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(...) I don't believe that there is a standard limit for name length, although I could be wrong. However, there is a clear specification for hostnames: they must begin with a letter, followed by any number and combination of letters or numbers or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Full disclosure: I have heard anecdotally that PCI modems can work, and it certainly seems logical. However, I don't have any experience with them myself. (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. It is a USR 56K Faxmodem (cost almost twice as much as the USR 56K Winmodem) and dosent require Win to operate. But the RH compatability stated that PCI modems were not supported under RH 6.2. However based on your information I will try (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you positive that it's not a winmodem? There's no particular reason why a PCI "real" modem wouldn't work. (...) :) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Kevin, Matt, Tom: Thanks for your help with my Linux questions. It turns out that my modem is not supported under Linux because it is a PCI card. So an ISA or external modem 'upgrade' is in the works. Once I switch over I imagine installation should (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) See the Serial HOWTO for setting up serial ports. You should do this in your boot process. I use Slackware and the setup scripts are in /etc/rc.d but Redhat is different. You'll want to run setserial in your boot process. Lots of examples are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Weird. I have not used in Compac's in many moons, we are using Dell's here. Gateway is pretty good as well. I have had problems with Hewett Packard computers, and Packard Bells, but that is just me. Some had good experiences with certain (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :-) I've tried accessing various configuration menus and restarted the system many times. But the CD-ROM was still unavailable. What finally appeared to do the work, though, was simply opening the CD drive and poking on the read head slightly, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) get a (...) part. (...) hours (...) I (...) (I (...) see (...) Russian (...) I (...) Institute (...) major (...) require... Wow, I could never imagine getting that many language classes, although I wish I could have picked up German, since (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Boston-area geeks: we need to hire some more people in our group here at Boston University. We work with various flavors of *nix, primarily Solaris, IRIX, and Linux. (Experience in any of those would be good.) It's a really fun and low-stress (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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