Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #274
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Thu, 16 Jun 94 11:13:26 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #274, Volume #2                Thu, 16 Jun 94 11:13:26 EDT

Contents:
  Re: SVGALIB111 and Linux (Michel Anders)
  Problems: lpd -> HPLJ4 via ethernet (Rupert Lueck)
  Re: Pascal compiler for Linux? (Dan Pop)
  Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) (Michael Elbel)
  Re: Pascal compiler for Linux? (Xu)
  Re: Only 7000 Linux boxes, Re: Multiport Bored ... (Andrew Anderson)
  Anybody got X to work on Stealth64 (PCI) and/or Viewsonic 20"/21"? (Sulaiman Al-Rafee)
  Re: term 1.14 ???... (Patrick Reijnen)
  Re: Wordperfect for X-Windows (Jonathan A Buzzard)
  Re: future of Unixware (Ivan)
  Re: Wordperfect for X-Windows (Niedner)
  Re: Q : Any dvi viewers for Linux not running X. (Matt Judson)
  Smail Dailymaps... (George W. (Bill Pogue))
  Re: Ok, Wordperfect appears to wanna support us. (Dominic Fraser)
  Re: PCI Chipsets? URGENT! (Akihiko Nakashima)
  Re: cheapernet? (Bruce Haggerty)
  Re: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ? (Michael S. Scheidell)
  Re: 1.1.19 cua0 - device is busy?? (Christian Henry)

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From: michela@sci.kun.nl (Michel Anders)
Subject: Re: SVGALIB111 and Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 11:06:03 GMT

In <1994Jun14.044957.2755@anarky.tch.org> ser@anarky.tch.org (Steven Eric Rubin) writes:


>I just started getting this sometime after I upgraded to 1.0.8.  Interestingly,
>bdash works fine, but ZGV (gif viewer) doesnt work anymore.  however it did
>work before.  I too am using a trident video card.

I wrote Harm Hanamaayer about and he said he'll look into it. Still it is
strange if it would be kernel dependent. I will check tonight if i get no
errors when using and old kernel. BTW, if you have the source for ZGV it
quite easy to circumvent the problem.

Michel.

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From: lueck@IRIS (Rupert Lueck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,de.comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems: lpd -> HPLJ4 via ethernet
Date: 16 Jun 1994 11:06:33 GMT

Hi everybody on the net,
I have problems with printing to HP Laserjet via ethernet using Xjet
interface (from XCD Inc.) and lpd.
When I try to print to a remote queue on one of our dec-stations or on
a mach-pc with lpd (port 515) everything works fine. The remote hosts
accept the jobs and print them correctly. So it looks like lpd is able
to forward jobs for a remote printer. My problem occured when I updated
from SLS 1.0.2 to SlackWare 1.2. Printing over the net with lpd from
the SLS software worked fine. When I use a monitor to debug the things
happening on the ethernet I find that my linux box and the HP open a
connection on port 515. This connection is soon aborted and it seems that
the printer is responsible for this.
Does anyone have any suggestions about this topic? I'd like to read your
comments.
(One or two weeks ago I read in comp.os.linux.admin that someone had the
same problem but I missed the follow-ups and forgot to save his address.)

Thanx

  Rupert Lueck (lueck@iris.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de)


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler for Linux?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 10:59:36 GMT

In <1994Jun15.214033.2920@news.uta.edu> mahsu@news.uta.edu.uta.edu (Mr. C. P. Hsu) writes:

>I would like to know where I can get Fortran compiler for Linux.  Thanks.

Apart from the f2c converter, available on the most popular Linux
distributions, there is no native Fortran compiler available for Unix.

g77, the FSF F77 compiler is still in private alpha tests.
Use "finger -l fortran@gate.gnu.ai.mit.edu" for the latest news about it.

Dan
-- 
Dan Pop 
CERN, CN Division
Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
From: me@tartufo.pcs.com (Michael Elbel)
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
Reply-To: me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 10:52:20 GMT

In <2t9jo2$gek@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <me.771084458@tartufo>,
>Michael Elbel <me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com> wrote:
>>Does it? I'm pretty sure, it doesn't. I distinctively remember that the
>>/etc/DIRCOLORS file holds the actual escape sequences to use.

>What if you have more than one terminal?

Huh? My argument was, that I was bitten by the fact that the actual
escape sequences were coded into /etc/DIRCOLORS. You see, we have
written this terminal emulator to replace xterm that is freely
programmable. I normally don't use its ANSI emulation, since this is
more complex than necessary for termcap/terminfo programs and thus
eats up more memory than I like. I have written a lean-n-mean parser
that mainly consists of "ESC <one character> [<arguments>]" sequences
and use according termcap entries. 

Now, when I first used it with the color ls, i got these unwanted
escape sequences on the screen, and upon further investigation found
/etc/DIRCOLORS to be the culprit. Since I rather liked the colorized
output, and didn't notice any slowdown to not having color (I have
aliases ls to ls -F most of the time anyways and this has to stat all
the files in the directory anyways, making it way slower than ordinary
ls without output), I grudgingly made Emu understand the color escape
sequences. 

I'm still not absolutely sure whether the color ls call termlib or
not, but I can't check a up to date version since I'm running FreeBSD
nowadays (no arguments please, I just happen to know a couple of
FreeBSD developers personally vs. no one in the Linux camp).

Michael




--
Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@dude.pcs.com
Fermentation fault (coors dumped)

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From: xu@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Xu)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler for Linux?
Date: 16 Jun 1994 01:07:09 GMT

You can find the binary for linux at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming.

Good Luck.


M. Lu


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From: andersoa@news.db.erau.edu (Andrew Anderson)
Subject: Re: Only 7000 Linux boxes, Re: Multiport Bored ...
Date: 16 Jun 1994 01:20:34 GMT

Cameron L. Spitzer (cls@truffula.sj.ca.us) wrote:
[snip]
: Have **YOU** registered **YOUR** Linux system??  I've registered mine.

Just how do *I* register *MY* copies, and just *WHO* am I supposed to 
register *MY* copies with? :)

--
|===========================================================================|
|  Andrew Anderson                              andersoa@erau.db.erau.edu   |
|  Novell Network System Administrator          andersoa@bart.db.erau.edu   |
|  Linux System Administrator                   andrew@wilbur.db.erau.edu   |
|                                         andrew_anderson@cts.db.erau.edu   |
|                                                                           |
| I don't speak for ERAU, and God knows I don't want them to speak for me!  | 
|===========================================================================|

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From: salrafee@discover.wright.edu (Sulaiman Al-Rafee)
Subject: Anybody got X to work on Stealth64 (PCI) and/or Viewsonic 20"/21"?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 12:15:18 GMT

Anybody?. 

                                        Sulaiman A. Al-Rafee
                                      Wright State University
                                        Dayton, Ohio, 45435
                                   salrafee@discover.wright.edu


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: patrickr@sci.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen)
Subject: Re: term 1.14 ???...
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 12:18:15 GMT

In <2tp1fk$ffh@samba.oit.unc.edu> Jason.Tan@launchpad.unc.edu (jason tan) writes:

>Hi,
>   I had been trying to get Term to work between the Linux 1.0.8 and the 
>campus's SunOS4.
>  My gcc 2.5.8 compiled perfectly on my Linux OS. I also made the test
>and linecheck.
>  According to the documentation about Term installation, I ran the ./test
>locally.(I deleted the last line of test.c :sleep(36000)). I suppose if you
>don't do this  it will just wait forever (36000 seconds!).
>  OK. ./test ran. Next thing I did was trsh. It gave me two lines:
>Remote: term 1.14
>tty /dev/ttyp0. Exec -tcsh
>and jumped back to system prompt. Looked like running OK!
>  But that prompt will freeze up after I typed two characters!! Then I went to
>other tty login as root and kill those Term related process from the previous
>tty. (3 of them: trsh, term -r test, term)
>  Then I went back to the previous tty and viewed the two .log file. This is
>how it's looked like:
>"remote.log":
>Term version: 1.14
>B<2><9>d<0><0>dB<2><9>d<0><0>dB.......(kind of similar patterns, 4-5 lines)
>"local.log":
>Term version: 1.14
>:timed out at 79 trans 1
>:timed out at 72 trans 1
>:timed out at 71 trans 1
>:timed out at 72 trans 1
>:timed out at 71 trans 1
>....(kind of similar too,  about 20 - 30 lines of them).

>  Does anybody know why? I ran as root. Oh...I changed the BINDIR and MANDIR
>in Makefile to $$HOME before I did "make DO=install linux". After compilation,
>I have a copy of all those binaries in home directory, I also moved the test 
>from /term114 (where I have all those source files) to my home (/root) and
>ran ./test.
>  Yeah...I also found that those binaries in my /root have a smaller file size
>than those at the /term114! And I think test ran the copy in my home directory.
>(File sizes):       /term114      /root
>term                 55327        37892
>trsh                 23353        13316
>tmon                 23469        13316
>etc...

>  I'm a begineer, I just got the Slackware Linux 1.2.0 installed, the root is
>running tcsh shell. I wonder if there is something like environment variables
>I need to setup for term.

>  Thanx for reading, hopefully anybody who had similar problems could kind
>of show me how you solved it. Thanx.


The only thing you have to do is to run the linecheck program. Most probably you have to escape/ignore some ascci characters in the range 0-31. The documentation coming with term tell you how to handel linecheck and its output.


>Jason
>6/15/94



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* Patrick Reijnen                                                 *
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* Email: patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl    (Make your choice)           *

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From: phyjab1@phyd4c4.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Jonathan A Buzzard)
Subject: Re: Wordperfect for X-Windows
Reply-To: phyjab1@phyd4c4.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Jonathan A Buzzard)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 12:08:49 GMT


--

>Single-user Unix versions are often sold at cost (not at list!) because the
>vendors expect to profit on additional-user license sales.  This can make
>single-user Unix versions quite competitive with the street price of the DOS
>version.

Not any vendors I have been able to find here in the UK. However one might be able to get a copy of WordPerfect 5.1 really cheap as clearance stock now version 6.0 is shipping.

JAB.

===============================================================================
Jonathan A. Buzzard,              
Physics Department,           Email:-
Heriot-Watt University,            phyjab1@caledonia.hw.ac.uk   InterNet
Edinburgh. EH14 4AS                phyjab1@uk.ac.hw.clust       JANET
United Kingdom.

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From: ivan@djomolungma.Eng.Sun.COM (Ivan)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: future of Unixware
Date: 15 Jun 1994 21:04:45 GMT
Reply-To: ivan@djomolungma.Eng.Sun.COM


Ah I couldn'y stay out of _this_ one ...

claims are made that marketing, sales etc are requirements for a
successful product. A counter is made that only ubiquity
is neccessary.

To that I"d add the following items:

        A marketing/sales organization is very likely to have
        managers and people with PO signature authority as their
        target audiences. Decisions to buy large amounts of software
        are not made by the ultimate users.
        
        A large companys marketing/sales spends a lot of their time with
        VAR's and ISV's, not even the ultimate customers.
        
        As the taregt of sales/marketing changes, really strange
        requirements might start coming down to product developers.
        You get into situations where the sales people say "we need
        this feature"
                - Why?
                - because our competitor has it
                - but it's a useless feature, only good for demos!
                - yes but our competitor is outselling us because of it.
                
Seems like somehow a large corporations gets itself into the position
where ubiquity becomes rather less relevant.

which in turn is why Linux has been so successful, since it bypassed
all this junk.



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From: niedner@petrus.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr (Niedner)
Subject: Re: Wordperfect for X-Windows
Date: 16 Jun 1994 12:06:32 GMT


: >So, anyone know how much WordPerfect for X-Windows costs retail?  :)  How 
: >many thousands, that is?  :)

: I suppose you are in for a surprise.  How about under $295....
: And if you already have an MS-"DOS" Wordperfect license, you can upgrade
: to the Unix version for about half that or less.....  call 'em.


Sorry, as a novice I would like to know how i can get it to work. Is it a
binary distibution, or is there source code inclunded? (I suppose from your 
answers thaw WP _will_ run under Linux/X11).

Any help appreciated,

Sven

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From: wbrimley@obelisk.uucp (Matt Judson)
Subject: Re: Q : Any dvi viewers for Linux not running X.
Date: 16 Jun 1994 02:07:45 GMT

In article <RHOD.94Jun16013303@skovdue.iesd.auc.dk> rhod@iesd.auc.dk (Carsten Rhod Gregersen) writes:
>
>Are there any programs for previewing dvi (or ps) files for linux,
>using the vga graphic card in some graphic mode when you are not
>running X. I know there's dvitty for viewing on a terminal but that is
>not what I'm looking for.

For previewing dvi files, try dvgt. The Linux ftp sites carry a version
with svgalib support hacked in.  It compiled without too much fuss.

It works well for me on my 386 notebook with 4 megs of RAM.
-- 
New from Pepperidge Farms: Pimpleton Squeezles...

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
From: gwp@dithots.org (George W. (Bill) Pogue)
Subject: Smail Dailymaps...
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 12:55:45 GMT

I've been trying for a couple of weeks to get the dailymap routine to work 
correctly. It seems to be setup correctly, but still I get some wierd 
errors. Below is last nights job result... anyone with a clue, send me
email. I greatly appreciate it.


From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: cron for root@dithots said this
Date: Thu Jun 16 02:31:00 1994
X-Cron-Cmd: </usr/lib/smail/dailymaps>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

        getmap -m /usr/spool/uumaps -w /usr/spool/uumaps/work -b /usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch
        touch /usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch
        touch /usr/spool/uumaps/work/getmap.rebuild
sh: uuwho: command not found
mv: /usr/lib/smail/uuwho_tmp: No such file or directory
WARNING: world.path did not build cleanly
/usr/lib/smail/gleem: unable to open file: d.*
You can't get there from here:
        aicaus
        [thousands of more system names]

As you can see there are a couple of problems but I don't know why.

bill

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: dominic@pepper.cuug.ab.ca (Dominic Fraser)
Subject: Re: Ok, Wordperfect appears to wanna support us.
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 00:34:21 GMT

Sean Watkins (sean@sunkist.cuc.ab.ca) wrote:
: Hey guys.. check this puppy out (can someone make sure this gets
: propagated upstream):
: -------------------------------------

: Xref: sunkist comp.os.linux.help:7683 comp.os.linux.misc:3615
: Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
: Path: sunkist!sean
: From: sean@sunkist.cuc.ab.ca (Sean Watkins)
: Subject: Ok, Wordperfect appears to wanna support us.
: Keywords: wp linux 
: Message-ID: <1994Jun14.194243.16668@sunkist.cuc.ab.ca>
: Summary: Wordperfect 6.0 may become available for Linux
: Organization: Calgary Linux Network
: Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 19:42:43 GMT
: X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

: Hi,

: Like everyone else using Linux, I'm looking for a half decent wordprocessor
: for a good price. So I recently mailed wordperfect, asking if they will ever
: think about doing a port and got back this reply today:

: -------------------
: From WordPerfect.com!CALDWELL Tue Jun 14 13:24:01 1994
: Return-Path: <WordPerfect.com!CALDWELL>
: Received: by sunkist.cuc.ab.ca (3.1.28.1); 
:        id m0qDe5X-0003nHC; Tue, 14 Jun 94 19:23 GMT
: Received: by dlgsys.cuc.ab.ca (4.1/Cuc2.2)
:       id AA09403; Tue, 14 Jun 94 13:14:02 MDT
: Received: from WordPerfect.com (wordperfect.com [151.155.3.33])
:       by fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (1.6) id <MAA13452@fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>;
:       Tue, 14 Jun 1994 12:19:19 -0600
: Received: from Gateways-Message_Server by WordPerfect.com
:       with WordPerfect_Office; Tue, 14 Jun 1994 12:21:24 -0600
: Message-Id: <sdfda0c3.014@WordPerfect.com>
: X-Mailer: WordPerfect Office 4.1
: Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 12:26:14 -0600
: From: Brad Caldwell <CALDWELL@WordPerfect.com>
: To: sean@sunkist.cuc.ab.ca
: Subject:  Wordperfect for Unix -Reply
: Status: RO

: I have no marketing research on Linux.  We are planning 7 UNIX ports of
: WPUNIX 6.0 based on our development, testing, and marketing
: resources.  I would be happy to consider Linux as opposed to any of the
: following proposed ports.

: We plan the following:
: 1. SunOS
: 2. Solaris
: 3. HPUX
: 4. IBM AIX
: 5. MIPS ABI (SGI, SNI)
: 6. SVR4 Intel (UnixWare, NCR)
: 7. SCO

: Do you think we would serve the market better by stopping dev of any of
: the above ports and doing a Linux port?  I will need substantiated data.

: I have had several requests for Linux in the last month (3 including
: yours).  How long has it been available?

: I have downloaded slackware.tar but have not been able to figure out
: what my next step should be to install Linux.  I have a machine waiting.

: Perhaps it would be acceptable for Linux users to run our SCO binaries?
:  What are the negatives of this situation?

: I appreciate your interest in WP for UNIX products.  We are interested in
: growing the UNIX market and I am interested in your thoughts.

: ---------------

: So everyone who owns/runs linux, please mail the above person saying that 
: yes you are indeed interested in getting WP6.0 for Linux. This is 
: exactly what Linux needs to get wide open into the mainstream --  a 
: well known, large, company that makes excellent products porting (more 
: like recompiling :) one of their most successfull and usefull programs to 
: it. What more could you ask for? Then we could all nuke the dos partitions 
: forever!! 

: I ask all of you who are interested in this to mail something like the
: following to CALDWELL@WordPerfect.com:

: -------------------------

: Hi,

: I currently run Linux at home/business/school and would like to see your
: company port its products to it. Linux is a stable, well developed powerfull
: operating system that needs a excellent set of applications like the ones
: your company markets. Please port them to it!!!

: Thanks,

: -----------------------------

: If everyone does this, (who wants WP of course) we will probably get it.
: Anyone who disagrees with me, or wants to flame me... mail it to /dev/null

: Thanks, (linus extra much)
: -- 
: ---
: Sean Watkins,
: With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
: It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
-- 
dominic@pepper.cuug.ab.ca         o                     | bibo, ergo sum       
Dominic Fraser @ 1:134/25       _ <\_    1(403)286-0216 |      -+-     
The Hideaway BBS, and pepper   (+)>(+)   Calgary CANADA |  carpe viam
                              ~~~~~~~~~

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From: aki@esu.edu (Akihiko Nakashima)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PCI Chipsets? URGENT!
Date: 16 Jun 1994 02:06:30 GMT

Paul (paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <CrCt3w.Gp4@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
: Paul Quinn <p_quinn@ECE.Concordia.CA> wrote:
: >
: >I need to know the exact differences between the Saturn and the Neptune
: >chipsets?  Is the Saturn really buggy?  What are the major problems
: >with it?  If I can only get a Saturn, should I still buy PCI?
: >

: Terry Lambert gave me this, I doubt he'll mind me porting it.

: Saturn          Original.  Broken cache coherency model; results in either
:                 a failure of bus mastering DMA (motherboard expecting a
:                 working chipset) or vastly reduced performance (150% --
:                 hacked motherboard to use bad chips).

: Mercury         Fixed.  Working cache coherency model.  Will *not* maintain
:                 cache coherency correctly for bus mastering DMA if motherboard
:                 was hacked for Saturn and not unhacked for Mercury.

: Neptune         Fixed (SMP version).  Working cache coherency model,
:                 supports update/invalidate.  Likes to invalidate for
:                 SMP shared memory coherency.  Generally a Neptune based
:                 PCI motherboard was designed differently for Neptune,
:                 and so does not have the problem of having been hacked
:                 for a bad previous version of the chipset.


Hi! I just learned about this stuff...  Since I am looking to buy a new
PCI machine (P90?), does anybody know who sells this?

Does Gateway2000, Dell, Compac, or Micron sell PCs with this matherboard?

Thank you very much.

-Aki


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From: haggerty@acf2.nyu.edu (Bruce Haggerty)
Subject: Re: cheapernet?
Date: 15 Jun 1994 22:23:15 GMT


Not surprising that cheapernet isn't in the HOWTOs -- it is just a slang
term for 10base2 Ethernet (ie: Ethernet over thin Co-axial wire).

It is called "cheapernet" becuase it is usually less expensive than ethernet
over other Media.

--10baseT (twisted pair wire (fancy phone cable)): Requires a central hub. 
All wires lead to the central hub. You pay for the hub on a per-port basis. 
Cheap hubs==$200. 
A 10baseT network looks something like:

a   b    c
\   |   /
 \  |  /
  \ | /
   HUB

--10base5 (*thick* wire): The cabling is quite expensive. Topology
usually consists of a backbone, tapped at various points, leading off to
individual thickwire cables. I think each tap point requires a seperate
transceiver. (but I'm really not sure about this, because the only
10base5 network I've had cause to deal with used a DELNI -- a multiport
repeater acting here sort of like a 10baseT hub.) 10base5 isn't used
very much any more.

======+======+======
      |      |
      |      |
      |      |
      a      b

--10base2 (thin wire): cheap. Machines are wired "in series" -- The
10base2 cable leads straight into the network card (or transceiver, as
the case may be), and straight out the other side. The obvious
disadvantage of this is that if one machine gets pulled out from the
series, the whole net goes down.

======a======b====


--FOIRL (fiber optics): expensive. I know next to nothing about FOIRL
(I'm not even sure if I spelled the acronym correctly!)

Linux will work just fine with any of these. You may need to buy a
transceiver for your network card, if it doesn't have a 10base2 
connector. BTW, a transceiver converts from one medium to another.
Check comp.dcom.lans.ethernet FAQ for more information 


--
Bruce Haggerty
haggerty@acf2.nyu.edu

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From: scheidel@gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ?
Date: 16 Jun 1994 14:39:31 GMT

Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net) wrote:
: In article <CrDswJ.7qE@cti-software.nl>,
: Pim Zandbergen <pim@cti-software.nl> wrote:
: >The problem is that our BusLogic dealer says "the cards work
: >just fine with SCO and Netware, it must be your ISC driver"
: >and our ISC dealer claims I've got a hardware problem, as the card
: >fails with two different ISC drivers.

: Maybe problem with ISC's drivers. I have a  747S with two SCSI-2 drives and
: a SCSI-1 tape and   have no problem  whatsoever  with accessing  all  three
: devices at the same time.


YET ANOTHER FOLLOWUP:
Buslogic just released technotes on 747s.  seems it locks up on NextOS!

Call Buslogic for 'sloppy mailbox' fix for BIOS.
(I guess they couldn't convince Next to change drivers)


--
Michael S. Scheidell                    Florida Datamation, Inc. 
scheidel@inca.gate.net                  (407) 241-2966
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From: henryc@reality.UUCP (Christian Henry)
Subject: Re: 1.1.19 cua0 - device is busy??
Date: 15 Jun 1994 10:05:29 -0400
Reply-To: henryc@io.org

In article <cyrillvCrCu1n.MoF@netcom.com>,
Cyrill Vatomsky <cyrillv@netcom.com> wrote:

>: I just compiled v1.1.19 (without any problems), but I can not use
>: my modem any more. Modem is (has been since Slackware 1.1.2) configured
>: for cua0. Internal on irq 4. Busmouse on irq 5.

[ stuff deleted ]

>: I can not start any comm programms and cat >/dev/modem gives me
>: device busy message. Booting with old v1.1 kernel works fine. 
>
>Well, I guess I found the problem - at least in my case.
>I had the same port mentioned in inittab as a dial-up line.
>I just commented it out and it works now. Though for those that 
>need to use the same line for dial-out and -up ...?

Then you use /dev/ttyS0 for dial-in, /dev/cua0 for dial-out; /dev/ttyS0 is
the one you place in your inittab.  I believe that this is described in the
Serial-HOWTO, by the way.  ;-)

-- 
 |  Christian Henry   //   North York, Ontario   |  e-mail:  henryc@io.org  |
 |     ``...And I raise my head and stare into the eyes of a stranger''     |

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