Linux-Setup Digest #523, Volume #19 Thu, 31 Aug 00 01:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: hostadaptor installation ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: 2nd NIC failure ("Darren and Marla Welson")
Re: X-Win install on an I810 ("Rafael Zabar")
Re: Upgrade RH6.1 to RH6.2, locks on module load ("Chris Cantwell")
Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux installations? (Maniac)
Re: Once upon a time ... (Doug O'Leary)
Samba: Win95 + Win98 (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux installations? Also--
(Dirty Old Man)
Re: Video woes ("Terje Wolden")
Re: dumb question: copying to floppy ("Charlie Gibbs")
Help : Laptop dropping network connection. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A GURU question? Sending CTRL-ALT-F4 to /dev/console (David Hassett)
Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux (hac)
X11 on ThinkPad 1422 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Laptop Video + Modem Problem (David Efflandt)
Re: How to boot Linux after installation of Win2k ("Tomi Tiihonen")
help with designing & implementing linux firewall (Hung Ngoc Lai)
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hostadaptor installation
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:20:28 -0400
> i am installing my scsi-cd-writer.
> because of that i have to install my scsi-hostadaptor, haven't i ?
>
> two problems:
> 1. how can i check which kind of hostadaptor i have ?
> 2. how can i install it ?
>
> thanks a lot :-)
Hm. Do you know that you have one?
You can open your box and look on the card. Or, if you run Windoze,
right-click on My Computer, choose Properties | Device Manager, and look to
see if you have a SCSI card that Windoze recognizes. If so, select it and
click on Properties to get some information.
Once you know the make and model, first go through the kernel configuration
(see the Kernel HOWTO) and see if your card is supported. If not, go to
the manufacturer's web site and see if they've posted drivers for Linux.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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From: "Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 2nd NIC failure
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:22:46 GMT
Had a "SLOT" I/O conflict that did not show up in the /proc/ioports or
/proc/interrupts file. I moved the NIC and all is now well with my PC.
"Dave Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8o0a0m$na7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Have you (or linuxconf) added an alias entry to /etc/conf.modules to tell
> the kernel which module should be loaded for eth1?
>
>
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From: "Rafael Zabar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Win install on an I810
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:38:58 +0700
Dear D G,
Glad you brought this up and thank you for your suggestions. It seems that
XFree86 version should also be 3.3.6. Mine's 3.3.5 and when I specified
Generic VGA, the results are still unsatisfactory. My xwindows stare at me
and it is larger than the physical screen. I will try to find a 3.3.6.
Any suggestions?
Regards.
Lemuel
D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gerald Batten wrote:
> >
> > Downloaded and installed the latest 4.x version of X, and it still
> > doesn't recognize the Intel 810 video chipset. any ideas?
>
> It recognized fine for me. Maybe you need the new agpgart module? It
> should come with the 2.2.16-3 or 2.2.14-12 kernels in RedHat. The
> 2.3.99+ or 2.4 kernels will give you better results though.
>
> Although it recognized my card fine, I had problems: everywhere the
> mouse would go, the screen would get distorted.
>
> --
> DG
> e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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Reply-To: "Chris Cantwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chris Cantwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Upgrade RH6.1 to RH6.2, locks on module load
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:56:33 -0400
The stock RH6.2 kernel has support for the adaptec driver as a module. Did
the upgrade modify your /etc/conf.modules file? Is the driver module in
/lib/modules/2.2.xx/scsi?
I take it you have a SCSI hard disk. You probably need to rerun mkinitrd to
make a new initrd.img.
mkinitrd initrd-2.2.15.img 2.2.15
ln -sf initrd-2.2.15.img initrd.img
Then rerun lilo (check your /etc/lilo.conf file..) and reboot.
Chris
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> All,
>
> I have an adaptec 2940U controller in my machine (never different). I
> upgraded from 6.1 to 6.2 and now it tries to load the advansys
> module... AND HANGS. I can boot from the floppy it allowed me to
> create during the upgrade, but not the HDD.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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From: Maniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux installations?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:01:15 -0500
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Often I see postings like
>
> > > Well I am exhausted. I am forced to accept the reality, Mandrake 7.1
> is
> > > beyond my abilities. To those who have installed Mandrake 7.1 you have
> > > my complete admiration. With more than 25 years of computer
> experience,
> > > much of it in Unix, I am totally defeated.
>
> > What errors do you get? Signal 11 or 7 can mean you have a bad memory
> chip
> > in RAM or cache. Refusal of X to test/start can be an unfriendly video
> > card. Do you get disk geometry errors? Are you using anything SCSI? Have
> > you tried an install with the system stripped to the bare essentials?
>
> True, good possibilities, but I still see a lot of postings where lots of
> bad hardware is suddenly discovered upon Linux installations... One would
> wonder why didn't these problems didn't appear before they changed from
> other leading brand OS...
Probably because that other OS is more tolerant of "bad" hardware and
doesn't use all of the functionality of it or doesn't test the hardware as
much.
OR the other OS doesn't stay running long enough for the hardware to get
"tired" and say enough already! :)
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 40.619302 N, 96.956676 W
A single tasking guy in multi tasking world.
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From: Doug O'Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Once upon a time ...
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:12:04 -0700
> I was given 24 hr to shutdown all my servers or they will
> suspend the service. They scan all ports on my machine every 24 hr.
I would have canceled the service right then and there. That is flipping
ridiculous.
Doug
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Douglas K. O'Leary
Senior System Admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: 31 Aug 2000 02:10:35 GMT
I need a little clarification:
I set up samba on Redhat 6.02, and my win 95 machine can use the Linux
printer, no problem. A Win 98 machine, however, asks for a password, which I
can never get right.
This seems to me like a problem with encrypted passwords, which I suppose
Win 98 is using, but not Linux or Win 95.
Right?
I'm uncertain, because when I print with the win95 machine, I'm not even
asked for a password.
If so, the solution, I gather, is to get win 95 and the Linux Samba setup to
use password encryption.
Right?
Thanks for any help.
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirty Old Man)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux installations?
Also--
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 02:28:00 GMT
With Linux it will not let you install if the equipment is bad -
unlike your other leading OSs - with them you get random reboots, blue
screens and the other good S**t.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:21:59 -0500, John Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>For pretty much the same reason Ferrai's have to be tuned up ten times mo=
>re
>often than Geo Metro's. Welcome to the bleeding edge pal... :)
>
>JK
>
>Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
>>
>> True, good possibilities, but I still see a lot of postings where lots =
>of
>> bad hardware is suddenly discovered upon Linux installations... One wou=
>ld
>> wonder why didn't these problems didn't appear before they changed from=
>
>> other leading brand OS...
>> --
>> www.geocities.com/jidanni ... fix e-mail address to reply; =BFn=A4=A6=A5=
>=A7
>> Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
>
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From: "Terje Wolden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Video woes
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 02:39:17 GMT
I had the same problem with a DELL Latitude CPx. I connected a color
monitor and was able to log in and make necessary adjustments to video/
display.
"Jeremy Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyone got any ideas/suggestions about setting up the
> video mode on an Acer Travelmate 522TX? This has
> the ATI Rage Mobility graphics and a 14.1 TFT screen
> which goes all white and shiny whenever I try to start
> Linux.
> And for some reason I can't get a text screen on the
> system, so I can't disable KDE from starting every time.
>
> Using Caldera 2.4. All help gratefully received....
> Cheers, Jeremy
>
>
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From: "Charlie Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dumb question: copying to floppy
Date: 30 Aug 00 18:52:36 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
writes:
[Message reformatted - please limit your lines to 72 characters]
>I decided I want to back up my configuration files because I
>keep installing new versions of Linux in search of the perfect
>system (still looking). Thought this would be a piece of cake,
>but I never tried copying to a floppy before in the 9 months
>I've been using Linux and I can't figure out how to go about it.
Given how much heat and little light this thread has generated,
how about just using mcopy to copy everything to a blank formatted
MS-DOS disk? Something like this:
tar -cvf myfiles file1 file2 file3 file4 ...
compress myfiles
mcopy myfiles.Z a:
(Use cpio instead of tar if you prefer.) Do the reverse to
restore your files. Long file names, date/time stamps, and
protection bits will all be preserved.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Gibbs)
Remove the first period after the "at" sign to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc;
Subject: Help : Laptop dropping network connection.
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:27:47 GMT
Hi,
I have a laptop here running RedHat 2.0. The hardware setup is a Dell
Inspiron with a Xircom Integrated 10/100/.Model PCMCIA card.
The problem that I am having is that the network periodically drops
out. I believe that it is due to the power management stopping the
PCMCIA card to conserve energy - when I start to use it again it never
comes back so I get all sorts of errors (I'm using NFS and NIS) and
I have to manually reboot to get out of it.
I have disabled the power management from the bios level, but it does
not go into PCMCIA power management - so I presume that I have to do
something at the Linux level to keep "tickling" the network card to stop
it going to sleep.
Can anyone offer any advice to fix or circumvent this?
TIA,
James
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: David Hassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A GURU question? Sending CTRL-ALT-F4 to /dev/console
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 05:37:31 +0100
Jean-Serge Gagnon wrote:
> Anyone know how to send an arbitray set of key presses to the
> console? I know that 'chvt 4' will basically do that, but it doesn't
> work when VMWare is running in full screen mode.
>
> I tried using 'showkey' to figure out the keys I was pressing and then
> using 'echo -ne "\oct1\oct2\oct3..." > /dev/console' but that didn't
> work.
Did you try sending a sequence to the 'pts' number rather than
/dev/console? e.g.
echo -ne "\167\157\162\153\151\156\147" > /dev/pts/0
That works just fine on my Linux box for normal text. However, sending
CTRL-ALT-F4 might be a bit trickier. Since that sequence switches my box
to virtual console 4, I can't be bothered investigating it further.
Sorry. :-)
HTH,
Dave. :-)
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:45:46 GMT
Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
>
> True, good possibilities, but I still see a lot of postings where lots of
> bad hardware is suddenly discovered upon Linux installations... One would
> wonder why didn't these problems didn't appear before they changed from
> other leading brand OS...
The key word is "discovered". Another is "appear". Appearances can
be deceiving
Sometimes the hardware has always been broken, and just never been
tested well. Users of some operating systems may think nothing of
random lockups and reboots.
Sometimes the hardware has always been broken, and there are software
work-arounds that avoid the problem. For some reason, hardware
vendors don't like to publicize this. They let the commercial OS
companies know the work-arounds. Sometimes they let free OS kernel
hackers know, and sometimes they don't. Look at the kernel source for
plentiful examples of dealing with broken/non-compliant hardware.
Sometimes the OS just ignores the error.
Some operating systems come from paternalistic companies that don't
want to confuse you with too much information.
Component data sheets have errors. Parts don't work quite the way the
book says. Go to developer.intel.com and look at the errata sheets
for some of their processors and motherboard chipsets. Intel is no
worse than anyone else; better than most, in that they publish all
known errors. Board designs have their own limits and errors, but are
less likely to be documented. Products with obvious faults don't get
shipped. Products with faults that only show up with unusual
combinations of events do get shipped. Linux attempts to get the most
out of the resources you give it, and that means that more sequences
and combinations get exercised.
Here's an analogy for you. In the past, infectious diseases were the
most common cause of death. Improved sanitation and medicine have all
but eliminated those diseases in the industrialized world. More
people die from causes associated with old age. Clean water didn't
make those people die from heart attacks; the heart attacks showed up
when the other causes were eliminated. The same is true with marginal
hardware. Linux didn't cause the marginal hardware; the unreliable
hardware showed up more when the unreliable software was eliminated.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X11 on ThinkPad 1422
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:38:02 GMT
Anybody successful getting X11 going on a ThinkPad 1422
running RH Linux 6.1? Or any version of RH Linux, for
that matter?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Laptop Video + Modem Problem
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:54:01 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:57:00 -0400, Gerardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just totally deleted my Win 98SE and installed Linux Madrake 7.1 as the
>only OS in my laptop Compaq 5280.
>
>Question 1: I don't think that Harddrake found the modem: The Control
>panel shows the modem empty. In Kppp when I select "Query Modem" and
>select device ttyS2 it finds the modem but returns all blank lines. When I
>had Windows, the modem was in Com 2 IRQ 11. But ttyS1 returns "modem busy".
>My modem is a IBM PCMCIA It says Open PCMCIA 2.1 Type II or III Slot. MOD
>393 Part Number 10L7393. How do I install a modem manually?
You probably need to upgrade your pcmcia-cs modules to the latest version.
Versions before 3.1.10 did not set the modem irq properly. A temporary
solution is to use setserial to set the modem irq to zero, but possibly
setting it to 0 and then back to what cardmgr set it to would work.
>Question 2: The video driver is a Cirrus Logic 7543. Linux found it OK.
>The problem is that I have a dark border of about 3/4 inch in my laptop LCD
>screen. The card supports 800X600. How do I expand the wall paper to use
>the whole screen?.
What mode are you in, 640x480? just edit XF86Config in the device or
screen section to 800x600 or a space separated list of alternates.
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From: "Tomi Tiihonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to boot Linux after installation of Win2k
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:18:54 +0300
Try to update your linux. don't choose any packages to update and it will
setup about 130 mb packages, including LILO. You will have opportunity to
configure lilo, too. It won't destroy anything from your system, if you'll
just be careful.
good luck!
tt
Qian Haishan kirjoitti viestiss� <8oirhg$ua$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I have one hard disk, orignally it is installed with RedHat Linux 6.2,
while
>today after I installed MS Windows 2000, I found that LILO was lost, so I
>can not start Linux any more. Who can help me except reinstall Linux?
>
>Thanks,
>Qian Haishan
>
>
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with designing & implementing linux firewall
Date: 31 Aug 2000 04:18:44 GMT
Hello Everyone,
After a few weeks of reading and trial & error, I have been able to implement IP
chains
and IP masq to run on my linux box (RedHat version 6.1 with kernel 2.2.16). Now my
local network can access the Internet with no problem. Now I would like to take it to
another level. Any suggestions from anyone is greatly appreciated.
I would like to implement two firewalls configuration. The first linux firewall is
directly
connected to the Internet. This firewall has two interfaces. The external interface
IP
address is 199.0.216.222. The internal interface has an IP address of 192.168.1.1
(private address range or RFC1918). This internal interface is connected to a
network which consists of web server, ftp server and mail server. I call the
192.168.1.0 network the DMZ network. Furthermore, I call the first firewall "choke".
The second linux firewall also has two interfaces. The external interface is connected
to the 192.168.1.0 network. The internal interface is connected to the 172.16.1.0
network which is a private corporation that has about 100 nodes on this network.
Behind the second firewall consists of various Microsoft Windows and Linux
machines running various applications.
I would like to accomplish the following objectives:
1) Allow users from 172.16.1.0/24 network to access the Internet with applications
such as http, ftp, telnet and smtp,
2) Protect the private network. However, I would like users on the Internet to access
some linux machine in the 172.16.1.0 network with applications such as SSH,
3) Internet users should be able to access both the FTP and WWW servers which
are sitting behind the first firewall.
My question is this: Can this be done with just one valid IP address? Is it possible
for the network behind the first firewall to be in private IP address range (RFC1918)?
What exactly do I need to do on both firewalls?
Before you start telling to read books and figure it out, I would like to say that I
have
spent a lot of time at Border and Barnes & Noble to research on this implementation.
They only provide me with piece-meal solutions... I need someone who can give
me a general idea with this implementation to jump start my research (again)... Please
provide me what I have to do.... I need help guy..... Please help me....
Thanks.
David
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