Linux-Misc Digest #863, Volume #26 Sat, 20 Jan 01 01:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: What distribution seems the most popular and easy to work with? (Sinner from the
Prairy)
Re: Parallel ZIP 250 + Plextor CD-RW (Glitch)
Re: writing to ntfs from linux? (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Modem problem with 2.4.0 (Glitch)
Re: insmod problems . . . (David Efflandt)
Re: Bios upgrade in linux (Robert Heller)
Re: Looking for a solid addressbook/calendar program
Re: Xerox DocuPrint P8 (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: AVA-1502AE, Software interrupt lost (henk van der knaap)
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution seems the most popular and easy to work with?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:43:44 +0000
jt wrote:
> Okay, going to take the Linux plunge...
Welcome, then.
> I'm looking at all distribution packages, pluses and minus on all of them
> for sure.
> My main purpose is to do C development....
> What would you recommend and why?
> Appreciate you input.
> Thanks,
> jt
OK.
My opinion:
If you just want to quickly install your system and start working really
fast, I would recomend SuSE 7.0 or Mandrake 7.2. IIRC, both have the
fast-install option of "development workstation", so nearly
no-questions, 1 reboot and you're in Linux!
They are both based on RPM packages, this means RedHat compatible (yes,
there's some stuff that makes them not 100% compatible, but it's not
that bad).
You can get Mandrake 7.2 CDs (2) from the web... or buy a full box with
5 CDs and printed documentation. I like it very much. Their awesome
documentation on-line is on your CD. What I really love is the
"MandrakeUpdate", that let's you update our system (after discovery of a
security concern in sendmail, let's say) just cliking on a checkbox and
to te buton "Download and upgrade". No messing-up, no nothing. Great for
"users" that do not want to become "admins". Of course you can be a true
admin and go with vi/emacs and edit everything by hand, install in
expert mode and never use the graphical environment... It comes with KDE
2.0 final. Comes with limited USB support. Check
http://www.linux-mandrake.com , go to documentation and check
installation steps.
SuSE 7.0.... I believe that at least you can get a demo-CD that lets you
play with SuSE Linux without actually installing it. SuSE installing and
administration tool (YAST) makles things easy... but, when you advance
in your knowledge ad you want more, sometimes gets a little frustrating.
(you can disable YAST's anoying behaviours but...). Then, you can buy a
nice box with 5 CDs or a DVD and printed material. It comes with KDE
2.0-beta, so you should upgrade right away. If you have lots of USB
stuff, it's your way to go. Check http://www.suse.com and
http://www.suse.de/en/
Any one comes with development tools (rhide, Kdevelop, Glade, ... you
name them), compilers, debuggers...
Of course, this is mypersonal point of view. Any Linux distro (not
Corel, though), will work great for development.
Salut,
Sinner
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:05:28 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP 250 + Plextor CD-RW
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just got a Plextor PlexWriter 12x10x32x ATAPI CD-RW drive that I added
> to my custom built Linux box. My base install is SuSE 6.3, but it has
> several packages that have been upgraded. I recompiled 2.2.18 to include
> the SCSI CD-ROM support and disable ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM support. I already
> had SCSI emulation built in for my parallel port ZIP 250 drive. Once I
> rebooted though, I wound up with my CD-RW (and my ATAPI CD-ROM) working
> on SCSI emulation. However, my ZIP drive no longer works. I cannot mount
> /dev/sda4, it comes back with a message about the kernel not recognizing
> /dev/sda4 as a valid block device. Does anyone have any idea about what
> my problem is? Below is a copy of my dmesg output:
>
> -----BEGIN dmesg OUTPUT-----
> Linux version 2.2.18 (root@mitch) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #3 Thu Jan 11 21:37:58 CST 2001
> Detected 648748 kHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 1294.33 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 127980k/131072k available (1112k kernel code, 412k reserved,
> 1524k data, 44k init)
> Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K
> CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
> CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb480
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:00
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
> parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
> parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2]
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> lp1: using parport1 (polling).
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> es1371: version v0.22 time 21:38:52 Jan 11 2001
> es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x07
> es1371: found es1371 rev 7 at io 0xe400 irq 10
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 8 (0x08)
> es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
> es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CREATIVE CD5230E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
> imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
> imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi1 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface
> scsi : 2 hosts.
> Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD5230E Rev: 1.01
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210A Rev: 1.05
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: K.47
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> scsi : detected 3 SCSI generics 2 SCSI cdroms total.
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
> TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> PPP line discipline registered.
> PPP BSD Compression module registered
> PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13
> hda14 >
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
> Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
> /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 tag=$Name:
> build-570 $
> /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
> /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 166 (vmnet-bridge)
> /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
> /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
> bridge-eth0: peer interface eth0 not found, will wait for it to come up
> bridge-eth0: attached
> /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 177 (vmnet-netifup)
> /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
> /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
> /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 189 (vmnet-dhcpd)
> /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
> tulip.c:v0.92i 7/31/2000 Written by Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc882e000, 00:20:78:1F:35:C4, IRQ 11.
> eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 786d advertising 01e1.
> bridge-eth0: found peer eth0
> bridge-eth0: up
> VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
> ISOFS: changing to secondary root
> VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,1)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
> ISOFS: changing to secondary root
> -----END dmesg OUTPUT-----
>
Based on the following output:
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: K.47
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> scsi : detected 3 SCSI generics 2 SCSI cdroms total.
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
It looks like your Iomega zip 250 is being identified as /dev/sr1 not
/dev/sda.
Now the line:
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
doesn't really make sense but maybe Linux just doesn't identify it
right. Try mounting /dev/sr1 and see what happens as that is what Linux
is assigning to the Zip it seems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: writing to ntfs from linux?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 05:02:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:08:36 +0000, Oliver Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Chris Sorenson wrote:
>>
>> Gaiko Kyofusho wrote:
>>
>> > I was considering getting w2k (some win apps i just can't
>> > live w/o ;) but have Linux installed (slackware 7.1) w/
>> > the default kernel config. I was going to recompile my
>> > kernel for NTFS support but it has all these warning about
>> > how "dangerous" it is, i was unsure if it was referring to
>> > things like permissions on the diff FS or was it referring
>> > to things like a increased possibility of file corruption?
>> > If there are corruption issues <it is a home PC so security
>> > is not an issue> i will stick with fat32. Any input (or
>> > suggestions) would be greatly appreciated!
>> >
>>
>> One thing you can do is install Win2K (or NT-4.0) in C: and then create
>> a couple of logical drives within an extended partition and make those
>> as FAT16 or FAT32. Then you install all your Windows app's in the
>> logical drives, and place all your data files and documents there, etc.,
>> and leave the OS all by itself in C: (the OS in an NTFS partition has no
>> problem running programs that are installed in a FAT16 or FAT32
>> partion).
>>
>> You won't be able to write to the NTFS partition from Linux (no write
>> support for NTFS in Linux), but you'll be able to read it if you want to
>> (this is the "dangerous" part). But anyway, there should be no reason
>> why you'd want to access a partition that has nothing but the Windows OS
>> in it, and your logical drives in the extended partition would have full
>> read/write support from the Linux side...
>
>If you are compiling the kernel by yourself,you can get write-acces to
>ntfs,as Gaiko mentioned above.It's marked as dangerous.
>I have just used write access to ntfs partion for a short test: i could
>not delete files i had created from linux and with linux.
>I have not tried to delete the file fron NT. But I deleted NT :).
>Oli
I fail to see what's dangerous about that.
It seems to me that you've just eliminated a nasty virus.
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:09:31 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem problem with 2.4.0
Michael Heiming wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>
>
>> Hello. I want to pass this by ya'll before I report a bug.
>>
>> I upgraged to 2.4.0-test6 and my modoem works fine.
>> I am using it now. I downloaded 2.4.0, compiled it, and when I run this
>> kernal the
>> modem says that it is busy.
>>
>> I used the same configuration building 2.4.0-test6 that I use on 2.4.0.
>>
>> Is there something different in 2.4.0 than 2.4.0-test6 that I don't know
>> about?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
> Hello,
>
> before reporting a bug, have you read /Documentation/Changes and does your
> system has
> all those things, there is something about ppp if I remember...
>
> Good luck
>
> Michael Heiming
WHen I started using the final 2.4 I noticed that my modem got its ttyS
port altered. My modem went from using ttyS4 to ttyS2. Make sure your
modem is using the same ttyS before thinking its a major problem. Its
annoying but if you just make a new softlink it shouldn't have any
problems. I bet that is your problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: insmod problems . . .
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 05:09:57 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:50:58 -0500, ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>Something I've always been confused about - and I'm embarrased to say
>so, because it seems like one of the most fundamental and important
>things about linux - but I have a hard time inserting modules!! For
>instance, I'm trying to install RH, and I made the necessary network
>files for my eth0 card, and I'm trying to do an 'insmod tulip.o', but
>all I get is and '/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/tulip.o: init_module:
>Device or resource busy' error. I know I can recompile the kernel with
>tulip turned on and the rest of the network devices turned off, but
>I don't want to - as it takes too long (even on my new dual 850
>machine). What is the appropriate procedure for running this module???
You must be installing an old RH version because that kernel version has a
possible security exploit and should be replaced with 2.2.16 or newer.
If you set up the network scripts, are you sure that it is not loading
automatically during boot (what does lsmod show)? Typically all you need
is something like the following in /etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 tulip
Then use linuxconf (or netcfg in X) to set up the IP, etc.
However, you may have an irq conflict. My soundcard was using irq 10 and
my nic would not work until I changed the soundcard to something else.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bios upgrade in linux
Date: 19 Jan 2001 23:09:00 -0600
Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:53:01 -0800, wrote :
WB> Warren Bell wrote:
WB> >
WB> > I want to upgrade my bios on a machine that's just running Linux. The
WB> > MB company has the flash utility and the .bin file but the utility is an
WB> > .exe file. How do I boot to and run that to upgrade the bios under
WB> > Linux?
WB>
WB> Thanks guys. I'll try a win boot disk first then bootdisk.com if that
WB> doesn't work.
WB>
WB> One other question, would it work to boot up with a win98 boot disk,
WB> remove it, then run the disk with the bios utility? Or should I add the
WB> bios utility and update to the win98 boot disk? I think I remeber the
WB> bios page saying somthing about haveing nothing else on the disk besides
WB> the update and utility..
WB>
A Win9x boot floppy is just like a MS-DOS 6.2 boot floppy. Win9x sans
GUI IS MS-DOS 7.x. Booting from a Win9x boot floppy places you at an
A:\> prompt. You can then pop out the floppy, pop in BIOS upgrade
floppy (disk containing flash code (xxx.bin?) and flash burning program
(???.exe).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Looking for a solid addressbook/calendar program
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 05:36:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:30:12 -0000,
Apostata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any solid addressbook/calendar
programs out there for Linux?
see how you like KOrganizer.
comes with KDE but can be launched
separately.
MP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Re: Xerox DocuPrint P8
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 05:37:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:47:48 -0500, john calison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, hope someone can help with configuring a "Xerox DocuPrint P8" to
>work with 7.0 which was a 6.1 upgrade. I'll first submit relevant info
>and then submit what problem I'm encountering.
>
As a person who just bought a laser printer I can say with certainty
( because I looked at the P8 ) that you can't. The P8 is a crap
printer. It has no guts and is therefore a "WinPrinter" ( won't work
with a Mac either ). Maybe sometime in the future some one will write
a driver, but one does not exist now. Check periodically on
www.linuxprinting.org the source of all drivers.
I sugest that instead you go out and buy yourself a good printer.
For the $200 you spent on the P8 you could have bought a refurb
HP4 ( I would have bought one, but I was worried that it might
need a little work, I don't heve the time now ). Or you could add more
and buy new.
But keep this in mind, the cheapest is probably not worth it.
Take me for example. After a while I decided on a Lexmark E312.
I could have bought a E312L, but wanted Postscript which didn't
come with the E312L ( their cheapest printer ). After I bought
the E312 ( their second cheapest ) I came to realise that it came
with 2M more memory and a full cartridge ( the E312L came
with a starter cartidge approx 1200 pages vs 6000 for a full cartridge
). These alone count for the difference in cost. So I got Postscript
for free! The moral, the more you shell out the cheaper new features
become. Stay away from sheapest.
In Xerox's case the next best is the P12, but I don't think that one
works with linux either (guess that says something about Xerox ).
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AVA-1502AE, Software interrupt lost
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:46:35 +1300
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, henk van der knaap wrote:
> Dear readers,
>
> I have installed an AVA-1502AE SCSI Host Adapter card. This card works
> beautifully on my 486 computer with the following kernel, (using modules):
>
> Linux version 2.2.17pre6 (root@henk) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian
> GNU/Linux)) #4 Mon Jan 1 23:54:49 NZDT 2001
>
>
> However on my pentium I get the following distressing message (with the
> same kernel version):
>
> aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=10, SCSI ID=7,
> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
> extended translation=disabled
> aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> aha152x: IRQ 10 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> scsi : 0 hosts.
>
>
> I have seen other people reporting this problem, but nowhere I have found
> a solution. Yes, it all works under Windows95.
>
>
> Any thought would be very much appreciated.
>
Hi,
I can tell you that I solved the problem. By looking at the jumpers on the
board it quickly became clear that these installed wrongly. Someone in
the factory had simply been too lax. Set the jumpers as in the
documentation and everything is well.
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