Linux-Networking Digest #236, Volume #12 Sun, 15 Aug 99 19:13:38 EDT
Contents:
modules???? (Marc Ohmann)
Re: help!! lynx =--> metamail: Can't open temporary file! ("Andrew Taylor")
Re: Frame Error Woes ("James Saville")
Re: Linux newbie vs. cable modem (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: samba confusion w. Win98 ("withheld")
Re: V.34 modem setup ("withheld")
Newbie and Ethernet Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Connecting Linux to a Mac network ("Rik Osborne")
Re: (SNTP) Simple Network Time Protocol, how???? ("Yousuf Khan")
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From: Marc Ohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: modules????
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:26:01 -0500
After struggling with installling this network card for 2 days, I have
decided I need help. I have a D-Link DFE530-TX 10/100 pci card. I have
the tulip driver and the de4x5 driver. I have been trying to install
either of them as modules with no luck. modprobe never sees the card
and eth0 never shows up in dmesg. Everytime I try to "insmod tulip" I
get a message that says "device or resource busy". Thinking that
another driver was already attached to the nic I commented out every
line in /etc/conf.modules with no luck (the device still comes up
busy). I have uncommented the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for the
tulip driver. I have recompiled the kernel with module support. If I
knew how I would compile the kernel with the tulip driver installed but
I don't. Could somebody help me. If I am just one step away from
getting it to work as a module let me know. Otherwise could you tell me
how to recompile the kernel with the driver. I have about 200 pages of
kernel/ethernet/networking.... how-tos infront of me but they aren't
very clear as to what I am doing wrong!! Oh ya I am running slackware
if that makes a difference. And I have run the Slackware netconfig.
And if cross posting is frowned upon I apologize. I always see it done
but I have never seen any rules of etiquet regarding its use.
thanks in advance,
marc
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From: "Andrew Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help!! lynx =--> metamail: Can't open temporary file!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:32:55 +0100
I'm also having this problem with Mandrake 6, it's a bit of nightmare
actually because I don't run X.
Any solutions going ?
Andy
Yorkshire (just unmunge me to mail me) wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Fresh Install of Mandrake 6
>
>>[admin@helium admin]$ lynx
>>metamail: Can't open temporary file!
>
>any clues?
>what temporary file?
>where?
>
>
>Yorkshire Dave
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From: "James Saville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Frame Error Woes
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:59:20 -0500
NEVERMIND:
I turned off full-duplex via dos boot disk and card utility - restarted.
Transfer rate is 700kb/sec with minimal frame errors. I am getting
collisions and a few frame errors (5-10), but they are minor (60 for
tranferring 40MB). Guess I was being greedy trying to force full duplex,
although all my other cards are using it. I thought switches vs hubs were
supposed to STOP collisions completely, though.
James Saville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:J1Dt3.16333$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have recently installed an NE2000 ISA bus clone in an old Packard Bell
486
> running RH6.0. I have got the network working properly, but I am seeing
> slow transfers and frame errors from this machine's interface. Read the
> Ethernet How-to's and searched everywhere I know to, but not much info on
> fixing framing errors.
>
> I am using a LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 5 port workgroup switch (model
> EZXS55W) and the card having problems is a Trendware TE-16XP Plus.
>
> Dump from ifconfig:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:66:D3:FF
> inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:39755 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2328
> TX packets:26508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
>
> I have tried transfers from my linux firewall box (PCI card at 100mb) and
my
> laptop (3com PCMICA) - both yield same results. Iptraf and netwatch
provide
> no insight. The only thing I have found is the NE clones running 802.2 vs
> 802.3 but I am not sure if this is this issue and do not know how to see
> what frame type I am using or h2 change. Any point in the right direction
> would be appreciated. Thx in advance.
>
> James
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie vs. cable modem
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 17:17:02 -0500
Trancelucid wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I'm quite new to Linux, and I can't get my cable modem to work. I have
> Red Hat 6.0.. it detected my ethernet card fine, I gave it the right
> ip's, but when I open Netscape and enter a url, it says "Connect:
> Contacting Host: www.netscape.com..." and then stays there idling.
>
> Another exemple is with ping, if I do "ping www.netscape.com", it just
> idles there w/o writing anything to the screen (not even an error
> message).
>
> I read Net3-Howto, but it did'nt help me much, since I bought Linux
> Unleashed, and it has almost the same info..
>
> Thanks,
> Jaune
Jaune,
check in your home directory, in the '.netscape' subdirectory, and see
if you have a stale 'lock' file that is hanging netscape. If so, delete
it.
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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From: "withheld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba confusion w. Win98
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:10:05 +0100
see post earlier in this group referring to samba
Josh Flechtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greetings:
>
> I've set up samba on a Linux server, a Dell 450 MHz box with RH 6.0.
> 'samba status' reports smbd and nmbd as working fine. The network is an
> Ethernet (eth0, with eepro100 module). 'ifconfig eth0' reports a running
> Ethernet.
>
> However, when booting from a win98 machine I'm hitting a snag. An
> error dialog appears reading something like "Unable to authenticate
> password". Is this the encryption problem I've heard about ?
> Where do I fix it, on the server or on the local Win box ?
>
> I'm sure I'll have more problems to ask about. I'm completely new to
> this, and I'm trying to set up a network for my company. Any advice on
> setting up and testing samba will be hugely appreciated.
>
> Josh Flechtner
>
>
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From: "withheld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: V.34 modem setup
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:13:53 +0100
start with the setserial command
and look at the man pages.
i.e.
setserial /dev/modem
wenmang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, does anyone know how to set-up V.34 modem under Linux?
> Under Window95:
> Modem manufacture: Digitan (Rockwell RSS chip)
> Model: V.34 Voice W DP Plug & Play
> IRQ: 3
> I/O address: 02F8-02FF
> UART: 16550
> PC model: HP Pavilion 7125
>
> Under Linux:
> /dev/ttyS1: uart:unknown, IRQ:3, I/O:02F8
> /dev/modem a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS1
> NO conflict with other I/O addresses or IRQs
> I reset type of uart for /dev/ttyS1 to 16550 or 16550A using setserial,
> but it didn't help.
> After I launched minicom -s, and init string is the one provided by
> modem manufacture.
> Relaunched minicom, it stuck there and no "OK" is shown. Therefore I
> cannot do
> anything, any idea? Thanks!
> wenmang
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie and Ethernet Card
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:27:13 GMT
I'm trying to set a PC in my house up to act as a network server,
running Slackware 4.0. I have a D-Link Ethernet card (530TX) which
uses the rtl8139 chipset. I obtained the source code, compiled it
according to the directions in the source, and tried to add the binary
to the kernel as a module "insmod rtl8139.o". I get the error message
that "the device or resource is busy". I did a "lsmod", and the module
wasn't listed. Am I doing this incorrectly?
Using Boot Magic, the machine dual boots to Win 98 and Linux. I have
tested the card under Win98 (peer to peer gaming), and the card works
flawlessly. The machine has a 4.3GB HD (2.5GB dedicated to Linux and
its swap partition), 64 meg of RAM, a 24x cd-rom, an Ensoniq Audio PCI
sound card (not active under Linux), and a 300MHZ AMD K-6 processor,
running on an ASUS TX-97E motherboard.
COuld someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I need to do
differently?
Peace,
Joe
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From: "Rik Osborne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting Linux to a Mac network
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:34:50 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , David Crooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You haven't said which Linux distribution you're using, so advising on
> which point 'n' click GUI to use is a moot point (I assume being a Mac
> user you don't have a keyboard ;-)
Oh, I have a keyboard - it's just that I don't have to _tell_ the Mac that
it's a keyboard ;-P
Actually, I _did_ mention that I have Red Hat 5.2. I run KDE as well, simply
because it makes more sense to me than the various window managers such as
fvwm and AfterStep. I've already done what you mentioned below:
> If it's Red Hat, run the "control-panel" program as user root, and click
> on the network button. Pick the interface "eth0" and change the
> configuration protocol from "none" to "DHCP". Click "OK" and "Save"
> where it seems sensible to do so.
Except, being an interface designer on the Mac side, I find the Control
Panel too hideous to look at and so I just type 'netcfg' in an xterm. (See,
I don't have to point & click at everything *grin*)
Anyway, perhaps my mistake has been in entering the various appropriate IP
addresses into netcfg? Should I Just leave all the fields blank for now?
> From the command line, you can use "pump" or "dhcpcd" but you'll need to
> put it in the startup file /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or similar, again depends
> on the distribution)
I think this is where I'm missing something. By "put it in the startup file"
do you mean I should edit the appropriate config file, or do you mean I need
to copy a file/program into the appropriate directory? If you mean to edit a
config file, what do I type?
Thanks for the help and any further information! I really am trying to learn
something here. The Linux way of doing things is so different from the Mac
way of doing things that I'm simply having difficulty changing my mental
mode. It doesn't help that at this stage I have to use my Mac to get help
with Linux - I'll be completely focused on Linux and then have to stop and
go to my Mac to access the Web for info. Once I get this networking
functioning properly and can access the Web with Linux, I'll be able to keep
my focus on one OS at a time :-)
--
Rik Osborne
Phase 42 Productions
E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web: <http://members.xoom.com/phase42>
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From: "Yousuf Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (SNTP) Simple Network Time Protocol, how????
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:26:54 GMT
Jeff PIerce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to write a SNTP client. Ya know, request the time from a
> Naval clock.
> I have RFC-1769 and it states:
>
> " The UDP port number assigned to NTP is 123, which should be used in
> both teh Source Port and the destination Port fields in the header. "
>
> I write a client, but when i try to bind with port 123 I get a
> can't bind local address: Permission denied
> Is this because it is listed in the /et/cservices? inetd.config does not
> contain an enrty for NTP.
>
> So, how do I get it to work for bind and communicate with a ntp server??
It's probably because an NTP client already exists on your machine and is
probably already active. Why were you trying to write an NTP client, was it
just for programming curiosity?
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