Linux-Setup Digest #638, Volume #19 Sun, 17 Sep 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Missing /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h (Villy Kruse)
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? (David Rysdam)
Re: ADSL through USB ... HELP (Rod Smith)
Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake. (Evolution - VII)
Re: Missing /dev/isdnctrl and /dev/isdninfo (Robert Jones)
Re: How to install Linux (Suse) together with NT 4 ... ("Harald Henkel")
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? (Michael Perry)
Re: ppp dial-on-demand?? ? ? (Kenneth Harrington)
Re: cdrom not recognised as block device??? (Kenneth Harrington)
AIC-7XXX problem (infinite reset) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stylus COLOR 600 Gamma Correction - GhostScript/Uniprint Settings ("Gene
Heskett")
Re: Console Display Columns & Rows - Where Are the Docs? (Dances With Crows)
Netatalk, Samba, and Printcap (Al Tuttle)
Re: ppp dial-on-demand?? ? ? ("Harm Cronie")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Missing /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h
Date: 17 Sep 2000 13:57:07 GMT
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:04:49 -0400,
Bill A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When trying to compile the kernel on this RedHat 6.2 box, make bzImage
>failed because it cannot file the errno.h file in /usr/include/bits/linux.
>Any idea which package wasn't installed in the upgrade from 6.0 (I believe).
The file /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h is part of glibc-devel
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Rysdam)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: 17 Sep 2000 13:36:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It's pretty difficult to find a card that ISN'T automatically
detected. Try an NE2000 (or clone) or a 3Com card (3c5xx or 3c9xx).
And Peter Bismuti Spoke:
>
>Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
>card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
>configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
>
>Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: ADSL through USB ... HELP
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:23:42 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Donald L Mainier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My USB port is recognized by linux. It is in the hardware list. I
> understand the driver is also necessary, thanks. How do I know which
> hardware device is my USB port?
Supporting ANY USB device requires DEVICE-SPECIFIC drivers -- you need a
different driver for a USB mouse, a USB camera, a USB modem, etc. I
think I heard that somebody was working on a driver for the SpeedStream
4060, but I could be mistaken. Check http://www.linux-usb.org/ and its
device support list for details.
There is no single device file for a USB port. Instead, there's a device
file for each USB device. You'll need to check documentation for each
driver for details.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Evolution - VII <"Evolution - VII"@netvigator.com>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake.
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:18:04 +0800
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Missing /dev/isdnctrl and /dev/isdninfo
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:26:32 -0500
Mark Charsley wrote:
> I'm trying to get ISDN working on a Mandrake 7.1 box. I've successfully
> got the HiSax driver for my BT Speedway (a rebadged AVM Fritz PCI) working
> but that's about it.
>
> Anything else I try fails because I'm missing /dev/isdninfo and
> /dev/isdnctrl (well I'm not missing that, but it's just a link to the
> missing /dev/isdnctrl1). This happens regarless of whether I compile the
> ISDN stuff directly into the kernel or as modules.
>
> Can anyone help?
Only to say that on my RH6.0 box, 'MAKEDEV' has blessed me with:
[rj@localhost rj]$ ls /dev/isdn*
/dev/isdn0 /dev/isdn32 /dev/isdn56 /dev/isdnctrl20 /dev/isdnctrl44
/dev/isdn1 /dev/isdn33 /dev/isdn57 /dev/isdnctrl21 /dev/isdnctrl45
/dev/isdn10 /dev/isdn34 /dev/isdn58 /dev/isdnctrl22 /dev/isdnctrl46
/dev/isdn11 /dev/isdn35 /dev/isdn59 /dev/isdnctrl23 /dev/isdnctrl47
/dev/isdn12 /dev/isdn36 /dev/isdn6 /dev/isdnctrl24 /dev/isdnctrl48
/dev/isdn13 /dev/isdn37 /dev/isdn60 /dev/isdnctrl25 /dev/isdnctrl49
/dev/isdn14 /dev/isdn38 /dev/isdn61 /dev/isdnctrl26 /dev/isdnctrl5
/dev/isdn15 /dev/isdn39 /dev/isdn62 /dev/isdnctrl27 /dev/isdnctrl50
/dev/isdn16 /dev/isdn4 /dev/isdn63 /dev/isdnctrl28 /dev/isdnctrl51
/dev/isdn17 /dev/isdn40 /dev/isdn7 /dev/isdnctrl29 /dev/isdnctrl52
/dev/isdn18 /dev/isdn41 /dev/isdn8 /dev/isdnctrl3 /dev/isdnctrl53
/dev/isdn19 /dev/isdn42 /dev/isdn9 /dev/isdnctrl30 /dev/isdnctrl54
/dev/isdn2 /dev/isdn43 /dev/isdnctrl /dev/isdnctrl31 /dev/isdnctrl55
/dev/isdn20 /dev/isdn44 /dev/isdnctrl0 /dev/isdnctrl32 /dev/isdnctrl56
/dev/isdn21 /dev/isdn45 /dev/isdnctrl1 /dev/isdnctrl33 /dev/isdnctrl57
/dev/isdn22 /dev/isdn46 /dev/isdnctrl10 /dev/isdnctrl34 /dev/isdnctrl58
/dev/isdn23 /dev/isdn47 /dev/isdnctrl11 /dev/isdnctrl35 /dev/isdnctrl59
/dev/isdn24 /dev/isdn48 /dev/isdnctrl12 /dev/isdnctrl36 /dev/isdnctrl6
/dev/isdn25 /dev/isdn49 /dev/isdnctrl13 /dev/isdnctrl37 /dev/isdnctrl60
/dev/isdn26 /dev/isdn5 /dev/isdnctrl14 /dev/isdnctrl38 /dev/isdnctrl61
/dev/isdn27 /dev/isdn50 /dev/isdnctrl15 /dev/isdnctrl39 /dev/isdnctrl62
/dev/isdn28 /dev/isdn51 /dev/isdnctrl16 /dev/isdnctrl4 /dev/isdnctrl63
/dev/isdn29 /dev/isdn52 /dev/isdnctrl17 /dev/isdnctrl40 /dev/isdnctrl7
/dev/isdn3 /dev/isdn53 /dev/isdnctrl18 /dev/isdnctrl41 /dev/isdnctrl8
/dev/isdn30 /dev/isdn54 /dev/isdnctrl19 /dev/isdnctrl42 /dev/isdnctrl9
/dev/isdn31 /dev/isdn55 /dev/isdnctrl2 /dev/isdnctrl43 /dev/isdninfo
[rj@localhost rj]$
...and this machine has never been exposed to a ISDN line.
I can mail you my MAKEDEV file if you want it.
--
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9:12am up 13 days, 3:25, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.21, 0.08
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From: "Harald Henkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install Linux (Suse) together with NT 4 ...
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:36:12 +0200
Hello Josef.
Thanks a lot for your answer.
I will examine the two tools you mentioned. From the description it seems,
that they could help me, since the partitions I want to shrink are both FAT
partitions.
With kind regards,
Harald Henkel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 06:29:47 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17 Sep 2000 05:45:57 GMT, Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
>card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
>configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
>
>Thanks
I have had good luck with RedHat 6.x finding Intel EtherExpress 100+ cards
but that card is found by most every distro I have tried. With debian I
just load the module when I do a floppy installation and it finds it.
Irregardless of how it "detects" it, it will still place a kernel module in
use for the card.
I run two of the Intel cards here for my firewall/NAT box, and all my
desktops with the exception of a prebuilt run the eepro. My redhat box
actually runs a davicom ethernet card.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp dial-on-demand?? ? ?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:07:18 -0700
lucas wrote:
man diald.
diald will help with the dial on demand. I don't know about
automatically shutting off. I've never actually set it up myself, so I
can't help with details.
> ppp0 will automatically
> connect and external access is then running. i also want that if any
> and all external requests are silent for say 5 minutes, the ppp0 will
> automatically shutdown. once shutdown, it will again wait for another
> external request and dialout automatically. does this make sense?
>
> anyone who can offer assistance and/or has actually configured their
> little network to run like this, please respond and give me advise.
> thank you in advance and have a nice day.
>
> lucas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrom not recognised as block device???
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:26:07 -0700
We need more info in order to help. If you are running a recent Redhat
or Mandrake (the only ones I have experience with), something called
"kudzu" runs at boot time, and tries to detect any changes in hardware
configuration. I guess I would start with whether this detected a
change.
Have a look at /var/log/messages to see if there are lines indicating
that the kernel saw the drive.
Beyond that, you would need to post information such as whether you have
IDE or SCSI drive, the result of "ls -l /dev/cdrom" (this is usually a
link to something else, like /dev/hdc). If you know the details, it
would be nice to know how your kernel is configured for the IDE or SCSI
CD-ROM drivers. Is it supposed to load the drivers as modules?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I removed my cdrom from my computer running linux when I returned it
> and tried to mount the cdrom there was the following message:
>
> mount: the kernal does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
> (maybe ?insmod driver??)
>
> Do you know how I can get it working again?
>
> Thanks
> Lisa
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIC-7XXX problem (infinite reset)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:24:04 GMT
Hi,
I just bought a Dell 2400 server with dual 733s and AIC-7890 SCSI and
AIC-7880. I installed RedHat 6.2 and everything went perfect, no
problems.
The after rebuilding the kernel (2.2.14 - monolithic) with the correct
scsi support and smp I began having problems with my scsi devices.
Specifically the 7890 went into an infinite reset loop. Here's my scsi
config and the error messages:
On scsi0 (AIC-7890) is the main hard drive and the 1x6 backplane scsi
expansion board.
On scsi1 (AIC-7880) is the cdrom.
Error Messages:
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
SCSI host 0 channel 0 resetting (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
I then enter the following at the lilo prompt: linux aic7xxx=verbose:2
and get the additional message:
(scsi0:0:0:0) missed busfree
Again, with stock RedHat6.2 out-of-the-box this configuration works
fine (It also continues to work when I booted from my image floppy
after attempting the new kernel).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: 17 Sep 2000 11:4:42 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stylus COLOR 600 Gamma Correction - GhostScript/Uniprint Settings
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kevin Adams;
KA> Hello,
KA> I've checked local and online documentation (FAQs, HOWTOs, READMEs, etc.)
KA> for both GhostScript and APSFilter, but I still haven't found the
KA> information I need...
KA> I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 600 on LPT1 (/dev/lp0).
KA> My system is running the following:
KA> SuSE Linux 6.4
KA> GhostScript 5.50
KA> (looks like a fairly standard implementation)
KA> APSFilter 4.9
KA> (as near as I can tell; the APSFilter implementation
KA> that comes with SuSE 6.4 has been somewhat modified
KA> as far as installation scripts go)
KA> I am using the Uniprint driver for this printer:
KA> Printer = Stylus COLOR 600
KA> Resolution = 360x360
KA> Paper Size = Letter
KA> Paper Type = Plain Paper
KA> The printer works great; output is properly scaled, formatted, etc...
KA> EXCEPT that I don't get enough "red" in my printouts. For example, on my
KA> system, if you use Netscape Communicator under Xfree86/KDE at 65536
KA> colors, go to
This particular driver.upp, stc600pl.upp, is only a low color config
file. 5 bits per color. If you want more colors, use the stc600ih.upp
variation with its 21 bits of color per color controls, which also runs
the printer at maximum its resolution and will be *considerably* slower.
There is, within all these .upp drivers, a lookup table that is used to
translate the colors. This table deals in ink colors, magenta, yellow,
cyan and black, not primaries as most people think in. This makes
adjusting the color difficult for me, and I do have color negative
darkroom experience. In your case, I think I'd attack the entries for
magenta with a calculator, multiplying each value in that line of the
file by 1.1. If thats in the right direction, do it again until its
obvious that this isn't the right color to be playing with. At some
point, you'll want to back up one step in the magenta entries, and
switch to the yellow entries to fine tune it.
Obviously one should make a copy of it for recovery purposes before
editing it, and another when its better each time.
Cheers Kevin, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Console Display Columns & Rows - Where Are the Docs?
Date: 17 Sep 2000 15:46:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:57:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>I've always hated the monochrome 80 X 25 default PC screen, so I've been
>looking for a way out. In DOS, various apps are capable of using the
[massive snip]
0. Recompile your kernel, making sure to include framebuffer support.
It's under Console Drivers->Support for framebuffer devices->VESA VGA
framebuffer support.
1. Boot this new kernel, and put "vga=771" in the LILO: bootprompt line.
You can edit /etc/lilo.conf to put that line in with the new kernel
image (vga=771 in the image= section for the new kernel)
That will give you about 100x37, plus a bootup penguin logo, and it will
most likely work around that graphics bug. vga=773 will give you more
resolution, but the font gets small and hard to read there.
The SVGATextMode stuff doesn't work very well and seems to be
unmaintained... I don't suggest using it. If you want the most
flexibility possible, of course, use X. xterms can be dynamically
resized and you can have lots of them on the screen at once, which can
actually be nicer than "screen". Plus, there's that GUI thing... try as
you might, it's difficult to use GIMP on the console.
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: Al Tuttle <altuttle@*nospam*home.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Netatalk, Samba, and Printcap
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:02:04 GMT
Question: Does someone have a good printcap file (or give me some help
setting one up) to feed an Apple LaserWriter 630 over network both with
and without Samba?
I have a small home network of linux and windows machines. I recently
got an old Laserwriter Pro 630 that i'm setting up. Since it has
ethernet (appletalk) cabability built in, I wanted it on the network. I
decided to have one of my old linux boxes set up with appletalk and use
it as a remote print server (directly for the other linux boxes and
through samba for the windows boxes). I got it working and in general
it is doing great except for some small glitches that seem to be related
to the printcap file or the way samba drives it.
Postcript from any of the linux boxes prints fine. From a windows box,
I have to disable the ctrl-d that the windows laserwriter driver sends
at the end of file (note this only occurs when sending over samba, if
sending to a machine hooked to the LW through parallel port (apsfilter)
i have no such problem). Printing asci (like from my mail program) from
a remote linux box often gets illegal character errors. These errors
don't occur when printing local through appsfilter.
I think my problem is with the netatalk filters and I haven't found the
right docs to get me straight. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
-al
---- The Key is knowing how to use your neurosis. ----
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From: "Harm Cronie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp dial-on-demand?? ? ?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:06:30 GMT
Hi Lucas,
I've an similar situation like yours, I've got a LAN with 10 PC's and one
linux box with redhat 6.2 installed on it. I use IP masquerading to let the
LAN acces the internet. For the ppp connection to the ISP I use pppd. It has
an options file and if you add a line with 'demand' it dials on demand
whenever there's traffic for the internet. You can also add a line with
'idle xx' which will cause the ppp link to shutdown when there is an
inactivity of xx seconds. There are several usefull HOWTO's. I used the
IP-MASQUARADE-HOWTO, the PPP HOWTO and some other docs.
Good luck
Harm
"lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello one and all,
>
> i have redhat linux 6.2 on one computer with a modem and ppp0 working
> and running. so i can www around once connected. i use "ifup ppp0" and
>
> "ifdown ppp0" to manually connect and disconnect. i have two windows
> computers connected via 100BaseTX to the linux box, where eth0 is the
> ethernet card on the linux box. the windows computers simply have the
> default gateway set to 192.168.0.1, which is the ip of the linux box.
> so the linux box has the only modem and is fully configured for ppp
> dialout, with two internal windows computers connected to it via
> 100BaseTX at IPs 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3, where the default gateway
> is the linux 192.168.0.1 box.
>
> all of the computers can browse the web fine once i manually turn ppp0
> on and it is connected. i would like the linux box, ppp0, to
> automatically dialout if an external IP request is requested of the
> linux box, either from itself or the other two windows computers. i
> believe that this is called dial-on-demand, but i am not sure. so once
> the first external request is received the ppp0 will automatically
> connect and external access is then running. i also want that if any
> and all external requests are silent for say 5 minutes, the ppp0 will
> automatically shutdown. once shutdown, it will again wait for another
> external request and dialout automatically. does this make sense?
>
> anyone who can offer assistance and/or has actually configured their
> little network to run like this, please respond and give me advise.
> thank you in advance and have a nice day.
>
> lucas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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