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by **Jerry Reutlinge** » Thu, 19 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Does anyone know of any software or work in progress for using DirecPC
under Linux

jfr

by **Mark Rass** » Sat, 21 Mar 1998 04:00:00

> Does anyone know of any software or work in progress for using DirecPC
> under Linux

> jfr

I have DirecPC running under Linux on my Pentium. I am using drivers
from
Helius (www.helius.com) - no affiliation - . The two user license was
just
under $200. The drivers are designed for the Caldera release but I was
able to
install them on Slackware 3.2 and they function properly. The modules
are linked
to 2.0.29 kernel and would not work under 2.0.33. I also had to write a
shell
script to grep ifconfig for the correct gateway address for my ISP as
they have
two servers with different gateway addresses.

The performance under Linux is about the same as Win95. I am using ISDN
as
the output leg without problems. I have seen download speeds of 60
Kbytes/sec
but typically get between 15 and 40 Kbytes/sec after 6:00 PM. The speed
can
vary quite a bit from session to session (depending on the satellite
load I suspect).
This compares with a consistent 15 Kbytes/sec on my 2 channel external
ISDN TA
with a Byterunner serial card set to 230k DTE. Latency is higher when
compared to
ISDN which may be a problem for net gamers and streaming applications
( I have not tested this).

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