Linux-Misc Digest #950, Volume #24 Tue, 27 Jun 00 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Good linux printer (Grant Taylor)
no internet connection with a dial-up in WinLinux (chewie8han)
Re: Epson Stylus900 (Grant Taylor)
Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?) (Paul
Eisenberg)
Re: No space left on device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tin newsreader ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kde tasklist ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
plink in SuSE (Chris Hegan)
can't install linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Gnutella fans, READ THIS! (Graham N Hays)
Handle complements (Nikodemus Karlsson)
timex command (Neil Zanella)
ftape problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cant create a partition with disk druid?? (newbie) (Eric)
Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: connecting to ISP with linux (acepea)
Re: start the friggin music...... (acepea)
Re: kde tasklist ("Lonni J. Friedman")
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good linux printer
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:28:09 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) writes:
>> Try the Lexmark Optra Color 40. This is a postscript level 2 printer,
> Unfortunately, the Lexmark Optra 40 has long since been
> discontinued, which is why you got such a good deal -- it was a
> closeout item on buy.com. I just checked, and it's no longer listed
> on buy.com's clearance page, so unless they've hidden the listing,
> they don't have any more. It's conceivable that interested buyers
> could still find one somewhere (I think I heard that egghead.com had
> some at one point), but I wouldn't rely on the printer's
> availability.
Quite. I now recommend printers from the Epson Stylus line; these are
quite well supported by the gimp-print project's Ghostscript driver.
They aren't "perfect" by my standards, but they're darned close, and
can be expected to reach perfection in the near future.
See my database, and the gimp-print/stp project's webpage, for
details. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp
More generally, you may see my listing of perfectly supported color
inkjets at http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?predef=CJ
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From: chewie8han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no internet connection with a dial-up in WinLinux
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:30:07 GMT
I am able to dial out with my 56K modem, but from there I can't connect to
the internet. I'm running WinLinux 2000 with KDE. Is there something I'm
not setting up? If so what? This is the only thing really stoping me
from running Linux(as we all know Windows sucks!)
Thanks
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus900
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:33:08 GMT
Linux-Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Trying to install a Epson Stylus900 on rh6.2 . have it printing
> using the Stylus800 driver, but only in B/W.
> Have gone to the www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht for a driver and he
> has one, "stp" but he shows you a text script of the driver, but I
> be damn if I can understand how to download the driver. I did
> download the PDQ frontend program and did a install and make on it
> but it doesn't run. Anybody have any exprience in this area.
You can obtain the driver from the gimp-print project's website at
gimp-print.sourceforge.net (this link is on the stp driver page at
linuxprinting.org). Note that it is a somewhat nontrivial exercise to
recompile a driver into Ghostscript; with any luck at all the
gimp-print people offer RPMs or the like.
Once you have the driver itself installed, you'll need to make your
printing system use it. For Red Hat, this usually involves a minor
tweak to the printer database file used by printtool; someone on the
gimp-print mailing list can undoubtedly help you muddle through that -
consult the archives on sourceforge.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eisenberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:45:00 GMT
Hey! I finally got my a modem to work and connect with my Internet
Server after using the following line
setserial /dev/ttyS2 auto_irq autoconfig
It then seems to dial fine after putting a # sign in front of auth on
the /etc/ppp/options(i think correct path). Now after I connect and
it logs in I am unable to use Netscape, telnet, or anything else. It
seems like I'm not connected at all. I tried pinging, telnet, etc,
etc, on many sites. I also used another account besides root since I
read Corel disables Internet browsing with the root account. Any help
would be great. I also am curious as how to make the setserial line
above load up every time? I think I edit the /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
but I'm not sure if that is correct, and what to edit. Any help would
be great! Thanks! Take Care. Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No space left on device
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:38:25 -0700
Anthony Tekatch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why do I get the "no space left on device" message if I try to copy
> large files? I have checked the disk space (df -h) and inodes (df -i):
> $ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 9.1G 3.3G 5.4G 38% /
> /dev/hdd2 286M 92M 194M 32% /mnt/shared
> $ df -i
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 2476032 174741 2301291 7% /
> /dev/hdd2 0 0 0 0% /mnt/shared
> $ pwd
> /home/anthony
> $ ls -al file.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 anthony anthony 1070961 May 31 20:38 file.txt
> $ cp file.txt file2.txt
> cp: file2.txt: No space left on device
Interesting, haven't seen that before.
What sort of filesystem do you have on /dev/hdd2? Output from 'mount'?
Does the filesystem check out ok with fsck?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tin newsreader
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:41:44 -0700
Bryan Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! I want to figure out how to use tin properly eventually, but at the
> moment, can someone please just tell me a quick way to download, say, the
> last 50 messages from a newsgroup (rec.music.classical) on to a specific
> file on my hard
> drive, and do that only. I've tried various things, but they all seem to
> take forever, and never get finished, or at least take far longer than it
> seems it should.
Yet another option is to run a local lightweight newsserver. I'm
running Leafnode on my box over a 56K dialup line. Even with a few
heavy-traffic groups (such as comp.os.linux.misc), it tends to clear
pretty quickly. I run updates once an hour -- not quite realtime, but
good enough for gov't work. Doesn't tend to bog my other net traffic
either.
It helps to have a couple of phone lines to do this <g>.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: kde tasklist
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:30:28 GMT
Hi,
Is there an applet for the KDE panel similar to Gnome Tasklist?
(one-click switching between application) Windows has it, Gnome has it,
how come I can't find one in KDE?
Thanks
Wroot
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From: Chris Hegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: plink in SuSE
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:00:27 +1200
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Trying to make jpilot work in SuSE, I have installed the 'plink'
package, which is extravagantly described as a really cool package to
synchronise with your Palm pilot. Well, it isn't.
However I do prefer SuSE over Red Hat, although on RH making pilot-link
work is a no-brainer.
When I try to sync my palm device via jpilot, I get an error message:
pi_bind Input/output error
Check your serial port and settings.
I have searched the files in the plink package but cannot find any
reference to pi-bind.
I have placed a symlink in /dev linking /dev/pilot to /dev/ttys0.
No dice.
Any suggestions?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't install linux
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:59:50 GMT
I have a 13 GB hdd on a quite old computer which bios only recognizes
7.8GB. As soon as I have a partition over 7.8 gb allocated, I can't
install linux (suse and red hat). the strange thing is, that red hat
recognizes all partitions correctly but if I want to partition with
fdisk, the pc hangs. When partitioning with partition magic in winnt4.0
and then mounting the linux partitions in the redhat install routine and
pressing next causes again the pc to hang. I know, that some "old"
or os which call the bios for the size of the hdd have problems
installing onto a hdd > 8GB (like win9x, winnt4.0 prior sp4 or os/2). is
there a way to solve this problem. I don't want to throw away all the
data over the 8gb (Beos and win2k caused no problem at all when
installing). I fussed around almost half a day with OS/2 warp 4 and
ended up with a second hdd and a primary partition. I really don't want
to have to do this with linux too. so please reply, hopefully there is a
way,
claus goettfert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:05:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted) writes:
[...]
>[Linux]
>shell=c:\linux\loadlin.exe c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro mem=128M
[...]
Try it with just
C:\linux\loadlin.exe C:\linux\vmlinuz (etc.)
And of course, you need to have the vmlinuz file (i.e. the kernel
image) in C:\linux . If that is the case and it still boots into Win98,
then possibly your loadlin.exe file is damaged.
Michael
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:47:48 +0100
From: Graham N Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnutella fans, READ THIS!
Francois Labreque wrote:
>
> Rick wrote:
> >
> > Jim Hill wrote:
> > >
<SNIP>
> > > >At last, we have a resouce that's not been commercialized and
> > > >exploited...yet...
> > >
> > > Your protest would be a lot more tolerable if you weren't using a news
> > > server which pisses into the world's spools with every post by tacking an ad
<SNIP>
> > > > Yeah.. that's at least as bad as redirecting music searches to porn
> > sites... sheesh. Get a grip.
>
> Hmm... one poster feels cheated that his morally questionable activities
> (stealing music) are being hampered by another company's questionable
> morals (spamming porn). The second poster complains about the
> questionable morals of a third company (spamming their services).
>
> Which is worse? You be the judge.
>
> --
<SNIP>
... and all of you have included the 'offending' sig
:-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikodemus Karlsson)
Subject: Handle complements
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:10:18 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I often have to delete all the files in a directory
except one file or one kind of files (*.c).
How can I do this with one command? I want it
to work like "rm -f * except *.c"
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: timex command
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:44:08 -0230
Hello,
Does anyone know of an implementation of the timex command resembling
the one found on Solaris and AIX for Linux/GNU systems?
Thanks,
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ftape problem
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:11:23 GMT
I have installed Red hat 6.1 (Kernel 2.2.12). I to set up my parallel
port streamer with the following settings in conf.modules:
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none
options bpck-fdc ft_fdc_base=0x378 ft_fdc_irq=7
When I do a "modprobe zftape" I get the message:
"invalid parameter: ft_fdc_driver"
This configuration works fine with SuSE Linux 6.2.
I have found this problem in some newsgroups. But unfortunately I have
never found a solution. Does anybody know where the problem is?
Thanks
Detlev
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant create a partition with disk druid?? (newbie)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 06:51:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
replied in comp.os.linux.setup
Trent Cook wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I figured the best way to get out of my linux mess, was a complete fresh
> install. Guess not, cause here is my problem:
>
> I have 2 hard drives: one 13gig cut up for windows and one 5gig cut up for
> linux.
>
> The problem is that I can only create a swap partion on my 5 gig drive. I
> have deleted all partitions in fdisk, disk druid, linux fdisk, delpart etc
> etc and every time I come to disk druid in the setup. It says that I have
> 100% free space on my 5 gig drive, but when I try to create a /boot or a /
> root drive it says there isnt enough space.
>
> Oddly enough I can create swap files (as many , or as big as I want with the
> 5 gig drive?)
>
> Why cant I make any other drives? I tried creating them with fdisk and
> converting to linux but no go.
>
> I did an Fdisk /mbr as well (just cause i ran out of things to try) but
> nothing.
>
> So I guess Linux doesnt want to go on my machine, but I am sure that there
> must be something I can do.....isnt there?
>
> Please Help!
>
> Trent (newbie)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:28:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted) wrote:
<snip>
> >> Having ruled out LILO due to the size of my hard
drive . . .
> >
<snip>
>
> The problem is too much space, not too little. Linux resides past
the
> 1024th cylinder on my 20 gig hard drive, so the version of LILO that
I have
> will not boot it. Rather than create a small /boot partition at the
The very latest versions of lilo WILL boot past the 1024-cylinder
limit. Mandrake 7.1 includes it; dunno if other distros do.
> beginning of the drive, I decided it would be far easier just to use
> loadlin for the time being. I am not exactly sure how to install a
> partition at the beginning of a drive, since it was my understanding
that
> fips does it at the end.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: loadlin setup: win98 boots despite choosing linux in menu
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:28:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted) wrote:
<snip>
> >> Having ruled out LILO due to the size of my hard
drive . . .
> >
<snip>
>
> The problem is too much space, not too little. Linux resides past
the
> 1024th cylinder on my 20 gig hard drive, so the version of LILO that
I have
> will not boot it. Rather than create a small /boot partition at the
The very latest versions of lilo WILL boot past the 1024-cylinder
limit. Mandrake 7.1 includes it; dunno if other distros do.
> beginning of the drive, I decided it would be far easier just to use
> loadlin for the time being. I am not exactly sure how to install a
> partition at the beginning of a drive, since it was my understanding
that
> fips does it at the end.
>
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Subject: Re: connecting to ISP with linux
From: acepea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:38:35 -0700
Thanks for that script. last night while i was looking at
various options in kppp i found one which passes parameters to
pppd. i included usepeerdns without the quotes. nothing
happened. is something else wrong? should i enter the script in
ip-up.d and then try?
the other problem (probably related) is that i cannot enter the
proxy server in netscape->preferences->advanced. if i enter a
non numerical address like proxy1.myisp.net it says that it is
not a valid address.
thanks a lot for all the help.
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Subject: Re: start the friggin music......
From: acepea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:05:13 -0700
"Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What happens when you run sndconfig outside X. If you haven't
>tried it yet, as per above 'shutdown kde' and run it from
your 'shell'.
>
nothing actually. i couldnt find sndconfig. is it specific to a
particular flavour of linux? i'm using suse 6.2
-Sid
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: kde tasklist
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:22:15 -0400
Well there are the very dependable "top" & "ps -e" commands. Or you
could use ktop if you're into GUI bloat.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there an applet for the KDE panel similar to Gnome Tasklist?
> (one-click switching between application) Windows has it, Gnome has it,
> how come I can't find one in KDE?
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