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TCP-Group Digest Wed, 30 Oct 96 Volume 96 : Issue 231
Today's Topics:
Linux IP Router On A Floppy?
Unsatisfied Ham
wampes on FreeSCO
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:31:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Stroh <strohs@halcyon.com>
Subject: Linux IP Router On A Floppy?
There was some discussion on tcp-group about someone having built a boot
floppy with Linux configured as an IP router. The goal, as I recall, was
to have a very basic PC (ultimatly no keyboard, no display, no hard disk)
able to work as a Linux-based IP router, with Linux and the relevant
initialization files contained on a floppy (or maybe a PCMCIA FlashRAM
card). Unsaid was that this very simple implementation of Linux would
probably be usable even by the *nix-impaired, likely by just editing the
relevant config files.
The poster indicated that he had already done this and if there was
interest he would make the info public. There seemed to be a lot of
interest. Was the info every made public?
Steve N8GNJ
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Steve Stroh N8GNJ strohs@halcyon.com | Amateur Spread Spectrum is
Amateur Radio TCP/IP n8gnj@sw.n8gnj.ampr.org | the wave of the present!
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 07:02:24 -0600
From: "Steve Sampson" <ssampson@oklahoma.net>
Subject: Unsatisfied Ham
Shucks, and I was just starting to have fun...
You make it sound like a crisis event over there? Sure hope it
didn't break anything :-)
Steve
Socialist Democrat
"It's only money; Federalism or Death"
"I'm voting for Leon Panetta, best President we ever had"
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> My mailer said Steve Sampson said this:
> >
>
> (** This message is tagged Urgent **)
>
> Return-Path: owner-tcp-group@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: Unsatisfied Ham
> To: tcp-group
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 08:03:19 -0600 (CST)
> Cc: ssampson
> Action: Just do it!
> Priority: Hot! Hot! Hot!
> Reply-To: ssampson@oklahoma.net
>
>
> Steve, how about fixing your mailer now and quit joking around by placing
> invalid priorities on your messages that cause other peoples mailers to
> to flag them as Urgent.
>
> Ron N8FOW
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:03:08 +0100
From: Joerg Reuter <jreuter@lykos.oche.de>
Subject: wampes on FreeSCO
> > Another thing I've learnt from the linux-m68k guys is that some Atari=
s have
> > the Z8530, or equivalent/improvement for their serial ports as well. =
They
> > were wondering why there were 5 or so different device drivers for th=
em.
> =
> People keep changing how they address/use the things. On the sparc for
> example you have to put uS settle times between I/O operations and the =
chips
> are memory mapped. On the PI2 its DMA driven, some of the PC cards have=
> other oddities etc. Getting down to below 5 drivers is a big item to do=
> but one that might get down to 3 or 4, and as we support stuff like AX.=
25
> and X.25 on the sparc console ports we share more code.
Well, there is a generic Z8530 driver for Linux written by (cough, cough)=
me. Due to a bad design decision (or what is the usual excuse for lame
programming?) I chose the "int" data type to store the port addresses.
Ough. The new version (3.0) should appear in one of the next releases of
the Linux hacker kernels as a pure AX.25 network device driver. The
driver will cover all architectures that can address each Z8530 through
two I/O or memory addresses per channel. As long as inb() and outb() do =
the Right Thing (tm)... It can even take care of the 1 usec settle
time. The PI2 and PacketTwin card would probably work with my driver
as well, but they have their own drivers for good (above quoted) reason. =
Okay, end of the (non-) commercial break... ;-)
Still we need a seperate driver for asynchronous I/O, and one for
Appletalk, and one for some ArcNet cards, I believe, ...
Where's the guy that promised me to test the driver under MkLinux, growl.=
=2E.
vy 73,
Joerg Reuter ampr-net: dl1bke@db0pra.ampr.org
AX-25 : DL1BKE @ DB0ACH.#NRW.DEU.EU
Internet: jreuter@lykos.oche.de
I used to be a werewolf but I'm better now--oooooooooh! ;-)
Joerg Reuter ampr-net: dl1bke@db0pra.ampr.org
AX-25 : DL1BKE @ DB0ACH.#NRW.DEU.EU
Internet: jreuter@lykos.oche.de
I used to be a werewolf but I'm better now--oooooooooh! ;-)
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