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Linux Support – Upgrading an Old Kernel

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #60, April 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Accessing /dev/fd0 I successfully installed Red Hat v5.1 with X as the GUI. I have O’Reilly’s book Learning Linux, which is a good reference. The only problem I have is that I cannot access /dev/fd0. When I type this command in an xterm, a message ...

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Linux Support – Internet Connection Broken

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #59, March 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Modem Compatibility Can I use an internal PCI modem with Linux? I have been looking all over the web and have found no documents about this. —Luis David Cardenas, luisdav@liza.net.mx The answer will depend upon which kind of modem you have (Plug-n-Play, winmodem etc.). If ...

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Linux Support – Migrating from Windows

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #58, February 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Pre-installed Slackware I picked up a used laptop that has Slackware partitioned on the hard drive. Is there any way to log in to it without the password? I have a UNIX book but it does not address this problem. Do I have to re-install? ...

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Linux Support – Switching Hard Drives

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #57, January 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. umask Trouble I’m trying to use umask to set permissions in a directory, but it doesn’t allow me to set execute. I use umask a=rwx and when I create a new file the permissions are -rw-rw-rw-. Can you give me a quick explanation of this ...

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Linux Support – Changes After Restoring /home

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #56, December 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. PLIP or SLIP? Is there an easy way to connect my laptop running MS Windows for WorkGroups to my PC running Red Hat 5.0? Should I use PLIP, SLIP or something else? —Thomas Svanelind PLIP is probably the cheapest and simplest networking setup around (although ...

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Linux Support – trouble getting rsh

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #55, November 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. Execution Trouble I use Red Hat 5.0. When I try to execute files in a current directory, I get a “command not found” error even though the file exists and is executable. What is going on? —A. Roychowdhury UNIX, like DOS and MS Windows, uses ...

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Linux Support – Authentication Failure

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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #54, October 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. Authentication Failure When I use Netscape from a Windows 95 PC to access my Linux 5.0 mail server, I get a prompt (as I should) for my login and password. However, when I type my password (or login) wrong, authentication fails and the server won’t ...

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Linux Support – Space Problem with X

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Various Issue #53, September 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. HP and Matrox I have an HP Pavilion that comes with an on-board ATI video card. I now have a Matrox Mystic in the computer, and when I try to run X, I get the message “configured devices not found”. I think the HP is not recognizing the Matrox, ...

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Linux Support – FTP Problem

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Various Issue #52, August 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. Ethernet Module Destruction Why does running sndconfig get my Soundblaster 16 card recognized and up and running with the correct modules but destroys my Ethernet modules loaded by kerneld? I have tried both my Intel Ether Express and SMC Ultra cards (not at the same time) and the same ...

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Linux Support – Firewall Troubles

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Various Issue #51, July 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. Unfinished Boot When I try to boot, either from floppy or CD-ROM, my computer does a soft re-boot partway through the process. It doesn’t even make it to the screen which asks if you have a color monitor, although I suspect it gets close to that point. I’ve tried ...

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