Linux-Setup Digest #5, Volume #19 Tue, 27 Jun 00 01:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Help with NIC installation.. ("Alaa Masoud")
Linux install #38....Still blinky video ("Tony Vining")
Cant create a partition with disk druid?? (newbie ("Trent Cook")
Lilo & memory (The Grunewalds)
Re: insmod failed? ("Devon Harding")
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (Kheng-Teong Goh)
Re: Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card ("entr0py")
Re: Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card ("entr0py")
Re: Where are WU FTP log files (Colin Watson)
Help:apache did not run perl script (Yijian Cao)
Cannot mount SCSI CDROM during installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lilo & memory (tom tang)
aha-1510 ("prosper")
How do I change the folder font color and size in terminal??? ("fimafeng")
Re: Help with NIC installation.. (Kheng-Teong Goh)
Re: Lilo & memory ("David ..")
After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started automatically,it hangs
("Mingyi Liu")
Re: After I shut down incorrectly X doesn't start ("Mingyi Liu")
Re: CD-ROM , not a block device? (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?) (Paul
Eisenberg)
SCSI Module Help (Nick)
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From: "Alaa Masoud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with NIC installation..
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:44:41 GMT
Hi,
I installed linux RedHat (6.0) two weeks ago.. and since then i have been
trying to make it recognise my NIC. i have a cable internet access, my card
is: SMC EZ Card PCI 10.. The chip is: SMC 1208. I am very new to linux, and
I have been told that my card is PNP, and they suggested me to disable the
PNP, but I really don't know how..!!! I believe I need to do something with
the IRQ and stuff.. but i have no idea how to do so.. I excuted the
ifconfig eth0.. but it doesn't seem to detect the card.. and the eth0
doesn't show in the booting..
Any help???? thanks..
Alaa
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From: "Tony Vining" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux install #38....Still blinky video
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:55:14 -0500
I have a Blinking login screen. Linux loads video device KLM or KEM or
something....THen the screen starts blinking.
How can I load Linux without loading the video device driver, since that is
the LAST thing to load. I can troubleshoot from there....
TONY
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From: "Trent Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cant create a partition with disk druid?? (newbie
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:48:25 GMT
Hi again,
I figured the best way to get out of my linux mess, was a complete fresh
install. Guess not, cause here is my problem:
I have 2 hard drives: one 13gig cut up for windows and one 5gig cut up for
linux.
The problem is that I can only create a swap partion on my 5 gig drive. I
have deleted all partitions in fdisk, disk druid, linux fdisk, delpart etc
etc and every time I come to disk druid in the setup. It says that I have
100% free space on my 5 gig drive, but when I try to create a /boot or a /
root drive it says there isnt enough space.
Oddly enough I can create swap files (as many , or as big as I want with the
5 gig drive?)
Why cant I make any other drives? I tried creating them with fdisk and
converting to linux but no go.
I did an Fdisk /mbr as well (just cause i ran out of things to try) but
nothing.
So I guess Linux doesnt want to go on my machine, but I am sure that there
must be something I can do.....isnt there?
Please Help!
Trent (newbie)
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From: The Grunewalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo & memory
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:53:54 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I thought I had read that you need to tell Lilo you have more than (64M
I think?), but I can't find it. I'm running RH 6.1 without problems, but
this is naughing at me! Am I right and how do I tell Lilo I have 128M?
Thanks,
Jim
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: insmod failed?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:02:37 -0400
Here is a copy of my "conf.modules"
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=10
alias eth1 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x320 irq=5
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
I'm using RHL62
-Devon
"Michael Molson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> are you using RH? you must alias your eth1 to
> the 3c509 module in /etc/conf.modules (modules.conf)
> file.
> ie alias eth1 3c509
>
> mike molson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Devon Harding wrote:
>
> > I'm getting "insmod eth1 failed" during boot-up, but i'm able to
manually to
> > bring up the ethernet like this:
> >
> > # insmod 3c509
> > # ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1
> >
> > How can I enable this through boot-up. The device it a 3Com 509b on
eth1
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Devon
>
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From: Kheng-Teong Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:51:33 +0800
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Hi,
Thanks for being helpful. To the question is there any reason I can't login
in as normal user? and su? It's seems that su can't do a lot of things.
The root remote login won't be enable all the time. It will be enable when
the user of that particular workstation give the permission to helpdesk to login
in as root to do havoc. So I need to write a script for this feature. I hope it
is as simple as I think.
About the ssh. where can I get it? Did it come in Red Hat 6.2 power tools cd?
It's ok. I think the web search is powerful enough.
Since in Red Hat 6.2 I an't uncomment /etc/securetty in it's /etc/login.defs. I
need to rename it to be able to login. Am I right?
Buchan Milne wrote:
> Not sure, but you might want to edit the file /etc/securetty (can't check
> now, running windows) Uncomment the line of a terminal you want to be able to
> log in from as root.
>
> Is there any reason you can't log in as a normal user and the "su" ?
>
> Buchan
>
> Kheng-Teong Goh wrote:
>
> > Kheng-Teong Goh wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How do I turn on remote root login? And how do I turn it off? Thanks in
> > > advance.
> >
> > OK. I found out how to turn on and off remote root login for Slackware.
> > BUt Red Hat 6.2 seems to be different.. Anybody knows about Red Hat 6.2?
> > Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
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From: "entr0py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:03:18 GMT
> I failed, while you succeeded at compiling an object file. I downloaded
> the compat.h file, and something to do with pci-scan, but only got three
> pages of error messages from gcc. I also used a dos2unix utility.
>
> If you could give me a cookbook explanation of what you did,
> I would be much indebted. I am new to Linux and am obviously
> missing something important. I am using Mandrake 7.0 and
> suspect that gcc can't find my source and header files.
If you just want to get it working use the tulip.o in /lib/modules/<kerner
version>/net, rather than compiling your own. The de4x5.o driver is an
alternative.
Installing the kernel source should help with header files etc.
ent.
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From: "entr0py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:10:52 GMT
> Recently bought a Linksys network card for my pc. In its retail box, I was
> instructed to download the source for the driver from
>
> FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/tulip.c
> FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/kern_compat.h
Kernel 2.3 stuff here
> 1. I downloaded them and did what was instructed (compile tulip.c with
> the required parameters and copied the binary to
> /lib/modules/2.0.XX/net/tulip.o where the XX is the version number of the
> latest kernel.
Kernel 2.0 stuff here. These different kernel versions use different library
revisions, AFAIK it aint gonna work. Your distribution should have a
pre-compiled tulip driver (locate tulip.o will find it if you are running
slocate) otherwise look in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/net.
Dont bother compiling your own driver unless you need to. If you are having
problems with tulip.o try dc4x5.o
ent.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Where are WU FTP log files
Date: 27 Jun 2000 02:05:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Where is the canonical place where the WU FTP log files are stored?
Generally /var/log/wu-ftpd, but if they aren't there then you might want
to mention what distribution you're using (as it may vary across
distributions). Log files in general are almost always in /var/log
somewhere, though.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the
peace of God is there! To worship rightly is to love each other; Each
smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer." - John Greenleaf Whittier
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Subject: Help:apache did not run perl script
From: Yijian Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:22:54 GMT
I am learning to write simple cgi scripts. I could not get it to run on my
Liunx apache. I can view web pages in /home/httpd/html directory, but I put
some perl scripts in /home/httpd/cgi-bin, every time I tried to go
http://myserver/cgi-bin/script, I got an access error message, in the error
log it like this: "GET /cgi-bin/howdy.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 534".
What is wrong and what should I do?
My system: RedHat 6.1, Apache 1.3
Thanks in advance.
Yijian at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot mount SCSI CDROM during installation
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:22:57 GMT
Hi All:
I started the PC with Debian original CD-ROM on the Toshiba SCSI drive
to install Linux.
My PC started from the CD, initialized partitions, then asked for a
media from which to create kernel and modules. I selected /dev/scd0.
The installation, however, responded with a message, �The CDROM was not
mounted successfully.� I thought the drive was mounted and that�s why
the installation program started from the drive.
Help! I don�t understand what is going on.
Debian Linux 2.2.12
SCSI ID # 0: Conner CF2107E (2.14GB)
SCSI ID # 2: Toshiba CD-ROM XM5701TA
SCSI ID # 3: HP DAT HP35470A
SCSI ID # 7: Adaptec AHA 2940AU (V1.34.2)
T.A.I.
-Hiroshi
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: Lilo & memory
From: tom tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:27:49 -0700
append a line in your /etc/lilo.conf (note: below the "root..."
append="mem=128m"
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From: "prosper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aha-1510
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:38:10 +1200
HI all, I have a adaptec aha-1510 scsi card, and redhat 6.0, and I cant get
it to work. According to redhat it isnt supported,but ive found old posts
that said it did around 4.0 who is right and if it will work how do you get
it to work as it is really getting on my nerves !!!!
thanks
Sirrab
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From: "fimafeng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I change the folder font color and size in terminal???
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:40:58 GMT
Hello:
I'm running RH 6.2 and in any of my windowed terminals
(X, Gmone...etc) when I do a LS command I see that my font for my folders is
a different color and font weight than those used for files. Where is this
controlled and how is it most easily changed??
Thanks
Chris
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From: Kheng-Teong Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with NIC installation..
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:48:38 +0800
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Do you know how to go to your mboard bios? Normally, you need to press the
"del " key at boot up. After the memory detection. Then go look for advance,
and look around for pnp os. Disable it.
Save and exit.
And if you have the correct module or driver compile into your kernel. Then
everything shall be fine.
Alaa Masoud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed linux RedHat (6.0) two weeks ago.. and since then i have been
> trying to make it recognise my NIC. i have a cable internet access, my card
> is: SMC EZ Card PCI 10.. The chip is: SMC 1208. I am very new to linux, and
> I have been told that my card is PNP, and they suggested me to disable the
> PNP, but I really don't know how..!!! I believe I need to do something with
> the IRQ and stuff.. but i have no idea how to do so.. I excuted the
> ifconfig eth0.. but it doesn't seem to detect the card.. and the eth0
> doesn't show in the booting..
> Any help???? thanks..
>
> Alaa
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo & memory
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:01:38 -0500
The Grunewalds wrote:
>
> I thought I had read that you need to tell Lilo you have more than (64M
> I think?), but I can't find it. I'm running RH 6.1 without problems, but
> this is naughing at me! Am I right and how do I tell Lilo I have 128M?
> Thanks,
> Jim
Add a line like this to lilo.conf
append="mem=128M"
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "Mingyi Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started automatically,it hangs
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:26:02 -0500
I'm using Redhat6.0. I recently shutdown linux using ctrl-alt-del and it
caused a problem: After the X started up automatically (I configured it to
do so), it hanged at grey screen and only mouse is functional. I got kind
help here and took the suggestion to use ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console, after
which I used Xconfigurator to prevent X start automatically. Then after I
log in through console and try startx, X started without any glitch (even
though my desktop now has a lot of icons that I don't remember I had
before)! However, I can never let X start automatically (it will hang there
without letting me log in), I can only log in through console and start X
later. Why is that? Is there some loadup script not working, then which one
could it be?
Thanks.
Mingyi
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From: "Mingyi Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: After I shut down incorrectly X doesn't start
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:31:14 -0500
Thanks a lot. Before I saw your mesg, I already started X successfully (by
first use Xconfigurator to stop X from starting automatically, then log in
after reboot and use startx to load X). However, it still has one annoying
glitch---I can never let X start automatically (it will hang there without
letting me log in), I can only log in through console and start X later.
Why is that? Is there some loadup script not working, then which one could
it be? Also, after I logged in, I found my desktop has more icons than I
remembered I had. A window manager change? I'll check it out later (I'm on
my win98 now).
Thanks again,
Mingyi
"Andy Kinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This will boot to runlevel 3 (text), and allow you to edit the
/etc/inittab
> file to reset the default. You can also fix your X window if it's broken.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM , not a block device?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:24:56 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> When I tried to mount CD-ROM drive, I got an error message,
> the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device. (It was able
> to mount.)
>
> What to check to correct the problem?
does your kernel support ATAPI/CDROM protocols?
Was there a CDROM in the drive?
is the ISO9660 fs supported?
just a few places to start.
--
Sanjay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer.
Press any key to reboot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eisenberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:45:00 GMT
Hey! I finally got my a modem to work and connect with my Internet
Server after using the following line
setserial /dev/ttyS2 auto_irq autoconfig
It then seems to dial fine after putting a # sign in front of auth on
the /etc/ppp/options(i think correct path). Now after I connect and
it logs in I am unable to use Netscape, telnet, or anything else. It
seems like I'm not connected at all. I tried pinging, telnet, etc,
etc, on many sites. I also used another account besides root since I
read Corel disables Internet browsing with the root account. Any help
would be great. I also am curious as how to make the setserial line
above load up every time? I think I edit the /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
but I'm not sure if that is correct, and what to edit. Any help would
be great! Thanks! Take Care. Paul
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From: Nick <buronf*nospam*@clarkson.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: SCSI Module Help
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:03:40 GMT
I am trying to setup RedHat 6.2 on a system, 486DX4-100, 24MB memory.. I
have a 3com NIC, a symbios IDE/FDC Card, a Cirrus Logic VGA Card and an
Adaptec AVA-1505 SCSI card.
I am trying to do a network install and when I try to add the module for
the scsi card (aha152x) It doesn't work. However when I try to specify
the module parameters. aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1. I get a kernel panic that
says interrupt handlers - not syncing. I have tried all the IRQ's on the
card (it's jumpered) 09,10,11,12. And none seem to make any difference.
RHat says the card is supported. Maybe there is something I am missing.
Thanks very much for your help.
--Nick
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