Linux-Misc Digest #598, Volume #24 Thu, 25 May 00 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: oldest linux box? (Pjtg0707)
lpd problem (ingo korndoerfer)
Re: howto man->txt ("Art S. Kagel")
SDL and framebuffer (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Re: CD-ROM ("Ed Haack")
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux hangs (Rafael)
Re: howto man->txt (Grant Edwards)
Linux Hangs -Freeze (Rafael)
Re: Can Link To My ISP, But Link Drops Out (Bill Unruh)
Apache user rights (Rafael)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Mark Wilden)
Re: linux + dsl + pacific bell (Jim McDonald)
Re: Need help for Xconfigurator!! (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Jim Richardson)
Re: howto man->txt (Henrik Becker)
Re: Can Link To My ISP, But Link Drops Out (Mike Stevens)
Re: Adaptec 19160 ("Folkert Rienstra")
Sound with Inspiron 3800? ("Gerard Milmeister")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Tim Hockin)
Printer reccomendations? (Nick Paul)
Re: resume download program (Erik Taraldsen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707)
Subject: Re: oldest linux box?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:19:09 GMT
On 25 May 2000 12:34:59 -0500, John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jeff Workman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>:> Just curious, what's the oldest linux box that folks have these days?
>
>: I've got a 486sx25 that gets occasional use and a P75 that was a web server
>: on a cable modem, serving around 5-8k of hits a day until I moved in October.
>
>I'll lay good money that there are dozens (probably hundreds, maybe thousands)
>of 386sx16's out there still being used as simple terminals and/oor servers.
>
>(Just trying to keep there from being dozens (if not hundreds or thousands)
>of followups from peeps who think 486/P5's etc are old -- no offence Jeff :-)
>
>john "just recently retired a 386sx25 / kernel 1.2 notebook" g
I have a AMD 386/40 running apache with kernel 1.2.13 that serves up all my
documentations and my cgi scripts on my lan; it won't retire anytime soon.
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From: ingo korndoerfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lpd problem
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:23:39 +0000
can anybody help me with this one ?
i'm out of ideas.
i had my printing and everything else running just fine.
last week i did something, and i have no clue what.
maybe it was the deinstallation of the vmware demo.
since the, when i try to print, i get :
lpr: connect: Connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
however, the daemon is up and running :
040 S root 5546 1 0 60 0 - 295 wait4 19:00 ?
00:00:00 lpd
140 S root 5582 5546 0 60 0 - 346 inet_w 19:00 ?
00:00:00 lpd
000 S ingo 5667 745 0 68 0 - 304 interr 19:22 pts/0
00:00:00 grep lpd
the jobs are in the queue, and i can get them printed by loggin on as
root,
doing a killall lpd and then restarting the daemon.
that prints everything in the queue at that point, and then i am where i
was before.
rebooting does not help.
what could be my problem ? any hints greatly appreciated.
thanks a lot
ingo
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:29:32 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: howto man->txt
man -T dumb perl >>perl.txt
-or-
TERM=dumb man perl >>perl.txt
The output MAY contain overstrikes (like: k^Hk or K^H_) but will be pure
text. You can easily create an emacs macro to clean up the overstrikes
and it should not be too difficult with other tools as well.
Art S. Kagel
Toni wrote:
>
> Please do not stone me - how do I convert a manpage to a ascii txt
> file ?
>
> i tried
>
> man perl >> perl.txt
> but it gives me a file full of binary chars
>
> man --7 perl >> perl.txt
> doesn�t change anything
>
> so what arguement shall i use ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Subject: SDL and framebuffer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:46:20 GMT
I have problem running SDL programs in framebuffer. For example when
I try to run plaympeg:
Warning: Couldn't init SDL video: Unable to open mouse
Will ignore video stream
pro7_1.mpg: MPEG video stream
Video 320x240 resolution
I tried my own programs (which runs OK in X), and always were problems
with opening mode.
The same effect is on vesafb and voodoo3 framebuffer. Anybody can
help me?
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From: "Ed Haack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:47:07 -0400
I'm logging in as root so I would think I should have permission for
everything.
Bob Hauck wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 25 May 2000 11:24:10 -0400, Ed Haack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>>device=/mnt/cdrom
>
>I would think this should be /dev/hdc if that is your cd device.
>
>
>>mountpoint=/mnt/cdrom
>>filesystem=supermount
>
>>navigate to the /mnt folder, the cdrom AND the floppy are shown as folders
>>(as are the other partitions (FAT32 for Win98)), except the folder icons
>>have a belt (yes, like what holds your pants up) around the folder.
>
>That means you don't have permission to read that folder.
>
>--
> -| Bob Hauck
> -| Codem Systems, Inc.
> -| http://www.codem.com/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 25 May 2000 17:18:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
:>
:> In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>
:> : That's just another argument in favour of test suites, then. That way,
:> : when the hardware changes, you can identify the change with the test
:> : suite, instead of wondering whether it was your latest change that broke
:> : the code.
:>
:> Unfortunately, you wouldn't know even with the test suite. Was it you?
: If the previous build succeeds with the test suite, and the current one
: doesn't, yes, it's you.
I'm afraid that's just not true. About 80% of driver changes are
reactions to kernel changes (this is different for stable kernels, but
there still is a lot of funny business - feature interaction and all
that).
:> Was it the rest of the kernel?
: Test suites are combinations of many separate unit tests that verify the
: contract agreed to by each part of the kernel is doing its job.
There isn't one. There is no agreed interface, even. Linux insists on that.
:> Was it a bad chip? Is it a bad batch of
:> chips?
: If the previous build succeeded against one chip, but fails against
: another, then it's the chip.
No, not so. There are plenty of chip specs that allow lots of room for
"occasional" delays, for example. And some chips produce more delays
than others .. in some environments. Your eepro100 multicast bug
is an example of an environmental interaction that causes the drivers
design parameters to be invalidated.
:> Will it change back again next week?
: You'll never know unless you can test it.
:> Was it the mobo?
: Dunno what a mobo is. :)
Motherboard. Read "todays working environment is not the same as
yesterdays. Today you are being floodpinged".
:> You cannot control the variables as you would like.
: That's why I think flakey hardware makes test suites even more vital.
Unfortunately, you try figuring out what is the "non-flakey"
version of the hardware!
Peter
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux hangs
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:56:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It hangs totaly you can't ping it from the other machine, it hangs also
without X Window, sometimes after some minutes, sometimes after hour. I am
realy disapointed and mad at it.
I have Epox MVP3C2 mainboard, I use S3 868 PCI graphic card with 2 Mb RAM on
it.
I downloaded new kernel 2.14-12 and instaled it. After it things went worst,
my computer started eaven hangs at lower speed of the processor.
It is realy strange that when I am adding additional PCI card I have to slow
down the speed of the mainboard and processor.
One thing I wonder is it corect that eth0 , eth1 and my graphic card work on
the same interupt. Do you know how can I change interupt number in Linux of
my graphic PCI card. At Windows I have the same interupts.
I have in my computer:
Modem Zoltrix Internal Sp Phone V.34 (PCI)
TurtleBeach Malibu Sound card (ISA)
Realtek 8029 Network card (ISA)
Realtek 8129 Network card (PCI)
S3 Vision 868 PCI graphic card
Hard Drive 27 GB IBM - IDE ATA-66 - master on first controler
CD Rom x 32 slave on second controler
Please give me some advice, I starting be mad about this problem.
Why the same computer not hang in Windows 98 (never) but in Linux very often
and it freeze tottaly, no responce and I have turn of power to restart it,
reset button did not restart it.
Rafael
Grahame Jordan wrote:
> Rafael,
>
> What sort of hang. Can you ping it or telnet into it from another
> machine?
> Sometimes X can hang but the rest is OK. In this case it may be related
> to your video card Driver. If in the casae the thing is completely dead
> it may be an irq conflict. Ethernet cards don't like to be on the same
> irqs as other devices.
>
> From much experience Linux itself has never been the problem, either
> hardware or driver. Maybe you could try another video card and remove
> other cards and bring them in one at a time (noting irqs) until you can
> pinpoint the problem.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Yoda
>
> Rafael wrote:
> >
> > My Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.14 and 6.1) hangs. I run on the same
> > computer Windows 98 and it works without hangings. I would like use
> > only Linux on this computer but I can't. It hangs (freeze), the reset
> > button could not restart computer (black screen). I have to turn power
> > of. Please help me. What could be the reason.
> > I have:
> > AMD K6-3 400 Mhz running on 100Mhz bus ( 4x100)
> > S3 868 (2Mb) graphic PCI card
> > 128 Mb Ram ( 2x64 Mb)
> > HD IBM GXP 27GB ( Linux on hda2 (boot- below 1024) and hda6 and swap on
> > hda7)
> > Screen Nokia 447M
> >
> > When I changed bus speed to 95Mhz ( 4x95) i stop hanging. But next day
> > I add additional PCI network card and it start hanging again. Than I go
> > down to 83 Mhz bus speed and it seems to not hang. But what is the
> > problem , with Windows 95 , 98 and NT I can run eaven in overclocked up
> > to 450Mhz with bus speed 112Mhz.
> > What kind of the problem it could, is it related to Linux, or to
> > hardwareor other problem. Somebody should now this?
> > Please help!
> >
> > Addotional information:
> > I had Linux with the same hardware, but with other motherboard and 486
> > 120Mhz, and it worked perfect.
> >
> > Please send answer to my email too
> >
> > Rafael
>
> --
> -----------------------
> - I see, I forget; -
> - I read I know; - (Understanding Year 1&2 Maths)
> - I do, I understand. - (Alan Horsfield)
> -----------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: howto man->txt
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:55:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Art S. Kagel wrote:
>man -T dumb perl >>perl.txt
>
>-or-
>
>TERM=dumb man perl >>perl.txt
>
>The output MAY contain overstrikes (like: k^Hk or K^H_) but will be pure
>text. You can easily create an emacs macro to clean up the overstrikes
>and it should not be too difficult with other tools as well.
My "man" doesn't accept a -T option, but I think redirecting
the output will cause man to format for a dumb terminal. You
can use "col -b" to get rid of backspaces:
man ls | col -b > ls.txt
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I am a traffic light,
at and Alan Ginzberg kidnapped
visi.com my laundry in 1927!
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux Hangs -Freeze
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:00:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.14 and 6.1) hangs. I run on the same
computer Windows 98 and it works without hangings. I would like use
only Linux on this computer but I can't. It hangs (freeze), the reset
button could not restart computer (black screen). I have to turn power
of. Please help me. What could be the reason.
I have Epox MVP3C2 mainboard, I use S3 868 PCI graphic card with 2 Mb
RAM on it.
I downloaded lately new kernel 2.14-12 and instaled it. After it things
went worst, my computer started eaven hangs at lower speed of the
processor.
It is realy strange that when I am adding additional PCI card I have to
slow down the speed of the mainboard and processor.
One thing I wonder is it corect that eth0 , eth1 and my graphic card
work on the same interupt. Do you know how can I change interupt number
in Linux of my graphic PCI card. At Windows I have the same interupts.
I have in my computer:
Modem Zoltrix Internal Sp Phone V.34 (PCI)
TurtleBeach Malibu Sound card (ISA)
Realtek 8029 Network card (ISA)
Realtek 8129 Network card (PCI)
S3 Vision 868 PCI graphic card
Hard Drive 27 GB IBM - IDE ATA-66 - master on first controler
CD Rom x 32 slave on second controler
Please give me some advice, I starting be mad about this problem.
Why the same computer not hang in Windows 98 (never) but in Linux very
often and it freeze tottaly, no responce and I have turn of power to
restart it, reset button did not restart it.
Rafael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Can Link To My ISP, But Link Drops Out
Date: 25 May 2000 17:58:38 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Hi,
] for some reason I can't get kppp to work
]so I am trying to troubleshoot the problem. It can dial the modem
]and connect to my isp and then after a while the connection drops.
] I decided to try for a test, to use minicom, and then give
]an in line command in the shell to start pppd after I have logged
]in with minicom. I am monitoring the output via tail -f
]/var/log/messages. The following message is what I get before or
]just after I connect or get disconnected from my isp:
]registered device ppp0:
]The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
]couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it us an IP
]address hostcomputer PAM_pwadb[925]: (login:)
]sessions opened for user by root by Login(uid=0)
]My computer I called hostcomputer. What does this message mean
]and how should I proceed?
It means that you have an ethernet card, and that you have a default
route on that ethernet card. Don't
Put
route del default
into the end of rc.local ( in /etc/rc.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d/local
] Thanks
] Mike
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Apache user rights
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:05:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Apache 3.12. Each users have pages at their home directories in
public_html folder. To enable access to their web pages I had change
rights of their home folders to 755. I don't want them able to look at
theirs home folders. How to do this. To make at the same time their web
pages be visible.
Rafael
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:12:16 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : If the previous build succeeds with the test suite, and the current one
> : doesn't, yes, it's you.
>
> I'm afraid that's just not true. About 80% of driver changes are
> reactions to kernel changes (this is different for stable kernels, but
> there still is a lot of funny business - feature interaction and all
> that).
Sorry, by 'current build', I mean the current build with only the
changes you've made. If you've made changes only because the kernel has
changed, then I can see that would make it harder to do unit testing.
> : Test suites are combinations of many separate unit tests that verify the
> : contract agreed to by each part of the kernel is doing its job.
>
> There isn't one. There is no agreed interface, even. Linux insists on that.
I don't mean to sound flippant, but if a piece of code doesn't have a
'contract' ('I will do this if you give me that') then it doesn't have a
spec. If it doesn't have a spec, then I can see that it would be hard to
create a unit test for it. And if you can't properly test your work, I
think the Linux team deserves even more credit for the results it has
achieved than it already does! :)
Nevertheless, if 'Linux' insists that there is no agreed interface, it
sounds to me that more work is being created than necessary. But
whatever works, I suppose...
> :> Was it a bad chip? Is it a bad batch of
> :> chips?
>
> : If the previous build succeeded against one chip, but fails against
> : another, then it's the chip.
>
> No, not so. There are plenty of chip specs that allow lots of room for
> "occasional" delays, for example.
Your test has to take that into account. Look, the only purpose of unit
tests is to make it easier to do the system test. If you can't do unit
testing, then your system testing is that much harder, takes that much
more time, and means you have to spend more time hunting for bugs that
aren't even your own (because if you can't unit test, you have no way of
knowing where the fault lies).
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From: Jim McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux + dsl + pacific bell
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:17:25 -0700
Robert Heller wrote:
>
> John Molitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Wed, 24 May 2000 17:10:48 -0500, wrote :
>
> JM>
> JM> Has anybody had success using Linux and DSL? I know have
> JM> my network card setup properly since I use Linux on a Lan
> JM> network in my office at school.
>
See http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ADSL.html; the author even
has Pac Bell DSL.
> Sounds like you don't need help from Pacific Bell. All DSL systems use
> a 'DSL Modem', which is effectivly a modem/router in a single box -- one
> end wires to the DSL/Voice spliter box and the other end is a RJ45 --
> 10BaseT EtherNet. You just need to have DHCP properly installed and
> configured on your computer and you are all set.
>
Unfortunately not true. Although this was the case when my service was
installed, Pac Bell now installs a DSL PCI card supported only by
Winders by default. I understand, though, that if you ask nicely,
they'll do it the old way, as described. I found anyone I could reach at
Pac Bell by phone to be quite worthless; fortunately both the guy who
came out to check my line and the actual installer were quite
knowledgeable, but you should specifically ask for an external DSL modem
when you place the order.
BTW, my Pac Bell DSL has a static IP address[no DHCP], but I guess they
don't do that anymore, either.
--
Jim McDonald
SLAC
Group EC, M/S 95
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Need help for Xconfigurator!!
Date: 25 May 2000 14:20:31 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 May 2000 15:30:05 GMT, Arun Mahajan
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Pentium III 550Hz,128MB RAM, Matrox VGA card with 8MB VRAM,Hp 55(HpD8894A)
>15" Color Monitor with 8.4 GB hard disk.
>Now when I tried to run Xconfigurator for startx it detects my VGA card but
>I could not find hp given model in listing. if choose custom with 800x600
>SVGA at 60hz and all other settings it fails to set Xconfig.
Look in the manual for the monitor and find the values reported for Hsync
and Vsync ranges. Hsync is usually something like 22.5-40 KHz while
Vsync is often about 40-120 Hz. Feed those values to Xconfigurator using
the "expert" options in "Monitor".
If you knew the exact model of the graphics card, that would also
help. It is most definitely not a plain VGA card, no system has shipped
with just a plain VGA card for several years. I'll bet it's some variety
of Matrox Milennium.
If Xconfigurator is crapping out even with this, try XF86Setup or
xf86config. If you're trying to use RedHat 6.0, you may need to update
your Xfree86, because some newer Matrox cards are not well-supported in
the Xfree 3.3.3.1 that came with RH 6.0. 6.1 has 3.3.5 and 6.2 has 3.3.6,
both of which may work better. You could also try searching at
http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml for keywords "Brio" and "video" in the
comp.os.linux.* newsgroups for reports from other users.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:17:17 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 May 2000 06:00:00 GMT,
David Steuber, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson) writes:
>
>' >What do you do when two packages claim ownership of the same file?
>'
>' The only way you get this, is if you forced the install of one of the
>' packages over the complaints of rpm. Do you meant what happens when two or
>' more packages rely on a given file? if so, that's a different issue.
>
>Yes, that is what I mean. Perhaps that is not a problem?
>
If two (or more) packages rely on a particular file.
(very common with things like libc etc) then rpm will tell you
so. eg if you try and remove something (via rpm) then rpm will tell you
that package foo and bar require file baz. It's not a problem, it's a feature :)
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto man->txt
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:20:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toni wrote:
> Please do not stone me - how do I convert a manpage to a ascii txt
> file ?
man xterm > xterm.txt
--
Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.HenrikBecker.de
support FREE SOFTWARE www.KDE.org www.WINDOWMAKER.org www.LINUX.org
dt. J-Pilot Handbuch fertig: http://www.henrikbecker.de/jpilot
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From: Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Link To My ISP, But Link Drops Out
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:25:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> for some reason I can't get kppp to work
> so I am trying to troubleshoot the problem. It can dial the modem
> and connect to my isp and then after a while the connection drops.
> I decided to try for a test, to use minicom, and then give
> an in line command in the shell to start pppd after I have logged
> in with minicom. I am monitoring the output via tail -f
> /var/log/messages. The following message is what I get before or
> just after I connect or get disconnected from my isp:
> registered device ppp0:
> The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
> couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it us an IP
> address hostcomputer PAM_pwadb[925]: (login:)
> sessions opened for user by root by Login(uid=0)
>
> My computer I called hostcomputer. What does this message mean
> and how should I proceed?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
It sounds like you are trying to authenticate via CHAP or PAP, but don't
have the proper 'secrets' files set up. Check with your ISP to see if
they authenticate via CHAP, PAP, or a login script. Check the
PPP-HOWTO, and configure based on the required authentication method.
--
-Mike Stevens
What manner of quandry is this? - The Tick
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.periphs.scsi,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Adaptec 19160
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:33:23 +0200
Does linux check that you use the correct driver?
If not, use the 29160N driver.
--
Folkert Rienstra
(Please don't email me, reply to the group)
visit Gary Field's SCSI Info Central at www.scsifaq.org
"Chris West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8gj8tl$4l5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| Does anyone know if there's a Linux driver available for the Adaptec 19160
| SCSI card?
|
|
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From: "Gerard Milmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound with Inspiron 3800?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:46:48 +0100
Is there a possibility to get sound with the
Dell Inspiron 3800 Notebook. It features
a ESS Maestro 3I chipset, which is not yet
supported by either OSS or ALSA. ESS
claims it to be Soundblaster compatible but I
have not yet succeeded in making it work.
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: 25 May 2000 18:44:13 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>' >What do you do when two packages claim ownership of the same file?
:>'
:>' The only way you get this, is if you forced the install of one of the
:>' packages over the complaints of rpm. Do you meant what happens when two or
:>' more packages rely on a given file? if so, that's a different issue.
RedHat has always had a terrible problem with file ownership in RPMs. Even
on a freshly installed system (with every redhat from 2.1 to 6.0) many
files and directories are owned by more than one package. Often, they are
even listed as having different permissions in each package. This has the
wonderful side effect that no matter what, if you do 'rpm -Va' you'll get
errors. even on a brand new system.
IMHO a fresh system should pass rpm -Va without a single message (except
maybe /etc/passwd and shadow). I'm a bit tired of RedHat's sloppiness in
this respect. If I want to use RPM to verfiy packages, I don't want
out-of-the-box conflicts. Example:
filesystem and sendmail both own /var/spool/mqueue. I think this
particular one has been fixed (I reported it enough times), but many others
exist like it.
--
Tim Hockin
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From: Nick Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Printer reccomendations?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:06:45 GMT
I'm looking to buy a printer to use with my linux box running Red Hat
6.2. I really don't have any experience with Linux printing. All I
really want is a decent color printer that will be easy to setup and use
with Linux. Cost is a major concern. I can't spend much more than $200,
and if I can spend less that's even better. Which brands and/or models
should I be looking at?
thanks in advance
Nick
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From: Erik Taraldsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: resume download program
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:10:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Any 'command-line program' which can ressume the file download in case the internet
>link was lost ?
>
> I tried 'wget -c' but it cannot work when the source is a http server ( instead of
>ftp server ).
There are some servers that don't suport resume. You are not trying to download from
one of them?
-Erik
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