Linux-Misc Digest #367, Volume #20 Thu, 27 May 99 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Install help: HD BIOS cylinder 4092 limit. (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Printer Drivers (Frank Riha)
Re: USB on Linux (Frank Riha)
Re: Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16 (Uwe Brauer)
Re: Aureal Vortex Sound Card not working (Jaroslaw =?iso-8859-1?Q?Br=FCst?=)
Gateway 2000 Telepath 28.8 modem ? (T. Joseph W. Lazio)
Who sells a USB to SCSI adapter ? Can I use them in Linux ?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux or linux? (Mark Tranchant)
Re: CD Burner (Matthew King)
Help! GPF when booting linux! (Jerome Mrozak)
Problem with login to system (Piotr Daniszewski)
Re: ***Amateur Radio Site & Linux*** (Jim Henderson)
Re: word processing, what to use? (David Goldstein)
Re: SuSE 6.1 as a PPP server to Win95 (David Goldstein)
Re: Make my own boot/root? (-ljl-)
Re: Silly Question (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes ("Eric Peterson")
How do you change the Applications Menu? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux excite community ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Peter Seebach)
Re: connecting-computers (Mark Forsyth)
Re: Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16 (Mark Tranchant)
Re: Help with CRON again (Mark Tranchant)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Install help: HD BIOS cylinder 4092 limit.
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 07:42:22 GMT
"Lee Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>You can purchase a EIDE BIOS upgrade card for around $20. DataTechnology
>makes one called DTC 1181. But maybe you could flash the BIOS on the
>motherboard to acheive the same thing.
[...]
You don't need that, if you're solely running Linux on that machine.
Just set the CHS values to something your BIOS allows, and let Linux
detect the whole capacity all by itself later. You just will have to
create a small partition for booting purposes that "fits" with the
BIOS settings (say, a 50 MB partition).
Michael
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From: Frank Riha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Drivers
Date: 27 May 1999 07:08:17 -0400
Konrad Mieredorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Chocolate Moose wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone here know where I can find a printer driver for an NEC
> > SuperScript 100C for Linux? How about where I might go to look for one?
> > Chocolate "New to Linux" Moose
>
> Check "ghostscript" and ask again if it doesn't have the driver ...
Check at http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht for a start. Very
good list of drivers, plus other printing information.
frank
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From: Frank Riha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB on Linux
Date: 27 May 1999 07:17:18 -0400
Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brent wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > : I'd like to know peoples experiences using USB devices
> > : with Linux. I'd like to know if I would have any problems
> > : connected with a USB adapter?
> >
> > : Greg
> >
> > Greg, there is no USB support in Linux, as of yet.
> >
>
> Not entirely true. There is very rudimentary, emergency-use-only USB
> support included in the latest 2.2 kernels (2.2.8 introduced it, IIRC).
>
> Mark.
I think the devel kernels may have more support for USB. I'm not sure
about that tho, second hand info.
http://www.kernel.org would be the place to start checking, I suppose,
but I'm not that interested in USB (yet).
frank
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16
Date: 27 May 1999 13:47:56 +0000
Thanks, I tried this, but did not work as well.
Does not find the card.
Uwe
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From: Jaroslaw =?iso-8859-1?Q?Br=FCst?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Aureal Vortex Sound Card not working
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:45:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Madhu wrote:
>
> Hi,
> My sound card brand is PCI-338 A3D. It uses the Aureal Vortex chipset.
> OSS detected it as Aureal Vortex, but it says its not supported yet. I'm
> really looking forward to using my Redhat 5.2 with the sound card installed.
> My X and everything else is working perfectly well otherwise. Can somebody
> please help me with this???
Use newest OSS driver (http://www.opensound.com/).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T. Joseph W. Lazio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Gateway 2000 Telepath 28.8 modem ?
Date: 27 May 1999 12:10:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We recently gutted a computer at work. I was able to snag a GW2k
Telepath 28.8 (internal) modem from it, sans manual.
I'm not sure I have the jumper settings correct. Anybody have a
manual and willing to enlighten me?
For the record, the modem has two sets of jumpers, labelled in the
following manner:
1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 6 7
| | | | | | | | | |
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Who sells a USB to SCSI adapter ? Can I use them in Linux ?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:23:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to know peoples experiences using USB devices
> with Linux. I'd like to know if I would have any problems
> connecting a parallel port printer and 3 SCSI drives to
> my computer's USB ports. Would I be able to use a parallel
> to USB adapter and a SCSI to USB adapter and just connect
> them both to the USB ports, or would they have to be
> connected to a hub? Would the SCSI drives each need a
> separate adapter connected to a USB port, or can they be
> daisy chained with SCSI cables with only the first drive
> connected with a USB adapter?
>
> Greg
I have been waiting for such device to show up, who makes them and
about what do they cost ? Are they yet supported in Linux (2.3.x that
is) (must be the easiest to implement beeing only a USB to SCSI
transfer?).
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Linux or linux?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:07:23 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Knott wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> >>
> >> Look a little around. We use in measurments units named after people
> >> and it is accepted to capitalise those. Hertz, Pascal, Newton, Avogadros
> >> number, are just few.
> >> As it is named (rightly or not) after the man that got the whole thing
> >> rolling it is Linux.
> >>
> >> Some accepted things are not given to interpretation.
> >
> >Just like the Holy Bible.
>
> No point in trying. It would just be a matter of "Garbage in, garbage
> out".
>
1 Corinthians 1:18.
Mark.
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From: Matthew King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:47:01 +0100
Can anyone give similar info for the external (parallel) model of the
same drive. I don't know if I can mount it, I works perfectly under
windoze 9x
Kernel 2.0.34, suse 5.2
Matthew
ps. Please cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erb wrote:
>
> I have a HP 7200i CD-Writer and would like to use it under Linux. I do
> not have the time to search all over the web for sites which explain how
> to set everything up for CD Burning so does anybody know about a site
> where it is all explained?
>
> The device is IDE and I have been able to mount it easily.
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! GPF when booting linux!
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 07:10:04 -0500
I have a HP Omnibook 800ct that _used_ to boot SuSE 6.1 (kernel 2.2.5)
OK. Currently, when I boot the kernel it finds the hard disk drivers
but won't go farther. It delivers this message:
Partition check:
hda:general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01255c4>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
<register dump follows>
Funny thing is, when I boot from the install disk and mount the file
system, it works OK.
I've rebuilt the kernel (I have the sound drivers in the kernel and
build it with make bzImage).
It was reliable until I had a hinge problem in my laptop, and now it
won't work.
BTW, the Win95 partition works fine.
Any help out there? Thanks.
Jerome.
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From: Piotr Daniszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with login to system
Date: 27 May 1999 12:57:15 GMT
Hi,
I have RedHat Linux 5.1 with 2.0.36 Kernel
Yesterday something happend and then nobody can login into system.
Only root can login and users from group root.
when somebody tries to connect via telnet he login and see the message: "no
home directory" and system logoff the user.
If root tries to do su user, then the message "can't run /bin/bash".
Permissions are done to the bash, passwd etc.
Permission to the /bin/bash is done, but what else can be wrong.
Have you any ideas??
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ***Amateur Radio Site & Linux***
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:07:22 -0600
Thanks for posting this info - I've got a KPC-II connected to an old 386
that I want to set up for this, and have been looking for information on
how to do this. Now I just need to contact my IP address coordinator
and get an address, and I'm back on the air! <G>
73 de kd4ldo
"Jeffrey M. Swiger" wrote:
>
> This site has plenty of information for the Ham radio user... Take a
> look!
>
> http://www.casema.net/~aba/
>
> Just wish someone would do somthing like this for the HP620LX I'm forced
> to have. ( Least I'd have a reason to have it on the desk then)....73 de
> N8NOE
> --
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> Jeffrey M. Swiger
> *** N8NOE ***
> ( Linux Redhat 5.1 )
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From: David Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: word processing, what to use?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:03:51 +0200
Michel wrote:
>
> David Steuber wrote:
> D. Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since when was vi a word processor? vi is only a text editor.
>
> Wrong! vi is also a piece of shit.
Wrong! vi is a very nice, quick way to edit text files. Perhaps
compared to real word processors, vi is lacking, but I use it quite
often.
David
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From: David Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.1 as a PPP server to Win95
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:10:29 +0200
Technical Computing Services wrote:
>
> The subject says it all!
>
> My 2nd puter is NOT dialing into my SuSE box with a modem; I'm able
> to telnet directly to the Linux box via ethernet cards (both are
> connected
> via hub & ethernet cards, and only one can have a PPP connection at a
> time...
> unless, of course
> I can figure out how to make SuSE a PPP server)
>
> This is, again, a direct connection from a Win95 machine to SuSE 6.1
> Linux. No modem shall be used for such!
>
> Any way to do this?
>
> Much thanks!
I am unsure about what you wish to accomplish here. You state that
you cannot dial into your Linux box from Win95 via a modem, then you
state that no modem shall be used for your direct connection from Win95
to Linux!?
If you want to dial set up a PPP dialup to your Linux box, you need to
check mgetty how-to's. If you wish to access the internet from your
Win95 box through your Linux box, you need to check the IP-Masquerading
(or IP Chains--depending on the kernel), and IP-forwarding. Both of
these need to be compiled in to the kernel and some set up needs to be
done. Check the Net-3 how-to, it is very inforamtive :)
David
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make my own boot/root?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:43:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote:
> I need to make some custom boot and root disks? How can I do that?
You can study the example of Sergei Viznyuk's 'resque_disk':
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/
there are other examples in the above directory, too. I was
able to follow Sergei's model and documentation to build a
custom single-diskette, (1.44M) with networking, resque-system.
Also, look under '/usr/src/linux/Documentation' for 'ramdisk.txt',
'initrd.txt, ... .
SuSE has a 'rescue.gz' (root-image) that can be used in conjunction
with their boot-install diskette. I think Slackware has this root-
image too. Check out your distribution, it may have something like
this. You'll probably have to prune stuff from 'rescue.gz' so that
everything fits on one diskette.
You might want to look at this Howto:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO
it may be all that you need :-)
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From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Silly Question
Date: 27 May 1999 13:40:35 GMT
John Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Which one of the dist's is the best at upgrading? Like, if you
: have RedHat 5.1 on and then get 6.0, is it simply smooth sailing or is it
: too much trouble? I've seen the upgrade option on the Redhat install
: process, this is why I'm asking. Or, does such a thing exist since
: changes happen so often? I particularly like SuSE, second for me would
: be Redhat, and third is everything else.
My only experience is with RedHat, but I'll note that 5.0 -> 5.2 went very
nicely, while 5.2 -> 6.0 was such a nightmare I abandoned it. Your mileage
may vary, of course.
Greg
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From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: 27 May 1999 13:40:48 GMT
I had this problem (although it was about a year ago so my memory might be
a bit off!) and it turned out to be one of the Win95 machines on my home
network was doing a netbios lookup every 15 minutes. I changed dialdconf
to ignore these packets and VOILA!
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Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7iikul$ag2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >marco tephlant wrote:
> >>
> >> Im pleased to say i've got IP masquerading and diald working this
> >> weekend, one problem though is that diald spontaneously dials out.
I've
>
> Do you have named or gated running? Don;t.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do you change the Applications Menu?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:01:19 GMT
I have recently installed Corel WP 8. As with Windows, I was expecting
to see a shortcut in my applications menu. However it is not there.
How do I make entries and reconfigure my applications menu. Is it like
using explorer in Windows? If so what program do I use. As you can see
I am very new to Linux and would appreciate any and all help thrown my
way.
Thanks,
Mike B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: linux excite community
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:02:54 GMT
There is a moderated excite community that has just started up.
go to
http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=.ZSasUdYMCjL
to join.
You'll miss all those commercial advertisements though.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:53:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But the big question remains. Why in Western Europe the violent, gun
>related, crime rates are still lower than in the US (or - at least -
>this is the perception that one has), and with much stricter gun
>controls laws in place? Big question for sure, but avoiding it is
>unfair. :)
Well, as soon as anyone comes up with a testable hypothesis, I'm sure someone
will go after it.
My guess is that it's a combination of factors. Cultural differences are
probably a big one... But look, in particular, at *very* heavily-armed
cultures, and you'll tend to see low violent crime rates also.
-s
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From: Mark Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connecting-computers
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:16:56 +1000
I _think_, if I've got it right, that you need to have a
look at Samba.
Mark F...
Fran�ois Patte wrote:
>
> I'd like to connect another computer (pc under windows or mac) with mine
> (linux red-hat) in order to copy or install files exactly in the same
> way as I do on my hard disk beetween linux partition and windows
> partition. Is that possible? and how?
>
> Could you give me details?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
> 45 rue des St P�res. 75270 Paris Cedex 06
> Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:30:00 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it an ISA card? Mine has jumpers for IRQ3 and IRQ10, or "SOFT". Make
sure it's not set to "SOFT".
Mark.
Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
> Thanks, I tried this, but did not work as well.
> Does not find the card.
>
> Uwe
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with CRON again
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:01:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try "man xmessage". You'll be looking for something like:
xmessage -display 12.34.56.78:0 "My Message"
Alternatively, it could be a permissions thing - see xhost if the above
trick doesn't work.
Mark.
Jason Bond wrote:
>
> The job I'm having trouble with is (from the crontab):
>
> * * * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage "My
> Message"
>
> and the email that cron sends me is:
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Cron <jbond@blah> /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage "My Message"
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/jbond>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=jbond>
>
> Error: Can't open display:
>
> So that it seems the problem is that the display cannot
> be set....is there a way to get around this so that cron can
> execute the xmessage program? Thanks much again,
>
> Jason
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