Subject: Linux-Development Digest #404
From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Mon, 24 Jan 94 02:13:09 EST

Linux-Development Digest #404, Volume #1         Mon, 24 Jan 94 02:13:09 EST

Contents:
  Re: nfs performance (Piercarlo Grandi)
  External ethernet adaptors (Rob Kenny)
  Help on interpreting GNU license and restriction (MUI-KIM NG)
  Re: is there a driver for National 8390 Ethernet Chip (Donald J. Becker)
  Re: Linux v1.0: what's in it? (H. Peter Anvin)
  Re: term111 (Bill C. Riemers)
  Re: term111 (Bill C. Riemers)
  First attempt for NFS FAQ / Add-on (Peter Berger)
  Re: 1 Gb Disk under Linux (Dimitri Vlahakis)

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From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Subject: Re: nfs performance
Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 02:05:57 GMT

>>> On Sat, 22 Jan 1994 16:33:57 GMT, greg@gagme.wwa.com (Gregory Gulik) said:

Gregory> iozone is a disk I/O measurement package.  Like all benchmarks,
Gregory> it isn't perfect, but at least gives you a general idea of the
Gregory> performance.

It is extremely easy to get completely useless results out of iozone. I
think that a much more robust benchmark is 'bonnie'...

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From: rob@atlantis.claircom.com (Rob Kenny)
Subject: External ethernet adaptors
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 23:27:06 GMT

I have a Toshiba 4600 laptop and a Xircom ethernet adaptor card.  I've
looked through the docs, but I don't see any mention of a specific
external ethernet adaptor.  Can anyone please tell me if/what external
adaptors are supported?  I'll gladly read tfm if someone points me
in the right direction :-)


--
        Rob Kenny                    email:  rob@claircom.com
        Claircom Communications      phone:  (206) 389-5947
        700 5th Ave, Suite 2100      fax:    (206) 389-5972
        Seattle,  WA 98104           "Poignant comment here"

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Crossposted-To: gnu.g++,gnu.g++.help,gnu.gcc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
From: mng@eos.ncsu.edu (MUI-KIM NG)
Subject: Help on interpreting GNU license and restriction
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 01:15:29 GMT

Hi Lawyers and law students out there (or anyone who understands the GNU
License agreement):

   Could you figure if these actions are legal? I like to use Linux as the
base operating system running my applications since it is a superior Unix
system.  However, since nobody out there offers commerical compilers and tools
for Linux, I have to use GNU tools and compiler to develop my applications.
   Here is my problem: I need money for school. So, I am planning to sell 
my applications to a potential customer.  These applications would use gnu
database and would be compiled gnu g++ and gnu gcc.  Is it still legal to
sell my applications?
   If it is not legal, then why can people sell Motif toolkit, 
which is compiled with GNU gcc?
   Any explanation would be appreciated.  Thanks!


Regards,
Kim

                No Flames please. These are geniune questions.


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From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: is there a driver for National 8390 Ethernet Chip
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 04:55:25 GMT

In article <CEH.94Jan20220131@enoch.sce.carleton.ca>,
Curtis Hrischuk <ceh@enoch.sce.carleton.ca> wrote:
>HI.  I have an ethernet card which has a National 8390 MAC chip.  Is
>there a driver to support this card under Linux?  Either way, where is
>the source code for the ethernet drivers?

The answer is readily available in both the source code and the Ethernet
HowTo.

Linux has extensive support for the 8390: I've written drivers for every
8390-related board I've found.  That almost certainly includes the ethercard
you have.

The core 8390 driver is in drivers/net/8390.c, net/inet/8390.c, or
net/tcp/8390.c depending on your kernel version.   There are about seven
drivers (I've lost count, and some are still in beta test) that use the 8390
core.

Soapbox: I consider extensive network device support essential to make Linux
viable in the broader (non-OS-focussed) community.

        A big advantage of Linux is that people can install it with no
        purchasing or licensing overhead.  Requiring a specific hardware
        configuring or extensive setup would nullify this advantage.  (viz
        the effort that I've put into autoprobe for the driver, which has
        been more time consuming to write than the run-time part of the
        drivers.) 

        Potential users recognize that a wide range of device drivers is a
        strong indication that future hardware will be supported.
        An OS with only a few device drivers is  obviously in its precarious
        infancy. 

        Linux device support is only home-grown: it will be a long time before
        vendors include Linux drivers with their hardware.  If they don't
        get a driver from us, they won't get it at all.

-- 

Donald Becker                                          becker@super.org
IDA Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 20715                        301-805-7482

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From: hpa@hook.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Linux v1.0: what's in it?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 04:41:41 GMT

In article <1994Jan20.224112.10273@pe1chl.ampr.org>,
Rob Janssen <pe1chl@rabo.nl> wrote:
>
>>Finally, Linus said the freeze would happen when pl15 was released,
>>but I didn't see a date.  Did I just miss it, or was it not mentioned?
>
>Originally the mentioned date was dec 31 for the freeze.  But in reality
>there are still patches being made, so 1.0 will probably slip a bit.
>Many of the recent patches are to the networking code, so hopefully it
>will be a little better when pl15 (1.0) is released...
>

I thought that was *January* 31...

        /hpa
-- 
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From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers)
Subject: Re: term111
Date: 24 Jan 94 04:24:18 GMT

In article <2hoe0kINNik7@xs4some.hacktic.nl> rsmits@xs4all.hacktic.nl (Ron Smits) writes:
> I installed term1.1.1 yesterday evening between two linux machines, and
>with a nullmodem cable running on 38.4 I only got 300CPS Am I doing
>something wrong?
>       
It looks like you either:
 1. Forgot to set the serial speed for the device you are using
 -or-
 2. Fell for the -s0 comment in the new README.  Setting the baudrate does
    not work.  You want -s38400.  Or you can pickup term111.titan.patch which
    also fixes the baudrate 0 bug.  (uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu)

                              Bill


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From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers)
Subject: Re: term111
Date: 24 Jan 94 04:16:38 GMT

>cajho@uno.edu wrote:
>: That's funny, because I found that I slowed down from 1.0.8 to 1.1.1..using
>: a ZyX 14.4 from PC to Sun.  At least that is what term is reporting.  I
>: was getting just over 1600 average on tuploads w/1.0.8 and now 1.1.1 reports
>: mid 1500's, w/all other things equal.  In fact my estimate for 1.0.8
>: tupload speed may have been conservative...Needless to say, I'm back 
>: w/1.0.8.  Anyone else notice this?


Actually, I noticed the same thing so I mailed the author and asked what
happened.  He informed me that term 1.11 can only send 20 packets per 
second, so I should use a a larger window.  I increased the window size
from the default of 3 to 10 and found that now term1.11 just flies at 
the maximum rate possable.  i.e. compressed files are transfered at
1650cps =~ 14.4kbs, and uncompressed data peaks to whatever baud rate
I'm using.  Plus this is the first version of term I can actually send
files as large as 80MB without any problems, other than wanting to call
somebody before my modem is done...

                                 Bill



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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 10:24:04 MET
From: pit@p2.lxs.chg.imp.com (Peter Berger)
Subject: First attempt for NFS FAQ / Add-on

HI Alan,

 > Sounds like we need an NFS FAQ
maybe.. :-)

Just a little add-on:

 > Q6.  I get loads of strange errors trying to mount a machine from
 > a Linux box.

 > Make sure your users are in 8 groups or less. Older servers
 > require this.

Could look s.th. like that:
Make sure your users are in 8 groups or less. Older servers (and also SOSS for
DOS) require this.

bye,
    Peter

E-Mail: pit@lxs.chg.imp.com


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From: dcv@pipeline.com (Dimitri Vlahakis)
Subject: Re: 1 Gb Disk under Linux
Date: 24 Jan 1994 01:08:28 -0500



arsenio@mobix.uc.pt (Arsenio Monteiro dos Reis) wrote:


>
>
>Hi! I'm about to buy a new IDE disk to my LX box, is 
>there any  problem about the size of the disk? I just 
>heard that linux can't use such a disk, does this make 
>any sense? Replys are really wellcome.
>
>  _                                 emails: /_|         
>                           arsenio@mobix.uc.pt  /  
>|rsenio Reis                         
>arsenio@lisbbs.uc.pt  
>
>            
>--------------------------------------------------
>                we all live in a box. Mine is a Linux 
>Box.
>            
>--------------------------------------------------
>,

Mine seems to work fine, but I've got 4 partitions on it, 3 for 
linux.

d.

Dimitri Vlahakis                                        dcv@pipeline.com
72210,2210 Compuserve                                      dcv@panix.com

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