Linux-Setup Digest #726, Volume #19 Fri, 29 Sep 00 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: typical .config file for kernel compilation ("ne...")
Re: Install from ZipDisk ("Gregory D. Horne")
Adaptec 1480A SCSI Cardbus problem on T20/RH6.2 (Roger Williams)
Re: modem hangs up in 2.4 (2.2ok) ("Gregory D. Horne")
changing fonts on gnome (The gepi)
Installing RedHat Linux 6.2 ("Martin")
Re: review on VA Linux hardware quality/support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
re: winmodem workaround with Mandrake 7.1?? (DTi4565459)
Re: Tin Configuration (Kevin Croxen)
Problem on Mylex Acceleraid 250 (Rohan Oberoi)
Re: Adaptec 1480A SCSI Cardbus problem on T20/RH6.2 (David Hinds)
Re: displaying dynamic IP (Andrew Billyard)
Re: Adaptec 1480A SCSI Cardbus problem on T20/RH6.2 (Roger Williams)
Best dist for 486/33? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux having trouble with Athlon/Thunderdbird?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on 200 MB Harddrive? ("Philo")
Wierd Printing Prob. ("Daren")
Re: Kppp trouble (Silviu Minut)
External USB modem setup ("Richard Storey")
Printer configured but won't print using lpr ("Eric")
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: typical .config file for kernel compilation
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:10:30 GMT
On Sep 29, 2000 at 16:09, Alessandro Magni eloquently wrote:
>I am using version 2.2.5-15 of the kernel.
>I'd like - first time in my life - to recompile it,
>so to patch it with the international crypto options.
>Unfortunately, a look at <make menuconfig> assured me that
>I was on the way of many problem: not been a kernelhacker,
>I'm not sure about many of the Yes/No/Module options.
>
>Where can I find a premade .config file that assures me
>to obtain a working kernel on a "typical" machine?
>Say, for example, the kernel shipped with common distros.
It sounds like you are using RH6.0. If this is correct,
install the kernel-headers-2.2.5-15 package. In the
/usr/src/linux-2.2.5-15/configs directory, you will
find various cnfig files. Copy the appropiate one to
/usr/src/linux-2.2.5-15/.config after patching your
source and you should be good to go.
[...]
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom.
It is not always an easy sacrifice.
2:05pm up 3 days, 11:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Gregory D. Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install from ZipDisk
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:19:33 -0500
You can install Linux from a ZipDisk from MS/PC-DOS by copying them to a FAT
partition from the ZipDisk before beginning the installation. Alternatively,
you can grab the diskette images from, say ftp.debian.org, and use the floppy
drive for initial installation - with a MODEM used to grab the packages you
need for applications. This is how I installed Linux on a Toshiba notebook
computer. I'd recommend you repartition your HD to about 15MB (DOS) and the
rest for Linux - then you can always (if desired) remove the DOS partition is
so desired and move your /boot partition to the former DOS partition.
With Linux the options are limited only by your imagination and your current
ability. Fortunately, your current ability is stretched with Linux so it
truly is limitless.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear All!
>
> Any comments on the feasibility of the following:
>
> I have a 486 laptop with 20 Mb RAM and 200 Mb harddrive.
> I have access to an external ZipDisk or could purchase a LAN card for the
> machine.
> Currently running Win 3.1
>
> Proposal:
> Wipe the machine and install one of the Linux Distributions (preferably
> Linux 2.2 as that is what our webserver runs).
>
> No graphic interface (memory restriction I have been told). Still if it
> can handle Win 3.1 & all the office stuff . . .
> I would really like to use it for command line work and MySQL development.
>
> As there is no CD-rom, could I load the Linux installation files onto a
> zip disk and install it that way?
>
> What site has the best instructions for setting up such a system?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> T.Bolt
--
Gregory D. Horne L I N U X .~.
Systems Analyst The Choice /V\
of a GNU /( )\
Generation ^^-^^
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
From: Roger Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 1480A SCSI Cardbus problem on T20/RH6.2
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:31:58 GMT
I've been having a frustrating time trying to get my Adaptec cardbus
SCSI adapter to work in my new T20. I'm quite sure that the real
problem is quite obvious, but I can't put my finger on it...
This card worked fine in my two previous laptops (TP560, TP560X)
running various 2.2.x kernels and 3.x PCMCIA revisions, and I don't
now recall doing anything particular to get it to work, other than my
usual routine of building a customised stripped-down kernel.
On this installation, however (mostly from the RH 6.2 distro, but
rebuilding the kernel and pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 didn't help), I get the
infamous "aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use" error:
cardmgr[481]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[481]: socket 0: Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host Adapter
kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x9004, device 0x6075
cardmgr[481]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/cb_enabler.o'
cardmgr[481]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/apa1480_cb.o'
kernel: cs: cb_config(bus 2)
kernel: fn 0 bar 1: io 0x200-0x2ff
kernel: fn 0 bar 2: mem 0xa0030000-0xa0030fff
kernel: fn 0 rom: mem 0xa0020000-0xa002ffff
kernel: apa1480_attach(bus 2, function 0)
kernel: aic7xxx: <Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI controller> at PCI 2/0/0
kernel: aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use, ignoring.
kernel: apa1480_cs: no SCSI devices found
kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
cardmgr[481]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: No such device
Any suggestions on what I should look at? What have I missed that was
obvious to me two years ago? Thanks!
--
Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key
Coelacanth Engineering Inc consulting & turnkey product development
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From: "Gregory D. Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem hangs up in 2.4 (2.2ok)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:27:46 -0500
Try using an earlier version of pppd et al from GNU/Linux 2.2 I
upgraded from 2.0 to 2.2 and the pon utility would not work until I
renamed a particular file in /etc back to the original pre-upgrade name.
John Todd wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:01:35 +0100, Antoine Martin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Setup:
> >k6-3 400
> >X 4.0.1x
> >pppd versions 2.3 and 2.4betas
> >I use gnome-ppp to setup my connection.
> >Everything works fine will all 2.2 kernels tested (14 through 18)
> >But when I use 2.3 or 2.4test kernels,
> >the modem dials, connects and immediately hangs up...
> >gnome-ppp: [pppd daemon died unexpectedly]
> >syslog: [pppd closing connection]
> >modem is a Sportster 56K
> >ideas?
> >
>
> --
>
> Guesses: 1) In login script, timeout is not set long enough
> 2) Incorrect login procedure to ISP
>
> _____________________
> The lap of Linuxury
> |<de in RH6
--
Gregory D. Horne L I N U X .~.
Systems Analyst The Choice /V\
of a GNU /( )\
Generation ^^-^^
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From: The gepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing fonts on gnome
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:40:33 -0700
Is there an easy way to change the font size on gnome or everything has
to be recompiled with new setups.
Thanks for your help,
Jean-Philippe
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RedHat Linux 6.2
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:32:19 +0200
Hi.
I'm having a problem installing Linux RedHat 6.2.
In short, all the installation seems to go fine, but afterwards, when the
system is rebooting, it hangs and says:
In swapper mode.
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill idle task.
I have tried doing everything again. I've written over LILO by reinstalling
windows (are there any other way to do this?), and reinstalled RedHat. I've
tried to make patitions with Partition Magic first, then install Linux
again, and I've tried to let the installation program take care of all the
partitions. I've even tried to install the partitionless installation, when
you put the linux files onto a FAT32 disk. Every time the same thing
happens. It comes exactly to the same place every time.
Is it possible that there are a hardware conflikt somewhere?
It seems to me that there is something left over from the first installation
that isn't removed by reinstall... Can this be possible?
I've tried to boot from the boot disk, but the exactly same thing happens.
Can anyone help med with this?
--
Balrog
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: review on VA Linux hardware quality/support
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:18:55 GMT
I would recommed hardware.bsdi.com.They have nice boxes running with
Linux.I have good experience with them.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong) wrote:
>
> My team plans to buy VA Linux 1150 which is a rack mountable slim
box. The
> price is about $4500 for
> 800 PIII +
> 512MB RAM +
> 2 x 18G SCSI +
> dual 2 10/100 +
> cd-rom + floppy.
>
> And we are planning using Linux for the whole web application from
Solaris.
> so, we are going to buy tens of VA linux servers. Right now, we are
using
> Apache on Solaris 2.5.1, but we will port to RedHat 6.2 with tomcat
and all
> ssl stuffs.
>
> I would like to get some reviews on
> 1. if VA Linux whether their product is solid close to Sun hardware
> 2. if VA support its customers in timely manner with quality.
> 3. if there are better vendors outthere, which one do you recommend?
>
> If you have suggestions, please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank you,
> Jason
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have suggestions.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jason Hong, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Administrator for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Auspex
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 29 Sep 2000 19:54:43 GMT
Subject: re: winmodem workaround with Mandrake 7.1??
I installed 7.1 in FAT in Win98 on a new E-machine. It
was the easiest time I ever had in getting a Linux distro
going.
However, modem won't dial. Maybe E-machine has a
winmodem.
If I could get a DOS emulator going, then maybe I could
dial out by using Win software running in Linux.
Suggestions would be welcome (I'm still a newbie).
On second thought, maybe the emulator that sets up
7.1 under DOS would do the trick. The problem is that
I don't know how to proceed.
TIA,
dave
dave
http://www.columbia.edu/~mdt1/
(1 = one, not little L; and don't forget the trailing / )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Tin Configuration
Date: 29 Sep 2000 20:09:15 GMT
In article <8r2kth$edh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>Kevin Croxen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's been several years since I used tin from an NNTP server, since the
>> reader threads so slowly (I found slrn, on the other hand, to be
>> blisteringly fast, which is why I still use it --groups which took 5-10
>> minutes for tin to thread could be done by slrn in seconds)
>
>tin has options to do essentially what slrn does
>(you have to read the help message ;-)
Been there; done that. If slrn is threading as slowly for you (by the same
order of magnitude) as tin from an NNTP feed, then perhaps some
configuring of your slrnrc is in order ;-)
In any event, for the original poster, I should put in the full command
for setting the nntpserver environment variable.
Try: export NNTPSERVER=whatever.the.address.is
and give tin -r a go.
Cheers,
--Kevin
>
>once done, there's little difference in timing: I've timed slrn to be 4-5
>times slower than tin and vice versa, depending on how the articles
>are structured.
>
>--
>Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>http://dickey.his.com
>ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Oberoi)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Problem on Mylex Acceleraid 250
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:52:00 GMT
If you've run a similar setup and might know why this isn't working,
I'd appreciate hearing from you (if replying by email, please remove
TAKETHISOUT from my address...)
I have a Mylex Acceleraid 250 working very nicely in a Redhat 6.2
system. The problem is that, after installing Linux (/ and /boot
partitions) I installed DOS on the third RAID partition
(/dev/rd/c0d0p3) which I had kept aside for that purpose. I have LILO
configured with:
other=/dev/rd/c0d0p3
label=dos
When I boot the system from a DOS 6.22 floppy, this partition is seen
fine as C:, and I was able to run "format /s" on it without a problem,
and verify that command.com, msdos.sys, and io.sys appeared. I also
ran "fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0" from Linux and verified that the bootable
flag was set on the partition.
However, when I tell LILO: to boot "dos", it says "Loading dos" and
then complains "Non-system disk or disk error". I'm not sure if this
is a Linux, DOS or bios error causing this...
Thanks for any suggestions...
Rohan.
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From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1480A SCSI Cardbus problem on T20/RH6.2
Date: 29 Sep 2000 20:50:31 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable Roger Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On this installation, however (mostly from the RH 6.2 distro, but
: rebuilding the kernel and pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 didn't help), I get the
: infamous "aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use" error:
This was fixed in the 3.1.14 driver release. 3.1.20 is current.
-- Dave
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From: Andrew Billyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: displaying dynamic IP
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:50:15 -0400
/sbin/ifconfig should due the trick
Silviu Minut wrote:
> Is there any program in RH.7.0 that allows a user to see the dynamic
> IP address assigned by the ISP when connected through ppp?
> Under RH.6 I used XISP to connect (my all time favourite, which doesn't
> work under RH7 anymore, because the xforms library doesn't), which also
> displayed the IP. I wouldn't want to give users permission to use
> ifconfig.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
From: Roger Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1480A SCSI Cardbus problem on T20/RH6.2
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:08:16 GMT
>>>>> David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This was fixed in the 3.1.14 driver release. 3.1.20 is current.
Thanks for the quick reply -- I'll go and update that right away.
I saw that 3.1.8 no longer causes a kernel panic when the card is
ejected (unlike the version I had been using), so it didn't occur to
me that other previously working features might have broken...
--
Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key
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Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Best dist for 486/33?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:12:14 GMT
I just inherited a couple 486/33 Compaq Prolineas. Someone want to
recommend a distribution that'll run on this that's easy to install, it
doesn't have a CD-ROM, but I guess I have to put one in unless I can
fit Linux onto a bunch of floppies. It'll be my first Linux install.
Its got about 240 megs of HD space and I can fill up the memory slots
to 128 if I have to. Will this old machine be able to run a GUI?
Roper
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux having trouble with Athlon/Thunderdbird?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:27:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jb wrote:
> at installation, I guess I would have to choose "expert" at the
> installation boot prompt?)
Nice how you get to be a Linux "expert" so easily!! ;-)
--
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on 200 MB Harddrive?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:31:24 -0500
you could check peanut linux...
also there is pygmy and monkey linux...but the latter two are extremely
small
just do a google search www.google.com
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From: "Daren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wierd Printing Prob.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:45:57 +0100
Greetings
Printing to an Epson Stylus660 using either the more 'normal' lpr or the pdq
system.
The printer has a tendency to just stop dead half way through a page (and no
it's not a paper jam :)
Wierd thing is, there's no error messages, there's nothing complicated to
print (it's a ps file btw) If I clear the queue, reset the buffer and start
the job afresh from the page which locked, it (usually) then prints ok.
Occassionally it will pause for 5-10 minutes and then carry on, only to
freeze for good a couple of pages later.
If anybody has any ideas, it would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Daren
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kppp trouble
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:13:10 -0400
> Instead of starting Netscape by clicking on a button start it from the
> command prompt (i.e. type netscape at the prompt, in a shell). This will show
> you the eventual errors. Netscape must use the Xserver, so it must be allowed
> to connect to it.
> Sorry if this question has been asked a thousand times, but i have a problem
> i can't resolve. I wan to connect to the internet with an ISP. I read the
> HOW-TOs, and I made these conf files (in resolv.conf you see the DNS IPs of
> my provider):
>
> ---resolv.conf
> nameserver 212.17.192.216
> nameserver 212.17.192.56
> ---end
>
> ---HOSTNAME
> localhost
> ---end
>
> ---host.conf
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
> ---end
>
> ---hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> ---end
>
> ---hosts.allow
> ALL:localhost
> ---end
>
> ---hosts.deny
> ALL:ALL
> ---end
>
> When i start Kppp, it dials the number, connects to the server and then it
> starts pppd. I push on the Netscape button on my KDE panel, but nothing
> happens. It seems i have no right to execute any command. When i disconnect
> from my ISP, everything goes right: i can execute netscape and all other
> commands (even the KDE menu does not work with Kppp connected).
> I read my .Xauthority and i saw "localhost.localdomain". It seems to me that
> with all these file set as i said, i have the right to connect to the
> internet, execute netscape and surf the web. Can anybody help me?
>
> ...please!!!
>
> PS Sorry for the length of this e-mail! :)
>
> -sensei-
>
> We don't need no indirection
> We don't need no flow control
> No data typing or declaration
> Did you leave those lists alone?
> Hey! Hacker! Leave those lists alone!
> All in all it is just a pure LISP function call...
> All in all it is just a pure LISP function call...
>
> <senseiwa @ infinito.it>
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From: "Richard Storey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External USB modem setup
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:36:56 GMT
I've got Corel Linux 2.0 just installed (download ver.). I've setup serial
modems before in Linux under KDE/Mandrake. Here, KDE recognises the USB
modem as it's listed in the control panel, even my manuf. and model.
However, I cannot get the dialup to find the modem (KPPP?). Corel's help
says that it is capable of using USB modems.
Anyone have any tips?
R.S.
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Printer configured but won't print using lpr
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:49:53 GMT
I'm having a problem installing my printer (HP Photosmart 1100) under RH
7.0. I compiled support for the parallel port, PC style hardware, and
parallel printer support into the kernel. I'm using the Deskjet 400/...
filter (which worked for this printer and my real DJ 400 under RH6.2).
printtool recognizes the printer at /dev/lp0 and can print directly to the
port, but normal printing fails. The hardware is set up correctly, but
normal ASCII files and PS test files in printtool will not work. Is
something wrong with lpr? After printing a file, lpq tells me that there
are no files in the queue. This must be something simple.
Thanks,
Eric
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