From rohloff@in.tum.de Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:04:04 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:04:04 +0200 From: Ingo Rohloff rohloff@in.tum.de Subject: [epic] epic100.c, SMC EtherPower II, SMC83c170/175 "EPIC" Hello, I have got a "[SMC] 83C170QF" adaptor in my computer and I wasn't able to use the driver which is in linux-2.4.9. The sympotms are lot's of messages of this in /var/log/messages: "kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x008d0004" This seems to be a known problem; at least I found other people complaining about the same message in their kernel logs. The problem has different severity for different people. I wasn't able to get the card working at all (basically the computer hung, while trying to mount several NFS directories). After searching the web for further information I was able to obtain a patched version, which was modified Heiko Boch. It seems this version is an older linux-2.4.x driver with some additional patches. This version works without glitches on my system with a vanilla linux-2.4.9 kernel. The homepage of Heiko Boch doesn't seem to exist anymore, so for all people who use this card and have the above problem, I put his modified version of epic100.c on my home page at www.in.tum.de/~rohloff (look for epic100.c). I hope that after some testing someone can have a look over this version, who really can tell what the essential differences compared to the version in linux-2.4.9 are. Perhaps this will lead to a working linux-2.4.xx version in the future. so long Ingo From bob2518@hotmail.kg Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:13:22 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:13:22 From: project completed bob2518@hotmail.kg Subject: [epic] "great success" Cal-Bay International (Symbol: CBYI)

URGENT BUY RECOMMENDATION!

For Cal-Bay (Symbol: CBYI)


Meehan Capital Management Group, a registered Investment Advisor, just released an Investment Opinion RECOMMENDING Cal-Bay (CBYI):
...as a Speculative Long-Term BUY.
...will hit target of $2.00 by 2002 and $5.00 by 2003!
...achieve earnings growth of 200 to 250% in the next 2 years.
...achieve earnings of approximately 25¢ per share by 2003.

QUOTES FROM THE INVESTMENT ADVISORS:

  • "A positive long-term investment opportunity exists with CBYI."
  • "We anticipate that liquidity will increase as well as coverage by additional analysts."
  • "The company has developed a network of strategic alliances that are designed
    to assist the company in obtaining a dominant market share."
  • The current market for sales of safety, environmental and monitoring analyzers in which Cal-Bay operates is currently estimated to exceed $900 million. Estimates calling for $25 Billion in sales by the year 2003."
  • "We expect the company to achieve it's current goal of Nasdaq OTCBB listing by the 4th quarter of 2001 and anticipate positive earnings per share in 2002. Once on the larger exchange, we anticipate positive earnings per share in 2002."
  • "We anticipate that earnings will grow at a more rapid pace than revenues as a result of expanding net margins as well as the reduction of certain overhead costs that can be eliminated as a result of the expected acquisitions."

    • Click HERE for QUOTE, News, Investment Report!

    OTHER REASONS TO OWN THE STOCK:

  • CBYI IS GROWING AT A RAPID RATE. EARNINGS PER SHARE IS INCREASING!
  • CBYI is one of the FASTEST growing companies in distributing environmental and safety equipment instruments.
  • CBYI is a profitable company and, has NO DEBT and is on track to beat ALL earnings estimates.
  • CBYI has increased revenue of 50% annually!
  • CBYI is a fully reporting SEC compliant company that has been in business since 1976.
  • CBYI has an excellent management team with several EXCLUSIVE contracts and an IMPRESSIVE client list including: Anheuser-Busch, Chevron Refining, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, GE-Energy & Environmental Research and the U.S. Air Force.
  • CBYI keeps going UP, UP, and UP!

    • Click HERE for QUOTE, News, Investment Report!

    RAPIDLY GROWING INDUSTRY.
    Hold on tight for the largest Oil and Natural Gas expansion in U.S. History. Demand for Energy is at its highest level putting tremendous pressure on Scientific & Technical Instrumentation companies like CBYI. There is rapid expansion in the energy industry with the need for more power plants and cheaper fuel. CBYI is a major benefactor of this growing need because it supplies specialized "Smell Technology" analyzers for industrial applications in Natural Gas production and transmission.

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    From rohloff@in.tum.de Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:01:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:01:59 +0200 From: Ingo Rohloff rohloff@in.tum.de Subject: [epic] Re: epic100.c, SMC EtherPower II, SMC83c170/175 "EPIC" Hi, I posted an error report about the epic100.c module about one week before. The sympotms were lot's of messages of this in /var/log/messages: "kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x008d0004" After one week of really frustrating debugging and incrementally morphing the working version of the driver I got into the (for me) non-working linux-2.4.9 version I finally found out what was going on: the linux-2.4.9 driver has no bug! BEWARE: DON'T USE gcc-2.95.2! I compiled the linux-2.4.9 version with gcc-2.95.2. And I can _definitely_ confirm that epic100.c triggers a compiler bug. (I have the erronous assembler code on my harddisk if anyone is interested.) Compile the same module with gcc-2.95.3 and the bug is gone (at least in my case. The assembler code is different and correct.) conclusion: Don't use gcc-2.95.2 to compile your kernel! so long Ingo Rohloff From rohloff@in.tum.de Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:03:15 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:03:15 +0200 From: Ingo Rohloff rohloff@in.tum.de Subject: [epic] epic100.c, gcc-2.95.2 compiler bug! Hi, I posted an error report about the epic100.c module about one week before. The sympotms were lot's of messages of this in /var/log/messages: "kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x008d0004" After one week of really frustrating debugging and incrementally morphing the working version of the driver I got into the (for me) non-working linux-2.4.9 version I finally found out what was going on: the linux-2.4.9 driver has no bug! BEWARE: DON'T USE gcc-2.95.2! I compiled the linux-2.4.9 version with gcc-2.95.2. And I can _definitely_ confirm that epic100.c triggers a compiler bug. (I have the erronous assembler code on my harddisk if anyone is interested.) Compile the same module with gcc-2.95.3 and the bug is gone (at least in my case. The assembler code is different and correct.) conclusion: Don't use gcc-2.95.2 to compile your kernel! so long Ingo Rohloff From antirez@invece.org Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:13:23 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:13:23 +0200 From: antirez antirez@invece.org Subject: [epic] Re: epic100.c, gcc-2.95.2 compiler bug! On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:03:15PM +0200, Ingo Rohloff wrote: > BEWARE: DON'T USE gcc-2.95.2! > I compiled the linux-2.4.9 version with gcc-2.95.2. > And I can _definitely_ confirm that epic100.c triggers a compiler > bug. (I have the erronous assembler code on my harddisk if anyone is > interested.) The following seems a gcc 3.0 bug, not sure it was fixed in gcc 3.01. See the assembly generated with -O3 for the following code: -------------------------------------------------------------- inline static long QInt(double inval) { long *l; char *c = (char*) &inval; inval = 68719476991.99; l = (long*) (c+2); return *l; } int main(void) { printf("%lu\n", QInt(OFFENDING_VALUE)); return 0; } --------------------------------------------------------------- the above function is compiled as: .file "test2.c" .section .rodata .LC0: .string "%lu\n" .text .align 16 .globl main .type main,@function main: pushl %ebp movl %esp, %ebp subl $48, %esp * movl $16776561, -32(%ebp) * movl -30(%ebp), %eax * movl $1110441984, -28(%ebp) pushl %eax pushl $.LC0 call printf addl $16, %esp movl %ebp, %esp xorl %eax, %eax popl %ebp ret .Lfe1: .size main,.Lfe1-main .ident "GCC: (GNU) 3.0" Note the line I marked with "*". The double var is 8 byte, it is loaded moving two 32 bit words in the -32 and -28 offset. Unfortunatelly with -O3 the "*l" value get computed between the two 'movl', and not after the second movl. This code is really unsane anyway but this seems a clear gcc 3.0 bug. I hope that the gcc folks here may report the problem if not already known. I didn't tested it but maybe the same problem exists with other 8 byte types like 'long long'. regards, antirez From berryab6128@yahoo.com Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:25:38 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:25:38 From: berryab6128@yahoo.com berryab6128@yahoo.com Subject: [epic] (no subject) FOR IMMEDIATE eponine_29 RELEASE ANALYST BUY RECOMMENDATION

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

    ANALYST BUY RECOMMENDATION:
      Cal-Bay International Inc. (Symbol: CBYI)

    A REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISOR just released an investment opinion RECOMMENDING Cal-Bay (CBYI):
    ...as a Speculative Long-Term BUY.
    ...will hit a price target of $2.00 by 2002 and $5.00 by 2003!
    ...achieve earnings growth of 200 to 250% in the next 2 years.
    ...achieve earnings of approximately 25¢ per share by 2003.

    Click HERE for QUOTE, News & full Investment Report!

    QUOTES FROM THE INVESTMENT ADVISORS:

  • "A positive long-term investment opportunity exists with CBYI."
  • "We anticipate that liquidity will increase as well as coverage by additional analysts."
  • "The company has developed a network of strategic alliances that are designed to assist the company in obtaining a DOMINANT MARKET SHARE."
  • The current market in which Cal-Bay operates is currently estimated to exceed $900 million. Estimates calling for $25 Billion in sales by the year 2003."
  • "We expect the company to achieve it's current goal of Nasdaq OTCBB listing by the 4th quarter of 2001. Once on the larger exchange, we anticipate that liquidity will increase."
  • "We anticipate earnings will grow at a more rapid pace than revenues as a result of expanding net margins as well as the reduction of certain overhead costs that can be eliminated as a result of the expected acquisitions."
    Click HERE for QUOTE, News & full Investment Report!

    OTHER REASONS TO OWN THE STOCK:

  • CBYI IS GROWING AT A RAPID RATE. EARNINGS PER SHARE IS INCREASING!
  • CBYI is one of the FASTEST growing companies in distributing environmental and safety equipment instruments.
  • CBYI is a profitable company, has NO DEBT and is on track to beat ALL earnings estimates.
  • CBYI has increased revenue of 50% annually!
  • CBYI is a fully reporting SEC compliant company that has been in business since 1976.
  • CBYI has an excellent management team with several EXCLUSIVE contracts and an IMPRESSIVE client list including: Anheuser-Busch, Chevron Refining, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, GE-Energy & Environmental Research and the U.S. Air Force.
  • CBYI share price keeps going UP, UP, and UP!
    Click HERE for QUOTE, News & full Investment Report!

    RAPIDLY GROWING INDUSTRY.
    Hold on tight for the largest Oil and Natural Gas expansion in U.S. History. Demand for Energy is at its highest level putting tremendous pressure on Scientific & Technical Instrumentation companies like CBYI. There is rapid expansion in the energy industry with the need for more power plants and cheaper fuel. CBYI is a major benefactor of this growing need because it supplies specialized "Smell Technology" analyzers for industrial applications in Natural Gas production and transmission.

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    • Certain statements contained in this news release may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of  The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by such terms as "expect", "believe", "may", "will", and "intend" or similar terms. We are NOT a registered investment advisor or a broker dealer. This is NOT an offer to buy or sell securities. No recommendation that the securities of the companies profiled should be purchased, sold or held by individuals or entities that learn of the profiled companies. This is an independent electronic publication that was paid $27,000 in cash by a non-affiliated, third party consultant for the electronic dissemination of this company information. Be advised that investments in companies profiled are considered to be high-risk and use of the information provided is for reading purposes only. If anyone decides to act as an investor they are advised not to invest without the proper advisement from an attorney or a registered financial broker, if any party decides to participate as an investor then it will be that investor's sole risk. Be advised that the purchase of such high-risk securities may result in the loss of some or all of the investment. The profiled companies make no warranties or guarantees as to the accuracy or the completeness of the disclosure. Investors should not rely solely on the information presented. Rather, investors should use the information provided by the profiled companies as a starting point for doing additional independent research on the profiled companies in order to allow the investor to form his or her own opinion and decision regarding investing in the profiled companies. Factual statements made by the profiled companies are made as of the date stated and are subject to change without notice. The receipt of this information shall not create, under any circumstances, any implication that there has been no change in the affairs of the company profiled since the date of review. Investing in micro-cap securities is highly speculative and carries an extremely high degree of risk and uncertainties. For further details concerning these risks and uncertainties, see the SEC filings of CBYI including the company's most recent annual and quarterly reports. It is possible that an investor's entire investment may be lost or impaired due to the speculative nature of the companies profiled. The owners of this publication may already own free trading shares in CBYI and may immediately sell all or a portion of these shares into the open market at or about the time this report is published. Subsequently we may from time to time buy or sell shares of CBYI in the open market. All information provided on the profiled companies may include information provided by outside sources, such as research reports, public filings, web sites or computer databases. Copyright © 2001 From warnhold@zedat.fu-berlin.de Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:55:19 +0200 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:55:19 +0200 From: Werner Arnhold warnhold@zedat.fu-berlin.de Subject: [epic] compileable driverfor kernel 2.4.4 ? Hello, I need urgently help. I have a couse of about 50 teachers to learn computer science for school. I promised them to have a look at Linux besides the win* they know. Especially they need Linux access for the database. We have Win2000 machines that use epic100.o with Linux. This results in pci-bus errors. I tried to fetch the latest source from scyld but I wasn't able to compile it. We have kernel 2.4.4 with SuSE 7.2 Is there a suiteable patch out? Thank you for your help Werner -- Werner Arnhold FU Berlin, FB 12, GEDIB Arbeitsbereich Lehrerfortbildung und Informatische Bildung Tel.: 030 / 838-56328, priv: 030 / 74 22 555 From becker@scyld.com Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:53:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Subject: [epic] compileable driverfor kernel 2.4.4 ? On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Werner Arnhold wrote: > We have Win2000 machines that use epic100.o with Linux. This results in > pci-bus errors. I tried to fetch the latest source from scyld but I wasn't > able to compile it. We have kernel 2.4.4 with SuSE 7.2 Is there a suiteable > patch out? What specific compile problems are you having? Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993