Linux-Networking Digest #749, Volume #10 Mon, 5 Apr 99 06:13:46 EDT
Contents:
Linux can't boot up ("Ng, Choon Hooi")
Re: Linux can't boot up (Dang H. Nguyen)
RedHat Linux and IP Masquerading (Freddie Haddad)
diald problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Writers wanted for zine articles. (Port Lord)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Richard Pitt)
Mail redistribution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Todd Knarr)
Re: Linux in NT Domain (Heath Harry)
Re: Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card not working (Marc Hering)
Usernet dial delay (Norman de Groot)
ipmasqadm problem... (Richard Whittaker)
Re: Cable Modem Woes (Robert Gormley)
Re: netscape ldap 'Unknown error' (Keith Keller)
Re: Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card not working (Tomasz Sienicki | tsca)
Re: recursive catching of www-pages? (Esben Haabendal Soerensen)
Re: HELP! Linux as client to Wingate Proxy on W95 (Kenn Barry)
Re: Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card not working ("Grand Master")
Re: Cable Modem Woes (Marc Hering)
Re: New ISP in deep and dire with Redhat 5.2 -- NEED HELP (Stephen Carville)
Re: Compiling tulip.c (jmiller)
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From: "Ng, Choon Hooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux can't boot up
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:23:55 +0800
Hi,
I have a strange problem with my Linux 4.2 here. Hope someone can help
me out. I have a RH Linux 4.2 running on a 486-8Meg. It runs, or rather
used to run, ok, until I swapped the h/disk.
What I did was, I disconnected the h/disk (installed with 4.2 linux)
and swapped in a Win95 installed h/disk to test somehting. But, then,
after I put back the Linux h/disk, and boot up, Linux 4.2 doesnt boot up
anymore. As soon as it goes into the "LILO....", the screen shows a
whole bunch of "04 04 04 04 ....".
Anyone knows what is going on, and how can I fix that? Any info is
greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Rgds,
CH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dang H. Nguyen)
Subject: Re: Linux can't boot up
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 05:55:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Somehow you accidentally corrupted your LILO boot sector.
boot with a redhat 4.2 floppy.
Pass the argument
mount root = /dev/xdx
during boot to mount your drive then execute lilo again.
x is whatever your hard drive is on.
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:23:55 +0800, "Ng, Choon Hooi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I have a strange problem with my Linux 4.2 here. Hope someone can help
>me out. I have a RH Linux 4.2 running on a 486-8Meg. It runs, or rather
>used to run, ok, until I swapped the h/disk.
> What I did was, I disconnected the h/disk (installed with 4.2 linux)
>and swapped in a Win95 installed h/disk to test somehting. But, then,
>after I put back the Linux h/disk, and boot up, Linux 4.2 doesnt boot up
>anymore. As soon as it goes into the "LILO....", the screen shows a
>whole bunch of "04 04 04 04 ....".
> Anyone knows what is going on, and how can I fix that? Any info is
>greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Rgds,
> CH
>
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From: Freddie Haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Linux and IP Masquerading
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:54:10 -0700
I have Red Hat Linux 5.2 using kernel 2.0.36. I set up IP Masquerading
so that I can access the internet on my linux box and my Microsoft
Windows NT Workstation computer at the same time. I connect to the
internet with a US Robotics 56k modem and the two computers (my linux
box and windows nt box) are connected via 10Mbps ethernet. When I set
everything up I was unable to access the internet so I modified the file
/etc/sysconfig/network and changed "GATEWAYDEV=eth0" to
"GATEWAYDEV=ppp0" and now I am able to access the internet from both
computers. The Windows NT computer seems to receive data slower then the
linux box. Is that normal? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Freddie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: diald problems
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 22:53:17 -0400
Stephen Thomas wrote:
>
> I am having problems with diald (I think). I have it setup to do my
>
snip
> 1. When I'm not connected to the net, diald dials up my provider about every
> 20 minutes.
And your running Samba. ... named ???? Sound like the normal samba
not setup right or netbios not diabled in diald.conf
Make sure groupname and domain controler are set properley in smb.conf
Add this to diald.conf
# Do the same for netbios-ns broadcasts
# NOTE: your /etc/services file may not define the netbios services
# in which case you should comment out the next lines.
ignore tcp tcp.source=tcp.netbios-ns,tcp.dest=tcp.netbios-ns
ignore tcp tcp.source=tcp.netbios-dgm,tcp.dest=tcp.netbios-dgm
ignore tcp tcp.source=tcp.netbios-ssn,tcp.dest=tcp.netbios-ssn
# Do the same for netbios-ns broadcasts
# NOTE: your /etc/services file may not define the netbios services
# in which case you should comment out the next lines.
#accept udp 30 udp.dest=udp.netbios-ns
#accept udp 30 udp.source=udp.netbios-ns
ignore udp udp.source=udp.netbios-ns,udp.dest=udp.netbios-ns
ignore udp udp.source=udp.netbios-dgm,udp.dest=udp.netbios-dgm
ignore udp udp.source=udp.netbios-ssn,udp.dest=udp.netbios-ssn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Port Lord)
Subject: Writers wanted for zine articles.
Date: 5 Apr 1999 04:05:29 GMT
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From: Richard Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 04:38:34 GMT
Stuart Fox wrote:
>
> >
> More often the patches get put
> >into the next release and we have to pay for them!
>
> Crap - heard of a service pack????
Yup...one came with the first release I used. Problems I've had with it
took so long to resolve (time from service pack to service pack seems to
be about 6 months or so) that I gave up.
> >
> >> >>> 3. A properly configured NT box will not Blue Screen, and will be as
> >> >stable
> >> >>> as a well configured Linux box.
> >
> >Yes - as long as you don't let a user on it - because one lowly user can
> >screw up the system by clicking on "upgrade" on one lowly program.
> >
>
> Again crap
> 1. You don't let users log in to a server - they don't need to and if you
> let them, you are probably being a little stupid as an admin
OK - here I'll admit that I didn't see the word "server" in your
original post - thought you looked after 40+ user machines - should be a
little slower on the <reply> button...but my points are valid where NT
is used on the desktop - a place where MS seems to want it as much as it
wants it in the machine room.
> 2. If a user does (which you can of course restrict on NT) an ordinary user
> won't have rights to make modifications that will bring the server down e.g.
> apply a service pack, upgrade an application
> 3. Most users wouldn't be able to find out how to upgrade an NT box - they'd
> still be looking for the Word icon.
>
> >Some asshole = user
> Or a stupid admin - and there are plenty (in both MS and Linux camps). My
> motto: Trust No One
agreed.
>
> >
> >If you let them near the computer, they can/will do things simply
> >because they can, and there is nothing you can do about it except do
> >backups. Even if the system has no floppy there is still a strong
> >possiblilty that the user can/will put something into their area that
> >the system will load and subvert your careful setups.
> >
>
> So why would you let your users near a server.
I let my users even on the console. They use the systems as work
stations as well as servers in some cases.
>
> >Windows is for techies - the problem is that it doesn't have any way of
> >distinguishing a casual user from the chosen administrator. That's what
> >things like 'root' on a Unix/Linux system is for. The user should
> >_NEVER_ have access to root - or the things it can do - except through
> >carefully crafted SETUID type programs, and should never need it. The
> >problem with the Windows programming paradigm is that it has no true
> >concept of such priviledge.
>
> You obviously have no idea of NT - there is a user called "administrator" -
> you may have heard of it. Also, a group called administrators. They have a
> set of rights that users don't have...
> You may be confused with Windows 95 which is not worth defending
Seen systems subverted - picked up the pieces - you're right, it was
sloppy administration to start with - some of it as a result of the
cotton-batten that MS wraps around the system.
richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail redistribution
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 06:07:46 GMT
Hi All
I'm looking for a way to equaly redistribute mail coming to one mailbox to
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: 5 Apr 1999 03:58:50 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what exactly do your Linux boxes do when a disk controller fails -
> magically keep working?
Depends on what's on the mounted filesystems on the drives handled by
that controller. The root filesystem is usually a fatal problem ( although
I have had a system continue running after completely zeroing the root
filesystem ), the rest cause various bits of havoc but you can usually
work around the problems enough to begin repairs. Getting a filesystem on
a dead controller unmounted can be an interesting exercise, but then if
the controller's dead I don't really care about a clean unmount do I?
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From: Heath Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in NT Domain
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 06:35:08 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greg Saunders wrote:
> Hey everyone...
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a Linux box on my existing NT Domain based
> network. The advantages of gaining some much needed network space at a
> reasonable price and the potential to add some "native" Internet
> connectivity were too much to pass up even for an NT diehard like myself.
> I've setup RedHat 5.2 (surprisingly easy) with Samba on a system, and have
> things barely functional (share level acces via a guest account). My network
> is all IP, with 95/98 clients and NT Server as the PDC.
>
> Does anyone who has travelled this road before have any tips they'd like to
> share? I'd be especially interested in the following:
>
> 1. Can Linux validate users (even just for Samba) through the NT box?
>
> 2. Should I run my WINS server on NT or Linux (using RAS on NT for limited
> dialup)?
>
> 3. Does this encrypted password thing really work in Samba?
>
> 4. Is there anything which in retrospect I'm likely to feel really stupid
> about doing?
>
> Thanks for the help.
the obvious config issues for SMB networking for a linux box can be found in
the SMB-HOWTO
Regards,
Heath Harry.
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From: Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card not working
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 06:34:42 GMT
You don'thave to recompile the kernel, but it usually helps,(allthough
in your case it may not,,your kernel does not have that driver by
default,,I think it was available as a patch,,but don't quote me on
that),,you can DL the driver from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
the instructions on how to compile it are at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html
the parameters you are using are the default and it should see it
without having to use any special settings,but if you are only running
2.0.34 I HIGHLY reccomend upgrading your kernel to at LEAST 2.2.3 (this
driver started coming standard with kernel 2.0.35) if you decide to take
the plunge into 2.2.x kernel then read this handy dandy little upgrade
check sheet,,it will save you a BIG headache :)
it's at
http://www-stu.calvin.edu/~clug/users/jnieho38/goto22.html
and if this is your first time upgrading a kernel then read the How-to
at
http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
Good luck!!
Cheers
Marc
Witman Peng wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to setup my Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card on my RedHat box 5.1(kernel
> 2.0.34). Can I use the module without recompiling the kernel. How to set the
> parameters? The io address is a800 and the irq is 11. Thanks in advance.
>
> BR,
> Witman Peng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman de Groot)
Subject: Usernet dial delay
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 04:46:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using linuxconf I was able to setup for a ppp connection to my ISP.
I'm using RedHat 5.2 and have no local network. When I bring up
Usernet and click on the red button it turns yellow, but often waits
for up to several minutes (not seconds) before the dial up begins.
After dialup there is no problem with establishing the ppp connection.
Any ideas as to what might cause the delay in initiating the dialup?
The modem is a Practical Peripherals PM288MT II V.34. I have tried a
simple ATZ as the init string, as well as the factory recommended
string which is long and complicated. Either way, I get the annoying
delay BEFORE dialing begins.
Norm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Whittaker)
Subject: ipmasqadm problem...
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 07:38:35 GMT
Hi there!
I have a problem with ipmasqadm:
When I try to run it with any option I get the following:
[root@ganges /root]# /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm -?
dlopen(): File not found
[root@ganges /root]#
Has anyone run into this before?...
Thanks,
Richard
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From: Robert Gormley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Cable Modem Woes
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:04:52 +1000
Jason Lynch wrote:
> No, unfortunatly not...
>
About there, my experience runs out - I'm limited to modem and ISDN here... not
cable :(
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.obsidian.darker.net
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From: Keith Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape ldap 'Unknown error'
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 23:51:59 -0700
Hi Andrew,
You're at least the third person I know of with this
particular problem. I haven't heard of any solution
yet, but check out the OpenLDAP web site to see if
they come up with anything. It's at www.openldap.org.
Out of curiosity, what LDAP server software is the
host? If it's other than UMich/OpenLDAP, then that
points to a Netscape problem; I've only heard of the
problem with those servers.
-- Keith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Congdon wrote:
>
> I'm getting the following error when using the Netscape 4.51 on
> Linux 2.2.x when doing an addressbook match using LDAP (running
> on another Linux box):
>
> Failed to search '[directory service name]' due to LDAP error
> 'Unknown error' (0xFFFFFFFF)
>
> It doesn't seem to occur on other Unix versions nor with Windoze.
> It does occasionally work when doing address matching in email (I
> never noticed it work in 4.50) but I haven't noticed any logic to
> when it works.
>
> Anyone else got it working?
>
> --
> Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz Sienicki | tsca)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card not working
Date: 5 Apr 1999 07:51:04 GMT
Witman Peng wrote
[in <7e9ib7$3dd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]:
> I need to setup my Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card on my RedHat box
> 5.1(kernel 2.0.34). Can I use the module without recompiling the
> kernel. How to set the parameters? The io address is a800 and the
> irq is 11.
You don't need to recompile the kernel. I just got the same card a
week ago (I also have RedHat 5.1). Start with
cat /proc/pci
to see the io and irq (because you gave the io in an strange format).
In my case the ouput of the above was
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11.
I/O at 0x6200.
And put the info in /etc/conf.modules in the following way
options eth0 io=0x6200 irq=11
alias eth0 ne
Reboot the machine.
--
tsca
Tomasz Sienicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: recursive catching of www-pages?
From: Esben Haabendal Soerensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:43:28 GMT
>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Cyca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Luke> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens Hauser
Luke> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a tool which is able to download a specific www-page and
>> all of its links below (recursive) ?
Luke> For the mac there's Anarchie (www.stairways.com)
But as this _is_ a linux group why not use wget.
/bart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: HELP! Linux as client to Wingate Proxy on W95
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 06:36:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Warren Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Help!
> I have spent DAYS now trying to get this set up and operating.... I
>see that other folks running W95 based proxy servers are having
>similar problems and there HAS to be a simple answer...
There just may be. I ran Wingate with my Linux box as
one client without any problems.
>Some background:
>
>I current;y have three machines on my network:
>- a W95 box runnning Wingate that I use to connect to the internet,
>- a W95 box set up as a client to the Wingate host thru whch I have NO
>problem connecting to web pages, FTP, Telnet, mail servers, news
>servers, etc,
>- a Linux box that will talk to the other machines on the network, (I
>can Telnet to the Linux box, FTP to the Linux box, and I have Apache
>running OK) but I can't seem to get to the outside world thru my
>W95/Wingate host.
>
>I can ping the two W95 boxes from the Linux machine, but not anything
>else...
Up to here, I thought you had a complex problem I can't
solve.
>Oddly enough, I CAN Telnet to my ISP's server, but can't ping it....
Then you _can_ telnet? Now things seem clearer. I used
to use Wingate. Unless things have changed in newer versions,
it does not support "ping". Try a ping from your client W95
machine, and see if I'm not right.
Unless you have a desperate need to ping from your
Linux machine, this shouldn't matter. As long as you've
properly set up the proxies on client and server, everything
else should work on your Linux machine (email, browser, etc.).
Ignore the "ping" failure, and carry on; I bet it'll all work.
>I have a sneaking suspicion (mostly from reading messages regarding
>proxy setup problems) that the problem lies in not having the DNS
>gateway properly set up. I have tried sooo many sugestions and
>nothing seems to work...
If it's DNS, things should work using IP numbers rather
than names.
Kayembee
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From: "Grand Master" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card not working
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:02:16 +1200
There is nasty trick to these cards:
You have to enable BOTH "PCI NE2000" cards AND "NE2000 Compatible" (under
misc ISA) when you do the make config.
G
Witman Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7e9ib7$3dd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I need to setup my Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet card on my RedHat box
5.1(kernel
> 2.0.34). Can I use the module without recompiling the kernel. How to set
the
> parameters? The io address is a800 and the irq is 11. Thanks in advance.
>
> BR,
> Witman Peng
>
>
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From: Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Cable Modem Woes
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 06:43:25 GMT
First of all,,what kind of network card are you using,,if you run an
ifconfig does it show the eth0 device as configured??
since you say your network is configured properly we'll ahve to take
this one step at a time from there:)
next since you can't ping then I have to assume either one of 2 things
1) your net card is NOT set up properly
2) you have an incorrect netmask
next question, is this net card the same one that comcast gave you?
often times they will bind the cards mac address to their system and not
allow any other cards to be used
try running ifconfig and see what is there, also take a look at your
dmesg
(type dmesg |more) and see if there is an entry about the net card being
seen correctly,,
ya can email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll help ya best I
can:)
Cheers
Marc
Jason Lynch wrote:
>
> No, unfortunatly not...
>
> Robert Gormley wrote:
> >
> > JASON LYNCH wrote:
> >
> > > I've got RH 5.1 going and my ethernet card configured properly and I'm
> > > triyng to set up a cable modem. I've got Comcast@Home service and during
> > > the install of RH it asked if I wanted a static IP address which I
> > > chose. assuming my IP that Comcast @Home assigned me is 24.4.211.13 this
> > > is what I entered on the first part of the install
> > >
> > > Static IP address: 24.4.211.13
> > > Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> > > Default Gateway: 24.4.211.1
> > > Primary Nameserver 24.2.68.33
> > >
> > > the Netmask and the Default Gateway I got when I ran winipcfg and the
> > > Static IP and Primary Nameserver came on in invoice @home gave me.
> > >
> > > Now the next part is where I falter I bit. It asks for the domain name
> > > and the host name both of which I'm not sure on. on the dos prompt in
> > > Win98 I typed "tracert 24.4.211.13" i got back:
> > >
> > > Tracing route to cc240637-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.4.211.13]
> > >
> > > over a maximum of 30 hops:
> > >
> > > 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms cc240637-a.strhg1.mi.home.com
> > > [24.4.211.13]
> > >
> > > Trace complete.
> > >
> > > Now for my domain name I put in: strhg1.mi.home.com
> > > and for my host name I put in: cc240637-a.strhg1.mi.home.com
> > > I also added my secondary nameserver: 24.2.68.34
> > > I'm not sure if I did the first two fields right.
> >
> > Almost, but not quite... your host name should be "cc240637" - check the
> > files in /etc/sysconfig/network and network-scripts too for any mention...
> >
> > > Well after it boots up I pinged myself at 24.2.211.13 and it responded
> > > but it never ended. It went on and on and on. If I hadn't of killed it,
> > > I'm not sure if it would have stopped. I next tried to ping my default
> > > gateway but it failed completly. Any help, hints, suggestions would be
> > > helpful and greatly appreciated.
> > >
> >
> > Ping under unix is different to windows, it continues until you Ctrl C it,
> > unlike Windows...
> > Could you surf the net even though you couldn't ping the default GW?
> >
> > --
> > Robert Gormley
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.obsidian.darker.net
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New ISP in deep and dire with Redhat 5.2 -- NEED HELP
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 23:41:23 -0700
Gerald Barker wrote:
>
> We have a T-1 connection to the internet, a GTX router, and a
> Livingston/Lucent Portmaster 3 with 48 internal modems. We are waiting for
> two PRI's, but the T-1 is up. The router and the Portmaster are configured
> and can ping UUNET's authentication servers and each other. We have two
> Redhat 5.2 machines set up with 3com cards which cannot see or be seen. We
> are newbies in awful deep, but fighting the need to go back to NT, which is
> what we know. Advise was to run Linux and we are trying to do that--we want
> to do that very much. We have configured and reconfigured until we are wore
> out. Probably no big deal for the Linux pros out there. We thought we would
> be able to find plenty of help, but the help is too often found with to many
> "in-betweens" left out. We need to get this system up and running. If anyone
> can help we would greatly appreciate the help. We have looked into hiring
> UUNET consultants, but $2000.00 a day is awful steep.
This is not much to go on.
What does your /etc/conf.modules look like? It should have an entry
somethin like:
alias eth0 <driver name>
If not go to linuxconf -> Config -> Networking -> Basic Host Information ->
Adapter 1
Fill in the IP address, Netmask, Net Device (probably eth0), and Kernel
module. I will need to now what 3com card you have to advise what module
(driver) to use.
When you quit you will be asked to activate the new configuration. Say yes.
Now try to ping the address you assigned to eth0.
If that doesn't work. type as root
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
Some of the 3com (especially the 3c509B) cards are flakey and require a
complete restart to function.
--
Stephen Carville
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It's all right to have geniuses build systems for use by idiots, but
the path from laboratory to marketplace needs to go through the
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From: jmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling tulip.c
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 01:06:13 -0600
Donald E. Stidwell wrote:
> John Strange wrote:
> >
> > You realy need to tell us what distribution (Slackware, Redhat,..)
> > and what release (3.6, 5.2,...) so we can give more correct answers.
> >
> > Try this as root
> >
> > updatedb # runs for about a minute, logs file locations.
> > locate tulip.c # now you know where to put it.
> > cd /usr/src/linux # all compiles for kernel and modules are here
> > make modules # compiles any modules which have changed
> > make modules_install
> >
> > Matt Pokress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : I bought a Netgear FA-310-TX. The Netgear instructions on their site
> > : indicate that card revs higher than D1 (mine is a D2) need to use the
> > : included tulip driver, not the standard tulip module.
> >
> > : The disk actually has tulip.c, so all I have is the source code. How do
> > : I compile this, and when I am done where will the new driver reside?
> >
> > --
> > While Alcatel may claim ownership of all my ideas (on or off the job),
> > Alcatel does not claim any responsibility for them. Warranty expired when u
> > opened this article and I will not be responsible for its contents or use.
>
> The instructions for compiling are on the disk under the Readme/Linux
> directory. However, I never could get it to work properly, even though
> it compiled without errors. I am using the "out-of-the-box" Tulip driver
> for RH5.2 and it works fine.
>
> Don
> --
> =====================================
> Donald E. Stidwell, RM1, USN (Ret.)
> Certified Novell Administrator
> Network Technican II
> Bon Secours Hampton Roads Home Care
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I had the same issue with my tulip.c driver. Also I found that the current
release of the kernel (2.2.5) nor the driver that came with MY card as well
worked. However I did find the newest release of the tulip.c driver, which
solved my issue. Hope it solves yours... the link to the driver is at:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.c
version is 0.90
My ether card is a: Linksys Ether Fast 10/100
Compile instructions are of course at the bottom. But I think you knew that :)
Enjoy!
Jason Miller
quality9.com
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