[Balug-talk] Linux newbie - upgrade kernel

[Byron Kennedy]

thx matt.  I've actually seen issues with cisco switches, where, even when i
specify both sides as auto/auto i can receive degraded frame integrity, FCS
errors, align errors, runts, etc.  I'd prefer, for servers, to hard-code the
nic settings (speed and duplex at least).  Do you know how to do this in
linux?

Also, I'll check on the md5 hash integrity check you touched on.

Appreciate your pointers.
Byron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Billenstein" <mbillens at one.net>
To: "Snail945" <snail945 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <balug-talk at balug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Linux newbie - upgrade kernel


> It doesn't really matter that your router and NIC run at 100Mb full duplex
> since event at 10Mb, your internet connection has no chance of saturating
> that link...  Don't try to force either end into 100Mb mode, let the two
> auto negotiate.  But if you're not getting 100Mb and you think you should
> be, you may want to try replacing the cable.
>
> l8r
>
> m
>
> Matt Billenstein
> mbillens (at) one (dot) net
> http://w3.one.net/~mbillens/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Snail945" <snail945 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Roman Brenes" <romanab at pacbell.net>
> Cc: <balug-talk at balug.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Linux newbie - upgrade kernel
>
>
> | hi Roman,
> |
> | Looks like i have wget.  I've downloaded the tarball again using it.  i
> | noticed it stopped a couple times, but just like you said when i restart
> it
> | w/ the -c switch and it resumes fine.
> |
> | After downloading i ran the tar -xzf linux-2.4.9.tar.gz  command again
it
> it
> | gave me the same errors as before.
> |
> | Related question perhaps-
> |
> | Humm, i wonder if my nic confing is causing the file to corrupt on
> download.
> | With that in mind, yesterday i was trying to confirm that my NIC was
> running
> | at 100/full.  I set my switch to auto/auto because the nic wasn't
working
> | when i had the switch hardcoded to 100/full. I'd like to force both the
> nic
> | and the switch to 100/full manually.  How can i force the nic in linux
to
> | 100/full and then I'll make the change on the Cisco switch?
> |
> | Thanks much!
> |
> |
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Roman Brenes" <romanab at pacbell.net>
> | To: "Snail945" <snail945 at yahoo.com>
> | Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:12 AM
> | Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Linux newbie - upgrade kernel
> |
> |
> | > Sounds like your tarball is corrupted - maybe you downloaded it
> correctly
> | > (thus it start to uncompress correctly) but the download was
> | incomplete(ths
> | > the errors when you get to the end of the archive).  If you have
'wget'
> on
> | > your system, it is a great tool to use from the command line. Not only
> can
> | > you restart aborted downloads but you also know how much was
downloaded.
> | >
> | > Do a :
> | >
> | > which wget
> | >
> | > to see if its installed.  If it is, then
> | >
> | > wget  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.9.tar.gz
> | >
> | > will download it.  If it aborts midway, then
> | >
> | > wget  -c
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.9.tar.gz
> | >
> | > will restart at the point it stopped.
> | >
> | >
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: "Snail945" <snail945 at yahoo.com>
> | > To: "Kent Howard" <kent at concentrictool.com>
> | > Cc: <balug-talk at balug.org>
> | > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:25 PM
> | > Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Linux newbie - upgrade kernel
> | >
> | >
> | > > Yeah, i used ftp in netscape.  i right-clicked on the file on the
ftp
> | > server
> | > > and selected save link to, and saved it to my disk.  Is there a
better
> | > way?
> | > > maybe using command line ftp?  I don't understand the difference.
> | > >
> | > > really appreciate your help.
> | > > Byron
> | > > ----- Original Message -----
> | > > From: "Kent Howard" <kent at concentrictool.com>
> | > > To: "Snail945" <snail945 at yahoo.com>
> | > > Cc: <balug-talk at balug.org>
> | > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:31 PM
> | > > Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Linux newbie - upgrade kernel
> | > >
> | > >
> | > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:51:57PM -0700, Snail945 wrote:
> | > > > > Hello. I'm Byron from Sausalito-
> | > > > >
> | > > > > Relatively new to Linux and am using RedHat 7.0 currently with
> | kernel
> | > > > > 2.2.16-22.  I'm trying to upgrade it to kernel version 2.4.9 and
> am
> | > > having
> | > > > > difficulties.
> | > > > >
> | > > > > I've downloaded the tar file linux-2.4.9.tar.gz to /usr/src am
> | trying
> | > to
> | > > > > expand it with the command tar -xzf linux-2.4.9.tar.gz.  It
starts
> | > > expanding
> | > > > > the file but after about 15 seconds runs into the errors below:
> | > > > >
> | > > > > tar:skipping to next header
> | > > > > tar:skipping to next header
> | > > > > tar:skipping to next header
> | > > > > tar:skipping to next header
> | > > > >
> | > > > > gzip:invalid compressed data--crc error
> | > > > > gzip:invalid compressed data--length error
> | > > > > tar: child returned status 1
> | > > > > tar: error exit delayed from previous errors
> | > > > >
> | > > > > Some files get written to the /usr/src/linux directory, but only
a
> | > few.
> | > > I'm
> | > > > > sure there is something simple I'm missing.  Appreciate any help
> | > getting
> | > > my
> | > > > > kernel upgraded.
> | > > >
> | > > > Is it possible that you FTP'd the tar.gz file accidentally in
ASCII
> | > > > mode?  What did you use to download the linux-2.4.9.tar.gz file?
> | > >
> | > >
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