Linux-Misc Digest #768, Volume #26 Wed, 10 Jan 01 03:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: ppp problem with ISP ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Creative Modem Blaster external DE5625; Rockwell/Conexant chip set? (Bob Martin)
Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter (Jean-Yves Simon)
Sun/HP Gnome support (Roger Davis)
Dumping Novell for Linux (almost).. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD-RW (Donald Arseneau)
getting remote xsession to work (Steve Connet)
Re: $/.bashrc aliases question... (Phlip)
Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3). (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: glibc v2.2 update? (Bob Martin)
Re: ppp problem with ISP (Glitch)
Can Connect Can't Surf
Re: Can Connect Can't Surf (David)
Accessing NT scheduler from linux? (Ash)
Re: Wordperfect 8 (E J)
Re: Linux Help Please!!! ("Brett Castleberry")
Re: ppp problem with ISP ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: is gcc producing optimal code? (Sebastian Hans)
Re: Can Connect Can't Surf (Sebastian Hans)
Re: is gcc producing optimal code? (Wim Lauwers)
Re: CD-RW (E J)
Re: $/.bashrc aliases question... (Eric)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:59:42 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan 9 23:13:29 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
FIX!
> Jan 9 23:13:29 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
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> Jan 9 23:13:31 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> Jan 9 23:13:35 bigblue last message repeated 33 times
Peter
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Modem Blaster external DE5625; Rockwell/Conexant chip set?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:27:18 -0600
Dave wrote:
>
> Would like to know:
>
> 1 - Is it a fact the Creative Modem Blaster V90 56K DE5625 external
> (serial) has a Rockwell/Conexant chio set?
> 2 - Is it a fact serial (external) modems with Rockwell/Conexant chip sets
> are incompatible with Unix/Linux?
> 3 - Anyone ever been successful using a DE5625 to connect (ppp) to an I.S.P.?
>
An external modem will work fine, it's winmodems that cause
the problem. Check the database here...
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
--
Bob Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Yves Simon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter
Date: 10 Jan 2001 05:25:57 GMT
In article <93am5d$r3h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Unruh wrote:
: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: ]HP7200e is external
: ]CD burner which uses linux sg driver for scsi emulation. I use following
: ]modules for this
: ]bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod parport
: ]Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-17/misc/parport.o
: ]bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod paride
: I think in that case you need to use the ide-scsi interface as well to
: handle the parallel port device. cdrecord talks ONLY to scsi devices.
: Thus you must get your cdrom to be a scsi device.
What do you need to do when your burner is connected thru a pcmcia
card. I have compiled the pcmcia package (works perfectly for
my network card) but my burner (archos 4424) is not recognized.
I am getting a low/high beep at boot up and no irq is taken.
Thanks
--
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Jean-Yves SIMON Tokyo, Japan
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From: Roger Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sun/HP Gnome support
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:25:53 -1000
Does anyone here have any good inside info (especially from Sun's
point of view, as I maintain a bunch of Solaris systems) on why
Sun and HP are going to be offering Gnome desktop support soon,
but AFAIK haven't said diddly about supporting KDE? Is this a
GPL vs. Qt license issue, or were there technical reasons?
[ Just thought I'd stoke the ongoing Gnome vs. KDE flamefest a bit.
;-> ]
--
Roger Davis
University of Hawaii/SOEST
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dumping Novell for Linux (almost)..
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:30:09 GMT
Hello all,
with samba server how to map a drive letter automatically to win9x
clients??
in novel/netware i would write a login script like:
"net use G: \\samba_server\samba_folder"
can this be done in samba server directly?? if so, i want to dump
Novell alltogether in favor of Linux.
i appreciate any help.
regards
ismet
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From: Donald Arseneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW
Date: 09 Jan 2001 21:47:23 -0800
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Read http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html for background
> material.
> It involves building ide-scsi emulation into your kernel. Yeech!!! :)
> I only build linux kernels when I absolutely have to such as supporting my
> sound card.
> I found it easier to use the ide-scsi emulation modules. Here are the
> instructions.
With this and other recent postings to prompt me, I made another try
at getting cdrecord to work, and now it is!
However, the ide-scsi emulation has grabbed my ls-120 drive, and it
doesn't work:
[]$ mount /mnt/ls120
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
or too many mounted file systems
Th command "cdrecord -scanbus" reports:
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'LS-120 COSM 04' '0270' Removable Disk
0,1,0 1) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW6424E ' '1.41' Removable CD-ROM
How do I keep the ide-scsi from driving the 'MATSHITA'?
My lilo.conf contains:
append="mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi"
and in my conf.modules I put
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
By any chance would
options ide-scsi ignore=hdc
be valid?
Might it help to plug in the CD-RW as master?
Donald Arseneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: getting remote xsession to work
From: Steve Connet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:43:51 GMT
Hi,
I just got a shiny new linux box and am fairly new to it. I also have
a windows machine, and have them both networked together via 100mbit
ethernet. Works good.
I have been running x-window on the linux box.
I downloaded an x-client (not sure if that is the right terminology),
but a program like Exceed but shareware. I want to connect into my
linux box with it so that I can see the x-window and KDE and
stuff. Does that make sense? But it keeps timing out... I don't think
the linux box has the right daemon running or something. X-window is
running on the linux box though. ANy ideas?
Also, what do I need to setup on the linux box so that a remote
machine on my local network can rsh, rexec, or rlogin to it. For all
three the connection has been refused so far.
--
Steve Connet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Phlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $/.bashrc aliases question...
Date: 10 Jan 2001 05:44:38 GMT
Guy Parry's evil twin wrote:
> I have copied my bashrc file over to my Home dir and made it a
> dot file, but I *still* can't get my aliases recognised. What am I
> missing? I've played with permissions and so on. Odd.
> I'm using Mdk 7.2. Is there something unusual about this distro
> that I don't know about???
Was there already a ~/.bashrc there? You should not have copied anything:
My ~/.bashrc contains this line:
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
Try ./profile and ./bash_profile
If you re-source your rc with . does it work?
. ~/.bashrc
The best newsgroup for this question is comp.unix.shell.
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�Phlip
======= http://users.deltanet.com/~tegan/home.html =======
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3).
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:50:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:19:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Someone that has set up a system to be so fragile that they haven't
>the means to back up and recover a filesystem or two really has a much
>bigger problem than that of merely running out of disk space; they are
>running a serious risk of losing _everything_ to a power surge or a
>disk "head crash."
>
>Microsoft eventually realized that risking peoples' data by letting
>them create "compressed partitions" [ala "DoubleSpace" and such] was a
>downright awful idea; I see _no_ reason to run down that unfortunate
>road by trying to do in-place FS conversions.
One of the dumbest thing that MS did was the Desktop file.
I like to backup the Windows and all installed files ( using disk
image ) and restore the system once a month ( Windows corrupts very
easily and in subtle ways ). The problem is that everything on the
Desktop that was put there after backup disappears ( of course
the point is to backup the software and OS before they are corrupted
so backing up the partitions after the data is put there ( and the
software has been corrupted ) makes no sense.)
In NT it is possible to place the Desktop somewhere else, but it's not
Documented and very hard to figure out.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glibc v2.2 update?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:49:18 -0600
John Thompson wrote:
>
> As I have been encountering more and more programs that want
> glibc v2.2 I have been considering updating my present glibc
> v2.13 installation to v2.2. After my experience with the
> glibc2.0 => glibc2.1 debacle I am reluctant to simply jump into
> this. I'm running RH v6.1 with kernel 2.2.18 and not sure I want
> RH 7.0 yet. Has anybody here made the jump to glibc2.2 without
> installing a new distribution and survived to tell the tale? Was
> it as much a PITA as glibc2.0 => glibc2.1? Inquiring readers
> want to know...
>
Just did that today on a RH 6.1 system, no problems that I
can see yet. I'm using rpms from their rawhide site to
upgrade for the 2.4 kernel.
--
Bob Martin
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:31:10 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Jan 9 23:13:29 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
>
> FIX!
>
by doing what? I dont have ppp installed as a module, its built in to
the kernel so I shouldn't be getting those errors. A modprobe shouldn't
be performed when the code for ppp is already in the kernel. Shouldn't
pppd know that? If not, how do i tell pppd, or kppp, to not look for the
ppp module and instead use the code that was built into the kernel.
Current lines in /etc/modules.conf are:
alias ppp0 ppp
alias ppp1 ppp
I guess i'd have to recompile a kernel in order to fix that however I
already did that and teh driver for the 2.4.0-test5 kernel was called
ppp_generic.o. Do i change the alias ppp0 entry to use ppp_generic
instead of just ppp?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Connect Can't Surf
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:30:06 -0000
I can connect to my ISP at 49333 but I cannot surf the web. Everytime I
put in a URL I get the Netscape cannot find the host <url name>... I think
this happens because my ISP wants to assign its own primary and secondary
DNS IP addresses. Can anyone help me? Thank You. JH
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Connect Can't Surf
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:35:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I can connect to my ISP at 49333 but I cannot surf the web. Everytime I
> put in a URL I get the Netscape cannot find the host <url name>... I think
> this happens because my ISP wants to assign its own primary and secondary
> DNS IP addresses. Can anyone help me? Thank You. JH
You need to add the ISP's DNS IP to your /etc/resolv.conf file
search yourdomain # the domain for your system not ISP
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # primary ISP DNS
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # secondary ISP DNS
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From: Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accessing NT scheduler from linux?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:28:29 GMT
Hi. Does anybody know how to load up scheduled tasks on an nt box from
linux? From my nt workstation I can use "at \\computer _command_" to
load a task into the schedule service on a remote nt box. I would like
to be able to do this from a unix box but have not been able to work
out how.
Thanks very much in advance,
Ash.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wordperfect 8
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:59:01 GMT
Poof. Let me see if I am mindreader also. :)
Are you using RH7.0 and you can't get Wordperfect8 to work under it ? :)
Download and install libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm
from Redhat 6.2 CD on a Redhat Mirror. Wordperfect 8 should install and
run properly under RH7.0
"Frank. N. Puppenstein" wrote:
> Anyone have available a *working* tarball of Corel Wordperfect 8 ?
>
> --
> "Poof. You're a puppeteer."
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From: "Brett Castleberry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Help Please!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:53:39 +0500
In article <938181$6no$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> can anyone sidgest a verson of linux that would be easily put on an old
> box with 8 megs of ram 1.5 gig HD pentium 100mhz cpu? i have tried
> mandrake 7.0 and it failed to load onto it any advice? thanks in advance
> bye
Yes, Slackware will do, but only with the console interface. If you want
X, you need more RAM.
Brett
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:51:02 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Jan 9 23:13:29 bigblue modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
>>
>> FIX!
> by doing what? I dont have ppp installed as a module, its built in to
> the kernel so I shouldn't be getting those errors. A modprobe shouldn't
Says who. Build a kernel with ppp as a module or prove your statement
(and use it as a module anyway).
> be performed when the code for ppp is already in the kernel. Shouldn't
> pppd know that? If not, how do i tell pppd, or kppp, to not look for the
No .. it should not if it is an old version of pppd, and besides, it's
probably not pppd that's doing the asking. The kernel will load ppp.o
as a module through kmod/kerneld when ppp is not in the kernel. That
looks to be the situation.
> ppp module and instead use the code that was built into the kernel.
You use the correct version of pppd for your kernel.
> Current lines in /etc/modules.conf are:
> alias ppp0 ppp
Why. You want it OFF. You said it was built in!
> I guess i'd have to recompile a kernel in order to fix that however I
> already did that and teh driver for the 2.4.0-test5 kernel was called
> ppp_generic.o. Do i change the alias ppp0 entry to use ppp_generic
> instead of just ppp?
Why are you putting entries in conf.modules? You said that ppp was
built in. Anyway, it's clear you need a new pppd, one suited to your
kernel. You have a test kernel. Back down to a stable one. You use a
test kernel and you do your own debugging.
Peter
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: is gcc producing optimal code?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:18:56 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As I understand it, unless gcc is built as a cross-compiler, it produces
> the same type of code as it is itself. That is, if gcc package was
> compiled for 386 (Redhat), it will produce code for 386, thereby not
> taking advantage of pentium-ness.
>
> My question is: do I need to recompile gcc to make it create optimized
> code?
Hi!
Not necessarily. The man-page shows that you can at least use -m486 to
optimize for i486. There's nothing in there about Pentiums, though, at
least not on my system.
HTH
seb
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Connect Can't Surf
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:21:39 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I can connect to my ISP at 49333 but I cannot surf the web. Everytime I
> put in a URL I get the Netscape cannot find the host <url name>... I think
> this happens because my ISP wants to assign its own primary and secondary
> DNS IP addresses. Can anyone help me? Thank You. JH
Assuming you are using pppd to connect: man pppd
There is some option to receive two DNS-IPs from your ISP dynamically.
HAND
seb
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| student of comp sci \ yes is no and no is ns / will destroy itself |
\ techn univ of munich \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / in one second .. rip /
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From: Wim Lauwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: is gcc producing optimal code?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:09:21 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As I understand it, unless gcc is built as a cross-compiler, it produces
> the same type of code as it is itself. That is, if gcc package was
> compiled for 386 (Redhat), it will produce code for 386, thereby not
> taking advantage of pentium-ness.
>
> My question is: do I need to recompile gcc to make it create optimized
> code?
>
> Thank you
>
> Wroot
No, you can specify architecture flags. Read the manual at
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc_toc.html , section "Specifying Target
Machine and Compiler Version".
Wim
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:27:21 GMT
I bet that the ls120 and cd-writer have been converted to scsi emulation.
Just mount them like a scsi device and ignore them as ide in your lilo.conf and
conf.modules file
# # just guessing.
# mount /mnt/ls120 /dev/scd0 -t vfat # mount a ls120 dos floppy onto the first
scsi device
# mount /mnt/cdrom /dev/scd1 # mount the cdrom onto the second scsi device.
Donald Arseneau wrote:
> E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Read http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html for background
> > material.
> > It involves building ide-scsi emulation into your kernel. Yeech!!! :)
> > I only build linux kernels when I absolutely have to such as supporting my
> > sound card.
> > I found it easier to use the ide-scsi emulation modules. Here are the
> > instructions.
>
> With this and other recent postings to prompt me, I made another try
> at getting cdrecord to work, and now it is!
>
> However, the ide-scsi emulation has grabbed my ls-120 drive, and it
> doesn't work:
>
> []$ mount /mnt/ls120
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> Th command "cdrecord -scanbus" reports:
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'LS-120 COSM 04' '0270' Removable Disk
> 0,1,0 1) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW6424E ' '1.41' Removable CD-ROM
>
> How do I keep the ide-scsi from driving the 'MATSHITA'?
>
> My lilo.conf contains:
> append="mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi"
>
> and in my conf.modules I put
> options ide-cd ignore=hdd
>
> By any chance would
> options ide-scsi ignore=hdc
> be valid?
>
> Might it help to plug in the CD-RW as master?
>
> Donald Arseneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $/.bashrc aliases question...
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:00:22 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guy Parry wrote:
>
> I have copied my bashrc file over to my Home dir and made it a
> dot file, but I *still* can't get my aliases recognised. What am I
> missing? I've played with permissions and so on. Odd.
> I'm using Mdk 7.2. Is there something unusual about this distro
> that I don't know about???
> tia...
How do you conclude it doesn't work?
I can't tell if you're even using the correct syntax.
You may not even be using bash, for all I know!
`man bash` is your friend.
Eric
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