Teledat USB 2 a/b

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Hi, Is there support for external USB ISDN boxes like the Teledat USB 2 a/b? I don't really know this box, but there's someone asking for it... Cheers! Thunder - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the

Re: Driver migration question

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
The way drivers have to be done is mixed of two aspects: 1. The way you do drivers and 2. the way the driver works. You should also try not to rewrite existing functions for not to get a mess of e.g. memory allocation functions that do the same but have different names. Georg Nikodym wrote: > > S

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Steve Underwood wrote: > > Alan Olsen wrote: > > > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > > certain where to get the correct info. > > > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > > Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of

Re: make mrproper

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
> My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German > Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning > agent bottle). I'm not sure of the spelling, though. It's been > a while since I've seen the commercials. You've spelled it correct. > I dunno if it's Finnish, tho

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Mark Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:14:19AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > > > certain where to get the correct info. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > > > S

Re: vfat <-> vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > On/Dnia Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote/napisa³(a) > > > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > > > > hdparm -c1 /dev/hda, or are you running in 16-bit mode on purpose? > no purpose. Setting this can only speed up all operations a bit but it

Re: Patches

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Kmail works fine. Hmmm. Would be great, but could you get working beyond some proxy? I couldn't, and so I have to use Netscape, since pine doesn't really support proxies, too. Same with MS Outlook, which is - o horror - also avariable for Linux (in one package with MS I

Re: make mrproper

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Ville Herva wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:00:26AM -0500, you [James Lewis Nance] claimed: > > > > ( mrproper == Mr. Proper ) > > > > I saw a post from Linus once about this. It is Finnish for "Mr. Clean". > > Just to be sure: 'proper' does not mean anything in Finnish (nor Swedish > for

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was > > probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the > > namespace, but it is the reality. > > For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside

In kernel 2.4.0 in alloc_uhci when doing request_irq()

2001-01-25 Thread Thunder from the hill
Hi, I am using an usual VIA MPV3 onboard USB device (on a AMD K6-II 400 machine), and it has ever worked fine on Linux (until including 2.4.0-test10). Now I wanted to use the "retail" 2.4.0-kernel, and USB gets stuck while booting. Last messages are: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: r

In kernel 2.4.0 in alloc_uhci when doing request_irq()

2001-01-26 Thread Thunder from the hill
Hi, I am using an usual VIA MPV3 onboard USB device (on a AMD K6-II 400 machine), and it has ever worked fine on Linux (until including 2.4.0-test10). Now I wanted to use the "retail" 2.4.0-kernel, and USB gets stuck while booting. Last messages are: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: r

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Chris Wedgwood writes: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:34:47AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > That's it, in 4 weeks time I am putting a kernel onto > > vger.kernel.org that speaks ECN. This is my official and only > > warning. > > > > Why wai

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> Every single connection to ECN-broken sites would work as normal - it > would just take an extra few seconds. Instead of "Hotmail doesn't > work!" it becomes "Hrm... Hotmail is fscking slow, but Yahoo is fine. I'll > use Yahoo". A few million of those, and suddenly Hotmail isn't so hot... I thin

Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
Stefani Seibold wrote: > > Hi Linus, > Hi Alan, > Hi everybody, > > this kernel patch allows to disable all printk messages, by overloading the > printk function with a dummy printk macro. > > This patch is usefull for embedded systems, where the hardware never changes > and normaly no textcons

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> Hotmails failing machines, for example, send RST packets back when > they see ECN. Ignoring valid TCP RST frames is unacceptable and > Linux will not do that as long as I am maintaining it. Whadda word! --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To uns

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> Don't they understand that Linux is actually a system that is growing to > be very popular? That's why they ignore and don't support it. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
Mark Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:02:05AM -0700, Thunder from the hill wrote: > > > > > my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs > > > > > forever making the sleep mode much less useful. > > > i just push t

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> A file-system without a lost+found directory is like love without sex. You mean, possible but leaving you unsatisfied? Well, I think a file system without a lost+found is a lot worse. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe f

My appologies

2001-01-28 Thread Thunder from the hill
Hi, all, My mailer (NS4.76/Linux 2.4.0-test10) has corrupted some messages and send them at least twice. I apologize for that, please don't be worried. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: Patches

2001-01-29 Thread Thunder from the hill
Marc Mutz wrote: > > Thunder from the hill wrote: > > > > Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > Kmail works fine. > > Hmmm. Would be great, but could you get working beyond some proxy? > > > Um, mail proxy? Is there such a beast? I always thought that tha

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-29 Thread Thunder from the hill
Chris Meadors wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Chemko wrote: > > > Microsoft are bad for dropping ICMP because of security.. .I mean try pinging > > microsoft.com... > > It's down, ha ha, Microsoft is down! I'm joking of course. But you don't > know how many times my techs have told m