Linux-Setup Digest #119, Volume #19 Sun, 9 Jul 00 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
IDE CD-RW setup: RH 6.1 problem (Mike Sussman)
CDROM Unrecognized (Victor)
web-based email server (Chris Szilagyi)
MP3 TO WAV (Gotzon Berrojalbiz)
Modem init (I8 degrees)
Re: RH 6.2 installation misery (Christopher Morton)
Re: MP3 TO WAV (Jim Townsend)
partition help ("Carl R. Thorpe")
Downloading Mail from a Dialup (Concentric in my case) with Pine (Stanley W.
Rogouski)
UPS over LAN (Audiododd)
Help ("fathum")
Re: ? Corel install freezes...
Re: DVD software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (Dennis Lee Bieber)
req:ksendfax and sendfax&mgetty step by step ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't Run Programs as ROOT!! ("David M. Carney")
Please help - New modem problem (Michael Russell)
Re: Please help - New modem problem (David Efflandt)
FSTAB, accessing a windoze partition (snafulife)
Re: MP3 TO WAV (Penpal International)
Kernel Compiling (bootsect.s & boot.h) (Ross Tucker)
Re: NIC Blowout???NEWBIE ("Trent Cook")
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From: Mike Sussman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD-RW setup: RH 6.1 problem
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:20:17 GMT
I have an IDE CD-RW that I want to set up. I have recompiled the
kernel (2.20) WITH SCSI support, SCSI CD-ROM support, SCSI
generic support, and SCSI emulation support, and WITHOUT
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM support. When I try to mount the CD, just
to read it, it complains about the SCSI driver. The messages from
mount say that it knows the device is read-only (pre-recorded
CD in the tray), but it cannot mount it. I forget the exact message,
but it is the generic message about error, or too many systems
mounted, or whatever.
Thanks.
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From: Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM Unrecognized
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:28:30 GMT
After installing Linux I tried to install Windows 95 on my other
partition I am unable to CD into my CD-ROM. Somehow the drivers/device
is unrecognized.
I tried using mscdex.exe but could not get it working.
Any clues?.
Thanks!
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From: Chris Szilagyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: web-based email server
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:26:32 -0500
Anybody know of a good web-based POP mail checker (like Hotmail) for Red
Hat 6.x that is free?? I have checked out a few and I'm looking for one
that will support virtual hosts as well. Any feedback is greately
appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Chris
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From: Gotzon Berrojalbiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: MP3 TO WAV
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 15:24:26 +0200
I've just installed a Linux distribution in 486 and i have to work with
the shell, because X-WINDOW goes very slow.
So the problem is that I would like to know how to convert mp3 files
into wav, I mean, which exact comand I have to use to convert them.
THANKS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I8 degrees)
Subject: Modem init
Date: 09 Jul 2000 17:13:33 GMT
Hello, I would greatly appreciate it if I could get information on getting my
3Com USRobotics Courier V.Everything 33.6/28.8 modem working with Mandrake
Linux 7.0 running with a Pentium II 400mhz 64MB 8.4GB, 2.1GB 32x Yamaha sound
card system. I got my isp information (worldshare.net) and setting it up in
Kppp. Everything goes okay until when it tries Initilizing the modem. BUT when
I try the Kppp terminal and minicom to test the modem out, it initilizises it
just fine. Oh, and I did set the Connection Speed at the correct rate (56700).
I am relatively new to Linux... So don't make it TOO confusing :D
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From: Christopher Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 installation misery
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:01:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:29:48 -0500, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Liam Gretton wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've got a lovely new PIII 600 with oodles of memory, discs etc, and I'm
>> > trying to get RH6.2 running on it. All went well until I tried to sort out
>> > the graphics card (an ATi Rage 128).
>>
>
>This doesn't surprise me, Red Hat 6.2 recognized my Matrox Millennium
>G200 video card but didn't configure it correctly and only found 4 MB of
>the 8 MB video memory located on the card.
>R.H. 6.1 found and did a better job of configuring the video card among
>other things that don't work in 6.2.
I've got an older Matrox Millenium in my RH 6.0 server and as I
recall, in order to get it working properly I had to NOT probe for the
clock chip. When I told it not to, things went just fine.
I can't remember where those instructions are, but I definitely saw it
in b&w somewhere.
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From: Jim Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MP3 TO WAV
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:30:25 -0500
Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>
> I've just installed a Linux distribution in 486 and i have to work with
> the shell, because X-WINDOW goes very slow.
> So the problem is that I would like to know how to convert mp3 files
> into wav, I mean, which exact comand I have to use to convert them.
> THANKS
You can use mpg123 to do this.. It's a pretty good command line
utility.
$ mpg123 -w (mysong.wav) (mysong.mp3)
I added the brackets for clarity... don't use them..
Jim
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From: "Carl R. Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: partition help
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:51:36 -0500
I'm trying to set up Redhat 6.2 on an old computer I have to try and learn
it before they put linux boxes in at the lab i work at (its a University
Open access computer lab). I have a 2 gig and a 1.7gig HD in the machine.
What would be the best way to set up the partitions to give me the most room
to work with this thing. Right now I have:
on the 2 gig drive
/boot 17 megs
/ 100 megs
/usr rest of drive
on the 1.7 gig drive
96 meg swap
/home and /usr/local splitting the rest of the drive
Thanks,
Carl Thorpe
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Subject: Downloading Mail from a Dialup (Concentric in my case) with Pine
From: Stanley W. Rogouski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:23:47 -0700
Hello,
I'm having a real problem downloading my e-mail with Pine. I have
no trouble sending mail out since I'm logged into the remote
server and it doesn't ask for a password to authenticate me. But
I can't find the correct entry to make in the inbox path. I've
tried {server.com}<USERNAME> but I keep getting a statement that
the remote computer is rejecting me. I have no trouble telnetting
into port 110 and viewing my e-mail that way.
Does anybody have any pointers or any place that I kind find more
info. I've read through the on-line documentation pretty
carefully, but I can't really find enough on the proper way to
write an inbox statement. I've also tried calling Concentric's
tech support and they told me that they 've never heard of
anybody using Pine to access e-mail (hard to believe) on their
servers.
I'm sure I'm simply not configuring some text file somewhere
properly.
Thanks,
Stan Rogouski
p.s. Until I get this fixed I'm going to have to use Remarq and
spam people with stuff like the Keen.com ad below, which I hope
people ignore.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Audiododd)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: UPS over LAN
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:26:56 GMT
I am currently running 2 (soon to be 3) computers on my home LAN via a
KVM. The "server" and one of the workstations will be Linux and the
other WS will be Win98. The power here seems to go out whenever the
weather channel even MENTIONS thunderstorms. I want to get a UPS for
my computers, but don't want to spend the big bucks on a network UPS.
Is there a way to have the "server" use it's apmd to execute a script
that would tell all the computers to shut down in X minutes (I would
obviously want to save anything I'm working on if I'm at the
computer). I would think it would be easy for the 2 linux boxes, but
what about the win98.
If Win98 doesn't like shutting down remotely, what about using it as
the UPS controller and sending commands to the Linux boxes??
Thanks,
Dodd Martin
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From: "fathum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:33:42 -0700
Help i have been trying to get linux to see my network cards
but i havent been successfull
i have tried to add them to lilo
move them around in the computer (diffent slots)
but they will not come up i anyone has a suggestion please feel free.
thankx
PS I am also trying to figure out how to get a linux server to let me see my
computers
at my office throught network neiborhood from a win95 computer
(if that made any sence) if so what would be the way to do that
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ? Corel install freezes...
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:30:03 GMT
Milo Simonic wrote:
>
> Corel Linux: Got the iso image, burnt a cd, started with cd in and it
> proceeds only few steps -
>
> installing CL
> starting CL
>
> and then nothing.
>
> What's wrong? Why cannot I install it? And all the news I heard was how
> easy
> was to install Corel Linux...
>
Corel maintains that you need at least 2 Mb video ram for the GUI to
install. Practice , however, dictates that 4Mb or more are better. If you
have a motherboard with integrated video you may be able to add what you
need to the board otherwise a newer video card is in order. If you can't
make the changes above, the installation, if it succeeds at all will
default to the Debian text based distribution on which Corel Linux is
based.
> Milo
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Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: DVD software
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:34:31 GMT
"B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "H.A.J. van Niekerk" wrote:
> > does anyone know a program to play DVD in RedHat 6.1 (region 2)?
> I don't think you can. The encription scheme for DVDs isn't open
> sourced.
What?
Are you unaware of the whole DeCSS thing, or are you reserving your
use of "open source" pending the court's decision?
--
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oh, wait."
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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:41:25 -0700
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:22:51 +0100, Alex Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
declaimed the following in comp.os.linux.setup:
> Sounds like a Multia ? Small ? squareish ?
>
Hmmm, may be dangerous assumption. The Multia's at work are all
100MHz Pentium boxes. Our Alpha's were all large flat battleship-grey
boxes sitting under the monitors.
Somehow I don't think the run of the mill Linux distribution (at
least, the ones sold in Fry's, or stuffed in the backs of Linux books)
would work on a true Alpha processor. The chip set is so different you'd
need a fresh compile targeted for the processor. This is not to say that
some of the distributors don't have Alpha builds (I'm sure I saw one
mentioned on the Mandrake site), but they take some effort to obtain.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: req:ksendfax and sendfax&mgetty step by step
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:52:53 GMT
I can't seem to grasp how to set up fax programs on RH6.1 from the
man pages .Is there a simpler man page or how to that will walk a
person through the configuration stage so that I can send and receive
fax documents.
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From: "David M. Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't Run Programs as ROOT!!
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 15:12:10 -0500
Help!!!
I had a power outage and when my RH 6.1 system rebooted, I found I could
no longer run any programs as root. Any attempt to do so only results in a
segmentation fault. At the reboot, my system said it had found a bad block
or something and had repaired it.
I tried a complete reboot with no luck.
Any good ideas?
David
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From: Michael Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help - New modem problem
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 19:11:17 GMT
First off, I had this modem (USR 56k internal PNP) working great under
RH 6.1 before I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled everything. It
works perfect under Win98.
I booted to Linux, ran pnpdump, edited isapnp.conf to match my settings
in Win (IO 2f8, IRQ 7), ran isapnp isapnp.conf, message says the
hardware is set up ok. Then setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq autoconfig
${STD_FLAGS}. No errors, but when I do cat /proc/interrupts, it
doesn't show up. setserial /dev/ttyS1 shows IRQ 0 set for Com2. I
also did cat /proc/interrupts prior to setserial, and there is nothing
using IRQ 7.
If I do wvdialconf, it finds the modem, but sets it at 1200; it dials
and I can connect. If I manually set it higher, wvdial reports that
there is no modem.
Please help, this is driving me crazy...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Please help - New modem problem
Date: 9 Jul 2000 19:34:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Michael Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>First off, I had this modem (USR 56k internal PNP) working great under
>RH 6.1 before I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled everything. It
>works perfect under Win98.
>
>I booted to Linux, ran pnpdump, edited isapnp.conf to match my settings
>in Win (IO 2f8, IRQ 7), ran isapnp isapnp.conf, message says the
>hardware is set up ok. Then setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq autoconfig
>${STD_FLAGS}. No errors, but when I do cat /proc/interrupts, it
>doesn't show up. setserial /dev/ttyS1 shows IRQ 0 set for Com2. I
>also did cat /proc/interrupts prior to setserial, and there is nothing
>using IRQ 7.
The standard irq for /dev/ttyS1 is irq 3, so auto_irq will not work for
setserial, so you have to specify the irq. You could try adding the
following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x02f8 irq 7 ^auto_irq ^skip_test autoconfig
Then 'setserial -bg /dev/ttyS1' after that will tell you if everything was
set correctly.
>If I do wvdialconf, it finds the modem, but sets it at 1200; it dials
>and I can connect. If I manually set it higher, wvdial reports that
>there is no modem.
A ppp connection will be very erratic or slow, if it works at all, when
the modem is using a different irq than Linux thinks it is.
--
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Subject: FSTAB, accessing a windoze partition
From: snafulife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:33:49 -0700
I dual boot win98 and Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3 with KDE. I
recently set up access to a win partition following Using the
July 2000 edition of Linux Magazine (www.linux-mag.com).
I modified /etc/fstab with:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win vfat auto,user,rw 0 0
Then I created the /mnt/win dir. This works great with one down
side. I can only change or add files with root. I can't get it to
allow any groups or users other than that one.
If anyone can point me to what I am doing wrong I would
appreciate it. If I haven't supplied enough info to go on I
apologize, I just don't know what other info to give.
//
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From: Penpal International <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MP3 TO WAV
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:36:36 +0200
with xmms
Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>
> I've just installed a Linux distribution in 486 and i have to work with
> the shell, because X-WINDOW goes very slow.
> So the problem is that I would like to know how to convert mp3 files
> into wav, I mean, which exact comand I have to use to convert them.
> THANKS
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From: Ross Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel Compiling (bootsect.s & boot.h)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 19:50:38 GMT
My quantum HD crashed so I have installed SuSE to a new
drive and now I would like to compile in SMP and SCSI
support. The compile goes fine and then dies near (apparently)
the end. vmlinux exists in /usr/src/linux after the
failed compile and its size is about 1.5 to 1.8 MB's,
depending on choosen options (y/m/n).
I have been trying to compile a new kernel for my Abit BP6.
I am using SuSE 6.2 and have source tree's for both
2.2.10.SuSE and 2.2.16.SuSE. I have tried compiling
to zImage and bzImage and both always fail (note that
on the same system with the previous drive I had success-
fully compiled 3-4 kernels and all worked as intended).
The compile for both kernels (2.2.10 and 2.2.16) have failed at the
point shown below.
The 2.2.16 error message is identical except for the kernel version
number.
******************* Make Error Message ************************
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.10.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/include/asm/boot.h',
neededby `bootsect.s'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.10.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zImage] Error 2
************* End of Make Error Message ************************
Note that the "`bootsect.s'" text has also been printed as:
"`bbotsect.s'" when I have tried to compile to the bzImage kernel.
Note also that the ls command produces:
ls -alF /usr/src/linux/include/asm/boot.h
ls: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/boot.h: No such file or directory
and then note that the bootsect.s is found in the directory
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/
where linux is a sym-link to the appropriate directory (2.2.16.*)
currently.
============= 2000/07/09 11:51 ==================================
Ok, now I've tried over 8 times to have this thing compile. Every
time I get errors with the following being the most common error
message of them all:
******************* Make Error Message *************************
nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aU]
\)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/include/asm/boot.h',
needed by `bbootsect.s'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
************* End of Make Error Message ************************
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to circumvent this frustrating
situation??
Thanx in advance.
Ross Tucker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS:
I had another error (and it seems to be fixed now) which was:
============== 2000/07/09 09:40 ==================================
I reran make menuconfig and tried to be slightly more conservative
in my selections. I then reran the command:
time make dep clean bzImage
and then got the following error message:
******************* Make Error Message *************************
init/main.o(.data.init+0x1b4): undefined reference to `md_setup'
drivers/block/block.a(genhd.o): In function `device_setup':
genhd.o(.text.init+0xef): undefined reference to `md_setup_drive'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
************* End of Make Error Message ************************
I think that the above is a "red herring" in that it probably had
an error introduced (a dependency error) during the menuconfig
phase. I only had this error message for a short time period and then
the compile errors returned to the original one (which is illustrated
twice in the error messages above.
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From: "Trent Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIC Blowout???NEWBIE
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:01:17 GMT
Thanks for the post
I will try new NICs...It does seem odd that they both would just go on me,
but I have had exp with NE2000 just blowing up, so its possible. It try
swapping them out.
Thanks for the post man
Trent
"Rod Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ZI0a5.7292$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <hjS95.702$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Trent Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I have a linux system running. Had a VERY basic ipchains script running
> > fine, with a machine inside of the linux box. I was surfing through it
fine
> > last night at 12:00, then at 6:30 this morning I notice something died.
Odd
> > seeing as how it had only been a few hours, the machine wasnt even
rebooted,
> > let alone changed in any way at all.
> >
> > What I noticed is this error:
> > eth0: transmit timed out, status 0073, resetting
> >
> > I can ping the 127.0.0.1 address, (from local machine of course) but
cant
> > even ping either of the ip addys from the installed nics, let alone any
> > address on the internet.
>
> 127.0.0.1 is entirely independent of your Ethernet hardware. That
> address will work on any functioning Linux system, even if that system
> has no networking hardware whatsoever.
>
> > I have tried rebooting, restarting network, disabling ipchains
altogether,
> > altering ip addys and configs, etc.
> >
> > Please let me know if you have seen this happen, or if I should just
> > reinstall. Hopefully not as it is an odd error, and I would hate for it
to
> > happen again.
>
> I don't recall the exact error messages, but I had two Kingston
> KNE-100TX NICs go bad on me. A third was dead on arrival. (Kingston
> replaced the first two for free [except I paid to ship the dead ones
> back to them]. Given a 3 for 3 failure rate, I haven't bothered
> replacing the third.)
>
> Another possibility is that you've got a bum cable.
>
> > I have two different nics installed and both were working fine, now
> > everything seems to be blasted? (pcnet32 and 8390 {ne2k-pci})
> > When I lsmod both modules for the NICs are still loading up fine as
well.
>
> The fact that the modules are there doesn't mean anything; some part of
> the NIC that doesn't directly affect communications with the driver
> could be fried.
>
> A lot of NE2000 clones are pretty cheesy, I'm told. I have no personal
> experiences with NE2K-PCI devices, but I've seen a lot of derogatory
> comments about them. You may be better off replacing the board with
> something like a Tulip clone, 3Com, or Intel board.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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