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Telnet problem from Windows to stable from July 18th

2001-07-25 Thread Pete French

Has anybody seen (or has any explation for) this ?!

I have a user whos login .profile consists of the line:

exec bin/test.sh

The script "test.sh" looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
echo Choose file 1 or file 2
n=`echo ${n}`
FILE_NAME=""
while test "${FILE_NAME}" = ""
do
FILE_NO=0
echo -n "Choice: "
read n
if test "${n}" = "1"
then
FILE_NAME=file1.txt
fi
if test "${n}" = "2"
then
FILE_NAME=file2.txt
fi
if test "${FILE_NAME}" = ""
then
echo ${n} is not a valid choice - please choose again
fi
done
echo Chosen '"'${FILE_NAME}'"'
sleep 1
exit

(its a similfiled version of the real script- but this demonstartes
the problem simply enough)

The idea is that the uuser logs in and is presented with the menu from
the script. They then choose 1 or 2 to select a file. This has been working
for some time now, and I had almost forgotten it existed until the last
upgrade to track -stable.

What now happens is that if someone telnets to the box (from any
windows telnet client - not just the standard telnet) and logs in
then are presented with a continually scrolling screen of

Choice: is not a valid choice - please choose again
Choice: is not a valid choice - please choose again
Choice: is not a valid choice - please choose again
Choice: is not a valid choice - please choose again

etc...

as if the read from the inoput was always getting a blank string. This
has only just started happeing, and it only happens with windows telnet
clients.

Interestingly, if I alter the .profile to

bin/test.sh
exit

then the script functions fine. Does anyone have any ideas ? As both
the standartd windows telnet and the commercial terminal application
"reflections" behave the same then I amwondering if the problem is some
incompatibility with the windows tcp/ip stack maybe ?

I;d apperciate it if someone elsecould verify that it does the same on their
machine too...

cheers,

-pcf.

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Re: Problems with new user-ppp ?

2001-07-25 Thread Antoine Beaupre (LMC)

Have you tried removing the set mru and set mtu lines?

A.

Fabio Vilan wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Since my latest make world (today), my PPPoE connection trough user-ppp
> doesn't work anymore. I've been using it for a time, no problems whatsoever
> before.
> 
> show version in the new (broken) ==> 2.3.2 - Jul 24 2001
> show version in the old (working) ==> 2.3.1 - Jun 26 2001
> 
> *Seems* to be a problem in the ppp program iteself (/usr/sbin/ppp),
> as if I get back to the older version, everything works again.
> 
> The /var/log/ppp.log shows :
> ...
> deflink: login -> lcp
> deflink: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation
> deflink: Disconnected!
> ...
> 
> My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf  (that works with the old version)
> ...
> default:
>   set device PPPoE:ed0:ISP
>   enable lqr
>   enable tcpmssfixup
> 
>   set lqrperiod 6
>   set mru 1492
>   set mtu 1492
>   set timeout 0
>   set log phase tun
>   nat enable yes
>   add default HISADDR
> 
>   set authname *
>   set authkey *
> ...
> 
> I've also noticed that many other people have already found some other
> problems
> with this new ppp program in this very same list (freebsd-stable), saw many
> tricks
> to try to fix the problem, but none of them worked with me.
> 
> Btw I haven't found any change in the PPP(8) manpage with this new version,
> so
> I don't believe it to be a configuration problem (may be... but...)
> 
> Thanks
> Duwde
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
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Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"......

2001-07-25 Thread Freddie Cash

On July 24, 2001 09:08 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:02AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote:
> > > A sysinstall prompt would be nice though.  An even nicer option
> > > would be a little menu on the diskLabel part of the install that
> > > asks what options you want to enable on the filesystem when you
> > > create it (softupdates, etc...).

> > Not a bad idea...  should be much easier to implement since
> > softupdates became more 'standard' (no more licensing issues).  :)

> There is now an option in sysinstall's disk label editor to turn
> softupdates on. This is on a machine cvsupped on July 7 this
> year. I don't know when the option showed up.

It's been there since at lesat 4.3R, and I'm pretty sure I remember 
seeing it in 4.2R.

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Re: user-PPP broken ???

2001-07-25 Thread Mandy Moore

I encountered the very same problem the last time I CVSupped on July
22nd. What I did was re-compile the kernel without the ipf ( *sighs*
) options and voila! my ppp worked as it used to be.

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Duwde (Fabio Vilan Dias) wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Since my latest make world (today), my PPPoE connection
> trough user-ppp doesn't work anymore. I've been using it
> for a time, no problems whatsoever before.
> 
> show version in the new (broken) ==> 2.3.2 - Jul 24 2001
> show version in the old (working) ==> 2.3.1 - Jun 26 2001
> 
> *Seems* to be a problem in the ppp program iteself
> (/usr/sbin/ppp), as if I get back to the older version,
> everything works again.
> 
> The /var/log/ppp.log shows :
> ...
> deflink: login -> lcp
> deflink: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation
> deflink: Disconnected!
> ...
> 
> My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf  (that works with the old version)
> ...
> default:
>   set device PPPoE:ed0:ISP
>   enable lqr
>   enable tcpmssfixup
> 
>   set lqrperiod 6
>   set mru 1492
>   set mtu 1492
>   set timeout 0
>   set log phase tun
>   nat enable yes
>   add default HISADDR
> 
>   set authname *
>   set authkey *
> ...
> 
> I've also noticed that many other people have already found
> some other problems with this new ppp program in this very
> same list (freebsd-stable), saw many tricks to try to fix
> the problem, but none of them worked with me.
> 
> Btw I haven't found any change in the PPP(8) manpage with
> this new version, so I don't believe it to be a
> configuration problem (may be... but...)
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Fabio Vilan Dias / Duwde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> PGP key @ http://www.duwde.com.br/duwdepgp.asc
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Re: vr interface...

2001-07-25 Thread FUJITA Kazutoshi

From: "Serge V. Panchencko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vr interface...
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:48:35 +0600
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I've changed my old FreeBSD box (2.2.8-S/P-166/2xD-Link
> EhetrNICs) to new 4.3-R/Cel733/2xD-Link PCI EtherNICs and
> I'm having throubles: when hight load on vr0 interfaces,
> this interface stopped for 1..5 min...

I have another NIC which probed as "vr0", and have same problem.


-- my dmesg --
... snip
vr0:  port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xec80-0xec80
00ff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:90:99:22:e0:14
miibus0:  on vr0
acphy0:  on miibus0
acphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
... snip
vr0: watchdog timeout


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Re: What FTPd FreeBSD uses?

2001-07-25 Thread Mike Hoskins

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nuno Teixeira wrote:

> I noted that ftp.freebsd.org uses an FTP version DG-4.1.73

Yes, I believe that's one David Greenman modified for WC's use.  I may be
wrong, but I believe that explains the 'DG' (thought I read it somewhere).

> What the differences between the two ftpds?

A cursory review of the respective man pages will show some immediate
differences.  I've ran both, but it was a /long/ time ago when I played
with ProFTP, so I can't really make current comments.

> Or, what FTPd program should I use to obtain maximum security?

I think a couple quick searches, along with some reading time (features,
past exploits, etc.) to understand what 'features' you get from each and
how much risk has historically been associated with each will provide the
best answer to your question.

Later,
-Mike

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Re: Intel pccard (xe driver) not working!

2001-07-25 Thread Joao Pedras

would you mind sending me your config file ?

Something is wrong because I didn't change my config file. I  am able to 
use the card using an old kernel, so I guess this has nothing to do with 
the hardware.

Some guy emailed me about not having is Xircom working either.

--On Wednesday, July 25, 2001 00:36:00 -0700 Janet Sullivan 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I just upgraded my laptop to a 07/24 version of -stable from one about a
> month old, and my xe is still working fine.
>
> Not a solution to your problem, I know, just an FYI.
>
> Joao Pedras wrote:
>>
>> Hello there
>>
>> Intel etherexpress 100 pcmcia (xe driver) is NOT working on -stable for 2
>> weeks.
>>
>> Did I miss something ?
>>
>> Tkx
>>





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User-PPP broken ?!!?

2001-07-25 Thread Duwde (Fabio Vilan Dias)

Hi.

Since my latest make world (today), my PPPoE connection
trough user-ppp doesn't work anymore. I've been using it
for a time, no problems whatsoever before.

show version in the new (broken) ==> 2.3.2 - Jul 24 2001
show version in the old (working) ==> 2.3.1 - Jun 26 2001

*Seems* to be a problem in the ppp program iteself 
(/usr/sbin/ppp), as if I get back to the older version,
everything works again.

The /var/log/ppp.log shows :
...
deflink: login -> lcp
deflink: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation
deflink: Disconnected!
...

My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf  (that works with the old version)
...
default:
  set device PPPoE:ed0:ISP
  enable lqr
  enable tcpmssfixup

  set lqrperiod 6
  set mru 1492
  set mtu 1492
  set timeout 0
  set log phase tun
  nat enable yes
  add default HISADDR

  set authname *
  set authkey *
...

I've also noticed that many other people have already found 
some other problems with this new ppp program in this very
same list (freebsd-stable), saw many tricks to try to fix
the problem, but none of them worked with me.

Btw I haven't found any change in the PPP(8) manpage with
this new version, so I don't believe it to be a
configuration problem (may be... but...)

Please, CC to me, as I'm not subscribed.
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Re: cvsup

2001-07-25 Thread Fred Gilham



> The practice I am beginning to follow (and what seems to be the most common 
> practice) is:
> 
> a) cvsup weekly
> b) check the -stable list daily for any interesting new merges (AKA MFC's)
> c) if I see an new security fixes, or anything that sounds like it would 
> affect my system in a positive manner, build world.
> 


I used to do something like this.  But I finally decided that step a)
is unnecessary, and the cvsup should be folded into step c).  Why
cvsup weekly if you're not going to build it?  A good reason NOT to is
that most of the time your sources won't match your system,
potentially making it harder to debug your system if you have
problems.  Another reason is to not bog down the cvsup servers.

--
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[My tutors] got bored sooner than I, and laid down a general rule
that all statements about languages had to be in a higher level
language.  I thereupon asked in what level of language that rule was
formulated.  I got a very bad report.-- J. R. Lucas

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Re: Bullshit! Mac OS X is not FreeBSD. Get real please.

2001-07-25 Thread Bosko Milekic


Go away, go away, go away, go away, go away! You clearly have no
idea what you're talking about, and risk mis-informing people who read the
list in hopes of actually learning something. Congratulations, though, you've
earned a spot in my killfile. 

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:36:06AM -0400, Sung Nae Cho wrote:
> Okay, don't give me crap like I'm troll or anything stupid for I'm FreeBSD
> user.  But, I think there is a double standards in BSD community.  First
> of all, MAC OS X is not FreeBSD.  How can it be a FreeBSD if it has
> totally different core except that it has a FreeBSD user land commands?
> Or, have I heard this wrong?  2nd, I personally don't see the difference
> between APPLE and MICROSOFT.  At least Microsoft doesn't pretend to be
> friends with Open Sourced Community.  APPLE is bullshit company.  It
> builds an OS based on Open Source and they're making it a proprietary.
> That's bullshit!  3rd, OS X is a one crappy OS I've ever seen!  Infact,
> most APPLE users have gone back to OS 9 because OS X requires them to buy
> all the softwares (Office suites...etc) built for OS X since the emulation
> is terrible and utterally useless (TOO DAMN SLOW!).

Go away.

> It's also bullshit that FreeBSD community cannot throw away it's pride and
> accept the defeat and try to learn from it.  We all heard that in recent
> benchmark, both Linux 2.4 and Windows 2000 kick FreeBSD butt in
> performance.  FreeBSDers complained so they did the test again with all
> the optimizations enabled and FreeBSD still couldn't beat both Windows
> 2000 and Linux 2.4 (not to mention, Linux 2.4 and Win 2000 didn't even
> receive special treat for getting tuned.)  Come one people!  Let's cut the
> bull shit and get real.  I'm sick of this idiots just saying this and that
> without actually contributing anything to FreeBSD development.  I hope
> FreeBSD 5.x does a milestone just like Linux 2.4 and Windows 2000 did.
> Also, don't give me the crap like Windows 2000 and Linux are unstable!
> I've tried em and Windows 2000 is a totally different beast than any
> previous Windows (2000 is stable as a rock!).  So is Linux.  Linux 2.4 is
> even stabler!

Go away.

> Why then do I use FreeBSD?  I use FreeBSD not because it's better than
> Linux or Windows 2000, not because it has better hardware support than
> Linux or Windows, but just because I like the consistent layout of the
> file structures.  Redhat seems to move around files on every release.
> Also, ports collections seem to be handy when I'm not in mood to compile
> manually (not that I can't do it in Linux).  I wish FreeBSD 5.x finally
> get support for my new Kensington USB (OPTICAL) mouse on my Laptop! I
> don't know about FreeBSD hardware support on desktops, but laptop hardware
> support is simply not impressive! I'm not about to go back to wheel based mouse
> (got tired of cleaning wheels).
> 
> I hope this doesn't offend anyone. (Just got tired of listening to crap!)

Go away.
 
> Sung N. Cho

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Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!

2001-07-25 Thread Fred Gilham



Kai Torak writes:

> FreeBSD works great as a desktop O/S!? Sure you have to tweek and
> tune it to be a good server or a good desktop, but who actualy
> expects an O/S to do exactly what you want "out of the box" without
> having to tweek it for that job? For desktop we have all these usb
> things and stuff, I mean what more do you want? Examples of what
> exactly is wrong would probably help, but since this is just a
> great big troll I guess it has no base in reality...


A suggestion:  post your tweaks.  That might help people who want to
run FreeBSD on the desktop and stimulate discussion on what are good
optimizations for FreeBSD-STABLE.

Personally, over time I've found that the desktop is almost always
fast enough, and that responsiveness and stability are more important
than the speed of any particular operation.  At one point I was coming
in to work each morning and rebooting my system because I was
following CURRENT with SMP and it was REALLY unstable.  I didn't enjoy
the experience and even backed up to STABLE for a while even though it
didn't have SMP at the time.

The cheapest, most effective solution for speed problems these days is
almost always to buy faster hardware.

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rest.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke
is easy, and my burden is light."   --Jesus of Nazareth

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Re: Buildworld on Athlon, NFS installworld on Pentium

2001-07-25 Thread Justin White


--- ALing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hope this isn't a FAQ, but couldn't find anything directly in
> archives,
> handbook, etc.  I'd like to buildworld on a more recent Athlon, then
> NFS
> installworld on an ancient Pentium I, which is still running FreeBSD
> 3.4
> It doesn't seem that there should be any special problems with this,
> but
> just thought I'd ask before having to make world entirely on the
> Pentium.
> TIA,
> Alex

there is a good article about doing just that on the FreeBsd Diary.
http://www.freebsddiary.org/makeworld-2boxes.php is the one (what do
you know, it was in my browser history. :-P although i haven't actually
done it yet, the sysinstall isn't finding my PCMCIA NIC yet :-/ )

-justin



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Re: cvsup

2001-07-25 Thread ian j hart

Fred Gilham wrote:
> 
> > The practice I am beginning to follow (and what seems to be the most common
> > practice) is:
> >
> > a) cvsup weekly
> > b) check the -stable list daily for any interesting new merges (AKA MFC's)
> > c) if I see an new security fixes, or anything that sounds like it would
> > affect my system in a positive manner, build world.
> >
> 
> I used to do something like this.  But I finally decided that step a)
> is unnecessary, and the cvsup should be folded into step c).  Why
> cvsup weekly if you're not going to build it?  A good reason NOT to is
> that most of the time your sources won't match your system,
> potentially making it harder to debug your system if you have
> problems.  Another reason is to not bog down the cvsup servers.

Not to mention the fact that you cannot rebuild the kernel until
you {build,install}world. By the principle of an infinite number of
monkeys, you will at some point forget and shoot yourself in the foot.

A local copy of the source repository is "the answer to everything"(TM).
Useful^n.

My 0.02 euro, don't update source tree without build world.

> 
> --
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> that all statements about languages had to be in a higher level
> language.  I thereupon asked in what level of language that rule was
> formulated.  I got a very bad report.-- J. R. Lucas
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Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!

2001-07-25 Thread Jordan Hubbard

Again, I fail to see what this has to do with FreeBSD-stable.  This is
your second official warning.  On the next offense, you will be banned
forever from all FreeBSD mailing lists.  I don't care whether you were
responding to other people or not, you are solely responsible for your
own behavior and so far, it's not meeting even the most minimum
standards we have here.  Again, this is your second and last warning
in compliance with the mailing list charters.

- Jordan

From: Sung Nae Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:44:32 -0400 (EDT)

> Don't be embarrassed.  Although I'm working on Ph.D. in physics at
> Virginia Tech, I hate the f**king school.  Don't get me wrong, I like the
> physics department and folks in department.  But, rest of the school,
> I don't give f**k. Virginia Tech is the shittiest school I've ever been
> too.  This is the school full of dumb f**k Southern bitches and dorky punks,
> God only knows how they even got their jobs at Tech, full of bureaucrats who
> are only concerend with their image and putting down on Blacks and other
> minorities! This is the school still White kids make joke about Blacks
> and that happens naturally around here. Thank God at leats Physics and
> much of Engineering depts. are evenly composed of scholars from all
> over the world; and we don't tolerate such ignorance!  Now, you can have
> all the pride of this shit hole school yourself.  I don't want any of it
> and I'm not even proud to be called a Virginia Tech student.  I'm only
> here because Physics department doesn't tolerate such ignorance.  You are
> the one that's making me embarrassed by even considering me as a Virginia
> Tech student!  Please, refer me as someone from Physics department but
> don't tie me with the shit hole Virginia Tech.
> 
> 
> Sung N. Cho,
> Dept. of Physics,
> Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote:
> 
> > Sung Nae Cho wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Aarrgh!  Must...Resist...Trolling...
> >
> > Nuts, well I'll make this short:
> >
> > >
> > > I don't know how far this have gone down the road and altered throughout
> > > the course.  But, I've never said desktops don't need stability.  It all
> > > started with some faction of FreeBSD users complaining about the default
> > > enable of the disk write cache for modern hard drives in FreeBSD 4.x
> > > series.  My original post was literally responding to them, "Come on!
> > > This is 21st Century and hard disks are reliable and we need to take full
> > > advantage over those capable devices if FreeBSD's ever going to succeed in
> > > desktop market.  FreeBSD is no longer for server use only!"  Personally,
> > > I've been using UDMA capable disks (and, who doesn't these days?) with all
> > > the DMA capabilities fully turned on and never had to compromise
> > > performance with stability.  If you are so worried about UDMA capable
> > > disks to not to work as it suppose to, why in the world are you even
> > > getting UDMA disk?  Jee, lets get real here.  Too many of the FreeBSD
> >
> > Where did this non-sequitor come from?
> >
> > Current state of FreeBSD:
> >
> > ATA disks are run at the maximum transfer rate the disk, controller, and
> > cable allow.  This includes things like UDMA100/66/33.
> > Write Caching is enabled by default now.
> > Filesystems have the option of running Softupdates, which almost as
> > fast and _MUCH_ more reliable than async.
> > ATAPI devices (CDROMs mostly) do not use DMA by default because a lot
> > of ATAPI devices flat out lie about what they support.  This is easily
> > tunable if you are _sure_ your ATAPI devices supports DMA.  It's just
> > common sense.
> >
> > > Dept. of Physics,
> > > Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
> >
> > As a Tech alumni, this embarrasses me.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!

2001-07-25 Thread j mckitrick

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0700, Lamont Granquist wrote:
| 
| On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mit Rowe wrote:
| > I wouldn't use FreeBSD for a desktop if my life depended on it.
| 
| I've been using FreeBSD as desktops, both at home and on my work laptop,

I've been running it on my laptop since 3.2.  I started with Linux and
Win95, then dropped Linux for 3.2, then dropped Windows.  No complaints, no
regrets.

| (Of course, I don't make heavy use of office apps -- I tend to use irc,
| mozilla and vi+gcc mostly)

I use Applix Office, ghostview, Licq, Xemacs, Netscrape, and others



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Re: FreeBSD ROCKs! (was Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!)

2001-07-25 Thread j mckitrick


The convincer for me was Wes Peters' 'Daemon's Advocate' article.  He even
personally responded to some of my questions.  He pointed out that many of
the same factors that make a good server, make a good workstation.  

The article was May 99, BTW.  Anyway, that convinced me to give it a try,
and I've never looked back.  Is it as bleeding edge as Linux?  No, but my
Linux system became unmaintainable and incoherent very quickly.
Interestingly, a problem with unmounting CDroms under Mandrake hosed my
filesystem twice in a row, and that was it... I wanted the vaunted FreeBSD
stability.

That fast, async filesystem wasn't much good when I lost data.  That's
funny.  I could have sworn only servers care about reliability and
stability, not desktops 

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Re: Watching DVD's in -stable

2001-07-25 Thread James Halstead

I have had some success with xine + captian css:
http://members.nbci.com/captain_css/

it plays encrypted dvd's for me, but likes to crash when changing tracks...

Anybody else use it?

James

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Netgear drivers for stable

2001-07-25 Thread Scott Taggart

Hey guys, anyone got any plans to get working drivers for the NetGear FA312
(Pretty common 10/100 WOL PCI card from netgear) into stable? I know there
is Linux drivers that come with the card itself and maybe they can help
somewhat to driver development? Sure would be appreciated...

Rgds.
Scott Taggart


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Re: cvsup via socks5

2001-07-25 Thread John Polstra

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Satterfield  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WooHoo It works!
> Thank you Philippe!
[...]
> >jester# runsocks cvsup -L 2 ports-supfile

When using SOCKS, you must also add "@M3novm" to the cvsup command
line -- anywhere on the command line.  If you don't, it will
eventually die with a "Bad address" error.

John
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Re: The vr driver

2001-07-25 Thread Serge V. Panchencko

Scott Taggart wrote:
> 
> OK, perhaps I lied a bit :) The D-Link has got a known bug... well the
> driver has got a known bug mentioned in the man page under bugs that causes
> the connection to jump like MAD every 5 seconds when you ssh or something
> similar into the machine on the local network.

Yes!!! I've got message 'watchdog timeout' only when I work
over ssh...

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