From:     Digestifier <Linux-Activists-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
To:       Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Date:     Sat, 21 Aug 93 03:13:06 EDT
Subject:  Linux-Activists Digest #150

Linux-Activists Digest #150, Volume #6           Sat, 21 Aug 93 03:13:06 EDT

Contents:
  Re: NetBSD's ash as /bin/sh substitute on Linux (Howlin' Bob)
  Re: /dev/vga640x480x2 (Mule w/o X) (NIIBE Yutaka)
  Re: networking with pl12 (Carl Johnson)

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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: NetBSD's ash as /bin/sh substitute on Linux
Date: 21 Aug 93 06:05:35 GMT

chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:

>In article <109551@hydra.gatech.edu>,
>Howlin' Bob <gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU> wrote:

>>>Minimalism, I suspect.  Anything to keep that /bin/sh binary small.
>>To harp on "modern," it should be pointed out that modern Unices usually
>>demand-page their executables.  If the test portion of the code were not
>>used, then it wouldn't be paged in.

>You're right, but that's not what I'm talking about.  As it was
>explained to me, the BSD folks want the binary itself to be as
>small as possible, to fit on extremely small root partitions and
>take up as little space as possible on boot disks.  For this they
>are willing to sacrifice some speed. 

And they won't include "test" on their boot disks?  Hmm.  I think
they'd get more mileage out of shared libraries.

--
Robert Sanders
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:     ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt8134b
Internet: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
From: gniibe@oz.etl.go.JP (NIIBE Yutaka)
Subject: Re: /dev/vga640x480x2 (Mule w/o X)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 06:11:19 GMT

And here is a patch (and my configuration) for mule using
/dev/vga640x480x2.  This is just a quick hack, I assume fixed (8x16)
font.

The environment, Mule on Linux is really fine for me.  Great.  Thanks
everyone who supports Linux and Mule. (_ _)

I hope you could also enjoy Mule on Linux (without X)!
--
GniiBE

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson)
Subject: Re: networking with pl12
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 05:35:46 GMT

I have been following all of this, as well as read the NET-2-FAQ, but I
still haven't been able to get the networking to work since I upgraded
to Slackware 1.01 (SLS 1.03 had ext2fs problems).  I have a very simple
setup:  I just have 2 computers I link together with thinlan, with no
other network.  This works under MSDOS with NCSA, and also worked under
0.99pl9 (SLS 1.01).  I can get the loopback working, but I can't get any
connection to my other computer.

Everything looks OK until I try the route add, and then I get the
infamous 'Network is unreachable' message.  After executing the
following commands:

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
ifconfig eth0 1.1.1.2
route add 1.0.0.0       # this is in my /etc/networks file
route add 1.1.1.2       # I get network is unreachable here

ifconfig gives the following:

lo        IP ADDR 127.0.0.1  BCAST 127.255.255.255  NETMASK 255.0.0.0
          MTU 2000  METRIC 0  POINT-TO-POINT ADDR 0.0.0.0
          FLAGS: 0x0049 ( UP LOOPBACK RUNNING )

eth0      IP ADDR 1.1.1.2  BCAST 1.255.255.255  NETMASK 255.0.0.0
          MTU 1500  METRIC 0  POINT-TO-POINT ADDR 0.0.0.0
          FLAGS: 0x0043 ( UP BROADCAST RUNNING )

and route gives the following:

Kernel routing table
Destination net/address   Gateway address           Flags RefCnt    Use Iface
1.0.0.0                   *                         UN         0      3 eth0
127.0.0.1                 *                         UH         0     18 lo

With this I can ping to 127.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.2, but I can't ping to the
other computer at 1.1.1.3.

The card is a WD8003, and I think it is being initialized properly at
boot.  The kernel log messages are:

WD80x3 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 00 C0 FF 88 15
eth0: WD8003-old using IRQ 9 with shared memory at 0x80000-0x81fff.
wd.c:v0.99-10 5/28/93 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)

If anybody has any ideas what I am doing wrong I would like to hear
them.

-- 

Carl Johnson              carlj@cv.hp.com

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