Linux-Misc Digest #968, Volume #25 Sun, 8 Oct 00 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (Steve Yelvington)
DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc (Alexandre Binette)
Re: alsa troubles (Glitch)
Re: alsa troubles (Glitch)
Re: Linux Mail Server ("Bradley J. Bartram")
SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ("Michael Jones")
Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (David_C)
Re: Modem configuartion. (Silviu Minut)
renaming mount points (Neil Zanella)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP ("Andrew Pearce")
Re: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc (Hal Burgiss)
Re: using telnet (Dances With Crows)
another sad tale ("Ron Nicholls")
CDRW support broken in 2.2.16/17? (Peter Eddy)
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From: Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:25:35 GMT
James wrote:
> Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> dhcp...faile
> > [FAILED]
At the console, type "locate dhcpcd" and make sure you have it, probably in
/sbin. If you don't, find the dhcpcd rpm and install.
--
http://prattle.sourceforge.net/
PHP/mySQL discussion software, GPLed
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Subject: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc
From: Alexandre Binette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:40:27 GMT
Hi!
I just installed Linuxppc on my iMac DV SE, and I'm not able to install
correctly my DSL connection. It would be great if anybody could tell me all
the steps to get the DSL working!
Thank you very much,
========
A.
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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:54:24 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa troubles
[posted and mailed]
Hi Daren,
I just went back and changed the permissions on /dev/dsp* and restarted
X and I get sound now. Thanks a bunch.
I Do have another question now. After testing sound in X under root I
have found that this laptop (a P3 500, 128megs RAM) can't play MP3s very
well at all. They skip and it sounds like chinese music actually based
on what a girl commented after hearing it come from the computer. Wav
files play fine but no clue why MP3s cant play well. I've tried kmp3
and Audio Mpeg Player under KDE. Any thoughts?
Thanks
brandon
Daren Russell wrote:
>
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 06:32:01 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >hello,
> >
> >I just got my laptop back from having a hd replaced (head crash) and i'm
> >putting linux back on it. Currently I'm working on sound. I've found
> >out I can get everything but OSS emulation working under a regular user
> >and i can get everything, including OSS emulation, working under root.
> >Problem is I can't figure out why I don't get OSS emulation as a user.
> >If I startx under username , as KDE starts up, I can see log messages on
> >the console saying 'no sound device available, kaudioserver not started'
> >but i don't know why it could do it as root but not as a regular user.
> >I added rw permissions to all the audio, amixer, and amidi devices in
> >/dev but that didn't help. It's a permisions problems obviously but
> >permissions on what?
> >
> >anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >thanks
> >brandon
>
> Did you also set permissions on /dev/dsp* ?? Although I don't use kde
> this is what was causing me hassle. You can tell if it is this by
> switching back to the console you started X from (CTRL+ALT+F[1-6])
>
> It tends to throw errors several times a second (!) while initialising
> the sound device.
>
> HTH
> Daren
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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:55:01 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa troubles
[posted and mailed]
Hi Daren,
I just went back and changed the permissions on /dev/dsp* and restarted
X and I get sound now. Thanks a bunch.
I Do have another question now. After testing sound in X under root I
have found that this laptop (a P3 500, 128megs RAM) can't play MP3s very
well at all. They skip and it sounds like chinese music actually based
on what a girl commented after hearing it come from the computer. Wav
files play fine but no clue why MP3s cant play well. I've tried kmp3
and Audio Mpeg Player under KDE. Any thoughts?
Thanks
brandon
Daren Russell wrote:
>
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 06:32:01 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >hello,
> >
> >I just got my laptop back from having a hd replaced (head crash) and i'm
> >putting linux back on it. Currently I'm working on sound. I've found
> >out I can get everything but OSS emulation working under a regular user
> >and i can get everything, including OSS emulation, working under root.
> >Problem is I can't figure out why I don't get OSS emulation as a user.
> >If I startx under username , as KDE starts up, I can see log messages on
> >the console saying 'no sound device available, kaudioserver not started'
> >but i don't know why it could do it as root but not as a regular user.
> >I added rw permissions to all the audio, amixer, and amidi devices in
> >/dev but that didn't help. It's a permisions problems obviously but
> >permissions on what?
> >
> >anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >thanks
> >brandon
>
> Did you also set permissions on /dev/dsp* ?? Although I don't use kde
> this is what was causing me hassle. You can tell if it is this by
> switching back to the console you started X from (CTRL+ALT+F[1-6])
>
> It tends to throw errors several times a second (!) while initialising
> the sound device.
>
> HTH
> Daren
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From: "Bradley J. Bartram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:52:59 GMT
>From my research on the subject, which I admit is not at expert level, the
practicle limitation of a standard mtu such as sendmail or postfix is
between 65K and 75K due to the time involved in validating a user in a
conventional manner. Once you get to that point it takes too long to ind
and validate a user under default user authentication methods.
The way around that, of course, is to have your users authenticate against a
database, much the same as in a large RADIUS config. That way you have
optimized authentications and you can push, if I remember correctly, about
100-200K more users out.
Of course, at that point, if you have your mail going through one box,
you're asking for trouble. If you have more than 10K users, I would set up
a second mail server and start balancing up the load. A system that can
hadle that load is cheap, probably looking at under 3k for a beige box with
a decent raid array.
But then again who knows, I'd provide footnotes to this data, but it's late
and I'm just too lazy to dig them out. :)
Brad
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8rlehh$qkg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.networking David Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Solaris can handle a Double Long Word of users and while that is
> > platform independant, it is a large number nonetheless (a lot more than
> > 500,000 or even 5,000,000 users) the limitation is a BSD and Linux
> > limitation and not really a big problem because if you have that many
users,
> > you should invest in another machine for them anyhow.
>
> --->
>
> It's a problem. And... here's why.
>
> It is convenient in a private net to allot every user their own UID.
> That way, ownership of files over the net is maintained. Pick a simple
> way to generate a new UID -- eg. employee number. Now, my employee
> number is (say) 886192. And that would be my UID on Solaris, and
> the Unix network. Now, bring Linux into the mix. By default, Linux
> 2.0 allowed you to use NIS to log into such a network, but would
> reduce the UID modulo 65K (just take the low sixteen bits). You can
> log on, but are a different user, and file ownership is an issue!
> Linux 2.2 is a bit better?!?. IT WON'T LET YOU LOG ON. And that's a
> serious hassle.
>
> Of course, a single machine doesn't have that many users, but
> a network may well.
>
> Linux will have to grow up a bit more.
>
> Ratboy.
> Solaris Hacker/Linux User
> I don't speak for my employer.
>
> > "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Raymond Doetjes wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Uhhm neither Linux nor FreeBSD or any other Unix system can hold
500.000
> > mailboxes
> >> > and therefor users.
> >> > The password wile can only handle 64K on users. thats no 500000
users!
> >>
> >> The clients don't have to have accounts on the primary server.
> >> There are several ways to handle this, including subdomains and
> >> hash functions on the username, which assign the traffic to
> >> secondary servers.
> >>
> CUT----
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From: "Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:57:38 GMT
I posted the majority of this message to the linux.redhat.install
group and have not received any advise. I need some assist getting RH
6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 to recognize my Future Domain SCSI Card. This
is probably a very basic matter, but has me stumped. If anyone can
help I would appreciate it. I have read the HOWTOs and pertinent
sections of the O'Reilly books Running Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux
and Linux in a Nutshell. Could not find answers in any of those
sources. Here are the particulars:
I would like to add SCSI support for my Future Domain TMC 1610M.
Red Hat's web page says that I should append
fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
fdomain=0x140,10,7
But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
How do I enable this support. I tried adding that line to lilo.conf,
without any change. Boot screen still says: SCSI 0 hosts
SCSI 0 det total
Which tells me that it is just not seeing that darn card.
Anyone have any suggestions. I cannot access my Zip drive until I get
this working.
Thanks in advance for any assistance given. E-mail assistance
welcome, too.
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: 08 Oct 2000 00:06:36 -0400
"Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I posted the majority of this message to the linux.redhat.install
> group and have not received any advise. I need some assist getting RH
> 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 to recognize my Future Domain SCSI Card. This
> is probably a very basic matter, but has me stumped. If anyone can
> help I would appreciate it. I have read the HOWTOs and pertinent
> sections of the O'Reilly books Running Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux
> and Linux in a Nutshell. Could not find answers in any of those
> sources. Here are the particulars:
>
> I would like to add SCSI support for my Future Domain TMC 1610M.
>
> Red Hat's web page says that I should append
> fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
>
> fdomain=0x140,10,7
>
> But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
>
> How do I enable this support. I tried adding that line to lilo.conf,
> without any change. Boot screen still says: SCSI 0 hosts SCSI 0 det
> total
Did you run /sbin/lilo after making your change to lilo.conf?
Did you add an appropriate "alias scsi_hostadapter" line to
/etc/modules.conf? Possibly also requiring an options line with your
card's configuration.
If you need access to the card at boot time, did you make an initial RAM
disk with the driver? (Since you're using it for your Zip disk and not
your hard drive, you probably don't require this).
-- David
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem configuartion.
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 00:13:28 -0400
1) You would have been better off with an external modem.
2) You do have to learn about Linux, whether from books and howtos, or from the
newsgroups.
3) I'm getting tired of people repeating to newbies to buy themselves a real
modem.
4) Consequently, here's what you should try before you trash your isapnp modem.
If you're to lazy to read, or if it fails, then there's o way around it, buy an
external modem.
The BIOS assigns resources to the modem (I/O and IRQ), as it does with any pnp
card. Linux has some default values for these resources, which will try to use
when talking to the modem. However, the resources assigned by the modem do not
agree with what Linux expects. So it's a matter of either changing the
resources assigned to the hardware, OR, don't mess with the hardware, and tell
Linux what to use when talking to the hardware.
This being said, you get the I/O and the IRQ for the modem from Win98. Right
click on My Computer -> Device Manager ->Modem. See also what com port the
modem is on. For the sake of the argument, say the modem is on com3, irq 11,
I/O 0x03e8. Then under Linux, your modem is on /dev/ttyS2.
Then check if you have a file /etc/isapnp.conf, and if you do, make a backup,
just in case. Then make your own, by
pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf
This file contains several possible configurations for the isapnp hardware that
the system has. You need to uncomment the stanza that contains the values you
got from Win98 (the IRQ and the I/O). Read also the instructions at the
beginning of /etc/isapnp.conf.
Now you need to tell Linux what resources to use when trying to access the
modem. First make a link
ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem (use the correct tty for your system)
setserial -a /dev/modem (will show you I/O 0x03e8, irq 4;
using above values, the I/O is right, but wrong irq)
setserial /dev/modem irq 11 (again, use the correct value; man
setserial)
Similarly if you need to change the IO address. Again, man setserial.
Then run
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
To automatize this process, you need to put the setserial command in a startup
script (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.local), so that
it is executed upon boot. The isapnp command is already in a startup script.
Reboot and check using setserial that the linux will try to use the resources
you want when talking to the modem.
To see if you can talk to your modem, start xminicom at the prompt. The system
will contact the modem, and if all is well, the modem should respond promptly
with OK. You can dial a phone number if you want to have fun. If it takes too
long till you get OK, then you have a resource conflict (some other hardware is
using one of the resources assigned to the modem), or Linux is still using the
wrong resources. Double check each step above.
After you can talk to your modem, you need to configure ppp. This will be the
second part of this tutorial.
Collin Borrlewyn wrote:
> Okay, the 100% newbie here, and time for those stupid questions I promised.
>
> First a short story. I am attampting to move to Linux from (you guessed it!)
> windows. I've already made a list of what I need to move without losing
> productivity. I need a text editor, a browser, and a modem, as it turns out.
> I found quickly that I had a Winmodem, and so I went and got myself a real
> ISA plug and play modem. It didn't work by just plugging it in (not that
> that was ever likely). By the way, the Linux I have is one of the trillion
> Red Hat based ones.
>
> Anyway, to make a short story truely short, the modem didn't work. The error
> kppp gave me is "Modem busy". I went and read a chunk of a modem HOWTO, read
> through most of the documentation for isapnp and some for setserial, and
> have come to one really stunning conclusion: If I can make it work without
> learning that much detail, I want to. So, my exact question, without much
> technical detail, is: Is there any way to make the configuring of my modem
> easy enough that I do not need to devote a weekend to learning how to
> manually configure everything? And, if it's not possible, is there anything
> anyone can reccomend to get me to the details I need, and skip a few of the
> ones I'm not likely to?
>
> More information available upon request (although why anyone would invite me
> to keep talking is beyond me). I didn't include much of anything here
> because I'm ignorant enough to have no idea what would be useful.
>
> #Collin E Borrlewyn
> ##On a scale of one to ten.
> ###[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: renaming mount points
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 01:44:31 -0230
Hello,
A while ago I used to have Win98 on my /dev/hda1 which of course
used a FAT (FAT32 to be precise) file system. After booting just
a few times into Win98 I was staring to experience more and more
crashes and more and more missing .vxd files, corrupted files,
illegal operations performed by program etc... until I got really
sick of it and formatted C:. But unfortunately I still have a few
devices that need to run under Windows until support for them is
available under Linux. So I installed Win2K which has not crashed
so far and uses NTFS (no more DOS). While Linux still feels much
faster and richer with application and networking functionality
as well as support for different platforms I think that Win2K
is an improvement over Win98 although it's still a little too
slow and there's too much GUI overhead.
Anyway, back to my question. I now have a /dos mount point for
/dev/hda1 left over from Win98. /dos seems to be the conventional
and preferred name for a mount point for a FAT partition. But
now I don't have any DOS there any more and I would like to
rename my mount point /nt or something like that (any suggestions?)
but I remember last time I renamed a mount point I created some
havoc somehow. So, how can I rename /dos without messing things
up? (BTW, everything works fine except that I don't like calling
an ntfs dos when it's not).
Thanks,
Neil
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From: "Andrew Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 05:18:35 +0100
Have you put the 509 card in normal mode, ie not pnp? if not, download the
drivers from 3com and
configure it as normal network card. Turn off the Plug and Play setting.
Andrew
"James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Arg, linux newbie here with some problems setting up my cable modem with
> dhcp. I have Mandrake 7.1. I type in "netconf" which takes me to the
> network configurator. In "Basic Host Info" there is a "hostname +
> domain" entry which is set to "localhost.localdomain".
> Under the "adapter1" tab is the following info:
> net device: eth0
> kernel module: 3c509
> irq: 10
> ip: my ip
> the dhcp radio button is selected
>
> When I close out of netconf and tell is to activate changes I get an
> error. Here it is:
>
> Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> dhcp...faile
> > [FAILED]
>
> And that's that. No internet connection. I've already read a couple of
> how-to's (especially cable modem, dhcp mini-howto, and the ethernet
> howto) and they didn't help.
>
> I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509B)
>
> Any help is appreciated! Getting frustrated and wanting to switch back
> to Winblowz.
>
> James L
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:25:47 GMT
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:40:27 GMT, Alexandre Binette
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
> I just installed Linuxppc on my iMac DV SE, and I'm not able to install
>correctly my DSL connection. It would be great if anybody could tell me all
>the steps to get the DSL working!
Well, how does your ISP expect the connection? DHCP? PPPoE?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: using telnet
Date: 8 Oct 2000 04:33:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:41:01 +1000, Michael Ware wrote:
>Hello, are there any tutorial on using telnet from a windows machine
>connecting to RH6.2 machine, I will need to set up virtual hosts and server
>maintenance for my lan. For example whats the easiest way to
>open/read/write a file back to the server?
??? There should be no problem if you just fire up a good Windoze
telnet client (NOT the incredibly br0ken TELNET.EXE that ships with a
WinXX system; get something like PuTTY or SecureCRT since they support
things like color coding and decent VT100/220/Xterm emulation) and
connect to the Linux machine's hostname/IP address. SecureCRT supports
SSH connections; install sshd on your Linux box and use SecureCRT or
something similar for better security.
Setting up virtual hosts in what context, specifically? Do you want to
have several domain names pointing to a single webserver? Edit
httpd.conf. Do you want to have multiple machine names pointing to a
single machine? You may ahve to edit the DNS configuration files.
The "easiest way to open/read/write a file back to the server" generally
has nothing to do with telnet. You can configure the Linux box to share
directories via NFS or Samba; look in your distro's manual for
information on setting up Samba. I think RH 6.2 shipped with SWAT,
which makes configuring Samba fairly easy. Once Samba is set up
correctly, you can browse/fiddle with a shared directory on a LInux box
from the Nyetwork Neighborhood of a WinXX box on the same LAN. Or
there's FTP. Consult http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ and
http://linuxnewbie.org/ for more information, or ask your questions
again here once you've made them a bit more specific.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: another sad tale
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:51:54 +1000
I don't know why Sunday afternoons and crash and burns seem to go together,
sigh.
I run os/2 and RH6.2 on the FIRST hd, using lilo to boot.
Today , in os/2 , I used fdisk to create a partition on my otherwise empty
and unformated SECOND hd, then, as instructed, hit <clt-alt del> to reboot
and found that the boot stalled at the point where the lilo prompt usually
apears.
I assume that lilo has been trashed ( I really wonder how) and I need advice
on reinstalling it.
Yes, I did try the linux rescue disk, but it stalls also with kernel panic
message
"unable to mount root fs on (some number, 03:05, I think)"
Regards RonN
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW support broken in 2.2.16/17?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 00:57:34 -0400
I upgraded from RedHat 6.1 to 6.2 a while ago and haven't tried burning
CDs since, until today, I have no idea if the change in
kernels/distributions is the problem. I found that when I configure my
machine for ide-scsi emulation I'm no longer able to play audo CDs (I
have changed the /dev/cdrom symlink to /dev/sr0)
The GNOME cd player starts up and reads the CD well enough to read the
CDDB info, but when I try to play the CD it reads, "error playing
disk". Additionally, my machine has locked up twice now after burning a
few CDRWs. Any clues or pointers?
thanks,
Peter
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