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From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: serial speeds...
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:59:35 GMT
Organization: Radio Free Nyongwa -- public unix/usenet in Montreal, 284-6693
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In article <1993Jan26.160943.14628@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.144812.10959@athena.mit.edu> alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan24.023609.10638@r-node.pci.on.ca> marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>>>Hi...
>>>
>>>	Just a quick question...what is the max speed that
>>>I can expect to get with Linux?  I have a Worldblazer that
>>>I can lock the speed up to 115200 and would like to know
>>>how much closer to  that I can get from 38400....or can I?
>>>
>>>	Is there work being done to increase the limit...or
>>>is it not possible?
>>>
>>
>>You can use speeds up to 115200 bps under linux, either by using
>>setserial in conjunction with other comm programs, or by just using a
>>comm program that supports high speeds directly (currently only Seyon
>>does that). 
>>
>	I wish to lock my DTE speed with my Telebit at 115200, if
>possible.  That means that I have lock uugetty at 115200...he who wrote
>uugetty (ported it?), can I do that?

He who ported uugetty (getty_ps) speaking:

If you can use setserial to make 38400 really be 115200 as someone here 
said you could (I have no knowledge of this) then yes, of course getty
can lock at that speed.

Getty will lock at whatever speed you desire by removing the autobauding 
(\A) character from the CONNECT string in the appropriate /etc/default file.

But it's really quite pointless to run a modem line higher than 38k, since
the throughput is not likely to be anything near that, even for text and
v.42bis in my experience.

-- 
Steve Robbins  --  steve@nyongwa.cam.org
Dsylexics of the world, untie!
From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Serial I/O in 99pl3-4
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:01:47 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Linux 0.99pl4, gcc 2.3.3, libc 4.2.  Serial Autoconfigure off.
AMI 486/33, on-board (motherboard) serial port (COM1 only).
No problems.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: Serial I/O in 99pl3-4
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:09:24 GMT

In article <1js994INNfkq@cobra.cs.ubc.ca> edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) writes:
>
>Well, I'm not exactly having trouble, but the behaviour did change when 
>I went from p0 to p3 (might have been p2 to p3 even, I'm fuzzy on that 
>:).  The ports generally seem to work fine, except for one anomaly.  
>When I hang up from our local annex, I used to get the NO CARRIER 
>message from the modem when it disconnected.  Now, instead, I get no 
>message, and if I type anything to the modem after the disconnet, I get 
>an I/O error (unable to write or somesuch).  So far this hasn't been a 
>problem, but it does seem to indicate a bug somewhere.  BTW, I'm not 
>using the serial autoconfigure option. 

Put the terminal line in CLOCAL mode - the above behaviour is normal and
due to the new hangup routines.  If you are not running a getty on a
serial line, you should probably do a "stty clocal < /dev/ttyXX" for the
line in your /etc/rc.local, telling the kernel not to do hangups on CD
drops etc.. 

		Linus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Is there any demand for intro to lin
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut and Ferengi Tavern, Deep Space Nine
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:10:50 GMT

In article <4uOqganE55@s-link.escape.de> benj@s-link.escape.de (Benjamin Harling) writes:
>> I am considering starting to work on some new users guides for linux mainly
>> to consolidate the heaps of notes on unix that are lying around here into
>> some usable form.  
>
>I definetly am! I myself was considering to make some kind of manual
>to help newbies getting started. Especially to help them getting an idea
>of how Unix works. I.e. what happens when the OS is booting, what files are
>involved and how one can customize the system. Or some hints to very dangerous
>commands like "rm -r *", or how to get the printer producing output, etc....

Anyone interested in helping to write Linux documentation should join the
"Linux Documentation Project" (just the DOC channel of the linux-activists
mailing list). We're trying desperately to consolodate these independent
documentation efforts. We're already writing the standard set of Linux 
documentation which will cover everything listed here; and we'd really like
some help. Contact me or Lars (wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi) if you're interested.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?"
From: Randy.Edwards@f60.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Randy Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 2 Linux ques. (read faq:
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:39:00 -0800

   I'm a Linux newbie who has poured through a couple of books on Un*x 
during the last couple of weeks, and is now making my way through 
_Managing UUCP..._.  Anyway, a couple of odd things have been bothering

me about Linux (I'm using the most recent SLS version). 
 
   First, is the useradd command.  I've got my /etc/skel directory all 
set up, and everything looks good.  I can run useradd successfully and 
it'll create the new user's home directory, copy in the /etc/skel files

-- and everything looks great: except the password.  When I try to log 
in as the new user I created, it's a no-go.  No password will work.  If,

as root, I change the user's password, and then try to log in as that 
user, I still can't. 
 
   So, for the time being, I've made users "manually" by editting 
/etc/passwd, and setting up their directory, permissions, etc., by hand

-- this works fine but is a lot of work.  Does anyone have any idea what

I might be doing wrong with the useradd command?  I'm about ready to 
'rm' it and work up some scripts to do it all semi-manually... 
 
   My second question is about file permissions and general file
access.

As root, I made a dummy file named 'test.fil' with an owner and group 
of 'root' and permissions of -rw-r--r--.  Then, I logged in as a normal

user and tried to rm the file.  I get a 'permission denied' response, 
and the file remains intact.  Great.  Then, I immediately change 
directories to /etc and do a 'rm passwd'.  To my surprise, I get a 
response of 'rm: remove 'passwd', overriding mode 0600?'  So I type 'y'

and the system deletes my password file.  The password file was also 
owned by and in group 'root' and had permissions of -rw-------.  What 
boggles me is why does the system allow me to delete one file, but not 
the other?  (Remember, I did this logged in as a user, not as root.). 
To me, since I don't know what's going on, this gives me shudders and 
fears of system security.  Can someone clue me in on what's happening 
here (and how I might prevent it)? 
 
Thanks in advance, 
. 
Randy 
 
... OFFLINE 1.50  "America works best when we say, 'Union YES!'" 

 * Origin: The Programmers Playhouse (1:128/60)
From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux 0.99pl4
Date: 23 Jan 93 06:14:24 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Just compiled 0.99pl4!  Works fine for me!

I sure hope all the beta-testers help out Linus NOW so version 1.0 
is problem-free.  
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From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: INN, Anyone? (How do I send news batches via NNTP???)
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:05:20 GMT

Charles Fee <CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I grabbed C-news, and it appears to be set up to use UUCP. The sources and
>manpages suggest INN is really the program I'm looking for. Has this been
>successfully ported yet to Linux? I'll likely try to work on it if it hasn't
>as it appears to be what I need.

I'm unaware of a port of INN to linux, but I'd be interested in seeing
how it compares to C-news if anybody gets it ported.

>As I am quite the neophyte at such things, and really only need outgoing
>news (I read via NNTP so I don't use news spool files) is there a simpler
>way to do this? Can C-news (which seems to work fine, and installed very
>smoothly) be used for NNTP batching? Am I missing something brutally
>obvious? If so, feel free to flame me.

There are thousands (really!) of C-news sites out there running NNTP.
Just grab a copy from your favorite archive site and install it.

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
	I saw on the news that Clinton, Gore and the Mrs. came down the
	steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the tune of 'Fanfare for the Common
	Man' to go to their $30,000,000 inaugural festivities...hmmmm.....
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: roberto@dxcern.cern.ch (Roberto Bagnara)
Subject: How about Compaq hardware for Linux?
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:24:40 GMT


Hi,

  I've read and appreciated the list of hardware components that have
successfully been tried with Linux. My feeling is that a list of hardware
pieces that hav been UNSUCCESSFULLY tried with Linux would be very useful.

I'm very much interested in knowing if anyboudy out there has tried
Linux with a Compaq machine, and wat was the result.
Any info/pointer will be gratly appreciated.
Best success
		       Roberto
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: feriom@aix.rpi.edu (SiD)
Subject: Cabletron Ethernet Cards and Linux
Summary: okRecompiling the kernel with new ethernet card?
Keywords: cabletron,ethernet
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:11:41 GMT


Ok, I'm trying to phase out DOS on the Network I administrate
here at work.  I want to get the users use to UNIX so that
we can one day migrate to SPARC.  Each machine has a
Cabletron 2110-X ethernet card.

I downl;oaded the 8390 Packet Driver from super.org which
has support for Cabletron cards.  There is one thing that
needs to be changed by hand in ne.c.  It has to do with the
memory offsets of the rx and tx buffers.   How do I get this
information?

					- Mike

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From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: ACM Flight Sim
Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 19:10:53 GMT

jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:

>Its available in both source and binaries on sunsite.unc.edu in 
>/pub/Linux/X11/games.  But I hope you have a 486/66 and a S3 video card,
>because it is awfully slow on my 486-33 lb et4000.

It will be awfully fast on it when you switch over to X386mono. Only
disadvantage is that the screensize is too small to see it all. You can of
course do some fiddling with the 512k-Pixels you have (I sometimes use
1024x512 rather than 800x600), but it won't fit.

Me, I crash nicely into everything with it, though :-)

Bernie

P.S.: This is a cure for xtank and xpilot as well!
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From: ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de (Ruediger Helsch)
Subject: Problem compiling kernel (fixed of forbidden register was spilled)
Organization: Mechanikzentrum, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:30:03 GMT

Help! I can no longer compile my kernel since I installed GCC 2.3.3 from
sources.

One week ago I installed linux 0.99.3 on top of SLS. All went fine, I made a
new boot floppy and the system worked ok. Since then I installed GCC 2.3.3
from GNU sources. Today I tried to install linux 0.99.4, but the compiler
failed in kernel/fork.c and later in console.c. It seems unable to compile
complicated ASM expressions. The strange thing: I reinstalled the compiler
from gcc233.TZ, but the error stayed!

The compiler is configured as i386-linux. Here is the error message:

/linux/kernel #
/linux/kernel # cc -c -v fork.c
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.3.3/specs
gcc version 2.3.3
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.3.3/cpp -lang-c -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2
	-Dunix -Di386 -Dlinux -D__unix__ -D__i386__ -D__linux__
	-D__unix -D__i386 -D__linux fork.c /usr/tmp/cca03762.i
GNU CPP version 2.3.3 (80386, BSD syntax)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.3.3/cc1 /usr/tmp/cca03762.i -quiet -dumpbase
	fork.c -version -o /usr/tmp/cca03762.s
GNU C version 2.3.3 (80386, BSD syntax) compiled by GNU C version 2.3.3.
fork.c: In function `sys_fork':
fork.c:164: fixed or forbidden register was spilled.
This may be due to a compiler bug or to impossible asm statements.
/linux/kernel #

Has anybody an idea what I may have done wrong?
Ruediger Helsch <ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de>
From: bairstow@copland.psu.edu (Steven Bairstow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Virtual Consoles
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:35:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: atlantis.b-51H4m56c
Organization: Penn State University

To put it simply, what happened to the fourth virtual console? I've updated 
to 0.99pl4 straight from the sources, and it seems that nothing happens when 
I press alt-f4. Ps shows that getty is actually running on it but I can't 
get to it. Could someone tell me what define, constant or whatever else I am 
missing? I've looked through the sourc and haven't found where the number of
VCs is set.

Thanks, Steve
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
Subject: Re: What happened to /usr/local
Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:18:33 GMT

>I'm not really bitching at you about this, but a common attitude most people
>have is that they have to ask before they do anything.
>
>Remember this is YOUR system. You can organize and put things where you like.
>If you don't like X at /usr/X386, recompile it and put it where you want it.

Of course every one can organize their system in any way. Even every
commercial vendor can do this. However, they don't. That's because
common conventions are so valuable, be it a home system or a bigger one.
Installing programs by a whim to unusual places leads to problems you
mention below among others. That's why it's quite reasonable to ask what
the consensus of a particular matter is even when you are free to do
anyway you want.

>Granted some packages have paths precompiled into them, so moving them means
>you would have to recompile, but then again that is your choice. I
>recompiled TeX, to put it where I wanted it (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc..).
>But, when I recompiled X, I left it in /usr/X386 just so removing it was
>easier.
-- 
                  dos, windows, nt... are you a victim of the MS disease?
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From: a2tiede@rzdspc24.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Michael Tiede)
Subject: Pascal on Linux ?
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:07:28 GMT

Hi folks !

Some weeks ago I read something about a GNU Pascal.
Has anyone heard anything about it or is there any kind
of Pascal running under Linux ?

Bye,
	Michael

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: minyard@crchh7b9 (Corey Minyard)
Subject: sonycd-0.2 patch 1 available
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:14:01 GMT
Organization: BNR, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Well I just got workman (the new CDROM player) and that is one nifty
program.  Unfortunately, I misinterpreted some stuff about the cdrom
interface, and it didn't work too well with the sony CD stuff.

I have placed a patch on sunsite.unc.edu to allow the driver for the
Sony CDU-31A to work well with the workman named sonycd-0.2.patch1.Z.
It is currently in the /pub/Linux/Incoming directory.  If you want to
use it, and haven't already installed the driver, get sonycd-0.2.tar.Z
and this patch and workman (also at sunsite in the Incoming directory).

If you are using the driver, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me an email.
I need to know how it is working.

Corey
minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com
From: rodkey@westmont.EDU (John Rodkey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Edge 486 Magnum, anyone?
Summary: Anyone used the EDGE 486 with linux ?
Keywords: edge 486 linux compatibility
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:29:44 GMT
Distribution: global
Organization: Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

If you have any information about the compatibility of the EDGE 486
with Linux, could you drop me a line?

This machine was reviewed in PC-Mag and 'edged' out the Gateway as
the best overall machine in the DX66 class.  

BTW, anyone know if the 'graphics winmark' has any relevance to what
we'd really see with X-Windows, or is it so MS-Windoze specific that
it has no relevance?  

No problem with an S3 graphics driver, right???


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From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Zeos 486 Adaptec 1520 scsi support
Keywords: scsi
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:39:07 GMT

In article <C0x31t.Cp5@sci.kun.nl> ronaldpi@sci.kun.nl (Ronald Pikkert) writes:
>Recently we received a Zeos 486 system. Today I tried to run Linux on it.
>I could boot from a boot diskette, no problem.  The documentation mentions
>that Adapted 154x scsi controllers are supported. Alas the Zeos system has
>a Adaptec 1520 scsi controller.
>Could anybody tell me wether this controller is in any way
>supported.

The 1520 series is not compatable with the 1540 or 1740 series,
so it isn't supported.  Poorer hackers end up with boards like the 
Seagate at 20% the cost, people in the middle of the market get cheaper
non-adaptec products, and the better off crowd end up with busmastering
1542's and the like, so the situation isn't very likely to change.

If you want support, see about getting technical documentation from Adaptec, 
write the code yourself, or bribe someone to do it.

-- 
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From: neonakis@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (E.A.Neonakis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where is libX11.1.1 needed by xlock?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:28:23 +0200
Organization: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Hellas
NNTP-Posting-Host: terpsi.csi.forth.gr
Keywords: Xwindows, Xlock

I have recently downloaded xlock from tsx-11, but when I run it it reports:
			xlock: can't load library 'libX11.1.1'
My system has the following libraries:
	/lib/libX11.a -> /usr/X386/lib/libX11.a
	/lib/libX11.so.2.1
	/usr/X386/lib/libX11.a
	/usr/X386/lib/jump/libX11.a
but xlock is not satisfied with them.
I have tried to relink xlock.a as the README file suggests, but the link failed
probably because I do not have inet in the kernel.
I'd appreciate any help of yours.

E.A.Neonakis
Heraklion
Crete
Hellas


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From: grindley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Robin Grindley)
Subject: Re: ?? Why no out/in in assembler ??
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:24:03 GMT

In article <C1E98M.4JE@ichaos.nullnet.fi> jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes:

>Here we go again. Linux is designed to be multi-user multi-processing
>environment. In such environment there is no reason to let anyone do direct
>port-I/O. Just think. There's unixes with shell access, and a C Compiler


Sorry, i should have been a little clearer. I realize that user tasks will
run at different privileges and IOPL's. Any normal code should not be allowed
to do what i want. But if one wants to debug a system one has to have access
to tools that can bypass normal security. My question is, IF i do setup
a task to run as root and i make sure i have the correct IOPL, the assembler
does not even have the capability to generate these instructions (they are
not in its "dictionary"). 

 I cannot test my mouse using the kernel, because that forces me to use the
existing serial drivers, and i have already tried all the combinations using
standard ioctl, it does not work. I have to try and duplicate what my mouse
driver is doing in DOS and the only way i can guarantee this is by direct
access.

I am NOT saying that this should be easy to do, just that it should be 
possible for those pathological enough to want to bother. (Let's face it,
Josephine user is not too likely to bother using inline assembly code!)

And what about this undocumented -O6 flag in gcc?


-- 
robin

 		iNSANITY - It's only a state of mind

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: Re: lpr troubles
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:56:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.145058.18894@athena.mit.edu> schenk@falcon.ccsu.edu (Tom Schenk) writes:
>
>After getting the permissions correct for lpr, I still couldn't get it to work
>right.  I decided to leave it alone for awhile so that I could play with elm
>and sendmail that Nathan Laredo put on sunsite.  After I installed elm, I took
>a look at the /etc/services file that he had included with it and since it was
>much more complete than the one I had, I decided to replace mine with his.  I
>then tried playing with lpr and company again, and to my amazement, it worked.
>
>The moral of this story is, if lpr isn't working properly and you have the
>permissions set correctly, check the /etc/services (or /usr/etc/inet/services)
>file.  Mine (or rather the one from elm+sendmail) is included below.
>
>
  [ /usr/etc/inet/services deleted for brevity. ]

>Hope this is the solution for you.


   Well, that's not the only solution.  My problem wasn't because of the
/usr/etc/inet/services file.  It was because I had a filter problem
with the printcap file, in fact, I didn't even have a filter prorgram
as specified in the /etc/printcap file.   So I deleted that and it
worked.

   But can someone tell me what the filter program does when a
job is placed in the lp queue?  And where can I get this supposed
filter program?  


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: No LILO boot sector on 2nd hard disk -- Why?
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL241235]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:49:37 GMT

Robert Osterlund (spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: According to the LILO Version 0.8 documentation, the LILO boot sector
: can't be stored on the second hard disk.  This is unfortunate, since I
: have pretty good reasons for placing my primary Linux file system
: partition on the second disk.  Is there any hope that this limitation
: might be removed?  (If not, it looks like I will have to give up on LILO
: and continue booting Linux from floppy disk.)

This might well be because the rom dosn't look at the second drive when
booting.
You can put a boot record there, but if won't be found, unless you chain
it from something on a or c

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