Linux Network Hints

Supported internal Modems

Lucent (DSP)
PC-Tel (HSP)
A patent on UART emulation held by PC-Tel. PC-Tel licensed their HSP modem to NEC, and NEC documented the register set (3Mbyte file) on pages 519ff. Not clear how useful this is yet, but it's news.
Ambient Technology (nee Cirrus Logic) (DSP)
Conexant (nee Rockwell) (both)
Motorola (HSP)
3Com (nee US Robotics) (DSP)
IBM MWave (DSP)

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Netscape tweaks

To remove flash screen of netscape, add a line like this in your .Xresources file
Netscape*noAboutSplash: true
Some of the other options that I have set on my machine... (basically reduces the number of buttons on the top bar so even when the browser window is small I can see the stop button!!)
Netscape*toolBar.destinations.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.search.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.viewSecurity.isEnabled: false
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 20

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How to find out IP address of dialup connection?

Something like the following command should give you the IP address.
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 1

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How to backup Kmail configuaration, addressbook and mail?

back up the following
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ and
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc for configuration
~/.kde/share/apps/kab/ for addressbook
~/Mail for mail

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Winmodem drivers site

The following sites have winmodems drivers.
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html#drivers
http://www.linmodems.org
http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html
Lucent win modems
Pls read. http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html
You can download the sm56 driver from http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SM56_5.1_I386.rpm . But do remember that this modem driver has been tested with RH 7.1 .
There is a linux HCF modem driver now.. http://www.mbsi.ca/mailman/listinfo/hcflinux
Try the links off these pages:-
http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/

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Address book conversion

There is some good documentation at http://www.interguru.com/MailInformation.htm Also, go to http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htmand he has an address book converter used to move addressbooks from Eudora Pro to linux netscape

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Download managers

http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
http://gtm.sourceforge.net/
http://prozilla.delrom.ro/
nt-1.28.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
One nice one is called Konqueror. Open it and get to the ftp site using a URL then split the screen and type infile:/(mydownloaddirectory) for whatever download directory you use.Drag the file from the ftp half-window to the local half-window and repeat as required.If the download breaks, then set up as before and drag--you will be asked whether you want to resume or overwrite.
How to do ftp with login:password to a site in konq?URL syntax should be:
protocol://user:password@host:port/pathname
so
ftp://myname:mypassword@ftp.blah.org/
should do the job.

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mh to mbox mailbox conversion

To convert the folder ~/Mail/inbox to mbox format,
1. create the file ~/Mail/inbox/.mh_sequences. Leave it empty, if youwant. Mutt just checks for its existence, the file is used by only nmh.
2. invoke mutt as mutt -f ~/Mail/inbox. Mutt will show all the messages.
3. Tag them all using T, and save to the mailbox you want with ;s. This new mailbox willbe in mbox format.

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dbx and mbx to mbox conversion

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/
http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/
mbx2mbox attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx formats to the standard Unix-style UUCP mail format used by programs like UCB Mail, Pine, and Netscape Messenger. The .mbx and .dbx files provided as arguments to mbx2mbox are processed and output to files having the same name, except without the .mbx extension.
http://www.hum.org/kmailcvt.html
I have recently used kdbx GUI software to get oe 5.5 mails into kmail in mandrake 8.2.
You can find many mail conversion related and other utlities at:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Internet/Mail/Utilities/index.shtml
Other conversion link is http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

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How to do offline browsing in linux?

wwwoffle is proxy server that can be used for facilitating offline browsing. Download wwwoffle. Do install. Read the README and INSTALL files in main untarred folder and also contrib sub folder. Read the docs.

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Intranet and Cyber cafe help

The following site gives info and files for Intranet and Cyber cafe
http://www.freewebz.com/easy linux/index2.htm

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How to measure pure bandwidth
Iperf (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/) is a pretty reliable tool.
Sample output (on a 100 Mbps switched LAN - Catalyst 2900):
# ./iperf -c 10.0.2.1 -n 1048576
about to getaddrinfo on '10.0.2.1'
done with gai, ai_fam=2 ai_alen=16 addr=0x00000002...
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Client connecting to 10.0.2.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 10.0.2.3 port 2020 connected with 10.0.2.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0- 0.1 sec 1.0 MBytes 92.9 Mbits/sec

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Delete spam in pop3 server with kmail

use
Settings | Configure pop filters
There is an option there to delete the mail from the server before it even reaches you. Of course, that assumes that you are contacting a pop3 server directly, not going via fetchmail.

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Importing galeon personal toolbar in mozilla

1.) Open Galeon
2.) Click Bookmarks
3.) Click Edit Bookmarks
4.) Click FILE, then SAVE AS...
5.) In the dialog box, toward the bottom, you'll see the first choice is XBEL booksmarkms format; click that and change it to NETSCAPE'S BOOKMARK FORMAT...
6.) Enter - in the bottom - the name of the file you want to save it as, and make sure you put .html at the end.

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