From: Digestifier To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 26 Sep 93 20:13:18 EDT Subject: Linux-Development Digest #129 Linux-Development Digest #129, Volume #1 Sun, 26 Sep 93 20:13:18 EDT Contents: linux & 3c501 ? experiences ? (Russell Nelson) Re: term between AIX-Linux (Superuser) Re: Pro Audio Spectrum SCSI? (Drew Echhardt) Re: PCI: are you thinking about this? (Markus Kuhn) Xmosaic utility Collage wants IPPROTO_TCP, struct linger ? (James B. MacLean) ho ipy (Schuur) Re: QIC-80 Tape driver status (Frank ODwyer) Re: Freeware Linux BBS - READ! (Kevin Fluet) Re: No smart serial boards??? (Rich Braun) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Subject: linux & 3c501 ? experiences ? Date: ä€> , 26 Sep 93 01:31:13 GMT In article <1993Sep25.061144.1382@truffula.sj.ca.us> cls@truffula.sj.ca.us writes: In article <1993Sep24.023318.23188@super.org> becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes: >OK, there seems to be a number of 3c501 fans out there, and a few of them >insist on telling my why it isn't so bad. They are wrong [...] I'm speaking only for myself here, of course, but I believe 3Com advises against installing a 3C501 in a new system, mostly for the same reasons Donald has discussed. You probably won't be happy with the 3C501 in your Linux box. Yup. That would be like using a CGA for your video board. -russ What canst *thou* say? Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support. 11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice | LPF member - ask me about Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX | the harm software patents do. ------------------------------ From: root@fusion.cuc.ab.ca (Superuser) Subject: Re: term between AIX-Linux Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 04:28:47 GMT pablo@austin.ibm.com (Paul Greenwood) writes: > > Has ANYONE every gotten "term" to work between Linux and AIX? > > I configured term with no problems but when I run the utility programs, > they just hang. I sent a note to the developer. He said that he has not > had any luck nor heard of anyone that got it working correctly. So, how > about it, ANYONE? > Sure he has, he just didn't remember.. I emailed him about it a long time ago.. I've got it running between AIX 3.2 on an RS/6000 and Linux 0.99pl9, and I've been running it for almost a year.. Every facet of it works: shells, redirection and X- no hitches at all. The key to compiling is to use 'bsdcc' if your system has it installed, and add -lbsd to the link command lines in the Makefile. Also, instead of running it with the "< /dev/xxx > /dev/xxx" as suggested, use "-v/dev/xxx" instead. Personally, I use a modified version of Michael's 'autoterm' script, and I don't need the -v at all. If all this is correct, the last step is to set the escape characters correctly- always start with 0-31 and 128-159, this will escape all control characters, you can then start trimming this list down once you get the connection working. I offered binaries for AIX a while ago, and only one person took me up on my offer.. If you want binaries or my source distribution, email to: clau@acs.ucalgary.ca. **IMPORTANT** Do **NOT** R)eply to this article!! Email **ONLY** to 'clau@acs.ucalgary.ca' for sources/binaries/etc. Any and all email to 'root@fusion.cuc.ab.ca' concerning Term, it's sources or binaries *WILL BE IGNORED* **IMPORTANT** > -- > -- Paul Greenwood -- (pablo@netmail.austin.ibm.com) > > Beifeld's Principle: > The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and As an aside- if you worked for IBM up here in Calgary, I would have said that your problem was because you worked for IBM- I don't know about where you are, but up here, because of IBM's emphasis on OS/2 for its PC products, 99% of the IBM support engineers don't know anything about AIX/Unix, except perhaps that IBM sells it.. ;-) Regards, c4 -- Christopher Lau- "Mr. Unix" | / Fusion: Playing With Fire! StarBright Research | / / H + H -> He + 24 MeV -- | /_/_/_ "Bring back Trudeau!" root,lauc@fusion.cuc.ab.ca |____________ "This space for rent" ------------------------------ From: drew%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Drew Echhardt) Subject: Re: Pro Audio Spectrum SCSI? Date: 25 Sep 93 22:41:49 MDT In article myddryn@netcom.com (Le Mauvais Sophiste) writes: > >Has anyone done any work on a SCSI driver for the Pro Audio Spectrum >Card? Alternativly, an one of the exisiting drivers be made to work >with it? Yes. The PAS-16 boards are built arround a second sourced NCR5380 SCSI chip, which is supported in my NCR5380 driver - you just have to write a few macros which tell the lowlevel driver how to interface with your board. Unfortunately, while people have been able to tell me the addresses used by the PAS16 for the SCSI chip, nobody has been able to tell me the mapping used - the NCR5380 has eight registers, although there are only five registers allocated in the PAS-16 port map. Also, no one has any idea how the pseudo-DMA port works, how the watch dog for it works, and what happens to NCR5380 interrupts. ------------------------------ From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) Subject: Re: PCI: are you thinking about this? Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 12:28:40 +0200 Reply-To: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de will@luzie (Michael Will) writes: >Are you considering supporting the upcoming PCI-bus-architecture? What has to be added to Linux in order to support PCI? Most new PCI motherboards have an on-board very fast SCSI controller using the chip 53C810PS from NCR, so a new SCSI device driver for the 810 that supports 32-bit DMA (removing the silly ISA 16MB DMA limit) would be fine. What else? Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student «°o°» University of Erlangen, Germany Internet: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | X.500 entry available ------------------------------ From: jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James B. MacLean) Subject: Xmosaic utility Collage wants IPPROTO_TCP, struct linger ? Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 19:30:09 GMT Having so much fun on Xmosaic, I thought I'd try to compile the collage program. It starts by wanting a dtm package compiled. When I try to compile it, it wants some defines like IPPROTO_TCP, and a struct called linger. Since my *nix here is Linux, I am wondering if there is some place where these defs, etc would all be laid out for my viewing. Otherwise would someone know these anyway? Thanks in advance, JES ------------------------------ From: zxmsu01@hp10.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Schuur) Subject: ho ipy Date: 26 Sep 1993 19:42:34 GMT -- /===================zxmsu01@studserv.uni-tuebingen.de======================\ |Joost Schuur |"Fuck You, I won't do what | Darlene Connor | |Carl Alexanderweg 3-1| you tell me!" | --- | |D-71083 Herrenberg | Zack de la Rocha, RATM | It's a way of life! | \==========================================================================/ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: odwyer@nixdub.sse.ie (Frank ODwyer) Subject: Re: QIC-80 Tape driver status Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 16:28:49 GMT mayfield@phobos.cs.ucdavis.edu (Doug Mayfield) writes: : You should try using 99pl12 + ftape-0.9.6. These can all be found on : sunsite.unc.edu in pub/Linux/kernel[/tapes] : : I have backed up 120MB to a single tape with no problems. I'm trying to install ftape-0.9.6 into SLS 1.03 and having a lot of problems. SLS1.03 has 99pl12 plus a patch (pl12a.cdif), which I applied. Compiling a kernel off SLS sources (before doing anything with ftape) worked O.K. and produced a bootable kernel. SLS already seems to have applied a modules patch, BUT their source for the modules utilities doesn't compile, and I wound up compiling using ftape's makefile for modules & it's sys.awk, but SLS's sources (don't ask!). The modules test with sys_hello worked. Then I applied ftape's patch to mem.c in chrdev by hand (the piece of code to allocate a buffer), since modules was already patched in and I didn't want to screw it up. I also added a few symbols to 'ksyms.lst', including '_ftape_big_buffer'. However the kernel I got from this falls over when booting ("can't handle kernel paging request"). Any ideas? I'd be interested to know about any difficulties you had when installing, or if there is any wierdness in SLS that I should know about. Is there any point in my getting 99pl12 from some ftp site, and are there any patches I need to apply to it? What would I lose/gain by going to pl9? -- Frank O'Dwyer "We are asked to enter their intellectual wasteland where odwyer@sse.ie there are two just premises: abortion is murder and PGP key on server abortion is not murder" - MichaeLoomis on t.a ------------------------------ From: user1@valis.ampr.ab.ca (Kevin Fluet) Subject: Re: Freeware Linux BBS - READ! Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 03:08:59 GMT >In <27r0pu$i39@agate.berkeley.edu> bogart@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (Ken Geis) writes: >| I've seen a lot of conversation on the Linux and BBS newsgroups >| recently about running a freeware Linux BBS. The responses haven't been >| too appealing, especially from the 'freeware' standpoint. I've got an >| idea that's perfect for the Linux environment. >| Why can't we write one? I'm not up to it myself, but I'd be >| glad to contribute whatever knowledge and coding I could. Let's talk, Please do. The more the merrier. There are at least 2 BBS packages currently under development for Linux plus a BBS programming language. Join the LINUX-BBS channel on the linux activists mail server. There isn't much going on, but that would be the best place for discussions. -- Kevin ====================================================================== Kevin Fluet Call V.A.L.I.S. Public Access Linux kevin or user1@valis.ampr.ab.ca Usenet, Email (403) 478-1281 fluet@ee.ualberta.ca Ask me about Linux, the FREE Unix clone! ------------------------------ From: richb@pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun) Subject: Re: No smart serial boards??? Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 19:08:37 GMT I heard rumor that there is a Linux driver for Digiboard multiline cards. Is this true? As for whether people are willing to spend "real money" on high-density serial cards for Linux, the answer is YES!!! A lot of shoe-string businesses are now made possible by Linux, because in the past you had to have US$10,000+ worth of hardware and software to run any meaningful Unix-based dialup service. Now you can do it with a $1000 486 box. Adding an $800 multi-port card is not that big of a deal. Especially now that multi-port cards are coming down in price. You can run 8 ports on a Linux box using the low-cost STB 4-Com. The cost is $110 per four-port card; comes with a quad 16550 chip, full modem and flow-control signals on all ports. If you want more than 8 ports, though, either you need more computers or you need a smart card whose device driver doesn't yet exist. The prices cited in an earlier posting on this thread are a bit out of line, by the way; I've found prices in the range of $25 to $75 per port. The way to convince hardware vendors to support Linux is to have a lot of people call them up saying "I run Linux and I would buy your product if you had a driver for it." -rich -- Isn't it time for a new ____ New England Community Internet .signature? \ / Home: richb@pioneer.ci.net \/ Work: braun@leds.enet.dec.com NECI: info@pioneer.ci.net ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Development-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.development) via: Internet: Linux-Development@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Development Digest ******************************