Linux-Setup Digest #630, Volume #19 Sat, 16 Sep 00 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: cable modem setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cannot logon RH 5.1 LINUX (Akira Yamanita)
Re: rh62 and openssh (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: help printtool setup problem (Jeff Peterson)
Re: Missing /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h ("Bill A.")
Re: Linux 6.2: LILO question (Valentin Guillen)
Re: Specific ppp problem (Bill Unruh)
Re: Setting up cable modem and DHCP internet access (Valentin Guillen)
Re: HP 930 (mike)
Re: Internet via DHCP on NT server (mike)
Re: Dell Perc 2/si (Kenneth Porter)
Re: DRMON17 monitor (Valentin Guillen)
HELP - patching Debian 2.2.17 with IDE-patch ("Carl Tan")
Re: Speed of loading large applications (Valentin Guillen)
Re: WordPerfect 2000 for Linux (H David Todd)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cable modem setup
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:04:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been working on setting up my cable modem under Slackware. I
have
> the card setup with a module being loaded into the kernel. I'm kinda
> of stumped of what to do next?
>
> I have looked over all of the how-to's pertaining to net setup, but
> still can't figure what the next step is to do? And what about DHCP?
Is
> this neccesary to have, or is the another work around.
>
> What files should I be looking for to modifiy?
> thanks in advance,
> martinbr
You may want to try looking through the following site.
http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/LinuxCableModem.html
Because I am an @home user with an SMCEtherEZ card I used the following
link: http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/
My NIC card was detected (though plug and play had to be shut off in
my bios for the card to get and irq) so I didn't have to go through
the whole thing, only the network configuration:
http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/linux_at_home.n
etconfig.html
You also need to know whether your ISP is using static or Dynamic IP
addressing. @home where I live uses static so I had to fill all my
values in manually--run winipcfg to get your values in Windows. Good
luck.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: cannot logon RH 5.1 LINUX
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:27:47 GMT
Duane Fernandes wrote:
>
> I JUST INSTALLED 5.1 AND USED THE COMMAND ADDUSER name -p password, it
> created the user but when i logoff and go to login it says LOGIN
> INCORRECT.can someone help me before i kick the shi? out of it!!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try using the passwd command to set the password instead.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: rh62 and openssh
Date: 16 Sep 2000 00:43:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.security Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Darren Welson wrote:
>>
>> 'rpmlib (version discrepency) <= 3.0.3 - ...'
>> or something like this. I am not sure what rpmlib means, is it the
>> rpmbuild, or somthing else?
>>
You need to upgrade rpm itself. Look at the updates page at redhat.com.
> Download the tar.gz version instead. If you have your C compiler installed
> (RH does it by default), then you just become root and do
> tar -xzf filenameofpackage.tar.gz
> cd filenameofpackage
> ./configure
> make
> make install
NOTE: You only need to be root for the last step. Doing that all as root
could be very dangerous.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:50:06 -0400
From: Jeff Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: help printtool setup problem
Well, I fixed my own problem and got the printer working again. Here's
what
happened. The ghostscript v. 5.50.3 wasn't newer than the 5.50.1
version.
Also, the 5.50.3 version didn't have cdj500 and a lot of other types of
printer support. I did a gs --help and found out which devices were
supported and the 5.50.1 verion support much much more including cdj500.
So, I reinstalled the 5.50.1 version. Restarted the printtool and all
the printer definitions were there. I selected the HP Deskjet 520 driver
and all is working great.
Later...
Jeff
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From: "Bill A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Missing /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:23:29 -0400
Here is the error message:
> [root@firewall linux]# make bzImage
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
> In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
> from scripts/split-include.c:26:
> /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1
I have errno.h in the following places
/usr/include/
/usr/include/bits/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/linux/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/arch/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/bsd/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/sys/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/linuxmt/
/usr/lib/bcc/include/msdos/
Bill
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.questions
Subject: Re: Linux 6.2: LILO question
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:52:41 GMT
Let's see now,
You're running linux 6.2 right? You mean SuSE version 6.2 don't you?
Or was it Mandrake 6.2? Naw, it was Rat Head 6.2, yeah that's it!
So now that we know what distro you run, I can send you to the SuSE page
that deals with the issue. Or was that the Mandrake page?....
Your lilo.conf file has errors. The solution is to enter your linux
installation, and edit the lilo.conf file, correcting the error. Then
you need to rerun lilo, invoking the corrected lilo.conf file to be
written where it needs to go. This is done on most distros with this
command.
/usr/sbin/lilo /boot/lilo.conf or wherever your files happen to
actually live at. Fortunately for you, I already know that most distros
put utilities on their CDs which allow you to create a boot diskette, or
to boot into linux from DOS/windoz, etc. Look on your installation cd
in a folder called /dosutils for info on whatever utilites your distro
supplied. You'll probably also find instructions on various ways to
boot into your linux, how to do diagnostics, etc.
For specifics regarding the lilo error, try:
my connection just died, so I won't post the pages from SuSE nor from
mandrakeuser.org, nor from Rat Head.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Specific ppp problem
Date: 16 Sep 2000 02:56:15 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Richard Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi Folks,
>I am setting up ppp but getting the following error message when I run
>pppd
> /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
>but I
> /usr/sbin/pppd: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let
>it use an IP address
You have an ehternet card with a default route defined
put
route del default
into /etc/rc.d/rc.local at the end
Also as root the first time, run that command so the default route is
deleted in the current session.
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up cable modem and DHCP internet access
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:26:16 GMT
Luc,
Your provider will issue you some of the following data when they
subsribe you.
Your machine name, and network name.
DNS name servers (usually at least two)
Default gateway
Mail information (POP3/IMAP and SMTP)
News servers
Login name
password
and perhaps other info. Your new service will either use static IP or
DHCP. If it uses DHCP, then you must have a dhcp client software
running on your computer or your router if you choose to use a router.
SuSE calls their DHCP client dhcpcd and Rat Head and other distros
call theirs pump, I think. You must obtain and install this client
program.
Before installing any of the networking stuff, make sure that your
computer sees and can communicate with the network card. Make sure that
your computer knows itself and can reach itself with it's IP, it's FQDN,
it's nickname, etc. Then, install networking stuff. Once you've
installed networking packages, you can configure your networking
settings using some of the values which the provider has provided for
you.
MOst providers in the US ONLY install windoz software to get the system
up and running. If they do that with you in BE, you can run the windoz
program called winipcfg to obtain this data, and then use that data to
configure the linux.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 930
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 04:32:13 GMT
2:1 wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I haven't managed to find out anything from Red Hats site (all relavent
> pages seem to 404 at me), so I'll ask here:
>
> Will an HP 930 printer work with linux
>
Yes, sort of. Go here if you have not done so already
http://linuxprinting.org/
I tried the 930c and it did not work so great. So I tried the 932c and
it worked much better.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet via DHCP on NT server
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 04:36:46 GMT
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> I've installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, on a machine that used to run WinNT. Now
> I don't have internet anymore.
>
> We have a domain called LANGROUP, a WINS server (10.0.0.2), and I've got 3
> IP's of the ISP's DNS's.
>
> I can point the browser to http://10.0.0.2 and I get the stuff that's on
> there, however, once I try to point to e.g. http://www.yahoo.com
> it comes back immediately saying host could not be found.
>
> I'm stuck. Where do I start? I've read :
> Ethernet-HOWTO
> Networking-HOWTO
> WWW-user-HOWTO
>
> What can I do??
It's got to be your DNS setting.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Porter)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Perc 2/si
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 04:46:59 GMT
[posted and mailed]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clayton Haapala) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>What kind of performance are folks getting with Dell PowerEdge and the
>PERC controller? Our 4300 is getting only 7Mbytes/sec writes in an
>8-drive RAID5 configuration. RedHat 6.2 with the 2.2.16-3 kernel.
>/proc/scsi/scsi shows:
Let me know how to measure that and I'll let you know. Here's my 4200
setup, with 2 3-drive RAID5 arrays:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L907
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:464 Rev: 1.05
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
Vendor: DELL Model: 6UW BACKPLANE Rev: 7
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 8176R Rev: U.77
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 01
Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD1 RAID5 34796R Rev: U.77
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DRMON17 monitor
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 05:20:36 GMT
Bill,
If the monitor has an FCC type acceptance label, (they all do), you can
take the FCC identification number, go the the FCC.GOV website and
lookup the FCC id number in their database. That will tell you the
manufacturer, address, etc. YOu can probably obtain the phone#,
snailmail address, perhaps a contact person, and maybe more info. I've
used the database often looking to hookup with modem manufacturer's,
etc.
Another option is to go to http://www.vesa.org, and to obtain the VESA
compliant standards regarding frequencies. The reasoning here is that
the monitor is almost certainly VESA compliant.
In the beginning was VGA. VGA begat enhanced vga. The enhanced VGA
gave birth to SuperVGA. VESA.org took the SVGA and standardized it.
These days, virtually every monitor sold is VESA compliant. Then many
manufacturers provide even more extended capabilities than what VESA
mandates. So many monitors can provide performance over and beyond what
VESA mandates.
The vertical refresh rates which VESA dictate are in the range of
70~75hz. VGA dictates a vertical refresh rate of 60hz.
When running your video configuration utility, like sax, or XF86Setup,
Xconfigurator, etc, tell it the size of the monitor, tell it that you
have an SVGA compatible monitor, and when you see the dialog boxes to
dictate the maximum vertical refresh rate and horizontal scan rate, tell
it that the monitor can perform up to 75hz refresh rate. You might
dictate a horizontal scan frequency of between 25~60kHz.
Once you get it working, you could then edit the XF86Config file to
tweak it for obtaining a higher refresh rate, if you think the monitor
accepts it.
Be careful when doing these things. Read the man pages for XFree86
until you're certain that you understand it. You need to understand the
modelines, at least to the extent that you can chose which ones to
activate in the file, and thus you can control your refresh rates at
will.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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From: "Carl Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP - patching Debian 2.2.17 with IDE-patch
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:34:58 +0800
Hello everyone,
I managed to successfully recompile a new kernel (2.2.17) on my Debian
system recently.
However, my system has the ALi15xx set of Chipset on the motherboard. I
would like to get my kernel to recoginse this.
I read on this newsgroup that a patch was required. I went to
www.linux-ide.org to download the patch.
I read then on the kernel HOWTO about patching, but the treatment was
fairly brief for a newbie like me.
If you could point me to further readings, or even tell me on this post, I
would appreciate it very much. I have tried every relevant option in make
xconfig, but I don't seem to get the Ali chipset recognised at all.
Regards
Carl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Speed of loading large applications
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 05:43:08 GMT
Rich,
All of the distros I've worked with had a maximum swap part size limit
of 128mb. The very latest distros may not have that limitation. The
rule of thumb was always a partition size equal to double the RAM memory
on board, not to exceed 128mb.
I would caution you to rethink what I think I perceive as your
correlation between a program's loading into memory time, and the
"quality or usability" of that same product, as compared to the
"equivalent sized program in windoz".
It reminds me of a co-worker of mind about three or four years ago. I
was showing him my OS/2, and the benefits of it. The OS/2 took at least
double the time to boot up than win95. In his pathetic, myopic view of
the world, the bootup time was a direct correlator regarding the quality
and stability of the operating systems. Thus, win95 was "inherently
superior and more stable" than the OS/2......:-)
I prefer to evaluate programs on the basis of usability, stability, etc,
and don't pay a rat's ass to how long the program takes to load into
memory. The loading time is dependent upon a number of factors
regarding ram memory size, swap part size, program size, processor
speed, L2 cache, etc.
The slowest machine I run linux on is my Laptop, a 133mhz pentium MMx.
This box has 96mb ram memory, and a swap part of 115mb. This computer
has never used the swap partition for anything. It sits idle always.
Star Office takes about 20 seconds to load. Once it loads, it is
eminently usable, and I give slide presentations regularly on it,
presentations produced on it. The only thing that maxes out this box is
running double sized RealVideo TV shows at 200kb/s, like
www.br-alpha.de. When watching this TV station from Bavaria, my CPU is
maxed at about 98%, and doing anyting else at the same time causes
dropouts, like when I'm surfing and watching Bavarian Broadcasting at
the same time.
The only program I haven't tried using because of insufficient
"horsepower" is VMWare. I already know that I simply don't have what it
takes to really use it, although I know it would load up, eventually.
Anyway, in summary, I would suggest exploring ways to increase your
boxes performance, like fine tuning for disk performance, but I would
also forget the preoccupation with program loading times. That's one
metric which really is irrelevant to performance evaluation.
Best Regards,
Valentin Guillen
Birch wrote:
>
> I have a PIII 500, 128Mb, 8.4Gb 5400rpm hd and have noticed that large
> programs like netscape 6 and staroffice take ages to load. When I say ages I
> mean in the region of 15 to maybe 20 seconds. Netscape 6 is obviously still
> in the development stage, but I'm sure that in the dark old days of me using
> win9x an equivilent sized program would not take so long. I'm not sure what
> the
> status of my swap partition is, but would it help at all to make sure it's
> 128Mb or so? I've also used hdparm to set some supposedly safe settings that
> should speed it up slightly. However the new settings don't seem to make
> much of a difference, if any at all. If I read up on hdparm would it be
> possible to tweek it so as to make some noticeable difference?
>
> Maybe I'm just being too fussy! Any pointers would be appreciated
>
> Rich
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From: H David Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 2000 for Linux
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 05:58:19 GMT
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Fred Marquis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to reduce my exposure to Windoze I am considering
> getting WordPerfect 2000 for Linux. Does anyone out there
> have any experience of using the wordprocessor, spreadsheet
> etc of this suite ? How well does it import Windoze files ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Fred Marquis
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. A.J. Marquis Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7040
> Dept. of Mech. Eng. Fax: +44 (0)20 7823 8845
> Imperial College
> Exhibition Road E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> London SW7 2BX
>
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
> All views expressed are my own !
> ----------------------------------------------------------
Fred,
I'm running WP for Linux on RH6.2. Functionality is very good,
I think.
I have only WP 8 on my W2K partition, and I think the Linux (WP 2000)
version is better in its Windoze compatibility (had to boot Linux to
save a WP doc in Word 97 format yesterday).
I was a little offended by WP Linux's font library -- mostly
substitute fonts (e.g., for Times Roman). Caused some problems for me.
I've also found WP Linux to be a little more buggy than the Win
version. I've had it crash abruptly on me more frequently than the WP 8
on Win2K, and I'm not yet ready to use it for lengthy work that I can't
easily recreate.
I keep thinking that there will be a maintenance release that
stabilizes it, but so far nothing.
By the way, I find Quattro to be relatively more stable. Haven't
used Paradox any yet.
I think it's probably worth the purchase ... but you might want to
wait until there's a maintenance release out that stabilizes it.
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