Linux-Hardware Digest #989, Volume #13 Tue, 5 Dec 00 19:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart is taking longer than expected to (James
Richard Tyrer)
Re: Aaaggh! Need to set sound on Intel 810 chipset pleaze yelp. (Raviprasad)
aureal and 2.4 (Steven Howard Frank)
Re: dell c600 and linux? (Michael Naef)
Re: Aaaggh! Need to set sound on Intel 810 chipset pleaze yelp. (Joshua Baker-LePain)
CD writer (ekk)
Re: Floppy drive won't spit out disk under Mandrake 7.2 ("Jonathan DeSena")
ASUS CUBX motherboard & Linux (Yury)
Re: DSL is up, but my browsers don't recognize it (Ben Caradoc-Davies)
Re: parallel ("robert smith")
Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1 (Allen Mcintosh)
USB DSL Modem ("Brad Hilton")
Re: Alternatives to Wavelan? Re: IEEE WaveLAN (Peter Bloomfield)
Re: Compaq servers with redhat 6.2 hang ("John D. Peedle")
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart is taking longer than expected to
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:21:41 GMT
"Jerry =B4P" wrote:
> =
> Hello,
> =
> my machine is Redhat 6.2, and When i exit Linuxconf, it states that:=
> =
> The command
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart
> is taking longer than expected to complete
> Please take action
> Skip (o) this command
> Abort ( ) this session
> Kill [ ] this command
> =
> i usually choose kill the command, and when i view the log, it states t=
hat:
> =
> Checking base configuration =
xx
> x x Checking kernel's modules
> xx
> x x Mounting local volumes
> xx
> x x Checking files permissions
> xx
> x x Checking LILO
> xx
> x x Executing some Sysv init scripts
> xx
> x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network reload
> xx
> x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S11portmap start
> xx
> x x > Starting portmapper: execvp: Permission de=
nied
Are you running as root? If not, try that and see if the problem occurs
there as well. You appear to have a permission problem with the file
"execvp".
> xx
> x x > [FAILED]
> xx
> x x * return 255
> xx
> x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart
Do you have NFS on your system. If you aren't using it, you should turn
it off.
> xx
> x x * The command takes more than 15 seconds to
> execute, odd xx
> x x * killed by operator
> xx
> x x Grabbing some late messages from command
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock resxx
> x x > lockdsvc: Connection refused
> xx
> done.
> =
> How does it occur and how can i fix it ? thank you for your help , i am=
a
> junior only.
> =
Also, if you attached a vCARD, it didn't work:
> Jerry =B4P ICQ#24202044
> =
> =C5]=A4k - =B7Q=B7R=A4S=A4=A3=AF=E0=B7R=A1A=B9=EF=B7R=B1=A1=AA=BA=B0=F5=
=B5=DB=A6=D3=B3Q=A5@=A4H=B0=E3=B1=F3=A1A=ACG=B3Q=BA=D9=AC=B0=C5]=A4k=A1C
> =
> =A9M=A7A=A4@=B0_=A1A=A8C=A4@=A4=D1=B3=A3=B9L=B1o=AB=DC=A7=D6=A1A=A5=CD=A6=
s=ABK=ACO=A4@=BA=D8=B3=DF=AE=AE=A1C=A5i=ACO=B2{=A6b=A1A
> =AE=C9=B6=A1=A6n=B9=B3=B0=B1=A4=EE=A4F=A1A=A4@=B7Q=A8=EC=A4=A3=AF=E0=A6=
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=DA=B7P=A8=EC=A4Q=A4=C0=AE`=A9=C8=A1I
> =
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=C3=E4=ABK=A8=AC=B0=F7=A1C=B4N=BA=E2=ACO=A6p=A6=F3=C3=F8=A8=FC=A1A
> =A9M=A9p=A4@=B0_=AA=BA=B8=DC=A4@=A9w=A5i=A5H=B1=BA=B9L=A1I=A4=A3=B7|=A6=
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> =
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> =A5=BC=AA=BE=A7C=A4U=C0Y=A1A=B1=E6=B5=DB=A5=FA=B0e=B5=B9=A6o=AA=BA=A7=D9=
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> =
> =C5]=A4k=A4=A7=B1=F8=A5=F3 ~ =BCs=C3u=A5=BC=AA=BE =B6=C2=BFA=A5=FA
> =
JRT
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From: Raviprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aaaggh! Need to set sound on Intel 810 chipset pleaze yelp.
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:30:09 -0000
Gee thanks for that step by step setup guide. i did just as u detailed and
lo! my Linux rocks! its just great. now its goodbye to Windows and hey
Linux here i come. :-) ' thats all there is to it' did u say huh? thats
quite greek, latin & french to me! Anyways thanks for helping out this
novice.
i had no problem unmuting the mixer either i just did as u ppl wanted me
to and it worked straight away.
just one problem though when i ran 'depmod -a' it gave me a long list of
error messages something like this -
depmod:**** unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.16-3/misc/snd-ad1848.o
this shows up during boot up too.
should i be bothered?
thankx
with warm regards
ravi
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From: Steven Howard Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aureal and 2.4
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:25:13 -0500
my aureal drivers work prefectly with any kernal < 2.3.99
when i try it with 2.4.anything, the sound plays but it takes a nutty on
my harddrive and the HD light stays on...
anyone know what's up with that?
=========================================================================
Steven Howard Frank (That's right, 3 first, middle and last names!)
http://troma.res.wpi.net
So for your birthday, I got you some Hawaiian punch on tap (h.p.o.t), so
now you can stop borrowing my stuff and trying your new kung fu moves out
on me..."
-Atom and His Package
=========================================================================
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From: Michael Naef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dell c600 and linux?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.sys.laptops
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:01:12 +0100
Phil Rasch wrote:
>
> Has anybody got this laptop going with Linux yet?
>
> I am considering buying one. My experience in the recent past is that
[..]
have a look at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Michael
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aaaggh! Need to set sound on Intel 810 chipset pleaze yelp.
Date: 5 Dec 2000 20:16:48 GMT
Raviprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gee thanks for that step by step setup guide. i did just as u detailed and
> lo! my Linux rocks! its just great. now its goodbye to Windows and hey
> Linux here i come. :-) ' thats all there is to it' did u say huh? thats
Glad it worked!
> i had no problem unmuting the mixer either i just did as u ppl wanted me
> to and it worked straight away.
You may want to execute 'chkconfig --level 2345 alsasound on' as root.
Otherwise, you'll need to unmute those channels every time you reboot.
> just one problem though when i ran 'depmod -a' it gave me a long list of
> error messages something like this -
> depmod:**** unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.16-3/misc/snd-ad1848.o
> this shows up during boot up too.
> should i be bothered?
Maybe. On the one hand, it works. On the other hand, it may point to
missing packages which will give you trouble in the future. Just make sure
that you've got kernel-headers, kernel-source, and glibc-devel installed.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD writer
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:31:17 -0500
Hello,
I've got an IDE CD writer working, but since I'm using SCSI emulation to
see it, I can no longer see my IDE CD-ROM. I know that /dev/scd0 -
/dev/scd7 represent the CD-RW, and I thought that /dev/scd8 - /dev/scd15
would represent the CD-ROM, but /dev/scd8 - /dev/scd15 don't exist on my
machine (and, I unfortunately don't know how to add entries in /dev).
Please help.
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From: "Jonathan DeSena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive won't spit out disk under Mandrake 7.2
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:57:56 +0500
In article <Hm_W5.755504$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jens"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Probably, the LS120 can be locked so it won't eject unless it is
>> unmounted. I have a Zip so I am making an educated guess. The
>> automounter works by detecting a change to a directory. You will need
>> to change out of the directory -- all the way out of the LS120 (so it
>> isn't busy) before it will unmount itself.
>
> Good suggestion but unfortunately it doesn't unmount itself :)
>
>> KDE works by clicking the icon (a device icon).
>>
>> I would guess that you have two mount directories, one for manual
>> mounting (which is probably what KDE is using) and one for automounting
>> which Supermount is using.
>>
>> If you are using KDE and will always use the icon, the automounter is
>> not needed. You might want to forget it -- uninstall it. Alternately,
>> if you want to use the automounter with KDE you need to have a URL
>> icon.
>>
>> First, check to see which type of icon you have. Right click the icon
>> and chose Properties. One of the tabs on the widget will say either
>> Device or URL.
>
> It says URL ... /mnt/floppy
>
> Ok, I am even more confused - I thought that the drives are always
> mounted through /mnt/device (at least in Mandrake). Where would this
> second directory be, why would there be a need for a second directory -
> what does that buy me ?
>
> ??????
>
> Thanks
>
> Jens
Your problem most likely has to do with Mandrake's use of their
supermount addition. IMHO supermount causes more trouble than it fixes,
mostly due to removable drives with some sort of electronic eject, ie.
Zip, Jaz, and your LS-120 drive.
The basic effect of supermount is in effect, as I understand it (the author or
Mandrake coder might point out my error, if any), to make the system
think a removable drive is always mounted. Thus, any access of the
directory it is mounted under will access the device. If nothing is in
the drive, you get an error as in windows. By setting all operations on
the drive to syncronous, it is no longer necessary to unmount the device
before ejecting, as in windows. So you can remove media like one would
in windows.
This works well with standard PC floppies, which have a manual eject.
Electronic ejecting mechanisms, though, need the drive to me unmounted
before an eject is allowed -- normally good behavior in Unix (or Mac too,
I believe). With supermount, though, you are never supposed to unmount
the device. In fact, doing so will in effect "turn off" supermount for
that device. This should allow you to then eject the disk, but now you
must mount the drive again right after you remove the disk to get
supermount to "turn back on." (This is okay with no media in the drive since
supermount does not try accessing the drive until you try to access the
directory.) This removes the only advantage of supermount anyway.
An easier, and less confusing, way to deal with such drives is to turn
off supermount. Unselect it during install, or you can do a
"supermount -i diable" as root later. Now mount and unmount as usual.
you can use the eject command too, which automatically unmounts for you??
As far as the KDE icons, mandrake set them up as URL links rather than
the standard KDE device links because they assumed everyone would be using
supermount. With the device link you get a Mount|Unmount and optionally
Eject commands when the icon is right clicked (very nice). To get one of
these: right click on desktop, select Create New... then either Floppy or
CDROM device. Hint: use CDROM device for any device that has an
electronic eject to get the EJECT option when right clicking.
Well, that's the long answer for you. Hope you weren't too bored.
Jon DeSena
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From: Yury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS CUBX motherboard & Linux
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 21:22:21 GMT
Hi there,
How do I make the Linux installer recognize the ATA-66 controller on the
ASUS CUBX motherboard? It sees the ATA-33 controller no problem, but
not the ATA-66. Does anyone know where I can findt he drivers for that
controller, and how to add them to the installer?
Thanks.
Yury.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Caradoc-Davies)
Subject: Re: DSL is up, but my browsers don't recognize it
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:07:32 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:45:22 GMT, Jack Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm over my head here
Don't worry, you'll learn to swim. Quickly.
> but here's what I know/found:
>I don't know what DNS means.
Domain name service. Without DNS, you can only access hosts by knowing their IP
numbers. DNS provides translation from names (e.g. www.cnn.com) to IP numbers.
>/etc/resolv.conf is an empty file.
You *must* have at least one nameserver entry in this file, and preferably two:
your ISP's primary and secondary DNS servers. On each line in /etc/resolv.conf,
you just need "nameserver", some whitespace, and then the IP number of the DNS
server (*not* its name - think about it).
man 5 resolver
You can do these things by hand (I generally do) or use a tool like
netcfg
(which you may already have) to help you get started.
>route -n gives me a destination IP, which I can ping and get responses in
>the 25-35 second range.
Seconds?!? Sure it's not milliseconds?
Does
route
(no -n) give you a "default" destination (your gateway)?
>ifconfig -a gives me the same IP address as above, calling it a point to
>point address, and another IP address under an Inet heading. I can also
>ping that with similar results as above.
Looks like you PPP connection is up fine. Can you ping one of
199.45.39.45 199.45.39.54 199.45.39.41
(www.bellatlantic.net IP addresses)?
If you can, your default route is OK.
>Trying to ping a URL (with or without 'http://') gives an 'unknown host'
>message.
Can't use http:// here - that's a high level protocol which lives inside
lower-level TCP protocol connections. Ping uses ICMP, a different low-level
protocol.
Looks like you have no DNS.
>What do I do next? And is there documentation/book somewhere that would
>help me understand these mysteries? Thanks.
A good place to start would be
less /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO
(or wherever your HOWTOs are).
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "robert smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:57:24 -0000
> Just to give you some figures: a CPU may run at 933MHz, but memory
> runs at 133MHz and the PCI bus runs at 33MHz. Your speedy Pentium III
> 933 is going to run at 33MHz if you can't use registers or the cache
> and have to rely on the PCI bus for memory. (And have to access
> memory about every instruction.)
its not 33mhz, its 33*number of computers theoretically, and once its pieced
back together, its going to be roughly 25mhz*computer of boxes... not cost
worthy... commands would be sent at 33mhz, in blocks, before being
processed, so they could be buffered, but we would be held back... its a
nice idea if it could work, i think its worth investigating, one day the
ports will be on the cpu along with everything else.
yes, but everything on the databus is 133mhz (if you're lucky), very few
programs get up to the fastest speed possible when run because there is
always something to hold it back, but their guessing is getting better.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Mcintosh)
Date: 5 Dec 2000 18:06:18 -0500
In article <90j6ld$2du$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, w_h_lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I install linux on I815 system. The kernel is 2.2.16 which include the
>module agpgart.o. The XFree86 is 4.0.1 which support the I810 chipset. There
>is an error "device is busy" when I do "modprobe agpgart" and the module is
>not loaded. I use the agpgart.o from the intel support web and it work. Then
>I run startx after config the XF86Config and it fail. The XFCom_i810 Xserver
>is work under XFree86 3.3.6 and can not work with the XF86Config file in
>4.0.1 format. The logfile and config files are in the attachment. Please
>help me to let it work. Thanks.
The following worked for me (running kernel 2.2.17, but 2.2.16 should work
fine):
1) Install XFree86 3.3.6
2) Obtain server and agpgart.c from the Intel website.
3) Install server and agpgart.o
Is there a reason you are using XF86 4.0.1?
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From: "Brad Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB DSL Modem
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:37:46 -0500
Is there a way to make a USB DSL modem work with Linux? How about through
some sort of a hub or ip masq through a second pc?
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From: Peter Bloomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Wavelan? Re: IEEE WaveLAN
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:07:09 -0500
Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
>
> Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>
> > Hi Sinner!
>
> Hi Peter!
>
> > When I bought my WaveLAN card, they came only as PCMCIA, and I put mine
> > in an ISA bridge. There's also a PCI bridge, but iirc there may be
> > problems with it. Check out
> > http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/ and the links off that
> > page.
>
> I beg your pardon but... what's "iirc"? I'm not an english speaker so I
> will welcome your help.
``iirc'' = ``if I remember correctly'' (iirc)
>
> And I've seen that the information is mostly from 1999. Then, I
> understand that some information must have changed. Am I right?
Probably!
> Also, to connect 2 wireless PC (one Linux desktop, one Windows laptop),
> will I need an "access point"?
No, they can talk to each other, at least in Ad-hoc mode. They should
also be able to encrypt the communications, but I haven't been able to
explore that. You may have other reasons to invest in an access point,
but it's not necessary just to connect them.
> Will it be easy for the Linux to offer IP-masquerading (share the adsl
> connection) through the wireless card?
Yes. I'm doing that, with iBooks as wireless clients being MASQed
through a Linux box (with the wireless card in an ISA bridge) to DSL--it
should be easier for Linux boxen!
Peter
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From: "John D. Peedle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq servers with redhat 6.2 hang
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:08:47 -0000
You say that you have the same configuration on all boxen. Does this include
firmware revision levels?
Q machines are commonly shipped with ancient BIOS revisions. The first task
when installing a new Q server is to upgrade the System and SCSI BIOS to a
more reasonable revision.
The Q website suggests that those boxes have Integrated Management Logs. If
they have you may find something useful in there.
There is an increasing amount of information and software available on the Q
website
see http://www5.compaq.com/support/files/server/us/locate/35_1123.html for
the DL360 and
http://www5.compaq.com/support/files/server/us/locate/35_1115.html for the
1850
--
John D. Peedle
RHCE - so I'm Biased!
Registered Linux User 167460
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