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Hello psyche-list,
I've had a few problems with my ThinkPad 770ED in the Dock on my desk
for a while. Recapping:
I was stuck at the 2.4.18 kernel because everything newer that I tried
hung when trying to initialize the Ethernet PCMCIA card. Further,
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Monday, November 17, 2003, 10:14:10 AM, I wrote:
> Every now and then (often enough to be very irritating), while the
> read-back comparison is being done, the system jumps off the rails,
> stops responding to network I/O, stops all disk activity, and
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Hello psyche-list,
I've been having some problems lately with my RH 8.0 ThinkPad 770ED.
It is up to date with all patches, except for the kernel. I'm still
running 2.4.18-27.8.0, because all the later kernels I've tried fail
to recognize my PCMCIA Eth
Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 4:30:53 PM, Dax wrote:
> 2.4.18-14 (shipped RHL8.0 kernel) <-- no problem
> 2.4.20-20.8 <-- problem
And, somewhere in that same range, my PCMCIA modem/Ethernet card
started preventing a successful boot.
Stuck at 2.4.18: Ron.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 12:00:36 PM, Stephen wrote:
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
I believe that you want your entry to look something like this:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
I "mis-spoke"
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003, 10:19:07 AM, Edward wrote:
> My understanding is that the code implementing APM is not SMP-safe.
> When the kernel determines that it's running on an SMP box, it disables
> APM.
The unenlightened might think that when a sy
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003, 9:30:25 PM, Stephen wrote:
> How to allow user to mount devices on KONSOLE window not from ICON on
> KDE desktop. What command line will be used.
> $ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That one.
> etc. can't work unless you "su -"
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Hello psyche-list,
Because of the problems I have been having with the 2.4.20 kernel
updates for RH 8.0, to which no one seems to even be able to provide a
hint on tracking down, I decided to have a go at grabbing the latest
stable kernel from www.ker
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Monday, June 30, 2003, 3:40:27 AM, Michael wrote:
> Here I have to agree with afmee. I haven't understood why the
> gnome-terminal icon ended up in system tools. That resembles windows,
> where the "text window", or whatever it's called, is hidden in
Hello psyche-list,
Once upon a time, I remember reading about issues related to the
largest possible user space process memory image. I recall there being
special kernels for such use, etc.
Now, of course, that I actually could use as much user space memory in
my process as possible, I can find n
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I recently wrote:
> Now, I've tried upgrading to the latest 2.4.20-18.8, and my system is
> still locking up at boot time.
I have some more data points. Same system, but I found a couple of
other dual Ethernet/Modem PC Cards at work and brought them
Here is a copy of a message I just sent to linux-thinkpad. Perhaps
someone here might be able to help me with this?? Thanks! Ron.
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Hello linux-thinkpad,
I'm running RH 8.0 on my 770ED. The system sits on a dock where the
floppy resides, along with a T
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I've noticed what may be a related problem. This has existed in the
7.x series, and I just replicated it under 8.0 (with all updates).
My linux box has ext2 filesystems and fat32 filesystems. I have some
of each shared via Samba. Within the linux box,
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Hello psyche-list,
Since sharing my home directory using NFS / automount, I sometimes
find the following message on the X Window screen before Gnome gets
going.
"Your preferences files are currently in use. (If you are logged in to
this same account
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Monday, March 10, 2003, 6:28:31 PM, Cameron wrote:
> Try grepping for /home/user in the personal GNOME config files.
> Some things write full paths in their status files (i.e. the ones used
> to open that same apps you had last time, with the same dire
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Thanks to all for the pointer to "John". It installed with very little
trouble. Probably the trickiest part was figuring out that it was
using its own (tiny) word list, rather than the big list that comes in
the distro, and where to change it in the co
Hello psyche-list,
The Debian distro appears to have a modified version of the "Crack"
password testing utility that is set up for the MD5 passwords that are
recommended these days.
The Debian distribution uses a system with which I am not familiar,
and have been unable to decipher sufficiently t
Saturday, March 8, 2003, 8:21:45 AM, Aaron wrote:
> This should have nothing to do with Gnome. Are you saying that in the
> entry in the passwd file for this user says his home directory is in
> /lhome/user and he is still put into /home/user.
Exactly. It's got me scratching my head.
Ron.
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Hello psyche-list,
Since sharing my home directory using NFS / automount, I sometimes
find the following message on the X Window screen before Gnome gets
going.
"Your preferences files are currently in use. (If you are logged in to
this same account
Nuts. I put subject "A" on message about problem "B".
sigh.
Ron.
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Hello psyche-list,
Since setting up our home directories to be shared across systems
using NFS and automount, I have noticed something a bit odd. I have
configured systems to automatically start a VNC session for me.
Naturally, this requires that my h
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Hello psyche-list,
We recently decided to put all of our home directories on a central
server and share them using NFS and automount on the other Linux boxes
in our office. All of these are RH 8.0 with current (as of 3/6/2003)
fixes. We are not using
Hello psyche-list,
I've got a couple of RH 8.0 systems on a network. On one of these,
I've set up a couple of entries in /etc/exports and set up NFS. On
this (server) machine, I have opened up the iptables firewall to allow
incoming tcp/udp ports 111 and 2049.
On another (client) system, I've als
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Monday, January 13, 2003, 11:12:54 PM, Philippe wrote:
> Maybe try to take the RH7.3 source and compile it. Or try the RH 7.3 rpm
> first.
Thanks. I'll give that a try. Anyone know why it was cut? Is there a
better tool or set of tools out there that
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Hello psyche-list,
We used to use some cool MIME Email tools called (I believe) the
"metamail" package, including the command "metasend". According to the
8.0 release notes, the package was removed from 8.0.
Any particular reason why? Any recommendat
Tuesday, December 24, 2002, 5:01:42 PM, James wrote:
> I don't know how much of your work is proprietary, but it seems like
> you want to notify the kernel developers. You are doing something
> that is out of the ordinary for most of us on the list.
Pretty much all of it. I can't imagine what I'm
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Monday, December 23, 2002, 2:38:57 PM, Ronald wrote:
> As an experiment, I've copied my raw data and compilation app to
> another system with 1 GB of RAM, a 4 GB swap partition, and SCSI
> drives that show about 50 MB/sec buffered read throughput. It w
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Monday, December 23, 2002, 1:20:25 PM, Tom wrote:
> I also found 8.0 much slower for my smaller builds. One thing that's
> different in 8.0 is the ext3 filesystem, which I converted to when
> upgrading.
Good information, but that does not apply here.
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Monday, December 23, 2002, 12:11:10 PM, Samuel wrote:
> On the x86 arch you can't have a swap device more than 2G. You can
> have a goodly number of swap devices. (The max is defined in the kernel
> source.)
That's a pretty big area to search. I've
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Hello psyche-list,
I've got a large data compilation application. It takes in a very
large quantity of text data and produces a resulting binary file that
is about 1.3 GB. In the mean time, it holds on the order of 2 GB of
data in memory while operati
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Hello psyche-list,
I'm having trouble with RH 8.0 that I was not having with 7.2 or 7.3.
But, to be fair, I had not tried to do anything quite this weird.
I cannot seem to get my RH 8.0 clients to get time syncronization
information from my RH 8.0 ser
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Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 6:06:43 PM, Tommy wrote:
> did ya check the "peer dns" checkbox in neat (or turn the flag to
> true/yes in the ifcfg-eth0)
No, I did not. Actually, I had not used neat to configure the network.
I had used webmin, as I us
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Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 4:09:44 PM, Ronald wrote:
> I've got a bit more information, now. We generated a small test case
I got a quick response to a bugzilla report on this that I filed. In
the response, it said that the fix would be showing up in
Hello psyche-list,
I have configured a RH 8.0 system as the LAN's DHCP server. For my
notebook computer, I have configured an entry in the server's
configuration to recognize the notebook's Ethernet hardware address
and always assign a particular IP address to it.
When I boot under Win2K Pro, thi
Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 2:24:23 PM, Ronald wrote:
> We're having a bit of trouble with the gcc 3.2 for RH 8.0, mostly
> having to do with interaction with gdb.
I've got a bit more information, now. We generated a small test case
that is intended to show one of the problems we are facing with g
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Hello psyche-list,
We're having a bit of trouble with the gcc 3.2 for RH 8.0, mostly
having to do with interaction with gdb.
One of my co-workers showed me some of the difficulties. Here are 2.
He set a breakpoint on the constructor for a class, and
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Hello psyche-list,
After much fiddling around, I have pretty much got my main server,
running RH 8.0, set up to provide DHCP service for my LAN. (BTW, the
LAN is not currently connected to the Internet.) In the process, I
have it pretty well set up to
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Hello psyche-list,
I feel foolish, because I recall seeing a big discussion of this fly
past a few weeks ago. But, since I did not expect to need to do it...
Can anyone provide me with pointers to documentation or web resources
on how to set up my RH
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Monday, November 18, 2002, 12:57:38 PM, Paul wrote:
> Not specifically a RedHat book but a very good one for *nix
> administration is "Unix System Administrators Handbook" by Nemeth,
> Snyder, Seebass, and
Perhaps then, "Linux Administration Handboo
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