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Dlink quad ethernet card
by Raphael Mankin 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

I have been playing with a Dlink DFE580TX quad ethernet card. I have used it in both 2.4.x and 2.2.19 kernels and it works a treat. We have got a batch of them at work, and they are now down to a price where they are affordable for the largish home network. Mind you, 4 single cards are still cheaper than one quad, but you save 3 PCI slots. You have to get the latest 'sundance' drivers from http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html. Don't use the one with the 2.4 kernel tree. -- Nothing propinx like propinquity. Mark Twain Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------

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(no subject)
by Raphael Mankin 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

I have just borrowed a Dlink DFE-580TX quad ethernet card from the office where we are expermienting with them. We have now tested them on both 2.4.x and 2.2.19 kernels and they work a treat. You can run the four ports independently or as one extra wide-band channel. The driver modules you need are pci-scan.o and sundance.o. The latest versions can be downloaded from www.scyld.com -- Nothing propinx like propinquity. Mark Twain Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------

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tar and gzip
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

Hullo list, When a directory is tarred and gzipped, will it also include any symlinked directories? e.g first directory to be gzipped is /home/jenny, which contains a link to /var/www second directory to be gzipped is /var/www Tarball is created from both these directories. Burning Q: are the files in /var/www being saved in the tarball twice? Jen.

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Re: [Alug] tar and gzip
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

Douglas Willis wrote: >Usually the symlink itself is added to the tar not what it points to. >To test this use > >tar tvzf <my_first_filename> |grep www > >It will show you what is in the first tar ball. You should only see the >symlink entry not the data the symlink points to. Thanks for that. I severely need to clean out my home directory in that case. Jen

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Re: [Alug] Hard Drive performance
by Wayne Stallwood 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

It's also worth considering that a clock for clock comparasion between a PC and a Laptop will always show the laptop to be slower. The Processor, Video Hardware, Drives etc are all optimised for power consumption and size...not speed. The Mobile P4 operates without a bloody great H/Sink fan and draws less power, how do you think it achieves that ? I'm guessing that you have a 8200, Your Gforce 4 Go graphics chip is compareable to a GF2 on a desktop system, again due to power and size considerations. You could have a tinker with the power management setup, it may be set to "Battery Economy" rather than "Performance" The Processor in question is capable of speedstep after all, it may be possible to use the Bogomips value to determine what speed the clock was actually running at, but this is only measured during boot AFAIK. In short Don't expect your laptop to ever perform as well as a 1.6 Ghz desktop system, although that said slower than a 1Ghz does sound a little off, check those power settings. W > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:44:33PM +0100, Ian Bell wrote: > > > I mentioned in an earlier post my move from a P!! igig PC to a new dell > > > laptop with a P4 1.6 gig and how with rh7.3 it seemed slower than the > > > old system. I have now investigated this a little further. > > > > One other factor here i think you are saying a PIII 1Ghz to a PIV 1.6Ghz? > > in which case the performance would not be 60% greater, in all likelyhood > > a PIV at 1.6ghz will most likely be the same speed as a PIII 1Ghz for > > most of the time, slower for some things and faster on a very few others. > > > > Have you also checked memory timings in the Bios? is the kernel built > > with support for a PIV, are you using a framebuffer driver for X or > > native GFX support? Are there many unused daemons running in the > > background that you don't need? are all other things to check. > > > > About hdparm, PIO modes are usually discovered by the BIOS pretty > > accuratly so I would leave them alone, setting DMA to 16bit or 32bit with > > sync is usually safe and the other options are trial and error. You could > > try looking on the net to find other peoples settings, linux on laptops > > page may be good for this (this machine is a laptop?) as would looking on > > the disk manufacturers webpage for specs too. > > > > Oh and finally hdparm can destroy data on your harddisk if you go for too > > many settings and the disk/computer doesn't like them.... > > > > Adam > > -- > > "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" > > jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li > > > > _______________________________________________ > > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! -------------------------------------------------------

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Raid Motherboards
by Christopher Drane 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

I am going to get a new Motherboard and I want it to have onboard raid. What I was wondering are there any pitfalls to raid drives and Linux and do you know of any good motherboards that have onboard raid and are supported well in Linux. The good news is that money is not one of my main problems, I am looking to spend up to £200 so that should be plenty. I thought I would post this before I get the board, hopefully I can get the right board that is supported by Linux thus stopping me having the problems after I have brought it. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated Chris Drane

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Hard Drive performance
by Ian Bell 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

I mentioned in an earlier post my move from a P!! igig PC to a new dell laptop with a P4 1.6 gig and how with rh7.3 it seemed slower than the old system. I have now investigated this a little further. I installed rh7.2 becuase I suspected KDE3 was slowing things down but although the slimmer KDE2 is a little faster it is still nowhere near as responsive as the old system. So I have played around a bit with hdparm to see if hard drive performance is a factor. hdparm reports a cache speed of over 200MBytes/sec (basically the memeory bus speed) but the cached disk read speed is a mere 3MBytes/sec. dma is not enebaled by default but if i use hdparm to enable it, cached disk read speed jumps to over 20Mbytes/sec. Set like this, applications load about twice as fast. Then I tried all the PIO modes but this mad eno difference. So I started to set dma modes, starting from 0, but this froze the system and forced me to hard reset. So my questions are: 1. How well should a basic install be able to automagically select good disk drive parameters 2. Where are these stored and actioned? 3. How do I find the best settings for my drive other then very tedious trial and arror? Thanks ian

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Maybe a dumb question...
by Simon 15 Sep '02

15 Sep '02

Hi... I've got a server that doesn't use shadow password, how do I "convert" it so that it uses shadow passwords... Simon

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #26 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 15 Sep '02

15 Sep '02

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: [Alug] meeting this Sunday @ the Fat Cat pub Norwich 2pm onwards (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:57:54 +0100 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [Alug] meeting this Sunday @ the Fat Cat pub Norwich 2pm onwards Meeting this weekend at the Fat Cat pub in Norwich from 2pm onwards. See here for more on the Fat Cat http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/norfaca.htm Not sure who will be there, but there will be some there and MJR will bring a penguin. Someone add this to the wiki, please? --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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