Linux-Setup Digest #168, Volume #19 Sun, 16 Jul 00 05:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Lucent Winmodem works (Malcolm)
Re: pppd trouble... (Mary P)
RH ppp dialer dials twice. (Rick)
Re: Kernel compile 2.4.0 (Brien Sullivan)
Re: Uninstall modem driver (Malcolm)
Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14 (Bob Niederman)
IDE Tape Install Info (Wayne Vagtborg)
help with setserial (arif mamdani)
Re: RH ppp dialer dials twice. (Malcolm)
Re: DNS: ping gives "unknown host", but nslookup works (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Fdisk BIG problem ("Michael Tan")
Re: Linux run levels (Lew Pitcher)
Re: help with setserial (Homer Jay)
Re: dselect / apt problems (Mongolian Horde)
Re: IDE Tape Install Info (Doc Shipley)
CorelLinux Default OS on Dual Boot ("Max")
Re: help with setserial (Patricia)
Re: RH ppp dialer dials twice. (Patricia)
Re: RH ppp dialer dials twice. (Dave Joyce)
Re: random errors when compiling 2.2.16 kernel (Tony Quinn)
GCC problems ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
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From: Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lucent Winmodem works
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:02:13 -0400
Hi,
I am a newbie to Linux and I struggled getting my Lucent winmodem
working but it is OK now. I thought I would share what I did in the hope
that it would help someone else. See below.
Computer AMD450
Mobo - Epox MVP4
Onboard Sound chip VIA 82686
Onboard video Trident Blade 3D /VIA AGP MVP4
Lucent winmodem
64 Meg RAM (8 reserved for video)
Running - Win 98 : Win 95B : Win 3.1 : Linux Red Hat 6.1
Linux set up as a Gnome workstation only.
How I set up winmodem : In the BIOS, I disabled Com port 1 ( the
winmodem has its own com port). Mine is set up for
com port 1 and IRQ 4. My Mobo also has a choice under
the Power Setup, for selecting an IRQ for the modem, I
chose N/A for this (this is for wake up on ring).
I also chose PNP OS - No and Auto select
Get linux568.zip from Lucent web site
Unzip the package to an empty directory in linux
system. As root : run - ./ltinst - This should create
/dev/modem as a symlink to /dev/ttyS14
(in my system).
Then I ran Gnome Internet setup and chose /dev/modem
as the default device at 115200. Set up the phone
number for my ISP. I was OK to connect at that point.
I updated the rp3 RPM for Red Hat dialer to prevent two
tries to connect.
Next setup the DNS : I used whois.com to find the DNS for my ISP. My
ISP dynamically assigns IP addresses (changes
every time I connect)
so I had to set - search "myisp.net" (your ISP
provider). As root
run linuxconf and after it opens select :
Config | Networking |
Client Tasks | Name Server Specifications |
(DNS) | IP of Name
Server 1 (123.123.123.123)
IP of Name Server 2
(123.123.123.123)
Search Domain 1(opt) www.myisp.net
After the above it works like a charm. I am new to linux, but
if I
can help with anything send me an e-mail (remove "zzz" from e-
mail address.
Malcolm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: pppd trouble...
Date: 16 Jul 2000 05:05:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:53:28 -0700, Veronica Ancheva
Gerassimova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> All the How-tos, books and web-manuals say if you want to
>discover the problem log your sessions but nobody says how to read the
>log-files. I found some helpful explanations in these newsgroups but it
>seems that none of them matches what I see on my computer.
Did you look at this document:
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
It's a troubleshooting protocol for ppp connection and contains
instructions on how to edit the files you posted (snipped) as well as
how to read the error log and what to do with the errors you find.
HTH
MP
--
"If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very
important gods."
--Arthur C. Clarke
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. .
V
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(W W)
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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:07:52 +1000
From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux
Subject: RH ppp dialer dials twice.
When I use the Redhat ppp dialer (Redhat 6.1) it rarely connects on the
first attempt, usually having to dial a second time to connect, this
morning it didn't connect until the 4th attempt. Can anyone shed any
light on what might be going on here or should I just use Kppp?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brien Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Kernel compile 2.4.0
Date: 16 Jul 2000 04:35:56 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:32:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm compiling the latest beta of 2.4.0 and get hung at the make bzImage step.
>It complains about an undeclared member function and undeclared vairable in
>timer.c and because of this error, it doesn't make bzImage. What should I do?
>Is this a legitimate bug to report?
This seems to have been fixed in the 2.4.0-test4 beta.
--
Brien
{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
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From: Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstall modem driver
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:45:39 -0400
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>
> I was testing a Lucent Winmodem for which I downloaded
> a nice Linux driver which was easy to install. I want to
> convert to a hardware modem. How do I uninstall the
> modem driver that was used for the software-based modem?
>
> Thanks in advance -Frank,
Hi Frank,
The Lucent package 568.zip should have an uninstall file with it. I
believe
all you need to do is log in as root and run "./ltuninst". That is what
my package says.
Malcolm
remove "zzz" from e-mail address to respond by e-mail
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From: Bob Niederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:46:51 -0500
Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>
> I'm trying to create a new kernel to enable some of my hardware components.
> If someone wants to check what's wrong with my 2.2.14 kernel,
This won't help, but you should go to 2.2.16, due to serious security
bug in 2.2.15 and lower.
--
- Bob Niederman http://bob-n.com
Fight UCITA! http://www.4cite.org, http://bob-n.com/ucita
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From: Wayne Vagtborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: IDE Tape Install Info
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:05:08 -0700
Anyone know where I can get some information or HOWTO/FAQ on
installing and using a HP Colorado 8Gb IDE tape drive with
RH 6.2 - just want to be able to tar/cpio/dump to the tape.
OS recognizes that the tape drive is present - hdd - but I
can't get it configured. Sure could use some good advice.
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From: arif mamdani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with setserial
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:53:21 -0400
hi,
I'm an ex suse6.4 user, currently running RH 6.2... I'm trying to get
setserial to automatically configure my com3 port (modem) to irq 9,
instead of the default irq 4. In Suse, it meant making a change in
/sbin/init.d/serial but I can't seem to find the equivalent in rh6.2
can anyone tell me what I need to do to set this up?
thanks,
arif
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From: Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: RH ppp dialer dials twice.
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:50:55 -0400
Rick wrote:
>
> When I use the Redhat ppp dialer (Redhat 6.1) it rarely connects on the
> first attempt, usually having to dial a second time to connect, this
> morning it didn't connect until the 4th attempt. Can anyone shed any
> light on what might be going on here or should I just use Kppp?
Update the rp3 package with RPM from redhat. If you need the package
name e-mail me.
Malcolm
remove the "zzz" from the e-mail address
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: DNS: ping gives "unknown host", but nslookup works
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 06:10:12 GMT
s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: What? I thought nsswitch.conf was for NIS. Are you running NIS?
"ns" is "Name Services".
: > Redhat has been a glibc2 based system fo quite a few releases now,
:
: What does glibc have to do with name server services?
Where do think the resolver is located?
Stu
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From: "Michael Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fdisk BIG problem
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:00:33 +0800
Hi Bill, Bit Twister, Valentin,
Thank you very much for all your suggestions.
I tried your solution, Valentin & it was a
breeze. O.K., after the 2nd try, because I was
not sure about the spaces between commands.
I hope I get more conversent with linux & if
I do run into trouble, I'll try your other suggestions - Bill &
Bit Twister.
Thanks again, y'all
Mike
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux run levels
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:23:49 -0400
fail006 wrote:
>
> Can anyone please explain to me about different run levels, within the linux
> kernel.
>
> Thanks allot.
The Linux kernel knows nothing about runlevels.
Runlevels are the domain of a BSD/SysV init (rather than an AT&T nTh
Edition Unix), and are used to administer the processes run by init.
man inittab will get you the details, and a good book on Unix will
explain the whole thing.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: help with setserial
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:14:18 -0600
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:53:21 -0400, arif mamdani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi,
>I'm an ex suse6.4 user, currently running RH 6.2... I'm trying to get
>setserial to automatically configure my com3 port (modem) to irq 9,
>instead of the default irq 4. In Suse, it meant making a change in
>/sbin/init.d/serial but I can't seem to find the equivalent in rh6.2
>can anyone tell me what I need to do to set this up?
>arif
The config scripts are different in RH. Try putting the commands in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local. If you want to define a /etc/rc.d/rc.serial file
in /etc/rc.d/rc that's fine too.
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From: Mongolian Horde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dselect / apt problems
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:16:47 +1000
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:56:44 -0400, "Andrew E. Schulman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am trying to install debian GNU linux on my laptop via a modem
>> connection.
>>
>> I have the modem working fine, and have managed to ftp to the mirror
>> I'm planning on using (ftp.au.debian.org) on my second console, but
>> I'm b$%�$$ed if I can get dselect to find the correct path to install
>> the packages to via my apt source list. I'm sure I'm doing something
>> obvious wrong, can anyone help?
>
>You didn't show us your /etc/apt/sources.list. Here's mine, maybe it
>will help:
>
Thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify, I', trying to get the
Basic package (~ 20 MB) installed, but the same proplems have occured
trying to get one of the other packages installed. My
/etc/apt/sources.list is:
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-us
I know that the ppp connection is ok, in that I can manually ftp in
another console to ftp.au.debian.org, but during dselect I get the
following problems:
During Update, nothing gets updated, and I get a sequence of error
messages, that are not on the screen for long enough for me to note,
and I don't know where to look for them on file or how to get the
messages directed to fiel (my Unix is very rusty).
During install, I get the following (typed manually from handwritten
notes):
Reading Packages Lists ... Done
Building Dependency Tree ... Done
0 Packages upgraded 0 newly installed 0 to remove abd 0 upgraded
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.au.debian.org
stable/man packagges (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.au.debian.org
_debian_dists_stable_main_binary_i386_Packages) - stat (2 no such file
or directory)
and equivalent error messages referring to contrib and non-us
W: you may want to run apt-get update to correct these.
Can someone please help me rectify these problems
Kieren
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: IDE Tape Install Info
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 07:32:22 GMT
Wayne Vagtborg wrote:
>
> Anyone know where I can get some information or HOWTO/FAQ on
> installing and using a HP Colorado 8Gb IDE tape drive with
> RH 6.2 - just want to be able to tar/cpio/dump to the tape.
> OS recognizes that the tape drive is present - hdd - but I
> can't get it configured. Sure could use some good advice.
You'll need the ide-tape module loaded. Depending on your distro, you
can probably just "modprobe ide-tape". The drive may show up as
/dev/hdX, but to use tar, mt, dump, etc, it's referred to as /dev/ht0.
You can check operation, rewind, erase, or whatever with "mt", as in
"mt -f /dev/ht0 status".
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: "Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CorelLinux Default OS on Dual Boot
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:49:41 +0200
I have CorelLinux 1.0 installed together with Windows98. I would like to
change the default OS to be Windows, rather than Linux but can't find any
mention of this configuration option in the Help.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Max Riback
GuruNet Customer Support
www.gurunet.com
Just Alt-click!
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with setserial
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:58:39 +0200
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, arif mamdani wrote:
>hi,
>I'm an ex suse6.4 user, currently running RH 6.2... I'm trying to get
>setserial to automatically configure my com3 port (modem) to irq 9,
>instead of the default irq 4. In Suse, it meant making a change in
>/sbin/init.d/serial but I can't seem to find the equivalent in rh6.2
>
>can anyone tell me what I need to do to set this up?
>
>thanks,
>
>arif
Arif
make a script
rc.serial containing the setserialcommand.
Put it in the /etc/rc.d directory
--
Kind Regards
Patricia
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)Kernel 2.2.5-15
10:00am up 1:47, 1 user, load average: 1.32, 1.43, 1.41
Sun Jul 16 10:00:53 CEST 2000
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: RH ppp dialer dials twice.
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:09:54 +0200
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Rick wrote:
>When I use the Redhat ppp dialer (Redhat 6.1) it rarely connects on the
>first attempt, usually having to dial a second time to connect, this
>morning it didn't connect until the 4th attempt. Can anyone shed any
>light on what might be going on here or should I just use Kppp?
hi
this is a known bug in 6.1
just upgrade ppp to ppp-2.3.11
--
Kind Regards
Patricia
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)Kernel 2.2.5-15
10:10am up 1:56, 1 user, load average: 1.60, 1.39, 1.36
Sun Jul 16 10:10:41 CEST 2000
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From: Dave Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: RH ppp dialer dials twice.
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:39:02 GMT
Patricia wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Rick wrote:
> >When I use the Redhat ppp dialer (Redhat 6.1) it rarely connects on the
> >first attempt, usually having to dial a second time to connect, this
> >morning it didn't connect until the 4th attempt. Can anyone shed any
> >light on what might be going on here or should I just use Kppp?
>
> hi
> this is a known bug in 6.1
> just upgrade ppp to ppp-2.3.11
> --
> Kind Regards
> Patricia
> ICQ 69588792
>
> http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
> http://beginnerslinux.org
> Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)Kernel 2.2.5-15
> 10:10am up 1:56, 1 user, load average: 1.60, 1.39, 1.36
> Sun Jul 16 10:10:41 CEST 2000
Hi all I also have the same problem with the rh dialer. I have the
2.3.11-4 version of ppp. I have given up so I have entered all the details
into netcfg and dial through su from my own account. This seems to be the
only fix I have found!! Or use a third party dialer such as Xisp or ezppp.
Regards Dave...
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From: Tony Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: random errors when compiling 2.2.16 kernel
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:01:25 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ray
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>
>> Believe it or not - this worked. I reseated the memory modules in the
>> machine (after removing them) - bloody compiled first time.!!!!!
>
> OK, great, BUT, we now know the culprit, (oxidation) and you haven't
>fixed that box yet. Pull the sticks, find an old yellow wood pencil, scrub
>contacts (both sides) with the eraser. Watch tremendous bright shining occur.
>BLOW away the crumbs, (wiping causes too much static) and put 'em back. Good
>for 2, maybe 3 years.
Comments regarding grandmothers and sucking eggs, are totally pointless
here. Of course I cleaned the contacts (with a proper contact cleaning
tool and fluid). Good for possibly longer than 2 to 3 years. What had
confused me is that there were NO other manifestations of the problem!
--
============================================================
Tony Quinn --- The Voice Of Insanity
replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: GCC problems
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:02:19 +0200
Hi,
when trying to make SANE work I get this:
./configure
loading cache /config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot create executables
What is going wrong and how do I solve this?
Thanks,
Huub
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