Re: USB modem Linux driver

2001-03-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, Chen Shapira wrote about "RE: USB modem Linux driver": > > > BTW, what's so bad about bloatware? Diskspace is pretty cheap these days. > > > And I'd rather have that programmer at hp be working on new features, > > > plucking out bu

Re: USB modem Linux driver

2001-03-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, Chen Shapira wrote about "RE: USB modem Linux driver": > > BTW, what's so bad about bloatware? Diskspace is pretty cheap these days. > > And I'd rather have that programmer at hp be working on new features, > > plucking out bugs, or writing neat tools rather than making it

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > don't forget this service is giving all over the world if it was that > expensive and not worth it it wouldn't catch so fast don't make us laugh. this is the internet gold rush. don't you see people spending money on startup copanies all over the world, an

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > since when being an ISP is unprofitable buisness??? practically since the first ISPs were started.. > why can ISPs all over the world allow high speeds and israeli ones are > suddenly not profitable?maybe we should start a charity for the poor guys even

Yet another locale problem

2001-03-21 Thread Oren Held
Hello All! I've upgraded my suse 7.0 to 7.1 and also several glibc RPMs.. It now added to me the /usr/lib/locale (till now it used /usr/share/locale). When it uses the new one, gtk apps running with $LANG=he or hebrew return: "Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C". QT app

Installtion parties - Blich

2001-03-21 Thread Guy Geva
Hey List, I am representing Blich highschool. Blich is the one of the biggest, if not in Ramat-Gan. We would like to host such a party. We can and will provide a big lab, with equipment such as presentation screen, svga screens 15inch :), keyboard's, mice's..., internet connection. Please feedba

Re: double posting

2001-03-21 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, dgi_il! On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:44:45PM -, you wrote the following: > 1) Sorry about the double posting on linmodems. > > 2) I have one subscription to this mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED], how the > server let [EMAIL PROTECTED] into here also? It didn't -- it was sent to the moderat

Re: Installtion parties

2001-03-21 Thread Ely Levy
we are not that originized you just say it to the air and the right person would apper;) (like when where and how) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Guy Geva wrote: | Hey List, | | whom i need to contact in order to arrange an installtion party

Re: rh7.0 and boot.img

2001-03-21 Thread Ely Levy
Hey, Thanks for your comment but I do know where to get the kernel source from and we actually mirroring 2.4/2.2 versions of the kernel (ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/mirror/linux/kernel if anyone intersted) the problem is I'm not sure if its just a diffrent config of the normal kernel or did redhat

Installtion parties

2001-03-21 Thread Guy Geva
Hey List, whom i need to contact in order to arrange an installtion party. Guy = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAI

double posting

2001-03-21 Thread dgi_il
1) Sorry about the double posting on linmodems. 2) I have one subscription to this mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED], how the server let [EMAIL PROTECTED] into here also? - diego (BTW: did you hear surfree is dead..) = To unsubscri

Re: rh7.0 and boot.img

2001-03-21 Thread Oren Held
Hello Ely The image is a compiled kernel, you can't take any source out of it. In order to apply a patch to a kernel source and compile it, download a new kernel. ftp://ftp.il.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2 Cya, Oren. On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > Hey, > > someon

rh7.0 and boot.img

2001-03-21 Thread Ely Levy
Hey, someone knows where i can find the source/config for the kernel that inside the image? I need to add a patch to it and to recompile it. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel = To unsubscribe, send mail t

Re: LinModem

2001-03-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001, Jeremy wrote about "RE: LinModem": > > There was a report in the media a few weeks ago for a company that lets > > people order from usa sites that don't deliver internationally. I don't > > remember the company's name, though. > > http://www.mustop.com/ They give you an add

Re: duplicating root?

2001-03-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote about "Re: duplicating root?": > > But the more traditional way to solve your problem is to give each person > > his own personal account, and when that person needs root-like privileges > > he or she does "su". > > But then there's only one root password

ISP speed (was: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x)

2001-03-21 Thread Aviram Jenik
Couldn't resist the temptation; > > | As to ISPs all over the world, where, except for the US (kindom of > | backbones) do you get high speeds? > > Almost all west europe including norway finland and so > most big cities in australlia. and so on. > In Singapore (a country the size of Israel an

RE: LinModem

2001-03-21 Thread Jeremy
> Or if you have a friend in the USA, the USR costs about 70$ there, and > air mail to here is less than 20$. Should not take more than 10 days. Question is, if you have a problem with the hardware, who you gonna call for service? Interesting tidbit about US->Israel prices - Logitech cordless des

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread Ely Levy
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: | On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote: | > since when being an ISP is unprofitable buisness??? | > why can ISPs all over the world allow high speeds and israeli ones are | > suddenly not profitable?maybe we should start a char

Re: LinModem

2001-03-21 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
> My Algorithm so far: > 1. Have ISA-> get real ISA modem. > 2. You need it fast -> Get an external USR USB or serial, I a serial > will be playing it safe. > 3. If you have the money, time and you just can't stand external modems: > A. You can call Bynet and order the Multtech modem, it is VERY

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote: > since when being an ISP is unprofitable buisness??? > why can ISPs all over the world allow high speeds and israeli ones are > suddenly not profitable?maybe we should start a charity for the poor guys As much as I understood, and that wa

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread Ely Levy
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, guy keren wrote: | | On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hemo wrote: | | > You should remember one thing- most of the ISP's have added ADSL support, | > but, as a typical Israeli behaviour - no one that I know has been expanded | > substantially their bandwidth, so be prepa

Re: PPP dying on connect on RH7 w/2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes? By now I did ;-). I must admit I didn't expect such a dependency between the kernel version and the ppp version (as opposed, say, to gcc version). On the other hand, I know that PPP support has to be

Re: duplicating root?

2001-03-21 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote: > Hi, Nadav! > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:37:08PM +0200, you wrote the following: > > > But the more traditional way to solve your problem is to give each person > > his own personal account, and when that person needs root-like privileges > > he or s

Re: LinModem

2001-03-21 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "LinModem": > > Hi, > > > > I need my linux box to connect to the net. Which is the best software modem > > with linux support arroungd? Real modem are dead as you know.. (also that > > thread)... > > I just got a US-Rob

Re: duplicating root?

2001-03-21 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Nadav! On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:37:08PM +0200, you wrote the following: > But the more traditional way to solve your problem is to give each person > his own personal account, and when that person needs root-like privileges > he or she does "su". But then there's only one root password. I

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hemo wrote: > You should remember one thing- most of the ISP's have added ADSL support, > but, as a typical Israeli behaviour - no one that I know has been expanded > substantially their bandwidth, so be prepared for some REAL low bandwidth on > all ISP's soon (as m

Re: PPP dying on connect on RH7 w/2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hemo
I guess you forgot to upgrade the pppd ;) upgrade to: ppp-2.4.0-2.i386.rpm You can get it from: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS Although this is Rawhide, the RPM itself is pretty old (1/12/2000) Hetz On Wednesday 21 March 2001 11:02, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I compiled

Re: duplicating root?

2001-03-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001, September Donovan wrote about "duplicating root?": > hello, > I am new to the list and fairly new to linux ;-) > I hope my question was not asked too many times and won't be flamed ;-) > > I have heard that it is possible to create another user with similar > permissions as

duplicating root?

2001-03-21 Thread September Donovan
hello, I am new to the list and fairly new to linux ;-) I hope my question was not asked too many times and won't be flamed ;-) I have heard that it is possible to create another user with similar permissions as root, I know that in M$ world it's very easy, and I understood that in a more comple

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hemo
Hi, There are some serious TCP/IP problems with Windows ME if I'm not mistaken... As for getting 20k per seconds -- your best test would be to connect as a guest for a short while to various ISP's and test them... You should remember one thing - most of the ISP's have added ADSL support, but,

Thinkpad 600X serial port.

2001-03-21 Thread Maxim Kryachko
Hi list. I'm trying to connect Linux box to another one through RS-232 port. The port is enabled and is working in Windows, where it's reported as COM2, irq 3, base port 0x02f8. In linux (RH7) I run tpctl --rs2=COM2 --rs2=irq3 --rs2=0x02f8 setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq autoconfig Setserial reports

test - please ignore

2001-03-21 Thread September Donovan
_ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the

Re: PPP dying on connect on RH7 w/2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread mulix
On 21 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I compiled kernel 2.4.2 on my new home RH7 (with all the updates). > I compiled PPP in, and tried to dial to the ISP (I actually used Kppp > from KDE-2.0.1). In the process PPP dies with > > Mar 21 02:23:59 zaphod pppd[769]: pppd 2.3.11 started by oleg, u

Re: PPP dying on connect on RH7 w/2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On 21 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I compiled kernel 2.4.2 on my new home RH7 (with all the updates). > I compiled PPP in, and tried to dial to the ISP (I actually used Kppp > from KDE-2.0.1). In the process PPP dies with > > Mar 21 02:23:59 zaphod pppd[769]: pppd 2.3.11 started by oleg,

Re: PPP dying on connect on RH7 w/2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Moran Cohen
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > I compiled kernel 2.4.2 on my new home RH7 (with all the updates). > I compiled PPP in, and tried to dial to the ISP (I actually used Kppp > from KDE-2.0.1). In the process PPP dies with > > Mar 21 02:23:59 zaphod pppd[769]: pppd 2.3.11 started by oleg, uid 50

PPP dying on connect on RH7 w/2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, I compiled kernel 2.4.2 on my new home RH7 (with all the updates). I compiled PPP in, and tried to dial to the ISP (I actually used Kppp from KDE-2.0.1). In the process PPP dies with Mar 21 02:23:59 zaphod pppd[769]: pppd 2.3.11 started by oleg, uid 500 Mar 21 02:23:59 zaphod pppd[769]: ioc

Re: LinModem

2001-03-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "LinModem": > Hi, > > I need my linux box to connect to the net. Which is the best software modem > with linux support arroungd? Real modem are dead as you know.. (also that > thread)... I just got a US-Robotics 56k Faxmodem, a "real" internal