs. All you're using Shoelace for is a kernel loader; Boot Manager actually
boots the machine. After you install LILO or Shoelace, making the partition
bootable, you go into OS/2's FDISK, select the Linux partition, and choose
Add to Boot Manager Menu from the option list. If you have the Timeout Boot
option enabled, the Boot Manager will automatically boot to the last partition
you booted from (i.e.--if you boot to Linux from the Boot Manager, shut down, 
and then restart the machine, the Timeout Boot will boot Linux after 30 
seconds, unless you change the Timeout value).
Actually, it's much easier done than said. ;-)

					James

James P. Callison       Microcomputer Coordinator        OU Law Library 
Callison@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu   /\    Callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
	constellation!biglaw!callison@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
DISCLAIMER: I'm not an engineer, but I play one at work...
	Here's looking at you, kid.
		--Rick Blaine, "Casablanca"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: Re: ghostscript 2.5 diff for Linux 0.97.2
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:02:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.234408.229@gnusys.GUN.de> kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr) writes:
>HI *,
>
>i'm very interested in a diff for ghostscript 2.5 for Linux 0.97.2
>using gcc 2.2.2d
>
>
>Thanx ind advance...
>
>
>Bye, Klaus
>
>-- 
>Snail: Klaus Guhr, Marktstrasse 33, 5300 Bonn 3, Germany
>Phone: ++49 +228 48 53 60       Data: ++49 +228 43 24 33
>E-Mail: kg@gnusys.GUN.de


He, he, he. You using wrong system ;).
Ghostscript (and ghostview) compiled with no problems (
other than undefining some stuff in types.h). Straight
out of the box! Linus , H.J Lu and others should feel
real good.

				Rafal
			
-- 
/|| Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that
 ||_is_ number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor in 
 || some great museum of science, and past it would file a steady
==== stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe.
From: lien@lysator.liu.se (Jan Lien)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: installed gcc does not work
Date: 7 Sep 92 21:21:24 GMT
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden

I still have problems with my gcc 2.2.2d installation, something is
wrong.  Would anyone know what I have to do?

gcc references files that do not exist (I run as root so I should
have no problems with protection codes) at all, in the include files.
Something is missing, I know these files.  But what OTHER files may
be missing, I want a complete installation that I won't have problems
with in the future!

/usr/include/sys/types.h contains  include <linux/types.h>  (missing)
/usr/include/gnu/types.h  exists

/usr/include/fcntl.h contains     include <linux/fcntl.h>   (missing)
/usr/include/sys/fcntl.h  exists

/usr/include/sys/stat.h  contains  include <linux/fcntl.h>  (missing)
no other file stat.h exists

The common factor seems to be the linux directory.  Is this because I
placed kernel source in /foo/src/linux  (why not use that name, I
don't know why I personally would want the linux sources anyway)?
Or do I have too few source files?   Or do I miss some kind of lib?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fischer@li.serum.kodak.com (Chris Fischer (x39613))
Subject: Shoelace problem 
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:13:39 GMT

I just installed Linux last week and I love it.  Thanks to Linus and
everybody for developing this.

After a few days of use, I decided that booting from floppy was tiresome and
attempted to shoelace my partition.  I followed the directions as best I could, 
and it does boot up.

The problem is that update (in the /etc/rc file), sync, halt, mount -t msdos 
/dev/fd0, and probably a few others, cause GP faults:

General Protection: 0000
EIP: 0008:0000DA11
Eflags: 00010086
FS: 17
Base: 18000000, Limit: 04000000
Pid: xx, process nr: 6
39 78 04 74 06 83 78 04 00 75  

The mount command also gives a:

__sleep_on: wait-> next exists
Segmentation fault.

Anybody know what I did wrong?  


I've reverted to floppy-boot until this is resolved.

-- 
Chris Fischer (fischer@serum.clpd.KODAK.com)
They never even listen to my opinion, why would they make it policy?
"The healthy gum tissue of our liberties are being eaten away by the 
 periodontal disease of government regulation." - D.Barry
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: genie@netcom.com (The Genie)
Subject: Graphic card of choice for X386 Linux
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 22:20:40 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Heaven on Earth


Hi.
I currently need some advice as to which svga board to purchase
to allow X386 to its full potential.

I currently have a ProParadise 512k with max resolution of 800x600.
Unfortunately, my monitor does not support 800x600, but it does
support 1024x768.  Therefore, I had to resort running X under
640x480x256.  Under this mode, the xterms scroll very slowly,
and the computer cannot seem to refresh the screen as fast
as it wants (I have a 386 33- 8 megs).  This slow speed
I think originates from the slow card.

I've heard that the ET-4000 cards are enhanced graphics cards,
that allow quick redraws (coprocessed?).  If so, what
brand is compatible with X.  Are the Orchid Series just that?
Thanks in advance.

Gene
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: galt@seq.uncwil.edu (Jon Adams)
Subject: Linux won't recognize hard drive
Summary: Neither Linux nor SCO Unix will recognize hard drive
Keywords: hard drive disk linux SCO
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 02:16:00 GMT

I am trying to install either Linux or SCO Unix on a 386/25
machine with a 70 meg scsi drive.  Neither system will recognize
the hard drive.  I have a Future Domain controller, which
supposedly will work with Linux.  Suggestions?

-- 
| Jon Adams            \  If a nation expects to be ignorant  |
| Ragnar / Tamaranai    \   and free...it expects what never  |
| galt@seq.uncwil.edu    \    was and never will be.          |
| galt@matsci1.uncwil.edu \           --Thomas Jefferson      |
From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: PC for linux?
Date: 10 Sep 1992 03:24:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Distribution: ba
Reply-To: lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slovax


Hi-
	I'm thinking about hacking on Linux and I want to get a reasonable
system.  What would you think of a 486DX-33, 64K cache, ISA, 8MB, 130MB HD,
1.2, 1.4 floppy, SVGA, .5MB SVGA card, for about $1700?  And which SVGA
monitor/card should I get?

Thanks for any help,

---
Larry McVoy			(415) 336-7627			 lm@sun.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dugan@spider.wri.com (Jon Dugan)
Subject: Terminals & Linux
Summary: I need help installing a Wyse 50 terminal
Keywords: Terminal Linux Help Wyse 50
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:28:22 GMT

I have a Wyse 50 terminal hanging off my machine and it will talk to linux
just fine.  But I can't get it to work well with any curses type stuff.
Does anyone have a good termcap entry for a Wyse 50 or have a Wyse 50
hanging off their linux box?  Thanks!  Any help would be greatly
appreciated!  

Jon
--
Jon Dugan (dugan@wri.com) - SQA Group === IXOUS
Wolfram Research, Inc.   217/398-0700, ext. 222
From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: tar and compress
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 15:45:00 -0800

MA> could someone please provide the easiest US sites for
MA> obtaining compress
MA> and tar under MSDOS???? I've looked at some of the sites in
MA> the "FAQS"
MA> but with no luck.

PAX2EXE.ZIP  at 1:152/35  503-344-9838 or 1:343/34 206-235-0270 
 
 * Origin: Intermittent Connection  Eugene, OR (1:152/35)
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 0.97p2 compatibility
Date: 7 Sep 92 09:51:04 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <k=pnyqq.genie@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
>Hi.  I posted a message earlier stating how I've been having compatibility
>problems compiling (and running already compiled) programs with
>Linux 0.97p2 available from MCC Interim release at Tsx-11.
>
>It seems the problem was that the GCC 2.2.2d that comes as images
>Comp1 and comp2 are not compatible with the older versions of
>GCC 2.2.2 --> everything that was compiled before using
>the shared libraries must be recompiled.  If I'm right so
>far, then all the binaries of programs at ftp sites are
>useless until a newer version is recompiled?

So far as I know, there should be no problems compiling anything with
the gcc installed from MCC interim release 0.97p2; that is, unless you
have the same problems with any other properly installed copy of gcc 2.2.2d.
If you already have a system running, you can upgrade using MCC interim
Linux 0.97p2, and it will not remove any of your shared libraries,
unless you already have gcc 2.2.2d installed.

Programs compiled earlier on your system should continue to run.  Programs
from elsewhere will run if, and only if, they are either statically linked
or compiled with libraries either on your system or compatible with libraries
on your system.  Most binaries available by anonymous ftp from various
Linux sites are statically linked, and they should continue to be usable
unless other problems occur (such as the st_blksize problem, the changes
in the system mount call, etc.).

>Is it possible to avoid this problem and make the
>2 versions more compatible?  Would just getting
>the library files from GCC 2.2.2 and writing them
>over the 2.2.2d version solve the problem?

The two versions of GCC are compatible, in the sense that the required
libraries have completely different names and should not in any way
conflict.  There is a special problem with X11 which is too complicated
to discuss adequately in this note.  But please note that releases of
gcc have been carefully designed by H.J.Lu and others to allow for as
many factors as they can take into account.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: ps0.97p4 compiling fail
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:59:08 GMT

Hopefully someone get give me a hint:

	I just compiled Linux0.97p4 and have my machine running.  I
also
have the ps0.97p4.TZ.  But I could not compile it.  A long list of
error complaining about pasre error.  ANy suggestion?
From: lebailli@cicb.fr (Olivier Le Baillif)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Need help for rebuilding kernel.
Date: 13 Sep 92 11:29:52 GMT
Organization: CICB, Universite' de Rennes I, FR


	hi !

I installed the complete SLS package including X11R5 server and so on ...
Everything are OK, but as I'm just a froggy, I want my (french) keyboard working.
I read the FAQ and found something like:

	Edit the Makefile in the kernel directory.
	Specify your keyboard type.
	Rebuild the kernbel.

I did that and get nothing ! the first file even doesn't compile.

It seems to be a problem with all include files. I don't know if they are at a wrong place or
if they are obsolete.

	If you have any ideas, please e-mail or answer by posting.

	thank by advance.


E-MAIL : lebailli@cicb.fr

Le Baillif Olivier
Laboratoire de Radiocommunications
Universite de RENNES I
FRANCE.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux