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<H3><font color="#CC0000">New Tips:</font></H3>
<ul>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#jones">
IP address in Linux Gazette
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#bestor">
root Password
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#primes">
Shutting up your modem
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#jones2">
PPP IP address
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#magnus">
IP adress from ifconfig
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#stanford">
Modems
</a>
</ul>
<H3><font color="#CC0000">Answers to Mail Bag Questions:</font></H3> 
<ul>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#leary">
Re: [SLL] Basic Question: Gnome Panel?
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#stern">
tar.gz on Windows, ZIP on Linux--1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#murphy">
Linux Gazette Format--2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#inskeep1">
Reading Linux Files from Win95--3
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#inskeep2">
a.out binaries not working--1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#smith1">
Re: Linux partitions from Windows--1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#smith2">
Re: a.out binaries not working--2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#smith3">
Re: FTP access methods
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#bodony">
Windows NT and Linux hate each other?
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#frank">
Re: Linux partitions from Windows--2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#murray">
Problems running your a.out executable--3
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#jensen">
Linux Partitions on Windows--3
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#killian">
Need help on Internet connection with Linux
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#michal">
Re: Linux Gazette Format--4
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#brown1">
Network boot disk for i386 without hd 
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#brown2">
Subject: Linux partitions from Windows--4
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#hadess">
FTP access methods...
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#baker">
a.out--4
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#greene">
Re: Linux Gazette Format--6
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#ruang">
The PPP problem, followup.
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#berkley">
Re: ANSWER: Word to PostScript 
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#walsh">
3COM cards
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#powell">
HD-less
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#wood">
3COM cards
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#crane">
Re: question for the board
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#radovan">
Re: Network boot disk for i386 without hd
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#radovan2">
Re: FTP access methods...
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#jay">
re: soundpro
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#saiorse">
Re: Question about 2 GB max? 
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips42.html#rini">
Re: Question about 2 GB max? 
</a>
</ul>

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<a name="jones"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
IP address in Linux Gazette
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:39:07 -0400<BR> 
From: "F. D. Jones", <A HREF="mailto:mrj@magicnet.net">mrj@magicnet.net</A> 
<P>
	FYI, the current implementaion of pppd automatically runs the
script /etc/ppp/ip-up when the ppp connetion is established.  One of
the variables created in the script is $IPLOCAL which is your assigned
ip address.  No perl or awk required, and it's reliable because it's
reported by the daemon handling your ppp!  There are a few other
conditional  scripts invoked by pppd, also.  Check them out.
<P>
   From the man page for pppd:
<P>
SCRIPTS
       Pppd invokes scripts at various stages in its processing which can be used  to  perform
       site-specific ancillary processing.  These scripts are usually shell scripts, but could
       be executable code files instead.  Pppd does not wait for the scripts to  finish.   The
       scripts  are  executed  as root (with the real and effective user-id set to 0), so that
       they can do things such as update routing tables or run privileged daemons.  Be careful
       that the contents of these scripts do not compromise your system's security.  Pppd runs
       the scripts with standard input, output and error redirected to /dev/null, and with  an
       environment  that  is empty except for some environment variables that give information
       about the link.  The environment variables that pppd sets are:
<P>
       DEVICE The name of the serial tty device being used.
<P>
       IFNAME The name of the network interface being used.
<P>
       IPLOCAL
              The IP address for the local end of the link.  This is only set  when  IPCP  has
              come up.
<P>
       IPREMOTE
              The  IP  address for the remote end of the link.  This is only set when IPCP has
              come up.
<P>
       PEERNAME
              The authenticated name of the peer.  This is only set if the peer  authenticates
              itself.
<P>
       SPEED  The baud rate of the tty device.
<P>
       UID    The real user-id of the user who invoked pppd.
<P>
       Pppd  invokes  the  following scripts, if they exist.  It is not an error if they don't
       exist.

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<a name="bestor"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
root Password
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:40:19 -0400<BR> 
From: David Bestor, <A HREF="mailto:dab@indenial.com">dab@indenial.com</A> 
<P>
Forgot root password?<BR> 
Sendmail hangs on boot?<BR> 
That new startup script locks up your system.. 
<P>
Instead of breaking into your system just
boot up into single user mode.
<P>
At the lilo prompt just type: <tt>linux -s</tt>
<P>
Example:
<PRE> 
LILO:linux -s 
</PRE> 
This will boot up into single user mode
and it doesnt even ask for a password...
<P>
Much easier than trying to break in..
<P>
Thanks<BR> 
<P> 
--<BR> 
David

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<a name="primes"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Shutting Up Yer Modem
</font> </H3>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 06:54:30 PDT
<A HREF="mailto:primes@hotmail.com">primes@hotmail.com</A> 
<P>
This shuts up or quietens noisy modems during dialup. recall the following 
AT commands.
<P>
controls speaker volume:
<ul>
<li>L0      low volume.
<li>L1      low volume.
<li>L2      medium volume (default).
<li>L3      high volume.
</ul>
<P>
operates speaker:
<ul>
<li>M0      speaker always off.
<li>M1      speaker on until connect (default).
<li>M2      speaker always on.
<li>M3      speaker on after dial, until connect.
</ul>
<P>
<ul>
<li>Z       resets modem
<li>DT      tone dials specified phone number.
</ul>
<P>
you now have to modify the expect-send pairs in your chat script. note that 
the above commands should be prefixed by AT. the following chat script turns 
off the modem speaker.
<PRE>
/usr/sbin/chat                                     \
   ABORT           '\nBUSY\r'                      \
   ABORT           '\nNO ANSWER\r'                 \
   ABORT           '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r'    \
   ''              ATZ                             \
   'OK'            ATM0                            \
   'OK'            ATDT1234567                     \
   CONNECT         ''                              \
   ogin:--ogin:    mylogin                         \
   assword?        mypassword
</PRE>
after specifying the ABORT strings, the sequence will first expect nothing; 
and then send the string ATZ to reset the modem. the expected response to 
this is the string OK, after which the string of ATM0 is sent to turn off 
the modem speaker. when it receives OK, the phone number 1234567 is dialed 
out, after which the login procedure begins.
<P>
to vary the speaker's volume, just suitably modify the expect-send pairs 
before the ATDT command, eg. replacing ATM0 by ATL0 uses low volume for the 
speaker.
<P>
--<BR> 
primes

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<a name="jones2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
PPP IP address
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:53:27 -0400<BR> 
From: Robert Jones, <A
HREF="mailto:rjones@chaotika.net">rjones@chaotika.net</A> 
<P>
In response to the recent couple tips about finding the IP address of a PPP
interface, I offer the following script, which will tell you the IP address of
any properly configured network interface on your system.
<PRE>
#!/bin/sh

if [ -z $1 ]; then
    echo "You must specify a network interface."
elif [ -z "`grep $1: /proc/net/dev`" ]; then
    echo "Interface '$1' does not exist on this system."
else
        IPADDR=`ifconfig $1 | grep inet | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d\  -f1`
        echo "The IP address for $1 is $IPADDR."
fi
</pre>
--<BR> 
Robert 

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<a name="magnus"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
IP adress from ifconfig
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:43:31 +0100 (GMT+0100)<BR> 
From: Magnus & Tina, <A HREF="mailto:magnus@gol.com">magnus@gol.com</A> 
<P>
I couldn't resist. Why use perl or awk?
<P>
Here is another one of those "How to get an IP adress from pppd" tips.
In this specific case for the gateway. 
It needs to be changed depending on the printout format of ifconfig though.
<PRE>
ifconfig | fgrep P-t-P | cut -c42-56 > /tmp/gw_ip
</PRE>
--<BR> 
Magnus

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<a name="stanford"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Modems
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 10:40:34 -0600
From: "Joey Stanford", <A HREF="mailto:rescue@telebot.net">
rescue@telebot.net</A> 
<P>
 Just wanted to let you know that, contrary to the lists circulationg
around, ASKEY V1433VQH-X modems are Linux Compatable!  You have to
disable PNP and set it up as COM3 (their terms) and IRQ4.  Took me
almost a week to figure that out. =3D)  Thought it would be helpful to
others!
<P>
--<BR> 
Joey


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<H4><font color="maroon">
Tips in the following section are answers to questions printed in the Mail
Bag column of previous issues.
</font></H4> 

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<a name="leary"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: [SLL] Basic Question: Gnome Panel?
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:53:30 -0700<BR> 
From: Michael Leary, <A HREF="mailto:leary@nwlink.com">leary@nwlink.com</A> 
<P>
My thanks to Bradley Willson.  For anyone else, here's what was wrong:
<P>
my .xinitrc was:
<PRE>
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
</pre>
as per the enlightenment docs (I think?), anyway, when it should have been:
<PRE>
exec gnome-session
</PRE>
as per the gnome FAQ on gnome.org. This works great now, and all is well.
<P>
--<BR> 
Michael

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<a name="stern"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
tar.gz on Windows, ZIP on Linux--1
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 00:52:17 +0000<BR> 
From: Heather Stern, <A HREF="maito:star@starshine.org">star@starshine.org</A> 
<P>
I'll try to keep this short enough to stay at the Two Cent Tips level :)
<P>
'zip and 'unzip' are the Linux tools to deal with .ZIP files.  According
to the 
man page, it's been around since 1990, so it predates Linux itself by
several 
years, it exists on other UNIX and UNIX-like systems too.  (And it's
been ported 
to MSwin - see <A HREF="http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/">http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/</A> for an unzipper that
handles long 
names and fixes line ends.)  
<P>
At any rate, I can see your point -- MSwin users are used to finding
apps and 
documentation wrapped in .ZIP files, but true newvies don't know what a
.TGZ is, 
and assume it's useless to them.
<P>
It's not. tough!  WinZIP (<A HREF="http://www.winzip.com/">http://www.winzip.com/</A>) handles tar-gzipped
files
with no hassle whatsoever.  I have two laptops, one w95 and one Linux -
and with
these two utilities I really don't have to think about file formats when
I toss
archives back and forth.
<P>
--<BR> 
Heather

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<a name="murphy"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Linux Gazette Format--2
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 19:54:46 -0700<BR> 
From: "Nichole Murphy", <A HREF="mailto:Nichole-Murphy@worldnet.att.net">Nichole-Murphy@worldnet.att.net</A> 
<P>
You can Download the text or HTML files and untar them with WinZip. Winzip
will tell you that the tar.gz files contain a compressed file and ask if you
would like to uncompress the second file. Chose "yes" then read the files
with any program you want.
<P> 
--<BR> 
Nichole

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<a name="inskeep1"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Reading Linux Files from Win95--3
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:10:53 -0400<BR> 
From: Peter Inskeep, <A
HREF="mailto:pinskeep@iglou.com">pinskeep@iglou.com</A> 
<P>
I know of at least one program that will read Linux files from your
Windows 95 operating system.  It is called "explore2fs.exe."  It is
about 486K long, and is self contained, if I recall correctly.  I know
it is a long note, but I have copied the author's Readme.txt file
below.  The author, John Newbigin, is from Australia.  The program
opens an explorer like window showing your Linux file systems, ie.,
/dev/hda5, /dev/hdb6, or whatever.  You can read most files, if I
recall correctly.  I also use a program called Windows Commander, by
Deiter Prissing, I believe, in Germany.  It may be that program that
enables me to read individual files, but it is John's program that
makes it possible to read and scan the Linux file systems.
<P>
--<BR> 
Pete

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="inskeep2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
a.out binaries not working--1
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 21:59:04 -0400<BR> 
From: Peter Inskeep, <A HREF="mailto:pinskeep@iglou.com">
pinskeep@iglou.com</A> 
<P>
Darren,<BR> 
Try running the a.out binary with the command line:
            ./a.out
I recently installed RedHat 5.2 and found that its $PATH statement
does not include a path of " ./: "
./ is the path of the current directory that you are in.
Remarkably, RedHat does not set up paths so that your current path is
looked at to execute a file.
<P>
Pete

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="smith1"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Linux partitions from Windows--1
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:44:59 +0200 (CEST)<BR> 
From: <A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl</A> 
<P>
You can read (but not write) ext2 filesystems ubder Windows with the
FSDEXT2 driver. See http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/
<P>
--<BR> 
Roland

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="smith2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: a.out binaries not working--2
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:32:30 +0200 (CEST)<BR> 
From: <A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl</A> 
<P>
You should probably install a different C development package. Most
distributions have two available: one for a.out and one for ELF
binaries. Install the package that makes ELF binaries. 
<P>
If you want to run the a.out binaries, you have to have support for
that in the kernel. Either compiled in or as a module (binfmt_aout).
<P>
Roland

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="smith3"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: FTP access methods
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:27:08 +0200 (CEST)<BR> 
From: <A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl</A> 
<P>
Regarding your question about mounting FTP sites...
<P>
I do not think you can mount an ftp site directly.
<P>
But you might want to check if the FTP site also supports NFS (Network
File System) access. That should do what you want.
<P>
If you just want to synchronize a remote with a local directory, rsync
might be a better choice.
<P>
Hope this helps, 
<P>
--<BR> 
Roland

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="bodony"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Windows NT and Linux hate each other?
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 06:49:10 -0500<BR> 
From: "Daniel J. Bodony", <A HREF="mailto:bodony@purdue.edu">
bodony@purdue.edu</A> 
<P>
Dear Pepijn,
<P>Just recently, my roomate and I installed RH5.2 and NT/4.0 on the same
machine and had a problem very similar to the one you describe.&nbsp; The
network card used was a 3C509b that had been in an 486 running RH5.0 and
was known to work.&nbsp; In the new machine, NT/4.0 could see and use the
network card fine but RH5.2 could not.&nbsp; More specifically, RH5.2 could
find the network card but could not initialize it and Tx/Rx packets.&nbsp;
The answer turned out be that NT/4.0 would <I>Reset and Change</I> the
card's IO port and interupt values to a different set of numbers each time
the computer was rebooted so that the card was on a different IO/IRQ each
time RH5.2 started.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps Win95 is doing something similar.
<P>The fix was to force NT/4.0 to choose one and only one IO/IRQ combination.&nbsp;
Then all worked fine.
<P>
--<BR> 
Dan

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="frank"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Linux partitions from Windows--2
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:42:35 +0200 (CEST)<BR> 
From: Der Guru, <A HREF="mailto:frank@di-net.de">frank@di-net.de</A> 
<P>
Mark,<BR> 
I use fsdext2. It gives you read access to your Linux partitions. You can
find the URL at freshmeat.
Regards
<P>
--<BR> 
Frank Maloschytzki

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="murray"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Problems running your a.out executable--3
</font> </H3>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 16:38:27 +0100<BR> 
From: "D.McMurray", <A HREF="mailto:d.mcmurray@dccl.net">
d.mcmurray@dccl.net</A> 
<P>
This sounds to me like a very common mistake with newcomers to this type =
of operating system, especially those with a DOS/Windows background. I =
am assuming you are merely typing:
<PRE>
a.out
</PRE>
at the command prompt, which in DOS would normally execute the program. =
You may find that the mishap is due to the path enviroment variable, =
Which usually has the current directory '.' added by default in DOS but =
not so in Linux, well RedHat in particular, I cannot speak for the other =
distributions.
<P>
When you type 'a.out' the directories in your path variable are =
searched, if the file a.out is not found you will receive an error =
message along the lines of 'command not found' or similar. Try =
specifying the location of the executable, assuming you are in the =
directory containing the file try typing:
<PRE>
./a.out
</PRE>
This specifies that the file can be found in the current directory. If =
this works you can save having to type the './' each time by adding the =
directory '.' to your user profiles path enviroment.
<P>
Hope this helps,
    regards,
<P>
--<BR> 
        David McMurray

<P> <hr> <P> 
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<a name="jensen"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Linux Partitions on Windows--3
</font> </H3>
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 17:39:32 +0200 (CEST)<BR> 
From: Torben Dam Jensen, <A HREF="mailto:tdj@hco.kol.ou.dk">
tdj@hco.kol.ou.dk</A> <BR> 
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
I got a question for ya... is there a driver or application I can use to
get at least read access to my Linux partitions from Windows? Thanks,
</font></blockquote> 
<P>
Yep !
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/">http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/</A> 
<P>
<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2">
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2</A> 
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.diskwarez.com/other/ext2tool.zip">
http://www.diskwarez.com/other/ext2tool.zip</A> 
<A HREF="http://www.diskwarez.com/other/ext2tool.txt">
http://www.diskwarez.com/other/ext2tool.txt</A> (for a description)
<P>
Above links should get you going... 
<P>
--<BR>
Torben

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<a name="killian"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Need help on Internet connection with Linux
</font> </H3>
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 12:17:37 -0400<BR> 
From: Laurin Killian, <A HREF="mailto:lek@uconect.net">
lek@uconect.net</A> 
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
 First I used kppp (script based)
</font></blockquote> 
You sure you want script based?  I don't think you do.  I went to the
homepage for what appears to be your internet provider
(<A HREF="http://www.asiaaccess.net.th/">http://www.asiaaccess.net.th/</A>), and I see no mention of the logins requiring a
script.  Try "PAP" under kppp - it stands for Password Authentication
Protocol.   Since you're using kppp this should be easy to set up.
<P>
Might as well go all the way since I'm trying to help:
When you create a new account under kppp, all you should need to fill in
is:
<PRE>
(Dial Tab):
	Connection Name and Phone Number
	Authentication:		 PAP!
(DNS Tab):
	Primary and secondary DNS #'s from ISP.
</PRE>
It is advisable to backup/delete ppp.options (as you originally did),
since kppp generates its own options (but may get confused if you added
conflicting options in that file).
<P>
It looks like AsiaAccess does have an option for a script, but
using PAP is easier and supposedly faster
<P> 
Let me know if this works.
<P>
--<BR> 
Laurin

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<a name="michal"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Linux Gazette Format--4
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 13:57:00 -0600 (MDT)<BR> 
From: Michal Jaegermann, <A HREF="mailto:michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca">
michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca</A> 
<P>
this is a comment to a complaint in Mail Bag, LG#41, from
jcclemen@SHERWIN.RMC.com that LG is not available in a format accessible
to Windows user and your response to that.
<P>
Even under 'doze there are tools available which handle .tar.gz
files.  WinZip, for example, has even pointy-clicky interface
and accepts many different formats beyond zip; tar.gz is one
of these.
<P>
  --<BR> 
  Michal

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<a name="brown1"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Network boot disk for i386 without hd 
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:41:31 +0200<BR> 
From: BROWN Nick, <A HREF="mailto:Nick.BROWN@coe.int">
Nick.BROWN@coe.int</A> 
<P>
Several distributions exist for floppy-only machines.  Check out mulinux or
tomsrtbt (<A HREF="http://www.toms.net/rb/">http://www.toms.net/rb/</A>). 
<P>
--<BR> 
Nick

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<a name="brown2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Subject: Linux partitions from Windows--4
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:43:12 +0200<BR> 
From: BROWN Nick, <A HREF="mailto:Nick.BROWN@coe.int">
Nick.BROWN@coe.int</A> 
<P>
Check out e2fs at <A HREF="http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/">
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/</A> 
<P>
--<BR> 
Nick

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<a name="hadess"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Linux partitions from Windows--6
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:27:36 +0200<BR> 
From: Hadess, <A HREF="mailto:hadess@infonie.fr">
hadess@infonie.fr</A> 
<P>
Try-out Fsdext2 that you can grab at http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/
It's only a read-only driver, but would you want to break your linux drive, hum ?
Ciao
--<BR> 
Hadess

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<a name="hadess"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
FTP access methods...
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:34:36 +0200<BR> 
From: Hadess, <A HREF="mailto:hadess@infonie.fr">
hadess@infonie.fr</A> 
<P>
If you want to have Unix-like access on a remote machine, you'd better use NFS. It's
not possible to mount FTP shares (if it's, mail-me =).
<P>
Your Windows apps were only hiding you the whole FTP thingy. They did the same thing
KFM does: show folders _as if_ they were local, no more.
<P>
NFS is in stock distro now and 2.2.x NFS performances are rather good, but worse than
FTP of course. Compile a new kernel for your rescue disk w/ NFS included.
Ciao
<P>
--<BR> 
Hadess

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<a name="baker"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
a.out--4
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:50:33 -0400<BR>
From: Help Desk, <A HREF="mailto:help-desk@utc.edu">help-desk@utc.edu</A> 
<P>
>Is your current directory in your PATH?  If not try ./a.out to execute.
You can get a more meaningful name w/ <tt>gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c</tt>. This
gives the executable the name myprogram.  To set the path edit your
bash_profile and add '.' w/o the quotes to the path statement.  Similiarly, for
other shells.
<P>
--<BR> 
Charles Baker

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<a name="greene"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Linux Gazette Format--6
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 04:30:55 +0200<BR> 
From: "Anthony E. Greene", <A HREF="mailto:agreene@pobox.com">
agreene@pobox.com</A> 
<P>
In Linux Gazette #41, you wrote:
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
Many of us have and use Linux, but are still bound by the need to 
standardize in the corporate world to the Windows environment. As a Linux
newbie, I still do not have a high speed modem bought and installed on 
my Linux box at home so have no way to get the tar, etc formats, and, of
course, many of us have a higher speed lines at work. Is there a way to 
download the file in a format that can be unzipped, etc. on a Windows
workstation then print out? Also, a format easily read by Windows machines 
would make publicizing the Linux system possible to others now
using Windows. For example, our local PCC users club(Coastal Areas PC 
Users Group, www.caug-pc.org http://www.caug-pc.org) has a web
site. I guess what I'm saying, is if we only publish Linux documents in 
formats that Linux users and/or Linux gurus can use, how do we grow the
user base? 
</font></blockquote> 
There are many native Win95/98 freeware and shareware compression utilities 
listed at Winfiles:
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.winfiles.com/">http://www.winfiles.com/</A> 
<P>
--<BR> 
Anthony

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<a name="ruang"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
The PPP problem, followup.
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 10:19:15 +0700<BR> 
From: Ruangvith Tantibhaedhyangkul, <A HREF="mailto:ruangvith@linuxfan.com">
ruangvith@linuxfan.com</A> 
<P>
To all generous "Linuxians",
<P>
I've solved my problem about Internet connection with Linux, as I called
for help in <I>Linux Gazette</I>.  After that, tens of suggestions have come
from almost all parts of the world.  I've tried almost all as well.  One
of these sent me to the right solution.  It was from document "How to
Hook up PPP in Linux" by W.G. Unruh, recommended to me by Jerry Boyd. 
Thanks for all your kindness.
<P>
The best of this is not the solution itself, but the way it comes, such
generosity which has been bringing about this wonderful OS.  It's a true
Linux way!
<P> 
--<BR> 
Ruangvith 

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<a name="berkley"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: ANSWER: Word to PostScript 
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 10:27:23 -0700<BR> 
From: Mike Berkley, <A HREF="mailto:Mike.Berkley@ec.gc.ca">Mike.Berkley@ec.gc.ca</A> 
<P>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
From: "Asle Aursand", asle@sentinel.no <BR> 
It is possible to print to file. The resulting *.prn file is
really a Postscript file, at least if you are using a postscript
printer. Anyway, this *.prn file you can import into Ghostview.
</font></blockquote> 
<P>
I read your tip, Asle, and there is one problem with it.  Some
Microsoft printer drivers do not yield legal Postscript documents when
printing to a file.
<P>
I have experienced the following two misfeatures:
<P>
    1. HP Postscript drivers add a single line of HP printer codes to
       the top of the file, to force the printer to use Postscript
       mode.  Since the first line of the file no longer begins with
       %!PS, Ghostscript and non-HP printers will give an error and
       refuse to display the file.  You have to hand edit the file to 
       get real Postscript.
<P>
    2. Some NT print drivers mix up a few of the %Page comments, so
       that Ghostview cannot digest the file.  Ghostscript can indeed
       display the Postscript, but Ghostview cannot be used.
<P>
--<BR> 
Mike Berkley

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<a name="walsh"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Uninstalling Software
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:54:01 +0000<BR> 
From: Tom Walsh, <A HREF="mailto:tom@mytoys.com">tom@mytoys.com</A> 
<P>
You can uninstall a binary distribution of software that was unpacked
from a tarball by using: "tar ztf some-name.tgz | xargs -ikillit echo '
rm -f killit' | /bin/sh". Try the command without using the final pipe
into the shell to see what the resulting list of commands will be to the
shell. BTW, I use this technique a lot to reduce the tedium of
repetitious operations on files/directories.
<P>
--<BR> 
Tom

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<a name="powell"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
HD-less
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:38:45 -0500<BR> 
From: "Charles W. Powell MD", <A HREF="mailto:cwpowell@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu">
cwpowell@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu</A> 
<P>
Slackware (and other distributions, I suppose) has a "rescue disk" that
becomes the "root disk" of the boot-root floppy disk pair.  If one uses
the "boot" floppy called 'net.i' and the "root" disk called 'rescue.gz'
one finds a highly funtional system at hand.  Using this pair I recently
initialized the network card (an Intel EtherExpress Pro) when the
standard kernel failed at the task.  Using the 'ifconfig' and 'route'
commands I put the machine on my network in minutes.
<P>
Just about any site that handles various distributions will have this
disk set available.  Create the floppies using:
<PRE>
	dd if=/path/to/boot/or/root/image of=/dev/fd0
</PRE>
under Linux, or with 'rawrite.exe' under DOS.
<P>
Network initialization is accomplished with the following commands:
<PRE>
	ifconfig eth0 192.168.x.y
	route add -net 192.168.x.0
</PRE>
or with appropriate addresses for your network. I hope this helps.
<P>
--<BR> 
Charles

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<a name="wood"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
3COM cards
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:25:33 +0100<BR> 
From: Wood Alan, <A
HREF="mailtp:WOOD_A@admiral.co.uk">WOOD_A@admiral.co.uk</A> 
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
I've installed Linux Red Hat 5.2 on my friend's computer, and now for some
extremely odd reason the Red Hat machine and the NT Server 4.0 that's on
his 
other machine can't see each other over the network. At all. They don't
even 
respond to each other's ARP requests. 
The link is alive (judging from the lights on his switching hub), and the
machines 
can see each other fine when he runs Windows 95 on the machine where I've 
installed Red Hat. TCP/IP is installed and configured correctly on both
machines. 
The Red Hat machine has a 10 Mbps 3COM card, the NT machine a 100 Mbps 
3COM, and the lights on the hub say that it's using those speeds on the
interfaces 
that the machines are on, regardless of whether the one machine is running
Linux or Windows 95. 
What on Earth could be going on here? 
</font></blockquote> 
<P>
 I had a similar problem with the kernel as supplied with RH5.2, even when
recompiled. I tracked it down to not being able to properly determine the
IRQ
that was being used by my 3c509 in PnP mode. I just forced the card to use a
<P>
fixed IRQ, and passed the module the correct IRQ, and all came back to me. I
now can boot the machine into either Linux or W95, and networking works
fine.
I keep meaning to try it with the 2.2.7 kernel to see if it can determine
the correct
IRQ, but have not gotten around to it as it works now.
<P>
--<BR> 
Alan Wood

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<a name="crane"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: question for the board
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:05:13 +0100<BR> 
From: Stephen Crane, <A HREF="mailto:scrane@flexicom.com">
scrane@flexicom.com</A> 
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
I am confused about what I will need to install Red 
Hat 5.2 on my new dell system last attempt met me 
with a command line only --- xfree 3.3.3.1+ was 
needed for my video card TNT chipset however I was 
looking for the files - and I am hoping for RPMS 
out there for me to do it the easy way.
</font></blockquote> 
<P>
XFree86-3.3.3.1 rpms are in the usual place, i.e.,
updates.redhat.com or, my favourite mirror, Sunsite:
<P>
<A HREF="http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/redhat-updates/5.2/i386/">
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/redhat-updates/5.2/i386/</A> 
<P>
The best index for, well almost everything, is
rpmfind.net, e.g.:
<P>
<A HREF="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/5.2/">
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/5.2/</A> 
<P>
Cheers,
<P> 
--<BR> 
Steve

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<a name="radovan"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Network boot disk for i386 without hd
</font> </H3>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:38:42 +0200<BR> 
From: Radovan Garabik, <A HREF="mailto:garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk">
garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk</A> 
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
I have a Linux machine in my office network and several i386 that has no hd,
but has 1.44 floppy. They also have ne2000 network card, without no proms.
Is there a way to make a boot disk that allow my i386 to boot and login into
my Linux machine??? I searched the web but found only solutions that reffer
to using network cards with eproms/proms. Thanks.
</font></blockquote> 
How much memory do the i386's have?<BR> 
You can check out one of one-floppy mini distributions, or set up nfs-root
linux on them - it requires loadlin.exe and kernel with compiled nfsroot
support, and (depending on how much memory you have) swapping over nfs.
It is not that difficult to be done, but not for a beginner.
Alternatively you can boot into DOS and use good old NCSA telnet to connect
to your linux machine.
<P>
--<BR> 
Radovan

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<a name="radovan2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: FTP access methods...
</font> </H3>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:48:22 +0200<BR> 
From: Radovan Garabik, <A HREF="mailto:garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk">
garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk</A> 
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
Ok tough guys, I have written down more one-liners and cool tricks from the 
Linux Gazette pages than from anywhere else.
And I finally have a good question: In both Window$ and O$/2 I had apps that
would treat ftp sites as folders (directories). It worked real well with
keeping data in sync off-site. Is there a tool that will allow an FTP site
to be mounted under Linux? It seems fairly useful to me, but freshmeat and
other resources turned up nada.
</font></blockquote> 
Linux VFS is not very friendly to the idea of external filesystems...
However, check out http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html
I have not tried it yet, but I am going in a short time.
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
I am working on a cool 1 disk Linux distro that has pilot backup features
and other remote file access ideas that could really benefit from this.
</font></blockquote> 
<P>
probably NFS is the way to go....
<P>
--<BR> 
Radovan

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<a name="jay"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
re: soundpro
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 01:10:14 +0800 (SGT)<BR> 
From: "Jayasuthan ......", <A HREF="mailto:suthan@eplx01.fairchildsemi.com">
suthan@eplx01.fairchildsemi.com</A> 
<P>
Please check for linux supported soundcards.. second the might compatible
with other cards. Try compile soundcard driver as modules. And learn to
use isapnp and conf.modules which might help
<P>
--<BR> 
Jayasuthan

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<a name="saoirse"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Question about 2 GB max? 
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:39:40 -0400 (EDT)<BR> 
From: Deirdre Saoirse, <A HREF="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net">
deirdre@deirdre.net</A> 
<P>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jim Dennis wrote:<BR> 
 	Actually 2Gb is the maximum FILESIZE under 32-bit versions
 	of Linux.  (Alpha, and presumably UltraSPARC ports are not
 	hampered by this).
 	Linux ext2 filesystems can be much larger than 2Gb ---
</font></blockquote> 
That's fine as far as the general theory goes, however...:
See: <BR> 
<A HREF="http://www.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/lppc/faq.pl?_highlightWords=partition%20size&file=494">
"http://www.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/lppc/faq.pl?_highlightWords=partition%20size&file=494</A> 
<P>
Traditionally, there has been a 2GB partition size limit (not just a FILE
size limit) on PowerPC Linux partitions. I don't know if that will
continue to be true with newer versions but it is true of LinuxPPC up to
revision 4 and DR3 of MkLinux. I haven't checked if there's a
YellowDogLinux specific answer however.
<P>
pre-5 of LinuxPPC reportedly handles larger partitions but I haven't found
specifics for later versions (does anyone want to update the
FAQ-o-Matic?).
<P>
--<BR> 
Deirdre

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<a name="rini"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Question about 2 GB max? 
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:13:24 -0400 (EDT)<BR> 
From: Tom Rini, <A HREF="mailto:tmrini@ntplx.net">tmrini@ntplx.net</A> 
<P>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:<BR> 
That's fine as far as the general theory goes, however...:

See: http://www.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/lppc/faq.pl?_highlightWords=p artition%20size&file=494
</font></blockquote> 
<P>
This is however, WRONG.  wrong wrong wrong wrong.  Well, almost. :)  If
you use a newer e2fsprogs (ie compile 1.14 or whatever is current) you're
fine.  I'm not even sure if R4/DR3 really does have that problem (been a
while, and I forget just when that problem was fixed).  R5/YDL/anything
w/ current e2fsprogs is fine.
<P>
--<BR> 
Tom



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