Linux-Setup Digest #680, Volume #19 Fri, 22 Sep 00 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: External Modem Woes (David Efflandt)
Re: Viruses hazards? (John Todd)
Re: help - default host (David Efflandt)
Re: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk. (Karl Heyes)
Inspiron 5000e and XFree86 (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gardu=F1o=20=C1ngeles?=)
Re: Linux won't boot ("jb")
Re: Old hard drive not being recognized (David Efflandt)
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) ("jb")
Re: Linux having trouble with Athlon/Thunderdbird? (Carlos Moreno)
Re: R: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk. (David Efflandt)
Re: SoundBlaster card almost works... almost. (David Efflandt)
Re: Yamaha DS-XG sound card (David Efflandt)
Re: Implications ("paul snow")
Multimonitor w/ fixed-frequency monitor. (Michael Hoye)
Debian 2.2 apt help ("Cooper")
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) ("Dijon Page")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: External Modem Woes
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:20:44 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently purchased a Zoltrix Rainbow 56K external to replace one
>burned up in a storm we had here. My old Zoom 56K external ran
>flawlessly under Linux. This new one does not.
>
>The one thing I do notice is that this one is seen by Windows Plug and
>Play. Is there something anyone may suggest for trying to get this up
>and running under Linux? I have no probs under Windoze.
>
>I can implicitly assign it a stty/com number, and it dials out under
>Linux in kppp, but falis to connect to the host. It fails to be
>detected in wvdial in SUSE 6.3 at all.
>
>The Zoltrix uses a Rockwell ACF56K chipset.
>
>I have it connected to stty01 aka COM2.
I have an 'stty' program, but no such devices. What does setserial -ag
show for the device? It should be something like this:
# setserial -ag /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
If you connect minicom to /dev/ttyS1 (or your /dev/stty01?) do you get a
response to AT codes? The output of AT&V might be useful to see if it has
any strange defaults.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Viruses hazards?
Date: 22 Sep 2000 23:27:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Read, "Armoring Linux", by Lance Spitzner. It's on the Web,
find it with a search engine.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:04:26 +0300, ziman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Well, I'm pretty new to this Linux thing, I've just installed RedHat 6.2
>
>on my home PC and I'd like to know if there are any viruses or hacking
>hazards that I should take precaution against? Is there any anti virus
>software
>that I should use?
>
>Plus- Is there any way to use my wheel button on my Microsoft Wheel
>Mouse to
>scroll pages?
>
>Thnx!
>
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_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: help - default host
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:30:37 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:10:07 +0100, moz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I successfuly connected and pinged my remote host after reading an excellent
>read me on dial-up PPP (mail me and I will send it you).
>However, I have come stuck. I cannot see further , or am not allowed past
>the remote host. The readme says it's a problem with my 'defaultroute' but
>as it does not go ito great length about this, I am at loss what to do next.
>My ISP uses PAP - seems to work with the standard type and I am dialing in
>through Xterm with all deamon and PPP activity logged in realtime.
>
>My log seems to be without error (except a few 'Rej') and gets to displaying
>local and remote IP's. In the PPP-options file I added the line:
>'defaultroute' as it was not there and the readme said it needed to be.
>
>Could anyone point me in the right direction to which files I should be
>looking at and errors/log to watch for.
When not connected, make sure that your routing does not have any default
route (ie: there should NOT be any routes with a UG in them when you do a
'route -n'). If you need any routes for a LAN, they should be -net or
-host routes.
Do you have nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? See 'man resolver'.
After connecting, see if 'route -n' shows a default route (UG) to the
remote IP.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: Karl Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk.
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:48:32 +0000
In article <8p89d7$jq8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ive RH 6.0 install in my laptop.I created a boot disk from RH 6.2 CD in
> another system.
> Used the boot disk (floppy) to boot in my RH 6.0 laptop and was told cannot
> find hard disk in my system.
> Must I transfer the Base and RPM files in other for the boot to find the
> hard disk?
What type of boot disk. Do you see LILO or just
Loading.............................
<kernel stuuf>
failed to mount root on xxxxx
If it the latter, then determine what the root on the laptop is and from your other
system do (with the floppy in the drive do
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/<whatever the root is>
karl.
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From: Edgar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gardu=F1o=20=C1ngeles?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Inspiron 5000e and XFree86
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:51:34 -0400
Hi all,
I recently got a Inspiron 5000e, I have been able to install RH 6.2, but
I have not been able to make XFree86 to start. I have followed the
recommendations posted by others regarding installing Xfree86 4.0.1 but
I have not been able to make it work ( I have even visited
http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~lessem/5000e). I would really appreciate any
help!!!!
--
Sincerely,
________________________________________________________________________
Edgar Gardu�o �ngeles
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From: "jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux won't boot
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:00:27 -0400
Okay, I'm a Linux newbie as well, but I had the same problem you did, and
someone was nice enough to help me out, so here goes:
Did you make a boot floppy? I didn't install LILO (the LInux boot LOader),
because each time I did, I was forced to reinstall Windows, which was a
bitch...if you don't have this problem, whatever. I assume that when LILO
loads up, you are given a prompt that says something to the effect of "enter
kernel parameters or wait 10 seconds." Okay, so if you get this, type the
following command in:
linux x86_serial_nr=1
Apparently, this is true because Redhat tries to disable the CPU identifier;
Athlon and Duron processors don't have one, hence the crash. Good luck!
~Jeremy
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Old hard drive not being recognized
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:00:36 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Andrew P. Billyard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.14-05 to 2.2.17 (actually, to 2.4 but
>had too many troubles, so I went to 2.2.17 - the problem below applies
>also to the 2.4 kernel), so that the kernel could recognize my machine's
>(AMD K6-2/500 on an AMD P5a-b board) IDE controller (Ali15x3). I also
>used the patch ide.2.2.17.all.20000904.patch to recognize the Ali15x3
>chipset. My last harddrive, /dev/hdd, is no longer recognized. This is
>an old Western Digital 202 Mb drive which I use as a monthly backup
>storage device. Currently, my dmesg reads
>
>[snip]
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: M1606TA, ATA DISK drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>idebus=xx
> hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive
>> hdd: WDC AC2200F, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, 14664MB w/430kB Cache, CHS=29795/16/63,
>UDMA(33)
> hdb: M1606TA, 1039MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=2111/16/63, DMA
>> hdd: WDC AC2200F, 202MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=989/12/35
> hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
>[snip]
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
> hdb: hdb1
> hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
> unknown partition table
>[snip]
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
>[snip]
>
>I used to be able to mount /dev/hdd1 with "mount /dev/hdd1 /backups" but
>now mount returns with "mount: /dev/hdd1 is not a valid block device".
>However, if I boot up with 2.2.14, I can still access this drive.
>
>Any suggestions?
>--
>Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See if it works any better switching jumpers so hard drive is master (hdc)
and cdrom is slave (hdd), especially if your BIOS (CMOS setup) does not
see your cdrom. It was my experience long ago that removable drives work
best AFTER any and all fixed disks. The BIOS on some motherboards would
move a drive down into what it perceived as an empty slot (occupied by
cdrom), which caused drive confusion (hdc or hdd?). I don't know if that
is still true, but it is worth a shot.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: "jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:06:01 -0400
*Warning* I am an admitted Linux newbie...
I have a pretty solid set of instructions for how to install the new version
of XFREE, but I have a problem: I downloaded the files in windows, and don't
know how to access a floppy disk from linux. I have a GeForce 2 GTS with 32
MB of video ram, and I'd really like to use X Windows, but can't until I
install xFree 4.0.1.
I've read a few things about mounting the floppy drive, but don't know how
to access it! Here's what I've been told:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0
or...
mount /mnt /floppy
But what do I do then to open the files? I know this must sound like such a
dumb question, but the help is appreciated nonetheless. If you have the
answer for me, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I usually have
trouble finding old posts on newsgroups. Thanks!
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From: Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux having trouble with Athlon/Thunderdbird?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:09:44 -0400
Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> This has been discussed several times in comp.os.linux.hardware .
> The most common problem seems to be that RH6.2 thinks a T-Bird
> is a PentiumIII and tries to disable the CPUID, which doesn't
> exist, so you get a crash on startup.
Wow! Hadn't even thought about that detail!
> The workaround has something to do with the x86_serial_nr
> kernel option. Set it to 1, or maybe to 0; something like
> that anyway. Try a Deja search in comp.os.linux.hardware .
Great! Thanks for the pointer!
Carlos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: R: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk.
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:13:08 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, The Lastboot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>8p89d7$jq8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Ive RH 6.0 install in my laptop.I created a boot disk from RH 6.2 CD in
>> another system.
>> Used the boot disk (floppy) to boot in my RH 6.0 laptop and was told
>cannot
>> find hard disk in my system.
>> Must I transfer the Base and RPM files in other for the boot to find the
>> hard disk?
>> Thanks.
>> Roger
>
>Maybe because the kernel was compiled for another system, not for a laptop
>which has a very different architecture from a normal Personal computer. Try
>building a new kernel for the laptop then make the floppy!!!
Also the kernel may be trying to boot to the drive and partition it was
compiled on, which may be the wrong partition for your laptop. You may
need to use 'rdev' to tell vmlinuz on the floppy which partition is / on
the laptop.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster card almost works... almost.
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:24:51 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:24:39 +0100, David Faure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My SB 16 sound card is detected, but no sound makes it to the speakers.
>
>Configuration in /etc/conf.modules :
>options sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1
>alias sound sb
Try this, it is what RH 6.1 sndconfig set up for my SB16 (non-PnP) which
also works in Mandrake 7.0:
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=3 dma16=7 mpu_io=0x330
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Yamaha DS-XG sound card
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:31:31 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Simon Reye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to get these sound cards working with a standard
>RedHat 6.2 installation. Are they going to be supported in 2.4.*
>versions of the kernel?
Alsa supports it http://www.alsa-project.org/, or the commercial
http://www.opensound.com/ drivers are easier.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: "paul snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.software.config-mgmt
Subject: Re: Implications
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:45:25 GMT
> I mean that the software does not make the machine. The only ware that
> makes a machine into what it is are the small routines implemented
> into the ROM. Without protocols for maintaining cache coherence an SMP
> wouldn't be an SMP. Without the microcode, the Motorola 68000 would
> never have been able to execute the early Mac OS.
Here is the equation:
X --> P --> E
[X] You install software from some source (installation disks, files
downloaded from the web, type it in from memory, a backup tape, whatever)
.....
-->
[P] Onto your hard disk. That is where software goes, into some persisted
storage that implements the program store for a computer system. Why a
program store? Because the nature of computer systems is that we want to be
able to turn them on and off, survive an application crash, etc. But at
some point, we are interested in using the computer system...
-->
[E] And we go into the execution environment, defined by everything that we
have installed, and run our operating systems, applications and whatever.
What part of this do you disagree with? It is this observation, and the
natural separation it implies, has implications for all the groups I posted
to.
Paul Snow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Hoye)
Subject: Multimonitor w/ fixed-frequency monitor.
Date: 23 Sep 2000 01:43:54 GMT
I'm just starting w/Linux, and I've got a project here that I'm
working on to get me going. I'm running into a few snags, though,
and I'm looking for some help.
I've been trying to set up multimonitor functionality on my Linux machine
with a normal old 640x480 VGA monitor and a bigger-than-Jesus RasterOps
fixed-frequency grayscale monitor.
I've got some decent specs for that second monitor here:
http://www.nashville.net/~griffin/monitors/NSAHi26.html
I've read all the HOWTOs I can find about it, as well, and I'm still
running into difficulties. Specifically, I can't get my XF86Config file to
recognize the second video card.
The one I'm using for the VGA is a Trident 9660 PCI card, and I've got an
ATI Rage Pro behind the fixed-frequency beast.
Are there any suggestions out there, any more references I could read?
And, god help me, how can I get X to pipe its error messages to a file?
--
Mike Hoye
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From: "Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian 2.2 apt help
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:06:04 -0400
When I installed Debian 2.2, I ran into a problem telling it where to find
the packages. What do I put in the apt file to tell it to read off the
hard drive <which is where I installed the package from, the files were
copied to sda1 by mount sda1 /tmp/>.
in dselect, when I tell it to read from /tmp (which is where I have mounted
the files in a file called disk1) the dialogue goes like this:
<prompt> <I type>
give URL: file:/tmp/disk1/debian
distribution: stable
components to get main
When I try to update, it tells me files were not found and that there is an
error exit status 1.
Hmmm....any ideas here?
TIA,
Cooper
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From: "Dijon Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:15:13 +0930
Well.. i'm a newbie aswell, but this i know - linux can read from the
windows partition, and in KDE, there is an icon on the background to go to
the windows partition, and it works fine for me. I don;t know about the
command line stuff however.
Hope this helps a little :)
Dijon
"jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qgvlo$mul$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> *Warning* I am an admitted Linux newbie...
>
> I have a pretty solid set of instructions for how to install the new
version
> of XFREE, but I have a problem: I downloaded the files in windows, and
don't
> know how to access a floppy disk from linux. I have a GeForce 2 GTS with
32
> MB of video ram, and I'd really like to use X Windows, but can't until I
> install xFree 4.0.1.
>
> I've read a few things about mounting the floppy drive, but don't know how
> to access it! Here's what I've been told:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0
>
> or...
>
> mount /mnt /floppy
>
> But what do I do then to open the files? I know this must sound like such
a
> dumb question, but the help is appreciated nonetheless. If you have the
> answer for me, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I usually have
> trouble finding old posts on newsgroups. Thanks!
>
>
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