Linux-Setup Digest #39, Volume #19 Fri, 30 Jun 00 02:13:07 EDT
Contents:
yet another LILO problem ("Dave Slutzkin")
how to set up hp 682c (rich)
cont (rich)
how to set up hp 682c (rich)
Re: File associations??? HELP!! (Joe Talerico)
Another Kernel build question (Steve Emmett)
Re: "screen" problems while using a vt320 (Matthew Miller)
Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems ("Dr. David N. Haney")
Elm date sent is way off ("Clinton Carr")
Re: "screen" problems while using a vt320 (B'ichela)
Re: Another Kernel build question (Homer Jay)
Re: Newbie needs help.... Dialup Problem with Caldera Distribution (Homer Jay)
ipchains and transparent proxy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kernel panic ("beo")
Re: Newbie needs help.... Dialup Problem with Caldera Distribution ("Lonni J.
Friedman")
usb mouse
Re: Redhat 6.2 kernel panic on boot ("Luke Bond")
xfree86 installation problems ("Luke Bond")
how to install RH 6.0 on SCSI computer? ("jacky cui")
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From: "Dave Slutzkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: yet another LILO problem
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:09:41 +1000
I'm using Red Hat 6.1.
I installed the OS and everything worked, so I set it up dual boot with NT
Loader and everything still worked correctly. Then I realised I needed the
'append "mem=128M"' line in lilo.conf and put that in, ran /sbin/lilo and
then it stopped working.
LILO on boot only gets to LIL-. What does this mean and how do I fix it?
I tried creating a new image of the bootsector of the /boot partition (where
LILO is installed) for NT-loader, and now it doesn't even get to LILO. What
is my problem?
Thanks
Dave.
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From: rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to set up hp 682c
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:26:57 -0400
is there anyone that can help me with setting up my 682c printer. demesg
i get the error that it doesn't see a device hook to the 1284 ieee
cable. i have taken out the drivers rebooted and added the drivers again
and still nothing. in the set up it finds lp0 but it still doesn't see
my printer. what am i doing wrong?
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From: rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cont
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:31:31 -0400
i'm using linux 6.1
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From: rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to set up hp 682c
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:32:42 -0400
is there anyone that can help me with setting up my 682c printer. demesg
i get the error that it doesn't see a device hook to the 1284 ieee
cable. i have taken out the drivers rebooted and added the drivers again
and still nothing. in the set up it finds lp0 but it still doesn't see
my printer. what am i doing wrong? i am using redhat 6.1
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From: Joe Talerico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,creative.linux,fa.linux.sound,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: File associations??? HELP!!
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:25:26 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Orlow wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to change an association to a file extention. I am
> getting pretty big into MP3's and when you just click on a file, it
> opens kmpg mp3 player. I would rather it open XMMS. Is there a way to
> change which file opens MP3's by default?
>
> David
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or you can just use xmms and then open it and make a playlist and just use
that...:0)
-joe
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From: Steve Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another Kernel build question
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:10:35 -0500
I've got the RH 6.2 package that provides kernel 2.2.14-5.0. As this
kernel boots "out of the box" that part of the boot process where module
dependencies are checked goes by with no errors shown. I've compiled a
new kernel AND modules. Now, when I boot with the new kernel,
everything seems to go ok except for that part of the boot process where
the module dependencies are checked. Here, about 2 pages of unresolved
label messages goes by.
Now I realize I can use just change depmod -a to depmod -q in the boot
process, but I'd like to understand why the unresolved label messages
now occur. I noticed that there is a modules-dep file in the /boot
directory and it would seem to be the original one. How does that file
get generated, and does it have anything to do with all the unresolved
label messages that get printed?
--
Steve
=========================================
Steve Emmett
=========================================
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
never returns to its original dimension"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Miller)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: "screen" problems while using a vt320
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 03:16:55 GMT
Hi Pete!!
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:02:42 GMT, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Make sure you do not run getty on /dev/cuab. Run getty on /dev/ttyS1.
>If you do not shorten ready lines on the connector, program getty
>to activate "clocal" mode. It's getty specific, so refer to your
>manual. I use agetty with -L flag:
>
>S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
That right there is the answer! I added the -L switch, restarted
init and now screen works fine. It didn't occur to me to check
getty. I'm a little wiser now.
>Use of call-up devices in Linux is deprecated.
Yep, I'm upto date on that. Well, Pete thank you so much for your
help and your quick replies. :)
Take care, Matthew
--
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be
their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."
-- James Madison
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From: "Dr. David N. Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:29:17 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had the same problem...
> On a PC with Win and Linux. I installed LILO in the MBR and Norton
> antivirus corrupted it ! Same problem, same solution...
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> Reinstall Linux (update) just to reinstall LILO. It's fast.
>
> Bye
>
> Fabrice
>
> In article <zDh65.8095$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Douglas W. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've seen the problem before too, although I won't
> > pretend to understand the root cause as well as the
> > others in this group. In my case, I had installed R.H.
> > on a drive and subsequently tried to clone another drive
> > to this one. My cloning operation was less than successful
> > at clearing the contents of the MBR. Try "fdisk /mbr"
> > using a dos bootable floppy and then giving the drive a
> > fresh install.
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Andrew P. Billyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I had a similar problem once before and it was because of the LBA
> in the
> > > BIOS. I changed the drive type from LBA to NORMAL in BIOS and
> everything
> > > worked fine. This may not be the answer, but it worked for me.
> > >
> > > Neil Koozer wrote:
> > >
> > > > "LI" means it's loading things from the wrong physical address on
> the
> > > > hard drive. The bios (at boot time) is doing something different
> with
> > > > sector adresses than what Linux does when it's running. This is
> > > > referred to as a geometry mismatch. The 'linear' option is
> designed to
> > > > fix this problem, but since you tried that, it must be due to a
> strange
> > > > logic design in the bios.
> > > >
> > > > How did you set the CHS geometry in the bios? Did you set the
> numbers
> > > > themselves or select some mode that resulted in those numbers?
> Did you
> > > > partition after setting the numbers?
> > > >
> > > > If the drive itself has LBA capability you can use the nuni boot
> loader,
> > > > which does not use the bios. It does not use the concept of
> cylinders
> > > > or geometry, so the chances are that it would work here. It can
> be
> > > > found at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
> > > >
> > > > Neil.
> > >
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I tried this with RedHat 6.1 and it takes a really long time and does not
reinstall LILO.
Any other tricks for those of us that have SCSI disks and no boot disk?
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From: "Clinton Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Elm date sent is way off
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:00:58 -0500
Mail sent using ELM 2.4 PL25 on Linux appears to be have sent on Fri
7/10/2893. Is this a problem with ELM or Sendmail? The CPU date looks
fine.
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: "screen" problems while using a vt320
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:13:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:02:42 GMT, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Make sure you do not run getty on /dev/cuab. Run getty on /dev/ttyS1.
>If you do not shorten ready lines on the connector, program getty
>to activate "clocal" mode. It's getty specific, so refer to your
>manual. I use agetty with -L flag:
I had to do that with my Rainbow 100 from Dec using the
Terminal in rom. It is simply a 3 line interface. RX/TX and ground.
BTW if you WANT to make the Linux side cable right. I wired me
as follows (basically a simple null-modem. I will lable with DB25 pin
layouts and descriptions
On the Linux side Dec Terminals
1 1 frame ground
7 7 Signal Ground
tie both 1,7 together on BOTH sides of the cable.
on the Linux side jumper 4 to 5 on the db25. that means
"I am always clear to send"
on the terminal side tie its 4 to 5 for the same reason
on the Linux side tie 6,8,20 together, same for the terminal side
these lines are
6 Data Set Ready
20 Data Terminal Ready
8 Carrier Detect
Now for the IMPORTAnt data pins
2 Transmit Data 3 Recieve Data
3 REcieve Data 2 transmit data.
Please note! you MUST have XON/Xoff set on the terminal! and possibly
use a speed of 9600 bps or less to avoid buffer overruns.
>
>S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
>
>Use of call-up devices in Linux is deprecated.
Um, Geez! I have my system as a dialup shell account system!
so I guess I cannot use remote terminals by your statement.
For this I usually use agetty or the version better oriented
torwards hayes modems (getty-ps).
I have found the following from my inittab works fine. My
terminal is plugged into a multiple COM card. change the ttyS17 to
match your needs
s4:345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -Lh 9600 ttyS17 vt102
the h flag is used as I use a full null-modem adaptor. you
can drop it if you use my wiring above.
Now on my dialup lines the following works.
#d1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400,19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS0
vt100
--
B'ichela
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From: Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Kernel build question
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:05:36 GMT
> I've got the RH 6.2 package that provides kernel 2.2.14-5.0. As this
> kernel boots "out of the box" that part of the boot process where module
> dependencies are checked goes by with no errors shown. I've compiled a
> new kernel AND modules. Now, when I boot with the new kernel,
> everything seems to go ok except for that part of the boot process where
> the module dependencies are checked. Here, about 2 pages of unresolved
> label messages goes by.
>
> Now I realize I can use just change depmod -a to depmod -q in the boot
> process, but I'd like to understand why the unresolved label messages
> now occur. I noticed that there is a modules-dep file in the /boot
> directory and it would seem to be the original one. How does that file
> get generated, and does it have anything to do with all the unresolved
> label messages that get printed?
The dep file is most likely created during the `make dep' stage of
recompiling a kernel, although I've never checked that to make sure.
Since you're using a stock kernel, it's natural it's the original one.
The unresolved messages are almost certainly due to modules in
/lib/modules not being present in the kernel. It's no big deal. You
can either erase each module manually, or `mv /lib/modules
/lib/modules.old;cd /usr/src/linux;make modules_install' to reinstall
the modules, this time only those the kernel knows about in its
current incarnation.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help.... Dialup Problem with Caldera Distribution
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:10:57 GMT
...
> I have a system running the latest Caldera distribution. It's a
> pentium 233 with 64 mg, with an internal modem on ttyS3 and a network
> card in a PCI slot which is unused right now. When I dial up my ISP
> via KPPP, I get a connection, but I am not able to get my browser to
> fetch any web pages - the addresses don't seem to be resolved.
>
> What could I be doing wrong? I am filling in the DNS addresses in
> KPPP setup - any ideas????
"Mixed answers?" Try pinging the ip address and then the hostname of your
ISPs servers. If that works, then you _know_ you are connected to you ISP.
All that remains is to get DNS working. /etc/resolv.conf is the configuration
file. Forget that kppp crap. Edit the file manually to make sure the ip
addresses of your ISPs domain servers are in there, e.g. "nameserver
x.x.x.x". That should do it. Let me know if not.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ipchains and transparent proxy
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:17:16 GMT
There are two hosts, host A is a Linux as a ipchains firewall host B is a NT,
which uses Netscape Proxy server for web caching and content filtering
now i would like to apply transparent proxy so that users don't need to
set the proxy server in their browsers
but i find that ipchains can't "redirect" port 80 request to remote host...
> ipchains -A input -p tcp -d 0.0.0.0/0 80 -j REDIRECT 8080
the command above can't "redirect" request to the proxy server on host B
Any suggestions? Provided that I can't use squid on the
firewall.....(customer's request)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "beo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: kernel panic
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:58:13 GMT
Hello all,
When I reboot my SuSE 6.2 , my computer just freeze after the message below.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks!!
*Partition check:
*request_module[block_major_8]: root fs not mounted
*VFS:cannot open root device 08:01
*Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help.... Dialup Problem with Caldera Distribution
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:49:15 -0400
Can you ping IP addresses succesfully?
Christopher Adams wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> I have gotten mixed answers to my problem, and none of them seem to
> work - I need HELP!!!!
>
> I have a system running the latest Caldera distribution. It's a
> pentium 233 with 64 mg, with an internal modem on ttyS3 and a network
> card in a PCI slot which is unused right now. When I dial up my ISP
> via KPPP, I get a connection, but I am not able to get my browser to
> fetch any web pages - the addresses don't seem to be resolved.
>
> What could I be doing wrong? I am filling in the DNS addresses in
> KPPP setup - any ideas????
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: usb mouse
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 05:30:06 GMT
i had acer aspire6400 intel pIII desktop. i installed the redhat6.2, it
is working in the console. one big problem is mouse. the mouse is usb
mouse with HID compliant and microsoft driver. in the x-window the mouse
just freezed when i start x-window. if anyone knows how to get around
with this problem. thank you in advance and really appreciate it.
my email is : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--cs
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Reply-To: "Luke Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Luke Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 kernel panic on boot
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:37:17 +1000
my guess is that you don't have a kernel that supports the Ultra DMA.
if this is the case, you need to get a kernel patch to get the driver,
recompile the kernel with some special options, and then screw around a bit
with lilo so that you can boot off it. there's a fair bit of resources on
the net about this. lookup deja.com if you're stuck.
hope this helps!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8jgn33$558$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just set up an AMD Athlon 750 MHz system, with a 20 GB Ultra DMA IDE
> hard drive, 384 MB RAM, 8 MB AGP video card (not sure of exact model),
> and a motherboard running AMI bios with Gateway's CMOS sitting on top of
> it. For those that are familiar with them and know the hardware shipped
> with them, this is a Gateway select computer.
>
> I've installed Win2000 Professional on the primary partition, which is
> approximately 6.0 GB. I then installed Red Hat Linux 6.2, making sure
> to keep the boot partition within the first 1023 cylinders.
> Installation went great! Then, when attempting to boot the linux
> configuration for the first time, I get a kernel panic, and the boot
> process hangs, permantently. I tried booting from the floopy and got
> exactly the same problem. This appears to be a problem with the kernel
> (2.2.14-5.0), and it's hardware drivers.
>
> I'll try to list some of the boot messages in more detail, but keep in
> mind that this is a screaming machine, and once the kernel's been
> unpacked, everything scrolls by so fast, I can't get all of the
> messages.
>
> (last page of boot messages before crash...copied by hand)
>
> Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
> Buffer cache has table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
> VFS: Disk quotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> L1 I Cache: 64k L1 D Cache: 64k
> L2 Cache: 256k
> CPU: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
> Enabling extended fast FPU save & restore...done
> Disabling CPU ID Serial Number...general protection fault: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c02340f4>]
> EFlags: 00010282
> eax: 00000020 ebx: 179c0f80 ecx: 00000119 edx: 00000001
> esi: 00098800 edi: c0106000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c0233fc8
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss:0018
> Process swapper (pic:0, process nr: 0, stack page=c0233000)
> Stack: c0106000 c02344e2 c02143a0...etc....etc...
> 179c0f80 c063f080 d8000000...etc....etc...
> Call Trace: [<c0106000>][<c01d7d0b>]]<c0100175>]
> Code: of 32 od 00 00 20 00 0f 306821 781dc0 e8...etc...
> Kernel panic: Attempted to keill the idel task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> Any help or advice will be very much appreciated.
>
> -Josh Rigler
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Reply-To: "Luke Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Luke Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xfree86 installation problems
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:37:34 +1000
i tried installing xfree86 4.0 from the binary .tgz files, but found that i
couldn't install rpms that need xfree86 without forcing them. so i got the
rpm's for X from rawhide and installed them they complain about needing
various things:
libcurses.so.5 (i have libncurses v5 rpm installed and don't have this file,
only libncurses.so.4), mesa >= 3.2 (which *is* installed, redhat installed
it by default) and glibc 2.2 (redhat 6.2 installed v2.1, and i can't find
v2.2 anywhere- does it exist?).
i foolishly tried forcing the rpms to install and now my system is totally
screwed. so i guess i'll start again, but first i'd like to hear how other
people went when installing it on RH6.2.
any suggestions? what am i missing?...
TIA,
-Luke
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From: "jacky cui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to install RH 6.0 on SCSI computer?
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:48:16 +0800
RH 6.0 can not find SCSI hardisk device,why ?
--
Best wish to you
Jacky
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