Linux-Setup Digest #106, Volume #19 Fri, 7 Jul 00 16:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Determining driver for ethernet card ("David ..")
Re: kudzu,pcmcia and sound (Patrice Belleville)
Using all of memory (yes I RTFM) (Myke Morgan)
Help: How to get Modem Riser and sound card work under RH6.1 ? ("Pierre")
Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Upgrading to Mandrake 7.1 (Scott Stembaugh)
beginner's question about Redhat6.2 (Bo Yan)
problem booting up! ("EC932")
Re: Help: How to get Modem Riser and sound card work under RH6.1 ? (Edward Lee)
Re: how to change shell by root (J Bland)
Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM) (J Bland)
Re: meaning of "owner" option for mount (J Bland)
$$$$�Q�ȿ�,��J�i�F���U�ΥH�W$$$$ ("lampeberger1")
Re: meaning of "owner" option for mount (Douglas A. Taylor)
Weird behaviour of "route" ("Robichaud, Jean-Philippe [BAN:6S33:EXCH]")
Re: How do I make xscreensaver use the 3dfx hardware assist? (Wesley Wong)
Re: meaning of "owner" option for mount (J Bland)
Lilo problems booting NTFS partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO, Dual-Boot and Dell 410 (Alex MacPherson)
Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM) ("D F")
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Determining driver for ethernet card
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:58:12 -0500
Bill Heafey wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Linux and FreeBSD. I was wondering if someone could tell me
> how to obtain the name of the driver for the ethernet card on a running
> system ?
If it setup and working you can look in /etc/conf.modules for a line
like this
alias eth0 tulip
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Patrice Belleville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: kudzu,pcmcia and sound
Date: 07 Jul 2000 11:14:42 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) writes:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Darren Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have Redhat 6.1 installed on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, however when
> >booting kudzu has decided not to detect new hardware.
>
> What kind of hardware are you adding inside of a laptop?
In my case it insisted on detecting the (external) modem. I disabled kudzu
because I got tired of having it interrupt the boot process to ask me
questions when the modem was on(off) whereas it had been off(on) the last
time I'd turned the machine on :-)
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** Patrice Belleville ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (604) 822-9870
** Instructor and Departmental advisor, Department of Computer Science
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Myke Morgan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Date: 7 Jul 2000 18:19:13 GMT
I'm having trouble getting Linux to access all of my memory. I have 512mb
and it only see's 64mb.
Before you start yelling, yes I have the append = "mem-512m" line in my
lilo.conf file. But the only way I can get Linux to see all the memory is
if I enter mem=512m from the boot line. I am booting to a SCSI root disk,
and have four IDE drives.
Here's my lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout = 50
linear
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x81
default = linux
vga = normal
append = "mem=512m"
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label = linux
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label = linux-up
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
--
I proclaim you, FOUR!
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From: "Pierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: How to get Modem Riser and sound card work under RH6.1 ?
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:25:03 -0700
#1. I got a Modem Riser, which is not really a modem.
It comes with a Windows 98 driver. Does anybody knows
how to get it work under linux ?
#2.I have a built-in sound card on the motherboard.
I can get it work. The command "cat /dev/sndstat" shows that
it's a 8bit sound card. But it's really a 16bit card.
And the volume is so low that I almost can hear nothing even
if I turn the volume of the speaker to maximum.
Anybody met similar problem ?
Thanks.
Pierre.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===========================
Dept. of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:21:15 GMT
On 7 Jul 2000 18:19:13 GMT, Myke Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having trouble getting Linux to access all of my memory. I have 512mb
>and it only see's 64mb.
>
>Before you start yelling, yes I have the append = "mem-512m" line in my
>lilo.conf file. But the only way I can get Linux to see all the memory is
>if I enter mem=512m from the boot line. I am booting to a SCSI root disk,
>and have four IDE drives.
>
>Here's my lilo.conf:
remove the "append="; (change it to just "mem=512m")
try putting it in the images sections, like "mem=512m" just after the "root="
line.
>
>boot=/dev/sda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout = 50
>linear
>disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x81
>default = linux
> vga = normal
> append = "mem=512m"
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
> read-only
> root = /dev/sda1
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label = linux-up
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> read-only
> root = /dev/sda1
>
>
>
>--
>I proclaim you, FOUR!
>
--
I didn't do it! Nobody saw anything! You can't prove anything! -- bart
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From: Scott Stembaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrading to Mandrake 7.1
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:28:06 -0500
I am trying to upgrade to Mandrake 7.1 from 6.0. 6.0 is installed and
works fine. When I boot from the CD everything goes well until it
starts doing the actual install, then it complains about not enough
room. I have abt 1G partitioned for Linux. I am not able to get to the
screen to select what packages to install in order to limit what it is
going to do. At one point it actually started installing stuff but
itindicated it was going to take 8+ hours!! (k6-2/350, 32M ram)
Should I zap 6.0, repartition the drives and have another go? Any other
suggestions?
--scott
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From: Bo Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: beginner's question about Redhat6.2
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:34:31 -0400
I can't find those config files about network like
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet
there is
init.d/ rc.local* rc0.d/ rc2.d/ rc4.d/ rc6.d/
rc* rc.sysinit* rc1.d/ rc3.d/ rc5.d/
under my /etc/rc.d
where can I find the config files? My network works fine. I just want to
learn something from
the config files. Thanks.
Long
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From: "EC932" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem booting up!
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:43:23 GMT
I've install Mandrake, on my system, and i chosed the option of linux for
windows. It installed completly, but when it tries to boot up, after a
minute of booting up this MSG comes up:
" request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 "
And right before i boot up my system from start i get an error saying
" There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS file on line 4
press any key to continue.... "
Now would that be in the C:\confiq.sys or in the linux directory????
Thank you for your time.
EC932
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: How to get Modem Riser and sound card work under RH6.1 ?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 11:52:23 -0700
It would help if you post your "cat /proc/bus/pci/devices".
Pierre wrote:
> #1. I got a Modem Riser, which is not really a modem.
> It comes with a Windows 98 driver. Does anybody knows
> how to get it work under linux ?
>
> #2.I have a built-in sound card on the motherboard.
> I can get it work. The command "cat /dev/sndstat" shows that
> it's a 8bit sound card. But it's really a 16bit card.
> And the volume is so low that I almost can hear nothing even
> if I turn the volume of the speaker to maximum.
> Anybody met similar problem ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pierre.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---------------------------
> Dept. of Mathematics,
> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
> --------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: how to change shell by root
Date: 7 Jul 2000 18:54:32 GMT
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:16:44 -0400, Bo Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Where is the place "root" set up the shell for every user in Linux
>Redhat? Thank you
I would think it's in whatever utility RedHat uses for user administration
but there's a quicker way to do it.
Load /etc/passwd into an editor.
At the end of each entry for each user (including root et al) there is
something like:
:/bin/bash
This means that when a user logs in, run this program. In this case it is
the bash shell. You can change this to read /bin/tcsh, /bin/sh, /bin/ksh
depending on which shell you want to use and whether they're installed or
not. You can even make it something other than a shell (eg a small script to
say "You can't login here!" or whatever, but shell's are generally more useful
;).
But, bash is the default linux shell and there's not much point in changing
it (unless a user is used to another one already), and don't mess with
root's shell unless you're sure it works ;0).
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:02:18 GMT
>>Before you start yelling, yes I have the append = "mem-512m" line in my
>>lilo.conf file. But the only way I can get Linux to see all the memory is
>>if I enter mem=512m from the boot line. I am booting to a SCSI root disk,
>>and have four IDE drives.
>>
>>Here's my lilo.conf:
>
>remove the "append="; (change it to just "mem=512m")
>try putting it in the images sections, like "mem=512m" just after the "root="
>line.
Alternitavely, leave it exactly where it is and make that m upper case ;).
ie
append="mem=512M"
otherwise it won't work.
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: osu.sys.linux
Subject: Re: meaning of "owner" option for mount
Date: 7 Jul 2000 18:58:39 GMT
On 7 Jul 2000 15:00:20 GMT, doug reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the meaning of the "owner" option for the mount command?
>It shows up on entries for removeable media in my fstab, but
>is not mentioned in the man pages.
Are you sure it shouldn't be 'user' (ie a standard user, as well as root,
can mount the system to the specified mount point as in /etc/fstab with the
options given there)?
AFAIK there *is* no owner option, I can't find any reference to it (which I
generally take as saying it doesn't exist) in the man pages.
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas A. Taylor)
Crossposted-To: osu.sys.linux
Subject: Re: meaning of "owner" option for mount
Date: 7 Jul 2000 20:20:27 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8k4ra4$ed9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
doug reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the meaning of the "owner" option for the mount command?
>It shows up on entries for removeable media in my fstab, but
>is not mentioned in the man pages.
Well, in /usr/lib/linuxconf/help.eng/fstab/mountpoint-4.html I
find the piece of information shown below. Are you mounting your
removable media as msdos or vfat partitions? That might explain the
"owner" option.
Hope this helps.
*****
4.1 Security features
Both Ms-DOS and OS/2 are single user operating systems. Their
respective file-systems lack most of the features expected in a
multiuser operating system like Linux.
For one, there is no file ownership. It means that when a DOS hard
drive is mounted into the Linux file-system tree, files will be
available to every user on the machine.
Keep in mind that Linux is a multiuser system. It is fairly easy to
create user accounts on your system for co-workers so they can share
your CPU or system resources. It would be unpleasant to find out later
that everyone has access to every personal file you have in your DOS
partitions.
Linux offers a neat solution to this. You can logically apply an
ownership and permission flag to all files and directories on DOS
partitions. No special data is written to the partitions. It is simply
a presentation mode used by Linux.
Here are the options you can control
* Default user ID You can assign one owner to all files and
directories in the file system. The default owner is root.
* Default group ID You can assign one group to all files and
directories in the file system. The default group is root.
* Default permissions You can selectively turn on or off every one
of the nine Unix style permission bits. Permissions bits are
expressed as three groups or three bits each. Each group has the
following layout
+ Read access
+ Write access
+ Execute access
The groups are
+ Owner permission bits
+ Group permission bits
+ Other users (not the owner and not member of the group)
permission bits.
--
Doug Taylor | Nothing real can be threatened.
The Ohio State University | Nothing unreal exists.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | - A Course in Miracles
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From: "Robichaud, Jean-Philippe [BAN:6S33:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.redhat.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Weird behaviour of "route"
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:15:48 -0400
Hi, I have a Redhat 6.1 Linux distribution installed. My computer have
2 ethernet cards : eth0, eth1. Normally, my default gateway is defined
for eth0. I do an ifconfig eth0 down and "route del default". When I
do "route", it report the correct routes. If I do "route add default gw
XX.XXX.XX.XX eth1", no error are reported.
Then, If I try to ping inside the subnet address, or outside, I get
unreachable host... If I try "route" it report the correct route except
that the default gateway never apear (it just wait for ever without
doing anything). If I do a cat /proc/net/route, I see the correct
entries : a default gateway is correctly configure for eth1. What is
that ???
I have try doing this in every order, leaving time between commands so
the system have time to get "in sync" (if it needs to). Still, it just
look like I can't use my second interface...
Please help me !
Thanks.
--
Jean-Philippe Robichaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(514) 818-7750
(ESN) 888-7750
St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
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From: Wesley Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I make xscreensaver use the 3dfx hardware assist?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:30:07 GMT
I am a newbie to RH Linux and I am using Geforce. Any clue that can help me
run the thing using hardware?
thanx!
Wes
Les Hazelton wrote:
>
> Les Hazelton wrote:
> >
> > I just installed a Voodoo3 2000 card in my system. I have it working
> > for Xfree86 and have tested some 3D games like the Quake III test. What
> > I would like to do is get the xscreensaver GL hacks to use the 3dfx
> > hardware assist.
> >
> > The question is, is it possible and if so, how? I would appreciate any
> > and all suggestions and pointers on how to resolve this.
>
> Well, I wouldn't normally answer my own question, but since I solved the
> problem I thought some closure would be appropriate.
>
> After scanning DeJaNews a second time with different search criteria I
> found a thread with some pointers back to a section of the 3Dfx doc I
> had missed.
>
> It took me 2 more tries at rebuilding Mesa before I found the problem.
> I had to get the Glide SDK from 3Dfx and install that to get the *.h
> files. I also had to create some sym links to get the rpm --rebuild
> spec file to locate the header files where they were actually installed.
>
> Once Mesa was correctly compiled WITH 3dfx support I had to uninstall
> the old version, install the new one, create 2 additional sym links for
> libGL.so.3 and libGLU.so.3, and run ldconfig.
>
> Now the xscreensaver GL hacks run with hardware assist. What a
> difference! Makes all that work worth the effort.
>
> I hope these comments will save someone else some time.
>
> Les Hazelton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: osu.sys.linux
Subject: Re: meaning of "owner" option for mount
Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:30:29 GMT
>Well, in /usr/lib/linuxconf/help.eng/fstab/mountpoint-4.html I
>find the piece of information shown below. Are you mounting your
>removable media as msdos or vfat partitions? That might explain the
>"owner" option.
>
>Hope this helps.
[snip]
>
> Here are the options you can control
>
> * Default user ID You can assign one owner to all files and
> directories in the file system. The default owner is root.
> * Default group ID You can assign one group to all files and
> directories in the file system. The default group is root.
> * Default permissions You can selectively turn on or off every one
> of the nine Unix style permission bits. Permissions bits are
> expressed as three groups or three bits each. Each group has the
[snip]
These are controlled by the uid=value and gid=value options you can pass
when mounting fat partitions. As found in man mount.
I can't outright say 'owner' option doesn't exist but I'm very sure it's a
confusion somewhere with 'user'.
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lilo problems booting NTFS partition
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:28:13 GMT
I have a system running Windows NT on the primary master and I just
bought a new hard disk. I removed the NT drive and installed Linux on
the new drive. Now I want to keep Linux on hda and put the NT drive
back as the primary slave (hdb). I am having problems setting up the
lilo.conf file to transfer control to the NT boot loader on the NTFS
partition (/dev/hdb1). Any help with this would be appreciated as the
only way I can boot NT now is by switching the hard disks so the NT
drive is the primary master. Thanks.
--Wes
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Alex MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, Dual-Boot and Dell 410
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:30:34 -0400
Al Holt wrote:
> Has anyone had this same problem? I've used the technique on other
> machines, without incident.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Al
Al,
I've have a similar problem, however NT doesn't load from the NT
loader. Redhat 6.2 works fine. I've used a dos utility called
bootpart.exe and it works great. You can get it free at:
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
--
Alex MacPherson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Royal Military College of Canada
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
voice: 613-541-6000 X6450
ICQ: 55131390
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:04:39 -0400
J Bland wrote in message ...
>>>Before you start yelling, yes I have the append =
"mem-512m" line in my
>>>lilo.conf file. But the only way I can get Linux to see
all the memory is
>>>if I enter mem=512m from the boot line. I am booting to a
SCSI root disk,
>>>and have four IDE drives.
>>>
>>>Here's my lilo.conf:
>>
>>remove the "append="; (change it to just "mem=512m")
>>try putting it in the images sections, like "mem=512m"
just after the "root="
>>line.
>
>Alternitavely, leave it exactly where it is and make that m
upper case ;).
>
>ie
>
>append="mem=512M"
>
>otherwise it won't work.
>
>Frinky
As far as I know, the append= portion is required. The upper
or lower case on the M is immaterial. I'll wager that moving
that exact statement to the image section will get it
working for you. append = is an image-specific modifier, and
needs to be within the image section. Try this:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout = 50
linear
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x81
default = linux
vga = normal
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label = linux
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
append = "mem=512m"
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label = linux-up
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
append = "mem=512m"
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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