Linux-Setup Digest #243, Volume #19 Tue, 25 Jul 00 19:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com 3c509b driver (chipper)
Gnome GUI Login Prompt Problems (Mike Gifford)
Log files ? ("Diversen")
Re: Application sizing problem in X (James E Gilmore)
Re: disabling the PC bell sound (James Alan Brown)
Re: Expanding partitions.
Re: Redhat 6.2/ATI Rage 128 Pro ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adaptec AVA1502 and Ricoh MP6200S CD-R/W (John McCabe)
Re: disabling the PC bell sound (Repo)
changing font (sylvain hutchison)
Re: Adding a new hard drive ("prosper")
RH6.2/Toshiba 2710/Problem with sound and pcmcia ("Dirk T. Verbeek")
Re: Expanding partitions. (ray)
Routing Question ("james")
Re: Booting from 1.68MB floppy (Mark Blain)
Re: changing font (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Download rate diminishes ("Andrew E. Schulman")
RH6.2 Installation got stuck ! ("OhadBC")
TCP/IP (Amit Utreja)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chipper)
Subject: Re: 3com 3c509b driver
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:32:21 GMT
Thanks Raffael for your input
However it still doesn't work. Whatever I do (which doesn't amount to
much since I've only got like 3 days since I've begun linux) not a
single packet gets viewed by the os.
help!!!
TIA
Chipper
On 24 Jul 2000 17:52:33 +0200, Raffael Herzog
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> Micromans,
>>
>> Good can you tell me what driver u used? Help would be appreciated.
>
>put
>
> alias eth0 3c90x
>
>in your /etc/modules.conf
>
>> [...]
>
>
>--
>Raffael Herzog
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>May the penguin be with you!
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From: Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome GUI Login Prompt Problems
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:49:00 GMT
Hello,
I've got a problem with the GUI Login for GNOME. I like the flexibility
of it, however for all but two users on my computer, when I log in it
jumps back to the login screen rather than proceeding to the windows
environment.
I know that I am using the proper passwords. Both Root & my primary
user have no problem logging into the system.
Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?
Mike
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From: "Diversen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Log files ?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:48:37 +0200
Hmmm, can someone please tell me where to find the log information when
someone tries to logon through rlogin ??
And why don't I have a /var/log/messages file like my Red Hat 6.2,
workstation installation, on my laptop.
This one is a server with RH 6.2, server installation.
I did touch the /var/log/messages file, but it is still empty after about a
half a hour.
Please some help ?
Regards,
Ed Bras
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James E Gilmore)
Subject: Re: Application sizing problem in X
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:55:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark David Thomas) wrote in
><8ldq59$ku4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>Another thought from a Newbie
>>
>> Your problem with setting up X to run correctly may be
>> the monitor and
>>not the card. In my case I have a card capable of SVGA, but I
>>am running through and old IBM VGA. Although I can select my
>>video card, the monitor cannot handle it.
>> I suspect your monitor will only show VGA 640 x 480. Is
>> that possible?
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>
>Yes. It is a standard VGA and only runs 640x350, 640x480, and
>720x400. So 640x480 is the only practical option. In
>Xconfigurator the only monitor and video card settings that work
>are unsupported VGA card and generic 640x480 60 Hz monitor. Not
>even generic VGA card will work.
>
>Ken
To show version of X
X -showconfig
jgilmore
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From: James Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disabling the PC bell sound
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:30:03 GMT
louise_carol_tan wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just installed RH-6.1, but I keep getting the anoying bell sound when I
> am typing from the command line, (ie: saving a files etc...)
> How can I disable this.
> I have looked at my PC setup, and there is nothing there to stop
> the bell sounding. Even if I have to disable the sound altogether,
> that's
> OK , but how do I do it. I am using an Apricot ls.
Easy solution is to un-plug your internal PC speaker that is if the bell is
not generated via the sound card. Sounds odd though why you have that
problem in the first place...
It may be the way RH has set up on your PC. Search for a line \0x07 in your
config files (thats the bell code in Hex) and you may find it as "echo en
\0x07" on some config line entry.
Regards,
James
JAB Computers Bristol UK
http://www.jabcomp.force9.co.uk/
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Expanding partitions.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:30:06 GMT
Wayne E. Harlan wrote:>>> In article <8lj0bi$p56$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > Many of the partitions on my hard drive are quite full
at the moment,though I> > have a lot of unpartitioned space at the end of the drive.
Is there away to> > 'widen' the existing partitions so they take up more space? I know
Ican mount> > further subdirectories like '/var/log' and so on to save space, but
I'dprefer> > not to do this as I don't to have a horribly complicated partition
table.> > Also, is there any good documentation for fdisk available? Thanks, Chris> >>
>> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.>> You can use Partition
Magic to do this but it requires an MS operating system> somewhere on your hard drive
to run it from. I have used it with no trouble.That is not true ... you can make a
two disks set which boots on anymachine and gives you the same GUI. If I remember
correctly you can evencreate a command line version with one disks.Although, you might
need MS for creating these floppies but after that youdo _NOT_ need to have even a FAT
partition let alone MS OS ... (just to beprecise)Beside that I used PM since 3.0 with
great success...Gabor>> There is also GNU's parted which runs on linux (latest version
isparted-1.2.5)> but I have not used this one yet.> --> Thanks,>> Wayne - reverse
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2/ATI Rage 128 Pro
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:46:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ron Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> New computer, a Dell 4100 with an ATI Rage 128
Pro AGP video card w/8MB
> of memory. Dead to linux.
>
> Cannot get the ATI video card to run under X.
Has anyone been able to
> get this card configured and running under
Redhat 6.2???
>
d/l the lastest Xfree86 drivers from their site
(www.xfree86.org) They have drivers for rage 128
cards in their latest release.
James
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AVA1502 and Ricoh MP6200S CD-R/W
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:02:42 GMT
Guy Maskall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >As you have scsi_hostadaptor aliased to aha152x then doing
>> >'/sbin/modprobe scsi_hostadaptor' will be the same as '/sbin/modprobe(or
>> >insmod) aha152x'. From what you said before, this then loads your host
>> >adaptor driver and the h/w is detected.
>>
>> Is there a difference between scsi_hostadaptor and scsi_hostadapter?
>>
>Doh!
>Yes there is.
>'...or' is my mis-spelling and '...er' is the correct spelling!
>That was actually the problem with my conf.modules. I'd got the alias
>name wrong ... 8-)
>(on my way to sit facing the corner ....)
>
>Guy
>
>I'm afraid I can't offer any more help on what your problem may be.
>I don't think a new card would be an improvement as it smells of a
>config issue, why you can load it manually but it doesn't get loaded
>automatically I'm not sure. The only thing that comes to mind is maybe a
>dependency isn't quite set up i.e. when it loads the scsi driver (e.g.
>sg or sd) it appears to know to load scsi_mod but not then aha152x.
>Double check for any typos in conf.modules (like was in mine). Then
>maybe recompile the kernel so you *know* the required dependencies are
>there.
>Actually first off (if you haven't already) have a flick through the
>scsi howto and see if anything comes to light (
>http://www.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/doc/Linux-HOWTO/SCSI-HOWTO.html ).
Thanks for the suggestions and that reference. I'll check it out.
Best Regards
John McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disabling the PC bell sound
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:02:12 +0200
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just installed RH-6.1, but I keep getting the anoying bell sound when I
>am typing from the command line, (ie: saving a files etc...)
>How can I disable this.
>I have looked at my PC setup, and there is nothing there to stop
>the bell sounding. Even if I have to disable the sound altogether,
>that's
>OK , but how do I do it. I am using an Apricot ls.
>
>
>Thanks
>Lousie
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Lousie
try this script
==========================
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "off" ]; then
echo -e "\33[11;0]"
echo "Bell turned off."
fi
if [ "$1" = "on" ]; then
echo -e "\33[10;750]\33[11;250]"
echo "Bell turned on."
fi
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <on|off>"
fi
=============================
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Good Luck
Repo
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)Kernel 2.2.5-15
11:03pm up 4 days, 1:29, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 1.27, 1.26
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing font
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:11:51 -0700
Is there any way of changing the fonts in Netscape??
I find the writing very difficult to read..
sly.
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From: "prosper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a new hard drive
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:50:07 +1200
You can use cp to copy the files
I upgraded my linux boxs hdd and I used the upgrade harddisk howto to do it.
have a look on your system for the howto or you can get it off of the net.
sirrab
John wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The scenario seems possible, however DOS Fdisk will not be able to
>detect the linux partitions, you will have to do this with either fdisk
>under Linux, or partitonj magic (version 4 or above the older ones do
>not recognize extended 2)
>You CANNOT copy Linux with cp from one disk to another, however, it
>might be possible with tar.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>John
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
>
>> I posted this yesterday, but it appears that there
>> is a problem with Motorola's newsserver. My
>> original post has not shown up on the Deja yet, so
>> I'm reposting it here.
>>
>> I'm planning on adding a second hard drive to my
>> computer soon. My
>> current drive has a win98 partition, three native
>> linux partitions,
>> and a linux swap partition. My plan is to devote
>> the second hard
>> drive to linux and reclaim all the linux
>> partitions on the first drive
>> for windows. Here's my plan:
>>
>> 1) Add the new drive and boot into linux.
>> 2) Use Mandrake's DiskDrak tool to partition and
>> format the new
>> drive.
>> 4) Edit the /etc/lilo.conf file to add a bootable
>> entry on the second
>> hard drive.
>> 3) Rerun lilo to update the boot sector.
>> 4) Boot into linux on the first drive and copy all
>> my existing linux
>> data from the first drive to the second drive.
>> 5) Boot into linux on the second drive to insure
>> that everything
>> works.
>> 6) Boot into DOS and use FDISK to reformat the
>> linux partitions as a
>> DOS partition.
>>
>> I have a few questions here. First, is this a
>> reasonable scenario of
>> events? Am I overlooking any gotchas? Has anyone
>> done this and can
>> give me some pointers? Particularly, I have these
>> questions:
>>
>> Will DOS see my Linux partitions on the first
>> drive, or do I need to
>> delete the ext2 partitions using a linux tool
>> (fdisk, diskdrak, etc.)?
>>
>> Is cp a sufficient way to do this? I'm wondering
>> if there will be
>> references to the first drive on the second
>> drive. If cp is a good
>> way to do this, what options should I use to
>> insure that all my data
>> is mirrored to the second drive? Should I just
>> reinstall?
>>
>> If anyone has done this recently, I'd love to hear
>> about the
>> experience, and anything that may have went wrong.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Aaron
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>
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From: "Dirk T. Verbeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2/Toshiba 2710/Problem with sound and pcmcia
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:51:27 +0200
Hi,
I've got a Toshiba Satellite 2710 with RH6.2 installed, everything works
nicely even the winmodem but....
After the Maestro soundmodule is installed I have to interrupt/skip the
interactive startup at pcmcia detection otherwise it'll get stuck.
Does this maybe have something to do with the shared interrupt IRQ-11?
Any insight/ help would be appreciated
Dirk.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Expanding partitions.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:13:07 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Many of the partitions on my hard drive are quite full at the moment,
> though I have a lot of unpartitioned space at the end of the drive.
> Is there a way to 'widen' the existing partitions so they take up more
> space?
> I know I can mount further subdirectories like '/var/log' and so on to
> save space, but I'd prefer not to do this as I don't to have a horribly
> complicated partition table.
> Also, is there any good documentation for fdisk available?
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
This may be the wrong time for you to open a new can of worms, I see
you already have some. However,
the new kernels, 2.4.0 series have LVM, which allows your unused
partitions to become resizable drives. It
seems totally reliable to me, so far, and what a huge advantage it brings.
http://ds9a.nl/lvm-howto/HOWTO//cvs/lvm-howto/lvm-howto.html
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
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From: "james" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Routing Question
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 03:25:59 -0700
How do I route through the firewall to my internal network??
I have set up a firewall box on a test network 10.20.150.5 external
interface (This interface is the NIC to my network from my test setup of two
boxes. Once it all works I will connect it to the internet).
The internal interface is on the firewall box is 10.21.100.5.
The computer behind the firewall is 10.21.100.10.
I can ping all boxes from all NIC's on the same address 10.20 can ping 10.20
10.21 can ping 10.21.
example I can ping my network from 10.20.150.5 interface. I can ping the
two boxes from the 10.21.100.X (5&10).
But when I try to ping 10.20.150.X from 10.21.100.10 I cannot get a
response.
I have enabled echo 1> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.
I have spent several days trying to find an anwer among the Linux
documentation READ_ME HOW_TO'S etc. newsgroups and I am finding no anwer.
Does anyone have any ideas??
What should the gateway of the internal box be? The Ip address of this box
is 10.21.100.10. Should it be the internal ip address of the firewall box
10.21.100.5?
What should the gateway of the firewall box be should it be the internet
router for my network?
Does anyone know of any good sites that show the commands that I should use.
Some of the commands that are shown in the documentation do not work.
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From: Mark Blain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from 1.68MB floppy
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:23:27 -0400
I can and have created 1.68MB bootable ms-dos diskettes with fdformat. I boot win95
in command-line mode and type:
fdformat a: t82 n21 c4 d16 m240 x2 y4 k
sys a:
This creates a bootable diskette in Microsoft's own "DMF" 1.68mb format. DMF support
is built-into Win95 and its "MS-DOS 7" because Win95 was distributed on DMF floppies.
If WinImage or any other formatter creates DMF-formatted diskettes, they should work
too.
Using DMF format for *every* disk is dangerous. Cheaper and older diskettes will have
more errors with DMF.
Clay, the section of Fdformat.doc you referred to was written before Win95 was
released, when no version of ms-dos understood DMF. For older versions of ms-dos, the
instructions are correct.
Finally, if you have trouble reading a 1.68mb diskette after you've already read a
1.44mb disk, here's a fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q118/5/80.asp
- - - - - Mark Blain
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:34:44 -0400, Clay Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:53:35 -0400, Mark Blain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>I can't tell you how to set up LRP. I *do* know that it is possible. I have
>successfully set up and used 1.68MB diskettes in msdos and windows with the old
>program "fdformat", including ms-dos bootables. Since you have WinImage, you
>probably don't need it.
>>http://www.patten1.freeserve.co.uk/utils/
>>http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/usenet/comp.binaries.ibm.pc/fdformat/index.html
>
>Hmmm. I just read Fdformat.doc, and it reads; "Note: You cannot
>create a system disk, which cannot be read without FDREAD."
>
>Here are the formats listed for a 1.44MB floppy that are listed as
>bootable.
>
>F720 720 kByte
>F120 1.2 MByte
>F12 1.2 MByte
>F144 1.44 MByte
>F14 1.44 MByte
>F148 1.48 MByte
>
>Soooo, you have created 1.68MB bootable diskettes with this program?
>I've also tried with WinImage, also with no luck.
>
>>I know that the automatic setup procedure for one form of linux-on-a-floppy, Tom's
>Root-Boot, does use a 1.68MB floppy. There are both ms-dos (.zip) and linux
>(.tar.gz) files available.
>>http://www.toms.net/rb/
>>The same page also contains links and descriptions of several other
>linux-on-a-floppy distributions, including LRP. Perhaps you could find another one
>with better set-up instructions.
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:44:16 GMT, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>I,
>>>
>>>I have start to study Linux LRP (Linux on a floppy) and to put more
>>>informations (like BIND), i wish to use a floppy who can contain more
>>>than 1.44Mb.
>>>
>>>So I use WinImage in Win98 to format and copy a DOS bootable 1.44 LRP
>>>floppy to a new 1.68 floppy.
>>>
>>>Every thing are there but it refuses to boot. I receive a message like
>>>"boot error" because it cannot find the boot files (ldlinux.sys).
>>>
>>>How can I correct this situation^
>>>
>>>Serge Boisvert
>>>Victoriaville, Qc.
>>>Canada
>>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Clay Calvert
>Replace the "W" in my e-mail address with an "L" to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: changing font
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:26:45 GMT
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:11:51 -0700, sylvain hutchison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there any way of changing the fonts in Netscape??
>
>I find the writing very difficult to read..
You can play with the font settings in the Edit -> preferences menu, but
there are a number of tweaks that are helpful:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html (Font De-uglification)
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html (Redhat)
--
Hal B
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Download rate diminishes
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:44:14 -0400
> Any idea why when I download a file or surf the internet, the download rate
> just goes keeps on diminishing until the modem "stalls"?
This is a well-known problem with V.90. It happened to me and I worked
with my ISP for a long time trying different modem init strings, without
success. Finally gave up and changed ISPs, which solved the problem. It's
probably some kind of protocol incompatibility between your modems and your
ISP's.
For lots of information about problems with 56K and troubleshooting, see
the "56K=V.unreliable" site, http://808hi.com/56k/. I know there's a
mention of this problem (though not much in the way of a solution)
somewhere in a sample list of messages about people's V.90 problems.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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From: "OhadBC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2 Installation got stuck !
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:07:34 +0200
Hi !
I'm trying to install the RedHat 6.2 on a clean HD but right after it
finishes to install all of its
packages, it goes stuck while displaying "Performing post install
configuration...".
Any idea ??
thx, ohad.
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From: Amit Utreja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TCP/IP
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:03:40 -0400
Hi
I want to trace TCP/IP header on Linux Machine, to extract both TCP and
IP header from the packet received by the kernel. How should i proceed?
Is there any source or software available to read TCP/IP headers ?
Thanks in advance.
-Amit Utreja
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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