re: suggested CDRW drive

2000-09-04 Thread Edward Schernau
I bought a Ricoh 6/2/2 6200s drive kit from somewhere I found on Pricewatch. Nice drive, came with cable, clone AHA152x card, instructions, heck even the screws, also a CDR, CDRW and some magic backup S/W for Windows. Never had a problem burning on it. __

re: linux software RAID

2000-09-07 Thread Edward Schernau
many people do use it, there are several howtos. Also, check out the mailing list, last I knew was on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897

re: no SMP on Compaq Proliant

2000-09-09 Thread Edward Schernau
Check to see if there is an option for which version of the MPS spec it adheres to. On my BP6 you can tell it to be either 1.1 or 1.4. If you can, try the other setting. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64

re: suggestion for backup - CD-RW

2000-09-11 Thread Edward Schernau
Since a CDRW will only hold, tops, 700 MB, its likely you can't back up the whole box onto one. But poke around your filesystem, it may be that /home is < 700MB, /usr is < 700MB and / is < 700MB. (Or 650MB if you have 650MB disks) (And, leave some empty space to be on the safe side) If you have

re: MP3s from FAT32 using XMMS

2000-09-19 Thread Edward Schernau
I don't experience interruptions, BUT - my MP3 files are horribly fragmented on my FAT32 partition. I put them there with bladeenc under Linux, and Windows2000 tells me I have about 500 fragments PER FILE. So maybe something similar is happening - any peculiarities to how FAT32 stores big (4 MB

reliable mirrors?

2000-09-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Any pointers on finding a good mirror? They all seem slashdotted. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 ___ Redhat

re: linuxconf

2000-09-29 Thread Edward Schernau
Yes, type "linuxconf" and see what happens. [root@nostromo /root]# linuxconf Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acc

list?

2000-10-02 Thread Edward Schernau
Hello? List broken? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

re: AIM for RedHat

2000-10-03 Thread Edward Schernau
RedHat is not an OS!!! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

re: Fun with UDMA

2000-10-07 Thread Edward Schernau
Try "pci=reverse" option to LILO - similar to what someone else posted - there's a problem with the boot order. Note that your IDE drives are NOT coming up /dev/hda - it looks like their on the second IDE channel - but the kernel may be trying to boot off that device. And, although I'm sure you

re: tape backup for home use

2000-10-11 Thread Edward Schernau
browse the Yahoo! auctions - I picked up a Connor SCSI2 4/8 GB external SCSI drive and 5 TR-4 tapes for $50. Works great in Win2K, and KBackup. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

re: DSL pricing, etc.

2000-10-17 Thread Edward Schernau
thing to set it up, but then I use the Roaring Penguin PPP over Ethernet Linux client - works perfectly. (no URL handy, sorry) Its pretty snappy, but the upload speed stinks. It's no T1. =8-) -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect

re: 1st OS, DOS vs. UNIX

2000-10-19 Thread Edward Schernau
Well, UNIX existed when they created DOS. Which means they knew it must have sucked when they wrote (?) it. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897

Re: [OT] DSL, US vs. Canadian

2000-10-19 Thread Edward Schernau
An obvious troll, but I'll bite... Jeez, it is only me or is the sales tax high in Canada? Or is it only me, or do they labor under a socialist regime? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 2

list suggestions

2000-10-22 Thread Edward Schernau
Folks, when quoting, please try and trim down the quoted text, the digest-messages are getting bogged down with triple and even quadruple quotes. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

sendmail relaying

2000-10-23 Thread Edward Schernau
d hostname owned by my ISP. I use dyndns.org's client to give me a hostname, but as I said above, this won't work. Any clues? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249

re: RH7 and SCSI devices

2000-10-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Try putting the 152x support into the kernel - it might be running into a sort of chicken-and-egg problem - it needs to load support for a SCSI adapter so it can mount filesystems, but the SCSI support exists as a module, on a yet-unmounted system. Build the 1520 stuff into the kernel. -- Edward

USB disk - boot?

2000-10-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Is it possible to make a USB device bootable? Can I boot from a USB Zip or HD ? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

re: RedHat 7 and ADSL

2000-10-29 Thread Edward Schernau
(sorry, no URL handy) PPP-over-Ethernet client, which is a breeze to set up, and even gives you a decent set of firewall rules right out of the RPM. Unsure if DSL cards or DSL USB devices are supported, or how they perform. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network

Netscape FTP behind ipmasq never finishes

2000-11-12 Thread Edward Schernau
I have 2 machines, one running Linux with IP Masquerading, and it is connected to the Net via DSL. The other machine sits on an internal network. Whenever I download massive files (ISO images) - we're talking hours here - the download "meter" will reach 99%, but the download never seems to finis

Mail Sync between WinX and Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Edward Schernau
system. But maybe its what you want! ;-) -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

pam-aware POP3d?

2000-02-06 Thread Edward Schernau
Looking to set up a server, and not sure how to set up my POP3 daemon to work with PAM. Is it a case of getting a newer POP3D, or can I just make a pop3 file in /etc/pam.d ? The one I'm using is an ancient BSD-port, but works like a champ. Ed -- Edward Schernau

Re: DLink 530

2000-02-12 Thread Edward Schernau
If it uses the tulip driver, you can specify module options to force a connection type. Do a search for it, I'm sure Donald Becker has written up a page somewhere. :-) -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rat

presario 1247 sound

2000-02-12 Thread Edward Schernau
Hello all, I've got a new presario 1247 laptop. 6.1 identifies the audio chipset (VIAsomethingorother) for which there is apparently a module. When it loads, I get an error message from sb.o, saying device or resource busy. Any ideas? -- Edward Schernau

RedHate installation must be fixed

2000-02-27 Thread Edward Schernau
nal poster: that sucks, sorry dude. To the people who said "you should have had a backup", thanks for wasting list space. Dare I quote someone who once offered a solution to my FDISK problem "reinstall everything, but be more careful this time." VERY helpful. -- Edward

Re: RH Installation must be fixed

2000-02-28 Thread Edward Schernau
not NECESSARILY related, is the automagic/least-common-denominator/guess nature of GUI tools and GUI installers. Then again, if MS had to design an ueberGUI to the Registry, I can't imagine how large and weird it would have to be -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.c

slack7

2000-02-29 Thread Edward Schernau
Slack7 is out http://www.slackware.com -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

PLIP

2000-02-29 Thread Edward Schernau
Anyone have experience with this? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Presario 1247 laptop sound - SOLVED

2000-02-14 Thread Edward Schernau
Turns out there is a BIOS option to determine which IRQ, DMA and IO the VIA chipset uses for SB compatibility. Load the sb sound module with those params and all is well! -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational

reinstall and be more careful

2000-02-23 Thread Edward Schernau
Indeed, someone who suggests that to fix your problem, you not do it in the first place ought to be killfiled. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To

Linux 1, FDISK 0

2000-02-23 Thread Edward Schernau
oblem this time. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: ABit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

1999-12-29 Thread Edward Schernau
il I got a new video card, the old S3V card would kill the system every time I tried more than 16 colors. Go figure. Linux seems to love my Voodoo3. ;-) -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

@Home sniffing

2000-01-31 Thread Edward Schernau
sniffing you. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: What else did RH6.1 install forget...

2000-03-04 Thread Edward Schernau
Don't take that tone, this is the Mailing List Where RedHat Can Do No Wrong. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Signal 7, weirdness

2000-03-09 Thread Edward Schernau
I too am getting Signal 7 during 6.1 installs onto a 486. I _also_ get Signal 7 crashes when I try to compile ssh on a 486. I wonder what Signal 7 is?? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

signal7 + 486 = weird?

2000-03-09 Thread Edward Schernau
box is infinite - I've never rebooted it other than once to patch the kernel and reload. I've gotten signal 11's before, on all sorts of hardware combinations, but why do 486's in particular seem to signal 7? And why are 3 486s under discussion dying on RH6.1 installs? -- E

6.1 on 486

2000-03-10 Thread Edward Schernau
Has anyone installed it? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

APM vs. SMP

2000-03-12 Thread Edward Schernau
The kernel will not use APM on an SMP system; I tried and it gave me a message like: APM not SMP-safe, disabling... -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To

ATI All in Wonder 128

2000-03-14 Thread Edward Schernau
does this card work in X? I've got it running in unaccelerated mode, and it bites. Is there an XServer somewhere? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -

Intel 820 and 840

2000-03-16 Thread Edward Schernau
For an illumnating review, check out www.tomshardware.com, he looked at a BX chipset @ 133 MHz, vs. the 820 and 840. In most cases the BX kicked the 820's and 840's tail. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CD in Samba issue

2000-03-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Looks like the Samba box might have DMA enabled on the CD-ROM drive when it can't handle it. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [

re: DHCP server

2000-03-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Check out ISC's DHCP suite, I believe at www.isc.com or .org. They have a nice client, and its all very well documented, too. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI

.sig sneer

2000-03-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Any suggestions to those who use Netscape? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

More re: Tulip

2000-03-28 Thread Edward Schernau
Donald Becker also has a "tulip-diag" program, which will tell you wonderful things about the workings of your tulip, if you're having link negotiation issues. FWIW, tulip/Linksys chips have always worked wonderfully for me. -- Edward Schernau http://www.scher

xcdroast vs ISO

2000-04-01 Thread Edward Schernau
Any way to burn a CD from an ISO WITHOUT "mastering" it from numerous files first? There must be something I'm missing. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Prov

Take 2, ISO vs. xcdroast

2000-04-01 Thread Edward Schernau
I asked HOW one burns a CD from a previously made (or downloaded) ISO. How do you tell xcdroast not to collect N files and make an image, THEN burn it to CD? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

net install: NFS vs. FTP vs. HTTP

2000-04-04 Thread Edward Schernau
Interruptible (finish install later) Certainly tolerable speed Just my experience, although I'm no NFS-head. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubs

hardware encryption NICs

2000-04-16 Thread Edward Schernau
Anyone know what the status of hardware encryption is in Linux? I'm talking about the 3Com 3XP line, and there are others. Just read an OpenBSD release about some of their hw encryption stuff... -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect m

Install 6.2 onto an HPT366 ATA66 controller

2000-04-27 Thread Edward Schernau
The stock kernels dont have support for this, so 6.2 doesn't detect my disk on install. Any way to pass a module or something to get it to work? Ed -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Partition tables and FATs

2000-05-03 Thread Edward Schernau
I've got a FAT partition with a scrambled FAT, I'd like to use the 2nd FAT to try and restore it - any Linux utils out there to do this? AFAIK, the data is all still there. Ed -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

re: VMWARE

2000-05-19 Thread Edward Schernau
I just got 2.0 running on my RH Linux 6.2 box, I run NT Workstation in the virtual machine. Setup is slick, and everything works. I can access my SCSI CDROM in the VMWare machine (/dev/cdrom ---> virtual IDE CD). Heck, "autorun" works in NT. SOUND even works. Don't map to /dev/lp0 for local p

re: VMWare memory requirements

2000-05-20 Thread Edward Schernau
I've noticed massive amounts of memory being used as cache while I'm running VMWare, presumably because the whole VMWare machine lives in a giant 150 MB file in my ~ directory. So, as always, the more RAM, the better. It doesn't seem to take too much CPU. Ed -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PR

SANE gotchas?

2000-05-20 Thread Edward Schernau
Any secrets to setting up SANE, or do the docs work? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe&qu

large mailbox in Netscape = corruption

2000-05-20 Thread Edward Schernau
Im getting some corrupt messages in my Netscape mail folders, the only ones I've seen are messages with attached .jpg files. Anyone else see this? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 2

PLIP - solution

2000-05-23 Thread Edward Schernau
ddress was FC:FC:FC:FC:FC:FC I got about 27 K/sec from a dual celery box to my AMD K6/400 laptop. Pretty system resource intensive, but works >>>> than a null modem (4 K/sec). -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schern

Kernel panic, in swapper task, not syncing

2000-05-24 Thread Edward Schernau
I'm getting this on an old 486-100 box I'm building. memtest86 shows no problems with the RAM (after several runs). Any ideas, other than "something is wrong" ? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau

re: Question (re: SMP or not SMP)

2000-06-10 Thread Edward Schernau
Rather than just blindly installing an SMP kernel, I'd grab the source from kernel.org and install it, then compile. Why wait for every possible module to compile (stock redhat) when you don't need to. Plus you can be confident that any patched you apply will patch cleanly. -- Edwar

performance - Labtam NFS client for Win32

2000-06-24 Thread Edward Schernau
chine running RH6.2 gives 140 KB/sec. Any ideas? Special export options? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

re: Samba vs. NFS client for Win

2000-06-25 Thread Edward Schernau
s, i.e. no ACLs. but thats an OS problem. Anyone have any experience tuning NFS servers? I'm not sure how much I can tweak on the client. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gol

re: Labtam NFS client for Win32

2000-06-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Don't bother, the performance is lousy, and their tech support offers no suggestions for improvements. So I guess Samba is the only viable option. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 2

winmodems vs. Lucent vs. open source

2000-07-08 Thread Edward Schernau
printfilters to make a "software PS printer" make is bad? And, what's wrong with a binary-only driver? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 -- To unsubscri

pnp vs. pcmcia

2000-07-13 Thread Edward Schernau
? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

procmail, schmocmail

2000-08-03 Thread Edward Schernau
Those of us who filter in their clients appreciate unique text. Ed ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

backup and restore of all partitions/OSs

2000-08-04 Thread Edward Schernau
95/NT registry weirdness, and trying to back up open files, etc. etc. from within each OS. Is there a simpler way? Has this dragon been fought and beaten before? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249

re: serious problem--help

2000-08-07 Thread Edward Schernau
rates? -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/ma

IDE drive detection

1999-11-11 Thread Edward Schernau
A disk or complaints that the drive geometry differs. Weirdly, RH6.0 install found the drive and offered it to me as a mountpoint, but of course said it was zero bytes or something. Any idea why I'm getting a phantom disk drive detected? -- Edward Schernau http://w

me vs. PAM

1999-11-16 Thread Edward Schernau
Any way to allow null passwords? I'm running RH6.0. Thanks -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROT

Dual Celeron Setup

1999-11-21 Thread Edward Schernau
Sorry if this has been hashed and rehashed, but can someone recommend a decent dual-overclocked-but-warrantied-Celeron vendor? I'm looking to upgrade my old K6, and the Athlon just isnt here yet. Thanks, -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Arch

Re: swap

1999-11-21 Thread Edward Schernau
ry: swapon -a(as root) at a command prompt. P.S.Anyone else bothered by the fact that you have to make a swap part.? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

LS120, and Dual Celerons

1999-11-21 Thread Edward Schernau
ve not seen ANY dual Athlon boards. So actually, J. Scott Kasten, your answer was utterly useless. Thanks for filling the digest up. Ed -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

If !Swap then goto end

1999-11-21 Thread Edward Schernau
My complaint was that RH install _forces_ the existence of a swap _partition_. I find this limiting. Indeed, I don't need swap to run X and Netscape, and I could always add a swap file later if I needed to. Why butcher up my drive??? -- Edward Schernau

TOTALLY OT: Multitech bridges

1999-11-23 Thread Edward Schernau
Anyone have experience with Multitech 56k RouteFinder bridges? Ed -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

linuxconf and 2nd NIC

1999-11-25 Thread Edward Schernau
t Linuxconf works on some things well, and at worst, it hides the real heavy lifting from the administrator, which keeps you from really learning it. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROT

re:FTP kills Dual-Celeron

1999-11-25 Thread Edward Schernau
onflicting with the SMP kernel. OR, maybe try booting with a single-processor kernel. Either would show you if its a 3Com+Dual problem... Ed -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True

1999-12-04 Thread Edward Schernau
Ah, and it gets rid of that pesky (dns helper) process as well! -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Gotchas

1999-12-05 Thread Edward Schernau
itle: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1` > echo $title -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

re: pty and securetty

1999-12-08 Thread Edward Schernau
doesn't work > > Thanks ! No, the best bet is to just remove the securetty dependency in PAM. Asking on here will just get you a whole pile of half-flames about how you shouldn't let root telnet in, or that you should install SSH. -- Edward Schernau

USR 56k external

1999-12-09 Thread Edward Schernau
45333 (meanwhile no real data moves), then drops to 44000 etc. In this case, just fix the modem's max connect rate to 44000 and it wont bother trying to go faster. YMMV, worked for me in 1 situation. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network

POP3 = insecure?

1999-12-10 Thread Edward Schernau
e a really geeky person could write a transparent POP3 proxy, which would grab and log your whole data stream going to/from port 110. I'd be much more concerned about weaknesses in your POP3 daemon, like buffer overruns, and silly passwords. Ed -- Edward Schernau http://w

TOTALLY OT: what SCSI card is this?

1999-12-12 Thread Edward Schernau
I've got a "Mountain Computer" SCSI card, made in 1990. It's 16-bit, got internal and external connectors, and a square processor on it that says: NCR 53C94 Any idea how to get this running with Linux? I have no docs, and have no idea what IRQ, etc its using. Ed

Re: Bridging

1999-12-13 Thread Edward Schernau
s" or whatever its called). Then there is some wizardry with the MAC addresses, and it works. Never done it, but the option has been in since 1.2.x days, so I'm guessing it DOES work. Good luck! -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect

compile Mountain Computer SCSI card driver ??

1999-12-15 Thread Edward Schernau
river, but its for MCA only. There doesn't seem to be a section in the global makefile to tell make to build this driver. Any ideas on how to compile in support for this card? Thanks -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect

HPT Ultra-DMA 66 controller (triones)

1999-12-16 Thread Edward Schernau
Any way to get this ATA-66 beast to run in Linux? I can boot the system from it, it loads the kernel, and promptly dies since it cant access the drive (panic, cannot mount root fs). I'm seeing some patches for 2.3.x, wondering what to do to get it running in 2.2.13. TIA, -- Edward Sch

HPT Ultra66 controller, SOLVED

1999-12-16 Thread Edward Schernau
s tweaking, but now I can get to my CD ROM in Windows and Linux boots and runs, so all is cool. Incidentally, I recommend a dual-processor celeron board to anyone. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Multiple CDROMs, Win98

1999-12-20 Thread Edward Schernau
If you're sharing these disks out via Samba, you can use the "root prexec" and "root postexec" commands to mount and unmount it. $.02 -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROT

GeForce, and Backspace in X

1999-12-21 Thread Edward Schernau
2 questions, one stupid: 1: Is the GeForce SDR 3d card supported? 2: How do I get Backspace to NOT be Delete? I changed my XServer and now its a delete. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL

bus error / racing? / SMP

1999-12-23 Thread Edward Schernau
the RC5 crypto client and its "SMP-awareness". System: RH6, 2.2.13 kernel using kernel.org tarball 2x550 MHz Celeron HPT366 ATA-66 HDC 64 MB PC-100 RAM Thanks in advance for any lucid ideas. Incidentally, can anyone give me a reference benchmark for keys/sec that a 550 Celeron s

motherboard vs. Win9x (was AMD K6)

1999-12-27 Thread Edward Schernau
which doesn't work, etc. etc. Linux doesnt seem to care WHERE a PCI card is, or if you install a new motherboard with a different bridge chip. Linux cares THAT you have a PCI NIC, for instance, but not WHERE it lives. I guess this is a Win9x feature... -- Edward Schernau

PS/2 mouse sensitivity in X

1999-12-27 Thread Edward Schernau
I've just installed a PS/2 mouse, and its very slow in X - any way to make it more sensitive? Ed -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI

/proc/pci

1999-12-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Who do we send updates to again? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe&qu

OT: overclocked Celeron Q

1999-12-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Anyone else out there overclocking a Celeron? What kinds of temps are you getting in your systems? CPU, "system", and what kind of temp is the room? I'm seeing 35 C on CPU1, 39 C on CPU2, and "system temp" of 39 C... this normal? Ed -- Edward Schernau

Re: PS/2 mouse sensitivity in X

1999-12-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Manuel Camacho wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Edward Schernau wrote: > > I've just installed a PS/2 mouse, and its very slow in X - any way to > > make it more sensitive? > > Hi Ed! > > I use KDE. On KDE control center, there is a menu of input devices,

SMP Q

1999-12-28 Thread Edward Schernau
Is it normal for 1 CPU to take many more interrupts than another? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: ABit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

1999-12-29 Thread Edward Schernau
il I got a new video card, the old S3V card would kill the system every time I tried more than 16 colors. Go figure. Linux seems to love my Voodoo3. ;-) -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

S/W RAID in RH6.1 installer

2000-01-05 Thread Edward Schernau
Yeah, like it will actually work right. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

wheelie mouse

2000-01-06 Thread Edward Schernau
Any way to get the MS-style wheel mouse to work nicely in X, at least to use the wheel as a middle button? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI

CD Recording

2000-01-12 Thread Edward Schernau
I've just bought a Ricoh 6x2x2 CDRW drive, and am looking forward to burning some CDs. Can anyone give me any quick pointers or point me to a modern HOWTO for this? The SCSI card sees it, and I can access /dev/scd0, but I'm unsure the best way to proceed. TIA -- Edwar

SW RAID Q:

2000-01-12 Thread Edward Schernau
device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sda1, 420848kB, raid superblock at 420736kB disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 420848kB, raid superblock at 420736kB mkraid: aborted What's this trying to tell me? Thanks in advance. -- Edward Schernau htt

RAID 0 with patch

2000-01-13 Thread Edward Schernau
this working? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA, Earth -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

can ipchains save the day?

2000-01-19 Thread Edward Schernau
ere a way I can use ipchains to forward these broadcasts across the router, so that people on the other subnet get the messages? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

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