Re: RH 6.1 Problems

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Hoover, Tony wrote:

> After numerous problems, I have RH 6.1 running on my 164SX.  There are still
> a couple of problems that I need to address.   
> 
> 1) There seems to be some extremely stringent timing in the driver for the
> Symbios 875 that prevents me from using my Yamaha CRW4416S ( for reading,
> haven't tried writing with it yet on Linux ).  Also if I have my Seagate
> ST15150N ( 4 gig Barracuda, Narrow SCSI ) attached to the host adapter, the
> system will not even boot.  Both these SCSI peripherals work fine under NT (
> that I am trying to expunge from my system ).
> 
> 2) I have the shared libs from DU 4.0a.  I have Netscape Communicator 4.7.
> I can't get Netscape to use DNS.  I can load a site if I type the IP address
> in the URL, but Mnemonic addresses give me an error message about $SOCKS_NS
> environment variable.  I Also tried the NO_ASYNC_DNS=True variable with no
> positive results.

take a look at:
http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/netscape_du.shtml

editing the /etc/svc.conf and changing the order of hosts to include DNS
worked for me.

--rdp
 
> Thanks in Advance...
> 
> P.S. My System...
> 164SX  - 533 MHz 
> 256 Meg RAM
> Symbios 8751 SCSI
> Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro Video 
> Ensoniq 1370 sound
> DEC 21140 Ethernet
> 
> 9 Gig UW Quantum ( IIRC) HD
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tony Hoover, Network Administrator 
> KSU - Salina, College of Technology
> mailto:hoover@sal.ksu.edu
> 
> "Wash Uffitzi drive me to Firenze"
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Rich Payne
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