Linux-Misc Digest #488, Volume #26 Thu, 7 Dec 00 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Which driver to use (Graham Vincent)
Re: konqueror question (Stephen Cornell)
Re: Help me keep my Linux! Groupware solutions? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't use RealPlayer (Carfield Yim)
Re: Disaster recovery info (Neil Montgomery)
Backup solution at Linux (Carfield Yim)
Re: help w/ setting an environment var (Floyd Davidson)
Re: ComTrol "Hostess 550" (Grant Edwards)
Re: Another Sendmail Question (John Beardmore)
Re: Can't install LILO because boot.b missing ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: so where do you get the new realplayer? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ComTrol "Hostess 550" (Grant Edwards)
Linux hangs when you ^C a make ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux (Redhat7) just FREEZES! (jabba)
Re: Can and Can't Boot from RH 6.2 CD-ROM (Wayne Watson)
Re: Can and Can't Boot from RH 6.2 CD-ROM (Wayne Watson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Vincent)
Subject: Re: Which driver to use
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 06:54:09 GMT
In article <90keo6$dh7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>but it fails when the system is rebooting. is the compiled file
>supposed to have the extension o? (via-rhine.o) probably that's the
>problem.
The compiled file should have a .o extension on it.
>
>THanks.
>Again the file u asked 4 is @ the bottom
snip...
>Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
>Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by
>Donald Becker
>Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel:
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
>Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: NTFS version 990411
If this was the right driver I would have expected a message reporting the
card memory address, interrupt and its hardware address. As there is no
response I think that either this is the wrong driver or that the system
hasn't been told to use this module for eth0.
In /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules, depending on your system, there
should be a line that says "alias eth0 via-rhine" or whatever the module you
intend to use is. If this is OK I suggest you try some different modules. If
you provide some more data on the network card e.g. chipset, ISA or PCI, 10 or
100 Mbit I could narrow it down.
In the absence of more data try rtl8139 or ne2 or ne2k-pci. Someone else has
suggested getting the latest drivers - could be worth a try if nothing else
works.
I have a DFE-530TX+ (10/100Mbit) and it works fine with the rtl8139 module.
Good luck.
Graham
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: konqueror question
Date: 07 Dec 2000 17:22:35 +0000
> Lori Holder-Webb wrote:
>
> > I'm running a modified RH 6.1 setup and would like to try out
> > Konqueror.
It's possible to install RPM's for KDE 2 as well as KDE 1, using
rpm -i , but this simply won't work unless they have been prepared for
installation in a different directory from KDE 1 or are marked
`relocatable'; in any case, they may well try to install some scripts
(/etc/profile.d/kde.*sh being particular culprits) that will break
your KDE 1.* installation.
I'd recommend installing from source, because performance will be
better and it's a safe way of making sure that your installation
of Kde 1.* is left intact. You need to install, in this order,
(i) qt >= 2.2.1 (ii) kdesupport (iii) kdelibs (iv) kdebase. All apart
from (ii) are pretty hefty; expect the compilation to take a few
hours, even if your machine is powerful. Follow the instructions on
KDE's home page, and you shouldn't have any problems; use the --prefix
option to put KDE 2 in the right place (/opt/kde2 is sensible); you
may have to use the --with-qt-dir options to make sure the
installation finds the correct version of QT (I put mine in /opt/qt-2.2.1).
Edward M. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> you may also have to upgrade your glibc
> on RH6.1, I'm not sure. It's not a simple programme upgrade.
Well, you should have upgraded glibc at some point anyway (there was a
security advisory a few months ago). In any case, glibc 2.1.* is fine
for KDE 2.
By the way, comp.windows.x.kde is the best group to get help on KDE.
HTH,
Stephen.
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help me keep my Linux! Groupware solutions?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.misc
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:23:23 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Frater M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Even us people working at IBM are bitching about the lack of a Notes
: Client for Linux... Not that it would be a stunningly great peice of
: software by any means... heh.
I remember when I was at IBM, we were all bitching about having
to use Bloatus Notes in the first place.
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't use RealPlayer
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:29:20 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using gnome. After I download Real Player and install, it tell me
that the version is expired and need to update, but it is a fresh
download from real.com. How can I do?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Montgomery)
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery info
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:36:36 GMT
Well, it looks like there's nothing I can do, then.
Here was the sequence of events: windows95 deteriorates over a long
period of time in various ways, I get bugged to fix it, so the other
night I back up some things on the Linux side and make a boot floppy,
in anticipation of MBR problems. Then, I direct w95 to uninstall
itself, leaving me with an old win3.1 installation (w95 was an
upgrade). Then, I immediately reinstall w95. There was never a peep
about partitions or anything else from this installation.
When I tried to reboot using the boot floppy, the boot process ended
in a kernel panic.
So, I got out the SuSE 6.1 distribution CD's and disks. From these I
was able to run a "rescue" Linux from one of the CD's. Ran fdisk, and
the list of partitions only listed one DOS partition (occupying the
same amount of hda that it did before) and nothing else.
Has this happened to anyone else?
So, I'm resigned to a reinstallation, and a loss of everything I had
not backed up, unless there are any other bright ideas I get before
the weekend.
The only remaining question would be, *if* I had kept the details of
the old partitions (such as is recommended in "Running Linux"), could
I have rescued my system by hand?
Thanks,
Neil
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backup solution at Linux
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:50:24 +0800
I used to use Windows, now I change to linux.
When using Windows, I like to use a tool call disk copy to backup my
windows partition. Although it is quite expensive to do so but it worth,
and save me a lot of time from backup and restore when system have
problem. Is there are similar tool at linux? Or any other suggestion?
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help w/ setting an environment var
Date: 07 Dec 2000 08:55:32 -0900
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the response.
>
> D> The /etc/profile is not part of the tcsh or csh shells; .tcshrc
> D> does not overwrite profile, profile is summarily
> D> ignored.
>
>This does not appear to be true. I use tcsh, and after I have logged
>in and am in an X windows session, the PERL5LIB defined in
>/etc/profile is set. See the output below. I know /etc/profile is
>the source of the information because I made the changes there and
>noone else uses this system. However, this information is not
>available to my .tcshrc file when it is first executed at login.
>
>I will try your other suggestions.
>
>Thanks,
>John Hunter
>
>RHL6.2
>
>c715466-a:~> setenv | grep PERL5
>PERL5LIB=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.005:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.00503/:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
>
>c715466-a:~> cat /etc/profile | grep PERL5
>PERL5LIB=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.005:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.00503/:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
>export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE INPUTRC PERL5LIB
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH C_INCLUDE_PATH
>
>c715466-a:~> grep jdhunter /etc/passwd
>jdhunter:x:510:510:John D. Hunter:/home/jdhunter:/bin/tcsh
What happens if you do "echo $0" on the command line?
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: ComTrol "Hostess 550"
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:10:34 GMT
In article <ognm09.t9j.ln@helix>, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>> >I am looking at the ComTrol Hostess 550 8-port serial board,
>> >and for the drivers, it says that the driver is included under
>> >Linux.
>>
>> Just curious: where does it say that?
>
> I went to the "download" section, and searched for a linux driver. It
>said "note: Driver is supplied with the operating system.", or something
>close to that.
Yup, found it.
Interesting.
After asking around a little, I haven't found anybody here
who's claims to know that the Hostess works w/ Linux. Nobody
_here_ has written a driver, but it's possible that the normal
Linux serial driver will work with the Hostess 550, or that
there are patches for the Linux serial driver floating around
somewhere that make it work with the Hostess.
The 550 boards are just regular PC UARTs that share an IRQ
line, but I think there might be something slightly
non-standard about how they're set up. There's one more person
I'm going to talk to, so stay tuned.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... this must be what
at it's like to be a COLLEGE
visi.com GRADUATE!!
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Another Sendmail Question
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:39:01 +0000
In article <90m4s0$oqj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes
>You should try to use install-sendmail. I had a number of issues that
>it fixed
How's that invoked ? I can't see it on my system.
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't install LILO because boot.b missing
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:11:34 +0100
> uninstall lilo, then reinstall it. Then continue. You are using
> the best approach to dual boot Linux and NT.
That's a very personal matter,
I would prefer lilo as the main bootloader
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: so where do you get the new realplayer?
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:26:26 +0000
Douglas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --------------B322883E0FD638FBDB3E3DB6
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> So whats the deal? I cannot find realplayer anywhere? Are they pulling
> support?
Search for it on freshmeat.net
That takes you to the correct place on real's web site.
(Difficult to find by going direct to real.com)
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: ComTrol "Hostess 550"
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:41:29 GMT
In article <uoQX5.3245$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> I am looking at the ComTrol Hostess 550 8-port serial board,
>>>> and for the drivers, it says that the driver is included under
>>>> Linux.
The Hostess 550 board should work with the normal Linux serial
driver. I found one text file showing what to put in rc.local
(or wherever) to set up the Linux serial driver for a 4-port
board with defualt switch settings (this assumes that
/dev/ttyS[4-7] have been created):
======================================================================
# The commands below configure the serial driver for the defaults
# card settings (port 280 IRQ3). (The spd_hi switch is optional)
setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0x280 irq 5 spd_normal
setserial /dev/ttyS5 uart 16550A port 0x288 irq 5 spd_normal spd_hi
setserial /dev/ttyS6 uart 16550A port 0x290 irq 5 spd_normal
setserial /dev/ttyS7 uart 16550A port 0x298 irq 5 spd_normal
setserial /dev/ttyS4 set_multiport port1 0x287 mask1 0xff match1 0x00
======================================================================
I've also found a copy of the "Installation Reference Card for
Linux and the Hostess 550 Series". It describes the
configuration process in more detail and includes a description
of the dip switch settings. I've put a copy at:
<ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/stuff/6252D.pdf>
Pay attention to the orientation of the dip-switches in the
drawings -- they're not all the same.
This document used to be available somewhere on our ftp site,
but I believe that the Hostess 550 line has been obsoleted in
the US and support has been taken over by our UK division, so
it might be on their site now. Not that you would have been
able figure that out... ;)
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Let's go to CHURCH!
at
visi.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux hangs when you ^C a make
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:43:47 GMT
I'm having a strange problem. Not always, but maybe 75% of the time,
when I'm running a make on my machine and ^C it, the whole machine
hangs. And I mean really hangs. You can't ping it from the outside,
you can't even CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a new screen. Even CTRL-ALT-DELETE
doesn't work; I have to use the reset button.
My make file is doing a bunch of C compiles, followed by linking.
Any suggestions?
I'm running:
#uname -a
Linux mightyman 2.3.99-pre9 #2 Wed Oct 4 10:54:57 PDT 2000 i686 unknown
#rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/gcc -i
Name : egcs Relocations: (not
relocateable)
Version : 1.1.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 30 Build Date: Thu 17 Feb 2000
11:17:14 AM PST
Install date: Mon 02 Oct 2000 10:03:07 AM PDT Build Host:
porky.devel.redhat.com
Group : Development/Languages Source RPM:
egcs-1.1.2-30.src.rpm
Size : 3447148 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://gcc.gnu.org/
Summary : The GNU Compiler Collection.
Description :
#)rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/make -i
Name : make Relocations: /usr
Version : 3.78.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 4 Build Date: Thu 24 Feb 2000
11:32:07 AM PST
Install date: Mon 02 Oct 2000 10:07:29 AM PDT Build Host:
porky.devel.redhat.com
Group : Development/Tools Source RPM:
make-3.78.1-4.src.rpm
Size : 277895 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary : A GNU tool which simplifies the build process for users.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: jabba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Linux (Redhat7) just FREEZES!
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 23:26:33 +0300
Marek Futrega wrote:
>
> I have a problem which makes the system to freeze (stop) just like it
> would with a hardware problem, but this is not a hardware problem!
>
> I had a chat server program running on celeron400/128mb with standard
> redhat6 installation, and it used to run without stopping for weeks,
> sometimes even months (it was stopped only on system reboots, or when the
> power went off).
>
You have to install Slackware......
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From: Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can and Can't Boot from RH 6.2 CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:01:21 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, but set the first bootable device to CD-ROM. It didn't work. If I set it to HD
or floppy it works
fine. See my next post to Lee Allen for more.
DualIP wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:53:58 -0800, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I've successfully been able to boot from my RH 6.2 CD-ROM and get into rescue mode
>on one computer
> >that contains DOS, NT 4.0 and Linux. On the other computer, which contains NT 4.0
>only, no such
> >luck. On the second computer, I've tried boot up parameters for CD-ROM as first
>choice, and second
> >choice disabled for boot, but it just goes right for the hard disk every time. Any
>ideas what I'm up
> >against? Very odd. I'm pretty sure if I use first choice as a floppy, it will try
>to boot from a
> >floppy. Very odd. Yes, the CD-ROM is in when I try the boot.
>
> Check BIOS setup to set 1st bootable device.
> Only newer (couple of years) BIOSes support boot from CDROM
>
> DualIP
--
"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
Wayne T. Watson
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From: Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can and Can't Boot from RH 6.2 CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:05:18 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I tried booting from the RH boot disk, and it started asking me questions: what
language is your keyboard,
what is your language, and finally "What Type of CD-ROM do you have? SCSI or IDE" I
answered SCSI and
selected the menu for AHA-152X. A message was sprayed across the screen that said,
p/aha152x.o init
module : Device or
That's it. It ended with 'or' and began as shown. In any case, I could not proceed.
Lee Allen wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:14:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (DualIP) wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:53:58 -0800, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>I've successfully been able to boot from my RH 6.2 CD-ROM and get into rescue mode
>on one computer
> >>that contains DOS, NT 4.0 and Linux. On the other computer, which contains NT 4.0
>only, no such
> >>luck. On the second computer, I've tried boot up parameters for CD-ROM as first
>choice, and second
> >>choice disabled for boot, but it just goes right for the hard disk every time. Any
>ideas what I'm up
> >>against? Very odd. I'm pretty sure if I use first choice as a floppy, it will try
>to boot from a
> >>floppy. Very odd. Yes, the CD-ROM is in when I try the boot.
> >
> >Check BIOS setup to set 1st bootable device.
> >Only newer (couple of years) BIOSes support boot from CDROM
>
> Like *he* said.
>
> If you can't get it to boot from the CD, use the RedHat boot floppy --
> it does the same thing. I always do it with the CD in the drive, but
> now that I think of it, I don't think it even references the CD.
>
> -Lee Allen
--
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-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
Wayne T. Watson
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